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THE MESSENGER Powhatan United Methodist Church Serving Christ since 1789
August 2018
2018–Year of Worship Goal: To know God more deeply through the Spiritual Discipline of Worship. Mission: “…I was sick and you visited Me; ” – Matthew 25:36
Calling all children to read scripture… Calling all children to read scripture… Powhatan UMC needs your help Welcoming the Thirsty to Worship! 11:00 am scripture readers needed for every first Sun-day, August-December. Interested? Check out the sign up at: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4daba82baa8-communion
Psalm 119 for 2018
Verses 113-128 for August
Sermon series: Discipleship Check-up Aug 5: Psalm 139, Prayer Aug 12; Hebrews 4:12-13; Study Aug 19: Jonah 3; Fasting Aug 26: Romans 12:1-2; Worship/Backpack Blessings
Prepare CLC for Worship August 2018
Set-up: Kids with Purpose (Julie Layman) Take-down: Upper Room (Terry Paquette & Fran Carleton)
September 2018 Set-up: Friendship (Win Baker & Phyllis Sciarrone) Take-down: Fellowship (Gail Timberlake)
Bible Presentation to our 3rd graders will be on Sunday September 16th at 8:30AM and 11:00AM services
(please contact Julie Layman by September 1st if you have a rising 3rd grader)
Welcome
the Thirsty to Worship
.
The Circle of Friends The Circle of Friends will meet on Monday, August 6th, at 10 AM in the small meeting room at Powhatan Library. Refreshments by Kathy Allanson & Linda Estes; de-votions by Kathy Allanson. All ladies are welcome. For more infor-mation, contact Pat Cox at 804-372-6711 or Cherie Nordlof at 818-471-5215.
Unglued
Moms of babies & school age children
This summer, if you are a mom of babies & school-age children and need a way to stay grounded and encour-aged in your faith, join us! Unglued meets on Monday nights from 6:30-8:00 pm. Questions? Contact Karen Hemming at [email protected] or 598-2084.
Sunday, 9:45a.m. in CLC
Encountering Christ Groups Friendship
Contemporary Upper Room
Fellowship Class Nursery: newborn- age 3
BLAST for Children Youth (grades 6-12)
Marriage/Family Sunday Small Group - Are you single or married with kids and looking for a place to get plugged in to PUMC? Join us on Sundays at 9:45am in the CLC kitchen! You read that right. Join us for a laid-back atmosphere as we share life by digging deeper into our faith. While you're with us, your kids (infant - youth) can have fun in a small group of their own.
United Methodist Men Meeting
The United Methodist Men will not meet during the summer. They will be back on schedule in September.
Monday Night Circle (MNC)
Monday Night Circle: The August meeting will be held on August 27th at 7 pm at the home of Ma-rie DeHart located at 3932 St. John's Village Way. This meeting will be hosted b y Marie DeHart and Kim Throckmor-ton.
B.L.A.S.T. (Bible Learning & Spiritual Training)
Body : Moving Meditation - with Julie Layman
Voice : Choir- with Mr. Juan Mind : Lesson, snack, and activity with Brian Griffen, and Kathy Allanson
All activities will take place in CLC building in the 4th classroom on the left.
Photos from July 29, Celebration Service and Lunch
Encounter
Christ in Small Groups
Discipleship Check-up
Our vehicles function best with routine maintenance – oil changes, tire pressure, fluids, belts, and wiper blades – just to name a few. When these items are moni-tored on a regular basis, it is less likely you will need service from a tow truck. The better we care for our vehicles, the better they will perform – helping us get from one place to the next without complications.
Our faith is very similar. Since 2015 we have focused on prayer, study, fasting, worship, helping the hungry/thirsty, welcoming strangers, clothing the naked, and visiting/caring for those who are sick. Without a doubt, we have learned a lot in that time frame. I hope you have drawn closer to the Lord and been more intentional about seek-ing out the least of these in our community.
