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SUMMER 2016

Messenger

NORTH DISTRICT CONFERENCE hosted by

Westlake Village United Methodist Church

1049 S. Westlake Blvd, Westlake Village, CA 91361

Saturday, April 30,2016; 9:30 am –noon

9:30am– Refreshments & Registration 10:00 am– Worship & District Conference

Join your North District partners in ministry as we wor-ship together, celebrate our ministries and district leaders, affirm ongoing/new leadership, and catch the spirit of God’s plan for ministry in the North District!

Members of the District Conference Include:

From each local church - Administrative Board/Council Chairperson, UMM President,

UMW President, Lay Members of Annual Confer-ence, Lay Leader(s), and one youth.

From the District - District Lay Leaders; District Lay Members to Annual Conference;

Presidents of District UMW; District UMM; District Leadership & Committee members;

Liaisons to Conference Boards & Agencies and District Union members

All Clergy and Diaconal Ministers serving in the North District

The briefing is for all clergy and lay members of the California-Pacific Annual Conference

General Conference May 10-20, 2016

Praying for God’s Will, to be done God’s Way, and in God’s Time.

Join the Prayer Community for the United Methodist

Church and 2016 General Conference.

This movement serves as a response to the most im-portant request recorded in scripture,

“Lord, teach us to pray.” We invite you – delegates, bishops, clergy, laity, con-gregations, and small groups across the denomination – into spiritual preparation for General Conference.

Taize Meditation Prayer Service

Tuesday, June 7th, 7:00 pm, The Taize Service is

the service of prayer. Meditation and music weave together in the service to create a sacred space for you to center yourself with God and within yourself. Candlelight provides a quiet and reverent set-ting. You do not need to stay throughout the service. You can stop by for a

moment at any time to give yourself a little break from your busy life.

CALIFORNIA-PACIFIC ANNUAL CONFERENCE

June 16th to 18th, 2016 University of Redlands 1200 W. Colton Ave.

*District Pre-conference Briefing Wed., June 15, 1:00pm

*North District Gathering Breakfast Friday, June 17 at 7 am.

NO TAIZE on

JULY & AU-GUST

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Peace with Justice Sunday Offering

Sunday, May 22nd, 2016 Wherever we hide, God calls us from our own little cor-ners to be peacemakers and justice shakers. Susan Alan’s corner of the world has justice fever. With the help of a 2015 Peace with Justice grant, youth and young adults in Raleigh, North Carolina, are knee-deep in growing community gardens. In addition, they plow beside poor– and sometimes mistreated– farmworkers. “Maybe the most important thing we can do is empower young people to get active in social justice,” said Alan of the National Farm Worker Ministry. In other corners of the world such as Florida, a Peace with Justice grant enables young adult missionaries to prepare immigration paperwork. Fossil Free United Methodist Church, Seattle, received a Peace with Justice grant to continue work in divesting humanity of the use of fossil fuels. Because of a Peace with Justice grant, women in Cotabato, Philippines, are staring businesses. On Peace with Justice Sunday, United Methodist travel in conscience and compassion to all corners of the world, sharing the love of Jesus Christ. Special offering envelopes will be available in the bulletin and in the narthex.

Prayer Requests

Ministry Prayer Needs: The Church and its Mission. The health and growth of LCUMC, our families, community, and our nation. Prayers for General Conference in May and Cali-fornia-Pacific Annual Conference in June. Prayer Concerns for Health Issues: Pastor Ed Burn, David Dawson, Geoffrey Kemmerer, Ginn Carah, Larry Rich, Tom Kelly, Irene Rice, Carolyn Berry, Buddy Black, Janet Fredrick, Helder Pereira, Keith Tonkel, Amber Norris, Shirell Hixon, Ilona Mozgovaya, Sherril Car-bonetti, Ricardo Remero, Joann Yeager . Shut Ins: Marilyn Lott, Ginny Nichols, Jeanette Berwin, Charles and Earline Gulick.

Finance Committee Update March March Year-to-Date Receipts $ 14,581.59 $ 54,694.89 Expenses $ 18,376.21 $ 51,447.45 Net/(Deficit) $ (3,794.62) $ 3,247.44

Highlights of Missions in 2016 as of 5/03/2016:

where some of your gifts went to…

Apportionment $2,000.00

Native American Ministry $216.00

No More Malaria $ 49.00

30 Hour Famine $740.00

Human Relations Day $133.00

One Great Hour of Sharing $153.00

Andrew Jackson Elementary $1,281.94

MORE MISSIONS COMING UP IN YEAR

2016….

