Keith Katterheinrich, Pastor

Valerie Highley Director of Youth &

Children’s Ministries

Bev Moore Director of Worship

Rodney Miller Praise Team Coordinator

Karen Morgan Secretary

Becky Gehringer Pianist

Eric Akers Organist

Jenny Johnson Prayer Coordinator

Becky Powers Nursery Coordinator

Jr. Fitzpatrick Technical Coordinator

Ministry Team Leaders: Martha Rice

Worship Team

Damola & Kamilah Asafa Youth Ministry Team

Arland White & Brenda Roberts Children’s Ministry Team

Jerry Mounce & Lou Moore Evangelism Team

Steve & Darlene Meyers Outreach Team

Lisa Hammond Discipleship Team

Joy Daniel & Shelly Mounce Hospitality Team

Cheryl Spears First Impressions Team

Teresa Kirkpatrick & Debby Clark Stephen Ministry

Praise Team: Eric Akers, Rick Leake,

Mike Harbour, Jason Bennett, Clancy Hatfield

Rodney & Erin Miller, Kennetta Freholm, & Weslie Freholm

South Ashland United Methodist Church

I would bet that when you hear Mardi

Gras you think of New Orleans and crazy

parties. However, Mardi Gras has its heritage

in the Christian faith and in particular in

preparation for Lent. Because Lent is a season

of fasting and reflection, historically Mardi Gras, which is the day before Lent

begins, was a time of purging the house of meat and sugar and other rich foods.

Families would prepare and eat all of these foods in order to avoid the

temptation of eating them during Lent.

When the church gathered on Ash Wednesday, the people would have

ashes applied to their foreheads to remind them of their mortality and as a call

to repentance. Thus with houses purged of rich foods and souls cleansed

through repentance, the season of Lent would begin. Christians would fast and

reflect on humanity and our need for Divine love and grace.

We are preparing to enter yet another Lenten season. The call this season

is the same that it has been throughout the millennia since the ancient church

began this practice. We are called to reflect on our own mortality. We are called

to repent of our sin and turn our hearts back to God. We are called to fast in

order to submit our human will to God’s own will. And we are called to reflect

on our need for God’s grace to transform us into His holy people.

So if someone asks you about the ashes on your forehead, tell them it is a

sign of your own mortality and your need for God. When someone asks you

“What are you going to give up for Lent?” remember you are fasting to align

your will with God’s will. And remember this season of fasting and reflection

ends with the greatest celebration known to humanity. Lent always ends with

resurrection and new life.

Pastor Keith

South Winds

Anchored to the Rock Relevant to the Times

Reaching to the Future!

(606) 324-6961

southashlandumc@yahoo.com www.southashlandumc.org

March 2017

Costa Rica Farm In Honor of Ed & Cheryl Spears

Given by John O’Hare

Pital Feeding Program In Memory of Ann Spears

Given by Ed & Cheryl Spears

New Property In Memory of Rosemary Sturgill

Given by Dr. Malcolm King

Backpack Blessings In Memory of Betty Sidell Given by Evelyn Crawford

Bead Ministry

In Honor of Carol Barnhorst & Sharon Shortridge Given by Evelyn Shortridge

Budget

In Honor of Steve & Darlene Meyers Given by Ron & Bobbi Wymer

Current Month Budget Items Specials Mortgage Fund Totals

Beginning Balance $45,415.77 $34,757.36 $14,437.21 $94,610.34

Receipts $36,420.30 $7,475.51 $4,569.00 $48,464.81

Disbursements ($45,153.16) ($20,718.94) ($4,669.47) ($70,541.57)

Transfer ($290.00) $290.00 $0.00 $0.00

Closing Balance $36,392.91 $21,803.93 $14,336.74 $72,533.58

Year-to-Date

Balance 12/31/2016 $45,415.77 $34,757.36 $14,437.21 $94,610.34

Receipts $36,420.30 $7,475.51 $4,569.00 $48,464.81

Disbursements ($45,153.16) ($20,718.94) ($4,669.47) ($70,541.57)

Transfer ($290.00) $290.00 $0.00 $0.00

Closing Balance $36,392.91 $21,803.93 $14,336.74 $72,533.58

Honors & Memorials

Hospital Visitation If you, a family member, or friend are having surgery or being admitted to the hospital and would like to be

visited and have prayer please contact:

The Church Office:

324-6961 &

Elfi Sologic: 325-4349

March 1, 2017

7:00 p.m.

Please join us for fellowship and

light refreshments after

the service.

Something you may not know about the “Raising Our Hands in Praise” Puppet Team Our puppet team raises their hands (and arms) in praise when they present their puppet and stick ministry performances but they use their hands to do much more for Jesus. This year they have made cards for our shut ins, snack bags for the Community Hospice in-care facility and ornaments for nursing home residents. Their latest endeavor was making blankets for the Linus Project. The blankets will be given to children in Kentucky who are seriously ill or traumatized. Our puppet team is actively being the hands and feet of Jesus.

