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Volume 8, Issue 1 March-April 2019
The Friendly Flyer Ac k e r m a n v i l l e U n i t e d M e t h o d i s t C h u r c h
INSIDE:
Community Meals 2
Acolyte 3
Anniversaries 3
Birthdays 3
Ushers 3
Calendar 4
Liturgists 8
From the Pastor’s Desk ~
Lent is a preparation for the Resurrection of Christ resting on a tripod of fasting,
prayer, and almsgiving. In Lent, we are called to take a step back from the everyday
bustle of our lives and concentrate on Christ again. It’s a renewal period, a time to
start over, and focus on being members of the body of Christ – instead of the world.
The three elements of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving are instituted —not to make
our lives miserable — but to help us achieve our goal of growing closer to God in the
Lenten Season.
During Lent, many of us give up chocolates, candies, meat, or TV. However, we
should remember fasting is not just about giving up certain foods or something that
we like. Fasting teaches us to discipline and control our body’s wants and desires. We
are then supposed to use this control to focus on abstaining from sin, which brings us
closer to God.
Here are some ways we can practice giving up things that keep us from loving
God, loving one another, and loving our neighbors in our daily living. (Selected from
the Anglican Digest).
Fast from worry; feast on trusting God.
Fast from complaining; feast on appreciation.
Fast from negatives; feast on affirmatives.
Fast from unrelenting pressures; feast from unceasing prayer. Fast from bitterness; feast on forgiveness.
Fast from self-concern; feast on compassion for others.
Fast from discouragement; feast on hope.
Fast from facts that depress; feast on truths that uplift.
Fast from gossip; feast on purposeful silence.
Fast from problems that overwhelm; feast on prayer that sustains.
Fast from apparent darkness; feast on the reality of light.
Blessings,
Sukja
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Slate Belt Free Community Meals
1st Sunday of every month: East Bangor United Methodist
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm 610-588-4453 2nd Sunday of every month:
Crossroad Baptist S. 2nd St., Bangor
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 610-588-3966 3rd Sunday of every month:
Ackermanville United Methodist 1410 Ackermanville Rd., Bangor
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm 610-588-7818 4th Sunday of every month:
First United Methodist 3rd St., Bangor
12:30 pm - ? 610-588-4673 Last Saturday of every month—Hospitality Luncheon:
Faith United Presbyterian Church 218 W. Penna. Ave., Pen Argyl
11:30 am – 1:30 pm 610-863-4447 Please share this information so that those who
are in need can find a free meal. If there is any doubt, please call the respective churches.
Lenten Lunches Trinity Lutheran Church
404 Broadway, Bangor, PA Lunches begin at 12:00 noon and last about an hour.
Luncheon Donation: $3.00
Lunches are held every Tuesday during Lent!
December 19, 2018
THANK YOU
On behalf of everyone at Portland Upper Mt.
Bethel Food Pantry, I would like to personally
thank each and every one of you for your
generosity in helping to make the 88 children we had this
year to have a blessed and very Merry Christmas. Without
the love and compassion of my late sister Sherma Godshalk,
all the many wonderful volunteers at PUMP and all of you,
this mission would not have been possible.
In Christian Love,
Sharon Sullivan
North District of the United Methodist Church Tools for Ministry Training Host Church Allentown: Asbury UMC, 1533 Springhouse Road, Allentown, PA 18104’
Saturday, March 2, 2019 8:15 am to 12:30 pm
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Listed below is a brief outline of the sessions for the morning.
Notice some of the sessions are available in both time slots to make available as many opportunities as possible!
There is still time for you to Register: Fee includes continental breakfast, snacks and materials. Scholarships are available upon request
Session 1 9:45-11:00
1. Effectively Funding Your Ministries
2. Jesus Loves the Little Churches
3. The opposite of Addiction is Connection
4. Communication Outside the Walls
5. Great Things He Has Done
6. Orientation to Ministry
7. Engaging The Whole Congregation
8. Practicing Spiritual Disciplines
Session 2 11:15-12:30
9. Effectively Funding Your Ministries
10. Jesus Loves the Little Churches
11. The Opposite of Addiction is Connection
12. Communication Outside the Walls 13. Effective SPRC Teams
14. Increasing Diversity by Expanding
P.E.A.C.E. Ministries
15. Missionaries...Close to Home
16. Spiritual Formation in the Local Church
Additional Opportunity: 12:30 - 1:00 Tour and overview Asbury’s facility & ministries. Meet at Back of Sanctuary.
