Sept 1: Help Your Neighbor

Sunday resumes

Sept 3:

UMW Brunch—10 AM at the

home of Wanda Ohler’s

Sept 4:

Bell Choir—6:00 PM

Chancel Choir—7:15 PM

Sept 5:

UMW Day Apart

Cantata Practice—7 PM

Sept 8: Communion

Sept 9:

UMW Clothing Drop off

from 9 to Noon

SPPRC—6 PM

Girl Scout Meeting

Sept 10:

Church Council—7 PM

Sept 13: Because We Care

Team Spaghetti Dinner

Sept 16: Women’s Ministry–

Fellowship Café at 7 PM

Sept 23:

UMW Clothing Drop off

from 9 to Noon

Trustees—6 PM

Sept 24: Food Delivery

Sep 29: Because We Care

Team leaves for NC

Sunday Schedule: 8:45 AM Small Groups 9:30 AM Fellowship Time 10:00 AM Worship

Tidbits

Because We Care Mission Team

Announces a Benefit

September 14, 2019

4:00--7:00 PM

Held at the

TOWN CLOCK UMC

645 West Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, PA

724-547-2288

Adults/$8.00 Under 12/$5.00 Under 5/Free

Take-outs are available

The proceeds from this dinner support the team going to Swansboro, NC

September 29 through October 5, 2019, to help with disaster relief from Hurricanes Matthew & Florence.

Please see Bryon Jackson or Ellen Hockenberry

if you have any questions.

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UMW News

The September meeting of our United

Methodist Women will include a

brunch and a program that will focus

on the “Women of the Bible.” The Bible

gives us so

many sto-

ries about

real faith-

ful women,

their journeys were not always easy,

but their faith guided them through.

The meeting/brunch is Tuesday, Sep-

tember 3rd at 10:00am and will be at

the home of Wanda Ohler. Please bring

a covered dish. What a great opportuni-

ty to fellowship with the women of our

church and learn about the United

Methodist Women. There is a sign-up

Bell Choir and Chancel Choir Fall Kickoff

sheet in the Visitor Area of the church

to help make planning easier for this

meeting.

(Wanda Ohler, 110 Cherry Blossom

Drive, Mt. Pleasant)

Clothing Rummage & Bake Sale

October 12— 8 AM to 2 PM

Cleaning out closets?? Please consider

donating your gently used men, wom-

en and children

clothes to the

United Methodist

Women’s Clothing

Rummage Sale.

Your donations

will help to sup-

port the future renovations of our

basement Fellowship Hall.

In addition to the Clothing Rummage

Sale on October 12, the UMW is plan-

ning to hold a bake sale which will

help to support their ongoing

Mission Projects throughout

the year. As that date draws

nearer, baked goods will be

most welcome!

Clothing donations can be delivered

on any Sunday to the Fellowship Café

Children’s Play Area or on September

9 and 23, and October 7 between the

hours of 9 AM and Noon. Please see

Charlene Borowiec for any questions.

Come Christians, Join to “Ring”! The Bell Choir begins rehearsal on September 4 at 6:00 PM. If you

can read music a little bit and think you may have fun playing bells, please contact Debbie Piper. It is a lot of

fun to be a part of this “ringing” ministry.

Do-Re-Me…The Chancel Choir will soon start to sing. Rehearsal starts on Wednesday, September 4, at

7:15 PM. Looking forward to a new season, we would love to have YOU come and sing with us! If you would

like to be a part of our choir, please see Sue Ann or any current member. Or just show up for rehearsal!

Christmas Cantata practice kicks off on Thursday, September 5 at 7:00 PM.

The Little Library Help Your Neighbor

Debbie Fritzly has been busy

checking on our Little

Library (in the front of the

church on main street) and

changing the books around.

As she points out, it is neces-

sary that the Little Library is filled with

interesting and up to date books to keep

people interested in reading Christian

genre But the best news is that the most

important book in the Little Library has

been taken—the Bible! This means we

have one more person out there reading

the words of our Lord. Our Little Library

is helping to spread the Good News in our

community, one book at a time! If you

would like to help support our Little Li-

brary, please talk with Debbie Fritzley.

Help Your Neighbor Sunday re-

sumes on September 1st, the first

Sunday of each month. All non-

perishable food items are most wel-

come but the Good Samaritan Center

is specifically in need of the following

items:

canned chicken (meats)

cereal

crackers

instant potatoes

instant side dishes (not mac &

cheese)

ramen noodle soups

Baskets are on both sides in the back

of the church for your contributions.

Thank you!

We want to help the area teachers

with school supplies for

high school students.

Please take a look at the

list below and see what

you might like to donate.

Questions? Please see Colleen Kalp

and Adam Warburton.

No. 2 Pencils Pencil Sharpener

Erasers Black/Blue Pens

12 Pak Colored Pencils

3 Ring Binders (1-2) inch

12 Inch Ruler Tab Dividers

Highlighters XL Book Covers

Single Subject Spiral Notebooks

Back to School Drive

Too often we consider ministry from a human perspective. We ask, “What

ministry should we carry out and how do we achieve our goals?” The out-

comes are up to us. Success, however we might measure that, is the direct

result of our own efforts. But there is a great error in conceiving ministry

as our ministry. It is, in fact, the root problem with many ministries today.

