TAWAS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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1 TAWAS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Volume 44 Issue 10 October 2017 Autumn has arrived! The trees are changing color, the days are shorter, and the hint of cooler weather is now apparent. I hope that you enjoyed our Summer and the wonderful memories that you made. Although we are disappointed that our summer is over, with the Fall season comes many opportunities within our community of faith. October 1st will conclude our annual Stewardship Campaign. During that worship service you will have the opportunity to pledge your financial commitment for This commitment is strictly voluntary, but it helps our Finance Committee to plan the church budget for the coming year. How will you give of your time, talent, and resources for the coming year? Over the past four Sundays we considered the question, Why do we give to God? I believe that in Christ we have found a relationship, a reality, a faith, and a purpose that are so precious, that our desire to give back to God comes as a natural result. Because of Jesus Christ we now have hope, promise, and peace in our lives. Our lives have been made new, different, and transformed by the reality of Jesus. 2 Corinthians 5: 17 proclaims, So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old as passed away; see, everything has become new! (NRSV) With grateful hearts, we can give to our Lord and Savior. What Time or Talent Can You Share For God s Benefit? Teach or Lead a Small Group Study or Activity Join a Church Choir Serve in Mission United Methodist Women United Methodist Men Serve on a Church Committee Volunteer to Serve: Usher Church Nursery Greeting Maintenance Projects Church Related Activities Within our church there are many ways that we can give to God our time, talents, and resources. Let us give with a grateful heart to the One who has given us so much! God Bless! Pastor Dan

2 BIRTHDAYS 10/3 Howard Burdett 10/3 Jimmy Johnson 10/3 Larry Williams 10/4 John Alexander 10/6 Eddie McArdle 10/9 Courtney Barton 10/9 George Hoerner 10/9 Christiana Peach 10/9 Kenneth Tousley 10/11 Ken Schlagel 10/13 Robert Tetley 10/15 Pat Mielke 10/16 Victoria Halstead 10/16 Herb Sias 10/17 Tammy Walker 10/19 Todd Falker 10/19 Sharry Forbes 10/21 Nicholas Schirmer 10/22 Lillian Engle 10/23 John D Franks 10/23 Krystal Proulx 10/23 Mary Ellen Robertson 10/30 Vickee Balser 10/30 Kelsey Look 10/31 Patricia Malpass ANNIVERSARIES 10/5 John & Donna Alexander 10/10 Scott & Melissa Trafelet 10/12 Bob & Michelle Forsyth 10/12 Joseph & Linda Koehn 10/15 Lee & Lynnette Bielby 10/19 Robert & Sharry Forbes 10/22 Daryl & Gwen Burt Mid-MI Emmaus BAZAAR BY THE BAY Saturday, October 21 from 9:00 to 2:00 Tawas United Methodist Church Lunch 11:00-1:00 Vendors, Handcrafted Art, Baked Goods, Homemade Pies, Rada Cutlery, Holiday Gifts, Books. Something for Everyone!!!

