Messenger. St. Paul s. United Methodist Church. Hero Central VBS. Inside... Join Us... Plant Faith, Nurture Disciples, Grow in Witness & Service

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1 St. Paul s Messenger Volume 52, Issue 7 July 2017 United Methodist Church Plant Faith, Nurture Disciples, Grow in Witness & Service Hero Central VBS Sunday July 30 Wednesday, August 2 6:00-8:00 p.m. Kids Pre-K through 5th grade will transform into superheroes as we "Discover Our Strength in God" through super-fun games, songs, snacks, stories and science. Registration is available on our website or you can pick up a registration form in the narthex or church office. Please register your child and reserve their spot today! Inside... Headlines Worship Schedule 2 News/Opportunities 3 Window Dedication 4 Volunteers 5 Calendar 6 Reflections 7 Join Us... Summer schedule Sunday Worship: 9:00 a.m. Office Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 9am 1pm This is a FREE event and all are welcome! Spread the word to family, friends, neighbors and co-workers! We are still in need of Hero Helpers (also known as VBS volunteers!) to join us for these days of FUN! There are still a variety of roles to fill - some suitable for older kids (6th grade and up) and others that require grown-ups. Questions? Want to help? Call lsrenaski@gmail.com Our mission project this year will be Children s Life Department at St. Vincent s Hospital. We are asking for children to bring NEW items: 4 oz. Crayola model magic, markers, hot wheels, action figures, and bath & body sets. Any monies collected will be used to purchase items on Children s Life Department s wish list. Let s all be Heroes for CHRIST!

2 PAGE 2 MESS ENGER V OL UM E 52, I SS UE 7 July Worship Schedule Senior Pastor: Retired Pastors: Rev. Diane Rew Rev. Howard Ott Rev. Jim Kellermann Rev Barb Ristow Cord. of Discipleship Min.: Lisa Srenaski Office Administrator : Kathy Paque Financial Manager: Christine Pulchin Chancel Choir Director: Merle Colburn Organist: Vashni Seitzer, SPC Childcare Coordinators : Emilie Smith & Jennifer Grell Custodian: Our Staff The St. Paul Messenger is published by St. Paul s United Methodist Church, 341 Wilson Avenue, Green Bay, WI Phone: (920) Fax: (920) Website: office@stpaulsumcgb.com Find us on St. Paul s UMC Green Bay Editor: Lisa Srenaski Chad Kaminski Contact Us Please submit written material for the August Messenger by noon on Thursday, July 20. Sunday, July 2 Communion Sunday Scripture: Galatians 5:1, Sermon title: Called to Freedom So what does it meant to be free? In Paul s letter to the church of Galatia, he reminds these early Christians that they were called to freedom BUT...there is a bit of a catch Music: 9:00 Tyler Kasper Beginning this Sunday, we will consider together Paul s letter to the church of Philippi. His letter to the Philippians is one of Paul s most personal letters which he wrote from prison, late in his missionary career. Read this little letter as part of your daily devotions this summer. In it we get a look at Paul s own relationship with God and we hear his invitation to the kind of spiritual formation that a life centered on Christ can bring. Sunday, July 9 Scripture: Philippians 1:1-2 Sermon Title: To Whom it May Concern There are particular formulae that we use when we begin a letter. The same was true in the first century. But Paul, when writing his opening words to the church at Philippi, did not follow the formula. Why? So that the readers (hearers) would know from the opening line, that everything...the whole of life...was being changed by the gospel news. Music: 9:00 TBD Sunday, July 16 Scripture: Philippians 1:1-11 Sermon Title: Brand New Territory We tend to forget, I think, what an amazing thing it is that we non-jews (Gentiles) are followers of Jesus. In todays Scripture, we hear the account of the good news of Jesus reaching Europe for the very first time. Music: 9:00 Worship Band Sunday, July 23 Scripture: Philippians 2:1-13 Sermon Title: Humble Beginnings This passage is considered among the most glorious passages in all of the New Testament because here, we see in the life of Christ, the breathtaking purposes of God. And at the center of it all is one thing: humility. Music: 9:00 Jan Stevens & Diedre Rasmussen Sunday, July 30 Scripture: Philippians 4:1-17 Sermon Title: Who started it? After writing pages of affection and encouragement to this young church, Paul suddenly and directly calls somebody out!!! Hey, you two, quit fighting and get along. (he says...basicially). How embarrassing! How true to life in community! Music: 9:00 Lori Larson

