THE LAMPLIGHTER July 2016

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CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 130 E. WALNUT ST. GALION, OHIO 44833 PHONE: 419-468-1504 FAX: 419-468-2454 Website: www.

org SUNDAY STUDY GROUPS 9:00 AM WORSHIP SERVICE 10:15 AM RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Lamplighter Article Deadline is the 20th of

1 CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 130 E. WALNUT ST. GALION, OHIO PHONE: FAX: Website: SUNDAY STUDY GROUPS 9:00 AM WORSHIP SERVICE 10:15 AM RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Lamplighter Article Deadline is the 20th of each month. NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION. US POSTAGE PAID GALION, OH PERMIT NO. 148 CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 130 E. WALNUT ST. GALION, OHIO THE LAMPLIGHTER July 2016 Our Mission Statement: Teaching God s Word by Living God s Love

JULY USHERS Mary Kilburg, Carol Holtshouse, Vee TyRee, Joyce Kirk, Anne Epperson, Roxann Ramsey, Doris Beale, Lori LaChance,

SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAM Our Church will be helping with the Summer Lunch Program July 5-8. We have 14 volunteers.

SEMI-ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Semi-annual financial statements will not be printed. If you need one please see Roxann.

Vacation Bible School will be held at Peace Lutheran Church July 31-August 4.

2 JULY USHERS Mary Kilburg, Carol Holtshouse, Vee TyRee, Joyce Kirk, Anne Epperson, Roxann Ramsey, Doris Beale, Lori LaChance, Jeni See, and Nita Nungesser. AUGUST USHERS Gary Irwin, Charles Miller, Doug Osborne, John Fisher, Dave Kirk, and Brian Campbell. SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAM Our Church will be helping with the Summer Lunch Program July 5-8. We have 14 volunteers. Because of this we will be able to have people at all four stations with no one having to do extra duty by going from one location to the other. Pastor and Cindy would like to thank those who offer their time and service to help the children of Galion, Ohio. SEMI-ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Semi-annual financial statements will not be printed. If you need one please see Roxann. Baptism On June 19 we celebrated the baptism of Penny Rose McNutt, daughter of Zach and Denise. Vacation Bible School will be held at Peace Lutheran Church July 31-August 4. There will be a meal served at 5 o clock and Bible School will be from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Volunteers are needed to help and are welcome to come to the meal. Registrations forms are available on the Vacation Bible School table in the Gathering Area and may be turned in to Pat Keirns or the church office. FINANCE COMMITTEE The Finance Meeting for July has been cancelled.

SECOND TIME AROUND SALE July has arrived! Show your American pride by displaying the United States flag; always appropriate, but especially during patriotic holidays. Praise God for our freedoms!

Jewelry donations are being accepted at the church office during regular office hours.

For other arrangements, please call Jerry O. @ 419-468-5534 or Carol H. @ 419-468-5345.

3 SECOND TIME AROUND SALE July has arrived! Show your American pride by displaying the United States flag; always appropriate, but especially during patriotic holidays. Praise God for our freedoms! Workshops for the preparation of jewelry for our early fall sale begin in July. Donations of gently used jewelry are needed now and thru Summer. Jewelry donations are being accepted at the church office during regular office hours. Also, you may bring them to worship services or meetings and give them to anyone of the following: Jerry Osborne, Carol Holtshouse, Doris Beale, Pat Fisher, or Sue Irwin. For other arrangements, please call Jerry or Carol God gifts us ninety-four days of summer freedoms from routine schedules ; please take time soon to browse thru your jewelry for those donations that keep on giving! Blessings! DEBORAH CIRCLE A special thanks to the members of the Fruit Bearers Class for their participation in study this past year. I appreciate the gift that appeared our last Sunday of June. We are taking the Summer off and classes will resume Sunday mornings in September. The first series will be Starting Over by Andy Stanley. Starting over is okay if you re putting together a gas grill, but it s not okay if it s your life. All are welcome. Please join us this Fall. -Doug Osborne PRAYING FOR YOU FRIENDS ABBINGTON OF POWELL MILL CREEK Gertrude Garverick Barbara Roelle 3971 Bradford CT., Suite 112 Room 112 Powell, OH Verl Stevenson Room 105 HEARTLAND OF MARION Jack Moderwell LEXINGTON COURT 400 Barks Road West Elizabeth Fuller Room 402A Marion, OH WINCHESTER TERRACE Leah Negrete 70 Winchester Rd Mansfield, OH MAGNOLIA TERRACE: Virginia Mateer Barr, Peg Lust, Ruth Rhoades, Rosalee Rogers, and Waldene Blasberg. AT HOME: Bee Anderson, Norma Byers, Lonnie Eagle, Helen Lott, Shirley Meinzer, Carolyn Opperman, Homer Roelle, Chaia Thompson, Karen Vose and Russ Vose, Carol Shockley, Betty Sherman, Barb Stamper, Jack Olt, Jan Shuck, and Jim Erick.

