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Arch Street United Methodist Church
A Reconci l ing Congregat ion 55 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 (S.E. corner of Broad & Arch Streets)
Telephone: 215.568.6250 | Fax: 215.568-2256 www.archstreetumc.org
M a y 13 t h, 2 01 8
8 :3 0 A M Ser v i c e
Senior Pastor, Reverend Robin Hynicka Deacons, Reverend Nikki Kelley Kleinberg,
Reverend David Krueger, Deaconess, Darlene DiDomineck
US2, Carmen Francesco Music Director, Adam Haines
Administrative Assistants, Charlie J. Meyers & Olivia Bauer Building Supervisor, Frank Jones
Sextons, Devon Goodwin, Russell Whaley, John Buzby, Toni McIlwaine, Joe Kalil
Musician: James Dell’Orefice
Worship Leader:
Nursery Attendant: Guy McNeill
SUNDAY WORSHIP 8:30 AM
May 13, 2018 7th Sunday of Easter
PRELUDE Instrumental
PRAISE SINGING #157 “Jesus Shall Reign”
#2147 “There Are Some Things I May Not Know”
#2074 “Shout to the Lord”
OPENING PRAYER
WELCOME TO ARCH STREET & PASSING OF THE PEACE
JOYS & CONCERNS
SILENT PRAYER
REGISTRATION & ANNOUNCEMENTS
OFFERING OF TITHES & OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY
SCRIPTURE READING Russ Alexander Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 1 John 5:9-13
SPECIAL SONG #2148 “Over My Head”
*GOSPEL LESSON John 17:6-19
SERMON “A Tale of 2 Mothers” Rev. Robin Hynicka
CLOSING SONG #2279 “The Trees of the Field”
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE #2280 “The Lord Bless and Keep You”
Calendar of Events May 13th to May 20th
SUN 5/13 8:30 Worship, Chapel 9:45 Adult Sunday school, Chapel 9:45 Choir Rehearsal, Choir Loft 11:00 Worship, Sanctuary 12:20-3 Deaconess Darlene 12:30 Get Acquainted Time 5:30 Grace Café Devotions 6:00 Grace Café
MON 5/14 1:00 Tea & Talk, Chapel 5:30 AA Nichols Hall 7:00 Band Rehearsal, Chapel
TUES 5/15 12:00 Hour of Power 6:30 Unity Bible Study, Chapel
WED 5/16 6:00 AA, Nichols Hall
THUR 5/17 5:00 Diversity, Chapel 5:30 AA, Nichols Hall
SUN 5/20 8:30 Worship, Chapel 9:45 Adult Sunday school, Chapel 9:45 Choir Rehearsal, Choir Loft 11:00 Worship, Sanctuary 12:20-3 Deaconess Darlene 12:30 Get Acquainted Time 5:30 Grace Café Devotions 6:00 Grace Café
Please see the events page on our web site: www.archstreetumc.org for the full
calendar of happenings.
WHAT’S HAPPENING
Welcome to Grace Café
Grace Café (ASUMC’s outreach to folks experiencing
food insecurity) is open every Sunday through the end
of June. After a brief period of faith sharing, those
gathered will enjoy a home-cooked meal hosted by
volunteer groups. 180 people attended last week’s Grace Café. Grace Café
staff and volunteers provide today’s dinner. There are still openings for
hosts to bring food and prepare a meal for about 200 people. If you
know of a group that would like to assist in this important mission, please
have them contact the church office at 215-568-6250 or Darlene
DiDomineck and Carmen Francesco at [email protected]
Greeters, servers and clean-up crew are needed and always welcome.
Unity in Diversity- Interfaith Iftar Dinner
CAIR-Philadelphia, Masjidullah, and Philadelphia Masjid invite you and a
guest to our second annual Interfaith Iftar Dinner: "Unity in Diversity -
Breaking Bread Together" It will be an evening of food, festivity, and
faith, celebrating the breaking of the daily fast during the
Sacred Month of Ramadan, and its fortuitous coinciding on
May 20th of this year with the Jewish festival of Shavu'ot and
the Christian festival of Pentecost.
Date: Sunday, May 20, 2018
Location: Masjidullah (7401 Limekiln Pike, Philadelphia)
Time: Doors open at 6 PM, program at 7:30 PM, dinner begins at 8:30 PM
RSVP: Event is free and by invitation only. Please RSVP by May 10th at:
https://pa.cair.com/iftar/ We request that you bring 3 cans of food with you to help feed
our brothers and sisters in Philadelphia.
Another Global Mission Fellow US2
Preparations are underway to
welcome a second Global
Mission Fellow, US-2. Kristi
Painter will join Carmen
Francesco in service to the
Arch Street UMC through this General Board of Global Ministries program
for young adults committed to justice and community ministry. As Carmen
completes her first year of a two-year commitment, Kristi will begin hers.