Youth & Adult Basketball Night

First Sunday of Every Month

March 5th

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

FLC

Van rides will be provided for youth

as needed.

Adults are welcome to stay later.

Dear South Ashland UMC,

On behalf of the staff and board of directors of Hillcrest-Bruce Mission, thank you for your continued, generous

support of this organization.

Sincerely, Linda Firebaugh ______________________________________________

Greetings & Blessings from

Two Hearts Pregnancy Care Center, We have been blessed with 170 new clients this year with a total of 1151 returning visits. Those men, women and babies have come to us for help in one way or another. We are thankful that through you and your support we have been able to help meet almost all of those needs.

Jesus gave us the greatest gift - himself. We want to allow the love of Jesus, the hope of Jesus, and the grace and

mercy of Jesus to flow from this ministry.

Praising the Lord, Sandy Bellomy ______________________________________________

Dear Donor,

On behalf of CAReS, I am sending a special thank you for your recent donation of $300 for

support of your mission to “Partner to Build a Self-Reliant Community”. We appreciate this gift, and will

continue to provide assistance to our neighbors in need in Ashland and Boyd County.

Sincerely, Lynn Childers

______________________________________________

Dear Aldersgate Friends, Thank you for supporting the ministries of Aldersgate

Camp & Retreat Center! All of us, appreciate the donation from your church of $500 for the ongoing

ministries of Aldersgate.

Blessings, Dave Cohn

Dear Friends in Mission, Thank you for your support of the United Methodist

Committee on Relief (UMCOR). Your gift is supporting programs that fight hunger and poverty, assist the

displaced and respond to disasters.

Grace and Pease, Roland Fernandes & Mary Andreolli

_______________________________________________________________________

Dear South Ashland,

Thank you for your generous donation of $500 made to the Wesley foundation at UK. We are grateful for you! I pray

you have a blessed 2017. Thank you for your support.

We wish you a Blessed and Happy New Year, Rev. William Herndon

_______________________________________________________________________

Dear SAUMC, Thank you for your generous support to the Wesley

Foundation at EKU in 2016. Your donations make this ministry possible.

Signed,

Kenneth Southgate & Elizabeth Bendure

DISTRIBUTION OF MISSION MONEY

Mission money collected from Easter and Christmas special offerings, gifts given to Missions in honor or memory of, and from the Kroger cards in 2016 was distributed by the Mission committee

as follows in January 2017:

Mountain Mission $ 200.00 Red Bird Mission $ 255.00 Friends of the Children $ 200.00 Salvation Army $ 255.00 Two Hearts for Layettes $ 255.00 Community Kitchen $ 255.00 Costa Rica trip money for supplies $2,040.00 Shelter of opeHope $ 340.00 Safe Harbor $ 340.00 For Jamie Sake $ 255.00 Revs. Mike & Sherri Morrissey, Thailand Methodist Missionaries $ 255.00 UMCOR $ 339.39 Jail Ministry $ 200.00 TOTAL $5,189.39

THE SPECIAL EASTER OFFERING ENVELOPE WILL BE IN

THE APRIL SOUTHWINDS AND THE SUNDAY CHURCH BULLETIN.

Youth Winter News

Weekly Events @ Church Sunday School 10:00am Sunday Night Youth Group 5:00pm-7:00pm Wednesday Night Dinner/Bible Study 5:45pm-7:30pm

You asked for it and the new Sunday School series has began for the senior high class! Come

check it out! Life Application and lots of good discussion! Hope to see you there!!

Upcoming Events Sunday March 5

th Youth Council Meeting 5:00-7:00pm

All individuals who volunteer with the youth or interested in doing so are encouraged to attend

Volunteer Opportunity

Looking for individuals to provide and serve meals to the youth on Sunday evenings. If you would like to see about doing this one Sunday in the upcoming months please see

Damola or Kamilah Asafa.

FOURTH SUNDAY SCHOOL MISSION OFFERING FOR 2016

01/24/2016 Safe Harbor - Snow/ No Sunday School $ .00 02/28/2016 Child Evangelism Fellowship -Good News Club 226.30 03/27/2016 Two Hearts for Layettes 156.00 04/24/2016 For Jamie’s Sake 140.00 05/ 22/2016 Hillcrest Bruce Mission for Aldersgate Summer Camp Scholarships 193.00 06/26/2016 5 Loaves 2 Fish (Backpack Ministry) 292.00 07/24/2016 UMCOR 129.00 08/28/2016 Hillcrest Bruce Mission – Pantry 158.50 09/25/2016 Neighbors Helping Neighbors 155.10 10/23/2016 Costa Rica Children’s Supplies 133.50 11/27/2016 Costa Rica Supplies 131.00 12/25/2016 Salvation Army - No Sunday School .00

Children’s Ministry Our final Credo Confirmation retreat will take place March 4th at Grassland UMC. The series this year has been in association with

Grasslands UMC, First UMC Ashland and Cannonsburg First UMC. Please be in prayer for these young people as they make decisions about

their membership in the near future and let us know if you have a 6th-8th

grader who will be ready for the 2017-2018 series.