Helen Lott 03 Mary Reed 06 Correina Boyce 08 Rosalee Rogers 11 Bill Fischer 13 Betty Yates 13 Kay McDonald 14 Cathy Moneysmith 14 Delores Tuscan 14 Gary Burnside 15 Doris Beale 16 Pam Huntsman 17

Action Nicole Otavi will be our guest mission speaker for Sunday, July 10 @ 10:15 a.m. while she is home on a brief furlough from Egypt.

You are urged to be in attendance. A freewill offering will be taken. MIDWEST MISSION TRIP The Mission Team will be going to Midwest Distribution Center in August to help assemble cleaning buckets.

4 Helen Lott 03 Mary Reed 06 Correina Boyce 08 Rosalee Rogers 11 Bill Fischer 13 Betty Yates 13 Kay McDonald 14 Cathy Moneysmith 14 Delores Tuscan 14 Gary Burnside 15 Doris Beale 16 Pam Huntsman 17 Arlene Moore 17 Alicia Vose 19 Barbara Stamper 24 Maralee Frost 25 Sherry Jividen 28 Sharon Weaver 28 Denise Milligan 29 Brett Starner 29 MISSION NEWS MISSIONARY SPEAKER NICOLE OTAVI -Athletes In Action Nicole Otavi will be our guest mission speaker for Sunday, July 10:15 a.m. while she is home on a brief furlough from Egypt. She will speak about her work in Egypt for Athletes In Action among college age youth as a life coach and to the newly organized multi-sport academy for girls aged You are urged to be in attendance. A freewill offering will be taken. MIDWEST MISSION TRIP The Mission Team will be going to Midwest Distribution Center in August to help assemble cleaning buckets. THANK YOU very much to everyone who has donated so far! We will continue to collect money until we leave in August. Any amount is welcome and can be put in the offering or turned into the office. (Remember to mark flood bucket on your donation.) ICE CREAM SOCIAL The Ice Cream Social will be held July 30 at 4:30 p.m. Bring your appetite and come join us! FUTURE EVENTS: Charge Conference date has been set for Saturday October 8, from 10:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m.

5 From the Pastor s Desk, Another eventful week at Lakeside for the East Ohio Annual Conference is finished. The weather was good. The accommodations were wonderful. My thanks to Pat Keirns for serving as our Lay Delegate. The theme of Annual Conference was Jesus is Calling Us Out. The theme verse was 2 Corinthians 5:17: So then, if anyone is in Christ, that person is part of the new creation. The old things have gone away, and look, new things have arrived! (CEB) Keynote speakers for the week included Bishop John Hopkins, who announced his retirement effective August 31, retired Bishop Peter Weaver and West Ohio Bishop Greg Palmer. Together they stressed the need for local congregations to get out into the community, to make disciples of Jesus Christ and to transform the world. The keynote word was Transformation. At the Service of Commemoration and Holy Communion on Monday afternoon, we recognized 47 saints who joined the church triumphant since Annual Conference Basing his sermon on the theme verse, Bishop Hopkins spoke of his 1996 visit to Florence, Italy, to see the cleaned and restored statue of David by Michelangelo in time for its 500th birthday. He compared the church to the statue of David stating that the church also needs to be cleaned up from time to time. It can become neglected, unappreciated, and even go off course in fulfilling its purpose. He went on to say that the church is God s creation. In the sacrament of baptism, we die to self and are born anew in Christ. Baptism into the Christian faith, Hopkins said, also claims a person for the work of the church. As new persons in Christ Jesus, you are required to seek justice and mercy in the world. We are entrusted with the message of reconciliation. Bishop Hopkins challenged those in attendance: Are we willing to be transformed by God so that God can use us to transform the world? Bishop Weaver spoke at Tuesday morning devotions from the first chapter of Mark and invited us to look again on the baptism of Christ which we share. As Jesus came up from the water, he was then sent out into the wilderness. In the midst of our current wilderness of violence and hatred, we are called to be heralds of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit to transform lives. Bishop Weaver brought forth the Most important question that can be asked : Do you believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? We have been called into life as a new creation in Christ, a life transformed in love and grace. We are called to invite others up into that new life. Bishop Weaver then blessed us, sending us out to be Christ to the world. At Wednesday morning devotions we heard these words from Bishop Palmer: God in Christ spared nothing for our salvation. The only question, missionally, for the church is we are going to spend our time trying to preserve the church as we know it or are we going to expend ourselves telling and incarnating the mighty deeds of God? During the Service for Commissioning for Ministry and the Ordination of Elders and Deacons, Bishop Hopkins commissioned six clergy and ordained ten. On Thursday morning, we celebrated the ministry of Bishop John and Elaine Hopkins as we bid them goodbye. During the business of conference, there were only 2 resolutions to be voted on, and we endorsed one of our clergy to be on the ballot for one of 4 new Bishops to be elected at North Central Jurisdictional Conference, July in Peoria, IL. You can get these details and lots more about East Ohio Annual Conference as provided by Rick Wolcott, the Conference Director of Communications & Company at the conference website: Look for the Recap Report on the home page. Blessings, Pastor Jerry

