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Issue:
Birthdays, Anniver-
saries,
2
JOY Club
We Care
3
Kid’s Corner
4
Creative Corner
5
Missions 6,7
Fall Craft Show
9
Youth News 10
Preschool 11
July
2017
Also available online at www.ebumc.net
July 4th Celebration
In Touch
9:00 AM- 2:00 PM Missions Bake and BBQ Sale - EUMC Family Life Center
10:15 AM Parade Opening Ceremony - Soccer Field
Parade staging area on Soccer Field on Eclipse Drive—Follow
signs.
Helmets required by all cyclists
10:30 AM Parade - Soccer Field
10:30- 1:00 PM Youth Missions - Sno cones/Drink Sales - Next to EUMC
playground
12:00-3:00 PM Family Fun - Free Games & Bouncies for the family – EUMC
playground
3:00 PM Raft Race on the Chuckatuck Creek
6:00-9:00 PM Youth Mission Food Sales & Face Painting - Next to EUMC
playground
6:30:8:30 PM Music - featuring “Ebenezer Praise Band”
9:00 PM Fireworks - Bring lawn chair or blankets to sit on.
Raft Race T-Shirt Sales – Monday, July 3rd from 4-6pm and Tuesday, July 4th from 9
-12 am at the CEH Community Hall on Eclipse Drive
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3—Gary & Cathy Robertson 4—Al & Barbara Johnson 7—Robert & Berni Harris 10—John & Melanie Burnor Bill & CoCo Cary 14—Walt & Jamie Newman
16—Bryant Bowden Cheryl Carter Ed Moneypenny Stacy Sterner 17—Wesley Sorrentino Marilyn Wagner 18—Steve Woodyard 21—Connie Ketten 23—Art Latimer 24—Kevin Ange 25—Liam Millan 26—Daisy Dunning 27—Jason Bowles Debbie Woodyard 28—Andy Milton 29—Steve Letzinger 30—Kristen LePore Horst 31—Larry Stephenson John Yow
2—Christina Banks Megan Draughn Elizabeth Mahek 3—Meredith Ketten 4—Betty Murray Jayden Palmer 6—Wendi Sanzo 8—Allison Brock Melinda Shortridge 9—Lynne Hundley Ricky Morgan 11—Adam Ruehl 12—Jacob Chavis Kendall Draughn 13—Grace Letzinger 15—Bob Earl Larissa Knowles
You are invited to come and worship the Lord through
Prayer and Thanksgiving on:
Tuesdays Wednesdays
1:00-2:00 PM 6:00-6:30 AM
Chapel, Rm 5 Sanctuary
You are invited to join in one of the prayer groups above. You may pray silently or aloud. If you can’t make it to a prayer group, please be diligent in your private pray-ers for our country, for global peace, for a way to end the gun violence that has be-come an every day occurrence...pray for those who are so full of anger or are plagued by mental illness that they don’t have other ways to cope but to take it out on others. Pray that they may come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and be filled with LOVE instead of hatred in times of distress. Give them the HOPE that we know...because we have been promised eternal life with Him! Hallelujah!
16—Larry & Amye Stephenson 19—Mike Adams & Kate Bouvi-er 21—Rich & Susan Corey 23—Richard & Athena Rhodes 29—James & Melanie Cena
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I n T o u c h
(Just Older Youth 50+)
The JOY CLUB is a senior-age fellowship group that enjoys getting together to laugh, talk and eat in different types of venues; some at church and others out in the community.
Mark your calendar: 7/14/17—Fellowship/Game Night—6:00 p.m.—Family Life Center (bring a dish to share) If you have ideas for activities that you think the Joy Club would enjoy, come be a part of the planning group...contact Rich Corey ([email protected]) or myself, Janie Murrell ([email protected])
WE CARE
The weather kept a few friends away from the learn-to-knit workshop as part of our Creative Corner in June. However, don’t distress, individual lessons are available for the asking. Nancy Nowlan, Connie Yow, Sue Corey and Janie Murrell will be glad to teach you. Just reach out and call any one of us. We were honored to be a part of the Navy-Marine Corp Relief Society volunteer luncheon. More than 20 baby blankets were given to this group for their new parents program from WE CARE. We will resume our monthly meetings on September 12, 2017 at 10:00am in the FLC. Our hands serve Christ Janie Murrell
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June 11th
last day of Regular Sunday School (special
snack)
June 26-29 Vacation Bible School
June 29th
Picnic lunch after VBS
June 2nd
Kids VBS performance in service
July 4th
Kids games, Food, Fireworks
July 9th
Garden Day
August 7-11 Art Camp (registration required)
August 20th
Kids Movie Day (concessions)
The kids had fun planting in the Garden.
