Tidings from Tibbetts

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1 Tidings from Tibbetts Rev. Dr. Joanne Carlson Brown J a n u a r y Founded 1909 I n f o r m a t i o n a n d I n s p i r a t i o n f r o m T i b b e t t s U n i t e d M e t h o d i s t C h u r c h Greetings, friends at Tibbetts UMC by Rev. Dr. Beryl A. Ingram Well, friends, here we are headed straight for a new year: 2018 is coming fast. But before we get there, let s take a breather and give thanks for all the goodness in this year passing. The fourth and final Sunday of Advent is the 24 th and we will celebrate it in worship at 10:00 a.m. Then many of us will gather either at 5:00 or at 8:00 or at both to relish worshipping joyfully on Christmas Eve. The evening of the 25 th, Christmas Day, becomes the Eve of a new time: The Twelve Days of Christmas. You see the Christmas Season is only twelve days long, from December 25 th to January 6 th, when the season of Epiphany begins. We will celebrate Epiphany on January 7 th. Advent is a season of waiting, preparing, anticipating, looking forward. December 25 th is the day chosen to mark the birth day of Jesus. [Never mind Continued to page 7 Together We Can Inside this issue: Green Sunday Potluck January 7 Sunday Potluck! Greetings from Beryl 1 & 7 Youth Update 2 Gratitude Corner 3 Join us after church for a "Friendship Salad" potluck. Bring a salad if you'd like, OR just bring an item that goes in a salad. We'll put it all on the table, and Together We Can make and enjoy the salad of our dreams. Calendar 5 New AED 6 More Gratitude 8 And So Much More!

2 Page 2 Tidings from Tibbetts Youth News by Kathryn Ushimaru, Youth Director Happy New Year! I hope you have noticed more youth serving as Greeters, Ushers, Liturgists, and Acolytes during Sunday services. This month, we will have regular Youth Group meetings (2x/week) and Friday Night Fun. Later in the month, we will go bowling with Peace Lutheran Youth at their Friday Night Fun on January 26th, followed by a discussion on knocking down obstacles in our lives. Kathryn Ushimaru, Youth Director Tibbetts United Methodist Church youthdirector@tibbettsumchurch.org UPCOMING EVENTS **WINTER BREAK** (NO YOUTH GROUP 1/1-1/5) Jr. Youth Group (6th-8th grades) 1/7 (10:15-11am) Sr. Youth Group (9th-12th grades) 1/11 (7-8:30pm) Friday Night Fun! (6th-12th grades) 1/12 (7:30-10pm) Jr. Youth Group (6th-8th grades) 1/14 (10:15-11am) Sr. Youth Group (9th-12th grades) 1/18 (7-8:30pm) Friday Night Fun! (6th-12th grades) 1/19 (7:30-10pm) Jr. Youth Group (6th-8th grades) 1/21 (10:15-11am) Friday Night Fun with PLC Youth! (Bowling) 1/ 26 (6:30-10pm) Jr. Youth Group (6th-8th grades) 1/28 (10:15-11am)

3 Page 3 Gratitude Corner This month we are grateful for our wonderful Spirit Movers, and the heritage members of our congregation who get rides to and from Tibbetts each Sunday. We also hear that the Spirit Movers van is beginning to take some weekday trips as well to help members get to the building for Circle luncheons, special events, and service opportunities! Van drivers lend their time, great driving skills, and good humor on a rotating schedule. We say thanks so much to Mark Pierson, George and Roberta Tuau, James Cole, Ben and Abe Allen-White, Charlie Shelfer, and all the other Movers who have dedicated themselves to this important service ministry! Green Songbooks Yes! We ve been singing praise songs from the newest songbook these past few months and now it s time to stock our own sanctuary and pews with books for everyone. The Green Songbook contains a beautiful selection of updated tunes and lyrics and lends itself well to our desire to be a thriving faith community. The book cost is $10 each and we will begin a drive to purchase books In Honor Of or In Memory Of the special people in our lives. We have all been blessed with an abundance of family, friends and fellowship here at Tibbetts and hope that you ll be moved to help fill our sanctuary with Green Songbooks for every pew. Together We Can! Souper Bowl Lunch - Looking Ahead Sunday, Feb 5 is Super Bow l Sunday, and we will be having our traditional Souper Bowl luncheon after church to fellowship together and to contribute to our scholarship support of Jamaa Letu, the orphanages in the Congo supported by our PNW Conference. Wear any football gear you d like that Sunday and then plan to join us for soup, conversation and supporting a great mission. We promise you will be home in plenty of time to see the Super Bowl!

