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Focus on Faith

Faith United Presbyterian Church Newsletter

August 21, 2014 

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

   

Pastor:  Rev. Dr. Kathy Stoner-Lasala

revkathysl@gmail.com (609) 319-4030

 

Church Email: faithup@maplecity.com      

Website: www.faithpresmonmouth.org

This Sunday - 11th Sunday after Pentecost 

 August 24, 2014 

   9:30 a.m. 

 

Sermon Title: "Girls with Guts" 

Exodus 1:8 - 2:10                               Psalm 138
Romans 12: 1-8                   Matthew 16: 13-20
              
Liturgist: Lorna Blackford
Ushers:  Jim Brown, John Turnbull, Greg Baber, John Lyle, Jim Glasgow, Shari Glasgow
Greeters:  Karen Angotti & Sally Bowman, Ian & Sarah Moschenross
Children's Church:  Ann Phelps
Nursery:  Bonnie Heflin  
Coffee Hour:  TBA
CD Recording:  Ted Briscoe
Special Music: Mari Hauge
 

Upcoming Meetings/Events 

 

TONIGHT, Thursday, August 21 - Outreach Committee Meeting - 6:30 p.m. 

Saturday, August 23 - Monmouth College Matriculation Ceremony on Wallace Lawn - 4 p.m. 

Sunday, August 24 - Faith United Ice Cream Social - 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. 

Monday, August 25 - Monmouth College Freshman Walkout - 2:30 - 4 p.m. Faith United Booth @ 614 E. Broadway (Rev. Stoner-Lasala's house) - Coordinated by the Outreach Committee

Tuesday, August 26 - Committee on Ministry @ Peoria - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

Tuesday, August 26 - Session Meeting - 7 p.m. 

Ice Cream Social - this Sunday, August 24  
Ice Cream Social - Apple Pie

 

 

The community-wide Faith Church Ice Cream Social to benefit our mission projects will be held from 4:30 until 7:00 p.m. this Sunday, August 24.  Included are butterfly pork chops, baked beans, apple sauce, and a beverage, along with pie/cake and ice cream. Tickets ($7 for the full meal or $4 for dessert only) will be available in the Social Hall during coffee hour, or you may purchase them at the door.  Quick drive-up service for to-go meals will also available on 1st Avenue!  

 

Nearly 100 church volunteers will be involved.  Please confirm your assignments and times on the white board near the office. 

PW Fall Gathering - Saturday, September 13, 2014 

 

The Presbyterian Women in the Presbytery of Great Rivers will have their Fall Gathering on Saturday, September 13, 2014 at United Presbyterian Church in Peoria.  The theme is "The Reconciliation of Humankind through Jesus Christ," and is so appropriate for the Season of Peace which culminates in Worldwide Communion/Peacemaking Sunday on October 5 when the Peacemaking Offering, one of four denominational offerings each year. Registration is from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. and the speakers are Karen Beshears and Nadine Hill. The day will consist of a business meeting, election of officers, installation of new members of the Coordinating Team, Dedication of the Least Coin, lunch, afternoon workshops led by Sharon Graham and Linda Miller, and worship led by The Rev. Patricia Stetson-Warning.

 
LUNCHEON RESERVATIONS FOR PW FALL GATHERING
Saturday Sept. 13 Cost $12. Deadline September 3
Reservations must be paid in advance to:
Donna Jeffers 107 South Pine St. Washington, IL 61571
Please make the check to PW-PGR with Fall Gathering on the memo line
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CHILD CARE NEEDED....................................................................................................................
AGE(S)...... ...... ...... ...... Please bring a sack lunch or appropriate food for the child.
HyVee is catering the lunch.
Remember to put the number of your workshop choice by your name. That number will be on your name tag. 
Warren County YMCA - Pool Closed as of August 18  

 

The Warren County YMCA will be closed until further notice as our pool motor has gone down.  We are hoping to get it replaced as soon as possible, but would appreciate it if members would call first before they come to the Y to see if the issue has been resolved.  Please call 309-734-3183.

Thanks for your patience as we resolve this issue as quickly as possible!
- Warren County YMCA 

Wednesday Night Live  

 

 
It is time to start signing up for Wednesday Night Live.   Our theme this year is the Parables of Jesus. I am also very excited to announce it is the 25th year of WNL.

 

WNL is sponsored by our church and is a program for children in grades 1st through 6th grade.  It is held on Wednesday nights from 3:20 to 6 starting on Sept. 24th.  The "WNL family picnic" is September 10th at 5:15. Food and table service are provided and all WNL children and their families as well as volunteers are welcome to attend. A short informational meeting will be held after dinner and WNL booklets will be available. 

 

Sign up soon.  The sooner I know how many children we will have, the easier it will be to arrange the carpools and prepare for what we need to run this very important program. Registration forms are being sent in the mail this week and are also available in the church office and in the Social Hall after church on Sundays. 