“Ministry” is the on-going work of Jesus Christ, for which the church has been established.

The question we each need to ask, and the question we must ask as a church is, “What work

has Christ ordained for us to do? Is Jesus the living, reigning and active Lord in our lives, and

in the life of the church, or is he just a bystander waiting to see what we do? If we see Jesus as

little more than an outside influence with very little direct input, then we make the mistake of

thinking that it is up to us to achieve everything in life and in ministry. We tell ourselves that

Jesus started the engine but we’re now in charge of running the machine. That somehow it is

up to us to make Jesus relevant to the world. The best we can hope for in Christ is a sideline

cheerleader. He cheers us on but he is not involved in the game.

Jesus is alive and active in the world. We don’t make Jesus relevant…he IS relevant! Jesus is

engaged in our personal lives, and in the life and ministry of the church. The question is not,

“What should WE do.” The question we need to ask is “What is Jesus up to, and how are we

being called to get involved?”

Swiss theologian, Karl Bath said, “It is not Jesus Christ who needs our ministries; it is our

ministries that need Jesus Christ.” Jesus puts it in even simpler terms. He says, “Apart from

me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5) By sharing in the life of Jesus, we share in God’s continu-

ing mission. Our ministry is not on behalf of Christ. Our ministry is in participation with

Christ.

As we enter this fall season, we will discuss ways in which we might reach our community for

Christ. We will talk about vision and mission and we will seek to develop new ways and new

ideas for ministry. This is the work to which the church has been called; to carry the Gospel

message, the Good News of Jesus Christ into the world. But in and through it all we must not

simply look to our own ideas as to what ministries we should develop or specific plans we

should set in motion without first asking, “Lord, where are you at work and how do you want us

to participate in ministry with you?”

The church was established by Christ. The church is a God-ordained, God-breathed institution.

Christ remains active and engaged in the life of the church, and in the life of ministry to which

we are each called. God has a specific mission and specific plans for this congregation. It is not

something that we have to guess at or go looking for it. God will reveal His plans for us as we

pray and seek His direction.

Jesus’ ministry is not merely a past influence that reaches into the present. It is at once past,

present and future. By sharing in the life of Jesus, we thereby share in God’s continuing minis-

try. We are displaced from the throne of “our” ministry and invited into the work of Christ in

HIS ministry.

Blessings All,

Pastor Bob

Just for Kids & Big Kids Too

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Bananas over Coconuts Quiz: (Answers on page 5)

1. Coconuts are considered ___ seeds ___ nuts ___ flowers ___ fruit

2. Researchers have invented a way to use coconut fiber to make ___ clothing __ auto parts ___ paper

3. The sugar is made from the sap and nectar of coconut trees is ___ coco ___ palm ___ date ___ nectar

4. Scientific name of the coconut is cocus ___ nucifera ___ arecales ___ indica ___ nutius

5. Only 2 US states can grow coconuts: ___Hawaii/California ___ California/S. Florida ___ Hawaii/S. Florida

6. Which is not a pest of coconut palm? ___ Coconut Leaf Caterpillar ___ Coconut Mite ___ Coconut Spider

7. Coconuts contain the beneficial acid ___ folic ___ omega 3 fatty ___ lactic ___ lauric

8. Which US president kept a coconut shell on his desk to remind him of a very harrowing incident in WWII?

___ Herbert Hoover ___ John F. Kennedy ___ Harry S. Truman ___ Dwight Eisenhower

9. The dried coconut meat is referred to as ___ palmono ___ coco ___ copra ___toddy

If you would like to be a part of the Email

Prayer Chain, you can let us know by

making a notation on the attendance pad

when you sign in. Please be sure we

have your current email address.

1. Seed

2. Auto parts

3. Coco sugar

4. Cocos nucifera

5. Hawaii/S. Florida

6. Coconut Spider

7. Lauric

8. John F. Kennedy

9. Copra

Answers to Coconut Quiz:

Greeters:

1 Lynn Bulebush & Randy Malone

8 Jodi Evans & Ellie Evans

15 Bob & Connie Cunningham

22 Carol Strother & Edie Etling

29 Bill & Denise LaMantia

Ushers:

*Rodger Shupe, Greg Harbaugh, Heath Wadsworth, Jennifer

Wadsworth, Debbie Fritzley

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Our Church Family

Many thanks for the cards, well wishes, and goody

treats given to our mother, Alice

McCloy. She enjoys reading and

rereading your cards, and the

treats are an added bonus for her.

We appreciate your remembrance

and prayers for our mother.

—Cheryl Clausner and Nancy Silay

Dear Friends: I wanted to send a thank you a while

back for the bag of wonderful things (Hope Angel Bag).

