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Focus on Faith

Faith United Presbyterian Church Newsletter

July 10, 2014 

Phone:   734-5129     Hours:  M-F   8 AM - Noon  and 1 -4 PM   

    (Office closed on Mondays during the month of July)

 

Church Email: faithup@maplecity.com      

Website: www.faithpresmonmouth.org

This Sunday - 5th Sunday after Pentecost 

 July 13, 2014 

9:30 a.m. 

 

Sermon Title: "Seeds Don't Always Grow" 

Genesis 25:19-34                  Psalm 119:105-112
Romans 8:1-11                     Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
              
Guest Preacher:  Elder Gary Pullen
Liturgist: Tom Best
 Ushers: Julie Armstrong, Bob Wells, Jonalyn Heaton, Lolla Ballard, Betty McBride
Greeters:  Tom & Crystal Sargent, Joyce Patterson
Children's Church:  Ann Phelps
Nursery:  Tia Tatman  
Coffee Hour:  Barb Gossett & Evelyn Carlson
CD Recording:  Ted Briscoe 
Special Music:  Will Best, trumpet  
 

Upcoming Meetings/Events 

 
Thursday, July 10 - Warren County Retired Teachers Luncheon - 11:30 a.m.

Friday, July 11 - Washday Ministry Client - 10 a.m. 
 
July 4 - July 18 - Teddy Bear Child Development Center & Preschool closed for summer vacation - Resumes Monday, July 21
 
Sunday, July 13 - Ice Cream Social Committee Meeting - 10:40 a.m. 
 
Monday, July 14 - CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED
 
Tuesday, July 15 - Washday Ministry Client - 10 a.m. 
 
Tuesday, July 15 - Mission Committee Meeting - 7:00 p.m. 
 
Saturday, July 19 - All-Church Picnic to Meet Rev. Dr. Kathy Stoner Lasala - 5 p.m. in the Social Hall 
 
Sunday, July 20 - Congregational Meeting - 10:30 a.m. 
 
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL 2014

   

Thank you to all the children and adults who made the Workshop of Wonders an extraordinary week. As usual right before VBS began we wondered if we had enough people, if all the details were accounted for, and so on but the main verse proved to be right: You are the God who works Wonders (Psalms 77:14a) and everything fell into place.

 

I would like to especially thank Jane Kellogg for running the show during the week, as I couldn't be there until Thursday and to Emily Fisher for agreeing to do the music just a week before VBS began. She and Samantha Fisher were great.

 

One of the main themes of the week was how God uses ordinary people and things and does extraordinary things with them. Watching the "Visioneers" entertain at Courtyard Estates and at the nursing home brought that message home for me.  God does extraordinary things if we let him.

 

To everyone who helped with Bible School, I leave you with this verse from Day 5: "How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the good news." Romans 10:15b. Your feet (and you) are beautiful.

 

Ann

 

   

Church Office Closed on Mondays during Month of July

 

Instead of taking a week of vacation in July as originally planned, because there will not be a pastor in the office during the month of July, the session has approved the church secretary's request to take her vacation on each of the four Mondays in July.  Therefore, the church office will be closed on July 7, 14, 21, and 28.  It will be open as usual from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.  

 

If there is an emergency on a Monday during July, please call Jim Brown (734-4257), a Deacon, or John Marshall, Clerk of Session (536-0638), or an Elder. You can also always leave a message on the church answering machine, but it may not be picked up until Tuesday morning. 


Congregational Meeting - July 20, 2014
 
The PNC has recommended a candidate to Session for congregational approval, the Rev. Dr. Kathy Stoner Lasala.  The Congregational Meeting for this candidacy will be after worship on Sunday, July 20, 2014.  The proposed Terms of Call will be available to the congregation this Sunday, prior to voting on July 20.  
 
Charles' last Sunday in the pulpit was June 29.  On August 3 he will begin an interim ministry at First Presbyterian Church in Pekin, Illinois.  The following dates will be the schedule of worship for the next few Sundays:  
 
July 13 - Pulpit Supply - Elder Gary Pullen, Faith
July 20 - Rev. Dr. Kathy Stoner Lasala's candidating sermon (with a picnic event for the congregation to meet her on Saturday, July 19)
July 27 - Pulpit Supply - Rev. Danie DeBeer, GAP Executive Presbyter, Presbytery of Great Rivers
August 3 - If approved, new pastor begins   
 
Ice Cream Social Committee Meeting - Sunday, July 13  
Ice Cream Social - Apple Pie

 

 

The Ice Cream Social Committee will be

meeting immediately after church this Sunday, July 13 to begin making plans for this year's annual Ice Cream (and pie!) Social.  Anyone interested is welcome to attend.  

