September 2015 Tide - Aptos United Methodist Church

September, 2015
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~Fall Kickoff/ Rally Day~
In our courtyard everyone will have the
opportunity to learn about the various
ministries within our church.
~Saturday, September 12 ~
Our next Food Sort at Second
Harvest Food Bank. th
~ SOCK MISSION DINNER ~ Sunday evening, September 27th, here at church~ 5:00 PM. Dinner is free! If you are able, please bring a pair or package of new men’s or women’s socks to be given to homeless. THE NEW SERMON SERIES ON THE BOOK
“WHY?”
by Adam Hamilton
Sept. 20th:
Sept. 27th:
Oct. 4th:
Oct. 11th:
Why Do the Innocent Suffer?
Why Do My Prayers Go Unanswered?
Why Can't I See God's Will for My Life?
Why God's Love Prevails!
For many of us, September is the beginning of a new season. The summer is ending.
Summer vacations are winding down. Children and youth are going back to school.
This is also the beginning of a new season for our church. Sunday, September 13th, is Kickoff Sunday at our church. Our Sunday School and Youth Group will start back up on that Sunday. In
between our two services, during our coffee fellowship time, we will celebrate Kick-off Sunday. In
our courtyard everyone will have the opportunity to learn about the different ministries within our
church. There will be representatives from each of the ministries to help answer any questions you
might have. Hope you can join us at the Kick-off Sunday celebration!
Our Bell Choir has a new beginning also, as we welcome our new Bell Choir Director, Eileen
Mihm. We are so excited to have Eileen on board, as she comes to us with a wealth of experience
and credentials. She has Bachelor of Music from Westminster Choir College and a Masters of Arts in
Music Theory and Composition from CSU Fresno.
On Sunday, September 20th, we well begin our new four-Sunday Sermon Series based upon
the book “Why?” authored by Adam Hamilton, Senior Pastor, Church of the Resurrection, in Kansas
City. Our sermon series will help us in ‘making sense of God’s will.’ The questions we will be
answering over the four Sundays will be:
Why do the innocent suffer?
Why do my prayers go unanswered?
Why can’t I see God’s will for my life?
Why God’s love prevails!
Our small groups will be using Adam Hamilton’s book as the study guide throughout the
sermon series.
Another new beginning happening in September is our first Mission Dinner, on September
27th – 5:00 PM, at the church. You are encouraged to purchase a pair or package of new socks to
bring to the dinner, as we will provide these socks to our homeless friends in the Aptos community.
Also, please mark you calendars for our October Mission Dinner, Sunday, October 25th – 5:00 PM.
At the October Mission Dinner we will package hygiene kits for our homeless friends in Aptos. One
more important item regarding mission is our upcoming Second Harvest Food Sort on Saturday,
September 12th in Watsonville. We gather and package over a thousand food packages for those in
need of nutritious meals. I have found it to be a great time of fellowship while serving!
God has blessed our church with many ‘good and perfect gifts’ for this new season. Praise
be to God!
Blessings,
Pastor Jay
2 MISSIONS TEAM REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER
Your support of the Missions Team’s Right Start Backpack Project filled 48 backpacks with binders,
two packages of binder
paper, two ink pens, erasers, pencils, colored pencils, colored markers, 12 inch rulers,
composition books, spiral notebooks, glue sticks, Post-it notes, highlighters, binder dividers, pencil boxes,
pencil sharpeners, English-Spanish dictionaries, packs of tissues, and bottles of hand sanitizer.
It’s an amazing list of supplies that we were able to put together with your support! Thanks to careful
shopping and donations that came in after August 2nd, we were able to send some money to UMCOR to help
pay for School Kits for children in need elsewhere in the world!
So, what’s coming up? Glad you want to know!
September 12th: Food Sort at Second Harvest Food Bank in Watsonville. We meet there at 8:00 AM.
September 15th: Feeding the homeless at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Aptos at 5:00 PM. Anne
Scott has taken responsibility for the first dinner.
September 27th: Dinner at 5:00 PM. Food provided; please bring a pair or package of new socks to
“pay” for dinner.
October 3rd: Walk for Alzheimer’s Support in Aptos.
More information will be forthcoming on several of these events, but we want you to know what’s
happening now.
The cooking and serving of dinner at St. John’s Episcopal Church will be our job on the third
Tuesdays of the month. St. John’s church will cook and serve on the first Tuesdays of the month.
Resurrection Catholic Community will cook and serve on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. St.
