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TIDINGS
VOLUME - JANUARY - 2020
WORSHIP SERVICE
SUNDAYS AT 10:15 AM
REFRESHMENTS IN THE FELLOWSHIP HALL AFTER SERVICE
Melissa Fisher, Pastor
James Williams, Ministry Assistant
Alan Parr, Music Ministry
ANGELO MANTE, OUTREACH PASTOR
NURSERY OPENS AT 10:10 AM
SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR AGES 4-8TH GRADE
MISSION STATEMENT
TO BE A DIVERSE COMMUNITY IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
LOVING ALL PEOPLE INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
WELCOME STATEMENT
FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (FAITH) IS AN INCLUSIVE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OFFERING A HOME, LOVE, AND GRACE. FAITH WELCOMES AND INCLUDES PEOPLE OF DIVERSE AGE, RACE, ETHNICITY, CULTURE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDEN-
TITY, ECONOMIC STATUS, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ABILITY. UNITED, FORGIVEN, AND SAVED BY OUR BELIEF IN JESUS CHRIST, WE OFFER COMFORT AND PEACE TO ALL SEEKING RESPITE IN GOD. WE ARE FAITH.
For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7
FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
207 EAST DEWALD STREET
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA 46803
CHURCH OFFICE PHONE: 260.744.4238
EMAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: fwmethodist.org
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/FWFaithful
GIFT SHOP: www.cafepress.com/FaithUnited
Melissa Fisher Head Pastor
[email protected] 260.403.5979
James Williams Ministry Assistant
[email protected] 260.247.0864
Alan Parr Music Ministry
[email protected] 937.248.9611
Angelo Mante Outreach Pastor
[email protected] 260.438.3180
Robert Taylor Church Council Chair
[email protected] 260.312.5288
Jovon Johnson Church Lay Leader
[email protected] 260.804.2359
John Agnew Church Treasurer
[email protected] 260.760.3166
Mike Bynum Finance Chair
[email protected] 260.447.2617
Tom Bice Trustees Chair
[email protected] 260.413.9840
Cathy Bice Staff Parish Relations Chair
[email protected] 260.413.1607
Angie Hayden Nurture Chair
[email protected] 260.602.5870
Greta McKinney Outreach Chair
[email protected] 260.348.0794
Carol Whitner Dare-to-Care Coordinator
JANUARY Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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5:30 pm Youth Group
6:30 pm
NA Group
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Noon NA Group
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9:00 & 11:45 am Adult Sunday
School
10:15 am Worship
Outreach Meeting following worship
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Noon NA Group
6:30 pm
Scout Troop Meetings
(Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts)
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4:30 pm Trustees 5:30 pm Nurture 6:30 pm SPRT
7:30 pm Admin Council
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5:30 pm Youth Group
6:30 pm
NA Group
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Noon NA Group
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9:00 & 11:45 am Adult Sunday
School
10:15 am Worship
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Noon NA Group
6:30 pm
Scout Troop Meetings
(Cub Scouts, Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts)
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5:30 pm Youth Group
6:30 pm
NA Group
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Noon NA Group
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9:00 & 11:45 am Adult Sunday
School 10:15 am MLK Day Worship Service Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. 1929-1968
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Noon NA Group 6:30 pm
Scout Troop Meetings
(Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts)
MLK DAY
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5:30 pm Finance
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5:30 pm Youth Group
6:30 pm
NA Group
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Noon NA Group
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9:00 & 11:45 am Adult Sunday
School
10:15 am Worship
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Noon NA Group
6:30 pm
Scout Troop Meetings
(Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts)
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5:30 pm Youth Group
6:30 pm
NA Group
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Noon NA Group
January 20, 2020
Newsletter
deadline
Newsletter articles need to be submitted by Friday, January 17, 2019. Please email articles or information to:
You may also drop off articles at the church office.
Please note the choir is on hiatus during the month of January and will not be rehearsing during that time. Rehearsals resume on Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 7:30 pm at Faith Church. If you have questions, please see Rob Stamper, Choir Director.
