Chippewa United Methodist Church

Saturday, May 29, 2010

SUMMEER WEEKEND WORSHIP...JUNE 12TH & 13TH

SUMMER WEEKEND WORSHIP....JUNE 12TH & 13TH



This weekend I will be at Annual Conference . Annual Conference is held at my old alma mater Grove City College. It is always a special time for me to go back to a place that was special and spiritual for me. Four years I attended Grove City 1972-1976. I began spritual ministry roots at that place. As I go for Annual Conference it will be a time of worship, fellowship and the business of ministry.Our Bishop has asked us to make the covenant to spend the weekend at Conference and be present during the Sunday morning Ordination Service. This is service of ordaination and commissionning. It is also a time of ready the appointments for the next year. So I will be away this weekend. I appreciate Dr. Dan Stinson and Troy Miller our Youth Ministry Assistant sharing in the leadership of worship and sharing the messages. You will be blessed!

So..I will see you the follwing weekend when we celebrate Father's Day.

Summer blessings

Stay Faithful & Finish Well,

Your Pastor & Friend



PR

Saturday, May 22, 2010

June 5th & 6ith Graduation Weekend Celebration & Holy Communion

June 5th & 6th....Celebrating Graduation Weekend & Holy Communion..





We will be celebrating Graduation this weekend with Holy Communion. During our 11am Sunday Morning Service the Graduates will be recognized and honored during the service. A special gift will be given to the graduates. They will be at the first table of commuion for a special time with their families...This is a very secial and emotional time for the familiies as they realize that their graduate is moving on.. Whether moving from high school into college or college into work force. Some graduates will be staying close to home and for other it will be a time of moving far away.

I will be serving the graduates first and then asking them to serve communion to their families. This is symbol of all that they have done for their graduate and now in a spi;rit of communion and thanks they get to serve their families.







I will be sharing the "Message To The Graduates" My message will be centering around the idea of "First" What does it mean to put God first in our lives, in our vocations, in our families?

Seek First The Kingdom of God will be my scriputrual basis.





We invite yo to come and be part of this special weekend at atll of our 5 weekend worship services. We will be offering communion at all of our 5 weekend worship services. Worship will be a time of joy and renewal.





Stay Faithful & Finish Well,


Your Pastor & Friend





PR

Thursday, May 13, 2010

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WORSHP...MAY 29TH & 30TH

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND.....MAY 29TH & 30TH...



Memorial Day weekend will be a special time of remembering those fallen heroes who have given their lives for us so that we can have the freedom to worship in this land. Sometimes we take the freedom of worship for granted. I can remember after 911 worship attendance in the churches across Americal was up 25%. Why? some realized that evil can be on our soil, evil can take away some things that we take for granted. Well, after a few months things went back to normal. We forgot and continued to live as though 911 did not happen.

We will be led this weekend in our Sunday Morning 8;30am and 11am services by the Military Support Team of our church. We will be sharing a time of remembrance during the Saturday 5:30pm SaturdayNite Lite and 6:14pm Crossroads 6:14 and Sunday morning 9;45am AM Joy.

I will be sharing the message during all weekend services...." A Time To Remember"



I hope that you will make an effort to be in worship this weekend to give thanks...ponder some remembrance and offer worship to God...



Stay Faithful & Finish Well,

Your Pastor & Friend..



PR..

Sunday, May 09, 2010

WEEKEND WORSHIP....MAY 22ND & 23RD...CELEBRATING PENTECOST AND CONFIRMATION

WEEKEND WORSHIP.....MAY 22ND &23RD...

CELEBRATING PENTECOST....AND CONFIRMATION...



CELEBRATING PENTECOST...
The great day in the life of the church when the birth of the church began. The Holy Spirit that Christ promised came and fell upon those disciples turning them into apostles and the church of Jesus Christ. We celebrate this weekend the Spirit that leads and guides us in the church. The color red symbolizes the fire of the spirit that is a blaze in our lives and at the center of the church.



CELEBRATING CONFIRMATION..

19 YOUNG CONFIRMATIONS STUDENTS... will be confirmed during the 11am service on Pentecost Sunday. Traditionally the confirmation class is confirmed on the day of Pentecost. Confirmation is the time in which the young students confirm their faith in Jesus Christ and join the membership of the church. What a great class this year has been. I pray that they feel the hand of God upon them in this special service.



We invite you to come and celebrate the Pentecost at one of our weekend services. May the spirit of God be alive and felt.



Stay Faithful & Finish Well,

Pentecost blessings

Your Pastor & Friend



PR

Monday, May 03, 2010

WEEKEND WORSHIP....MAY 15TH & 16TH...

WEEKEND WORSHIP....MAY 15TH & 16TH..



"11 Indispensable Relationships That You Cannot Be Without 7 Days A Week!



This weekend we will be sharing our next to last relationship....the relationship is not a person but a place.....We will be thinking: Withness.....Where Is Your Jerusalem? You Need A Place"



We will be looking at the place and spaces that God has given us to grow...get closer to him and to acknowledge his power in our lives.

We will be reflecting upon the past places...and celebrating those present places.....

We have become such a global people that we also need to reminded of the local..

Those places and spaces not so much always out there but in here....where God work..where God calls, where God empowers...

We will be holding up some of those place and challenging ourselves to find that place....that new Jerusalem in our lives..



We invite you to come and be part of one of our 5 weekend worship services as we worship our God and connect with the power of God in our lives.



Hope to see you this weekend..



Stay Faithful & Finish Well,

Your Pastor & Friend

PR