3 TAWAS UNITED METHODIST WOMEN Do you feel the chill in the air or notice the dew on the ground in the morning? Yes, Fall is about here again. We are so lucky to be living here where we can see all the glory of God's creation. Of course, with Fall comes the Bazaar on October 21st. We hope you have been at work creating lots of things to sell. We will have vendors but also our own tables too. Our October meeting will be working on pricing things. Our UMW meeting will be Tuesday, October 10th at 1 pm. We are also still having the LUNCH BUNCH on the last Wednesday at 12 noon at the East Tawas Big Boy. We would love to have everyone come. Pastor Dan also talked about our drive to help UMCOR with monetary help for the recent hurricanes in Florida and Texas. There is a flyer in the Gathering Space at the Church. We have placed envelopes for you to use to make any donations to this cause. Remember 100 per cent of your donation goes directly to help the victims. A big thank you to all that came to or donated to our Baby Shower for the Layette Ministry. We enjoyed fellowship, played a couple of games and had a lovely cake. A nice evening was had by all. We had a tour of our library, Candy Thomas gave a great tour and made us aware of all that is available right in our own Church Library. She also spoke about the UMW reading program. Big thanks from us to Candy for bringing us all information. Sincerely yours, Judy Hills Pres UMW United Methodist Women Monthly Schedule UMW sponsored Bible study: Monday, 11am in the Fireplace Room UMW Executive Committee Meeting in the Library, as needed. UMW Unit meeting: Check monthly events for times. Mary Martha Circle meets: the 1st. Tuesday at 11:00am for March, April, May, June, September, October, November. July picnic, December luncheon. Faith Circle meets the 4th. Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. (No meetings in January, July, August or December). If you would like more information of the United Methodist Women activities, please contact: Judy Hills ~~~~~~~~UMW President Barbara Ritsema ~~~UMW Vice President Melissa Schirmer~~~ UMW Secretary Candy Thomas ~~~~~UMW Treasurer Sally Nagy~~~~~~~~ UMW Asst. Treasurer

4 UNITED METHODIST MEN S ACTIVITY For information please contact: Pastor Dan at pastortumc@outlook.com Gary Bushman at mr.bean405@sbcglobal.net or Ed Nagy at ednagy@chartermi.net ONGOING EVENTS: SATURDAY WORSHIP, YOUTH GROUP, CHOIR AND BIBLE STUDY Sunday School at 11:15am begins September 10 Bible Study: Sunday at 11:30am. Ladies Book Study: Monday at 11am, begins Sept. 11. Sewin Souls: 1st. and 3rd. Thursday from 10am-12noon in the Fireplace Room. Choir Practice: Wednesday at 6pm. Praise Choir Practice: Saturday at 4:30pm. Men s Study: Friday at 6:30am Tim Horton s (New location) Praise : Saturday at 6pm, come and join us for this informal, casual and uplifting worship experience. Immediately following the World Communion Sunday service on October 1st, there will be an "International-theme" potluck. Please join us to continue our celebration of World Communion! A sign-up sheet is available in the Church Office if you would like to bring something to share. Mark your calendars! Living Truth 2 (who have previously performed at TUMC) will be joining us during our Sunday, November 12th church service to perform and spread God's love through their music. More details to come! Next Committee meeting is on Tuesday, October 24th at 7pm.

5 October 2017 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 9am Bible Study 10:00am 11:15am Sunday School 11:30am Bible Study World Communion Sunday Potluck 8 Noisy Offering Pastor Appreciation Sunday 15 Community Food Pantry (Nonperishable foods collection) White Cane Safety Day 2 11am Ladies Book Study 6:30pm SPRC mtg. 6:30pm Mission mtg. 9 10am Hospitality mtg. 11am Book Study 1pm Nominations mtg. 6:30pm Trustees mtg. Columbus Day am Book Study 6:30pm Trustee mtg 11am Book Study 6pm Finance Committee mtg 7pm Church Council mtg 3 Techies Day :30pm Spanish Speaking Class 6pm Choir Practice 7pm Adult New Member Class pm Faith Circle mtg. 7pm Committee mtg 31 5:30pm Spanish Speaking Class 6pm Choir Practice 7pm Adult New Member Class 5:30pm Spanish Speaking Class 6pm Choir Practice 7pm Adult New Member Class 25 1pm Visitation mtg 5:30pm Spanish Speaking Class 6pm Choir Practice 7pm Adult New Member Class 5 10 am 12noon Sewin Souls Full Moon 12 Old Farmers Day am 12noon Sewin Souls Revolutionary War ended :30am Men s Study Group (Tim Horton s) 13 6:30am Men s Study Group 6pm 8pm Euchre US Navy Birthday 20 6:30am Men s Study :30am Men s Study Group 7pm Special Dance 7 4:30pm Praise Choir 6pm Praise World Smile Day 14 8am Men s Breakfast 12-2 Spectacular Saturday 4:30pm Praise Choir 6pm Praise 21 UMW BAZAAR 4:30pm Praise Choir 6pm Praise pm Spectacular Saturday 4:30pm Praise Choir 6pm Praise 11am Book Study Reformation Day PIE SALES October 14, 15, 21, 22 Halloween NATIONAL DIABETES MONTH

