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The Messenger
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Dear Friends,
This past weekend St.
Mark's held a planning retreat. Rev. Joy Price from St. Paul's UMC in
Tarzana, CA came to facilitate our gathering. Together we dreamed ways
to reach our
 community in new and revitalized
ways. Together we prayed. Together we reflected. Together we
dreamed - big dreams. Together we shared our thoughts, and together we
shared a meal. In the end we discovered it was just a beginning.
Sixty years ago St.
Mark's dreamed of making a place that welcomed a new and emerging Clairemont
community. That dream is still alive. How we continue that dream
was revitalized through this planning retreat. It will take more than
dreaming big, it will take all of us working together, remembering our shared
dreams, our shared thoughts, and along the way sharing meals because as
Methodists, we do this very well.
In our prayers I shared
a prayer from Archbishop Oscar Romero. Here is a portion of that prayer.
We
accomplish in our lifetime only a fraction
of
the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.
Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that could be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection, no pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the Church's mission. No set of goals and objectives include everything.
This
is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one
day
will grow. We water the seeds already planted
knowing
that they hold future promise.
We
lay foundations that will need further development.
We
provide yeast that produces effects
far
beyond our capabilities.
We
cannot do everything, and there is a sense of
liberation
in realizing this.
This
enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It
may be incomplete, but it is a beginning,
a
step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's
grace
to enter and do the rest.
We
may never see the end results, but that is the
difference
between the master builder and the worker.
We
are workers, not master builders, ministers, not
messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Now it is time to take
our renewed vision and work together welcoming a new and emerging Clairemont
community.
See you in church,
Jeri
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Impact Sunday
On Sunday, October 19,
2014 we will once again celebrate Impact Sunday where we will do
various kinds of ministry work after our church service at 9:30 AM.
We hope you are as
excited as we are about serving our community and neighbors in active and
less active ways.
If you desire more
information on the type of work to expect please contact the chairperson for
this ministry opportunity.
Sign-ups will
begin Sunday, September 28 on the patio after church.
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New Staff Member
By Rev. Craig Dorval
I am very pleased to
tell you that on October 1, Kris Nieder will join the St. Mark's staff as our
Director of Youth and Intergenerational Ministries.
Kris brings a wealth of
creativity, experience, enthusiasm, and joy to the position. She is bursting
with good ideas for building contacts and relationships among youth and the
congregation. Also, Kris is distinctively "outward-focused," thinking
of many, many interesting ways to reach out and significantly serve the
community with youth and the congregation.
Many of you know Kris
and her husband Adam DiProfio (he's St. Francis on the flyer for Blessing of
the Animals) and their family: Justin, Diana, and Ella. They have been part
of St. Mark's for many years. During that time, Kris has initiated and led
many activities, including teaching Sunday School and Vacation Bible School.
She organized the Parents' Network at St. Mark's School--Kris and her team put
together dozens of successful and fun events for children and their parents.
She has demonstrated ability to build relationships across generations, and
her enthusiasm is infectious!
Initially Kris will be
working 20 hours a week. As youth participation grows, her workload
increases, and funding is secured, the position will grow accordingly. I hope
you will take a moment to welcome and encourage Kris in this new and
challenging role.
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Be Our Guest, Be Our Guest, Put Our Service to the Test...
Remember this happy
French song lyric from Disney's movie, Beauty and the Beast? Well, we
have invited our congregation and community to be our guests on October
5 for the Blessing of the Animals. The new PetSmart at Balboa &
Genesee is providing treats for a variety of expected pets, and, we think
home-baked cookies for their people would be tasty, too.
We kindly call upon our
St. Mark's cookie bakers, s'il vous plait, to bake some cookies for
our guests? If several of you will bake a couple dozen cookies each, we will
demonstrate our good will, and good taste.
Also, we need a few
pop-up 'shelters'. Do you have one to loan, please, and would you set it up
for us the morning of the event?
Please let Malinda in
the church office know that you will bake some cookies or loan a shelter for
the upcoming Blessing of the Animals on October 5 at 9:30am. Keep
singing, Mrs. Potts (she's the tea pot in the movie), "It's a guest,
it's a guest, sakes alive, well, I'll be blessed..."