3 PAGE 3 June Celebrations Honored our college & high school graduates. UMW circles held their end of year gatherings. Hosted community music recitals Ken & Zona Graetz, Carol Lahey and Jean Hessil prepared and the Van Ess family served the N.E.W. Community Shelter meal. Celebrated Pentecost Sunday Dedicated and blessed the stained glass windows that were given in memory of Gladys DeLess. Recalled and celebrated the life of Jim Rogers. Rev. Diane, Erin Kazik & Lisa Srenaski represented St. Paul s at Wisconsin Annual Conference. Celebrated UMW Sunday A team from St. Paul s participated in the Bellin Run. Collected baby items & funds for Wisconsin Annual conference Ingathering needs. VBS planning continues & set building began. UMW held another successful Craft Day. A variety of ministries continued to collect items in support of Salvation Army, Conference Ingathering, local school children & EPH. Prayer Shawl Ministry continued to comfort people in powerful ways. Care Team continued to bring joy and comfort to those unable to join us in worship, as well as serving them Communion. Jail team took books & Bibles from Brown County Library to jail every Tuesday. We extended our beautiful building to Scouts, TOPS, Piano groups and Mather Heights Neighborhood Association. Custodian update Our custodian, Chad, recently had back surgery and is healing. Thanks to Ken Graetz for helping organize volunteers for cleaning the church. We pray Chad will have a full recovery and be back soon! UMW Sponsored Mission Collection All are welcome to participate in a collection that will take place July through December. Positive Behavioral Interventions & Support program at Franklin Middle School Students earn rewards for positive behaviors. Make-up Notebooks Here is a list of needs Bags of wrapped candy Board games pens/pencils Markers Gift cards (fast food, Aldi s, Wal-Mart, Walgreens & Qwik Trip) Place items in the bin under UMW bulletin board in the hallway by bathrooms. Place gift cards in offering envelope attn.: Becky. For questions, call or bengebretson@new.rr.com Salvation Army Collection This month, on the first Sunday of the month, the Mission team asks that we bring an item for the Salvation Army pantry. For July, we are in need of personal hygiene items. There are collection containers at either entrance to the Sanctuary. Thank you. New Staff Role SPRC and Trustees Committees are happy to be working closely with our bookkeeper, Christine Pulchin, in a process of updating all of our building use policies. She has also began developing and overseeing this process for us at St. Paul s. It has been an intentional effort on the part of our congregation to try to be good stewards of our space by making it available to some community needs as well as in some instances providing revenue to help in the upkeep of our facility.

4 PAGE 4 On June 4, 2017, St. Paul s dedicated and blessed the new stained glass windows in the entryway off of Division St. In Memory of Gladys DeLess Gladys Ruth DeLess was born Feb 3, 1910 in Clayton IL. She married Don DeLess in 1930 and together they made their home in Green Bay. Gladys was an active member of St Paul s United Methodist Church until she moved near her daughter Ruth Ann Seaver in Elkhart, IN in Gladys passed away on April 12, 2013 at the age of 103. St Paul s UMC is deeply grateful to Gladys s family and her dear friend Mary Ann Koeller for memorializing her with this gift of witness and beauty. The Stained Glass windows of the South entry of St. Paul s UMC were designed and installed by Andrew Paremski of Enterprise Art Glass Works Inc. The windows follow the coloration and style of the existing stained glass windows in the Church. Each piece of glass was pattern cut, painted and fired in the kiln, just as the original windows were created. With rich tones of blue, red, purples, greens, orange, golden tone and obscured white, the design is representative of the original windows in the Nave. The technique used on the glass was similar to the original artists intent of painting on the glass to diffuse the light for a warmer feeling to the window. All of the symbols are painstakingly painted by hand. If you would like a copy of the program from the dedication, there are a few extras available in the Narthex. In this program, you will find a description of each of the panels in the windows.

5 Sunday Volunteers... PAGE 5 July 2 Communion Sunday Dale Johnson Jim Sorenson Mike Dugan Wil Kasper Carol Carpenter July 16 Becky Krull Van Ess Family Kris Engebretson Kari Alvey July 9 July 23 James Hansen Lyn Rotter John & Lori Larson Lisa Srenaski Anita Kavisto Lori Larson Jim Sorenson Bob & Izzy Haberkorn Kris Engebretson Elaine Henderson July 30 Wyndham Srenaski Jim Sorenson & Van Ess Family Loren Prince John Dunlap Cinnamon Roll Sunday We need YOU! Are you looking for an easy way to participate in the life of St. Paul s? We are always looking for Sunday morning volunteers to serve as greeters, ushers, and/or coffee fellowship hosts. Contact the church to learn more information or to sign up. THANKS!

6 PAGE 7 Reflections Summer Reading Each summer I tend to focus our worship time around a bit of a theme. One summer we spent time with the Psalms. Another summer we focused upon a particular hymn. Last year we spent time with the questions that Jesus asked those who would follow him. This summer, I want us all to read a letter. A letter written by the apostle Paul to the earliest Christians in the city of Philippi (in modern day Greece). While we most often refer to Philippians as one of the books of the Bible, it really is a letter. So it won t take you long to read. It s only a few pages long. So, read it as you would read a letter! Remember those? Read it as you would read a long awaited word from a friend. Paul s letter to the Philippians is one of his most personal letters, which he wrote from prison late in his missionary career. Another thing to remember: This letter and the other letters in the New Testament were written long before the gospels. So they are our earliest glimpses into how God was at work in those earliest followers of Jesus. You know, probably one of the most difficult ways to study the bible is to sit down and read it from cover to cover. (Though I am not discouraging you from doing that this summer!) But the bible is a collection of many things: stories, poems, narratives, songs, letters. And it was written over a period of 1500 years, by more than 40 different authors, on three different continents. Some of you may have read it all many times over. Others of us, maybe not. Here is a place to begin. Lets do some summer reading together. Rev Diane I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Philippians 4: 13

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