EVERY WEEK AT FAITH Sunday, 9:00 am and 11:45 am - Adult Sunday School Monday, Noon -Thursday, 6:30 pm - Friday, Noon - NA Group Monday, 6:30 pm - Scout Troop Meetings Thursday, 5:30 pm - 4:13 (Youth Group)
United Methodist Women is turning faith, hope and love into action on behalf of women, children and youth in the world. The National body of United Methodist Women now offers a monthly e-newsletter to help you stay in touch and informed! You can sign up for the e-news, including choosing the topics that interest you most, at unitedmethodistwomen.org/getemails. https://www.inumc.org/engage/adults/united-methodist-women/
JANUARY LECTIONARY READINGS https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/worship/lectionary-calendar
REMEMBER OUR SHUT-INS WITH A CARD James Kolkman, 1308 Union Street, FTW, IN 46802 Carol Munk, 1411 Shingle Oak Pointe, FTW, IN 46814 Belle Whiteman, Coventry Meadows, 7843 West Jefferson Boulevard, Room 521B, FTW IN 46804 Walter Hayden, Canterbury Nursing & Rehab Center, 2827 Northgate Boulevard, Room 511, FTW, IN 46835
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS
2 CAROL CARTWRIGHT
4 CYNTHIA NIX
7 CATHY BICE
16 ROBERTA AGNEW
19 TOM COOK
22 DOLLY BUNTING
CHOIR REHEARSALS
THE LEGACY OF Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING, jr.
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ELECTRONIC GIVING OPTIONS...
Can’t make it to church due to travel, prior obligations, illness? You can still give your tithes and offerings online or via text. See the options below. Church Website: Go to fwmethodist.org, click the online giving button, follow the prompts. Text Message: Text donation amount to 260-919-0390, follow instructions in message received, details are saved so going forward all you have to do is text the amount.
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on January 20, 2020, marks the 25th anniversary of the day of service that celebrates the Civil Rights leader’s life and legacy. Observed each year on the third Monday in January as “a day on, not a day off,” MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. The Corporation for National and Community service has been charged to lead this effort for the last quarter century. For more details: https://www.nationalservice.gov/serve-your-community/mlk-day-service Highlights of the life of Dr. King are courtesy of History.com editors.
On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King re-ceived a doctorate degree in theology and in 1955 helped organized the first major protest of the African-American civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott. He advocated civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to segregation in the South. The peaceful protests he led throughout the American South were often met with violence, but King and his followers persisted, and the movement gained momentum.
A powerful orator, King appealed to Christian and American ideals and won growing support from the federal gov-ernment and Northern whites. In 1963, Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph led the massive March on Washing-ton for Jobs and Freedom; the event’s grand finale was King’s famous “I Have a Dream” address. Two hundred and fifty thousand people gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial to hear the stirring speech.
In 1964, the civil rights movement achieved two of its greatest successes: the ratification of the 24th Amendment, which abolished the poll tax, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in employ-ment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public facilities. Later that year, King became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In the late 1960s, King openly criticized U.S. involvement in Vietnam and turned his efforts to winning economic rights for poor Americans. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
How mlk day became a national holiday
ELECTRONIC GIVING OPTIONS...
Can’t make it to church due to travel, prior obligations, illness? You can still give your tithes and offerings online or via text. See the options below. Church Website: Go to fwmethodist.org, click the online giving button, follow the prompts. Text Message: Text donation amount to 260-919-0390, follow instructions in message received, details are saved so going forward all you have to do is text the amount.
The fight to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a holiday took 32 years, a lot of campaigning, and guest appearances including Stevie Wonder, Ted Kennedy, and the National Football League. Officially, King’s birthday was approved as a federal holiday in 1983. He was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta. But the King holiday is marked on the third Monday in January. By 2000, all 50 states recognized the King birthday as a government holiday. The King Center in Atlanta has a detailed chronology of how the efforts, starting shortly after King’s death in 1968, paid off in the long run. It wasn’t an easy task for holiday supporters, who had to push hard in Congress to get the federal holiday created. A second battle took place to get individual states to also recognize the holiday, with often emotional disagreements in two states.
Today, the King holiday serves multiple purposes: It honors the total legacy of King; focuses on the issue of civil rights; highlights the use of nonvio-lence to promote change; and calls people into public service. The struggle to get the holiday recognized reflects all these topics, along with some inter-esting twists and turns along the way. Representative John Conyers intro-
duced the first motion to make King’s birthday a federal holiday in 1968, just four days after King’s assassination in Mem-phis. It took another 11 years to the federal holiday to come up for a vote on the House of Representative’s floor in 1979.
The bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass, but it fell five votes short with a 252-133 count, despite a strong organizational effort from the King Center, and support from Congress members and President Jimmy Carter. The holiday’s supporters re-grouped and intensified their efforts. Musician Stevie Wonder helped in 1981 by releasing the song “Happy Birthday” to pro-mote the holiday. (He would later sing it at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial dedication in 2011).) The King Center kept up its efforts. It organized a march on Washington that included an estimated 500,000 people. Coretta Scott King, along with Wonder, presented a petition signed by 6 million people to House leader Tip O’Neill.
The House took up the bill in 1983 and it passed by 53 votes. Democrats O’Neill and Jim Wright, along with Republicans Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich, gave speeches supporting the King holiday. But getting the bill passed in the Senate would be contentious. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina openly opposed it. At first, Helms introduced a filibuster, and then he presented a 400-page file that accused King of being a communist. Senator Ted Kennedy criticized Helms and Senator Dan-iel Moynihan called the document “filth” and threw it on the Senate floor. Despite Helms, the bill passed the Senate by 12 votes—even South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond voted in favor of the King holiday. President Ronald Reagan signed the bill in November 1983. The first federal King holiday was celebrated in 1986.
It took longer for the 50 states to adopt the holiday. By 1986, 17 states had already adopted it. But there was strong resistance in Arizona to passing a state holiday. The fight between state legislators came to a head when the King holiday was put up for an Arizona voter referendum in November 1990. At that point, entertainers had started boycotting the state in protest, and the National Football League threatened to move the 1993 Super Bowl from Tempe if the holiday was defeated at the polls. The King holiday lost in a two-part voter referendum and the NFL made good on its threat, taking the Super Bowl to Southern California and costing the state an estimated $500 million in revenue. Arizona voters approved the King holiday two years later. There was also a fight in South Carolina over the holiday. It was one of the last states to approve a paid King holiday for state employees in 2000. The state’s governor had tried to link the holiday to a commitment to allow the state house to fly the Confederate battle flag. Instead, he signed a bill that approved the King holiday along with a Confederate Memorial Day celebrated in May.
SPOTLIGHT Spotlight is a new Q & A feature designed to help us get to know our Faith Church family. The spotlight is on Wil Hayden! (Editor’s note: Wil is short for what? Ask her to find out!)
Name something people would be surprised to learn about you? I’m 94 years young, still drive and have been a member since 1996.
At which store would you like to max-out your credit card?
Kittle’s furniture store and Macy’s.
Choose a movie title for the sto-ry of your life? “Bill & Wil + 5 add 2 more”
What's your role at Faith UMC and how did you wind up here? Trustee. By God’s Hand.
If you could have any one su-perpower, which would you choose? Make people be kind to one another
no matter their race or sta-tion in life.
What are your hobbies? Reading and talking on the phone.
Who do you find inspiring? Pastor Jack Scott.
Favorite gospel song? “His Eye is on the Sparrow.”
Name three things still left on your bucket list? Travel to England again, take a
train trip from Chicago to LA and drive a semi-truck.
What's your life philosophy? Give and it will come back to you.
Clockwise upper right: Wil with first born son William “Seitu” Hayden circa 1954; Wil and Bill with the “original children” in the late 70’s; Wil and Bill with grandsons they raised after the original children; Wil frolics on the beach in the Bahamas in 1990 on 40th wedding anniversary trip; Wil and Bill “BC” i.e. before children; Wil in a formal portrait.
SPOTLIGHT Spotlight is a new Q & A feature designed to help us get to know our Faith Church family. The spotlight is on Tom and Cathy Bice!
Name something people would be surprised to learn about you? Tom: I am a sports fanatic and can quote information from 50 or 60 years ago. Cathy: I love history and reading historical novels.
At which store would you like to max-out your credit card? Tom: Jerry Davis Umpire Equipment. Cathy: Hobby Lobby.
Choose a movie title for the story of your life? Tom: Love Story.
Cathy: Love Story.
What's your role at Faith UMC and how did you wind up here? Tom: Chairperson of Trustees. Cathy: Chairperson of SPRT. Editor’s note: Neither Tom nor Cathy shared how they wound up at Faith Church. See them in person to get their answers!
If you could have any one superpower, which would you choose? Tom: A better memory. Cathy: The same as Tom.
What are your hobbies? Tom: Umpiring, baseball and all other sports. Cathy: Reading, history, genealogy.
Who do you find inspir-ing? Tom: My parents; they adopted me when I was 2½ years old. Cathy: Tom. He is my life and he has such a positive outlook.
