4102 Neal Road Durham NC 27705

919-383-1263

www.mcmannenumc.org

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The Messenger

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InfantsInfantsInfantsInfants————5th grade5th grade5th grade5th grade

This community wide event promises to send kids

on an over-the-top underground adventure!

All you have to do is join a Cave Crew to become

a part of this incredible Cave Quest VBS.

Just go to www.McMannenUMC.org www.McMannenUMC.org www.McMannenUMC.org www.McMannenUMC.org to register today!

Only

$25/child or $50/family for this five day

♥ CREW LEADERS! We are leading, teaching & loving 80+ 80+ 80+ 80+ of

God’s littlest people and we need CREW LEADERS!

♥ Toilet Paper / paper towel rolls are needed. Please leave in the office.

♥ Office coverage VBS week from 9 am to 1 pm. Answer the phone and greet

visitors.

♥ Volunteers are needed to assist our Craft Crew Leader in the Scout Hut.

♥ Are you willing to help with crafts from home? Some items need to be

traced, cut out and/or assembled prior to VBS.

♥ Donations of snack supplies for the Cavern Cafe. A list will be available soon!

♥ Do you have design skills? Help is needed on Sunday, July 10 to help

transform the church into a cave!

♥ Can you help prepare and serve the Community meal Friday night, July 15?

♥ Help is needed on the following VBS to disassemble the cave.

July Committee Meetings

Finance Tues, July 26 @ 6:30 pm (FH)

Ballroom Dancing Fellowship Hall Saturday, July 23

7:30-10:00 pm

No partner is necessary

No charge for church members

Refreshments requested

Contact Lori Phillips at (919) 383-9697

Sunday, July 10

8:00 am

All are welcome!

Our Church Family: James & Marti Bennett; Cordelia Blalock; Marian Clark; Dilys Hale; Jim Lore; Renee McMannen Beard; Emma Jean Phelps; Priestaf family; Betty Ray; Barbara Rovetto; Wendell Family; Summer Ministries; Upward Ministry

Friends and Family: Mack Albright; Lois Blanton; Howell Brown III, William Chil-dress; Mildred Church; Alfred Coats; Megan Condry; Baby Edwin; Paula Espinoza; Connie Eva; Sally Fischer; Melinda Franklin; Rich Goward; Ann Gunter; Gerry Hamm; Kerry Hayes; Dr. Fred Heinzel; Mrs. Jones; Family of Linda Kearns; Katie Kent; Mrs. King (Pam Blalock’s mom); Kyaw Family; Rose McKain; Molly Malone; L.C. Meacham; Cheryl Morgan-Maxey; Keaton Nichols; Greg & Tracy Nieto; Mary Ann Norris; George Pavlides & family; Katherine Rhodes; Family of Joe Rich; Joyce Rich; Muriel Rioux; Louis Rivers; David Rosin; Susie Salmon; Mae Edla Shaw; Nancy Havens Stagdale; Rachel Stowe; Jan Stutts; Taylor Wagner; Mary Jo Pope Watson; Doug Williams; Gerri Young; the unemployed and their families; the victims of violence; travel mercies; Residents and staff at C.A. Dillon; Christian Believer Bible study group; Chris-tians being persecuted; our armed forces and military; Victims of Orlando shooting

Care Facilities: Cordelia Blalock (Emerald

Pond); Marian Clark (Croasdaile); Cleo Fox

(Emerald Pond), Sadie Micol (Brookshire),

Mildred Neal (Croasdaile Village); Irene

Webb (Eno Pointe)

Kurisu Baby Girl

July 31

12:30pm McMannen Fellowship Hall

Come celebrate with Karin,

David and Kohen as they get

ready to meet their baby girl.

For more information on the Machine Gun Preacher, please visit his website, www.machinegunpreacher.org

or check out his Machine Gun Preacher Facebook page.

Sam ChildersSam ChildersSam ChildersSam Childers Africa's Machine Gun PreacherAfrica's Machine Gun PreacherAfrica's Machine Gun PreacherAfrica's Machine Gun Preacher

Sunday, July 3, 2016

7:00 pm McMannen United Methodist Church

4102 Neal Road

Durham NC 27705

We welcome ALL to come experience this powerful testimony and learn about how God has used Sam’s broken

past to fight for a better future for children in war-torn Africa as well as his astounding mission work:

"Angels of East Africa" "Angels of East Africa" "Angels of East Africa" "Angels of East Africa"

FREE admission, but a love offering will be collected for Sam’s ministry.

