July 2020

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Les & Nina Hooker

2 3 Lydia Downing Memphis Parrish Bob & Sharon Price

4 Independence Day Chris Hartsock

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6 Earl & Bernice Heavlin

7 8 David Keener

9 Bob Kreinbihl

10Keri Manbeck

11 Food Pantry 9/10:30 am

12 13 14 15 Jackie Albaugh NEWSLETTER DEADLINE

16 17 David & Cindy Keener

18 Brentin Bayer

19 Karl Cunningham

20 21 22 Aaron McCartney * Helen Jenkins

23 24 25

26 27 Jack & Jackie Albaugh

28 Grace Paulun

29 30 Kristi Blick

31 * Denotes 90 or over

Roxford Church is committed to being “A Spirit-led and God-glorifying people and place where becoming and maturing disciples of Jesus Christ for the

transformation of the world is our highest priority!” ___________________________________________________________________________

Roxford United Methodist Church 771 Roxford Church Rd., SE Dennison, OH 44621 www.roxfordchurch.org Ron Heasley, Pastor Barb James, Office Manager

“Where everyone from everywhere is welcome”

Church Office Hours: 9:00 am – 1:00 p.m. Mon. thru Fri.

Office Phone (330) 343-5359 Parsonage (330) 343-3181

Newsletter Editors: Sandy Beans & Bernice Heavlin

ROXFORDCOMMUNICATOR

JUNE/JULY 2020

SUNDAY SERVICES WEDNESDAY 9:30 am Worship 6:30 pm Mid-Week Jr. Church Evening Service 11:00 am Sunday School In sanctuary 6:30 pm Bible Study in Chapel

COLORING PAGE

BALANCE ON LOAN AS OF 4/30/2020 $106,681.91

Trustee Savings/Memorial Balance April 1, 2020 19,821.62 Offerings 50.00 Interest 0.00 Transfer to Gen. Fund 0.00 Ending Bal. April 30, 2020 19,821.62

Building Fund Balance April 1, 2020 83.61 Offerings 177.00 Interest 0.00 Transfer to Gen. Fund 0.00 Ending Bal. April 30, 2020 260.61

Mission Fund Balance April 1, 2020 1,068.13

Offerings 232.68 Judas Bags 100.00 Disbursements 0.00 Bal. April 30, 2020 1,400.81

Food Pantry

Balance April 1, 2020 615.49

Offerings 660.00 From Missions 0.00 Disbursements 120.60 Bal. April 30, 2020 1,154.89

TOTAL MISSION BALANCE Balance April 30, 2020 2,555.70

FINANCE REPORTS CONTINUED

JUDAS BAGS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF OUR JUDAS BAGS, MISSIONS COLLECTED $242.50

SO FAR.

IF YOU HAVE NOT TURNED IN YOUR JUDAS BAG, PLEASE

TURN IT IN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU!

Quarantine Answers

Numbers Job, James , Acts Revelation, , Lamentations, Hebrews, Peter, Kings, Esther,

Balance April 1, 2020 6,574.99

Offerings 10,565.00

Designated Income 45.00

Building Fund Income 177.00

Miscellaneous Income 25.00

Missions Income 1,000.00

Trustees/ Memorial 50.00

Interest .07

Total Monthly Income 11,862.07

New Balance 18,437.06

Disbursements:

Building Payment 0.00

Building Savings 177.00

Camps 0.00

Church Utilities 1,482.91

Conference Giving’s 0.00

Designated Income 0.00

District Apportionments 0.00

Education 0.00

Evangelism 0.00

Funeral 0.00

Janitor’s Salary 33.97

Janitor’s Supplies 0.00

Local 0.00

Missions 1,070.00

Music 0.00

Pastor’s Discretionary 0.00

Pastor Parish 0.00

Pastor’s Pension/Hospital 2,512.71

Pastor’s Salary/Travel 2,651.22

Pastor’s Utilities 520.81

Payroll Taxes 790.30

Secretary’s Salary 1,057.72

Social Committee 0.00

Sound Room 715.98

Treasurer’s Discretionary 0.00

Trustees Disbursement 777.48

Trustees /Memorial 50.00

Vacation Bible School 0.00

Workman’s Compensation 32.40

Worship Committee 0.00

Total Disbursements 12,606.89

Ending Balance (begin next month)

5,830.17

Designated Money 2,266.64

Spendable balance 3,563.53

Office 734.39

FINANCE REPORTS FINANCE REPORTS

Financial Information Needed Weekly $3,716.95 reflects loan payment is being made privately. Needed Monthly Per Budget figures $16,107.56 (Mission & Food Pantry not included)

April Monthly Offering $ 10,565.00 (General Fund)

A PRAYER FOR DADS

On this Father’s Day, 2020 I want to pray a prayer of blessing:

Lord I pray that each of us will make God the foundation of our lives.

