July 12, 2013
This Week At SDUMC

A Weekly Publication

The Mission
THE MISSION OF SAN DIEGUITO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IS TO: MINISTER to the hopes and hurts of a troubled world, NURTURE people in a community of grace, and INVITE all persons to new life in Jesus Christ.

Ministers

Rev. Mark Feldmeir

Rev. Martha Wingfield

Sunday Services:

9:00 am and 10:30 am

Contact Information:

San Dieguito

United Methodist Church

170 Calle Magdalena

Encinitas, CA 92024

Office: 760.753.6582

news@encinitaschurch.com

www.encinitaschurch.com

In This Issue

Read the New Testament in 90 Days

Minister's Message

This Week at the Forum

Ubuntu Day of Service

Youth News

Children and Family News

Desserts and DVDs

New Phase Support Group

Bread of Life/Fill-A-Belly

Electronic Giving

Electronic Giving is an efficient and convenient way to make your weekly, monthly, annual, or special offering. Many of our members and friends choose to make their offering this way. If electronic giving is a more attractive and convenient method of giving for you, please visit the church website at http://encinitaschurch.com/about-us/giving/, and follow the instructions. If you need assistance, please contact the church office.

Ongoing Reminders:

SDUMC Fixit Team
If you are elderly, widowed, or single and in need of some home repairs, just call our SDUMC Fixit Team. We'll be right there! Call the Church Office at 760.753.6582 or the CARE Team at 760.632.8029.

Keep Donating Your Pesky Pennies!
We support Camp Encinal in the Northwest Conference of the Mexican Methodist Church. Currently we are supporting the building of a chapel, so please deposit your pesky pennies into the jar located in the church office. Thank you for your generosity!

Getting Around
The CARE Team has a motorized scooter available for your FREE use if you or someone you know has trouble getting around in a wheelchair. We are happy to lend it to you. Call Lynne Calkins 760.632.8029 or email: LC1NP@cox.net.

Concert DVDs For Purchase
DVDs are available for purchase of the Creation Concert and the Thomas Mellon organ concert. The suggested donation is $5 for CREATION and $2 for Thomas Mellon concert. Please sign up in the church office at the reception desk if you would like to order a copy.

E-news and Bulletin Submissions
If you would like an announcement included in the bulletin or e-news next week, please e-mail your submission by Tuesday at 5:00 pm to admin@encinitaschurch.com and secretary@encinitaschurch.com.

Order of WorshipQuick Links

Order of Worship

Master Calendar

Website

prayer request

Added to the Prayer List this Week

Jim Tetrick (Walter & Jan Stewart), Gladys Vergara (Jerry & Evelina Hamilton).

If you would like to add someone to the prayer list, please e-mail the office at

secretary@encinitaschurch.com and

admin@encinitaschurch.com.

Weekly Quote
"If there is one thing which unites us all, it is our forgetting, our overlooking how much we have been loved. For most of us, our biggest problem is not what we have done or not done... but simply that we have not remembered with how great a love we have been loved."

Read the New Testament in 90 Days

Reading Began July 1
The Adult Education Committee invites you to join with others in our congregation in reading the New Testament in July, August and September. Each daily reading will cover a couple of chapters and should take 15-30 minutes. Book marks that guide the reading are available in the church office. Fellowship Potlucks will be held at the end of each month to share experiences and offer orientation to the reading for the next month.

Minister's Message

Dear Friends,

For the next week in our Reading the New Testament in 90 days, we will be journeying through the gospel of Luke. "Journey" is an apt word to use to describe the movement of this wonderful gospel - my personal favorite. The story begins and ends in Jerusalem and throughout the stories of his ministry, Jesus is on the move, teaching and healing - with the ultimate lesson about God's inclusive and unconditional love climaxing with the story of his death and resurrection.

Luke was likely written a decade or two after Mark. It is the first of a two-volume work - Luke/Acts. Luke's gospel tells of Jesus' mission to the Jewish people. Acts describes the spread of Christianity into the Roman Empire and beyond.

We will read Acts at the end of the month and see then a continuation of the story as the Spirit moves through the Pentecost event and the establishment of the early church.

Luke's audience is Gentile Christians and his perspective is radically inclusive. As Eugene Peterson points out, "Luke is a most vigorous champion of the outsider. An outsider himself, the only Gentile in an all-Jewish cast of New Testament writers, he shows how Jesus includes those who typically were treated as outsiders by the religious establishment of the day; women, common laborers, the racially different, the poor. He will not countenance religion as a club."1

A hallmark of Luke's theology is the emphasis on the Spirit of God. The presence of the Spirit appears in the other gospels but not like in Luke. (Note how many people are "filled with the Spirit" in this gospel.) The Spirit is present at every pivotal moment in the story, i.e. baptism, start of ministry, Jesus' dying words, and the resurrection promises. In all

three synoptic gospels, Jesus begins his ministry by reading Hebrew scripture in the synagogue on the Sabbath. But, only in Luke is the scripture deliberately quoted and this passage from Isaiah, offers a portrait of Luke's Jesus and his mission to be the savior to the whole world.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. 2

In worship this Sunday, the scripture that will guide our worship is from Paul's letter to the Colossians 1:1-14 and the sermon title is "Empowered by the Past."