Seven Week
Lenten Bible Study
at 7:30 pm
March 14 April 4
March 21 April 11
March 28 April 16
April 25
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Postage Stamps
Colored paper - 8-1/2 x 11
E-Mail Change: [email protected]
Phone: 610-588-8235
Publicity If you have an event that
you would like publicized,
please contact Holly
Sussick.
Ink Cartridges
Weis Receipts
Box Tops for Education
Old Prescription Glasses
Toilet Paper
Paper Towels
Greeters & Ushers March 3 March 10 March 17 March 24 March 31 Kay & Pete Nell April 7 Terri Brescancine April 14 April 21 April 28
Keep Them Coming
1 Walter Hopstetter 3 Christopher Hopstetter 4 Cheryl Grubb 10 Zaden Lutz Justin Bauder 12 Peter Nell Ruth Hahn 13 Justin Ott 14 Brooklynn Bauder 17 Wade Traviss 17 Jean Ackerman
19 Bruce Ott 20 Pastor Alice Ann 21 Linda Pasko 26 Greg Martin 27 Jacob Gold 28 Evan Johnson
March Birthdays
March Anniversaries
22 Viola & Jack Davies 24 Donna & Bill Bright
April Anniversaries
8 Andrea & Dick Lane
12 Krista & Josh Yetter
14 Gisele & Sean Commins
15 Janice & Del Roberts
25 Linda & Jack Yetter
26 Dolores & Ken Reto
3 Trisha Roberts
5 Aubrey Tarr
Pat Lessig
6 Justin Bright
Lillian Rambo
Debi D’Alessio
9 Heather Dugey
11 Shelly Lees
13 Winter Brandon
15 Maci Herman
Brittany D’Alessio
18 Tonia Overfield
19 Lauranette Grubb
24 Donald Rafferty
Joan Forino
25 Thomas Ackerman
April Birthdays
March Counters March 3 Jeff Sandercock & March 10 Jeff Sandercock & March 17 Jeff Sandercock & March 24 Jeff Sandercock & March 31 Jeff Sandercock &
April Counters April 7 April 14 April 21 April 28
Tuesdays at Noon
Trinity Lutheran Church
404 Broadway, Bangor, PA 18013 Luncheon Donation: $3.00
March 12
Hosted by Flicksville United Church of Christ
March 19 Hosted by Ackermanville United Methodist Church
March 26
Hosted by East Bangor United Methodist Church
April 2 Hosted by Cross Road Baptist Church
April 9
Hosted by First United Evangelical Church
Opportunities for Service If you can fill one of the open positions for
Ushers and Greeters or Counters, please put your
name on the clip boards located in the vestibule.
2019
Bangor Area Lenten
Lunches
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1 2 Tools for Ministry
8:30 am - 12:30 pm Asbury UMC in
Allentown
3 Sunday School 9:00 Worship 10:00 Last Sunday of Epiphany Holy Communion Coffee Hour SB Medical Center 2:15
4
5
6 Ash Wednesday
Service 7:30
7
Women’s Group 7 pm
8 9 AUMC Men’s
Breakfast at TK’s followed by work at
church
10 Sunday School 9:00
Worship 10:00
Hilltop planning meeting (tentative)
1st Sunday in Lent Daylight Saving Begins Spring Forward
11 Admin. Council
7:30
12 Lenten Lunch
Trinity Lutheran
13 Choir Practice 7:30
14 Bible Study 7:30 pm
15
16
17 Sunday School 9:00
Worship 10:00 Community Meal 4-5:30
18 Finance Meeting 7:00
19 Lenten Lunch Trinity Lutheran We Host
20 Choir Practice 7:30
21 Bible Study 7:30 pm
22
23
24 Sunday School 9:00
Worship 10:00
25
26 Lenten Lunch
Trinity Lutheran
27 Choir Practice 7:30
28 Bible Study 7:30 pm
29
30
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MARCH 2019
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1
2 Lenten Lunch
Trinity Church
3 Choir Practice 7:30
4 Bible Study 7:30 pm
5 6 HILLTOP
7 Sunday School 9:00 Worship 10:00
8
9 Lenten Lunch
Trinity church
10 Choir Practice 7:30
11 Bible Study 7:30 pm
12
13 Men’s Breakfast
TK’s 7:30 am
Followed by work At church
Electronics Recycling
14 Palm Sunday Sunday School 9:00 Worship 10:00
15
16 Bible Study 7:30 pm
17 Choir Practice 7:30
18 Holy Thursday with
Communion 7:30
19 Good Friday
20
21 Easter 7:00 am-Easter Sunrise service 8:00 am-Breakfast 9:00 am-Sunday School 10:00 -Worship/ Holy Communion SB Medical 2:15
22
23
24
25 Bible Study 7:30 pm
26
27
28 Sunday School 9:00 Worship 10:00
29
30
APRIL 2019
Easter 7:00 am-Easter Sunrise Service
8:00 am-Breakfast
9:00 am-Sunday School
10:00-Worship/Holy Communion
31 UMCOR Sunday - Special Offering
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Upper Room The March-April Upper Rooms are now available in
the Narthex.