85+ Birthday Party - July 27, 2014 
 
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The Deacons are busy planning a special birthday party on Sunday, July 27, during the coffee hour immediately following worship, to honor our wisest and most experienced members 85+ years young.  

 

We want to make sure we don't miss anybody!  If you are new to the 85 and over milestone group (or know someone who is), please call the church office so that you may be added to the invitation list. Also, if you have failed to get an invite in previous years  and should have been included (or know someone who has), please let us know.  So many of you wear your age so well - nobody has a clue - so please forgive us if we thought you were much younger and help set us straight!

 
 - Getting older is simply the price we pay for living a long time! -  
 
Financial Report for Jan - June 2014
 
 
 
2014-2015 Horizons Bible Study Books Now Available
 
The 2014 - 2015 Horizons Bible Study is "Reconciling Paul:  A Contemporary Study of 2 Corinthians" by Elizabeth Hinson -Hasty. 

When the PW/Horizons Bible study committee selected 2 Corinthians for the topic, they requested that the study focus on the following aspects of faith: generosity, grace, forgiveness, living by faith, the image of God, funds development, ambassadors of reconciliation (peacemaking), reconciliation, the ways in which Paul's letters are a response to these themes, what was in the original letters, and Paul himself. 

The books are illustrated with traditional and contemporary stained glass designs that are truly beautiful. 

Copies may be purchased from Vicki at the church office 8 - noon and 1 - 4 p.m. M-F for $9.00 (except Mondays during July).  Please make checks payable to Faith United Presbyterian Church and write "PW Horizons Study Guide" on the memo line. 
Prayer Concerns

Bill Smallwood; family of Charles Skov; Rick Roundtree;  Joyce Lantz; Irv Lipp; Etta Jane Pullen (now at Seminary Bounce Back);  Ed & Lois Strickler; Bobbi Cady (Sarah Torrance's mother);  Cathy Abernathy;  Greg Haning; Bill Hoover; Blaine Robinson; Vern Mettler; Cinda Stansbury; Mary Johnson; Lindsay Murdock; and Jim Paris. 

Birthdays

 

July 4   -   Kris Brown

July 6   -   Kelsey Green
July 7   -   Leroy Lantz
July 8   -   Norma Mettler, Jane Warfield, 
                      Whitney Pullen Eberhardt
July 10  -  Steve Spainhour
July 13   -  Greg Lewis, Courtney Agan
July 14   -  Douglas Bowman, Echo Logsdon
July 15   -  Hallie Hottle
July 16   -  Gene Larson
July 17   -   Jeff Rankin, Will Best
July 18   -   Louise Roos
July 19   -   Mark Lyle
July 21   -   Lolla Ballard, Shari Glasgow
July 25  -   Mary Distin
July 27  -   Dee Ann Shuff
July 28  -   Judy Andrews
July 29  -   Eugene Inman
July 30  -   Donna Larson, Emily Fisher
 

Wedding Anniversaries

 

July 3    -  Dick & Jan Speer (60th)

July 7    -  Charles & Janet Cunningham (30th)

July 23 -  Gary & Jonalyn Heaton (37th)

 
Fifty Years Ago This Month...
 
1964 - 2014
REGULAR MEETING OF THE SESSION - July 15, 1964

(condensed)   -- Part 2   

 

Present: Lipes, Wallace, Rhea, Armstrong, Patterson, Royer, Kritzer, Rankin, Jewell, Keating, Allison, Parsons, Thompson, White, Simpson, Connell, Ebersole, Marshall, Hallam, and Wells. Moderator: the Rev. H. D. Finley. Also present was the Rev. Wm. R. Phillippe, a stated supply pastor and David R. Moffet, chariman of the Board of Trustees.   

 

Larry Royer was presented to the Session by the moderator, who recommended that Larry be approved to receive the God and Country Award through the Boy Scouts.  Approved. 

 

Report by Thompson of the Worship Committee: 

 

  1. Following discussion, it was moved by Thompson that beginning August 1 the sanctuary of former First Church be used for services of worship of Faith Church until the ground floor sanctuary at the South Eighth street location has been developed and is ready for permanent use and that the Session expresses hope that the Building Committee will proceed with this project with dispatch.  Seconded and approved. 
  2. Motion by Thompson, that a committee to arrange for a reception for the Rev. and Mrs. Buttrick to follow the installation on October 4 be in charge of the Pulpit Nominating Committee with Parker Steis and Mrs. Elmer Strand as co-chairmen of this reception and that costs be defrayed from church funds.