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Food Trucks
October 2012
Food Trucks
Saturday,
October 13, 2012
11:00 AM—4:00PM
Quilts, Jewelry, Wood, Baskets, Pottery,
Clothes, Needle Work,
Floral design, Etc.
Food Trucks
Food Trucks
RENEWAL WEEKEND ~ October 18 - 19 - 20
Each night of worship during the Renewal Weekend is different, but the focus of our worship will be the same - to
proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord and worthy of our praise and worship!
You’ll want to be sure and be present every night during the Renewal Weekend! Come be refreshed, come and
praise the living Christ, come and open your hearts and minds to what the Lord has in store just for you and for your
church. Can you imagine walking away the first night saying, “I have never felt this way before and I want to go
back for more.” See page 2 for the Renewal Schedule.
Imagine OUMC Renewed!
ABOUT OUR EVANGELIST
Rev. Bill Johnson is a passionate preacher of the Gospel
whose gifts for ministry include leadership, teaching,
and prophetic insight. Through LIFT Renewal Ministries, a non-profit ministry established for the purpose
of helping pastors and congregations deepen their experience of Jesus Christ, he serves local churches as an
evangelist, advocate, and spiritual friend.
Tran’s Mission
World Communion Sunday is a celebration observed by several Christian denominations taking place on the first
Sunday of every October, that promotes Christian unity and ecumenical cooperation. The tradition originated in the Shadyside Presbyterian Church in 1933, was adopted throughout the US Presbyterian Church in 1936, and subsequently spread to
other denominations. In 1940, the Federal Council of Churches (now the National Council of Churches), endorsed World
Communion Sunday and began to promote it to Christian churches worldwide. World Communion Sunday is one of the six
churchwide Special Sundays of The United Methodist Church. World Communion Sunday provides scholarships for U.S.
racial- and ethnic-minority students and international students, on both undergraduate and graduate levels. World Communion Sunday is celebrated on the first Sunday in October
On World Communion Sunday, we celebrate global unity. We celebrate the blessing of diversity. Listen; this not a
bitter pill to swallow, this is a source of joy and delight. How many of you enjoy French cuisine? How about Italian
sauces? Do you like to eat Chinese? How about Mexican food? Doesn’t variety enrich us? Isn’t it better that there is variety? Yes of course. When everything is monochrome we do not call it beautiful; the beauty is in the bouquet. It is the variety of birds that makes watching them interesting. It is the diversity of fish that makes the aquarium a pleasure.
It is not simply a matter of taking pleasure in diversity, it is that the truth is that underlying all of this diversity is
unity. There is only one God; he has only one Son. His son has only one Body. The Body of Christ is not a dismembered
corpse, but a living single body. There is “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Eph. 4:4-6).
There is not a body of Christ for blacks and one for whites; one for Mexicans and one for Caucasians; there is only
One Body and we are all equally members of it. This was the lesson the apostle Paul was at pains to teach his ethnically
mixed congregation in Corinth: 1Cor. 12:12-13 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of
the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews
or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
Let us extend the banquet metaphor since Paul just brought up drinking: the wine in our glasses at the great banquet
table will be the same wine: the wine of the Spirit. We will share that same wine with Croats and Serbs, Hungarians and
Romanians, Hutus and Tootsies, Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants, yes blacks, and yes, Mexicans of the illegal and the
legal variety.
So what are we to do in the mean time? Well,
at minimum, we are to live in such a way now that there
will not be any causes for awkward silences around that
table. We are to live in such a way now that we do not
THURSDAY
7:00 pm Worship and Preaching
deny our differences any more than we deny that there
are dozens of ways to prepare fish. Rather we celebrate
FRIDAY
8:30 am “Mini-Retreat” for Church
our differences as the variety that gives life joy.
Staff and Ministry Providers
The body of Christ is One. We Christians have
One Lord, one faith, and one baptism. We have all been
FRIDAY
7:00 pm Worship and Preaching
sent on the same mission: to declare that Jesus Christ is
SATURDAY
8:30 am “Mini-Retreat” for Church Lord. Jesus Christ is not our tribal god, but the Lord of
Leadership Council
all! There will be a day when “every knee shall bow and
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. “ No
SATURDAY
3:30 pm Bible Study—open to all
nation can claim him; no social group owns him; he is
not the mascot for any political party.
SATURDAY
5:30 pm Fellowship Dinner
Today, on World Communion Sunday, we
gather around His table proclaiming, not an idea, not a
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wish, but the truth: Jesus is Lord!
