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The Aldersgate Gateway July -- September 2014

www.ncum.org

United Methodist Youth Youth Week July 27 -- August 3

S.W.A.G. - Saved With Amazing Grace

There are packets of information in the Commons with schedules and costs, permission

slips, and ways adults may be in ministry with this event through their volunteerism

(being a driver, helping with registration each morning, chaperoning small groups, or

being a small group leader).

Register by July 13th and get a FREE T-SHIRT!

Invite your friends and share your faith!

Attention Ladies with a Heart for Mission Ladies - Children Welcome, they can learn along side you. Child = ages 5-12; Youth = ages 13 to 18 Weekend (July 25-27) Session: Begins on Friday with registration at 10 a.m., followed by facility tour at 11 a.m., lunch at noon, and ends with lunch on Sunday. Week (July28-30) Session: Begins with registration at 10 a.m., followed by facility tour at 11 a.m., lunch at noon, and ends with lunch on Wednesday. REGISTRATION DEADLINE - July 13, 2014 Call Marta Pizzeck for Details and Register 739-6491 or 484-6491 CONTINUING EDUCATION: CEU credit offered for clergy and lay speakers upon request. For lay speakers, this applies one time only. Geographic Study: Roma of Europe -- This study will introduce us to the Roma, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe. You will explore their history, the ways they are treated in contemporary European culture, introduce their lifestyle and spirituality, and investigate ways the church and other organizations are working alongside them. Study Leader: Linda Carty Spiritual Growth Study: How Is It With Your Soul? -- This study is framed within four verbs, “pray,” “learn,” “mentor,” and “transform.” This study will give an overview of the setting for this question- “How Is It With Your Soul?” -in Methodist class and band meetings, and moves from the individual to the church to the world. Study Leaders: Rev. Richard Geoghegan, Rev. Judy Fender, and Darlene Runaldue Issue Study: The Church and People with Disabilities -- This study will focus on Awareness, Acces-sibility and Advocacy. Provides for hands on experience completing an accessibility audit and engaging in multi-sensory worship and education. Study Leaders: Rev. Elizabeth von Trapp Walker, Rev. Jo Ellen Hetherington and Brenda Connelly. Korean Class Study Leaders: Rev. Jim-wook Oh, Kyoungee Malawi Children’s Study: Making a New Picture: Welcoming Persons with Disabilities Into Our Lives. Study Leader: Mrs. Phyllis Geoghegan

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Aldersgate’s Next Blood Drive

Saturday, August 2 7:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Bring your family and friends. Child care will be provided and refreshments will be served. Making appointments helps improve donor flow. Three easy ways to make ap-pointments are as follows:

1) Visit www.redcrossblood.org and key in zip code 23321 2) Send e-mail to: Stricker321@aol.com 3) Call Jim at: 441-6717

We invite All Donors and encourage more First Time Donors. Walk - ins are always wel-come. The least-busiest time slots are usually after 10:00 a.m.

We are planning to collect Whole Blood Units and Double Red Cell Units during this Blood Drive.

The Mission Committee is very interested in combining Blood Drives with other church activities on these future dates:

-- October 4

-- December 13

Did You Know?

Each blood donation can benefit as many as three hospital patients!

Aldersgate in Mission

5,000 Units Collected ... another Huge Blood Drive Milestone!

We helped the American Red Cross collect the 5,000th unit at Aldersgate on Saturday, June 7. The lucky donor is Bob Yates, a member of St. Therese Catholic Church. We surprised him with “thank you” gifts and invited him back to Aldersgate. Special Recognition also goes to Rick Sta-pleton here at Aldersgate for donating the 4,999th unit ... he was THAT close! Each unit collected can benefit as many as three patients. That means that this tre-mendous Mission Outreach program has helped give back the community benefiting as many as 15,000 hospital patients in the Mid-Atlantic Region. The Mission Committee sincerely thanks hundreds of donors plus dozens of volun-teers who routinely make advance tele-phone calls and help staff these blood drives every eight weeks. We routinely re-ceive high praise and wonderful compli-ments from regular donors who continually prefer to donate at Aldersgate. We enjoy a tremendous fellowship and community awareness through this program delivering great benefits for those in need. When you would like to become a volun-teer member of our Blood Drive Team, or like more information about becoming a donor, please contact Laura Beth, Karen, or Jim Stricker at Stricker321@aol.com or call 465-3803.

