July-August 2016

Fellowship Lantern
Volume 59, Issue 10
July & August 2016
To promote
We headed to the Surf Shack for Vacation Bible School later this month! For five
Christian
evenings we’ll be catching the wave of God’s amazing love with children from our
discipleship and
congregation and community. With songs, crafts, games, snacks, science, and our mission
fellowship in the
project in support of helping those still in need of water in Flint, we will celebrate how
congregation and
God creates, helps, loves, calms, and sends. Our volunteers will guide the children
through an experience that will stay with them through the rest of their break and you can
community
bet that the music CDs we send home with every family will be part of the soundtrack of
Published by
their summer vacation!
.THE FIRST
During VBS, we’ll share the stories of Creation from Genesis, Miriam caring for
UNITED
Moses on the Nile, Jesus’ baptism by John, of Jesus calming the storm on the Lake of
METHODIST
Galilee and the breakfast he shared with his disciples on the same lake’s shore after his
CHURCH OF
resurrection. We’ll meet “Snappy,
Wayne-Westland
the Crab” who I hope will be a wise
and conscientious (but probably
funny, silly and VERY
MEMORABLE) guide for the
children through the week.
.
If you can help us and haven’t
been contacted, please call the
Pastor
office. Our leadership is committed Carter Cortelyou
to making VBS as much fun for the 3 Town Square
volunteers as it is for the children. It Wayne, MI 48184
takes a couple of hours each night,
from July 17-21 and can make a
Telephone
real impact on the life of the
734-721-4801
children who will one day be the
next generation of worshippers and
volunteers in our congregation. If
you have children or grandchildren invite them to come. Or invite children in homes near you. This is a great
way to reach out to your neighbors and help them make a connection to our church.
And please pray for us. Our ministry with children is a precious gift from God and we want to honor God
and theses children of the Spirit by welcoming them, teaching them and helping them to remember that the Lord
is great and awesome!
Pastor Carter
BALM IN HUMOR
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” Proverbs
17:22
It doesn’t hurt to have a little Biblical humor, it is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far
more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. When laughter is shared, it binds
people together and increases happiness and intimacy. Laughter also triggers healthy
physical changes in the body. Humor and laughter strengthen your immune system,
boost your energy, diminish pain, and protect you from the damaging effects of stress.
Best of all, this priceless medicine is fun, free, and easy to use. (Auth. unknown)
Q. What kind of man was Boaz before he married Ruth?
A. Ruthless.
Q. What do they call pastors in Germany?
A. German Shepherds.
Q. Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?
A. Noah He was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation.
Q. Who is the greatest babysitter mentioned in the Bible?
A. David. He rocked Goliath to a very deep sleep.
Q. What kind of motor vehicles are in the Bible?
A. Jehovah drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden in a Fury. David’s Triumph was heard throughout the land.
Also, probably a Honda, because the apostles were all in one Accord.
Q. Where is the first math homework problem mentioned in the Bible?
A. When God told Adam and Eve to go forth and multiply.
A woman went to the beach with her children. Her 4-year-old son ran up to her, grabbed
her hand, and led her to the shore where a dead seagull lay in the sand. “Mommy, what
happened to him?” the little boy asked. “He died and went to heaven,” she replied. The
child thought for a moment and said, “And God threw him back down?”
It was Palm Sunday but because of a sore throat, 5-year-old Johnny stayed home from church
with a sitter. When the family returned home, they were carrying several palm fronds. Johnny
asked them what they were for.
"People held them over Jesus' head as he walked by," his father told him.
"Wouldn't you know it," Johnny fumed, "the one Sunday I don't go and he shows up."
In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy! Philip. 1:4
Red Miller
Coffee Hour
July 3rd
July 10th
July 17th
July 24 th
July 31 st
August 7th
Shirleen Curtis in honor of Grand and
Greatgrand kids.
