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THE GOOD NEWS
March 2013
Christ
United Methodist Church
JOIN US AS WE WORSHIP OUR LORD!
Pastor Andrew T Bradley
Email:
Church : 717/532-6850
Office hours:
Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
E-mail: [email protected]
Facebook: Christ United Methodist,
Shippensburg
Web -www.christumcshipp.org
Christ United Methodist Church is committed to
the safety and well-being of our children and
vulnerable adults by
participating in Safe Sanctuaries.
Vision: To be inspired by God’s love to serve everyone.
Mission: To make disciples of Jesus Christ
for the transformation of the world.
A BIG THANK YOU! To Christ United Methodist Church: Thank you
very much for you generous donation of $125.
to Christ Among Neighbors. Your donation has
served as a blessing to the community and an
inspiration to our staff. Your thoughtfulness
will enable the staff of Christ Among
Neighbors to assist members of our commu-
nity. God bless you, Sincerely, Karen Boutcher
of Christ Among Neighbors
Dear Friends in Mission: Thank you for your
gift received 1/13/12 for $300. to the General
Board of Global Ministries through The Ad-
vance, the designated mission giving channel of
The United Methodist Church. We are pleased
to share that 100 present of you contribution
will go to Eurasia Mission Initiative– Russia and
Belarus, Advance #11510A. Your gift is funding
pastor’s salaries and church ministries and es-
tablishing new churches in Russia.
The generosity of faithful people such as you
makes it possible for the church to extend
God’s mission around the world. Ministries, mis-
sionaries, and projects that the UM can sup-
port through The Advance exist in more that
100 countries and many areas of the US. These
focus on evangelism, church development, edu-
cation, disaster relief, and rehabilitation,
health services, and programs for children and
young people.
May God grant you a sense of hope and joy as
you continue your support for mission. Grace
and peace, Roland Fernamdes, General Treas-
urer, General Board of Global Ministries;
Shawn Bakker, Associate General Secretary,
The Advance
Each Sunday - 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Worship, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School
Church office hours - Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. As of February 27, 2013
March 2013
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1 World Day of Prayer
2 8a Lent Breakfast at Leesburg UMC 9-11a Clothing Bank with Breakfast 10:30a Mem-bership Class
3 3rd Sunday in Lent
6:45p Lenten Study
4 1p Book Discussion Group
6:30p Education
5 6 7:30a Lent Breakfast at Greenvillage
6:30p Handbell Choir
7 8 9 8a Lent Breakfast at Trinity UMC
9-11a Clothing Bank with Breakfast
10 4th Sunday in Lent One Great Hour of Sharing (offering)
Daylight Saving (spring ahead)
6:45p Lenten Study
11 6p Hospitality 6:30p Outreach 7p Ministry & Nurture
12 2p UMW
13 7:30a Lent Breakfast at Greenvillage
6:30p Handbell Choir
14 5:30p Free Dinner
15 16 8a Lent Breakfast at Newburg UMC
9-11a Clothing Bank with Breakfast
17 5th Sunday in Lent/St. Patrick’s Day
6:45p Lenten Study
Newsletter Items Due
18 19 7-9 Civil War Roundtable
20 7:30a Lent Breakfast at Greenvillage
10a Yarnspinners
6:30p Handbell Choir
1st Day of
21 22 23 8a Lent Breakfast at Messiah UMC
9-11a Clothing Bank with Breakfast
24 Passion/Palm Sunday
6:45p Lenten Study
25 6:30p Administrative Council
26 27 7:30a Lent Breakfast at Greenvillage
6:30p Handbell Choir
28 5:30p Free Dinner
7:30p Maundy Thursday Service
29 12:15p Good Friday Service at Messiah UMC
30 9-11a Cloth-ing Bank with Breakfast
31 Easter Sunday 7a “Son Rise” Service 8a Breakfast 9:30a Easter Service
Happy Birthday!
March
1 - Pat MacDonald 21 - Georgia Connelly
9 – Nolan Harty 21 - Bruce Hockersmith
9 – Ken MacDonald 22 - Carol Tsambiras
10 – Carla Lynch 23 - Carrie Fennell
11 - Frances Cannon 24—Konnie Serr
11 - Sherman Mason 24– Megan Young
13 - Shae Lynch 25 - Stephanie Harty
13 - Mark Minnich
14 - Becky Gehres
19 - William Cressler, Jr.