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St. Mark's Priorities 2015
By Rev. Craig Dorval
At our Planning Retreat
on Saturday, September 20, all 53 participants went through a series of
exercises to determine the three top priorities for new projects in the next
year. Almost every area of our life together was mentioned and discussed, and
we wrote down a long list of possibilities.
Then, in voting for
priorities, we were given the instruction to consider only projects that were
primarily for those not already part of St. Mark's. Here are the three top
priorities for the coming year, and how we are starting to work on them (it's
interesting that the top three priorities each got the same number of votes):
I so appreciate the way
we have put our personal preferences, tastes, comfort, and familiarity aside,
to consider first the needs and interests of those we are trying to reach.
This is hard work, and requires us to stretch ourselves!
You will be hearing more
about the three priorities in coming weeks. In the meantime, if you have
ideas or would like to help in any way, please let me or Rev. Jeri know.
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John Wesley Moments
Bill
Galante, Lay Servant writes John Wesley Moments which contains materials
taken from John Wesley's journal and other writings, as well as personal
accounts of travels to Wesley's world in the UK and elsewhere.
Wesley and
Slavery- from his Journal
Monday May 14, 1777 - I
preached in the evening at Liverpool;
where many large
ships are now laid up in the docks, which had been employed for many years in
buying or stealing poor Africans, and selling them in America for slaves. The
men-butchers have now nothing to do with this abominable occupation. Since
the American war broke out, there is no demand for human cattle. So the men
of Africa, as well as Europe, may enjoy their native liberty.
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Next Week at a Glance
Sunday, September
28, 2014
8:30 A.M. Pastor
Sunday School/NR
9:30 A.M. Worship 10:45 A.M. Joyful Noise/CR Blood Pressure Screening/NR 12:00 P.M. Tongan Fellowship Worship
Wednesday,
October 1, 2014
8:00 A.M. Parent
Teachers Conf/SH
10:30 A.M. Care Corps/NR 5:00 P.M. Peace Ringers/SH 5:30 P.M. Bible Study/NR 6:00 P.M. Glory Ringers/SH Youth Group/RM 10
Thursday, October
2, 2014
8:00 A.M. Parent
Teachers Conf/SH
4:15 P.M. Hallelujah Choir/CR 5:20 P.M. Chimes/SH 7:00 P.M. Boy Scouts/Rm 10 Chancel Choir/CR
Friday, October
3, 2014
7:00 P.M. Girl
Scouts/SH
Sunday, October
5, 2014
8:00 A.M.
Communion Service
9:30 A.M. Blessings of the Animals 10:45 A.M. Joyful Noise/CR 12:00 P.M. Tongan Fellowship Worship
*If you have any
questions or would like to add an event to the church calendar, please
contact Malinda Whiteley, Church Secretary at 858-273-1480 ext.10 or smumcsdoffice@gmail.com.
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Staff Office
Hours
Rev. Craig Dorval
Senior Minister
Monday - Thursday
10:30 A.M. - 6:30 P.M.
Rev. Jeri Newell-Davis
Associate
Minister
Tuesday - Friday
9 A.M. - 3 P.M.
Rev. George Rosemier
Minister of Visitation
Wednesday 11 A.M. - noon
Malinda Whiteley,
Church Secretary
Monday - Friday
8 A.M. - 3 P.M.
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About Us
St. Mark's United Methodist
Church
3502 Clairemont Drive San Diego, California 92117 (858)273-1480 To contact any member of our staff, visit our staff information page. Rev. Craig Dorval, Senior Minister Rev. Jeri Newell-Davis, Associate Minister
Rev. George Rosemier,
Minister of Visitation
M'Lu Colbourn, Director of St. Mark's Preschool Frank Williams, Music Director Craig McIlwain, Organist Jo Anne Hammond, Director, Carillon Bells Robin Haber, Director, Glory Ringers and Peace Ringers Christina Peer, Director, Chimes Cheryl Eubanks, Children's Choir Accompanist Marya Chuong, Website Malinda Whiteley, Church Secretary Angel Cardenas, Church Custodian  |
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Pastors Sunday School
Begins at 8:30 a.m. in the New Room. Everyone is
invited. Child care is available.
