Loving and Learning in Lodi July 28

          

           As I’ve said before, I love movies! Sometimes they take me to new places. Sometimes they teach me about historical events and people. Sometimes they make me laugh. Sometimes they make me cry. They stir my imagination and inspire me. As I enter the world of a movie, I leave my daily world and join them in an adventure. I can pretend I am as brave and courageous as the people on the screen.

            In childhood, after watching a movie, I’d pretend to be some of the characters I had seen…taking on their best qualities. This week, we’ll look at the lessons we learned in childhood as we played “Let’s Pretend.”

                                                                         
                                                                          See you Sunday!
                                                                                     Pastor Diane

From our prayer time on Sunday, July 21^st:

Thank you from Boyd & Donna Lance: Thank you church family for all your Get-Well cards and Birthday wishes. You don’t realize how much these cards mean to us.”

Yeah!!:

~Official ‘Welcome’ to our new members Neal & Pat McLoda who transferred their membership to Lodi UMC.

Birthdays:

~Bonnie Querin celebrated her 71st birthday on July 18th and looks forward to a year without back pain.

Anniversaries:

~Connie & Larry Cray celebrated their 57th anniversary yesterday (07/20).  Connie says the secret is putting up with each other.

~Leo & Chris Sparr will celebrate their 37th anniversary on Wednesday (07/24).  Their secrets are love, respect and tolerance.

Joys:

~Janet & Harry Baker have a new great-grandchild and their grandson got married.

~Larry Scott is joyful that his parents started the bowling league in Lodi and they are having a Scott reunion this coming weekend and the public is invited to join them on Saturday at the bowling lanes.

~Ruth Anderson is joyful that Colin is doing such a good job with his part of the morning worship service.

~Brianna is happy that she may be moving here to Lodi from North Carolina.

~Peggy Brown is joyful and grateful for people being kind and generous to others.

~Grace Harvey's son has remarried and she wishes them much happiness.

~Clay Vaughan had a good time at the Sweet Corn Festival and his brother Tristin won a trophy in the 5K race.

~Charlie Brown is thankful to the Lord for the heat after all the rain but wishes he would turn it back just a little.

Concerns:

~Dave Oberholtzer passed away and the youth dedicated today's service in his memory.  Dave and his wife Pam are members of the Lafayette UMC and Pam has always been in charge of the kitchen and feeding everyone on the youth work missions.

~Anne Serafin asks for continued prayers for Mark and Jess.

~Remember all of our unspoken joys and concerns

~Remember our military personnel and their families, near and far, as many are deployed, while others wait for their deployment assignments.

Recovering: Garry Moore, Tom Repp, Lee Geissman, Patty Ramey

Cancer: Terry Gayner, Zachary, Delbert Miller, Sherry Walker

Families Grieving:  Susie Hall family, Judy Yoder family, Joni Barnes family, Doris Formanek family, Ken Wiley family, Frankie Dudas family, Leonard Barnhart family, Diana McMahon family, Mary Ann Crawford family, Bill Dunham family, Hattie Ziegler family, Mac McCrary family, Betty Baughman family

Sunday, July 28, 2019

Liturgist:      Jeff Van Loon                                             Greeters: Al & Martha Zona

Hymns:         Come! Come! Everybody Worship                Verses 1 - 3                         TFWS#2271

                     Surely the Presence of the Lord                                                             #328

                     Be Thou My Vision                                     Verses 1 - 3                         #451

                     Open My Eyes, That I May See                    Verses 1 - 3                         #454

Scripture                                      Philippians 4:8 & 9                                Common English Bible

          

           From now on, brothers and sisters, if anything is excellent and if anything is admirable, focus your thoughts on these things: all that is true, all that is holy, all that is just, all that is pure, all that is lovely, and all that is worthy of praise. Practice these things: whatever you learned, received, heard, or saw in us. The God of peace will be with you.

Leader:    The word of God for the people of God.                        People:    Thanks be to God.

THE CHURCH IN ACTION

Feed My Sheep is this Thursday from 5-6:30 p.m.  Please continue to pray for this mission outreach, bake a sweet treat or come and lend a helping hand. 

Men’s Group will have their first meeting on Saturday, July 27^th at 9:00 a.m. in Fellowship Hall. We’ll have a devotion and fellowship together over coffee and donuts. All men of the church are welcome to attend.

Missionary, Rev. Paul Webster, at LeRoy UMC, 7 Park Circle, in Westfield Center on Wednesday, July 31st at 6:30 p.m. Rev. Webster will share his experiences working in Mujilla Falls, Zambia, Africa as well as information about other Global Ministries agricultural projects. Refreshments after.

School My Sheep ~ Saturday, August 3^rd, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

With more than a week to go, we are pleased to inform everyone that we have all of the school  supplies! The only thing we need is children's clothing, and we hope to pick quite a bit of that up from Lodi hospital on Monday. Thank you for all of your support and continued prayers as we move toward the distribution of all of these wonderful donations.

We will move chairs out of fellowship hall this Sunday (following church and fellowship time, of course!)

Looking forward to seeing you the week of July 27th as we put our school “store” into action. The sign-ups are on the bulletin board at the back of the sanctuary. Now we rest, collect children’s clothes and offer thanks.

Loving and Learning in Lodi July 14 2019

          

            Sounds of laughter and high-pitched screams of glee filled the evening hours in my neighborhood as I grew up. The games we played and their rules were familiar to all of us. We often played “Tag!” See you this Sunday as we look at the spiritual lessons to be learned from this game from childhood!

                                                                   Pastor Diane

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Liturgist:      Cindy Namerow                                         Greeters: Cindy Namerow

Hymns:         Christ for the World We Sing                       verses 1 – 4                         #568

                     Surely the Presence of the Lord                                                             #328

                     Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore           verses           1 – 3                        #344

                     Pass It On                                                 verses 1 - 3                         #572

Scripture                                      Jonah 1:1 - 16                                Common English Bible

          

           The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

           But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.

           Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.

           But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”

           Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”

           He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

           This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the Lord, because he had already told them so.)

           The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”

           “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”

           Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.” Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him.

Leader:    The word of God for the people of God.                        People:    Thanks be to God.

THE CHURCH IN ACTION

Trustees meet after worship this Sunday

United Methodist Women meet this Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in Fellowship Hall. All women of the church are welcome to attend.

School My Sheep ~ Saturday, August 3^rd, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Wow!  With three weeks to go, we’re in great shape! We had a goal of 100 of each of the items. And right now, we have almost 50 of everything! Unbelievable. So blessed.

We could use more boy book-bags, boy jeans, spiral notebooks and 2-pocket folders with prongs.

Regardless, we’ve already made a tremendous impact! Sign up on those volunteer sheets at the back of the sanctuary and let’s see where we can take this community event.