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Focus on Faith

Faith United Presbyterian Church Newsletter

August 28, 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 - 12th Sunday after Pentecost 

 August 31, 2014 

   9:30 a.m. 

 

Sermon Title: "Yes, But..." 

Exodus 3: 1-15                               Psalm 105: 1-6, 23-26, 45c
Romans 12: 9-21                                   Matthew 16: 21-28
              
Liturgist: Lolla Ballard
Ushers:  Robert Blackford, Bill Lee, Dominick Reading, Malik Reading, Ed Melvin
Greeters:  Jim & Kris Brown and Ruby & Benant Bukari
Children's Church:  Crystal Sargent
Nursery:  Lynn Baber  
Coffee Hour:  Buster & Jane Kellogg and Ruby & Benant Bukari
CD Recording:  Ted Briscoe
Special Music: The Eudaimonia Brass

This is the last Sunday that worship will be at 9:30 a.m. 
Next Sunday worship moves to 10:30 a.m. 
 

Notice of Congregational Meeting

 September 7, 2014 

   11:30 a.m. - during the potluck

 

The Session of Faith United Presbyterian Church has called a special Congregational Meeting for the purpose of officially dissolving the Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC), as their work is so beautifully completed.  The meeting will be held in the Social Hall following worship during the "Family of Faith" BBQ & potluck dinner.
 

Upcoming Meetings/Events 

 

 
Monday, September 1 - CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED - LABOR DAY

Monday, September 1 - First MC Chapel Service 12:10 - 12:40 p.m. @ Dahl Auditorium

Wednesday, September 3 - Prime Beef Festival Parade - 5 p.m. 

Wednesday, September 3 - Registration deadline for PW Fall Gathering

Thursday, September 4 - Thai Circle @ FUPC - 9:30 a.m. 

Sunday, September 7 - Worship returns to 10:30 a.m. time
            - Family of Faith BBQ & Potluck - 11:30 a.m. 

Sunday, September 14 - Sunday School classes begin for all ages - 9:30 a.m.

WOW!! 
 
Ice Cream Social - Apple Pie

Preliminary reports indicate that approximately 450 people were served at Faith's Ice Cream Social and that over $2,200 was raised for mission projects. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, over 100 members and friends of our church of all ages elbow-to-elbow did an outstanding job of assisting with the project (wish we had space to list you all). Oh yes, kudos to the weatherman--the 100 degree heat made it easy to sell ice cream!!! (The outstanding outside crews of meat cookers and drive-up servers may not share that tribute to the heat!)


Comments from the public were very complimentary of the food and the friendly, smiling, hard workers. The committee is very appreciative of the enthusiastic cooperation and assistance of the congregation, whether as a worker, ticket seller or hosting a guest. The shadow of Pastor Charles was in evidence as it was he who shook us out of our corporate apathy at this time last year----and boy, did Pastor Kathy pick up that torch with her leadership and energy.

 

It is evident that Faith United is alive and well -- have you found your area(s) of interest and involvement?  And can you invite an unchurched friend or former attendee of this church to come along?

 

Again our thanks to all,

             

The committee:  Bus Kelloggs, Gene Larsons, Darlene Moffet and the Ralph Whitemans 

 

Meals on Wheels                                                                   

 

 

Due to a cancellation there is yet one more opening on Friday, August 29 for someone to help deliver meals to shut-ins in the community.  If you would like to do this, please call Vicki in the church office at 734-5129 and report to Jamieson Center by 10:20 a.m. on Friday. 

 

Thank you. 

Monmouth College Chapel Service - Monday, September 1 
                                                             

 

The first weekly Chapel Service of the 2014 -2015 academic year will be this coming Monday, September 1 from 12:10 to 12:40 p.m. in the Dahl Chapel.  Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community come together to attend this ecumenical worship service.  The Rev. Dr. Teri Ott will be preaching, Megan Byrne will lead the liturgy, Carolyn Kellert will provide the service music, and Jamar Jones will be doing the special music.  

Family of Faith Sunday - September 7, 2014 
                                                             
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There are two things to know about Sunday, September 7, a week from this coming Sunday.  First, our worship service will move to its regular time at 10:30 a.m.  (with the choir) And second, bring your appetites and a side dish + your own table service because we will be providing grilled meat and beverages, and as a congregation we will share one another's favorite sides and desserts.  Come one, come all, and enjoy.  We'll get business done with a very short Congregational Meeting while we munch, and then let the festivities begin!  Bring your friends and neighbors too!

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
NAME.....................................................
CHURCH.............................................................
ADDITIONAL NAMES................................................................................................
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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. 
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 
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Ready to Pack!
 
To the congregation of Faith Church -- many thanks go out to all of you who made it possible to donate 36 complete school kits to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance so that they can distribute these school kits to places where they are most needed, such as by Syrian refugee children whose lives are in chaos and need to continue their education. Special thanks to Liz Nieman, Marj Phelps, and Ruth Wright for sewing 36 cloth tote bags for each child to carry and keep their school supplies and for everyone who donated items from erasers to rulers to scissors.  We will be packaging the kits on September 7 with the help of our church youth and sending them to distribution points in Little Rock, Arkansas or New Windsor, Maryland.  Monetary donations toward the cost of shipping would be most welcome.  

