Hope UMC's 40th Anniversary and Music Notes for Friday, 9 June 2017 Pastor Brian Kent of the Hope United Methodist Church in San Diego, California, United States
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40th Anniversary Celebration This Sunday, June 11:
Our fantastic lunch, provided by the Hope Filipino Community, starts right after second service. Free will offerings accepted. We are having a Hawaiian Luau theme, so feel free to wear your Hawaiian shirts!
The sermons this weekend are also focused on the 40th Anniversary.
The 40th Anniversary Program will be in the sanctuary after lunch.
Former pastors will be speaking.
BYO Chair / blanket
Since we have 275 chairs and could have up to 350 people attending, please feel free to bring a folding chair and/or blanket to eat on the lawn.
Vegetarian & GF options are available.
Please stay for cleanup!
Music Notes (addendum to the Times of Hope)
MUSIC NOTES
This month in worship… On June 10 & 11, we celebrate Hope UMC’s 40 years in worship with a special video showing a timeline of good times, milestones, and our mission statement at work. On June 17 & 18, we will hear from our high school seniors on how our church has helped shape their life and character. Bill Mingst will debut a new Lincoln Brewster song called, “Real Life,” on the 17th. High school sophomore, Noah Frost, and his dad, Jim, will do a trombone duet on the 18th for our offertory time. Then on June 24 & 25 we get to celebrate VBS week! For all 3 services, the Axios Youth Choir will sing, “Lean On Me” during offertory time, and they will lead all the music in a VBS fun style of worship! Bring your whole family to church and celebrate with us!
A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR CCS PARTICIPANTS…. Thank you to all who participated in our CCS weekend! I want to thank the choir, the bakers, the ushers, the A/V operators, the instrumentalists, the planners, the reception helpers, the greeters, the decorators…. Thank you to everyone! What a great team we all made! And thank you to the congregation and audience who came to worship and to the concert… We had 32 directors, 4 churches, 12 instrumentalists, 2 accompanists, 50 singers, 4 different receptions, and best of all, we had FUN! Thank you, dear Lord, for Your ministry, Your direction, and for the opportunity to serve and glorify You!
A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR CHOIRS… Thank you to our 9:00 New Wine Ensemble, our 10:45 Voices of Hope choir, our Hope Ringers’ bell choir, our Joyful Noise Children’s Choir, and our Axios Youth choir for a wonderful year of music! You enrich our worship services with God’s Word, and you help scripture come to life in a very deep and meaningful way. You are loved and appreciated… and now you deserve some time off! You all will continue through June, then we will see everyone back in worship and rehearsals in September! Thank you also to the SNA band for continuing your music all year round! What a dedicated, hard-working, loving group of volunteer musicians we have in our Saturday night service and in our entire music ministry…. Thank you all so much!
SAVE THE DATES...
1. Bluegrass & BBQ * Saturday, Aug 19 * 6pm
We have a new bluegrass band this year! The Drought Tolerant Bluegrass Band is made up of 4 professional bluegrass players, who have been playing for up to 40 years! All of them play in multiple bluegrass bands, and have played all over Southern California. Other bluegrass groups they’ve been a part of include: The Taildraggers, Gone Tomorrow, MohaviSoul, Late for Supper, and a coastal group called The Unstrung Heroes. Given Harrison is the founder of Drought Tolerant, and has been playing since 1974. We are very excited to have them! There’s all the brisket and barbecued chicken you can imagine, a potluck extravaganza, desserts, and amazing pies to raffle off throughout the evening. A free-will offering is highly encouraged so that we can continue this annual church-wide event. Bring your family, friends, loved ones, and appetite. We will be toe-tapping together with style!
The musicians for the event will be Given Harrison on upright bass, Michael Williams playing flat pick guitar, Steve Dame on 5-string banjo, and Dan Sankey on fiddle and mandolin. Gear up your bluegrass and mark those calendars!
2. CHOIR & YULETIDE RETREAT * Saturday, August 26 * 8-11:30am
Thinking about joining the choir? Thinking about being a part of our Christmas Yuletide program? Like to sing, but don’t want to be heard? Feel God calling you to do something out of your comfort zone? Come to the choir retreat on Sat, Aug. 26. Meet some choir members, get some info on what our schedule looks like between September and June, eat some good food, and read through some of the music we’ll be singing throughout the year! Pray about it, think about it…. We’d love to have you.
Retreat schedule:
8am Breakfast
8:30 Sunday anthems preview
10:15 Break
10:30 Yuletide preview
11:30 End
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Times of Hope and a Timeline of Hope UMC! Pastor Brian Kent of The Hopo United Methodist Church in San Diego, California, United States for Wednesday, 7 June 2017
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Good morning.
Here is the Times of Hope Newsletter and a Timeline of the history of Hope United Methodist Church.
Thank you so much, Brooke Bystedt, for the many hours of work put into this timeline. It includes extensive research from 40 years of church resources and news articles.
Brooke has also assembled beautiful slide shows of our history to be shown on this weekend during the worship services and as a part of the 40th Anniversary Luncheon on Sunday.
Blessings and Peace to all!
Pastor Brian Kent
Here is the Times of Hope Newsletter and a Timeline of the history of Hope United Methodist Church.
Thank you so much, Brooke Bystedt, for the many hours of work put into this timeline. It includes extensive research from 40 years of church resources and news articles.
Brooke has also assembled beautiful slide shows of our history to be shown on this weekend during the worship services and as a part of the 40th Anniversary Luncheon on Sunday.
Blessings and Peace to all!
Pastor Brian Kent
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