Both Carmen and Kristi will live at Serenity House and offer their skills and
abilities to enhance the community and justice-seeking ministry of the
church. Kristi is completing her course of study in the Master of Divinity
degree program at Chandler School of Theology and is in the process of
pursuing ordination in the North Georgia Annual Conference as a Deacon.
Having Carmen and Kristi serve together for a year provides the opportunity
for peer support and learning. Thanks to Deaconess Darlene DiDomineck
who serves as the Regional Affiliate representative for her great work in
making this happen.
The Center – Philadelphia
The Board of Directors of The Center Philadelphia is pleased to announce
that Deaconess Darlene DiDomineck has been hired to serve as the
organization’s foundational Executive Director. The Center is designed to
carry on and enhance three critical areas of work related to the Arch Street
United Methodist Church: Grace Café, Serenity House and the Community
Center and Civic Engagement activity currently operating in the church
building. Beginning, August 1, 2018, Darlene will work closely with both
the leadership of ASUMC and The Center to establish a collaborative model
of shared space and operation. Darlene’s call to ministry as a Deaconess in
the United Methodist Church, her experience working at all levels of the
church and her most recent work as the intentional, interim Executive
Director of the National Office of the Methodist Federation for Social
Action have prepared her well for this new challenge. We are so fortunate
to have Darlene as a partner in leading this initiative.
Congratulations to Usher: Raymond Wilson Arch Street’s longtime usher and church office assistant
Raymond Wilson, was awarded by Spin Employment for 7
years of dedicated service to the Olive Garden on May 3rd.
Good job Raymond! We are proud of you!
Arch St. reads The Indigenous History of the United
States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz!
On Sunday June 3rd, the United Methodist Women will
host a book discussion of The Indigenous History of the
United States and we hope you will join us. Get your
copy from Margaret Harris today or next Sunday!
Why should you read this book? Well, it was the 2015 Recipient of the
American Book Award! What is it? The following is from Amazon’s
review: The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous
peoples-
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally
recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people,
descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The
centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely
been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the
perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for
centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly
challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against
the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the
original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals,
this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore
Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the
military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President
Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general
Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid
of them only by exterminating them.”
Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history
radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our
national narrative.
United Methodist Women Upcoming Schedule
UMW Assembly May 17-20, Greater Columbus Convention
Center
Columbus, OH: Focus on Maternal and child health, Climate
justice, Mass incarceration, Economic Inequality.
Sunday, June 3: "Book discussion of The Indigenous People's History of the
United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz”
Sunday July 8: Discuss the book When Breath Becomes Air.
Friday, July 20-21 (Friday-Saturday): Mission U at Reading I have fliers and
scholarship
All four of our Camp & Retreat Centers are hosting open houses this
month, three of them on Saturday, May 19, among other special
events. It’s a great opportunity to get an advance look and feel for new
site additions and the new summer camp season.
*Innabah Camp & Retreat Center holds its annual Open House on
Saturday, May 19, from 10 AM to 3 PM. Come with your family to enjoy
live music, a moon bounce, hayrides, a silent auction, s’mores, canoeing and
much more.
*Pocono Plateau Camp & Retreat Center will host its annual Open
House and Spring Fest May 19, from 10 Am to 3 PM, with tours, hiking,
games, hayrides, boating and canoeing, fishing, tower climbing and a savory
hot dog roast.
*Finally, Gretna Glen will host its Open House on Saturday, May 19, from
10 AM to 4 PM.
-Carson Simpson Farm Christian Camp held its annual Open House and
Plant Sale May 5
For more information please visit the following links:
*EPAUMC: https://www.epaumc.org/conference-calendar/camp-retreat-
centers-open-houses/
*Innabah Camp & Retreat: https://www.innabah.org/
*Pocono Plateau Camp and Retreat Center:
http://www.poconoplateau.org/sites/default/files/2018-SpringFest.jpg,
*Gretna Glenn: http://www.gretnaglen.org/
*Carson Simpson Farms Christian Camp: http://www.csfarm.org/.
“I Want to be Part of History”
That was a POWER member's response to the question “What is motivating
you to attend the June 20 rally for fair funding for public education in
Harrisburg?” at a recent POWER meeting.
If that sounds unrealistic you should know that a lot is happening in the PA
state legislature that could mean an end to education apartheid, where skin
color affects the funding that a school receives.
Several legislators who had not been sympathetic to correcting a racist
funding method are now actually proposing legislation do just that. We
need to support them in actually going through with it and showing their
colleagues that NOW IS THE TIME for fair and adequate funding for ALL
of Pennsylvania’s children.
POWER will build on a solid history of achievement for children. You
should be part of it!