4 Page 4 Happy Birthday in January General United Methodist Woman s Meeting: Will meet only four times in 2018; March, June, September and December Circle Meetings Eileen Leader Circle- Will meet on Wednesday, January 10 at 10am in the Parlor. Virginia Kinch will host and will also present the program. Susanna Wesley Circle- Will meet on Wednesday, January 10 at 11am in Irene McCoy s apartment. She will host and present the program. Lunch will follow at Wesley Homes. PJ Circle-See you at church and at our January meeting! Sewing Circle-Will meet on Wednesday, January 24 from 10am-2pm. Tea and coffee w ill be provided. Family and friends are invited to join the fun of quilting and conversation. Big Thanks Results for the Holiday Craft Bazaar The results are in and the proceeds from the Holiday Craft Bazaar totaled $ this year! The United Methodist Women thank everyone who made or baked goods for sale, shopped, bought, helped with set up, and helped with clean up. The proceeds from this successful event go to important mission work. This year the recipients selected are: $400 to Operation Nightwatch $400 to ROOTS Young Adult Shelter $400 to be determined in January by the Patti Johnson (PJ) Circle. Thank you! Michael Smith Vi Denison Rev. Crispina Estaris Jac Murray Francine Gendaszek John Alston Marcia Ingerslev Sean Gill Ting Ting Chang Misty Brunner Mary Leidy Peter McKay Grace Reindel

5 Page 5 Tibbetts Events ~January 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY s: 8:30am- Morning Meditation 9am-Choir Rehearsal 10am-Worship 10:15-11am Jr Youth 11:15am- Sounds of Joy 1 New Year s Day Fellowship Time is hosted by the Welcome & Outreach Ministry Area this month Office Closed :30am- Green Potluck Trustees Mtg 10am-Eileen Leader Circle 11am-Susanna Wesley Circle 7-8:30pm Sr Youth 7:30-10pm Friday Night Fun! MLK Day Office Closed Knitting Club 7-8:30pm Sr Youth 7:30-10pm Friday Night Fun! 9am-12pm- Finance Mtg am-2pm- Sewing Circle 7:30-10pm Friday Night Fun! Please submit articles for the February 2018 Newsletter on or before the 15 of January. Thanks!

6 Page 6 DISTRICT GATHERING: Saturday, January 27 9:00 AM-3:30 PM TOWARDS A NEW URBAN STRATEGY With Keynoter Jason Byassee Jason Byassee is a Professor of Biblical Hermeneutics at Vancouver School of Theology. Previously, he was senior pastor of Boone United Methodist Church in the Western North Carolina Conference. He serves as a contributing editor to Christian Century, and is the author of Trinity: The God We Don't Know, The Gifts of the Small Church, Reading Augustine: A Guide to Confessions, An Introduction to the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, and Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with Augustine. (Eerdmans, 2007). He has also coauthored the upcoming Faithful and Fractured with Dr. Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell. Dr. Byassee will also meet with SPRC's to talk about this book about clergy mental health. Other workshops will include a meeting of all Lay Leaders, an SPRC training, a redistricting meeting with local UMW's, and sessions on Urban Discipleship, Urban Strategies for Families, Community Organizing, and Interfaith Partnerships. Pastor John Helmiere will also give a teaching on Collaboratory Theology. So save the date --- more information coming soon. AED Device Tibbetts now has a lifesaving AED device! In collaboration with our on-site preschool, the Admiral Co-op, we are now the proud owners of an Automated External Defibrillator, which can be used by ANYONE in the event of a cardiac or breathing emergency. The device is mounted on the main level of the building near the stairwell by the restrooms, and it does not require any certification to be used. We will have an official orientation to the device for anyone interested following Sunday services towards the end of January. Anyone interested in taking a $30 class to become CPR/AED certified, please contact Carrie Goodnight at carrie@chilidawg.com.