20 - David Dolbin SEEKING! We continue to seek help with the Saturday
morning breakfasts and the Second Thurs-
day, and Fourth Thursday evening meals
served to all who come. If you are interested
in helping or providing supplies, please con-
tact Angelo Tsambiras by calling 530-8271.
Also, seeking volunteers to lead devotions during these meals. If you are called to share a brief devotional or an inspiring message of how Jesus Christ is working in your life please see Pastor An-drew or Steve VanDixon.
NEWSLETTER DEADLINE The deadline for the March 2013 “Good
News” newsletter is Sunday, March 17.
Please submit your articles to the office by
this date. The email address is
GREETERS For the 10:30 a.m. Worship
Service are as follows:
Mar 3 Becky Gehres & Mandy Gehres
and Carla Lynch
Mar 10 JoAnn VanDixon
and Georgia Connelly
Mar 17 Beth Minnich
and Barb Hershey
Mar 24 Marlene Hess
and Angie Kuhn
Mar 31 Vacancy
Anyone available March 31 please contact
Janice Hockersmith, 532-8539 or zin-
[email protected] Thank you!
TRANSPORTATION TROUBLES? If you know of anyone in need of transporta-
tion to or from Worship service please con-
tact Steve VanDixon – 830-9510 or Bill Mor-
gan – 532-7519. We will make every attempt
to see that this is not an obstacle for anyone
wishing to worship!
SUMMER CAMP The schedule for 2013 Summer Camps can now be
viewed on their website: www.susumcamps.org.
Click on Camps-at-a-Glance to view the full sched-
ule of events. Descriptions of each event can be
viewed by clicking on the site location and then
2013 camps. Register online early.
Jesus said … 'I am the resurrection
and the life. Whoever believes in me,
though he die, yet shall he live, and
everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die'"
(John 11:25–26, ESV)
CHURCH CRIER by Cathy Johnson
Isaiah 29:21, 21 says: For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall cease to be; all those alert to do evil shall be cut off—those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate, and without grounds deny jus-tice to the one in the right. Psalm 109:1-3 1 says:
Do not be silent, O God of my praise. For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. They be-set me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. We have all, at some time, hurt someone’s feel-
ings with our words. Unfortunately, our words are
often directed to loved ones. Sadly, the words
are then “out there” and once they have been spo-
ken there are no “do over's.” Just regret.
WORD are extremely POWERFUL! The right
words are encouraging, loving, respectful, and
helpful. The wrong words can be detrimental to
us.
James 4:11,12 says: 11 Do not speak evil against
one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever
speaks evil against another or judges another,
speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but
if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law
but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver and judge
who is able to save and to destroy. So who, then,
are you to judge your neighbor?
Families have been ruined, marriages destroyed,
and many relationships crumbled over words.
Psalm 135:14 says: 14 For the Lord will vindicate
his people, and have compassion on his servants.
Prayer: Lord, help me to choose my word care-
fully. Amen.
HERSHEY PARK FUND RAIS- ING A fun way to support Christ UMC is by volun-
teering at Hershey Park. Each worker makes
$5.85 per hour, receives a ticket to the park-
valid for one year, and eats a meal. All the
money made is sent to the church to be used by
the church as specified by the individual work-
ing. It is an easy and fun way to raise
money. Please for more specifics speak with
YARN SPINNERS
Will meet on the Wednesday , March,
20 at 10:00am in the
church library. Anyone
who knits or crochets
are welcome.
CONGRADULATIONS!! If you have or know of any students graduating
from high school or
college for the 2012-
13 year, please let
the church office
know. Information
needed: student
name, school/college,
degree/major, etc.
VOLUNTEER Volunteer needed: someone to coordinate fair
trash pick-up. Person will need to be able to
schedule workers and to supervise on site clean
-up. The fair is the last full week of July. It
requires an adult to be there Tuesday thru
Saturday at 7:00am. It also requires an adult
to supervise the Sunday pick-up. It will require
a total of about 8 hours at the fair. Please call
Angelo at 532-3297 if you would be able to do
this. We need someone by
3/15/2013. If no one steps
forward, the fair committee
will be notified that we longer
can do this.