PrimeTimers will take a break for July and August. Our next scheduled meeting is September 9.

Primetimers Exercise at 10:30 am Monday & Wednesdays in Fellowship Hall

To receive more information about a Primetimers program or to sign up for the trip, please contact Anggie in the church office 383-1263.

Friends -

Our pantry at Meals on Wheels is almost empty. While we have a caterer for our daily hot meals, we make weekend meals ourselves. The 80 clients who receive 2 extra meals each Friday depend on that food to get them through the weekend. The Food Bank does not have a steady supply of items we can use for our weekend meals - and their efforts during the summer months are geared towards support-ing children who are not in school. Do you belong to a religious or civic organization that can do a food drive for us? Please let us know. The items we can use include:

Fruit cups (unsweetened - individual serving size) Applesauce (unsweetened - individual serving size) Soup (low sodium if possible - poptop lid) Tuna and crackers packages Canned meals such as spaghetti (poptop lid) Peanut Butter or Cheese Crackers – snack size Granola bars (chewy or soft) Breakfast bars Nutrition bars Juice boxes Ensure

We can also use sandwiches. If you group is a "hands on" group, you can make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or turkey sandwiches (with mustard - no mayo).

Gale Executive Director

Meals on Wheels

Please place items in the

marked boxes in the

Narthex and by the church

office.

We’ll see you on the field!

WHO: McMannen UMC and Upward Sports invite

boys and girls in kindergarten—sixth grade.

WHAT: Upward Flag Football is a non contact and

fun way to get physical exercise, build

relationships and grow spiritually.

WHERE: Morreene Road Park WHEN: Free clinics will be held Saturday, August

20th and 27th from 9 AM—noon. The clinics

will be followed by a league beginning in

September. HOW: We need your help through your prayers,

presence, gifts, talents and witness. Ask

Jackie or Calvin how you can help!!

Guess what is

coming next?!?!?

$150 each

Purchase bricks in honor or in memory of someone you love.

All bricks will be placed in the Prayer Garden.

Turn in forms to Tommy Pope or Anggie in the church office with your payment.

Fill a house with changeFill a house with changeFill a house with changeFill a house with change

Fill a house with loveFill a house with loveFill a house with loveFill a house with love

Fill a house with a familyFill a house with a familyFill a house with a familyFill a house with a family

We need around $1,600 $1,600 $1,600 $1,600 to reach our goal of $5,000. Keep bringing in your change

(the folding kind works too!). Take a few houses to share with friends and family so the

Kyaw family (from Burma) can be blessed with their own home.

Once you fill your house, empty it and bring your change to the church, Once you fill your house, empty it and bring your change to the church, Once you fill your house, empty it and bring your change to the church, Once you fill your house, empty it and bring your change to the church,

then fill up the house again!then fill up the house again!then fill up the house again!then fill up the house again!

Habitat for Humanity of Durham needs you! Volunteer opportunities for the McMannen church family exist:

July 9 - THREE individuals needed from 8:15 – 11:30 am Site – 2514 Ashe Street

July 16 - FIVE individuals needed from 8:15 – 11:30 am Site – 2514 Ashe Street

Lunch, snacks, drinks are provided each work day. Please contact Jim

Stockert at 336-909-3913 or jjstockert@gmail.com for information, registration and to schedule a work time.

Let the fireworks begin! As the month begins, we celebrate the 4th of July – 240 years of independence – with fireworks everywhere you look. As the month ends, we will be gazing at the consequen-tial spectacle which is American politics, as the two major parties hold their conventions. Those are three very noisy events. At all times, before, during, and after those occasions, if we turn on televisions, radios, or the internet, the noise of the chatter will be almost as loud. Pundits and politicians, even preachers and protesters, will be filling the airwaves with their pontificating (pardon the alliteration) about the dire consequences facing our world and our nation.

When we listen to the fireworks, we are in awe of the huge forces at work in the world. Forces like fireworks make us “OOOOH and AHHHHH” in delight, but they also remind us of the awesome destructive power of the “rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air.” Contentious politicking is difficult to watch, and the implications can be massive, and it makes lots of us gleeful, angry, or cynical (depending on who wins) but processes like the conventions also serve as reminders that our country is blessed with relatively peaceful transfers of power between administrations. Even so, such peace doesn’t sound so comforting when your 401k shrinks or your gas prices rise.

We sing a song most Sundays, it’s titled the “Gloria Patri” in our bulletin, which are the two Latin words at the beginning of the hymn. The full lyrics of this short hymn read, “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end! Amen. Amen.”