Angel Food Pudding Cake with Berries CAKE 1 box Betty Crocker angel food cake mix 1 1/4 cups water 1/4 cup red, white, and blue sprinkles FILLING 4 containers (6 oz each) Yoplait Original strawberry

blueberries 1 1/2 cups sliced fresh strawberries DIRECTIONS 1. Move oven rack to middle position. Heat oven to 350 o. 2.

Cool completely upside down as directed on cake mix box, at least 1 hour. Run knife around edges; turn cooled cake out onto cooling rack. 4.

6 Angel Food Pudding Cake with Berries CAKE 1 box Betty Crocker angel food cake mix 1 1/4 cups water 1/4 cup red, white, and blue sprinkles FILLING 4 containers (6 oz each) Yoplait Original strawberry yogurt 1 container (12 oz) Cool Whip frozen whipped topping, thawed 1 box (4-serving size) vanilla instant pudding and pie filling mix 2 cups chopped fresh strawberries TOPPING 1 cup fresh blueberries 1 1/2 cups sliced fresh strawberries DIRECTIONS 1. Move oven rack to middle position. Heat oven to 350 o. 2. In large bowl, beat cake mix and water with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, then on medium speed 1 minute. Stir in sprinkles. Pour batter into ungreased 10-inch tube pan. 3. Bake minutes or until deep golden brown. Cool completely upside down as directed on cake mix box, at least 1 hour. Run knife around edges; turn cooled cake out onto cooling rack. 4. In large bowl, beat yogurt, 1 1/2 cups of the whipped topping, and the pudding with whisk until well-blended. Cut cake in half. Tear one of the halves into bite-size pieces. Place pieces in bottom of 13 x 9 inch pan. Sprinkle 1 cup of the chopped strawberries evenly over cake. Pour and spread half the yogurt filling on top. Tear other cake half into bite-size pieces, Repeat layers with remaining cake pieces, chopped strawberries, and yogurt filling. Refrigerate 2 hours. 5. When ready to serve, spread remaining 3 cups whipped topping on top of cake. Decorate top of cake using blueberries to form a large star in center and sliced strawberries around edges. Brian & Megan Campbell 07 Larry & Sara Palmer 12 Rodney & Karen Vose 17 Doug & Jerry Osborne 23 Boyd & Anne Epperson 26 The July/August Issue of The Upper Room is available in the rack outside the Pastor s office. Food Pantry For the Food Pantry this month we are collecting the following items: Pancake Mix, syrup, and canned fruits. Also taxable items such as toilet paper, deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste, bar soap, and hand soap.

THE LAMPLIGHTER May 2016

THE LAMPLIGHTER May 2016 CHRIST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 130 E. WALNUT ST. GALION, OHIO 44833 PHONE: 419-468-1504 FAX: 419-468-2454 Website: www.christumcgalion.org SUNDAY STUDY GROUPS 9:00 AM WORSHIP SERVICE 10:15 AM TRUTH FOR