Conference Mission Kits -- School Kits Look for the Back-to-School- sales and Tax-Free Weekends for bargain prices for the items that go into the School Kits! ◊ 1 pr. blunt scissors (round tip, not plastic) ◊ 3 pads or paper or pkgs. loose-leaf paper ◊ 1 hand held pencil sharpener, at least 1” ◊ 1 ruler, 12”/30 cm ◊ 6 unsharpened pencils ◊ 1 2” size or larger eraser ◊ 1 box or 24 crayons ◊ 1 envelope with $1 in it for shipping

Deliver all kits to the church office.

“. . . whatever you did for one of the least

of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”

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United Methodist Women

The Susannah Wesley Circle of the United Methodist Women is taking a break for the summer, but will meet again in September on the second Tuesday of the month, which will be Sep-tember 9th. We will be meeting every se-cond Tuesday and not the third as we have been doing. More in-formation will follow. If interest-ed in learning more about what we do, please contact Valerie Heard.

United Methodist Women is the largest denominational faith organization for women with approximately 800,000 members whose mission is fostering spiritual growth, developing leaders and advocating for justice.

United Methodist Men

Events and Plans:

July 17th at 6 p.m.: program with a summer style dinner -- presented by Elizabeth District UMM leaders -- entitled “Grilling for God.” Cost for the meal is $5. You will experience the food and fellowship first hand and then hear about service and spiritual growth op-portunities. They will share service programs that are at work in other UM Men groups across the district. Then they will share some spiritual growth programs that are reaching out to men and bringing them closer to Christ.

August 21st at 6 p.m.: August meeting is with a meal. ($5 cost for the meal) Be there to plan for worship services and to make plans and assignments for fish fry in September. Also, “Letters to Dad” program planning and commitments.

August 24th: UMM leading both worship ser-vices at Aldersgate

September 18 at 6 p.m.: meeting with a meal (Cost for food, $5).

September 27th: Super Fish Fry from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m.. Many different types of help needed!

Wednesdays

August 27th and September 24th

Youth Minister Our church is accepting applications for the part-time staff position of Youth Minister. This position is anticipated to require approximately 20 hours per week at an annual salary of $14,000 -- $18-000. The purpose of this position is to build young disciples for Christ by develop-ing and implementing a comprehensive ap-proach to youth ministry (in the areas of group building, worship, discipleship, mission and out-reach) while serving as a spiritual leader and role model. If you are interested in applying for this position, you can download a copy of the job description from http://www.vaumc.org/jobs or contact Bob Southard, S-PRC Chairman.

Interested applicants are asked to forward a resume and an accompanying cover letter explaining why the applicant believes they would be successful in serving as Youth Minis-ter at Aldersgate United Methodist Church of New Creation. Please forward your resume and cover letter to Bob Southard at r.d.southard@gmail.com no later than August 1, 2014.

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Tuesday Morning Prayer

at Aldersgate

7-7:30 — Private Prayer in the Chapel

7:30-8 — Breakfast in the Fellowship Hall

8-8:30 — Community Prayer in the Chapel

Gifts in Memory of…

In Memory of Sam Rhyne Mr. & Mrs. John Tyler Mr. & Mrs. Morris Gardner Kristen Norman

In Memory of Charlie Whisenant Ann VanLaethem First Team Auto Jane Crute Richard S. McLellan Rev. & Mrs. Robert Weeks Morris & Nancy Gardner Robert & Barbara Head Chancel Choir Bob Dyer Luke & Mimi McCoy Sandra Gee Mr. & Mrs. Robert Steorts Anne Hall Bill Prince Peggy Whitehurst Golden Rule Class John & Lisa Southerland Bill Jackson Kimberly Dills Valerie Heard Mary Sue Floyd Norma Mullins Mr. & Mrs. Parks Morgan

In Memory of Kenneth Bryant Mr. & Mrs. Morris Gardner

We Express Our Love and Sympathy

to the family of Dick Edwards.