Knowing we have only one year remaining in this five year process, I figured it was high time for us to complete a discipleship check-up. For the month of August, we will ask for your personal assessment regarding your faith jour-ney. There is no appointment necessary. You don't have to wait in line. You simply need to fill out a short form, stating your progress. We also need your feedback to figure out how the church can better resource you – class options, books, presentations, conversations, etc. We are traveling the same road and it is vital for us to provide assistance to one another.
Come to worship in August for your discipleship check-up. To be sure, it will help us to BE disciples of Christ more fully in order for us to MAKE disciples of Christ.
Ready for my Check-up,
Pastor John
Audio sermons available at www.powhatanumc.us
Live Streaming available at www.powhatanumc.us
Powhatan United Methodist Church Ministry Team
Pastor John hemming | [email protected]
Juan Pineda, music director | [email protected]
sandra lowe, Administrator | [email protected]
Brenda butterfield, finance | [email protected]
Julie Layman, Children’s Coordinator | [email protected]
Melanie Peloke | [email protected]
Sharon Baltimore, Preschool Director | [email protected]
Harvey & Sally Paquette, Event & Facilities Overseer
2253 Rosson Road, Powhatan 23139 | (804) 598-4438
website: www.powhatanumc.us | email: [email protected]
Dear PUMC church family, Thank you so much for the wonderful blanket and gen-erous scholarship. It means so much to know that I have a whole church family look-ing out for me and sup-porting me. It has been wonderful grouping up in such a kind, loving church. Thanks again for all of your kindness and generosity as I move on the next chapter of my life. Karen Martin
To Our Church Family, Please accept our sincere thanks for all of the heartfelt messages, prayers and cards. It has been a difficult few months with my Dad's sudden decline and passing and then Dickie's struggles and finally, surgery for kidney stones. My dad loved his Upper Room-'Large Print Edition' provided by the church for the past few years. During his final days, I had the privilege of reading each day's special message to him. The ladies of our Congrega-tional Care Team provide such a loving and im-portant ministry and Dad always called to tell me when they had been by with goodies, prayers and cheerful conversation. Pastor John was such a good listener and his last visit with Dad was such a comfort to him. Dickie is now well and able to enjoy life. God is good! Sharon and Dickie Baltimore
Thank you for being a place like home to me. Also thank you for presenting me with the opportunity to partake in receiving the scholarship. I am very excited to put that towards funding my college career. Love Amy Adcock
Thank you: " ask, and it will be given to you" Luke 11:9. Thank you ladies for responding to the request for Prayer Shawls / Quilts - the rack is now full and we have a variety to share with those in need when they are needed. How wonderful it is to see the response from our congregation. Thanks for sharing your talents in this ministry. Marvalee Unrein
Dear Friends, I would like to express my sincere thanks, gratitude, and love to my church family for all who visited, called, brought food, sent such beautiful cards and helped Ralph and I in any way during my recent surgery! I thank God for each and every one of you! Pastor John, thank you for being there the day of surgery to pray with Ralph and I and your continued support during the following weeks! What a Blessing it is to be surrounded with such loving and caring friends! Sincerely, Sandy and Ralph Lineweaver
Kids With Purpose We, as a small group, have been assigned to the set up of the CLC for the month of August. I am asking that all Kids With Purpose families sign up to help with CLC set up at a minimum of one time during August. The more hands that are there to help, the quicker the task will be.
Sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4daba82baa8-august
United Methodist Women Notes
At our last meeting (the beginning of June), we spent time getting to know the Christ-following women who came before us. Not only did we talk about women inte-gral to the United Methodist Women movement as a whole, but we also heard more about several women from our very own church, and the ways they impacted others for Christ. Curious about more details? Ask us! We'd love to share how we were inspired. By the way, thank you Betty Bowman, Pam Connelly, and Cerise Estep for providing a great lunch for us! Though we did not meet in July, ministry through PUMC's UMW unit has quietly continued. Visits have been made to Powhatan nursing homes, we have maintained a con-nection with United Methodist Family Services, and the finishing touches on contributions to a prison ministry have been organized. There is much more to come in the Fall. Keep your eyes and ears open to find out how and when you can join us!