You have said that reverence for You gives a man deep strength, & what we need in our world today are men with deep strength.

Help us to build our firm foundation on Jesus Christ.

Lord, when everybody else is running the race for acquisitions, achievements, accomplishments, & appearances, help us to remember that what matters most is love.

To love You, O God, & to love our wives, sisters & brothers, families, kids, friends, & yes, even our enemies.

Help us to remember, Jesus, that You said that our care for others is the measure of our greatness.

Help us to give our lives away & to learn what it means to really live.

We realize that everything else is going to burn up & it’s going to pass away, but the man who does the will of God will live forever.

Most important of all, I pray for these men that You would supply them a new sense of courage.

The courage to stand alone, to be a righteous person, a man of honor.

To be strong, to do everything in love, one not to be swayed by the opinions of the majority.

Use such men to influence the people around them & the communities in which they live.

I pray this blessing in the name of the Father, the Son, & the Holy Spirit. Amen

Attention: Hot meal for seniors 60 years or older — As a result of the COVID -19 pandemic Harcatus Senior Nutrition Program has additional funding to serve individuals in Harrison and Tuscarawas counties. This meal program is a service that is offered to clients 60 years of age or older regardless of income. They can either have a hot meal delivered to their home once a day or they can pick it up at one of our congregate sites.

Contact the Dennison Harcatus office at 740-922-6880 for Tuscarawas, or 740-942-3238 Harrison, and someone will walk you through the application process.

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ROXFORD “CARES” FOOD PANTRY MINISTRY We would like to thank everyone for their generous donations of food, personal items and financial support as we continue to be God’s servants to those in our surrounding communities. God continues to bless us with His bounty as we share with others His love. We serve areas of Roswell, Midvale, Barnhill, Sherrodsville and Roxford Church people. We are open the second Saturday of the month from 9/10:30 am. First come, first served.

Donations are appreciated.

June: Toilet paper(4pack), deodorant & toothbrushes. July: toothpaste & spaghetti sauce.

Thanks to all that help in our food pantry and those that donate. We have been helping an average of 30 families

THIS IS A LITTLE FUN THING TO DO! Quarantine Exercise: can you find the names of (16) books of the Bible hidden in the paragraph below? I once made a remark about the hidden books of the Bible (merely by a fluke). It kept people looking so hard for the facts and for others it was a revelation. Some were in a jam, especially since the name of the books were not capital-ized, but the truth finally struck home to numbers of readers. To others it was a re-al job. We want it to be a most fascinating few moments for you. Yes, there will be some really easy ones to spot. Oth-ers may require judges to help them. I will quickly admit it usually takes a minister to find one of them, and there will be loud lamentations when it is found. A little lady says she brews a cup of tea so she can concentrate better. See how well you can compete. Relax now. {There really are sixteen names of books hidden in this story!}

Answers are found on another page.

Reach out to your church family, call or send a card, to let them know you are think-ing about them. Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. _______________________

JULY MEMORY VERSE

“Peace I leave with you: my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14:27, NIV _______________________

June 2020

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 Steve & Marilyn Masten

8 Jim & Barb Forstrom

9 10 Ron & Denise Tedrick

11 Joe Downing Jack & Nadine Moreland

12 13 Food Pantry 9/10:30 am

14 Flag Day Larry & Nancy Rosenberry

15 Gabriel Parrish

16 17 18 Hannah Mason Missionary: Sam Davis, Sr.

19 20 Micah Mason Jim & Penny McKain Otis & Jane Cunningham Tim & Dianna Whytsell

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22 Penny McKain Ginny Bevan

23 Carl & Nancy Downing

24 Rob Blick

25 John & Kelley Chapman

26 27

28 Joe Horn

29 Bill Huddleston

30 Wendy Walker

Happy Father’s Day

June 21

FLAG DAY JUNE 14

To the family and friends of Kenneth Rochester who went to be with the Lord May 8th.