Congratulations to Ashlyn Taylor Cosby and Au-brey Faith Cosby, daughters of Kim and Mike Cosby, on their Baptism.

We Welcome New Members Thomas Bryan and Ji Young, Yejin, & Eugene; Kim and Mike Cosby; Joshua Barbish; Lillian Laird; Ruth Bu-chanan; and Makayla Carlson.

...in Memory of…

In Memory of Ray Hall’s brother Joy Class Mr. & Mrs. Robert Steorts Bob Dyer

In Memory of Dick Barnes Faithful Friends Mr. & Mrs. Carol Forehand Mr. & Mrs. Morris Gardner

In Memory of Rosemary Dorow’s brother Mr.& Mrs. Morris Gardner

In Memory of Jeff Flowers’ father Mr. & Mrs. Morris Gardner

In my Father’s

house there are

many dwelling

places. If it

were not so,

would I have

told you that I

go to prepare a

place for you?

And if I go and

prepare a place

for you, I will

come again

and will take

you to myself,

so that where I

am, there you

may be also.

John 14:2-3

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Caregivers is a support group which meets the third Tuesday night of each month at 7:00 p.m. in room 16. For more infor-mation you may contact Jean Thompson at 484-9192. All are welcome, whether or not you are a member of New Crea-tion UMC.

Join the Usher Team

You are invited to become an usher to help

during services and special events. It is an

easy, but very important job!

Contact Jay Jones or call the church office

at 484-8217.

Young Women’s Event: September 19-20 “A Place of Grace -- God’s Greatest Gift”

A Mother/Daughters Trio are Leaders of the Event Rebecca Wright, Mary Jane Rawley, and Jennifer Hildebrand.

This event at Blackstone Retreat Center is spon-sored by Virginia Conference United Methodist Women.

All young women, ages 18-35are invited to attend. Aldersgate’s UMW will sponsor three young women for this event. Contact Marta Pizzeck at martapiz@verizon.net or 483-6491.

Editor’s Note: We are in search of someone who would like to take over the publishing of our Gateways . . .

◊ This publication -- 4 editions, of January, April, July, and October, and its online component

◊ The Weekly (yellow) Gateway that comes with your bulletin

◊ The e-mailed Weekly Gateway that is sent to your e-mail accounts

Contact us at the church office by phone at 484-8217 or by e-mail at aldersgate@ncum.org

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On the Horizon ...

SKY now has a Lunch Bunch! There is no sign-up necessary. Just come prepared to enjoy a meal with friends. Look on the SKY table for the announcement for the current month.

July 10: Lunch Bunch -- NIX at 11:00 a.m.

July 17: Concert -- Western Branch Community Center, cost is $3.

July 29: Bluebird Gap Farm -- This is a trip for Grandkids and SKY -- (Grandchildren not a necessi-ty -- we will share.) A stop at Bass Pro and eating lunch at a nearby “fast food” spot are the order of the day. Transportation will be private vehicles due to car seats for children (though, we can certainly carpool). There is no cost for this outing, but bring your lunch money!

Also coming up: Aug. 7: Evening Concert at Fort Eustis Aug. 22: Game Night!

Contact Dea Atkinson for info: 483-2660

Sign up for SKY activities and events at the SKY table in the commons. When making payments for events, please use our system of placing your payment in a SKY envelope, found on the SKY table.

Crafty Wednesdays 9:30 a.m. -- 4:00 p.m.

Joy Classroom every Wednesday

All Day Crafting Play Days: Saturdays New Horizons/Fellowship Hall

July 12, August 9, September 13, and October 18

9 a.m. -- 10 p.m. Canned goods and love offerings will be

accepted for the mission fund. Contact: Pattie Cartwright, 673-8508.

Support Your Church Members

Look for the two business card racks in our halls. Church members in the busi-ness sector may display their business

cards for $25 per year per rack as an Ambassadors Fund Raiser. For more information or to make payment for

displaying your cards, contact: Luke McCoy, 483-1179.