One more note... (Would you love to have a chance to fellowship and draw closer to God in a beautiful setting before the summer's over? We are sponsoring a one-day retreat for ALL women of the church. See below for details.
Women’s Retreat
"Seeds of Faith" sponsored by UMW
Saturday, August 11th, 8:30-4:45ish
Held at the lake home of Lucy Swartz located in Buckingham County. We will meet in church parking lot and carpool for this event. Cost: $10.00/person which covers the cost of lunch. ALL women are invit-ed to attend. Please join us for fun, learning, fellow-ship, and communion. A day a part for us to grow together in Christ. For more info, please contact Mar-valee Unrein 816-699-7019.
Powhatan Free Clinic: Next on the schedule to
serve is the Contemporary Class on Monday, August 13.
Powhatan Food Pan-try: The focus for Au-
gust will be Hamburger Helper. As always we need brown bags and plastic bags.
Caregiver group Our meetings for August will be on Thursday, August 2 and Thursday, August 16, 11:30am. For information contact Dr. Judith Cain-Oliver at 598-9577.
Serve God in Mission
UMCOR Relief kits
Instead of World Service, we now make Relief kits and they will only be used in the United States and their Ter-ritories. There are three kits - School, Hygiene and Cleaning kits. Items for school kits are on sale at Walmart, etc.. Please pick up some items such as spiral one subject notebooks, 3 per kit, 70 pages, one pack of loose-leaf paper 100 to 200 pages, wide or college ruled, pencils (unsharpened, 6 per kit), erasers 2 inch or longer , scissors, blunt end only, hand-held pencil sharp-ener 1 inch or longer, box of 24 crayons. You may buy many of one item or donate the price of a kit $11. Please hold items until October 1, when we have more stor-age..
"Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and pros-per for us the work of our hands - O prosper the work of our hands". Psalm 90:17
Being IN mission is what Jesus asks of us, seeing a need in oth-ers and responding. Nurture and Mission is what these two groups SEWING MIS-
SIONS and PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY are all about. Many people/hands working to provide for oth-ers in need/crisis. This is what has been accomplished since Jan. 1st with the help of prayers, donations, work and commitment from this congregation. Sewing Mission: 217 dresses; 36 shorts; and 65 bags were taken to these locations - Honduras, Indian Reser-vation in N.D.; Moldova; and Uganda.
Prayer Shawl Ministry: 11 Baby Sweaters were taken to St. Francis NICU since UMCOR didn't need them this year. Four graduates were presented blankets embroi-dered with Church logo. One couple was gifted a Wed-ding Prayer Shawl on their special day. Four baby blan-kets, 10 Shawls and 7 Quilts were taken to people in times of either joy or sorrow.
Indoor Yard/Plant/Craft & Bake Sale
The sale will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, August 18. In addition to the yard sale, there will be plants, crafts and baked goods to purchase. Please do not bring items to the church until August 12. Sign up to help on the poster on the front door. Some best sellers: Jewel-ry, Housewares, glassware, cooking utensils, small working appliances, Home décor such as lamps, pic-tures, bedspreads, sheets, etc., Kid’s toys, Holiday dec-orations, Craft supplies, Tools, fishing equipment, camping equipment, Pet supplies, Recent books (within the last 10 years), puzzles, games, Furniture, rugs, Plants, Baked goods NO TVs, computer equip-ment, old books, clothing and shoes. Additionally, we need plants to sell. Pots for transplanting are out-side near the “old” choir room door (playground side). Don’t forget homemade goodies needed for the bake sale. Contact Boni Simmons 276-7076 or Fran Car-leton at 814-8594 if you have questions or want to volunteer.
