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State Street United Methodist Church 1101 State Street

P.O. Box 3340 Bowling Green, KY 42102-3340

Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage Paid Permit Number 325 Bowling Green, KY

Return Service Requested

State Street Staff

Senior Pastor ~ Dr. Jay Smith

Associate Pastor for Faith Formation ~ Rev. Cindy Bright

Minister of Music, Worship, and Congregational Care ~ Lee Young

Minister of Student Formation ~ Jami Unland

Children’s Ministry Assistant ~Gina Bingham

Organist ~ Julie Pride

Office Manager ~ Tricia Hendrix

Church Hostess ~ Betty Lee

Housekeeping ~ Pam Fitzgerald

Maintenance ~ Dennis Jones

Mark Your Calendar!

Pentecost & Confirmation Sunday June 4th

Gary Gibson Former Associate Pastor at State Street

Returning to preach both services

Sunday, June 11th

Plan to be present to welcome back home Gary and his wife Tammy!

2017 Annual Conference June 11-14, 2017

Any questions can be directed to Becky Sergent, Co-Chairman of the Host Committee

at 270-779-0936 or Sergent634@twc.com

JUNE 2017

Making disciples of Jesus Christ around the corner and around the world!

1101 State Street | Bowling Green, KY (270) 842-8171 | www.statestreetumc.org

June 11-14

Kentucky Annual Conference

Sloan Convention Center

Bowling Green, KY

June 20

5:30 p.m. Trustees Mtg.

June 18

Happy Father’s Day!

Coming

July 10-14

Hero Central VBS!

Register online now at

www.cokesburyvbs.com/

StateStreetUMC

June 20

12:00 p.m. Circuit Writer Deadline

June 4th

4:00 p.m. VBS orientation

and volunteer training

“Church Conference Affirms Facilities Master Plan”

On Sunday, May 21st, by a vote of 109 in favor, 13 opposed and 1 abstention, our

Called Church Conference affirmed the “Vision 2020 Facilities Master Plan” pre-

sented by our Building Study Committee and the architects of Sherman Carter Barn-

hart. This vote of affirmation came after 15 months of prayer, sweat and tears of our

Building Study Committee chaired by Gaines Penn and Shannon Vitale. I know you

join me in thanking them and their whole committee for their amazingly faithful

service to State Street.

I wanted you to know what the next steps will be now that the overall master plan has

been approved. First, this summer, (mid-June to mid-July) Rev. Craig Miller with Ho-

rizons Stewardship, will conduct a Giving Feasibility Study to assist us in estimating

how much interest and potential financial resources there are to implement the

facilities master plan. All of us will be given an opportunity to participate and give

feedback during this feasibility study—be watching for future instructions!

Second, this fall, Rev. Miller will lead us in conducting a capital campaign to see how

much money we can raise towards implementing the master plan. The entire master

plan is estimated at $7.2M and until we conduct a capital campaign, we will not know

how best to proceed with the plan. I appreciate the spirit of our Building Study

Committee that did not want to “sell ourselves short,” as one member put it, and only

propose a piece of the master plan in our May 21st church conference. They wanted to

present the total vision, the total dream that could launch us, by God’s grace, into the

next 200 years of ministry at State Street. As we get closer to the fall, all of us will

once again have opportunities to participate and assist in making our capital campaign

as successful as it could possibly be—be watching for future instructions!

Third and finally, following the capital campaign, an official Building Committee will

be established to bring to a future Called Church Conference their recommendation on

how best to move forward with the master plan. This Building Committee would then

be empowered by the results of the church conference to guide the specific and

approved implementation of the master plan.

Please know that our Sherman Carter Barnhart architect’s renderings of the master

plan are located for your review in the gathering area outside the church office. I hope

you will look at them, say a prayer, ask questions, say a prayer, think of ways to

improve the master plan, say a prayer, decide on how you can help bring to fruition

the master plan, say another prayer.

For over 30 years now, I have been through renovations and building projects in every

church in which I have been fortunate enough to be appointed and serve—thanks be to

God! The goal is always the same—how can we best use our facility resources to

reach and bless more people in our community and world in the name of Christ? How

can the buildings we have been blessed with by God’s grace help us implement the

mission that God has entrusted to us? I am, as they say, “all in” with this master plan.

I hope you will be also to the glory of God!

Much grace and peace,

Dr. Jay

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Need more info? Contact Rev. Cindy Bright, Assoc. Pastor for Faith Formation at cbright@statestreetumc.org or at 270 842-8171

Please Remember Our Special Friends in Prayer:

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Birthdays!

Anniversaries!

Prayer Requests

Please Note: The names of persons for whom prayer has been requested will remain on our prayer list for one month unless we are notified otherwise.

The names of the homebound and ill of our church family as well as our church leaders and military will be kept on our list indefinitely.