We served the community through our Easter Party [over 100 people]. We are also serving community by offering ESL Conversation Class collaborating with SGVLC.

Highlights of Missions in 2015: where some of your gifts went to…

Apportionment $18,205.65

World Communion Sunday $165.00

No More Malaria $403.00

30 Hour Famine $308.00

Human Relations Day $80.00

One Great Hour of Sharing $234.00

Peace with Justice Sunday $172.00

World Justice Fund $500.00

Andrew Jackson Elementary $357.00

And we gave gifts to MEND [over 300 egg cartons], to Baldwin Park UMC [Christmas gifts to over 80 children], and served the community through our Easter Party [over 150 people].

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Andrew Jackson Elementary School Principal Rita is holding the check from Foothills Mission Area churches and The Church. Rev. Steve Marshall (left), Rev. Elaine Cho (middle) and Rev. Hyun Lee (right) and Mrs. Rita (sitting down)

The Jackson’s Community Garden that La Canada UMC helped putting it together.

MISSIONS & MINISTRIES OF LA CANADA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Children’s Center Ministry The Children’s Center is an important min-istry of this church and an important link to those families who have not identified a church home. In an effort to invite parents to come to the church their children are fa-miliar with and love, I will be attending ac-tivities in which the parents have been invit-ed such as Mother’s Day Tea, Father’s Day Tea, Graduation, etc. My outreach to these parents will also include an article in their monthly newsletter, conversation with par-ents at special events, and above all else continual prayer for these children and their families. The chapel program instituted by Pastor Elaine has been very successful. We have seen spiritual growth in the Center’s chil-dren. I am continuing the chapel program 4 times a month, twice for the older children and twice for the younger ones. During Chapel, we pray, sing, learn a Bible story and sometimes act out the roles of the Bi-ble story. The children leave with a coloring page that contains a Bible verse and a pic-ture of the Bible story we have covered in Chapel. The children love their Chapel time.

Denise Lenore, Minister of Children and Family Ministries

Children’s Ministries Thanks to Chad Loucks acting as the inter-im Children’s Minister this year, our chil-dren have been learning from Konnect Vid-eo Series Curriculum. Each week the chil-dren watch a short video, in which teens and elementary kids have situations in their life that poses a question for them and us. The video presents the story of one of the characters in the Bible followed by a dis-cussion. The children are given a challenge card to take home to do an activity with parents and memorize the Bible verse they learned on Sunday. Each Sunday the chil-dren are asked to recite what they have learned from the weekly activity. They earn points toward prizes from which can select the first Sunday of each month. Conti...

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As the new Minister of Children and Family ministries, I am currently continuing this cur-riculum series. This year, the children have learned about peer relationships, emotions, Grace and are now studying Faith. In the future, we hope to enrich our video learnings with supplemental activities, singing, skit acting, special events and participating in the Sunday worship ser-vice.

I am looking for those interested in helping on a given Sunday to be the nursery at-tendant when visitors bring an infant with them to church.

Though a person is assigned a particular Sunday, if no infant shows up, that per-son can remain in worship. I am asking each of you to prayerfully consider com-mitting to serving as one of the people on rotation to watch over the infants or step in and help with the Sunday school lesson as needed. For those of you una-ble to help in Sunday School, please pray for our children and youth minis-tries, children, youth and ministers.

- Denise Lenore

YOUTH CONFIRMATION CLASS WRAPPING UP….

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30 HOUR FAMINE

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May Birthday

05/02 Arsenio Nunez 05/03 Charles Gulick 05/04 Pam Green 05/07 Joel Green 05/09 John Hammons 05/11 Linda Baragona 05/12 Pam Nunez 05/16 Kirk Moreno 05/28 Bill Peer 05/31 Rachel Loucks

June Birthday

06/06 Martin Cho 06/14 Katharine Henry 06/15 Sheila Callison 06/17 Katie Gulick 06/20 Doug Gulick 06/23 Jenna Gulick 06/26 Sue MacKenzie 06/28 Carol Amico 06/29 Blanca Rodriguez

July Birthday

07/05 Otis Hutchins 07/05 Nichole Nunez 07/13 Vathanan Ariathurai 07/15 Matthew Sneddon 07/16 Bob Kemmerer 07/30 Alex Henry

All Church Friendship Luncheon Sunday, May 1st celebrating all MOMS.

Bring yourself, invite your friends and family to our

monthly church luncheon for good food and fellowship.

We will meet in the multi-purpose room after the wor-

ship service.

In the year of 2016, the luncheon schedules are below.

Please mark your calendar!

May 1st, June 5th, Aug. 7th, Sept., 12th, Oct. 2nd,

Nov. 20th, and Dec. 4th.

