Several years ago, I attended a Bible study led by Rev. Grace Imathiu, on parables of Jesus. She asked us to notice that the titles we put on parables aren't actually in scripture. Often, our Bibles will add little italicized headings, but those weren't in the original text. "Jesus just told stories and let the chips fall," she said. But we in the church, she noticed, often aren't comfortable with a lot of "chips" flying around.
I usually like answers to questions, tensions that resolve, and stories that have neat meanings.
Over and over again, though, things get stirred up. By the complexity of the world, by our human issues, by God's Holy Spirit. The good news is that we serve a living God, who's not done with us yet. God is still speaking into our lives and our world, still revealing what grace looks like in us. Thanks be to God!
grace and peace,
Pastor Molly
We are pleased to welcome Rev. Nicole Reilley as our preacher this Sunday. She serves as Director of New Ministries for our California-Pacific Annual Conference, and has been connected as a member of our congregation since she served as an interim pastor here in 2012. I look forward to being with her and you all in worship this weekend!
In Worship This WeekSunday, May 6:
1 Corinthians 14:34-35
Rev. Nicole Reilley, preaching
1 Corinthians 14:34 let the wives remain silent when the congregation meets; they are certainly not permitted to speak out. Rather, let them remain subordinate, as also the Torah says; 35 and if there is something they want to know, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for a woman to speak out in a congregational meeting.(Complete Jewish Bible).
1 Corinthians 14:34-35
Verse 34
[34] Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Let your women be silent in the churches — Unless they are under an extraordinary impulse of the Spirit. For, in other cases, it is not permitted them to speak - By way of teaching in public assemblies.
But to be in subjection — To the man whose proper office it is to lead and to instruct the congregation. Genesis 3:16.
Verse 35
[35] And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
And even if they desire to learn anything - Still they are not to speak in public, but to ask their own husbands at home - That is the place, and those the persons to inquire of.(John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes)
"Half-true: God said it. I believe it. That settles it."
8:30am in Epworth Lounge
10:30am in the Sanctuary
Special Music: "Giving My Best" by Mark Condon, sung by Lauren and Stuart Everson; "Good News" by William Dawson, sung by the Chancel Choir.
"Giving My Best" by Mark Condon
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8:30am in Epworth Lounge
10:30am in the Sanctuary
Special Music: "Giving My Best" by Mark Condon, sung by Lauren and Stuart Everson; "Good News" by William Dawson, sung by the Chancel Choir.
"Giving My Best" by Mark Condon
V1
There's been many times that I've let you down
Searching for happiness, but none to be found.
To think that the price you paid for me
wasn't in vain - all that agony
But I'm here to say I've had my ups and my downs
but I'm here now to stay, 'cause of the love that I've found
CHORUS
Now I'm giving my best, to You Lord,
all that I have, I won't withhold.