Thank you. Angelo
EASTER FLOWERS “Remember that special someone, at Easter, by
purchasing an Easter flower. Prices are lily 4-6
blooms $10.00 each, tulip 6” pot $9.00 each,
hyacinth $10.00 each. Please
submit to the office or place in the
offering plate. Money is due with the order and orders are due
March 10. Please order today!
UPCOMING EVENTS, ACTIVITIES & MINISTRIES AVAILABLE AT CHRIST UMC
Do you enjoy reading? If so, you are invited to
join our book club that meets the first Monday of
each month. We meet at 1:00 p.m., and the place
we meet varies each month. The following list will
give you a head start on reading and getting ready
for some good discussions.
March- The Air Between Us by Debra Johnson
April- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth
Stein
May- Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
June - Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
UNITED METHODIST WOMEN The United Methodist Women will
be meeting on March 12 in Hollar
Hall at 2:00 p.m. Weather permit-
ting, All women are invited The
program will be announced in the
March 3th.bulletin Please come and
join us.
Wednesday morning
Lenten breakfasts will be
Wednesdays during Lent
at 7.30 a.m. in the
Greenvillage Restaurant.
Come and share breakfast
and a meditation time.
Invite friends; this is not limited to CUMC.
Our time together usually lasts until 8.15
a.m.
The annual Saturday Lenten breakfast se-
ries begins on February 16, at Christ United
Methodist Church beginning at 8.00 a.m.
The breakfasts then move to other Ship-
pensburg Area UM churches. All are welcome
to attend.
The complete schedule is as follows: Mar 2,
Cleversburg UMC; Mar 19, Trinity UMC; Mar
16, Newburg UMC; Mar 23, Messiah UMC.
LENTEN/EASTER SCHEDULE
Palm Sunday Service March 24, 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.
Maundy Thursday Service March 28, 7:30 p.m.
Communion Served
Good Friday Service March 29, 12:15 p.m. at
Messiah UMC, Theme: The Seven
Last Words of Christ
Easter Sunday March 31, 7:00 a.m.
“Son Rise” Service,
front of Edifice-King
Street entrance
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
served
9:30 a.m. Standard Easter Service
ONE GREAT HOUR OF SHARING Gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing lay the
foundation for all of UMCOR’s work by cov-
ering the cost of doing business. This means
that all gifts designated to specific pro-
grams can go 100% to those programs be-
cause UMCOR’s basic expenses are covered.
One Great Hour of Sharing offering will be
taken on Sunday, March 10.
“Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works of humankind.”
Psalm 107:8 Be there. Be hope.
For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the right-eousness from God based on faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Phil. 3:8b-11
DON’T GIVE UP
While in seminary, I along with other students was assigned the task of listing the
“losses” in our lives, whether through deaths, friendships, and personal treasures, those
parts of our live which left us with a sense of void or emptiness. The assignment was
beneficial to me in that I had, to date, never took the time to do that type of reflection,
moreover count the number of losses that occurred in my life. Eighty four times I had
experienced what could be considered “significant loss,” yet somehow I managed to per-
severe. To what then did I attributed to my ability to continue on without parents,
grandparents, very close friends, pets, siblings living in reasonable close proximity, and in
one case, a brand new house which God had blessed us to build at the very early age of
twenty?
There is a story of an elderly lady was once asked by a young man who had grown weary in
the fight, whether he ought to give up the struggle. “I am beaten every time,” he said
dolefully. “I feel I must give up.” “Did you ever notice,” she replied, smiling into the trou-
bled face before her, “that when the Lord told the discouraged fishermen to cast their
nets again, it was right in the same old spot where they had been fishing all night and had
caught nothing?”
This story reminds me that when the temptations of giving up occurred over the years, an
angel would often speak to my heart of my early burning desire to grow in grace, and in
the shadow of that God who had brought me thus far. So often have I heard the words
of the late, Rev. Henry Slade, my first mentor, who often shared, “when bad things hap-
pen, always remember, that the one that is in you, is greater than the one who is in the
world, just don’t give up.”
I am more determined than ever to walk with the Lord, Jesus, knowing that whatever be-
falls me will not be too heavy to bear, he promised never to leave me nor forsake me.
Pastor Andrew