Favorite gospel song? Tom: “Let There Be Peace On Earth.” Cathy: “Amazing Grace.”
Name three things still left on your bucket list? Tom: Visit the Holy Land, go to a Major League World Series game and go on a European river cruise. Cathy: Visit Norway and Denmark where grandparents were born, vis-it the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and see the Pacific Ocean.
What's your life philosophy? Tom: To love all people as Jesus did. Cathy: With God all things are possible.
During a trip to Europe, Tom and Cathy pose in front of a border stone straddling Scotland and England and...
...here they are on the opposite side of the same border stone planted on English soil.
Tom, Cathy and their fur baby, Simon Oliver.
GENERAL CONCERNS HEALTH CONCERNS OTHER CONCERNS
Our Church Carol Miller and the Miller Family Greta McKinney
The Northeast District David Miles Jackie and Traci's family, cousin Dee
The Indiana Conference David and Angel Brittenham Ben
Pastor Melissa Ron and Dolly Bunting Stamper-Westrick family
Pastor Angelo Mary Ferguson Minnie Bryant
The Homeless Paul Ricketts Roland Johnson
Those affected by mental illness, violence, and/or jail Darryl Middleton Belle Whiteman
Immigrant children & families Walter Hayden The family of Jeanette Bissontz
Fort Wayne communities Helen Johnson Willie and Dollie Bell
The United Methodist Church Elaine Middleton The family of Zetta Cullpepper Sand-ers Underwood
Alive Community Outreach Charles Williams Andy Fisher
Festival Choir - to continue its outreach and impact on lives
Charles Williams and the Williams Family Patricia and Bill
Those mourning the passing of loved ones Jack Cullpepper Wade Nix and family
Black-on-black crime Joanna Patterson The Fisher family
Blessed Portion Ministries Kurt The family of Velma Louise Hicks-Banks
TRUSTEES—Meets the first Wednesday of the month at 4:30 p.m. Members are Tom Bice, Chair, Wil Hayden, James Williams, Robert Taylor, Eric Westrick and Andy Fisher. NURTURE— Meets the first Wednesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. The Nurture team is responsible for the care of church members through events, studies, and worship. Members are Angie Hayden, Chair, Katie Middleton, Barb Ashby, Dolly Bunting, Carol Whitner, Dierdre McLemore, Vivian John-son, Robert Stamper, Paul Ricketts and Cathy Bice. DARE-TO-CARE—Please be sure to call the church yourself or have your family notify the church if you are ill, hospitalized or in a rehabilitation hospital. These facilities do not notify your church any-more so we have to rely on you and your family. Members are Carol Whitner, Dierdre McLemore and Robert Stamper. OUTREACH— Meets the first Sunday of the month immediately following worship service. Their goal is to plan events that involve the neighborhood and other parts of the community. Members are Greta McKinney, Chair, Darryl Middleton, Tom Cook, Jomare Bowers-Mizzell, Carol Miller and Angie Hayden. FINANCE—Meets the third Tuesday of the month at 5:30. Members are Mike Bynum, Chair, John Agnew, Church Treasurer, Milt Ashby, Carol Cartwright, Carol Miller, Jomare Bowers-Mizzell, James Williams, Robert Taylor and Cathy Bice. SPRC—Meets the first Wednesday of every other month at 6:30 p.m. Members are Cathy Bice, Chair, Jovon Johnson, Jomare Bowers-Mizzell, Jim Pose, Brooke Ridley, James Williams and Robert Taylor. CHURCH COUNCIL—Meets quarterly. Members are Robert Taylor, Chair, Elizabeth Mizzell, Pastor Melissa Fisher, Tom Bice, Cathy Bice, John Agnew, Mike Bynum, Angie Hayden, Jovon Johnson, Gre-ta McKinney and James Williams. YOUTH—Youth meets at 5:30 on Thursday nights. They do homework until 5:45 and then have sup-per. After supper they break into individual groups according to age for study until 7:30. Jaci Stevens is the youth group leader. SMALL GROUPS—The NE group meets at 6:00 at the home of John and Roberta Agnew. There is one group Sunday morning at 9:00 and one after worship at 11:45. SCOUTS —We have Scout troops for both boys and girls that meet at 6:30 on Monday nights.
Faith United Methodist Church 207 E Dewald St Fort Wayne, In 46803
Three Simple Rules:
First, Do No Harm
Second, Do Good
Third, Stay in Love with God