I'm giving my best, to You lord,
all of my heart, and all of my soul
"Good News" by William Dawson
AIN’T THAT GOOD NEWS in “American Negro Songs” by J. W. Work, 1940
I ‘ve a crown in the Kingdom
Ain’t that good news
I’ve a crown up in the Kingdom
Ain’t that good news
I’m going to lay down this world
Going to shoulder up my cross
Goin’ to take it home to Jesus
Ain’t that good news
I ‘ve a harp in the Kingdom
Ain’t that good news…
I ‘ve a robe in the Kingdom
Ain’t that good news…
I ‘ve slippers in the Kingdom
Ain’t that good news…
I ‘ve a Saviour in the Kingdom
Ain’t that good news…
News From Our Members
I hear there is to be an all church potluck lunch today after our 10:30 AM worship service. You may know that I am a regular attendee at these sometimes monthly gatherings and that I have examined how to best choose from the delightful offerings brought by women and men alike. If I get in the front of the line, there is no way to choose from the best. Everything is full up. If I get at the last, empty bowls and casseroles seem to prove that their contents were best appreciated by our people. So, the best place to be is in the middle of the line and choose from half empty containers, providing one still relishes that particular choice of dishes. Now, you know we cannot all be in the middle of the line, so good judgment and...Thursday, May 3, 2018
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Thursday, 3 May 2018 by Bob Peterson
I hear there is to be an all church potluck lunch today [Sunday] after our 10:30 AM worship service. You may know that I am a regular attendee at these sometimes monthly gatherings and that I have examined how to best choose from the delightful offerings brought by women and men alike. If I get in the front of the line, there is no way to choose from the best. Everything is full up. If I get at the last, empty bowls and casseroles seem to prove that their contents were best appreciated by our people. So, the best place to be is in the middle of the line and choose from half empty containers, providing one still relishes that particular choice of dishes. Now, you know we cannot all be in the middle of the line, so good judgment and timing are important for best placement at each pot-luck event. I often am last in line, due to my job of money counting after worship, so my team of Pat Godfrey and June Shors will sometimes choose to wait on the counting and eat first. It just means a slower time getting out of the church and going to our various homes. However, most all the time there is a good selection of wonderful food, even for those last in line. Perhaps the choices are fewer, but you always seem to have brought plenty for those who forgot. Thank you for those who bring lots of extra food. Everyone who brings food brings their best. Now, I think that's enough about pot-lucks.
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Church Potluck: May 6
Join us for a church potluck on Sunday, May 6, following the 10:30am worship service. All are welcome. Please bring a dish to share. (You can bring washable dishes from home to use, or use the disposable ones we will have available!)
Half-Truths: Sermon Series after Easter
They are simple phrases. They sound Christian—like something you might find in the Bible. We’ve all heard these words. Maybe we’ve said them. They capture some element of truth, yet they miss the point in important ways.
Join us for a sermon series that tackles some common Christian clichés that don't get it all right:
God said it, I believe it, that settles it.
This five-week sermon series concludes on May 6!
Support the Baja Team!Only $2,475 left to go! Your support, by purchasing a share of this trip, helps migrants in Mexico (and might be good for the people on our team, too).
Stop by our table Sunday, or click hereto learn more about the trip!
Mothers Day Song Rehearsals Continue This Sunday!
Only two weeks left of rehearsal! Join us! We are so thrilled that for a second year, our children will have the opportunity to work with our organist, Mary Ann Stickler, on an original song honoring their moms!
Rehearsals will be right after 10:30 worship on:
May 6th
The performance will be on May 13th, during 10:30 worship.
To celebrate mothers (and all those who mother others), we have special moments planned in worship on May 13.
In the spirit of the tradition of wearing flowers in honor of our mothers, we have simple felt flowers for you to wear at church. Additionally, we'll make a donation in honor of our mothers, to the Fresh Start women's shelter in Baja, Mexico, where our youth and others have volunteered over the past several summers. You can see more about their work on their Facebook page. We invite you to make additional donations, too--just mark your gift for "Mother's Day 2018."
During 10:30 worship, our church children will sing a song that they've helped write, in celebration of mothers. Our gratitude to our Organist/Pianist, Mary Ann Stickler, who's composing and rehearsing the song with them!
Need a kid free evening? Want to grab sushi with your friends?
Bring your children to Parents Night out!
Drop off your children at church for three hours of programming, starting at 5pm.
The cost is $20.00 for the first child ($10 for the 2nd, $5 for 3rd+) and includes dinner.
Enjoy an evening out while your kids play games, make crafts, and enjoy fellowship!
It's a great night for all!
We request all spots be reserved by the Wednesday prior to the event.
Email Children's Ministry to save a spot!
Peninsula-Harbor CROP Walk 2018
This year's Crop Walk is on May 20, 2018. It will take place at the South Coast Botanical Gardens again! The event is from 10am - 2pm.
Beginning this Sunday, April 15, between services, you may sign up to walk, donate to our church team or make a pledge to donate. Just stop by the Crop Walk info table when you're here!
Click here to register to walk on our team or
donate online to our First UMC Redondo team.
Vacation Bible School: Renew
VBS 2018 is coming: August 13-17Click here for more info and registration!