Please help yourself!
Many thanks to everyone who attended and helped out at Soup Bowl Saturday!
A special thank you to the businesses who generously donated toward the success of our event.
Sponsor a Bulletin To all church members:
Beginning in March, as a small ongoing
fundraiser, we will begin sponsoring our church
bulletins at $10.00 per week.
To sponsor a bulletin, call Bill Ruggiero at 610-
863-6297 before noon on Tuesday to assure that
you will be recognized in the following Sunday’s
bulletin.
When you sponsor, please put $10.00 in an
envelope marked “Bulletin Sponsor” and place it
in the offering plate
Thank you in advance for supporting this
endeavor.
The Finance Committee.
The month of March is already being sponsored.
Prayer Chain We are blessed here at AUMC with a prayer chain. You can submit prayer requests through Pastor Sukja Bang and receive prayer requests through email or phone. If you are not a part of the prayer chain and
would like to be, please contact Pastor Sukja for the email portion and Janice Roberts for the phone portion.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. –Psalm 143:10 I truly believe that God gives us exactly what we need in life, when we need it the most. That perfectly describes my time at AUMC and my life to this day. I have been so blessed to find Moravian Seminary to study for my Master of Divinity degree. It truly has been a gift from God. As I continue in my second semester, I can’t believe this place that I am at in my life. When asked, “What time is it?” in one of my classes the first week of class, I promptly responded with “Time to be joyful and celebrate”. This semester is bringing me to some forks in the road in my journey but through it all I am joyful and celebrating. This semester, I have been given the opportunity to fully immerse myself into two different congregations for several months (Green Pond UMC and Belvidere UMC). From these two churches, I will choose where I want serve as a student pastor for the next 2 years leading up to graduation. With that being said, it means that I’m leaving the familiarity of AUMC and having to trust God even more through it all. It’s scary and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t scared. This scripture reminds me that each and every one of us is still learning to do the things that God is calling us to do and sometimes it’s scary. As I reflect and look at where my journey is going, I know that I need to continue to trust where I’m going and what lies ahead of me. Although you won’t see me much the next few months, (and even less as I approach being appointed to my first church after graduation), please know that a piece of my heart will always be here. You all have shepherded me and prayed for me as I’ve discerned and answered this call. I can’t thank each and every one of you enough. You are forever my AUMC family and I have tears as I leave this familiarity. Thank you all for the part that you’ve played in my journey, I pray for each and every one of you. In Christ’s Love, Meagan
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Prayer List Please help us keep the prayer list, printed in
the bulletin, up to date. If you would like someone to go on the prayer
list, or removed from it, please use a prayer request card found in the pews or email the church at [email protected].
Thank You
Please don’t forget those in need
of our prayers.
We will have an updated list in the
Easter Flowers
Orders must be in by Palm
Sunday.
Please give your money with your
order to Kay Young.
Your choice is a Mum Plant or
Tulips. They will be placed in church for Easter
Sunday.
Looking Ahead
HILLTOP AUCTION SALE
Saturday, April 6, 2019
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED This is a wonderful opportunity for
working together and fellowship.
Mark your Calendars!! We will need help on
Friday and Saturday. If you are interested in
helping, please contact
Barry Mueller for more
Holy Week
Schedule
Sunday, April 14
Palm Sunday Thursday, April 18
7:30 pm - Holy Thursday service with
Holy Communion Sunday, April 21 - Easter Sunday
7:00 am - Easter Sunrise Service
8:00 am - Breakfast
9:00 am - Sunday School
10:00 am - Easter worship service with
Holy Communion
WEIS Market It's happened again!!!! Because of your continued
diligence and commitment in bringing in your Weis Markets
receipts, the church has received another check for
$490.51. Thank you for your continued support in the Weis
receipts rebate program. And thank you Joan Mutton and
Janet Crafa for collecting, tabulating, and sending them in.