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JUNE MEMORY VERSE The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of the Lord stands forever. Isaiah 40:8 TLB

WELCOME BACK

PASTOR RON & JAN WILL

BEGIN THEIR 12TH YEAR AT ROXFORD JULY 1, 2020

DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS

WE WILL NOT BE HAVING A DINNER AT THIS TIME.

BE SURE YOU LET PASTOR RON & JAN KNOW WE ARE HAPPY TO

HAVE THEM BACK.

IN THE MILITARY Josh Kohler 667 Broadway St. Apt A Eielson AFB AK 99702 SSG Andrew Mann 304 North James St Carthage NY 13619

Shane Moody 212 Taylor Ave Dennison OH 44621 Captain Neil Finlayson 1992 Brimfield CT Columbus OH 43229

REMEMBER OUR SHUT-INS

Krystal Baxter Schoenbrunn Healthcare RM 106 2594 East High Ave. New Philadelphia, OH 44663 Ann McConnell RM 311 New Dawn Retirement Community 865 East Iron Ave. Dover, Ohio 44622 Peg Fouts (Phone: 234-801-4273) Park Village – Apt. 10C 1511 Crater Ave Dover, Oh 44622

If you are going to be in the hospital, please call the church office, 330-343-5359, and give us the name of the hospi-tal and the date you will be there.

KIDS FUN PAGE Get to Know God As Father

“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name’” (Matthew 6:9 NIV). In the thousands of years covered in the Old Testament, God is called “Father” only seven times. Too many people just didn’t think of God as Father. They thought of Him as other kinds of things — Creator, Almighty One, etc. But they didn’t think of God as Father. Then Jesus came along & said this is how you’re to pray: Call him Father. Jesus uses the expression more than 150 times to refer to God.

What He’s doing is exploding all the stereotypes. God is not the angry ty-rant. God is not the cosmic cop. He is not the universal killjoy. He is not the impersonal force. God is a personal God. He wants to have a relation-ship with us, & He created you with the ability to have a relationship with Him.

There’s only one problem. For many people, the word “father” is a negative term. The word “father” may bring up all kinds of bad memories. A lot of people say, “Our Father, who art in Heaven? If God’s like my father, then no thanks.”

The truth is, some human fathers can make home a hell on Earth. Human fathers can be fickled, moody, abusive, controlling, & even violent. So the words “our Father in Heaven” carry a lot of baggage for some people.

The reason why many people never connect with God is because they uncon-sciously think God is like their earthly father, who may have been unreasona-ble, so they think God is unreasonable. Or, maybe their father was unreliable, so they think God is unreliable. We impose all those mixed-up hurts & emo-tions onto God, so it’s no wonder we have a hard time connecting with Him.

Many kids today have very little connection to their father. So why would they be expected to have a connection with their heavenly Father? It’s no wonder we don’t understand God!

We need to let go of the misconceptions & myths we have about God so we can understand the truth of what God the Father is really like. The truth will set you free! Misconceptions keep you disconnected from God. But when you really get to know Him, you’re going to love Him.

IMPACT ROXFORD YOUTH MINISTRIES Leader Shelly Hawthorne

Shelly’s home: 330-364-5665 Cell: 330-432-7520 The Youth and Shelly are having virtual meetings, until further notice. Contact Shelly for more information.

All children 4 years old thru grade 6 are welcome to come to Jr. Church, held during Worship time every Sunday morning, except the last Sunday of the month. Come to learn about Jesus and the Bible, crafts, snack, fun and fellowship.

NO JR. CHURCH AT THIS TIME!!

CHILD CARE PROVIDERD DURING MORNING WORSHIP THRU AGE 3

No nursery until further notice!

SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES (TBA when starting)

ADULT CLASSES:

FOLLOWERS CLASS

Teacher: Linda Armstrong Meets in Chapel

KING”S ADULT CLASS

Meets Memory Hall

ARISE– Young Women’s class 30/40 years old

Teacher: Jan Heasley Meets in basement 2nd room on the right

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SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN AND YOUTH CLASSES KIDS FOR CHRIST Preschool thru 3rd Grade Teachers; Marilyn Masten, Dianna Whytsell Karen Renicker & Jim & Chris Hartsock Meets in classroom behind water fountain KINGDOM KIDS Grades 4th & 5th Teachers: Steve Masten , Jim Manbeck Meets in classroom behind Memory Hall GUARDIANS Grades 7th & up Teachers: Sharon Ryan & Jerry Brown Meets in basement first room on right