6 DO YOU KNOW? Do you know that we have a youth confirmation and new adult membership class currently underway? We will potentially greet 15 new members and will receive an additional 3 members through transfer. On Sunday October 29th., I encourage you to welcome these new members to our congregation. Do you know that plans are being made to beautify our Church? Jamie McArdle (a landscape architect) is planning to hold two workshops to receive your ideas on how we can best utilize and beautify our church property. This will be a long term project, but we can now take advantage of this great opportunity! Watch for your opportunity to share in these workshops. Do you know that you as a church member and Christian have the opportunity and a responsibility to serve God? Soon the Nominations Committee will be seeking to fill leadership positions in our church for the upcoming year. How will you choose to use your time and talents for the Lord? If there is an area in which you would like to serve in leadership, please contact Pastor Dan or the Church Office. Do you know that there are phones in our two kitchens? Unfortunately, they utilize the same phone line that is used for our Sunday Broadcast. During Sunday morning worship, please Do Not Use The Phones in the two kitchens. Thank you! Do you know that on November 5th we will share in a worship service to remember and celebrate the lives of our members and loved ones who have recently passed away? On All Saints Sunday we will celebrate life in Christ with pictures and shared memories of our dearly departed. Do you know that our wonderful homemade pies will soon be available? Pies (apple, cherry, and blueberry) will available on October, 14, 15, 21 and 22. The price is $10. The proceeds from this sale provide funds for the Shoe Project. GRIEF SUPPORT PROGRAM 2017 St Joseph Health System provides a variety of Grief Support services for our patients, families, employees and members of the area community. They include Grief Support groups which are held monthly, on Thursday from 3:00 to 4:30 PM at St Joseph Hospital in Classroom C. These groups provide support and information for anyone whose life has been disrupted by a significant loss due to death of a loved one. All sessions are facilitated by qualified member of our Spiritual Care Team. There is no fee, however Advance Registration is appreciated. To register please call and talk with Chaplain Michael Sullivan, Manager Spiritual Care.

7 LAYETTE MINISTRY The Layette Ministry is in desperate need. Items needed for Layettes: Blankets boys and girls Washcloths Bibs boys and girls Onesies boys and girls Blue ribbon Sleepers boys and girls Socks boys and girls If you are able to make a donation, please turn them in to the Church Office. Thank you, Melissa On the second Friday of each month we get together at the Church to play Euchre. It is a fun evening of Christian fellowship. Please come and join us. No experience is necessary. A light snack is provided and $5 donation with the proceeds going to debt retirement. The next Euchre night will be on October 13 from 6-8pm. MISSIONS CANDLE ON THE ALTAR You can support our Church's mission work while honoring or remembering an important person or event in your life by making a donation to light the Mission Candle on the altar. You would light the candle at 9:50 and extinguish it when the service is over. A note acknowledging your donation will appear in the bulletin on that Sunday, your donation will be used to support our church's mission work. Sign up in the Gathering Space on the Mission Candle" form, and turn in your donation to the Church Office or put a check made out to TUMC Missions in Carol Westcott's mailbox. YOUR CHURCH MAILBOX Everyone has a mailbox if you regularly attend church. The mailboxes are in the main hallway of the Church. Please remember to check your mailbox every Sunday. There is important information left there for you. There might be something there for you today! Please let the Church Office know if you change your address.