Kelsey Hamlet 1 Ginna Greer 1 John Greer 1 Ronnie Fulcher 1 Jayne Martin 1 Mackenzie Harbison 3 Cassie Vaughn 3 Pam Eisert 4 Tyler Stahl 9 Kim Williams 9 Norman Hunter 10 Ann McCormack 11 Will Parks 11 Caleb Wagoner 11 Kyle Summers 12 Bob Canter 13 Becky Sergent 13 Paul Summers 13 Leslie Wright 13 Hannah Ichii 15 Lee Robertson 16 Madge Bailey 17 Eric Kelley 17 Monica Duvall 21 McKenna Hale 21 Becky Nunnelee 21 Lydia Grace Speer 21 Jeff Bright 23 George Knee 23 Don Burton 26 Mike Dotson 27 Sallie Beth Sutton 27

Bernard & Virginia Fullen 1 Bill & Ruth Franklin 2 Marv & Rebecca Leavy 2 David & Karen Holland 2 Gale & Joie Combs 3 Ed & Helen Henderson 3 Ron & Debbie Sowell 3 Eric & Danita Kelley 4 Jim & Annette Richards 6 Don & Becky Sergent 7 Jay & Marian Smith 9 Jeff & Cindy Bright 10 Stephen & Jessica Riedel 11 Nick & Anita Lowe 12 Don & Kim Williams 16 Russell & Chandler Jefferson 18 Kevin & Minerva Westray 18 Norman & Ronna Lee Hunter 20 William & Sandy Parks 26 Wilson & Judy Lowe 29

Retirement Village

Lovell Parsons

Jackie Mathison

Ken Whitfield

Dick Cooper

Magnolia Village

Nancy Napier

Village Manor Sarah Watson

Barbara Neale

Colonial Manor

Sue Bullington

Homebound Chandler

Jenks Britt Memory

Geneva Duff Jenrose Pierce

Ina Ree Wright

Bridgepointe Carolyn Brake

Massey Springs Frederica

Sally Mayfield Willimson

Recent Requests:

Debbie Drake Davis

Dan Riley

Anna Vincent

Phillip Rogers

Irma Beck

Robert Lyon

Tom Lett

Jennifer Wallace

Katheryn Loy

Kammy &

Cory Carpenter

Joan Snyder

Kelly Steen

Norman & Beverly

Greenwald

Charles Morris

Regina Priddy

Teresa Wilson

Gary Ritchie

Richard Cook

Barb Higdon

Will Conley

Gloria Lyles

Recent Requests: LuLu Hochstetler

Jonathan Barnes

Gage Hill

Joan Gliessner

Ian Casey

Katy Granden

Carl Dobson

Ken Brockway

Kaycee Dallas

Bertha Davidson

Jeff Parker

Jasper Roddy

Sharon Lovelace Ernie Collins

Amanda Hintin

Our Military:

Schuyler Purdue

(Marines)

On Going Requests: (Church Family)

Betty Satterfield

Jenks Britt

Evan Rudolph

Carrie Gilreath

Tom Cannon

Lavinia Rogers

Virginia Fullen

Joyce Robertson

Bob Rice

Bob & Jane Gillaspie

Suzanne Vitale

Bill Franklin

Marilyn Laney

Juanita Denham

Becky Leavy

Pierce Ford

Glenna Burton

Marty Elmes

Jamil Parvaiz

Jenrose Pierce

The 15th Annual SSUMC Camping weekend will be October 6-8, 2017 at Moutardier Campground near Annette, Ky. This is just 5 miles from Camp Loucon. Anyone interested it is highly recommended to book your campsite ASAP on the web-site ReserveAmerica.com. Look up Moutardier, Loop D and reserve you site! We will serve meals family style and with activities that include fishing, kayaking, hiking, storytelling, biking, corn hole games, pumpkin carving or just sit back and relax. Have questions - contact Pam Eisert at 270-991-9987 or Becky Sergent at 270-779-0936. We hope you can join us.

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Gifts Given to the Church

In Memory of...

Richard Durrett Given to the Endowment Fund by: Alice Nicely, Don & Glenna

Burton

Given to the Help Ministries by: Pathfinders Sunday School Class

Jean Phillips Given to the Food Ministry Fund by: Pathfinders Sunday School

Class

Laura Honeycutt Vick Given to the Endowment Fund by: Don & Glenna Burton

Given to the Help Ministries Fund by: James & Shirley Holland

Sue Jones Durrett Given to the Endowment Fund by: Don & Glenna Burton, Alice

Nicely

Given to the Capital Fund by: Bob & Linda Pulsinelli

Given to the Help Ministries Fund by: James & Shirley Holland

Given to the Food Ministries Fund by: Rachel Allen

Juanita Tabor Given to the Music/Chancel Choir Fund by: New Life Sunday

School Class

In Honor of….

Cathy Bishop Given to the Endowment Fund by: Mr. & Mrs. Scott Bachert

The “Spare Change Ministry” is

collecting change to support various

mission projects of SSUMC. You can help by col-

lecting and donating your spare change. Donation

boxes designed to fit in your

auto-mobile’s cup holder can be picked

up in the church office

or the narthex.

Spare

Change

From the

Church Mailbox

State Street UMC,

I want to personally thank you, once

again, for allowing Jami to partner with

us in such an amazing way. She has been

such a huge help as I have gotten off the

ground here at WKU. I honestly do not

think this first year could have been so

successful without her help. I pray that

God blesses your all’s ministry just as I

know that you are praying for the

Wesley.

God is doing great things here, thank you

so much for being a vital part of

extending God’s grace to our campus.

Grace & Peace,

Pastor Michael

“Then Sings My Soul: Songs that Sustain Our

Faith”

New Summer Sermon Series beginning Sun-

day, June 25th

Music touches our hearts and souls like nothing else.

The great hymns and songs of the church inspire us,

challenge us, and sustain us on our faith journeys.

“Then Sings My Soul” will take a look at the great

theology of these greatest songs of faith, songs that

continue to sustain our faith. Invite a friend and join us

for this inspiring and uplifting summer sermon series!

June 25 “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

July 2 “What Wondrous Love Is This”

9 Rev. Cindy Bright Preaching

16 “I Am Thine, O Lord”

23 “His Eye Is on the Sparrow”

30 “Be Thou My Vision”

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