See you Sunday, Martha

1 The Message, Eugene Peterson p.116

2 Luke 4:18-19

Events This Sunday

The Forum

Sunday, July 14

The Forum meets Sunday, July 14, at 10:30 am in the Lounge. In honor of Bastille Day, our resident historian, Steve Hayes, will relate the story of the French Revolution in one hour. Next week, please welcome the Rev. Dr. Charlie Boss and Harley Noell for a special program on prison ministries and halfway houses to help those who have paid their debt re-assimilate productively into society.

Ubuntu Day of Service

Sunday, July 14, 3:00 pm

On the Ubuntu Day of Service this month, we will be singing at the Aviara Healthcare Center on Sunday, July 14, at 3:00 pm. Once a month we will gather to do a service project in the spirit of Ubuntu, a Zulu word meaning "my humanity is inextricably linked to yours." A person with "ubuntu" is welcoming, hospitable, warm and generous, willing to share our humanity. Aviara is located at 944 Regal Road in Encinitas, 92024. Plan to join us as we raise our voices in song to lift the spirits of our neighbors. Children are welcome.

Youth News

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SSP info Meeting will be held Sunday, July 14, at 10:10 am in the Youth Room. All youth participating in SSP are invited to come hear about the schedule, expectations and to sign all the required forms. This is also your opportunity to ask any questions you might have about our upcoming trip.

Beach Yoga will take place on Tuesday, July 16 at 10:00 am. Join us as we relax, rejuvenate and focus our minds. Interested youth should email Chelsea for more information.

UMYF District Beach Day on Thursday, July 18.

Interested youth must email Chelsea at Chelsea@encinitaschurch.com by 12:00 pm on Wednesday, July 17 to reserve a spot. We will be meeting at church at 9:30 am and returning around 3:00 pm.

Children and Family News

Family Camp will take place at Camp Cedar Glen, September 20-22, 2013! Please join us for fun as we will learn how everything is possible with God! Registration is now open. The cost is $100.00 for Adults (10 years old and up), $50.00 for Children (3-9 years old), and children 2 and under are free. Please register online. Contact Chelsea Simon at Chelsea@encinitaschurch.com for more information.

Save The Date! Please join us for a Family Pool Party on Sunday, July 14 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm at 1481 Willowspring Drive North, Encinitas CA 92024. The Children and Family Ministry Committee will provide lunch and drinks.

This Week

School Supplies Needed

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Once again this summer we are collecting school supplies for the UMCOR School Kits that will be assembled during Light YOUR World in October. A list of the supplies that go in a kit is posted on the MIssions and Social Action Bulletin Board located in Founders Hall or outside on Sunday mornings. The list can also be found at Click Here and click on school kit in the yellow box on the right.

Here is an abbreviated list:

Blunt scissors, 8 1/2x11

Spiral notebook or loose leaf paper

Hand held pencil sharpener

30-centimeter ruler

Unsharpened pencils

2 1/2 inch eraser

24 count box of crayons

NO advertisements, religious, patriotic, or military symbols; cartoon characters OK.

Between July 4 and Labor Day, stores offer specials each week to entice you into their stores. We will be sending out "Deals of the Week" during July and August for the items listed above that have a super-special price. Please consider buying some of these items as well as other items on the list when you are out shopping. There will be a box in the entrance to Founders Hall for the school supplies you want to donate. Thank you for your support.

Deal of the Week for July 7-13
Staples: blunt scissors -- $1 for package of 2 (make sure you get the package that says BLUNT scissors).

Desserts and DVDs

Monday, July 15, 7:00 pm in the Lounge

The Missions and Social Action Committee is sponsoring another Desserts and DVDs evening on Monday, July 15, at 7:00 pm in the Lounge. We will be showing "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" by Abigail Disney. This is the story of ordinary women with extraordinary courage who brought the warring nation of Liberia to its senses, armed only with their desire to make the world a more peaceful place. Their leader, Leymah Gbowee, was the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

New Phase Support Group
Tuesday, July 16, 12:00 pm in the Lounge New Phase Support Group will meet Tuesday, July 16 at 12:00 pm in the Lounge. New persons who have recently lost a loved one are welcome to join us. Please contact Phyllis Castiglione with questions or concerns at 858.759.1552.

Bread of Life/Fill-A-Belly

Our date for preparing and serving a wonderful meatloaf dinner for the Bread of Life Mission and Fill-A-Belly is Tuesday, July 16. We welcome volunteers to help cook the dinner in our church kitchen starting at 1:15 pm; transport the food to the mission at 5:15 pm; servers are needed at the mission at 5:45 pm. Dinner is served at 7:00 pm. The Bread of Life Mission is located at 1919 Apple Street in Oceanside. Fill-A-Belly is located at Cottonwood Creek Park in Encinitas. For any questions, please call Carol Sadler at 769.436.2769 or email her at csadler009@hotmail.com. Please join us to help serve the dinner and to mingle with our friends and neighbors who happen to be down on their luck. Bring a little joy and humanity into your life and theirs.

Future Events, Sign-ups, and Announcements

The Book Group
Monday, August 12 at 4:00 pm The non-fiction selection is The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe. Please call Mary Arana for location at 760.846.2188. Everyone is welcome.