Linda Owulette in honor of kids and
grandkids
Roy & Jeannine Klay in honor of Roy’s 88th birthday
Vacant
Mary & Melissa McCormick
Kathy Jahn in memory of Hal & Sylvia Reid
August 14th
Lunch Bunch
August 21st
August 28th
Vacant
Vacant
Altar Flowers
July 3rd
July 10th
July 17th
July 24th
July 31st
John & Sandy Ofiara in honor of their 51st Wedding Anniversary
Vince & Linda Maylone in honor of their 35 th Wedding Anniversary
Roy & Jeannine Klay in honor of Roy’s 88th Birthday
LuAnn Farmer in honor of Shannon’s 20th Birthday
Doug & Irene Schoonover in memory of their Dad’s, Francis Weber
& Charles Schoonover
August 7th
Kathy Jahn in memory of Hal & Sylvia Reid
August 14th
Fran Boomer in memory of Robert Boomer
August 21st
August 28th
Lenora Krieger in memory of Mother’s Birthday
Gale Wilbur in memory of Susan Wilbur
JULY BIRTHDAYS:
AUGUST BIRTHDAYS:
July 3rd
Amanda Ross
August 1st
Sara Buckingham
July 4th
July 5th
Katrina Cupps
Dee Almas
Alice Sheffield
Kathleen Wiles
Paul Woodin
Brion Hopper
Donna Ross
Denise Bailey
Linda Owulette
Evelyn Netschke
Carol Simons
Joan Hale
Margaret Zimmerman
Carol Henico
Roy Klay
Lois Mathe
Shannon Grosse
August 2nd
August 6th
August 11th
David Bondie
Peggy Samples
William Henico
Norma Weiser
Amy Jackson
Wade Cupps
Teri Nitzel
Janice Podgers
Ashlee Szabo
Gale Wilbur
Vivian Speakman
Angie Szabo
Cindy Joseph
Karen Markham
July 6th
July 7th
July 8th
July 10th
July 11th
July 12th
July 16th
July 17th
July 18th
July 20th
July 23rd
July 24th
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
July 3
John & Sandy Ofiara
rd
July 10th
Vince & Linda Maylone
July 12th
Robert & Pat Samland
July 18th
Bob & Carol Simons
July 31st
August 7th
Helen & Sheyi Olojo
Red & Anita Miller
August 12th
August 14th
August 17th
August 22nd
August 23rd
August 30th
UNITED METHODIST WOMEN
JULY & AUGUST, 2016
EXECUTIVE MEETING – NO MEETING IN JULY & AUGUST
NEXT MEETING - SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 6:30 PM
CIRCLES
CHARIS CIRCLE
NO MEETING IN JULY & AUUST
NEXT MEETING - SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
ESTHER/MARTHA CIRCLE
NO MEETING IN JULY & AUGUST
NEXT MEETING – SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
7:00 PM IN PARLOR
COME WITH IDEAS FOR YEARS PROGRAM
LYDIA CIRCLE
NO MEETINGS IN JULY & AUGUST
NEXT MEETING – SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
7:00 PM – PARLOR
*******************************************************************
UNITED METHODIST WOMEN Ingathering Project. We will be collecting
Items for the MICHIGAN VETERANS FOUNDATION. Look in the Lantern or
Elsewhere for more information. Donations are due September 18th, 2016.
COMING UP:
UMW HARVERT DINNER – OCTOBER 21, 2016 4:30 – 7:00 PM
NOW IS THE TIME TO WORK ON PROJECTS FOR THE CRAFT TABLE.
ON JULY 10, 2016
FELECIA MORIN WILL BE BAPTISED.
ALSO CHASE KULL WILL BE BAPTISED. HEATHER & JOSH KULL ARE THE PARENTS,
& HUNTER KULL WHOSE PARENTS ARE FELECIA MORIN & STEVEN KULL.
**************************************************************************************************
CHURCH WIDE CRAFT SALE
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2016
We need MEN AND WOMEN to help make the craft sale a success. We need
your help in planning new projects to make. You do not have to be a crafter to
help us. We will show you how to do the projects. REMEMBER this is a Church
wide project to make money for our Church General Fund.
We meet the 1st & 3rd Thursday at 7pm and the 2nd Saturday at 11am in the
Fellowship Hall, every month.
Any questions please contact Luann Farmer at 734/239-3338.
**************************************************************************************************
A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE VBS STAFF & VOLUNTEERS
ON JUY 6TH, 2016 @ 6:30 PM
Gardens of Plenty
By Linda Maylone
Does your home garden produce extra produce? Have there been times when you
just don’t know what to do with your abundance of zucchini, cucumbers or tomatoes?
Or whatever else you have planted that is growing like crazy?
Well, never fear, the Witness Committee is here with a new idea! Our next FISH
month is in August. So here’s the idea: Home gardeners choose to bring their extra
produce to the church. You may price it, or accept donations as you wish from other
members of the congregation who don’t have a home garden and will gladly purchase
your extras. (I am one of them. No sun, no room, no green thumb ) Then, if you
still have leftover items, you could choose to donate it to the church. The FISH
committee could then give it out with the staples we normally give out and in this
way provide some fresh, healthy items for the recipients. This would be done during
coffee hour.
