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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - My Place Restaurant – Newtown - 5 p.m. – 9 p.m
Have dinner [or take-out] and mention NUMC Haiti Mission project and 20% of your bill will be donated to NUMC.
Haiti Fundraiser at My Place Restaurant in Newtown from 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Come for dinner [or take-out] and mention NUMC Fundraiser — and My Place will donate 20% of the bill to NUMC for Haiti.
Saturday, February 6, 2010 - SPAGHETTI SUPPER COFFEE HOUSE
- supper 5 – 7:30 p.m. and coffee house 8-11 p.m.
Sunday, February 7, 2010 – Holy Communion Services at 8 a.m. & 10 a.m.
SOUPER BOWL OF CARING SUNDAY – Bring in your filled grocery bags as our youth support the nationwide Souper Bowl of Caring event.
Please check the narthex for 2010 offering envelopes and financial statements. Take yours home and save us postage.
SERVING IN WORSHIP
Ushers: Tom & Jan D
Communion Server: Brad T
Liturgists: 8 a.m. Pat L 10 a.m. Laurie G
Tellers: Kevin & Ann S
Coffee Hour: The Clark family
Saturday, February 13, 2010 - “Sweet” Idea Event 5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m Rauner Hall
United Methodist Communications continues to provide news coverage of the situation in Haiti, including how the church is responding, at http://www.umc.org/haiti. We also want you to know of other resources available for churches and members who want to help.
Volunteers and Health Kits
According to UMCOR(United Methodist Committee on Relief), there will be a great need for volunteers to help rebuild once the initial crisis is past, but it is not safe or possible for volunteers to go to Haiti at the present. However, UMCOR’s two relief supply warehouses are asking United Methodists to provide health kits that will be sent to Haiti. Instructions for assembling and shipping health kits are available HERE.
Donations
We are grateful that donations continue to come in online (HERE). You can give your local church credit for your online gift later on during the checkout process. Just look for the checkbox on the page where you enter your Name and Address.
Donors may also contribute by placing a check in the offering plate at a local church or by mailing it to UMCOR, P.O. Box 9068, New York, NY 10087. Checks should indicate “Advance #418325″ in the memo line. United Methodist Communications is creating a special bulletin insert for churches’ use, which will be available Friday at www.umc.org/haiti.
Ministry Resources
Following the Asian tsunami, United Methodist Communications produced a video and study guide titled “God, Why?” to help people cope with the spiritual and emotional impact of disasters. The resource, available from EcuFilm, explores why such tragedies happen and God’s role in them. The study guide provides a basis for group study and discussion.
During this time of pain and suffering, let us take comfort in the promise of Psalm 46:1, NRSV: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
Source: United Methodist Communications
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February 14, 2010 [White] Transfiguration Sunday
Exodus 34:29-35 When Moses came down…he was not aware of his radiant face……
In the Hebrew tradition, it was thought it was death to look God face to face. So there was Moses, still showing signs that he survived such an encounter. And what was the glow? Sometimes the truth is hard to face. Sometimes it feels better to avoid someone who knows too much about you. Sometimes it is better to keep your distance, to those in need, to those who would help. How is it that they did not want to receive what God offered? Ten rules that would lead to a life abundant?
In the tradition of David, comes to us a prayer, a prayer that reads like a song in the form of prose or poetry. In prayer we are encouraged to think of God above all that we could imagine. But however awesome and powerful this is a God who, as the psalmist reminds us, has answered prayers. Do you see in these words hope that this God in all his majesty is holy and even though it seems God may punish, there is hope?
And so Paul continues writing to the church in Corinth, asking those who have seen God active in there world, to share their experience, to give witness to the joy they have found. How does the law of Moses apply to Christians who are freed from it?
So from last week we go from Jesus choosing the first disciples to bringing just three of them up a mountain to pray. Can you recall other important moments in Jesus’ ministry when he called these three to be with him?
How do you relate to the disciples? Do you see Jesus as Messiah (either The Messiah or your personal savior)? Do you see yourself in need of a savior? Are you as the Disciples stuck in a particular expectation or fixated in a small preconceived relationship?
Harvey Sellner, a member of our congregation founded World Help Foundation in 1995. WHF’s vision is to see a significant increase in access to clean water and sanitation facilities in rural areas around the world, sustaining life and dramatically improving health. In order to realize this vision, WHF’s mission is to prevent death and disease by providing safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene education through public education and developmental and relief programs. Click on the picture and when you shop a participating online merchant, they will donate a percentage to WHF. Click on the picture for a list of merchants that you probably already do business with!
