Friday, July 30, 2010
SCD - first learnings
Air and ground travel were flawless and I have safely arrived in Music City. There are 11 of us here from New England and hundreds altogether. I've attended a seminar on Social Networking and a plenary session with the UM President of Bishops Larry Goodpastor. My first learning has been that you have to pay extra for Internet access so blogging will be challenging on this tiny phone keyboard but I will search again today for a wi-fi hotspot.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
July 28, 2010 - FUMCOB Weekly News
Greetings, friends!
PASTOR CHERYL is excited to be flying out in the morning to Nashville for the National School of Congregational Development. The New England Conference graciously provided a scholarship for the registration fee for this event. There will be a webcast of various seminars available during the July 29 to August 2 conference broadcast on the web at http://gbgm-umc.org/scd10. Also broadcast on Sunday, August 1 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm will be the UMCOR Benefit for Haiti and Nashville with Tony Campolo and music by Richie McDonald and The Gordon Memorial UMC Choir. I will be blogging (publicly journaling) various learnings to share with you at http://fumcobvt.blogspot.com/ if you'd like to follow along. While I'm away, Rev. Peggy Yingst of Trinity Lutheran Church is available for pastoral emergencies at 579-1948 (home) or 254-4220 (church office).
SOCIAL JUSTICE: In light of the sighting of another swastika, this time in the Dummerston quarry, days after the racist and anti-Semitic graffiti on the Dummerston bridge abutment Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity is asking you, the Southern Vermont interfaith community, to show your support for the basic right of your parishioners to live, play and conduct business without the fear of harassment, bigotry or violence. The public display of hate language and symbols in Dummerston compels an equally, if not greater, public reminder of our community values. Vermont Partnership is looking for sponsors from the faith community for a half page, color advertisement in The Brattleboro Reformer, The Observer, and The Commons newspapers to run once a week for two weeks with each sponsoring faith community contributing $250 or any other amount. Earmark your contribution in offertories over the next two weeks by writing “Hate has no home here” on the memo line of your check.
HELPING HANDS GARDEN: The harvest is in full gear! Jenny and her crew have harvested 124 pounds from the garden so far this season including 27lbs this past Tuesday, alone, of which 11 lbs were cucumbers! These items have been delivered to the Women’s Crisis Center. Take a moment to walk around the side of the church yourself to check out the green and glorious growth in our community garden! Say a prayer and volunteer to pull some weeds and help harvest God’s bounty for our neighbors in need. Jenny welcomes your help whether it is once or once a week.
YES WE CAN: Can we? Are you one of those who purchases extra food to share with the needy each time you shop? If not, please consider making this important ministry a part of your regular shopping routine. Jenny has noticed a decline in giving and an increase in need due to the economy. Thirty cans of vegetables and twenty cans of soup are needed each month to feed the Brattleboro area families we serve in Christian love. The UMW also encourage us to contribute full meals like tuna and noodles, stews, spaghetti and sauce and breakfast items to meet our neighbors’ needs. Cat food for pets also welcome. Together we CAN!
BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL: We need your legs, jelly jars, voices and hearts to make this church fundraiser scheduled for Saturday, August 14th a huge success! Please sign up to pick blueberries or bake blueberry goods to sell. Please volunteer to set up, serve and break down on the day and take a handful of posters and cards to share with friends and post to notify the whole community of this wonderful event that features crafters and live music in addition to our usual food offerings.
WORSHIP: The Rev. Tom Shanklin will preside over communion, preach and play the organ during worship this week based on the Gospel of Luke 12:13-21 with a sermon entitled, "If I Were a Rich Man." Eleanor Vanderpool and Judy Flower will perform "The Creation Hymn" as special music.
CALENDAR:
Week of August 1st – August 7th
SUN 10:00 Worship
MON/WED 9:30-10:30 Exercise / Strength Training
Week of August 8th – August 14th
SUN 10:00 Worship
MON/WED 9:30 Exercise / Strength Training
10:30 Monday Morning Quarterback
6:00 Men’s Fellowship
6pm Game night
FRI 7:00 Sabbath Space
SAT 8am Blueberry Festival
PASTOR CHERYL is excited to be flying out in the morning to Nashville for the National School of Congregational Development. The New England Conference graciously provided a scholarship for the registration fee for this event. There will be a webcast of various seminars available during the July 29 to August 2 conference broadcast on the web at http://gbgm-umc.org/scd10. Also broadcast on Sunday, August 1 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm will be the UMCOR Benefit for Haiti and Nashville with Tony Campolo and music by Richie McDonald and The Gordon Memorial UMC Choir. I will be blogging (publicly journaling) various learnings to share with you at http://fumcobvt.blogspot.com/ if you'd like to follow along. While I'm away, Rev. Peggy Yingst of Trinity Lutheran Church is available for pastoral emergencies at 579-1948 (home) or 254-4220 (church office).
