Church Staff:

Rick LaDue

Pastor

Stephen Swanson

Director of Music

Rae Seeley

Secretary

Newsletter Team: Robin Bowen

Paula Falvey

Karen Golden

Kidder Memorial United Methodist Church

(716) 488-1680

kidderchurch@windstream.net www.kidderchurch.org

From the Pastor

Kidder Kommunicator

June

2014

The media tells us that the membership of the mainline Christian denominations in

America are in decline. And the stats seem to back that up. But, we also know that

God is still in the business of doing great things and that many churches are very

successful in ministry both in numbers and impact. As a denominational church, we

want to be a ministry that is making disciples of Jesus Christ and building the

kingdom of God rather than one that is simply maintaining its programs and slowly

succumbing to the trends of complacency and decline.

Church consultants are people who make it their profession to help energize

congregations and offer counsel and advice to promote vital ministry in local

churches. One consultant, Don Nations, based in Florida, has consulted with

hundreds of churches and discovered that there are two main challenges that

mainline denominational churches must address if they are to avoid decline.

The first challenge is to move from the more common internal focus to a more

missional external focus. Nations writes, “Growing churches are primarily focused

on reaching outside of themselves – local and international missions, intentional

invitation, servant evangelism, making a positive difference in the community,

investing in advertising, delivering great hospitality, etc. “ With this in mind, Kidder

is striving to move from “maintenance” to “mission.” To be a church that cares

about the people outside our walls and to be so effective at outreach that the

community knows that we care about them.

The second greatest challenge is to embrace the future rather than live in the past. “It

is fine to honor the history of the congregation,” Nation says, but “refusing to change

and valuing the memories of the past more than making new memories of people

encountering Jesus…will lead to the eventual decline of the congregation. There

should be more concern expressed in a congregation if there are few young people

than if there is a suggestion to remodel the sanctuary…” We at Kidder certainly

value our legacy, but I believe that embracing the future is the best way to honor that

legacy.

As we move forward with changes that emphasize outreach and missions, we can

overcome these challenges. It is only natural to be self-centered, but God calls us to

a different way. Matthew 22: 37-39 says, “You must love the Lord your God…and

love your neighbor as yourself.” Let us move forward to together loving God and

loving others.

In Him,

June 15 Celebrating Father’s Day, Graduation, and

the last day for Children’s Sunday School;

recognition of Sunday School teachers.

August 3 Church in the park at 10:30

Picnic to follow in large pavilion

V B S SAVE THE DATE

July 28-August 1 9:30 AM-12:00 PM

WILDERNESS

ESCAPE

Children learn to trust God as

they join Moses on the incredible journey through

the wilderness and discover what it was like to live

in the Israelite camp.

Christian Education

Children and Youth

Kidder is able to offer various classes for children and

youth from pre-school to teens. Childcare is provided in

the nursery while adults are attending their Sunday

School classes. Children’s Sunday School classes will end

June 15 for the summer.

Builders Adult Class—God—Seeking People; lessons in Haggai— meets 10:00 am

Sunday morning in the lounge

Friday Bible Study—Study of Paul’s

First Letter to the Corinthians

— meets 11:00 am in the Lounge

Last Bible study will meet June 13 and will resume in

the Fall

Kids Choir will sing on June 15

Sunday School Teacher Recognition Day June 15

Bring us your used ink cartridges

You can help the church office defray office supply

expenses by bringing in your originally manufactured

ink cartridges.

At Office Max, we can earn $2.00 in rewards for each

qualifying visibly undamaged, originally

manufactured, ink or toner cartridges of any brand—

up to $20.00 in rewards per calendar month per

member (from 10

ink/toner cartridges).

Turn them in to the

office or place them in

the secretary’s mailbox

The June donation for operation Christmas Child will be

a monetary donation to help defray the

shipping and processing costs. So be

generous and bring in your pennies, nickels,

dimes, quarters and dollars to help support

this mission.

Operation Christmas Child 2014

Amy Anderson Nancy Greenwald

Kim Barber Floris Dunn Verna Feather

Vicky LeRoy Becky Luhman Ray Linza

...another successful year of Christian Education!

Appreciation for....

Kid Kampership Can It! Fundraiser —

Southside Redemption Center on Foote

Ave. Ext. is the drop off location for our

ongoing can/bottle drive to benefit

children’s summer camperships. It is located across from Country Woods Plaza. Simply

drop your cans and tell them to apply the amount to

the Kidder Methodist Church account.