Do you have a camp age kid?

Aldersgate retreat center in

Ravenna, KY offers camps all summer long from

June 5th to July 17th. Camp is provided for ages 5yrs –college freshman.

Every year we offer transportation for one week of camp.

This year the van will transport kids up and back the week of June 19th – 24th.

For more specific age and price info please visit

www.aldersgatecamp.com If you plan to use the van transportation please complete your

camp registration and then call the church office at (606) 324-6961,

or Valerie Highley at (405) 795-2266.

ACOLYTE SPOTLIGHT Meet Nevaeh Asafa, age 11. Nevaeh has

been a faithful member of our acolyte

program for 4 years. She enjoys reading,

playing piano, performing with the

puppets, soccer and playing with her

little sisters. Glory to God for Nevaeh’s

service in the role of acolyte!

Many things are happening with the approach of the Lent/Easter season in South Ashland United Methodists Children’s program. Our various groups will be featuring new curriculum offerings, and preparing for Easter performances and of course, collecting for and planning the Easter morning egg hunt. This year, a new element that we are “egg-cited” to take part in is our sponsorship of The Hillcrest-Bruce Egg Hunt. We will be providing the eggs and candy for their daycare hunt! We will be collecting eggs and candy March 1st-April 2nd. I am always so excited to be part of such a vital community as we serve God together this Easter!

Easter Colors Lesson Series

Join us on Sunday evenings, as we play games, sing songs, act out

dramas and memorize scripture based the bible story and on the

symbolic colors of the Lent and Easter season. We will learn about

Jesus’ Journey to the cross and glorious resurrection and will be

making a banner to add to the decorations on Easter Morning!

March 5th – April 16th 5:00 -7:00

The Empty Bowls Fundraiser Date: TBA

The Community Kitchen

needs folks to help produce

the bowls to be filled with

soup for the event. This is a

chance to get out with your

kids to have some fun and

also support a local and

extremely worthy cause!

Dear Church Family, I pray that all of you are doing well. Thanks so much for your prayers, financial support and allowing your Costa Rica Mission team to be the hands and feet of OUR LORD doing HIS work. This was a wonderful group of Christian Brothers and Sisters this year. We were able to accomplish most of what we were trying to do. After 10 years of work at Pital, I am happy to say that the church has been completed. We and Saint Matthews UMC have been the only two teams working there. The tile for the floor did not come in until we left but all other construction work has been completed along with painting at the church this year. Next year we will be working at the farm and possibly working on a new church construction for the El Mirador area. This is a very poor area where we have worked in the past. It is very close to the farm. The team had wonderful fellowship with the people of Pital. It is sad in a way, that we are finished there, but I know that God has other plans for the team.

The pastor at Pital, Dionel, has reconfirmed his support of the feeding program. They now are feeding children every Sunday after church, feeding around 75 every Saturday in Barrio Jardin, 60 children on Saturday in Nuevo Pital and another 50 in Santa Fe. Dionel has such a heart for the children. The only thing that held them back is funding. I assured him that if they wanted to feed children, then we would continue to support them in this mission. Anyone who wants to contribute to this can mark their check as ‘Pital/Feeding program’. We were able to leave $500.00 with them, plus Mary has other funds that you all have donated. As I talked with Dionel concerning this, I was thinking about the 113 children that we feed here every week. Now all of these children will be fed at least one meal on the weekends. They do get lunch at school which is back in session there now.

We also held VBS and ladies craft/devotion classes. The VBS/Classes went very well under the direction of Alicia and the other wonderful people that were involved. VBS: We served about 150 children total at three different locations. Our theme was “We Belong to God!” and included stories of God’s care for us through the parables of the Prodi-gal Son and Good Samaritan. We used puppets, memory verse games, and crafts to help kids focus on the truth of God’s love.