Jesus came into a world and a time that was dominated by the “Pax Romana” the Peace of Rome. Wikipedia (I know, it’s not the most reliable source, but it happens to be pretty good for info like this) says that it was an era from about 27BC to 180AD, meaning that it served as the global/cultural backdrop behind the entire writing of the New Testament: from the Nativity to the Resurrection to Paul’s letters to the churches. There were big Roman architectural achievements, Caesars and emperors, stealing and conniving tax collectors, armies of occupation; there were people that wanted to throw out Romans in Jerusalem, border skirmishes, rampant poverty and disease. There were smooth-talking, backstabbing politicians, self-serving religious leaders, and lots of hard working people trying to raise healthy children and feed their families.

In Mark 13, we overhear this scene: “As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, look at the magnificent stones and buildings!” “Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be toppled.”

Can you imagine one of our politicians saying that about the Capitol? It’s not going to happen. Jesus was not impressed with human might or political power, because Jesus’ love is greater. Jesus wasn’t worried about invading armies, not because he believed the nation would never be invaded, but because his sense of eternal security wasn’t dependent on human hands. Jesus is the embodi-ment of justice and mercy, of grace and forgiveness, of abundant life and eternal life. What mattered to Jesus was not what was happening on talk radio, but what happened to the hearts of his followers and all those who came to him. The disciples were learning not to be swayed by the big buildings and blustering babble of the world, but to follow the still small voice of their Creator, to be healed by the miraculous hands of the Great Physician, to be loved by the One who would humble himself on the cross.

In the midst of the bursting bombs and the anxious chatter of the world, may we find our quiet center

and stay close to the One who loves us since the beginning. He loves us: as it was in the beginning

(when he loved us), is now (he still loves us), and ever shall be (he will always love us). May we

respond to this world in the way that is good: to do justice, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our

God. Amen. Amen.

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Pastor Ed

Our next Paint and Praise event is

Saturday, July 9 from 6:30-8:00PM at McMannen UMC

in the Fellowship Hall. If you have a child ages 1—12 who

would like a spot, please let us know! Please RSVP to

Jackie by Wednesday, July 6 via email at

jackieb@mcmannenumc.org.

We will paint, create, sing and praise God!

There will also be special activities for adults!

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Psalm 150:6

Chris Alton has some red McMannen shirts left over. They are $20 $20 $20 $20 and he will donate $10 back to McMannen for each shirt.

1 small 1 large 2 small 3 medium 1 large

First come, first serve. See Anggie in the office if you would like one.

White lettering

Black lettering

Please always refer to the

calendar on the McMannen

website for the most up-to-

date informa<on.

Download our calendar information: A file can be downloaded and imported into any calendar program that will let you import a comma-delimited text file. Most calendaring software, like Outlook, Lotus, etc. has this feature built right in.

• Simply click the ICAL symbol on the calendar (bottom left corner) on our mcmannenumc.org website

to download it to your hard drive.

• Then open your calendar software and import it.

4102 Neal Road

Durham, NC 27705-2320

919-383-1263

Fax: 919-383-0546

www.mcmannenumc.org

Church Office Hours:

Monday-Friday: 9 am - 1 pm

D eadline for the

next newsletter,

“The Messenger”, is

Monday, July 25—

9 am for all events

through August.

Sunday Mornings 8:45 am - Worship

(in Neal Chapel)

10 am - Sunday School

11:00 am - Worship

(in the Sanctuary)

Come and Worship!

Mission: Mission: Mission: Mission: To proclaim the gospel of Jesus

Christ to the world and to live it out in loving witness to whomever we meet with the

purpose of changing hearts and

strengthening the community of believers.

StaffStaffStaffStaff

Ed Priestaf, PastorEd Priestaf, PastorEd Priestaf, PastorEd Priestaf, Pastor pastorEd@mcmannenumc.org

919-274-8061

Calvin DickensonCalvin DickensonCalvin DickensonCalvin Dickenson Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries & Outreach calvind@mcmannenumc.org

Jackie BolenJackie BolenJackie BolenJackie Bolen

Director of Children’s Outreach and Ministries

jackieb@mcmannenumc.org

Anggie Thompson Anggie Thompson Anggie Thompson Anggie Thompson Office Administrator

anggiet@mcmannenumc.org

John BentonJohn BentonJohn BentonJohn Benton Director of Music Ministries johnb@mcmannenumc.org

Floalice Reaves Floalice Reaves Floalice Reaves Floalice Reaves Organist