July 20-July 26, 2014

Camp Findley

Findley Lake, New York

Spiritual Challenge

Dynamic Speakers

Children’s Programs

Youth Activities

Young Adult Program

Recreation

Relaxation

Fellowship

Daily Schedule (Monday through Friday)

7:30 Morning Watch

8:00 Breakfast

9:00 Bible Hour—Dr. Tim Dwyer

10:15 Break

10:45 Disciple Hour—Dr. Wendy Deichmann

12:15 Lunch

1:00 Afternoon Recreation/Leisure

5:30 Dinner

6:30 Angelus Bell (moment of silent prayer)

7:00 Evening Service—Bishop Mark Webb

9:15 Snack Bar Opens

Ministry Leaders for the Week

Roger Brumigan Organist

John Cooke Pianist

Dan and Lydia Albrecht Children’s Program

Heidi and Dean Ottaway

Joe Pascoe Middle School Youth Leader

David Cooke Young Adults Leader

JL Miller Sr. High Youth

Steve Taylor and Family Praise and Worship

Leaders

For more information see

www.campfindley.org

Dakota Joelle DuBois is the daughter of Candace

Calhoun. She has a sister and two brothers and a

step-brother and step-sister. She likes reading,

singing, cookouts, biking and nature. She was invited

by Vinnie Loveless, Bill and Connie Rounds to come to

Kidder Church in 2013.

Vanessa Koch Her church background is Catholic.

She has a daughter Payton. In her free time she

enjoys spending time with her daughter, gardening,

working out and walking. She lives in the

neighborhood and was invited one day to come

church.

Tambra Hallett Her church background is Methodist.

Along with her husband Fred, she has two step-

daughters, Jesse and Amanda and a grandson Amari.

Tambra works as a teacher at Jefferson Middle School.

Her hobbies include reading, swimming, going to the

zoo with Amari and spending time with family.

Kenneth (Kenny) Williams was raised in the

Seventh Day Adventist Church and was later baptized

at Emmanuel Temple. His girlfriend Diane Liden

invited him to church with her. He has two children

Chad and Camille. Kenny’s hobbies include golf,

listening to music, collecting movies, reading and

writing poetry and music.

Average Attendance

9:00 AM: 74 11:00 AM: 45

Average Weekly Giving

$2,643

Kidder Church Work List

Painting: Outside windows, touch up

hall wall paint as needed, white board

covering cable installation in back hall,

furnace room door, hand railing at Cole

Ave entrance, roof door off back stairs,

trim around back door.

New stair edge markers on all stairs

Weather stripping on South Main Street entrance

doors.

Permanent signs for entrances: Remove old

hanging Sanctuary signs.

Week of

Camps in Session June 29-

July 2

1-4

Breaking Ground

5-8

Gone Fishin’

K-12

Me & You

June 29-

July 4

3-7

Equestrian

Encounter

7-12

InTents

July 6-11 1-4

Breaking Ground

4-6

Building Up

4-8

Equestrian

Experience

6-10

Straight Shot

July 13-18 6-8

Water Works

6-8

Rub Some Dirt

in It

9-12

Senior High

Horsemanship

9-12

Challenge Accepted

July 20-26

FAMILY

BIBLE

CAMP

July 27-

August 1

2-5

Guppies

3-7

Equestrian

Encounter

4-8

From the Inside Out

(girls only)

6-8

Standing Firm

August 3-8 1-4

Breaking Ground

4-6

Building Up

4-8

Defenders of the

Faith (boys only)

4-8

Advanced

Equestrian

Aug 10-15 4-8

Equestrian

Experience

Tues., June 3 Hillcrest Baptist Bergman 1 6:30 pm

Fri., June 6 St. James RC Bergman 1 6:30 pm

Tues., June 10 CMA Bergman 1 6:30 pm

Fri., June 13 Ellery Baptist Bergman-Danielson 6:30 pm

Tues., June 17 United Church Homes Bergman 3 6:30 pm

Fri., June 20 Lakewood Baptist Bergman 1 6:30 pm

Tues., June 24 Holy Apostles Bergman 3 6:30 pm

Fri., June 27 Hillcrest Baptist Bergman 1 6:30 pm

Tues., July 1 St. James RC Bergman 1 6:30 pm

No games on Friday, July 4th

Come and cheer on our team!!

For field conditions call 661-6477 or go to jamestownny.net or the jamestownparks Facebook page

UMCOR – United Methodist Committee on Relief- is a non-profit 501c3

organization designed to provide humanitarian relief for domestic and international disaster situations,

and works with other relief organizations and local people to provide the supplies that are needed, such

as water, food, health supplies, blankets and so on. The annual “ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING”

offering is used to pay the administrative costs so that all other donations go 100% toward providing

relief supplies.

UMVIM- United Methodist Volunteers in Mission – is a sister organization that provides the “Boots on

the ground” workers who become the hands and feet of Jesus, gathering, organizing, and distributing

the supplies and working in disaster areas to provide help and hope to people who are hurting.