Below are the lectionary
reading for this week:
Exodus 17:1-7
Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16
Philippians 2:1-13
Matthew 21:23-32
Scripture Texts:
Exodus 17:1-2 Directed by God, the whole company of Israel moved on by stages from the Wilderness of Sin. They set camp at Rephidim. And there wasn’t a drop of water for the people to drink. The people took Moses to task: “Give us water to drink.” But Moses said, “Why pester me? Why are you testing God?”
3 But the people were thirsty for water there. They complained to Moses, “Why did you take us from Egypt and drag us out here with our children and animals to die of thirst?”
4 Moses cried out in prayer to God, “What can I do with these people? Any minute now they’ll kill me!”
5-6 God said to Moses, “Go on out ahead of the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel. Take the staff you used to strike the Nile. And go. I’m going to be present before you there on the rock at Horeb. You are to strike the rock. Water will gush out of it and the people will drink.”
6-7 Moses did what he said, with the elders of Israel right there watching. He named the place Massah (Testing-Place) and Meribah (Quarreling) because of the quarreling of the Israelites and because of their testing of God when they said, “Is God here with us, or not?”
Psalm 78: An Asaph Psalm
1-4 Listen, dear friends, to God’s truth,
bend your ears to what I tell you.
I’m chewing on the morsel of a proverb;
I’ll let you in on the sweet old truths,
Stories we heard from our fathers,
counsel we learned at our mother’s knee.
We’re not keeping this to ourselves,
we’re passing it along to the next generation—
God’s fame and fortune,
the marvelous things he has done.
9-16 The Ephraimites, armed to the teeth,
ran off when the battle began.
They were cowards to God’s Covenant,
refused to walk by his Word.
They forgot what he had done—
marvels he’d done right before their eyes.
He performed miracles in plain sight of their parents
in Egypt, out on the fields of Zoan.
He split the Sea and they walked right through it;
he piled the waters to the right and the left.
He led them by day with a cloud,
led them all the night long with a fiery torch.
He split rocks in the wilderness,
gave them all they could drink from underground springs;
He made creeks flow out from sheer rock,
and water pour out like a river.
Philippians 2: He Took on the Status of a Slave
1-4 If you’ve gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don’t be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
5-8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
9-11 Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father.
Rejoicing Together
12-13 What I’m getting at, friends, is that you should simply keep on doing what you’ve done from the beginning. When I was living among you, you lived in responsive obedience. Now that I’m separated from you, keep it up. Better yet, redouble your efforts. Be energetic in your life of salvation, reverent and sensitive before God. That energy is God’s energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure.
Matthew 21: True Authority
23 Then he was back in the Temple, teaching. The high priests and leaders of the people came up and demanded, “Show us your credentials. Who authorized you to teach here?”
24-25 Jesus responded, “First let me ask you a question. You answer my question and I’ll answer yours. About the baptism of John—who authorized it: heaven or humans?”
25-27 They were on the spot and knew it. They pulled back into a huddle and whispered, “If we say ‘heaven,’ he’ll ask us why we didn’t believe him; if we say ‘humans,’ we’re up against it with the people because they all hold John up as a prophet.” They decided to concede that round to Jesus. “We don’t know,” they answered.
Jesus said, “Then neither will I answer your question.
The Story of Two Sons
28 “Tell me what you think of this story: A man had two sons. He went up to the first and said, ‘Son, go out for the day and work in the vineyard.’
29 “The son answered, ‘I don’t want to.’ Later on he thought better of it and went.
30 “The father gave the same command to the second son. He answered, ‘Sure, glad to.’ But he never went.
31-32 “Which of the two sons did what the father asked?”
They said, “The first.”
Jesus said, “Yes, and I tell you that crooks and whores are going to precede you into God’s kingdom. John came to you showing you the right road. You turned up your noses at him, but the crooks and whores believed him. Even when you saw their changed lives, you didn’t care enough to change and believe him.