All Church Luncheon Provided by Denise. Sunday, June 5th with

Graduation Party for Denise Lenore!

Our own Denise will be graduating

from Fuller Theological Seminary with

Master in Theology in June 11th.

She is inviting ALL of you to her grad-

uation party on June 5th, Sunday, for

lunch party at the church.

Come and help her celebrate her

achievement with your presence!

Calling of Graduates 2016

Please let Chad know if you have anyone in your family graduating this year. LCUMC will have a moment to celebrate graduates in worship service on Sunday, May 22nd.

May 22nd will be the

Youth Sunday where we will

celebrate, Promotion,

Graduation, and Confirmation.

Vacation Bible School Foothills Mission Area Churches

La Canada UMC, CVUMC, and Tujunga UMC

Date: June 26th to 29th Time: Evenings (TBD)

Location: Crescenta Valley UMC

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 9:00am Adult Ed 10:30am Worship, Sunday School 12:00 pm Friend-ship Luncheon

2 3 9:30 CC Chapel 7pm Taize

4 9:30 CC Chapel 10:30am Intercessory & Bible Study, FSR

5 1:00pm ESL Class

6 9am CC Mother’s Day Tea

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8 9:00am Adult Ed

10:30am Worship, Sunday School 12:00pm Youth Sunday School MOTHER’S DAY

9 7:00 pm UMW, FSR

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11 9:30am CC Chapel 10:30am Intercessory & Bible Study, FSR 7:00pm Finance Committee

12 1:00 pm ESL Class 7:00pm Men’s Choir, Sanctuary

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9:00am Adult Ed 10:30am Worship Sunday School Noon Youth Sunday School

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17 9:30am CC Chap-el 1:00 pm—CC Advi-sory Council, FSR 7:00 pm Trustees, Office

18 9:30am CC Chap-el 10:30am Interces-sory & Bible Study, FSR 7:00pm Church Council

19 1:00 pm ESL Class 7:00pm Sanctu-ary Choir, Sanctuary

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9:00am Adult Ed 10:30am Worship Sunday School YOUTH SUNDAY *confirmation, promotion, & graduation cele-bration

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25 10:30am Intercessory & Bible Study, FSR

26 1:00 pm ESL Class 2:30pm Staff Meeting

27 8:30am LCHS 7/8 Promotion

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29 9:00am Adult Ed 10:30am Worship Sunday School

30 Memorial Day CC Closed

31 Church Office Closed in Observance of the Memorial Day

FSR—Fireside Room MPR—Multi-Purpose Room CC-Children’s Center

May 2016

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 10:30am Intercessory & Bible Study, FSR

2 1:00pm ESL 7:00pm Sanctu-ary Choir, Sanctuary

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4 JPL Event 8:30am-1:30pm Tours

5 JPL Event 8:30am-1:30pm Tours

10:30am Worship, 12:00 pm Friend-ship Luncheon

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7 7pm- Taize

8 10:30am Intercessory & Bible Study, FSR 7:00pm Finance Committee

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1:00 pm ESL

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12 9:00am Adult Ed 10:30am Worship Sunday School Noon Youth Sunday School 4pm Girl’s Scout

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16 1:00pm ESL

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19 9:00am Adult Ed 10:30am Worship Sunday School Noon Youth Sunday School

Father’s Day

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21 1:00 pm—CC Advi-sory Council, FSR 7:00 pm Trustees, Office

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1:00pm ESL

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26 9:00am Adult Ed 10:30am Worship Sunday School Noon youth Sunday School

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30 1:00pm ESL

FSR—Fireside Room MPR—Multi-Purpose Room CC-Children’s Center

June 2016

California-Pacific Annual Conference, Redlands

Youth Group Field Trip

Foothills Mission Area Vacation Bible School

Rev. Cho at KAUMC Executive Retreat

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

3 10:30am Worship

4 Independence Day

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10:30am Worship

11 Fishing Trip for Men with Bob Rink-er

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17 10:30am Worship

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24 10:30am Worship

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10:30am Worship

FSR—Fireside Room MPR—Multi-Purpose Room CC-Children’s Center

July 2016

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Rev. Cho on vacation ———————————————————>

Rev. Cho on vacation for two weeks. Beginning from July 9th to 21st.

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La Cañada United Methodist Church 104 Berkshire Place La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91012 www.lcumc.com

La Cañada United Methodist Church

Rev. Elaine Hisu Cho, Pastor Chad Loucks, Director of Youth Ministry

Denise Lenore, Minister of Children and Family MInistries Martin Cho, Director of Music Ministry

Victoria Symonian, Accompanist