Again, THANK YOU!!!!
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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. 

Thank You

Dear Faith UP Church VBS program,

 

Thank you so much for your generous donation to the Community Care Days Fund.  Your donation allowed us to purchase supplies and fulfill a need for a person in our community.  Once again we thank you for your thoughtfulness and generosity.

 

Community Care Days Committee

 

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

The friends and family of Irv Lipp who passed away on August 22, 2014; Bobbi Cady (Sarah Torrance's mother); Bob McClintock; Robert Cooper (Bonnie Heflin's cousin); Louise Roos;  Bill Smallwood; Rick Rountree;  Joyce Lantz; Etta Jane Pullen (now at Seminary Bounce Back);  Ed Strickler; Cathy Abernathy; Greg &  Joy Haning; Bill Hoover; Blaine Robinson; Vern Mettler; Cinda Stansbury; Mary Johnson; Lindsay Murdock; and Jim Paris. 

Diane Boelins, daughter of Bonnie & Carol Heflin is now doing better after contracting a serious infection. Thank you for your prayers. 
The following was posted by Susan Lipp, wife of Irv Lipp, on Caring Bridge on Sunday, August 24:

Hi,

It is with heavy heart that I have sad news for you ~ Irvin passed late Friday afternoon, having fought AML with tremendous courage, hope and a very hearty constitution, since diagnosed in April 2013.

This was after a brief 6-day stay at Sloan Kettering in NYC. As per his wishes, he was not in NYC ~ he had in fact just arrived at Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson, Suffolk Co., not far from home, when he passed. I was with him, and it seemed there was a commotion of angels' wings as he left. . . I will miss him forever.

Hugs,
Susan 
With Sympathy                                                                                

Our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Glenn Irvin Lipp, son of the late Mildred and Glenn Lipp, who passed away on Friday, August 22, 2014 at Good Shepherd Hospice near their home in Westhampton Beach, NY.  He was 69 years old. He had fought a courageous battle with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) since being diagnosed in April 2013.  Funeral Services will be at the Westhampton Presbyterian Church in Westhampton Beach, NY.  Memorial contributions to be made in lieu of flowers to Hope Lodge, American Cancer Society (800-227-2345), or Sloan Kettering, AML Leukemia research (866-815-9501). 

To read the obituary or to leave online condolences, please click here.

Thank You

Dear Friends at Faith,

 

The many cards, visits and condolences of sympathy since the passing of my mother, Lois  Strickler, have been extraordinary and uplifting.  Through her life and faith, my life has been touched by your kindness and compassion during this most difficult time.  A heartfelt thank-you.

 

Sincerely, 

Jim & Kris (Strickler) Brown


Fifty Years Ago This Month...   
1964 - 2014
 

SESSION MINUTES - AUGUST 12, 1964

(part 4)

 

The matter of a schedule of church events for the coming months was considered and on motion, duly made, seconded and carried the following schedule was adopted:  Communion to be observed on the first Sunday of the months of January, March, May, July, October and December; members to be received on the Sunday immediately preceding Communion; infants to be baptized on each Sunday following Communion; regular Session meetings to be set for the third Wednesday night of each month at 7:30 p.m.

 

By agreement a special meeting of the Session was called for September 2 at 8:00 p.m. 

 

On motion duly made, seconded and carried Glen Rankin was named commissioner to the next meeting of Monmouth Presbytery with Thomas Wallace to serve as alternate.

 

REPORT FROM THE BOARD OF DEACONS:  Request that Deacons provide the elements for use at Communion services and that the costs thereof be from the Deacons Fund.  Moved, seconded and carried that this request be granted.

 

There being no further business to come before the Session it was moved that the meeting adjourn.  Carried.  Adjournment followed prayer by the Clerk of the Session.

 

Rev. G. Robert Buttrick, Moderator

David M. Hallam, Clerk 


 

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. 

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 24
$ 700.00
$3,808.42
August Total thru August 24$9,209.14
$15,232  (rounded)
Annual Total thru August 24
$97,875.06$129,472  (rounded)

Birthdays

 

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

September 1 - Lindsay Aberle, Lynn Bowman
September 5 - Margaret Josephson
September 7 - Tamara Inman
September 9 - Gary Distin, Pam Youngblood, Kathy Stoner-                                   Lasala
September 10 - Vicki Briscoe
 

Wedding Anniversaries

 

August 20 - Dale & Deb Dingman (37th) 

August 20 - Mike & Heather Fisher (21st)

August 27 - David & Eilleen Spoerl (12th)

 

September 1 - Gary & Denise Pullen (35th)

September 7 - Ralph & Martha Whiteman (28th)

September 20 - Frank & Kathy Stoner-Lasala (28th)