Please mark your calendar for June 20 and join us on a luxury bus to
Harrisburg. Contact Wilhelmina Young or Betsy Connor for details or sign
up on the POWER website: power interfaith.org.
Betsy Connor 215-232-7186, [email protected]
Nancy Megley 215-574-8320, [email protected]
Wilhelmina Young 215-227-4043, [email protected]
Sunday school
All those interested in reading, reflecting on and
discussing the Bible passages used in each week’s
sermon are invited to meet in the Chapel every Sunday
at 9:45am. The scripture readings for today’s class are
Acts 2:1-21, Romans 8:22-27, and John 15:26-27,
16:4b-15. Readings for NEXT week are Isaiah 6:1-8,
Romans 8:12-17, and John 3:1-17.
A Look at Our Faithfulness
Combined attendance for last Sunday May 6th was 115. Your
tithes, gifts, and offerings help ASUMC make a difference in our
community.
PRAYER CONCERNS
Prayers of Healing for: Michael Adams, Owen
Brazelton, Rick Taylor, Holly McVaughn, Laura
Dragon, Anna Burton, Jonathan Legg, Lisa
Silvestri Max Northouse, Pat Taylor, Chris
Whaley, Matthew Hearn, Michael Bowman,
Jazzy, Helena & Jackie Yorker, Mrs. Bowman,
Ann Bishton, Evelyn Tinsley, Constance James,
Tyrone Christy, Virgil Watson, Jim Griscol, Gloria Young, Russell
Whaley, Tanya Graves, Dorothy Hurley, Dolores Farinre-Carey, J. J.,
Mr. Franco, Skylar, John Johnson, Len Metzler, Loretta Wootten, Jenny
Jakacki, Laura Massey, Tim Brazelton, Diann Rollins, Joan Wood,
James Williams, Anthony Mastrando, Inez Barrett-Otey, Diana Amey,
Casey Edwards, Ann Gennaro, Mark Fischer, Ida Bristoe, Maureen
Norman, Jeanne Kostenbader, Donald Lathrop, Pamela Thomas,
Sandra Parker, Marion Dabney, Patricia Pape, Yazid Jones, Ernie,
John Tucker, Lou Brooks, Jada Bascom, Minerva Clark, Vanessa &
Yaddy Sellers, Nakia Rimmer, Don Allen, Anna Cole, Christopher
Browne, Betty Flowerree, Troy McColley, Barton Burke, Thomas
Onorato, Roy Samuel Layden, Dorothy Eady, Molly Villafane, Pamela
Maupin, Mary Reece, Celestine Justin, Louis Harrigan, Mayra
Malonada, Sheldon Nixon, Althea Sea, Dumis Randolph, Rosemary
Schier, Carla Kelley, Lawrence Madison Jr (Ozella’s Cousin), Jarrod
Bolden
Prayers of Encouragement: Anna Burton, Marge Donnelly and family,
Rick Taylor, Mat Hearn, Steven Whaley, Qing-Song Chen, and David,
Rev. Brett Charsky, Anthony Eugene Smith and his mother, Christina,
Rashida Bryant, the Thompson/Norman family, Calvin Smith, Jr.,
Deborah Seely, Caroline Lopopolo, Alexander Grant, Laura Harrigan,
the Robertson family, D, Jenson family, Sympathy for the family and
friends of Rev. James Pittman
Prayers of Protection for our service people and those living in parts of
the world under conflict. Please pray for those who are hungry, ill,
displaced, or living in poverty because of natural and human-made
disasters, and for the workers who minister to them.
ARCH STREET UMC VISION
Arch Street United Methodist Church will be a welcoming Christian
community that inspires openness, understanding, healing and
reconciliation both within the congregation and in the community-
at-large.
ARCH STREET MISSION STATEMENT Arch Street United Methodist Church’s mission is to love God and
neighbor by nurturing individuals on their spiritual journeys,
encouraging creativity in faithful service, strengthening relationships
and promoting justice.
GOD’S TABLE IS OPEN TO ALL.
THERE’S ROOM AT THE TABLE FOR YOU.
Arch Street United Methodist Church is a community of faith-
keeping and faith-seeking people who embrace diversity in our
congregation and community and affirm the dignity and worth of
every person as created in the image of God. We celebrate and give
thanks for all of the gifts of God among us. Our welcome knows no
boundaries, whether of age, racial or ethnic background, gender,
sexual orientation or gender identity, economic or marital status,
physical or mental ability. We welcome all to share in the ministry,
fellowship, and blessings of full participation as members of
Christ’s body.
Please scan this QR code
to make a secure donation to Arch Street UMC
on your smart phone.
Parking
Garage parking coupons are available from the Chapel office only
for the Convention Center self-park next door. You must show the number
on your ticket and give your name at our office to receive your coupon.
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