Volunteers in Mission provide the “face” of the United Methodist Church, providing a long term, caring

Christian presence in the aftermath of disaster.

If you research the UMCOR.org website you will find much information. Here, I want to highlight how we

can, as a church, be a part of UMCOR and UMVIM in addition to our other Missions emphasis at Kidder.

There are seven different kits that UMCOR collects and distributes - bedding kits, birthing kits, cleaning

buckets, health kits, layette kits, sewing kits, and school kits. I would like to focus on the Health kits,

which we could send to Annual Conference, in addition to building these kits throughout the year to send

to UMCOR.

A health kit includes a hand towel, washcloth, bath sized bar of soap, finger nail clippers,

8” comb, toothbrush, 6 adhesive band aids, and one dollar to purchase toothpaste. All

of this can fit in a one gallon zip lock bag.

This is one way in which you can participate in “Hands On” Missions and Outreach

without having to leave your family or employment and travel to a disaster area. Anyone and everyone

can do this, so that all of us can say we are involved in UMCOR.

If God is placing on your heart a desire to help those surviving a disaster, then

let’s see what we can do with health kits. I think assembling 100 kits is

achievable during the year. I put together two, so we have 98 to go.

Charlie Hodges and I team taught a class in Williamsville, NY on May 10 for new UMVIM Early Response

Disaster Relief trainees. We had 22 adult students from Rochester, Niagara Falls, Sodus, Williamsville,

Kenmore, Falconer, Cohocton, and other towns near Buffalo. The class teaches how to help survivors of

natural disasters recover from floods, hurricanes and tornados. These successful students will receive

photo ID badges from UMCOR as evidence of proper training.

Brian

HEALTH KITS By Brian Greenwald

Prayers for our Connectional Church: Bishop Mark J. Webb and his wife, Jodi (UNY Conference of U.M.

Church), Rev. Sherri Rood and husband Bob (Cornerstone District Superintendent), Pastor Rick LaDue

(Kidder Memorial U.M. Church), Mission Moment—World—Ambassorors for Christ, Barnabas Mam in

South East Asia, National—Red Bird Mission, KY School, Local—InterVarsity, JCC students.

Prayer Concerns

Health Concerns: LeAnn Austin, Sue Babcock, Belle Barden, Ed Barr, Biancia, Andy Bly, Kevin

Brown, Deb Coan, Candy Calhoun, Mr. and Mrs. Cobb, Ginny Conrad, Sally DeVine, Andrew

Faulkner, Baby Franco, Matt Harp, Bill Kebort, Joyce Kelsey, Linda Kennedy, Andrew Laurita,

Loretta Linza, Matthew, Matt Mecusker, Bonnie M., Maxine McCullor, Roxanne Overturf, Bob

Reagle, Ken Rounds, Robin Scott, Bill Servis, Paul Shelgren, Tristan Stormer, Mark Swanson,

Donna Tefft, Tristan, Dorothy Wilcox, Shirley Winkelman

Cancer: Richard Anderson, Paulette Bajdo, Sam Bish, Charlie Bough, Dana, Ken Gulyas, Jennifer

Heath, Steve Hook, Jeff, Charlene Kidder, Spencer Krull, Rick Lawson, Lori, Carolyn

Modisher, Alicia Peterson, Pam Potts, Connie Schultz, Russ Smith, Sydney, Sandy Whitford,

Carl Winger.

Rest Homes/Rehab: Roger Anderson (Emeritus Lakewood), Ruth Anderson (Hultquist Pl.), Mary

Kooman (Emeritus East Side, Fayetteville, NY), Lois Hawkins (Heritage Green), Suzanne

DePonceau, Phyllis Kron (Heritage Park), Lee Ayling, Alice Hillebert, and

Ralph Millspaw (LSS), Phil DePonceau and Len Olson (Tanglewood)

Armed Services: Erik Swan, Mark Winans and all the men and women serving around the world.

1 Sally Mesler

4 Edna Liden

12 Noah Langworthy

20 Shelley Kron

23 Grace Anderson

27 Blake Sischo

29 Marilyn Hale

We're happy to report that the

rummage sale held from May 15th to

the 17th was a huge success.

We raised over $1,270!

A special thank you to everyone

who took the time to come and help!

It was so great to have so many

helping hands.

Haiti Mission Team New Creation Assembly of God delegates Kidder Memorial delegates

Pastor Bill Blair Pastor Rick LaDue

Valle Blair BertaMae Ives Williamsville, NY

Tom Geisler Joe Lampard

Richard Mader Dr. Bill Lampard

Judith Mader Joel Peterson son of Val Murphy

Enos Neyman Stephenie Przepiora daughter of Val Murphy

Bonnie Thompson