7 Page 7 Greetings from Beryl continued Continued from page 1 that if shepherds were out in the fields watching their flocks by night it was probably Springtime, not Winter!] And for twelve days we celebrate! At least, we could. It is a semi -lost tradition. Don t many of you put Christmas decorations away soon after Christmas Day? Too bad, because you are missing out on twelve more days of beauty, carols, festive food and fragrances of pine and fir and peppermint in the air. The song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, is perhaps more than just a funny ditty in which we test ourselves to get the numbers and the accompanying objects correctly coordinated! There is a tradition that it is coded language to help people learning the Christian faith to remember concepts such as three persons of the trinity in the three French hens, or four calling birds as the four gospels. I don t know if it is code or not, but it does make singing and learning together much more interesting to me! On the 12th night, we shift our focus to the revelation of God-with-us as the and we move into the Season of Epiphany, which means light or revelation, as in, Ah- ha! I have an epiphany! Let s sing Christmas carols and songs into January this year! Yippee!!! Jesus is revealed as the light of the world to non-jews, to the nations, to people from lands outside of Israel. Epiphany a burst of light. The liturgical season of Epiphany begins on Sunday the 7 th and ends with partying on the Tuesday night preceding Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Season of Lent. This year Ash Wednesday and Valentine s Day are the same day, February 14 th. Which one will you give more attention? And so, another cycle of the Christian liturgical year that began with Advent 2017 will flow on through Lent to Easter and Pentecost toward another Advent in It has been a gift to journey with you in from Easter through early Pentecost and then again moving from late Pentecost into this Advent season. We will celebrate the Christmas Season and into Epiphany together. Then, like one of the Magi who followed a star, I will leave the gifts I have brought to the Christ Child in your midst, and take away with me your gifts of welcoming the stranger, your willingness to stretch and bend and be of good cheer, your living discipleship to Jesus, your beautiful faces, young and old, singing or listening or weeping or laughing as the Body of Christ in a new destination spot for me: West Seattle. Blessings, indeed! Be of good cheer. God is with you. Thank you for sharing the gift. Dr. B Rev. Dr. Beryl Ingram is the Pastoral emergency contact while Joanne is on leave. Beryl can be reached at Messages left at the church after 2pm on Thursday s are not checked until Monday mornings. Thank you very much!

8 Tibbetts United Methodist Church st Ave. SW Seattle, WA Return Service Requested Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage Paid PERMIT NO Seattle, WA Together We Can Phone: Facebook.com/TibbettsUMChurch We welcome all people to celebrate and share God's love. The Gratitude We Intend Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth by Walter Brueggemann The witness tell of your boundless generosity, and their telling is compelling to us: You give your word to call the worlds into being; You give your sovereign rule to emancipate the slaves and the oppressed; You give your commanding fidelity to form your own people; You give your life for the life of the world... broken bread that feeds, poured out wine that binds and heals. You give... we receive... and are thankful. We begin this day with gratitude, thanks that is a match for your self-giving, gratitude in gifts offered, gratitude in tales told, gratitude in lives lived. Gratitude willed, but not so readily lived, held back by old wounds turned to powerful resentment, retarded by early fears become vague anxiety, restrained by self-sufficiency in a can-do arrogance, blocked by amnesia unable to recall gifts any longer. Do this yet. Create innocent space for us this day for the gratitude we intend. In thankfulness, we will give, we will tell, we will live, Your gift through us to gift the world. Amen