John’s and Resurrection churches will alternate when there’s a fifth Tuesday.
SOCK DINNER SET FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 27th
September is sock month at Aptos CUMC! The Missions Team will host a dinner Sunday,
Sept. 27th, 5:00 PM, in the Education Building to kick off support of the Mid-County Homeless
Coalition’s efforts to provide needed supplies for the homeless. If you are able, please bring to the
dinner one or more pairs of new adult men’s or women’s socks. A second dinner will be held
Sunday, Oct. 25th. That dinner will be hygiene items to be packed into hygiene kits for the
homeless.
Sign-ups for the Sept. 27th dinner are needed to get an estimate of how many plan to attend.
A clipboard sign-up will be circulated during worship. You may also call the Church Office, 6882210, to sign up. The mission team members plan to provide the same menu that is being served
Sept. 15th to the homeless who are housed at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Tuesday evenings.
Aptos CUMC members will be cooking and serving the Sept. 15th dinner as part of our church’s
new partnership with St. John’s.
3 WOW! LET’S LIGHT UP THE WORLD !!
Well, at least our parking lot !!
Pledge payments from many of you as a result of our successful WIDENING OUR
WELCOME capital campaign in March, are now almost sufficient to start our first major
campus enhancement project - new lights for the parking lot! To insure our capital cash flow
covers this entire project, it would be helpful if any of you who have not made your 2015
pledge payments could do so soon, plus a few of you could help by pre-paying your 2016
pledge.
With Mike Sampson’s leadership, we now have the engineering plans, building
permit, and contractors identified. Phase1, to be completed in the next couple of months,
will be building the parking lot light foundations.
We are planning a DIY project where we
will rent equipment to bore the foundation holes, place a prefab form, and have a rebar
contractor place the reinforcing steel. We will then set the lighting base plates and
order concrete delivered and poured to complete the foundations. In Phase 2 we are planning
to do the trenching for the electrical conduit. We will need a laborer or two plus our
volunteers to make all this happen. With these items complete, in Phase 3 we will buy the
lighting and contract for an electrician to extend power to the new pole locations, raise the
poles, mount the lights and set the controls for a complete job. There will be several county
inspections along the process. This may take several months, depending on technical issues
and cash flow.
These new lighting fixtures have advanced technology LED lights, with timers,
automatic dimmers, and motion detectors. They are highly efficient, taking only 500 watts
total power for all the lights. The results will give us a WELCOMING and well-lighted safe
parking lot for more evening events and help with security of our campus.
Trustees thank all of you for supporting the Capital Campaign and projects.
Steve Green
Chair, Trustees
Saturday, September 12th
Our next Food Sort at Second Harvest Food Bank.
We will meet at the Food Bank at 8:00 AM
at 800 Ohlone Parkway in Watsonville and expect
to finish around 11:30 AM.
Please remember that long pants and
closed-toed shoes are required for working at the
Food Bank.
4 APTOS CUMC TO
PARTNER WITH ST.
JOHN’S EPISCOPAL
To Feed the Homeless the
Third Tuesday
of Each Month
This month our church will begin a new
mission program serving the homeless, working
in partnership with churches involved in the MidCounty Homeless Coalition. As part of the
coalition effort, St. John’s Episcopal Church and
Resurrection Catholic Church are housing and
feeding 20 homeless people on Tuesday evening
beginning Sept. 1st. Other Santa Cruz churches
will host the 20 people on the other six nights.
They will travel by bus to Aptos on Tuesday.
2016 PLEDGE DRIVE SET FOR
OCTOBER
Aptos UMC’s annual fall pledge
campaign is coming up. Each year at this
time church members are asked to pledge to
support the church during the coming year.
These pledges become the foundation upon
which church leaders are able to develop a
budget for salaries, building maintenance and
programs. It is impossible to run a church
without having the financial backing of
members who pledge to support the church
and then faithfully pay their pledges.
Aptos Community UMC will partner
with St. John’s and go to that church to provide
dinner, breakfast and a sack lunch on the third
Tuesday of each month. Our first evening will be
Sept. 15th. This monthly outreach will provide
an opportunity for many people to become
involved. We’ll cook in our homes and transport
the food, serve it to our guests, and eat with them.
Then we’ll clean up and set out breakfast and
lunch sacks for the next morning. So we need
people who will donate food, people who will
prepare a main dish, a salad, a dessert, bake
cookies or pies, etc. And we’ll need people to
come to St. John’s to serve the food, socialize
and eat with the guests, and clean up. If you
think you’d like to work on the planning
committee for this new mission project, please
tell Anne Scott or Ruth Landmann. There will be
a planning meeting in early September.