John Wesley's Notes-Commentary:
Exodus 17:1-7
Verse 1
[1] And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
They journeyed according to the commandment of the Lord, led by the pillar of cloud and fire, and yet they came to a place where there was no water for them to drink - We may be in the way of our duty, and yet meet with troubles, which Providence brings us into for the trial of our faith.
Verse 5
[5] And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go.
Go on before the people — Though they spake of stoning him. He must take his rod with him, not to summon some plague to chastise them, but to fetch water for their supply. O the wonderful patience and forbearance of God towards provoking sinners! He maintains those that are at war with him, and reaches out the hand of his bounty to those that lift up the heel against him. If God had only shewed Moses a fountain of water in the wilderness, as he did to Hagar, not far from hence, Genesis 21:19, that had been a great favour; but that he might shew his power as well as his pity, and make it a miracle of mercy, he gave them water out of a rock. He directed Moses whither to go, appointed him to take of the elders of Israel with him, to be witnesses of what was done, ordered him to smite the rock, which he did, and immediately water came out of it in great abundance, which ran throughout the camp in streams and rivers, Psalms 78:15,16, and followed them wherever they went in that wilderness: God shewed his care of his people in giving them water when they wanted it; his own power in fetching it out of a rock, and put an honour upon Moses in appointing the water to flow out upon his smiting of the rock. This fair water that came out of the rock is called honey and oil, Deuteronomy 32:13, because the people's thirst made it doubly pleasant; coming when they were in extreme want. It is probable that the people digged canals for the conveyance of it, and pools for the reception of it. Let this direct us to live in a dependance, 1. Upon God's providence even in the greatest straits and difficulties; 2. And upon Christ's grace; that rock was Christ, 1 Corinthians 10:4. The graces and comforts of the Spirit are compared to rivers of living waters, John 7:38,39; 4:14. These flow from Christ. And nothing will supply the needs and satisfy the desires of a soul but water out of this rock. A new name was upon this occasion given to the place, preserving the remembrance of their murmuring, Massah - Temptation, because they tempted God, Meribah - Strife, because they chide with Moses.
Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16
Verse 1
[1] Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
My law — The doctrine which I am about to deliver.
Verse 2
[2] I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Parable — Weighty sentences.
Dark sayings — Not that the words are hard to be understood, but the things, God's transcendent goodness, their unparallel'd ingratitude; and their stupid ignorance and insensibleness, under such excellent teachings of God's word and works, are prodigious and hard to be believed.
Of old — Of things done in ancient times.
Verse 12
[12] Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Field — In the territory.
Zoan — An ancient and eminent city of Egypt.
Verse 15
[15] He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
Wilderness — In Rephidim, and again in Kadesh.
Verse 16
[16] He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
Streams — Which miraculously followed them in all their travels, even to the borders of Canaan.
Philippians 2:1-13
Verse 1
[1] If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
If there be therefore any consolation — In the grace of Christ.
If any comfort — In the love of God. If any fellowship of the Holy Ghost; if any bowels of mercies - Resulting therefrom; any tender affection towards each other.
Verse 2
[2] Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Think the same thing — Seeing Christ is your common Head.
Having the same love — To God, your common Father.
Being of one soul — Animated with the same affections and tempers, as ye have all drank ill to one spirit.
Of one mind — Tenderly rejoicing and grieving together.
Verse 3
[3] Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Do nothing through contention — Which is inconsistent with your thinking the same thing.
Or vainglory — Desire of praise, which is directly opposite to the love of God.
But esteem each the others better than themselves — (For every one knows more evil of himself than he can of another:) Which is a glorious fruit of the Spirit, and an admirable help to your continuing "of one soul."
Verse 4
[4] Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Aim not every one at his own things — Only. If so, ye have not bowels of mercies.
Verse 6
[6] Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Who being in the essential form — The incommunicable nature.
Of God — From eternity, as he was afterward in the form of man; real God, as real man.
Counted it no act of robbery — That is the precise meaning of the words,-no invasion of another's prerogative, but his own strict and unquestionable right.