 

We have a good list started of volunteers but we also need more! See me if interested or sign up in the Social Hall as well.  Volunteering opportunities include being on the kitchen team to wash dishes, providing snacks for a week, or desserts for a few of the dinners. We need drivers, table parents, teachers or teacher helpers, or help with recreation, crafts, and music, We can also use monetary donations for scholarships or supplies used at WNL.  Finally, we need your weekly prayers for the success of this program.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions or know of someone who hasn't come before so I can get them the information.  Thank You! 

 

Debbie Dingman - WNL Director 2014-2015  

Gift of the Heart School Kits 
 
We have received word from the Rapid Information Network (RIN) of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance that there is an urgent need for school kits.  In response to the Syrian refugee crisis, the number of School Kits in the New Windsor, MD warehouse is down to 60 cartons and in the Little Rock, AR warehouse is down to 120 cartons.  In November 2013 approximately 3,000 School Kits were shipped for distribution in Syria.  The Church World Service Gift of the Heart School Kits include basic necessities for learning, such as notebooks, pencils and crayons and help children return to normalcy faster, helping them avoid the long-term effects of trauma.  
 
The Mission Committee of Faith Church would like to help support this humanitarian aid effort by adding the Gift of the Heart School Kits project to its July-August mission focus and to ask the congregation for contributions of school kit items and/or monetary contributions toward the kits, valued at $15.  A complete list of the school supplies needed is posted on the office door. Thank you for the many donations we have already received, and especially thank you to Ruth Wright, Liz Nieman, and Marj Phelps  for the 36 beautifully crafted tote bags they sewed. We're looking at September 7, either before or after church, to schedule a "packing day" to fill the bags with all the supplies, in preparation for shipping, but this has not yet been finalized. We'd like to involve the youth in doing this.  
 
We will be collecting these items for the next few weeks.  There is a box marked "School Kits for Syria" outside the office where you can drop off any of these items. Checks for monetary donations may be made payable to Faith United Presbyterian Church - please write "PDA School Kits" on the memo line. There is also a poster on the office door listing the items that are needed for the kits.  In a world filled with chaos and suffering, many of us are looking for something that we can do.  These are very easy-to-obtain items and many are on sale right now. 
 
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September 7 -  Ann Phelps will be available to lead a tour of the Sunday School Rooms.  Look for the sign in the Social Hall after church. 

September 14 - 9:15 a.m.  Sunday School Begins!

Preschool children & parents - meet the teacher upstairs in the Noah's Ark room.  Use the East Hallway to get to the stairs and go upstairs. 

Elementary children - meet at 9:15 a.m. in the theatre upstairs for opening. 

Youth grades 7-9 - meet upstairs in the Youth Room of the Youth Wing at the NW corner of the church building.  Use the West Hallway to get to the stairs and go upstairs. 

Adults - Bible study on the Parables of Jesus.  Meet in the Adult Lounge.  Directions:  Use the West Hallway to get to the stairs and go upstairs. It's the  room on the far left. This study will be coordinated by Rod Lemon.

Later this fall, Rev. Kathy will be leading a discussion class for adults on Wednesday evenings at 6 p.m.  More details to follow. 

Youth Group - will kick off in early September. More details to follow.

Nursery will be available from 10:30 through the end of the worship service. 

Children's Church meets after the Children's Time in the service.  Children's Church helps children to learn to worship God and to understand what happens during worship.  Children 5 years old to 3rd grade are encouraged to attend Children's Church. 

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.  Please make checks payable to Faith United Presbyterian Church and write "PW Horizons Study Guide" on the memo line. 
Prayer Concerns

Bob McClintock; Robert Cooper (Bonnie Heflin's cousin); Diane Boelons (Bonnie & Carol Heflin's daughter); Louise Roos;  Bill Smallwood; Rick Rountree;  Joyce Lantz; Irv Lipp; Etta Jane Pullen (now at Seminary Bounce Back);  Ed Strickler; Bobbi Cady (Sarah Torrance's mother);  Cathy Abernathy;  Greg &  Joy Haning; Bill Hoover; Blaine Robinson; Vern Mettler; Cinda Stansbury; Mary Johnson; Lindsay Murdock; and Jim Paris. 
Thank You

To Faith Church,

Wow!!  What a beautiful glorious day of joy, love, and laughter!  My 90 years have been so "Blessed" -- thanks to Merle, our children, our church family and friends. Oh yes, and the thirty "green angels" ages one to forty-six.  My heartfelt thanks to each one who made the day so special.

Patricia Brown
Meals on Wheels    

If you would like to help deliver Meals on Wheels, there is still an opening on August 25.  Please arrive at Jamieson Center by 10:20 a.m. so that the delivery driver will not leave without you.  A sign-up sheet is on the church office door or call the church office at 734-5129 if you would like to be signed up. 

There is also the opportunity to help serve congregate meals at Strom Center any weekday from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Volunteer help with this keep costs down.
If you are interested in doing this, please contact Jamieson Center Director Nancy Mowen at 734-4251, and she will schedule you. 