PUMC's first Family Ministry Event!
The Weeks Missions 45 Warm Chemo Blankets made
104 pairs of Fuzzy Socks Collected $365. 63 raised for the Powhatan Free Clinic
Building Committee Update
What we have done
Sanctuary: Painting is underway and work will begin on the audio sound system. Flooring and carpet will be installed, pews upholstered, lighting installed and pews reinstalled.
New Commons area and Offices: Flooring and trim work is almost complete. Bathroom stalls were
installed.
Exterior: New lights have been erected around the new building and in the parking area.
As of July 22, we have received $891,577 in pledges and cash contributions for the building fund, which is $108,423 away from our ultimate goal of $1 million.
Upcoming events, dates, and milestones
Aug. 18: Indoor Yard/Plant and Craft Sale. Please sign up to help. All hands are needed.
Aug. 25: Traditional 1700’s to 1800’s Social Dance. Please see bulletin for ticket information.
Week of Aug. 27- tentative date to move into new building.
What is still needed
$108,423 is still needed to reach our $1 million fund-raising goal for the building renovation.
Building Pledge forms and building fund envelopes can also be found in the church office, CLC, or contact Betty Bowman at [email protected] or 272-0648.
If you would like to lead a fundraising event, have a group lead an event or help with an event, please contact Jamie Timberlake at [email protected].
September 15 Bishop’s Convocation on Prayer
Both laity and clergy are invited to attend
Reveille UMC, 4200 Cary Street Road, Richmond, 23221.
Dost is $10 and includes lunch. Deadline to register is September 8. Contact Marc Brown for questions at
October 14: Rise Against Hunger
after 11 am worship service
November 18: Consecration Sunday,
10 am Unity Worship Service Bishop Sharma Lewis preaching/consecrating
Celebrate
Growing in God’s Grace
Preschool News
Another wonderful year of preschool has come to an end. The 'year of construction' is almost over and we are so thankful to all who helped the year go smoothly for our little ones and their families. August starts preparations all over as we look forward to Year #30. Some classes are full for the fall but we do have openings in our 3's classes and some spaces in our Pre K classes. If you or someone you know is interested in preschool, please encourage them to email us at [email protected] as soon as possible. We want to have teachers in place for September to welcome all who come our way. Summer Fun Camps were exactly that-FUN! Super-hero Camp in July was filled with laughing, happy children eager to see their friends turn into amazing Superheroes. We are so thankful to Sandra Lowe and Cindy Harris of Wear a Smile, Share a Smile, Inc. for donations that al-
lowed children to attend camp who might not otherwise have had the opportunity. We are sad to say 'good-by' to Julie Layman who has been the lead teacher for our 3's for the past 3 years. It has been a blessing for the children, their families and the preschool staff to have Miss Julie as a teacher, men-tor and friend. Happily, we will continue to look forward to seeing her at Chapel Time and as a substitute teacher during the coming year.
Trustee Report/New Key Policy
The building construction
is coming to an end
soon. The church coun-
cil, along with the trus-
tees, have determined
that the locks on all the
outside doors (new &
existing) will be changed
to improve the security
of the building (we now just have one building). If you
need a key to gain entry to the building once the new
locks are installed, please see Sandra and ask to com-
plete a new "Key Request Form". You will then be noti-
fied once your request is approved by the trustees and a
key will be issued per the new "Key Policy" and regis-
tered in the new “Key Log". The existing keys will still be
used for the doors inside of the building. Please contact
Terry Paquette, Trustee Chair if you have any questions.
PUMC has an automatic electronic giving option. This debits your checking/savings account weekly or monthly and deposit those funds directly into the church's bank account. No check to write. You specify the amount and you may change the amount whenev-er you wish. This electronic giving option would also automatically add your donation directly to your church giving statement! If you are interested in this option, give Brenda Butterfield a call.