to Kay Young for arranging for/collecting money for the Christmas Poinsettias and their display
to Meagan Ackerman, Jeff Sandercock, and Cindy Doll for putting
together our Sunday School Christmas program and to all the kids who participated.
to Bev Hopstetter & Nadine Hughes for being the church auditors. Thank you ladies.
to Cindy Doll, for her hard work bringing Soup Bowl Saturday together, and to everyone who helped and/or made soups and desserts.
to Janice Roberts for her work on membership and shepherds, and sending Valentine's Day boxes to students.
to everyone for their donations to PUMP.
to all who cook, help out and donate to our Community Meals.
to everyone who baked, helped out, and supported our 4th Annual Cookie Walk.
to Joan Mutton and Janet Crafa for tabulating the Weis Markets receipts.
for all that the AUMC Men's group does.
to our Altar Guild: Joan & Tom Mutton, Sherry Ott, Janet Crafa, and Linda & Bill Zellner.
The cost is yet to be determined.
Orders can be given to Kay with your money
and choice of flower or placed in the altar
plates
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Mission Statement
Growing in Faith by Sharing God’s Love.
Children’s Christmas Program Thanks to all who organized and participated!!!!
This year's Ladies Tea is
Saturday, May 11th
and the theme is
“Under the Sea”
More information to follow !
We are no longer collecting Campbell’s labels.
HOWEVER, we are still collecting BOX TOPS FOR
EDUCATION. Please put your box tops in the glass jar in
Young Hall hallway. We will continue to send them to
McCurdy Ministries/Mission/Schools in New Mexico.
Thank you for your continuing support!!
BOX TOPS
FOR
EDUCATION
Join us on the web at: www.ackermanvilleumc.org
Ackermanville United Methodist Church 1410 Ackermanville Road · Bangor PA 18013
The Rev. Sukja Bang
Church Phone: 610-588-7818
Parsonage Phone: 610-452-2699
www.ackermanvilleumc.org
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Liturgists
March 3 Jeff Sandercock 484-223-5115
March 10 Sue Traviss 610-863-6784
March 17 David Jones 484-515-0720
March 24 Sharon Kruszka 484-554-7447
March 31 Jane Ruggiero 610-863-6297
April 7 Bill Ruggiero 610-863-6297
April 14 Pete Nell 610-588-5975
April 21 Benjamin Hawes 484-541-3914
April 28 Barry Young 610-360-1399
Please let Pastor Sukja know if you or a loved one is in the hospital. She would love to support you and your family with a visit. She depends on you to share the information of which hospital the loved one is in. Please also let Pastor Sukja
know of any other pastoral needs. She is available in the Church Office on Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 1pm-4pm. The church phone number is 610-588-7818. You can reach her by email: [email protected]. The parsonage number is 610-452-2699 for pastoral emergencies. If you do not reach her, please leave a message. Thank you!
Bulletin Information
Weekly announcements for the worship bulletin can be
sent to Debbie Hine at [email protected]
Thank You!!!!
Remember our members in Nursing Homes or
Assisted Living Facilities
Ernest Bartholomew, Rm 135, 4100 Freemansburg Ave., Easton, PA 18045
Evelyn Jennings Apt. 414B
Bethany House Room 2013 175 W. North Street, Nazareth, PA 18064
Slate Belt Nursing and Rehabilitation On the first Sunday of the month, we offer worship at
Slate Belt Nursing and Rehabilitation at 2:15pm. We
have been blessed by getting to know folks and develop
relationships with them. Consider joining us to share
the love of Christ with the folks at Slate Belt..
During worship, we have BLAST bags available for children in the sanctuary. These bags are changed regularly and coordinate with the sermon series. Please help your children see the connections!
Special Envelopes
If you have a special offering/donation (Love Fund,
Community Meal, Memorial Fund, etc.) please put it in an
envelope (blue & white envelopes available in pews), and list
your name and what you are donating to, on the envelope, so
we can give you credit at the end of the year. Thank you.
On-Line Giving
DONATE TO ACKERMANVILLE UMC by
using our new “On-Line Giving” link on our website.
You can make a one-time donation, or set up regular
(“recurring”) giving with this link. MasterCard, Visa,
Discover, and American Express are accepted. Click on
the “Welcome” tab in the upper left, then click on the
“on-line giving” tab on the lower left. Then click on
“Click Here”.
Thank you for our faithful giving!