Fifty Years Ago This Month...   
1964 - 2014
 

SESSION MINUTES - AUGUST 12, 1964

(part 3)

 


CHRISTIAN EDUCATION COMMITTEE:  Youth Fellowship Committee recommended that there be one youth group instead of two at both the Junior and Senior High levels.  Motion made, seconded and carried that this recommendation be adopted.  Church School Subcommittee:  On recommendation of the subcommittee motion made, seconded and carried that there be a church school at the Ninth Avenue Center and another Church School at another facility of Faith Church. 


 

WORSHIP COMMITTEE REPORT:  Moved seconded and carried, on recommendation of the Worship Committee that morning worship be continued for the present at 8:30 and 11 o'clock A.M. with church school to be at 9:45. 


 

Following an interview with Rick Jewell it was moved, seconded and carried that he be approved to receive the God and Country Award through the Boy Scout program with the award to be presented August 30 in connection with a service of morning worship. 


 

REPORT FROM THE TRUSTEES:  Report presented by David Moffet, chairman, who, on behalf of the Trustees requested that the Session approve the sale of the lot described as Lot 31, Sunny Lane Subdivision in the City of Monmouth, for the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Fifty Dollars ($1,550.00) to Fred Jackson and/or Robert Bohlander and that Presbytery be requested to concur in approving the sale, and that the proceeds of the sale be placed in the Faith Church Building and Development Fund.  Motion to approve this request made, seconded and carried.  Further request made by the trustees of Faith Church that the Session approve the listing of the manse of the former Ninth Avenue congregation with a real estate broker for sale.  Moved, seconded, and carried that this matter be tabled until the next meeting of the Session.  Carried.   


 

In August 1964 there was only one Session meeting, so we will divide the minutes from that meeting into four parts for newsletter publication during August 2014. 

Flute Lessons   

One of our members, Sarah Torrance, is offering flute lessons for $15 for a half hour or $25 for a full hour.   

Sarah is a freelance flute performer and teacher in the Monmouth, IL area.  She has performed with the Washington Idaho Symphony and was a member of the University of Idaho Woodwind Quintet, Palouse Woodwind Trio, and Torrance Woodwind Duo.  

Sarah holds an M.M. and B.M. in flute performance from the University of Idaho. She has studied with Dr. Leonard Garrison and Ann Yasinitsky and currently studies with Dr. John McMurtery. 

Contact information:  sdtorrance@gmail.com     (208) 914-0391

Giving through August 17, 2014

Receipts
Actual Giving
Budgeted Amount Needed
August 03
$3,248.52
$3,808.42
August 10
$4,209.62
$3,808.42
August 17
$1,051.00
$3,808.42
August Total thru August 17$8,509.14
$11,425  (rounded)
Annual Total thru August 17
$97,175.06$125,665 (rounded)

Birthdays

 

August 14 - Eilleen Spoerl

August 15 - Jessica Watson
August 16 - Dick Speer, Charles Cunningham
August 18 - Ralph Butler
August 20 - Jennifer Carrier, Maggie McVey
August 22 - Jeanne Freed, Evan Green
August 24 - Greg Gilliland, Ben Dingman, Betsy Akey, 
                             Brad Larson
August 25 - Ed Melvin
August 28 - Jim Andrews, Shirley Armstrong, Jarod                                             Spangler
August 30 - Robert Blackford
August 31 -  Zach Glasgow
 

Wedding Anniversaries

 

August 2 -  Gene & Donna Larson (61st) 

August 2 -  Jim & Kris Brown (17th) 

August 4 -  Mary & Gary Distin (41st)

August 10 - Les & Jo Ellen Dollinger (56th)

August 20 - Dale & Deb Dingman (37th) 

August 20 - Mike & Heather Fisher (21st)

August 27 - David & Eilleen Spoerl (12th)
August Mission Focus - Kandithankulam 
 

On previous Sundays,  we have had Minutes for Mission about Kandithankulam, our August mission focus.  The good work that is being done to help very needy people with their medical needs, home repairs, livelihood, and safety concerns continues to flourish, thanks to the generosity of God's caring people.  Last Sunday we focused on the ongoing Computer Education, which has expanded to two centers, one at Kandithankulam and the other at a location near four orphanages to augment the basic education children receive there, giving them more options for the future. 

 

At the free medical clinic held on July 13, 2014, more than 400 adults and children were provided free medicines and dental hygiene supplies and instruction by ten doctors, dentists, and eye specialists. Several cataract surgeries were scheduled. The cost of each of these medical camps, though completely staffed by volunteers giving of their professional services, is about $1200, including the cost of providing transportation for those unable to reach the camp any other way.  

 

In terms of computer education and job training skills, two computer centers are now being operated.  One is at the temporarily converted Light Eternal Medical Clinic and the other is located near four orphanages enabling the children there to learn computer skills which their schools do not provide. Three different courses are offered depending on age group which improve the career prospects of the village children, most of whom would otherwise end up as farm laborers. There are now six computers at the Kandithankulam Computer Center and five computers in the new branch. 

 

We recently sent out by email Raj and Saro Ambrose's August update on activities at Kandithankulam as well as new photos of the ongoing work at the medical clinic, computer center, and toilet facilities.