Keep an eye out for tomatoes, squash and cucumbers!
We also planted flowers that attract butter-flies and hung a bird house.
Feel free to drop by and check it out, pull a few weeds or water plants!
Peace,
Athena Rhodes Director of Children's Ministry
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I n T o u c h
C R E A T I V E
Be sure to mark our Fall Craft/Vendor Fair on Saturday, November 4th, on your
calendar, because we will have some of these crafts on sale for your personal
use or for Christmas gifts!
We still need an instructor for August. If you have a craft you would like to share,
please contact Athena Rhodes ([email protected] or Sheila Smith
([email protected]) for more information. THINK CHRISTMAS...we need
craft items that might sell well at our Craft booth in November! They could even
be something that would appeal to children.
JULY PAINT NIGHT
For July, by request, our own artist-in-residence, Athena Rhodes will offer another Paint
Nite on Tuesday, July 25th from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in Rm. 7 (main building). Class size is
limited, so sign up early if you want a spot. Cost: $12. Watch for registration forms in the
bulletins with a picture of the subject we will paint!
Sign up on the bulletin inserts or email [email protected] or
[email protected] to let us know you plan to attend.
Coming up in September:
Angel pins using beads
COME JOIN US!
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I n T o u c h
PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT
EBENEZER YOUTH MISSIONS &
LOCAL COMMUNITY
OUTREACH
WE WANT YOU…TO BAKE FOR MISSIONS!
Taking place with the 4th of July festivities, will be Ebenezer's tradi-tional bake sale from 10 AM – 2 PM.
Bake us your homemade cakes, your pies, your huddled cookies, brownies and other goodies we know are yearning to be sold to sup-port Youth Missions.
Please drop off large items and pre-bagged treats on:
Monday, July 3rd from 10:00 am - Noon on designated tables in the FLC
or beginning at 9 am on
Tuesday, the 4th of July in the FLC.
August 6th
– September 3rd
Oakland Elementary School Supply Drive Missions will be asking you to donate school supplies for Oakland Ele-mentary’s less fortunate students in August. Be on the lookout for Back-To-School sales and church bulletin flyers with needed supplies and deadline dates.
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THANK YOU for your donations in this year’s drive. Through your gifts of Time, Talents & Treasure, the following was realized:
15 volunteers packing 120 health kits assembled $674 in money donated
Thank you for Being There...Being Hope! Every dollar you give to UMCOR IS 100% efficient. For more information, visit: www.umcor.org
The Missions Corner
Next meeting: Wednesday, July 19th, 7:00 p.m.
Room 127, FLC
Mission Co-Chairs: Keith Compton (849-3907 or
[email protected]) and Chris Keltner (748-2949 or
OFFERING
Thank you to those who made donations to the Conference Offering. With your help, we were able
to send $422.00 to be used in various global ministries in the name of Jesus Christ and the United
Methodist Church to be distributed through the Conference World Wide Mission Fund
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve
others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
1 Peter 4:10
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WHAT ARE PASTOR DAVID AND BARBARA JIMENEZ UP TO?
For those who may have come to Ebenezer more recently, Pastor David was hired to reach out to the Latino/Hispanic community and establish a weekly worship service. Pastor David reached out to them in the workplace and in their homes and was able to establish a small congrega-tion, but sadly most worked long and erratic hours and were often transient, so we were unable to establish a permanent congregation. The following comes in part from Pastor (ret.) Carl LeMon’s correspondence with them:
As you may or may not know, Pastor David & Barbara Jimenez have been living in Germany for
about 2 years now.
Thankfully, we are still able to stay in touch through Facebook, by visiting (Cheryl & Vernon
Lee), and some actually write letters to them (Pastor Carl).
Carl asked me to share some tidbits of information that might be of interest to those of you
who remember David & Barbara.
Germany is a very difficult country to get adjusted to not only due to the language but also
the culture and people. Germans are exceedingly well prepared and their system of educa-
tion is different and the numbers of jobs are limited because of the training required. Even
a job in a bakery requires 3 years of training!
Thankfully God opened the doors for David to obtain a contract to translate a book by his
supervisor and consequently another to work at the University to establish an international
office for their theological department. “Although it is a part-time position, it is paid at a
standardized doctoral level, and hence provides enough”.
Barbara is currently learning advanced level German which is a requirement in order for her
to be able to get a job.
Together they are serving an Hispanic congregation…David preaching and Barbara singing!