The congregation could also get involved by purchasing and donating any produce
or fruit item of their choice. Just bring it in on Sunday and place in the Fellowship
Hall.
In hundreds of neighborhoods across the country, nutritious, affordable,
and high quality food is out of reach —particularly low-income
neighborhoods, communities of color, and rural areas.
The Grocery Gap, The Food Trust, published 2010
Wayne-Westland Schools-percentage of students who qualify for free or
reduced lunch: 65.8%
If you are able, please consider supporting this very important ministry.
Thank you. Witness Committee
Unless you don’t own a television or a radio, you have probably read or heard about
the water problems in Flint. I am sure many of you want to help, but the logistics of
transporting cases and cases of water can be a little overwhelming.
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (known as UMCOR) is working with the
Crossroads District in Flint to provide relief. In addition to providing bottled water,
they are also working on a longer term solution. Namely, they need funds to
purchase filtration pitchers and replacement filters.
The Witness and Outreach Committee was looking for a way to help our Flint
neighbors. Once we found this UMCOR Advance, we chose to support this effort.
For the months of July and August, you can drop your spare change into the
collection pail during the first hymn. At the end of the three months, we will send
our donation to UMCOR. We are also going to include Vacation Bible School
participants in the spare change initiative.
I have tried to imagine what it would be like to have orangish, blackish water coming
out of my faucet. Yuck! Yet our bodies must have water to survive. Let’s rally
together and help our Flint neighbors get back to health with clean water.
Linda Maylone
Witness and Outreach Committee
“Spare Your Change to Make a Change for Flint!”
It’s July-Let’s put the Heat on Human Trafficking!
Human Trafficking is modern day slavery. Often women and children are forced to
work in harsh and abusive conditions with little or no pay.
UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) works with communities around
the world by assisting survivors of trafficking in the following ways: providing
shelter, medical services, psychological support, legal counseling and specialized
skills training to help the survivor gain employment. UMCOR is also raising
community awareness of Human Trafficking by providing informational materials,
holding seminars, and getting the message out through radio and television.
The Advance has set a financial goal of $100,000.00. One hundred percent of our
donation will reach this Advance.
Here is a quote from Mauri, a sex-trafficking victim who was forced into prostitution
at age 16
“The longer you stay the less hope you have.”
Helen Keller stated: “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but
still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do
something that I can do.”
Take a moment and decide how you can turn up the heat on Human Trafficking.
Please donate what you can during the month of July for this truly worthy cause.
Linda Maylone
Witness and Outreach Committee
DETROIT RENAISSANCE DISTRICT
UNITED METHODIST WOMEN
2016 INGATHERING PROJECT
The United Methodist Women will be collecting items for Michigan Veterans
Foundation.
The foundations mission is help homeless veterans to regain their stability and
return to self-sufficiency.
The Foundation provides transitional housing, food pantry, employment, training,
job opportunities, health care services, meals, clothing and support groups among
other services.
“Wish List” for men
Socks and under ware (new)
All the following clothing items can be new or gently used.
Shirts, Tee shirts, Sweat shirts, Pants, Sweaters, Coats, Jackets, Baseball caps.
Hygiene items:
Soap, Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, Shaving items, shampoo, Deodorant etc.
Non-perishable Food items.
The deadline for collecting these donations will be September 18th.
There will be a box in Fellowship Hall to place your donations in. Any questions
see Jan Podgers.
All members of the church are invited to participate.
HEBREW 13:16
“And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with
such sacrifices God is pleased”
**************************************************************************************************
FELLOWSHIP LANTERN
is published monthly except August
DEADLINE FOR ARTICLES
Is the 15th of the month
REV. CARTER CORTELYOU
PASTOR
GALE WILBUR
EDITOR
E-mail address for the lantern is
[email protected]
Visit us on the web at www.waynefirst.org
Mission Statement
We are the Congregation of First United Methodist Church of Wayne-Westland and are a
committed, loving, Christian community of Jesus Christ, in ministry, witnessing to the love of
God as experienced in our lives, and expressed by: worship together, Christian nurture,
education evangelism, Christian fellowship and support of one another, invitation to others to
share our faith, social awareness, involvement and support of worldwide Methodism. Our
witness embraces all people.
SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 10:00 A.M.
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL AT 9:00 A.M.
CHILDREN’S SUNDAY SCHOOL 10:00 A.M.
First United Methodist Church
3 Town Square
Wayne, MI 48184-1637