To be equal with God — the word here translated equal, occurs in the adjective form five or six times in the New Testament, Matthew 20:12; Luke 6:34; John 5:18; Acts 11:17; Revelation 21:16. In all which places it expresses not a bare resemblance, but a real and proper equalitg. It here implies both the fulness and the supreme height of the Godhead; to which are opposed, he emptied and he humbled himself.
Verse 7
[7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Yet — He was so far from tenaciously insisting upon, that he willingly relinquished, his claim. He was content to forego the glories of the Creator, and to appear in the form of a creature; nay, to he made in the likeness of the fallen creatures; and not only to share the disgrace, but to suffer the punishment, due to the meanest and vilest among them all.
He emptied himself — Of that divine fulness, which he received again at his exaltation. Though he remained full, John 1:14, yet he appeared as if he had been empty; for he veiled his fulness from the sight of men and angels. Yea, he not only veiled, but, in some sense, renounced, the glory which he had before the world began.
Taking — And by that very act emptying himself.
The form of a servant — The form, the likeness, the fashion, though not exactly the same, are yet nearly related to each other. The form expresses something absolute; the likeness refers to other things of the same kind; the fashion respects what appears to sight and sense.
Being made in the likeness of men — A real man, like other men. Hereby he took the form of a servant.
Verse 8
[8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
And being found in fashion as a man — A common man, without any peculiar excellence or comeliness.
He humbled himself — To a still greater depth.
Becoming obedient — To God, though equal with him.
Even unto death — The greatest instance both of humiliation and obedience.
Yea, the death of the cross — Inflicted on few but servants or slaves.
Verse 9
[9] Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
Wherefore — Because of his voluntary humiliation and obedience. He humbled himself; but God hath exalted him - So recompensing his humiliation.
And hath given him — So recompensing his emptying himself.
A name which is above every name — Dignity and majesty superior to every creature.
Verse 10
[10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
That every knee — That divine honour might be paid in every possible manner by every creature.
Might bow — Either with love or trembling.
Of those in heaven, earth, under the earth — That is, through the whole universe.
Verse 11
[11] And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
And every tongue — Even of his enemies.
Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord — Jehovah; not now "in the form of a servant," but enthroned in the glory of God the Father.
Verse 12
[12] Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Wherefore — Having proposed Christ's example, he exhorts them to secure the salvation which Christ has purchased.
As ye have always — Hitherto.
Obeyed — Both God, and me his minister.
Now in my absence — When ye have not me to instruct, assist, and direct you.
Work out your own salvation — Herein let every man aim at his own things.
With fear and trembling — With the utmost care and diligence.
Verse 13
[13] For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
For it is God — God alone, who is with you, though I am not.
That worketh in you according to his good pleasure — Not for any merit of yours. Yet his influences are not to supersede, but to encourage, our own efforts.
Work out your own salvation — Here is our duty.
For it is God that worketh in you — Here is our encouragement. And O, what a glorious encouragement, to have the arm of Omnipotence stretched out for our support and our succour!
Matthew 21:23-32
Verse 23
[23] And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
When he was come into the temple, the chief priests came — Who thought he violated their right: and the elders of the people - Probably, members of the sanhedrim, to whom that title most properly belonged: which is the more probable, as they were the persons under whose cognizance the late action of Christ, in purging the temple, would naturally fall. These, with the chief priests, seem purposely to have appeared in a considerable company, to give the more weight to what they said, and if need were, to bear a united testimony against him.
As he was teaching — Which also they supposed he had no authority to do, being neither priest, nor Levite, nor scribe. Some of the priests (though not as priests) and all the scribes were authorized teachers.
By what authority dost thou these things — Publicly teach the people! And drive out those who had our commission to traffic in the outer court? Luke 20:1; Mark 11:27.
Verse 24
[24] And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
I will ask you one thing — Who have asked me many: The baptism, that is, the whole ministry of John, was it from heaven or from men? - By what authority did he act and teach? Did man or God give him that authority? Was it not God? But if so, the consequence was clear. For John testified that Jesus was the Christ.