SOCIAL JUSTICE: In light of the sighting of another swastika, this time in the Dummerston quarry, days after the racist and anti-Semitic graffiti on the Dummerston bridge abutment Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity is asking you, the Southern Vermont interfaith community, to show your support for the basic right of your parishioners to live, play and conduct business without the fear of harassment, bigotry or violence. The public display of hate language and symbols in Dummerston compels an equally, if not greater, public reminder of our community values. Vermont Partnership is looking for sponsors from the faith community for a half page, color advertisement in The Brattleboro Reformer, The Observer, and The Commons newspapers to run once a week for two weeks with each sponsoring faith community contributing $250 or any other amount. Earmark your contribution in offertories over the next two weeks by writing “Hate has no home here” on the memo line of your check.
HELPING HANDS GARDEN: The harvest is in full gear! Jenny and her crew have harvested 124 pounds from the garden so far this season including 27lbs this past Tuesday, alone, of which 11 lbs were cucumbers! These items have been delivered to the Women’s Crisis Center. Take a moment to walk around the side of the church yourself to check out the green and glorious growth in our community garden! Say a prayer and volunteer to pull some weeds and help harvest God’s bounty for our neighbors in need. Jenny welcomes your help whether it is once or once a week.
YES WE CAN: Can we? Are you one of those who purchases extra food to share with the needy each time you shop? If not, please consider making this important ministry a part of your regular shopping routine. Jenny has noticed a decline in giving and an increase in need due to the economy. Thirty cans of vegetables and twenty cans of soup are needed each month to feed the Brattleboro area families we serve in Christian love. The UMW also encourage us to contribute full meals like tuna and noodles, stews, spaghetti and sauce and breakfast items to meet our neighbors’ needs. Cat food for pets also welcome. Together we CAN!
BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL: We need your legs, jelly jars, voices and hearts to make this church fundraiser scheduled for Saturday, August 14th a huge success! Please sign up to pick blueberries or bake blueberry goods to sell. Please volunteer to set up, serve and break down on the day and take a handful of posters and cards to share with friends and post to notify the whole community of this wonderful event that features crafters and live music in addition to our usual food offerings.
WORSHIP: The Rev. Tom Shanklin will preside over communion, preach and play the organ during worship this week based on the Gospel of Luke 12:13-21 with a sermon entitled, "If I Were a Rich Man." Eleanor Vanderpool and Judy Flower will perform "The Creation Hymn" as special music.
CALENDAR:
Week of August 1st – August 7th
SUN 10:00 Worship
MON/WED 9:30-10:30 Exercise / Strength Training
Week of August 8th – August 14th
SUN 10:00 Worship
MON/WED 9:30 Exercise / Strength Training
10:30 Monday Morning Quarterback
6:00 Men’s Fellowship
6pm Game night
FRI 7:00 Sabbath Space
SAT 8am Blueberry Festival
July 21, 2010 - FUMCOB Weekly News
This Sunday, July 25th, we are sharing union services with the First
are concerned about parking availability, please consider carpooling
or using the lot on Grove Street behind the church.
Please consider returning any small homemade jelly jars and rings you
may have to the church to be used to make Blueberry jam to be sold at
the Blueberry Festival on August 14th.
The Helping Hands Garden has produced 67 lbs. of produce for our
community so far this year, of which, 6.5 lbs. was kale this week!
Thanks so much to Jenny and Kim for their faithful work among the
veggies.
Weekly calendar (All are welcome to all meetings and events):
Sunday, July 25th at 10am - worship at First Baptist Church
Monday, July 26th at 9:30 am - Exercise and Strength Training
10:30 am - Monday Morning Quarterback Discussion
5:00 pm - Blueberry Festival Planning meeting
Wednesday, July 28th at 9:30 am - Exercise and Strength Training
Friday, July 29th at 7pm - Glow Bowling at Brattleboro Bowl $7 -
please arrive 15 minutes early
Baptist Church on Main Street so be sure to go there at 10am since no
one will be here to greet you! We will reciprocate by inviting our
Baptist friends to join us in our sanctuary on August 29th. If youone will be here to greet you! We will reciprocate by inviting our
are concerned about parking availability, please consider carpooling
or using the lot on Grove Street behind the church.
Please consider returning any small homemade jelly jars and rings you
may have to the church to be used to make Blueberry jam to be sold at
the Blueberry Festival on August 14th.
The Helping Hands Garden has produced 67 lbs. of produce for our
community so far this year, of which, 6.5 lbs. was kale this week!
Thanks so much to Jenny and Kim for their faithful work among the
veggies.