Want to help out?
Email Children's Ministries!
This year's Renew VBS invites us to:
Grow in faith. Have fun. Change the world.
Next Coming May 13
We were pleased to welcome three new families into church membership recently: Noel and Clare Bonn and their three children, Philip Parker and Shannon DeLong and their three children, and Dave Ball (with Carlos, his dog.) I hope you'll join us in welcoming them!
We will be receiving new members into our congregation again on Sunday, May 13. If you are interested in church membership, please contact Pastor Molly to learn more!
Don't miss out on our very special arts camp!
Children will spend the week learning songs, dancing, and making original art pieces- all culminating in an art show and recital at the end of the week.
Open to all K-6th Graders
$200.00 per camper
Scholarships Available
Click here for more info & registration!
Send a young person to camp, registration is open now!
The cost is $445 for traditional camps and $475 for adventure camp.
Financial assistance is available, get in touch with Risa for more details!
- Adventure Camp (Grades 7-10) June 24-29, 2018
- Little Canyoneers (Grades 1-3) July 1-4, 2018
- Elementary Camp (Grades 3-6) July 8-13, 2018
- Junior High Camp (Grades 6-9) July 15-20, 2018
- Senior High Camp (Grades 9-Class of '18 Seniors) July 22-28, 2018
To register for camp or learn more about other Cal-Pac Camps, click here!
We would like to thank the talented students of Cal State Northridge and all those who attended our Chamber Music Concert. Through our free-will offering, we collected $738 for our Friends of Music fund.
Announcements
Men's Breakfast: Our next breakfast is Monday, May 7, at 7AM. Coco's Restaurant, 18120 Hawthorne Blvd. (Hawthorne and 182nd). All men of the church and their friends are welcome to join us for fellowship.
Prayer Quilt Ministry: Join us for our monthly quilting workshop Friday, May 11, starting at 10am. Our May meeting will be a field trip, to see an exhibit of quilts by Betsy Caprio Hedberg, a Jungian Therapist and Spiritual Director. The exhibit is at Mary and Joseph Retreat Center in Rancho Palos Verdes; meet at the church at 10 to carpool. Know someone in need of prayer? Anyone can sponsor a free prayer quilt. The Quilt Request Form is online or in the church office.
Meals and More: Did you know that we have a ministry that organizes meals and other assistance for church folks in times of need? In the past, we've helped arrange rides to medical appointments, meals for people recovering from surgery, and more. Leila Grantz coordinates this ministry, using online sign-up tools. If you want to be a part of the group that she emails when there is an opportunity to help, or if you know someone who's in need of a little help, please contact the church office or Leila.
Book Club, May 15 @ 7:00pm: Enrique’s Journey, written by Sonia Nazario, is the story of one boy’s hazardous journey from Honduras to the U.S. to find his mother, and it highlights the plight of thousands who make that dangerous journey. Nazario won the Pulitzer Prize for her series in the L.A. Times, on which she then based this book. For those who wish to read ahead, our June 19 book will be Nevil Shute’s A Town Like Alice. We meet in May Day Parlor. For more information, contact Ann Gallagher.
This Week: Children, Youth & Adults
Nursery (6 weeks+): The Nursery is open during both services, for ages 6 weeks to 5 yrs old. Located right off of the parking lot across from Epworth Lounge. Please know that children of any age are always welcome in worship. Any questions email the Nursery Coordinator: Adriana Hwang
Children's Ministry (age 3 - 3rd Grade): We'll start out upstairs in the Sunday School room, sign in as early at 10:20. We will explore a Bible story, play, and make a craft! Afterward, we'll join our families in worship for Holy Communion. Join us in the choir room right after church to learn our Mother's Day song!
Church R Us (Grades 4 & 5): Start out in Worship with your family, then head to class with our youth director, Stephen Hale during "Passing of the Peace". You'll head back to church for communion!
-Sunday School This Week? Yes!