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy
Spirit. Amen.
Renewal Weekend
Schedule
HOLYWEEN
It’s time for Holyween fun again !
Help provide a safe, non scary
environment for kids to have fun while
they learn about the love of Jesus Christ.
See Donna Daniels if you’d like to help
or donate needed items.
Sharyl Lewis and Janice Fowler met with Grace River
members James Shin and Tawny Park to plan the
renovation of all the bathrooms. This will be a big undertaking so we will need to get three bids. This is
still in the planning stage.
The preschool rooms have been painted and the carpet
is being installed. Everything looks so fresh and new.
The kids, parents and staff are so excited with their
new rooms.
The cell tower should be completed very soon. They
are working on lighting and landscaping and then it
will be all finished.
Gail, our secretary for the last several years, is moving
to Nebraska to be with her daughter. We will miss
her but wish her all the good luck and God’s richest
blessing in her new home.
Fern McCollum very weak, urological problems.
Louise Adlof misses her church family
Joanne Reuteler COPD
Pastor Sergio for travel mercies to Mexico and for his
mother.
Jan Oehrke continued recovery from pneumonia
Gail Albright move to Nebraska
Our Fall Renewal Event
Our Fall Food Truck and Craft Fair
Global Methodist Mission & Christians in
Muslim countries
The renewal, unity and growth of our church family
GOD’S CHANGELESS WORDS
Feelings come and feelings go,
And feelings are deceiving;
My warrant is the Word of God —
Naught else is worth believing.
Though all my heart should feel condemned
For want of some sweet token,
There is One greater than my heart
Whose Word cannot be broken.
I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word
Till soul and body sever,
For though all things shall pass away,
His Word shall stand forever!
―Martin Luther
The safety of our troops deployed around the world
The leadership of our country
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Learning Center
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Learning Center
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Learning Center
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Senior Exercise
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Food Dist.
2:45 PM
Learning Center
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Hatha Yoga
11:30 AM
Senior Moments
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Stitchers Group
7:00 PM
Renewal Meeting
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Body, Mind &
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Praise Team
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Learning Center
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Learning Center
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Learning Center
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Senior Exercise
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Learning Center
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Hatha Yoga
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Preschool Board
6:00PM
Womanspace
7:00PM
Parish Board
Meeting
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Body, Mind &
Spirit Class
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Praise Team
Practice
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Craft Fair &
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Senior Exercise
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Learning Center
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Senior Exercise
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Learning Center
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Mini Retreat
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Mini Retreat
2:45 PM
Learning Center
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Hatha Yoga
2:45 PM
Learning Center
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Renewal Worship Senior Exercise
6:30PM
OLC Board Mtg
7:00 PM
Body, Mind &
Spirit Class
7:30 PM
Choir Practice
7:30 PM
Choir Practice
9:00 AM
Food Dist.
7:00 PM
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Renewal Worship Bible Study
5:30 PM
Renewal Dinner
7:00 PM
Renewal Worship
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Senior Exercise
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Learning Center
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Senior Exercise
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Learning Center
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Senior Exercise
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Learning Center
5:45PM
Hatha Yoga
2:45 PM
Learning Center
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Hot Meals
7:00PM
Church Council
4:00PM
Book Muse
6:00PM
Praise Team
Practice
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Learning Center
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Holyween
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Orangethorpe
United Methodist Church
2351 W. Orangethorpe Ave.
Fullerton, CA 92833
Tel: 714 526-8317
E-mail: [email protected]
We are a Christ-centered welcoming Community and we invite you to join us!
OUMC Staff
Rev. Tom Tran
Senior Pastor
714.526-8317
OUMC Leadership
We’re on the WEB
http://www.oumc.net
Rev. Sergio Camacho
Assoc. Pastor, Latino Ministry
714.773.4950
Treasurer
Val Moore
Organist
Vern Nelson
Church Secretary
Gail Albright
Other Campus Programs
Orangethorpe UM Preschool
Where tuition is affordable.
Where kids are safe and have fun.
Where the staff is well qualified.
Dianne Harper, Director
714.871.3176
Orangethorpe Learning Center
Where elementary aged kids can come for
free to get help with their homework
Monday through Thursday
Chuck Carey, Chairman
714.526.1833
Church Council
Barbara Johnson
& Jo Menely
Finance Chair
Jan Oehrke
SPRC Chair
Janice Fowler
Lay Leader
Sharyl Lewis
Choir Leader
Donna Daniels
Worship Design/Flowers
Wendy Lenaburg