Weekly calendar (All are welcome to all meetings and events):
Sunday, July 25th at 10am - worship at First Baptist Church
Monday, July 26th at 9:30 am - Exercise and Strength Training
10:30 am - Monday Morning Quarterback Discussion
5:00 pm - Blueberry Festival Planning meeting
Wednesday, July 28th at 9:30 am - Exercise and Strength Training
Friday, July 29th at 7pm - Glow Bowling at Brattleboro Bowl $7 -
please arrive 15 minutes early
July 14, 2010 - FUMCOB Weekly News
24 HOUR CAR WASH AND BBQ BLOCK PARTY
Don't forget to come and have the Men's Group wash your dirty car(s)
THIS Saturday, July 17th from 9am through Sunday at 9am. Paul Fantini
will really appreciate your visit (and maybe a cup of coffee) in the
wee hours of this 24 hour endeavor!
Our Adair Heights BBQ Block Party will kick off right after worship
this week with hot dogs, hamburgers and your wonderful salads and
desserts. If you'd like to help set up or cook, Jim Meachen will
appreciate your culinary skills and party planning abilities.
This week we will worship at 10:00 am in the sanctuary this week with
prayers and hymns of praise focusing on the scripture from Luke 10
sharing the story of Mary and Martha. Pastor Cheryl’s sermon, "The
Perfect Hostess or the One with the Mostess" will focus on the value
of contemplative study of Scripture and Christian conference rather
than aiming for perfection as a hostess. Margaret Fogg, flutist and
Timothy Fogg, guitarist will accompany the hymns including Come and
Find the Quiet Center and Be Thou My Vision and provide inspiring
special music throughout the service and Eleanor Vanderpool will sing
a vocal solo.
Plans for the church’s Annual Blueberry Festival are rolling into high
gear with Marlene Rose’s famous blueberry breakfast and the church
ladies’ delectable blueberry jam and baked offerings. There will also
be crafters with items such as ethnic jewelry, textiles on silk,
woodcraft and homemade goats’ milk beauty products for sale. Music
will be provided by House of Purpose on tour, a coffee house venue
from Hillsboro NH specializing in gospel, Christian and sacred music.
A variety of musical artists, including Purpose and Tim and Bunny Fogg
will play.
Next week on July 25th we are sharing union services with the First
Baptist Church on Main Street so be sure to go there at 10am since no
one will be here to greet you! We will reciprocate by inviting our
Baptist friends to join us in our sanctuary on August 29th.
Pastor Cheryl will be away from July 29 through August 2nd at a
National Congregational Development conference in Nashville TN. Rev.
Peggy Yingst of Trinity Lutheran Church is available for pastoral
emergencies at 579-1948 (home) or 254-4220 (church office).
Don't forget to come and have the Men's Group wash your dirty car(s)
THIS Saturday, July 17th from 9am through Sunday at 9am. Paul Fantini
will really appreciate your visit (and maybe a cup of coffee) in the
wee hours of this 24 hour endeavor!
Our Adair Heights BBQ Block Party will kick off right after worship
this week with hot dogs, hamburgers and your wonderful salads and
desserts. If you'd like to help set up or cook, Jim Meachen will
appreciate your culinary skills and party planning abilities.
This week we will worship at 10:00 am in the sanctuary this week with
prayers and hymns of praise focusing on the scripture from Luke 10
sharing the story of Mary and Martha. Pastor Cheryl’s sermon, "The
Perfect Hostess or the One with the Mostess" will focus on the value
of contemplative study of Scripture and Christian conference rather
than aiming for perfection as a hostess. Margaret Fogg, flutist and
Timothy Fogg, guitarist will accompany the hymns including Come and
Find the Quiet Center and Be Thou My Vision and provide inspiring
special music throughout the service and Eleanor Vanderpool will sing
a vocal solo.
Plans for the church’s Annual Blueberry Festival are rolling into high
gear with Marlene Rose’s famous blueberry breakfast and the church
ladies’ delectable blueberry jam and baked offerings. There will also
be crafters with items such as ethnic jewelry, textiles on silk,
woodcraft and homemade goats’ milk beauty products for sale. Music
will be provided by House of Purpose on tour, a coffee house venue
from Hillsboro NH specializing in gospel, Christian and sacred music.
A variety of musical artists, including Purpose and Tim and Bunny Fogg
will play.
Next week on July 25th we are sharing union services with the First
Baptist Church on Main Street so be sure to go there at 10am since no
one will be here to greet you! We will reciprocate by inviting our
Baptist friends to join us in our sanctuary on August 29th.
Pastor Cheryl will be away from July 29 through August 2nd at a
National Congregational Development conference in Nashville TN. Rev.
Peggy Yingst of Trinity Lutheran Church is available for pastoral
emergencies at 579-1948 (home) or 254-4220 (church office).
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