Youth Ministry (6th-12th grade):
-Middle School Sunday School (10:30am)? YES! There will be MAYHEM
-Youth Group(2-4pm on Sunday)? YES! MAYHEEEEEEM!!!
Young Adults (19-not very specific):
We have a Monday night group for Young Adults and Young families. We meet 5:30-7:00, enjoy a meal together then share in bible study, discussions, and prayer. Child care is available. Contact Risa for more info.
Adult Sunday School: Bible Study and Discussion in May Day Parlor. Sunday mornings from 9:30-10:15am. Led by Helen Stockwell. All are welcome.
Thursday Pastor's Bible Study:
We usually meet Thursday mornings from 11:00-noon, in May Day Parlor. All are welcome.
United Methodist News & Events
Our congregation is a part of the El Tordondo Mission Area, in the West District of the California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
First United Methodist Church of Redondo Beach
(310)372-8445 main
(310)372-5696 fax
Ongoing Ministries
Free Meal on Wednesday NightsOffering food and friendship to those in need, every Wednesday night since 1992. More info here.
SHARED BREAD NEEDS DONATIONS OF:
Men’s jeans waist sizes 32- 38; Men’s new socks, white or grey only- all sizes; Men’s tennis shoes - especially sizes 9.5 to 11.5
Please bring them to church on Sunday, or to the office during the week.
DESSERTS FOR SHARED BREAD
Homemade treats are treasured by our guests – but purchased treats would be wonderful, as well. Please wrap desserts tightly and mark for Shared Bread. Deliver Sunday (when you come for church) through Wednesday to the church kitchen (or the office if kitchen is closed.) Wednesday deliveries
should be here by 4:00pm to help us plan our meal better. THANK YOU!
This week, we get to hear our own husband and wife team, Lauren and Stuart Everson, sing a Brooklyn Tabernacle classic. They’ve been moving for the past couple of weeks, but have still found time to share with us.Watch for our next great Composer Sunday, June 10, where we will welcome composer Sean McDermott. Sean writes mostly for the Catholic world, but his music is some of the most melodically beautiful stuff I’ve ever heard. He was on tour with a local choir to the Vatican years ago, and one of the pieces they sang was his Ave Maria (which we’ll be singing). The music director at the Vatican was so overwhelmed by the piece that he asked for a copy, and it’s now in the Vatican music library, where it is sung periodically. The piece was subsequently dedicated to the Vatican and its music director. The offertory will be a world premiere of a piece he wrote for his Dad, and hasn’t been sung yet...
Thursday, May 3, 2018 - Music Notes
Music Director, Jim Raycroft, will share upcoming worship music
selections and a little bit of history, too.
Jim Raycroft
Thursday, 3 May 2018 by Jim Raycroft00
This week, we get to hear our own husband and wife team, Lauren and Stuart Everson, sing a Brooklyn Tabernacle classic. They've been moving for the past couple of weeks, but have still found time to share with us.
Watch for our next great Composer Sunday, June 10, where we will welcome composer Sean McDermott. Sean writes mostly for the Catholic world, but his music is some of the most melodically beautiful stuff I've ever heard. He was on tour with a local choir to the Vatican years ago, and one of the pieces they sang was his Ave Maria (which we'll be singing). The music director at the Vatican was so overwhelmed by the piece that he asked for a copy, and it's now in the Vatican music library, where it is sung periodically. The piece was subsequently dedicated to the Vatican and its music director. The offertory will be a world premiere of a piece he wrote for his Dad, and hasn't been sung yet.