8 GIFT CARD PROGRAM Do you use gift or money cards? Our program offers the same 350 different gift/ money cards with 745 various denominations or methods to obtain money value to these cards. You can purchase directly from us or we can set up a family account which allows you to reload various cards you purchase from us. If you have reloadable cards you can add money to these cards and they are then available with the new value within 3-4 hours and you do not have to wait for us to get new ones for you. These are the same cards you can purchase at Walmart, Neiman s or Rite-Aid stores. If you buy these cards from us, we then earn various percentage rebates for our church to help fund special programs in our church. We want to thank everyone who desires to help us with this gift card program. ABC Pie Sales for Shoes is coming on October 14th, 15th, 21st and 22nd-- before/after worship. You will have the opportunity to purchase apple, blueberry, and/or cherry pies for $10.00 each. Also, we will have a Missions Pie Sale booth at the Tawas United Methodist Women's Bazaar on Saturday, October 21st. if you would like to stop by to purchase pies there. Please let family members, friends and neighbors know they can purchase pies at the Women's Bazaar too. Remember the money raised goes to help provide shoes/ boots for our local school children. Operation Christmas Child boxes will be available in October. All the information needed will be in the OCC box. Please be sure to place items for child in the box and tape the label (boy/girl and check the age) on the top of the box. Please use the rubber bands to secure the box--no tape please. Missions will again pay for the shipping of each box. OCC boxes will be due to the church by Sunday, November 12th. The Noisy Offering for October will go to the Foods Resource Bank, November will go toward the Homelessness in the U.S. program, and December will go to the Society of St. Andrew. Enjoy the beauty of the Fall season in our community! Thank you! The Missions Team

9 CHRISTIAN RADIO Smile FM 89.7 Family Life Radio 99.7 The Promise FM THANK YOU Thank you to everyone who helped or participated in our District Conference. Your hospitality, welcome, and leadership were greatly appreciated. Thank you! Pastor Dan HOMEMADE PIE SALE The Mission Committee Annual Pie Sale will be held October 14, 15, 21, 22. The pies available include: Apple, Blueberry, and Cherry. Price is $10. HOSPITALITY SNACKS AND COFFEE We are in need of SNACKS to serve after the Services. Our snack sign up schedule has many available Sundays to fill. Please consider signing up! Pat Fisher

10 YOUTH NEWS! We are excited to get our programming up & running. We will continue Sunday School at it's new time, 11:15-12:00. A big thank you goes out to Pam Lynch for her faithfulness in teaching our children. Junior Church is back for kids through the fourth grade. Another big thanks to Anna Dalman for heading this up. She keeps our volunteers on a rotating schedule. I appreciate all her volunteers & hopefully in our next BEACON I can mention them by name. Spectacular Saturday kicked off with a fun time of fellowship, good food (grilled by our famous chef, Pastor Dan), games & sharing our news for the coming year. Because our God is so faithful we are expanding our group to three groups. Spectacular Saturday 1 will be ages 4 through third grade. Spectacular Saturday 2 will be grades 4th through 6th. Seventh grade & up will move to our Youth Group! How exciting is that? Youth group won't be the same day as Spectacular Saturday. The day & time is yet to be announced. We also will be welcoming new members in October. Our youth have been attending confirmation classes lead by Pastor Dan and Heather Hasty. What a thrill to see our youth anxious to make this commitment to God. What a blessing they are to our Church! Please pray for all these programs, their leaders & most importantly our youth. Blessings, Nancy

11 Tawas United Methodist Church 20 E M-55 Tawas City, MI POSTAGE REQUIRED IF MAILED Please share this newsletter with anyone you know who may be interested in visiting our Church. ADDRESS LABEL Join us for Sunday Service Saturday 6pm Praise Sunday School 11:15am Sunday 10:00 a.m. Nursery (staffed) 10:00am Pastor: Rev. Daniel Gonder Parsonage: pastortumc@outlook.com Youth Director: Office Manager: Laura Loeffler Music Director: Shawn Wygant Custodian: Judy Hills Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 9:00am to 2:00 pm (Lunch: 11:30 Noon) Friday Closed Church Office: Fax: tawasumc@outlook.com Web: Our Purpose... To connect people to God and one another through Jesus Christ.