RADA Knife & Cutlery Sales

2nd Sunday each month

This is an on-going project for the Ambassadors Class

which is using the proceeds for their mission ministries.

Dear Aldersgate Family,

I wish to thank you for your love, your support, your prayers and your memorial donations for my beloved husband, Charlie Whisenant. Many of you, also contributed to the reception following his service on April 18, 2014. He really enjoyed being a part of Aldersgate.

In Christian Love, Peggy E. Whitehurst New Address: 4413-1 Deborah Court Chesapeake, Virginia 23321

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Rotation Sunday School Update . . .

The first Rotation Sunday School summer ses-sion is for five weeks starting July 6 through Au-gust 3. The subject is Creation.

The second summer session will run for four weeks. It will start on August 10 and finish on Au-gust 31.

We welcome volunteers who are willing to sub-stitute as Teachers and Shepherds during the sum-mer months.

Rotation Sunday school is hoping that someone will volunteer to teach Masterpiece Theatre in the fall. You get to eat popcorn!! Cliff Carlson has been teaching one session of Masterpiece for many years and we appreciate his time and effort.

Also, we are looking for a fifth grade shepherd to start in the fall. Rebecca Carlson has been a 5th grade shepherd just as long as her husband has been teaching. Thanks to Rebecca for all of her time and effort. Please prayerfully consider helping with this wonderful program. Our children need you.

Our Promotion Sunday will be held on Septem-ber 7 in the Fellowship Hall from 9:45 - 10:45 a.m.

For more information, please contact Karen Stricker at Stricker321@aol.com.

Fellowship Dinners begin

September 3rd

Sherri Bartku and Valerie Heard are co-chairs of the Prayer Shawl Ministry. If you are interested in participating contact Sherri (337-0357, sbartku@gmail.com) or Valerie (484-0748, vjheard@verizon.net).

Prayer Shawl

Ministry

Bible Studies

Fall Women’s Bible Study Look for these study op-portunities this fall -- Dates TBA

Thursday evenings: “Hebrews” by Lisa Harper

Friday mornings: “Namesake” by Jessica LaGrone

Disciple Bible Studies

Disciple Classes I, II, and III will be offered beginning this fall.

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Aldersgate Campus (757) 484-8217

Grace Harbor Campus (757) 686-1888 Aldersgate KinderPrep: 673-4602

Website: ncum.org E-mail: aldersgate@ncum.org

Va. Conference Bishop ........................... Young Jin Cho District Superintendent ............................. Brad Phillips Aldersgate Campus Pastors .................. David Drinkard ........................................................... Stephanie Kimec Lay Leaders............... Rosemary Dorow, Dave LeGrand Church Council Chairperson ............... Jimmy Winslow Director of Youth......................................... Bill Canady Assistant Director of Youth ..................... Andrea Cipcic Assistant Director of Youth .................. Mark Anderson KinderPrep Director ...................................... Carla Bell Finance Director ......................................... Debby Nein Nursery Director................................... Debbie Canady Music Director ...................................... Morris Gardner Organist ................................................ Nancy Gardner 8:30 Worship Leader ................................... Mary Davis Handbell Choir Director .......................... Sue Davidson Children’s Choir Director ........................... Kim Barbish Secretary .......................................... Debbie Armistead Missionary ............................ Luz Pereira Garcia - Brazil Missionary ......................... Lisa Nichols - Rocky Mt. Va. Ministers ............................................... Every Member

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Submit articles by Sep. 10, 2014 to aldersgate@ncum.org

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The Aldersgate Gateway

Sermon Series

Stories From the Seashore

July 6 — Matthew 4:18-22

July 13 — Matthew 8:23-27

July 20 — Matthew 14:22-33

July 27 — John 21:1, 15-19

Aug. 3 — Youth Week Service

Living where we do, we have the opportunity to enjoy many beaches and shorelines wheth-er the ocean, bay, or creek. Many of us em-brace the water by spending our vacations there this time of the year.

Jesus and his disciples spent much time at the shore. Many of them were watermen -- and many Gospel lessons were taught in view of the water. This sermon series will take our spirits to the beach meet Jesus there!

Why not invite a friend to attend with you!