William Dawson is an icon in the world of spirituals, but he was, in fact, a classically trained musician. Born in Anniston, Alabama in 1899, he studied at the Homer Institute of Fine arts, where he got his Bachelor's degree in music. He later studied at the Chicago Musical College and then at the American Conservatory of Music, where he got his Master's degree. His body of music includes chamber, orchestral and choral music, but his spirituals are what he's best known for. It was during his 25 year tenure at the Tuskegee Institute (1931-1956) that he developed the Tuskegee Institute Choir into a world-renowned ensemble, and he published many of his best-known spiritual arrangements. Ain't-A-That Good News is a classic he wrote in 1967. He passed away in May of 1990.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle is a non-denominational, multi-cultural church in the heart of downtown Brooklyn that began as a small congregation worshiping in a rundown building, and has grown into a congregation of over 16,000. The husband and wife team of Pastor Jim Cymbala and music director Carol Cymbala took over leadership of the 30 member congregation in 1971. By the 1980's, the church had grown enough to purchase the 1383-seat Carlton Theatre and convert it into their sanctuary. By 2002, they had outgrown that facility and purchased Loew's Metropolitan Theatre, a former vaudeville theatre, and renovated it into a state-of-the-art, 3,200-seat worship facility. The choir began with just 9 members in 1971 and grew with the church. Carol Cymbala began writing music for the choir, and they recorded their first album in the 1980's. Now numbering over 280 members, their music is sung all over the world, and they sang at the 2013 inauguration of President Obama. Giving My Best, written by Mark Condon, was released on their live album Live...We Come Rejoicing in 2000.
Be Thou My Vision is an old favorite hymn that has its roots in 6th century Ireland. The original Old Irish text - Rop tú mo Baile – is often attributed to Saint Dallan Forgaill in the 6th century. The prayer was an Irish monastic tradition for centuries before being set to music. There are two manuscripts of the text in the National Library of Ireland, both dating back to the 10th century. It was first translated from the Old Irish into English by Mary Elizabeth Byrne in 1905, and then re-written into singable verse by Eleanor Hull in 1912, which is the text most commonly used. In 1919, it was set to the Irish folk tune Slane, named after the town of Slane in County Meath, where, on Slane Hill in 433, Saint Patrick defied a royal edict by the High King of Ireland and got himself into trouble (it wasn't about snakes, it was about a bonfire). The tune first shows up published as With My Love on the Road in Patrick Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs in 1909. The 1919 edition of the Irish Church Hymnal is where we first find the song we sing today.
Click here to read more Music Notes!
Looking for a Way to Volunteer?
The Welcome Team is looking for volunteers who can help about once a month between the two services and/or immediately after the 10:30 service. Go to our "Want to Help" page to learn more about this awesome ministry, as well as several other current ways you can lend a hand in ministry.
Do you have a couple hours once or twice a month to help maintain our beautiful church gardens? Tasks would include pruning, planting, weeding and watering. Whatever you can help with, we'd love to have you join our team! Duties could change seasonally. Sign up through the church office, or by talking with Jody Wilkinson.
Acolytes are needed for 10:30 worship each week. If you've been trained, you can sign up via our "sign up genius" (click here!)
If you are interested in being trained, email children's ministries!
Our UMW is back to their regular meeting times.Circle Meeting Time
- Naomi Circle 2nd Tuesday @ 10:00am
- Hannah Circle 2nd Tuesday @ 7:00pm
- Mary Circle 4th Monday @ 7:00pm
United Methodist Women’s Reading Program: There are many titles to choose from with new ones added every year! Books are available in the UMW library located in May Day Parlor. Any one can read the books and our own local UMW unit will get credit! click here for information about the program.
Support missions through recycling!
Bring your plastic bottles, aluminum cans AND CRV glass bottles to church every Sunday. By recycling we can support Corazon, Crop Walk, Habitat for Humanity and some of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) programs: Syrian refugee relief, eradicating hunger, clean water, ending malaria and fighting HIV/AIDS. Please bring your cans and bottles.
Sunday Worship Liturgist Sign Up
Campus WiFi network is: First UMC Guests; Password is: openhearts
Parking Reminder: If you are able, we encourage you to park at the Wells Fargo bank on Sunday mornings, and walk across the street, reserving the parking lot for those with mobility challenges or for new visitors. We also have a bike rack on the patio. Thanks for your consideration.
Hearing Assistance Devices are available on Sunday mornings. Just ask for one at the audio/video booth in the sanctuary.
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243 South Broadway
Redondo Beach, California 90277, United States
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