I read a lot of it to Bruce thru the last 5 months of his

life. The thing that mattered and only

matters to me is God and saving someone

who never new Jesus, and I did that with

Bruce. He in the last five months could-

n’t wait for me to read the Bible to him.

He then accepted the Lord and that’s the only peace

through this. The bag helped us so much. Thank you

from my heart.

—Love always, Tammy Steban

(Tammy Steban and Bruce Moore are neighbors to

Bryon and Donna Jackson. Bruce passed away on July

9, 2019, at 44 years old.)

9/01 Peggy Ulishney

9/04 Donald Jackson

9/06 Brandon King

9/08 Anna Mae Gearhart

Ellen Hockenberry

9/11 Julia Wadsworth

Bennett Baker

9/14 Brooke Ebeling

9/15 Debbie Piper

9/20 Doris Bowman

Dustin Berlin

Colleen Kalp

9/23 Daniel Ebeling

9/25 Jodi Evans

9/27 Karen Hudec

September Schedules

Look who’s having a birthday!

Dear Friends: Again, Chet & I want to thank you for

your prayers, compassion and caring. As each day be-

comes more difficult, God’s strength, guidance and love

becomes greater.

Thank you for the “goodie” bag and visit from Ellen and

Marie. We truly appreciate all you do for us.

—In His Magnificence, Molly

Congratulations and God’s Blessings to

Brian and Nicole Lauffer on the baptism of

their little daughter, Brianne Michelle, on

Sunday, August 25, 2019. Grandmother of

Brianne is Jane Lauffer.

Women’s Ministry

"So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists,

the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service,

so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity

in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become

mature, attaining to the whole measure the fullness of Christ." Ephesians 4:11-13

Ladies ~

We are called to be equipped for service. We are called to be part of building up the body of Christ.

We are called to learn and mature. We are called to become like Christ. We are called to be disciples.

Join us in Women's Ministry this year as we continue, together, to become disciples

who can make other disciples…who will then make disciples... Sharing and living out the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Join us as we get to know one another better and support and encourage one another

to "run with perseverance the race set out for us."

We meet the third Monday evening of each Month from September through May.

We also try to do an outreach/service event each quarter.

If you would like to attend, and need childcare, please let me know and we will arrange it.

Women have always had an important role in the church - and today is no different.

Please prayerfully consider making this time a priority in your already busy lives. We are called to be disciples - and it is easier to do TOGETHER.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me! Jill Ellson 724.493.8189

The United Methodist Church

of Mt. Pleasant

645 West Main Street

Mt. Pleasant, PA 15666

umcofmtpleasant@verizon.net

www.umcmp.org

Communion

&

Help Your

Neighbor

Phone Numbers:

Church Office: 724-547-2288

Pastor Bob Cell: 724-787-6234

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

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Help Your

Neighbor

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3 UMW

UMW

Brunch 10 AM

Wanda Ohler’s

4

5 UMW Day

Apart

Cantata

Practice

7 PM

6 7

8

Communion

9

10

Church Council

7 PM

11

12

Cantata

Practice

7 PM

13

14

15

16

Women’s

Ministry—7 PM

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19

Cantata

Practice

7 PM

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22 23

24

25

26

Cantata

Practice

7 PM

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29 Because We

Care Team

leaves for NC

30

Bells

6:00 PM

Choir

7:15 PM

Bells

6:00 PM

Choir

7:15 PM

Bells

6:00 PM

Choir

7:15 PM

Bells

6:00 PM

Choir

7:15 PM

4—7 PM

6 PM

Theology As Explained by Children

The first book of the Bible is Guinessis, in which Adam & Eve were created from an apple tree. Noah's wife was called Joan of Ark. Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day and a ball of fire by night. Samson slayed the Philistines with the axe of the Apostles.

Unleavened bread is bread made without ingredients. Moses went to the top of Mt. Cyanide to get the 10 commandments. The 7th commandment is 'Thou shalt not admit adultery.' Joshua let the Hebrew in the battle of Geritol. David fought the Finkelsteins, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon has 300 wives and 700 porcupines. Jesus was born because Mary had an immaculate contraption. The people who followed Jesus were called the 13 decibels. The Epistles were the wives of the Apostles. One of the opossums was St. Matthew. Paul preached holy acrimony, which is another name for marriage. A Godly person should have only one wife. This is called monotony.

A minister dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy who's dressed in sun-glasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket, and jeans.

Saint Peter addresses this guy, 'Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven?'

The guy replies, 'I'm Joe Cohen, taxi driver, of Noo Yawk City.'

St. Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the taxi driver, 'Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven.'

The taxi driver goes into Heaven with his robe and staff, and it's the minister's turn. He stands erect and booms out, 'I am Joseph Snow, pastor of Calvary Church for the last forty-three years.'

St Peter consults his list.

He says to the minister, 'Take this cotton robe and wooden staff and enter the Kingdom of Heaven.'

'Just a minute,' says the minister. 'That man was a taxi driver, and he gets a silken robe and golden staff. How can this be?'

'Up here, we work by results,' says Saint Peter. 'While you preached, people slept, while he drove, people prayed.'

Results Matter