David says his studies are going slow, since in Germany everything takes much time as does
his studies and meetings. Therefore, he doesn’t have formal classes, only research.
They are waiting for God to reveal his plans for them in the ministerial field and are putting
their trust in Him for his timing and assistance.
“Quite frequently we reminisce over our time in Virginia – it was the most wonderful time
in our married life. Thank you for making it possible for Barbara and me! We would like to
return there, yet we are waiting for God’s plans and directions in the meantime.”
If you would like to send them a letter, their address is: David & Barbara Jimenez AlbanusstraBe 44 Mainz-Bretzenheim 55128 Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland Germany
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I n T o u c h
Ebenezer United Methodist Church
1589 Steeple Dr. Suffolk, VA 23433
(757-238-2359)
$40.00 per space (approx. 6ft)
10:00-3:00 Vendor set-up 8:00AM
Event Coordinator: Athena Rhodes
Registration form available at: www.ebumc.net
or in the worship areas.
Share this with others who might be interested!
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21 Youth and 7 adults will be leaving on their Mission Trip to Cedar Grove, West Virginia.
On Sunday, July 9, Pastor Won will commission us to go in the name of Jesus and Ebenezer Church.
We will leave at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 16th from the church parking lot.
Anyone who would like to see us off is WELCOME to do so. Otherwise, we just ask for your continued prayers as we travel, work, and play all in the name of Jesus and as Ebenezer’s hands, feet, and voice to those we encounter along the way.
THANK YOU to those who have supported us with the funds needed to make this trip possible and lighten the financial burden on many families.
Once we return, we will make plans for our Celebration Dinner and plan to share some highlights from our trip.
This is our largest group ever and we are so blessed to have so many youth and adults who want to be a part of this adventure. Please pray that everyone will stay healthy and that special bonds will be made not only within our group, but with others in our work teams and with those we are helping.
This is your Youth Mission Team: Please pray for them daily
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OUR YOUTH ROCK! SuTaMay Jesus always set your Soul on Fire!!
Connie, Ray & Katt Schau
Paco Coyne
LeeAnn & Jackson Hawley
Lindsey & Presley Hobson
Josie & Meredith Ketten
Shellie & Parker Carlin
James & Jacob Sorrentino
Alaina Whitley
Rachel Betz
Michaela Banks
Austin Yodzis
Connor Thompson
Alex VanCampen
Jake Newman
Criofan Shaw
Ali Marshall
Abigail & Christopher Hickman
Delaney Peters
Jack VanStratten
Miranda Upton
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I n T o u c h
Preschool Registration for Summer
and/or Fall is open NOW!
We will offer a weekly summer program for children ages
3-3rd grade this summer. This camp is geared towards the
little ones. Inside activity, outdoor activity, water games,
art, music, reading...so much to do!
Registration forms are on the tables in both buildings or you may contact
Connie Schau ([email protected])
Fall registration is filling fast as well, If you are looking for
a place for your 2 1/2—5 year old, NOW is the time to register!
Again, information is on the tables in both buildings.
Full and part-time available.
We are
Growing
god’s
Children!
The deadline for newsletter submissions for the
A u g u s t 2 0 1 7 issue is
Friday, July 14, 2017.
Send newsletter submissions to:
Reminder: All activities requiring the use of church
facilities must be cleared through the church office.
1589 Steeple Drive
Suffolk, Virginia 23433
Phone: (757) 238-2359
Fax: (757) 238-7765
E-mail: [email protected]
Join us in Worship!
Sunday Worship
8:00 AM Traditional Worship
9:15 AM Coffee Fellowship (FLC)
9:30 AM Christian Education (all ages)
9:30 AM Contemporary Worship
10:45 AM Adult Christian Education
11:00 AM Traditional Worship
Ebenezer United Methodist Church The Church that L O V E is building...one life at a time.
OPEN MINDS, OPEN HEARTS, OPEN DOORS”
Please see your church directory for contact information for
the following church staff or call the church office. Won Lee, Pastor [email protected] Cell: 540-395-4331 Connie Schau, Director of Youth & Preschool [email protected] Cell: 617-9889
Athena Rhodes, Director of Primary Christian Ed. [email protected] Cell: 748-4811
Doug Shomaker, Director of Music
Connie Palmer, Pianist
Pam Saks, Nursery Coordinator
Jeni Millikin, Director of Contemporary Worship
Brett Stoddard, Dir. Sound/Media, Contemporary Worship
Contact the church office to reach these staff members.
Sheila Smith, Administrative Assistant
[email protected] Office: 238-2359
Office Hours || 9- 5 Monday thru Friday
Our Staff