Pital: 30, Santa Fe: 40 Pital: (invited families from Nuevo Pital): 30 Barrio Jardin/Natalia's: 50 Women’s Ministry: We served about 70 women at three different locations. Our theme was “Prayer is Personal”. We introduced prayer journaling as a way to stay connected to God. Kathy, Debbie, Lisa, and Alicia all gave personal testimonies about dealing with crisis through prayer. The ladies personalized and decorated prayer journals and bookmarks. The ladies had never seen or used decorative (Washi) tape or patterned Duct tape before! Pital: 20, Santa Fe: 12, Pital (invited women from Nueva Pital): 20, Barrio Jardin/Natalia’s: 16 Mary continues with her ministry at the farm. She has the complete support of the Bishop. As you all know, Mary not only takes care of the farm/camp but reaches out to many other areas. She can always use prayers and your financial support. Anyone can give to the farm account and the money will be sent down for ministry work. Should anyone ever have any questions concerning this or the feeding program, please contact me. The trip for next year will be February 3-11, 2018. I am not sure what the cost will be. That will depend on air fare prices. Please pray about being a part of this team. The team will be presenting about the trip on Sunday, March 19, 2017. I hope that you will be able to hear firsthand about all that we did. Once again thanks for your prayers. The whole team felt them as we traveled and worked in Costa Rica. In HIS Love and Service, Eduardo

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 5:00 Dulcimer 5:00 Handbells 5:45 Dinner 7:00 Service

2 10:00 Intercessory Prayer 6:00 Prayer Bead 6:30 Cub Scouts 7:00 Boy Scouts

3 4 10:00 Pickleball

Confirmation Retreat @ Grassland UMC

Grove City College Students Arrive

5 9:00 Worship 10:00 Discipleship 11:15 Worship 5:00 Dynamic Marriage 5:00 Kids’ Classes 5:00 Youth Council 7:00 Basketball Night

6 5:00 Girl Scouts 6:00 Pickleball 6:30 Stephen Ministry PS 7:15 Stephen Ministry PS

7 6:30 Cancer Support 7:00 Praise Team

8 5:00 Dulcimer 5:00 Handbells 5:45 Dinner 6:30 Chancel Choir 6:30 Classes 6:30 Kids Choir/Puppets

9 10:00 Intercessory Prayer 1:30 Belleaires 6:00 Prayer Bead 6:30 Trustees 6:30 Cub Scouts 7:00 Boy Scouts

10 11 10:00 Pickleball

12 9:00 Worship 10:00 Discipleship 11:15 Worship 5:00 Dynamic Marriage 5:00 Youth & Kids

13 5:00 Girl Scouts 6:00 Pickleball

14 6:30 Children’s Council 7:00 Praise Team

15 5:00 Dulcimer 5:00 Handbells 5:45 Dinner 6:30 Chancel Choir 6:30 Classes 6:30 Kids Choir/Puppets

16 10:00 Intercessory Prayer 6:00 Prayer Bead 6:30 Cub Scouts 7:00 Boy Scouts

17 18 10:00 Pickleball

19 9:00 Worship 10:00 Discipleship 11:15 Worship 5:00 Dynamic Marriage 5:00 Youth & Kids

20 5:00 Girl Scouts 6:00 Pickleball 6:30 Stephen Ministry PS 7:15 Stephen Ministry PS

21 6:30 Cancer Support 6:30 Finance Meeting 7:00 Admin Council 7:00 Praise Team

22 5:00 Dulcimer 5:00 Handbells 5:45 Dinner 6:30 Chancel Choir 6:30 Classes 6:30 Kids Choir/Puppets

23 10:00 Intercessory Prayer 1:30 Belleaires 6:00 Prayer Bead 6:30 Cub Scouts 7:00 Boy Scouts

24 25 10:00 Pickleball 2:00 WWW

26 9:00 Worship 10:00 Discipleship 11:15 Worship 5:00 Dynamic Marriage 5:00 Youth & Kids

27 5:00 Girl Scouts 6:00 Pickleball

28 7:00 Praise Team

29 5:00 Dulcimer 5:00 Handbells 5:45 Dinner 6:30 Chancel Choir 6:30 Classes 6:30 Kids Choir/Puppets

30 10:00 Intercessory Prayer 6:00 Prayer Bead 6:30 Cub Scouts 7:00 Boy Scouts

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5 Jim Ifert 6 Fay Lenning Wendell Caines 7 Jamie Morgan 10 Kamilah Asafa Bryan Flanery 11 Becky Gehringer Courtney Ryan 13 Amy Clinger 15 Norm Smith 17 Linda Meyers 18 Jennifer Barada 19 Cindy Cooper 20 Dan Easterling 21 Ian Freholm 22 Jerrod Miller Bob Wells 26 Teaghan Miller 29 Jerry Daniel Emilie Hunt 30 Corbin Fitzpatrick Mallory Easterling

Happy Anniversary!

16 Jim & Lynne Wagenaar

24 Stacy & Michael Wilson

Happy Birthday!

South Winds South Ashland

United Methodist Church 2203 29th Street

Ashland, KY 41101

Keith Katterheinrich, Pastor

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