Verse 25
[25] The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?
Why did ye not believe him — Testifying this.
Verse 27
[27] And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Neither tell I you — Not again, in express terms: he had often told them before, and they would not believe him.
Verse 30
[30] And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
He answered, I go, sir: but went not — Just so did the scribes and Pharisees: they professed the greatest readiness and zeal in the service of God: but it was bare profession, contradicted by all their actions.
Verse 32
[32] For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
John came in a way of righteousness — Walking in it, as well as teaching it.
The publicans and harlots — The most notorious sinners were reformed, though at first they said, I will not. And ye seeing the amazing change which was wrought in them, though at first ye said, I go, sir, repented not afterward - Were no more convinced than before. O how is this scripture fulfilled at this day!
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Wanted:
Pet N People Pics
Adorable!
Have you seen some of the St. Mark's pets on the slide show ahead of worship?
Send your 'family' shots to Malinda for all of us to admire. Ahhh!
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Kids, Bring Stuffed Animals on Sunday
St. Mark's Sunday School
kids (and kids of all ages, for that matter) are encouraged to bring their
favorite stuffed animal to church next Sunday and enjoy meeting a special
guest at Children's Time.
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Digital Art Show
The next Digital Art Show will be October
12 thru November 9 on the theme of "The Wonder of Creation."
Digital photographs and any art that is created on the computer is
eligible. Who do you know that does this type of art? A
friend? A neighbor? Yourself? A prospectus with complete details
of the show is available in the church. Be sure to get one soon.
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Book Study
By Debbie Abbott
Our conversation about Harper Lee's novel,
To Kill a Mockingbird, will surprise you. Our congregation has unique
experiences that illuminate this powerful story and the leader hopes enriched
details from history and the fresh insights from participants will enhance
your appreciation of this Pulitzer Prize winner. Join us on five Mondays,
startingOctober 6. Meeting times are1 P.M. and 6 P.M. We will view the
movie on the last meeting, November 3. Our discussion will last for an hour
and fifteen minutes in the New Room. This is open for students of all
ages.
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Celebration of Life
A Celebration of Life
Service for Bill Burton will be held in El Centro, CA, on Tuesday,
September 30, at 11 AM at First Methodist Church, 312 South 8th Street, El
Centro, CA; a luncheon will follow the service.
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In Our Prayers
Condolences
♥ Friends
and Family of Franki Benson
♥ Friends
and Family of Bill Burton
Continued
Prayers:
♥ Erin
Murphy
♥ Maris
Boyer
♥ Tim Schlavo ♥ George Riley ♥ Stephanie Ignacio ♥ Karin Backstrom ♥ Frank Djie
♥ Tonya
Cartwright
♥ Sharon
Kuessel
♥ Dorothy
Sage
♥ Joan Johnson ♥ Molly Barret
♥ Dorethea Taino
♥ Elie Aikins ♥ Ursula Painter ♥ Jene and Zoe Harlow ♥ Alan Henry ♥ Jack Stringer ♥ Deanna Marshall ♥ Mia Fely ♥ Harry Meyer ♥ Lorretta Schaffer ♥ Renae Pierce |
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We Remember Our Military Personnel, including:
♥ Kris
Brendal, Army
♥ Robert S. Chisholm, Navy ♥ Craig Clemans, Marines ♥ Paul Clemans, Air Force ♥ Blake Cross, Navy ♥ Brandon Dempster, Navy ♥ Samuel England, Navy ♥ Lenny Hezelett, Navy ♥ Michael Hunter, Navy ♥ Brady Jackson, Army ♥ Jeremy Munson, Navy ♥ Daniel Ness, Army ♥ Milo Riegle, Marines ♥ Casper Stalnaker, Navy ♥ Nathan Streeter, Army ♥ Robert Tarango, Navy |
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Our
presence in church on Sunday, September 21 was 160.
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Links
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Find
daily meditations, photos, conversations, and more. Just click on the
above link.
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 The newsletter can also be found on our website.To stop the paper Messenger,
contact the church office by email, or phone: (858)273-1480.
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