The pledge campaign will be held
during October. Church committees will
meet this month to determine budget requests
for 2016, and from these requests the Finance
Committee and Administrative Council will
develop a church budget. The budget will be
formally approved after pledges have been
received.
This year has been an exciting one
for Aptos UMC with new goals and programs
begun. Funds given this year have been
crucial in carrying out the church goals.
During this month we ask you to prayerfully
consider what our church means to you, our
community and world, and to determine your
pledge for 2016.
Anne is organizing the Sept. 15th meal.
The Tuesday evening study group members have
volunteered to serve the meal and help prepare
the food. The dinner menu will be chili (meat
and vegetarian), coleslaw, cornbread, and pie.
Breakfast will be coffee, muffins, and bananas.
The sack lunch will include fruit, cookies,
and fruit juice. A sign-up list for those that
would like to donate food for Sept. 15th will be
circulated during worship.
5 ~ Music Notes ~
Chancel Choir is “back-to-work” this month on Thursday
evenings and Sunday mornings, preparing some wonderful
anthems for 9:30 am worship:
Sept 6th
Sept 13th
Sept 20th
Sept 27th
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Our Mixed Ensemble will share “Wayfarin’
Stranger” in bluegrass style!
~ “Sisi Sote” is a very colorful, celebration anthem
to kick off our Rally Day!
~ We will enjoy special music from the MilnerBrown Family!
~ “Blessings” will nicely complement the new
sermon series just beginning
Golden, glowing music, renewed enthusiasm, and the warmth of
love ~ all of these color our worship this September. See you in
church!
Book Club Plans
Our contemporary worship
service at 11:00 AM continues
each week with wonderful praise
band music!
Wednesday September 16th at 2:00 PM
at the home of Lee MacDonell.
(Remember Lee’s new address:
318 Loyola Dr., Aptos)
“American Savior"
by
Roland Merullo.
Lorrie Ingram will lead the discussion
The book for October will be "Flight Behavior"
by Barbara Kingsolver
November's selection is "Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake"
by Anna Quindlen
The ACUMC Book Club meets at 2:00 PM on the third
Wednesday of every month. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Please contact Lee MacDonell at 688-1574 for more information.
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Jean Beebe
Elsie Staley
Sara Rossi
Andy Lewis
Mary Ellen Rusch
Linda Theiring
Jim Williamson
Wally Ingram
Jonathan Treffkorn
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Zackary Jot
Oliver Parr
Lorrie Ingram
Ella Parr
Jan Jackson
Bridget Parr
Marty Nichols
Riley Nichols
Judy Cottingham
Bill Fennell
Lorrie & Wally Ingram
Georgia & Charlie Mackh
Jane & Steve Green
Teresa & Skip Fehr
Connie & Bill Moore
Barbara & Edward Bulicz
Susan Cooper & Lan Dyson
Michele & Dan Rossi
Special
Congratulations
to:
~Barbara & Edward Bulicz ~
celebrating their 25th
Anniversary this year!!
Sept 14th!!
Wishing you two many more
happy years!
And to:
Has your birthday or
anniversary been missing from
our Tides?
~Roger Swenson ~
who is newly retired from m any, wonderful years at Granite Rock! Well done, Roger! Give Susie a call in the church
office 688-2210 or email her at:
[email protected] and she’ll get
our records straight! J ~In Our Thoughts and Prayers This Month~
Pat Carr, Pam Wood, Tammy Philbin, Susan Coy Weeks, Bill Moore, Ruth
Nichols, Justin Beebe, Kayla Harvey; Pat Carr’s daughter, Sally Hancock;
Velma Greyell, Jane Harvey, Barbara Symons; Forrest Willcox’s niece, Kristin;
Sibille Treffkorn’s nephew, Andreas; Mary Tarverdi’s grandson, Jordan;
The Hart’s son in law, Rich; Connie Moore’s Mom, Edna; Hazel Smith’s brother,
Allen, and sister, Peggy; Norm & Millie Anderson & the Wood Family:
Pastor Jay’s nephew, Mitchell; Steve Glaum, Craig Vetter
And Our Homebound Folks:
Betty Bridge, LaVern Radeleff, June Dyer, Sarah Talbot,
Mary Ellen Rusch, Lollie Starbuck,
Evelyn Longanecker, Jeane Kelley
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