Inside this issue... April The United Methodist Church of Enfield phone: (860) Brainard Road Enfield CT,

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1 April 2018 The United Methodist Church of Enfield phone: (860) Brainard Road Enfield CT, Office Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 9:00AM-Noon Sunday Worship: 10:00AM Traditional Service Sunday School: Children ages 3 - Adult 9:00AM Supervised Nursery: For infants and children up to 2nd grade Bible : Adult Bible - Thursdays 11:00AM Women s Breakfast & Bible - Every other Saturday 9:00 11:00AM Choir Rehearsals: Wednesday evenings 7:00-8:30PM Prayer Shawl Ministry: Wednesdays 9:30AM Men s Group: Thursdays 10:00AM Inside this issue... Page 2.. Green Hair Day Pictures Page 3.. Moving Forward Committee Page 4.. Birthdays/Anniversaries Meet Our New Pastor Page 5..S.O.N. Activities Page 6. Warming Center Update Page 7. Service with a Smile Page 8. Christian Education Page 9.. Prayer List Red Cross Blood Drive Page 10.April Calendar

2 2018 Green Hair for Oswald Suppor ng the Enfield Food Shelf Thank you for the fun and the many blessings.

3 Going Forward Our church is involved in the Going Forward program. Your Going Forward team is meeting with a mentor, Rick McKinley, on a regular schedule for coaching. They also meet regularly to discuss discipleship and service opportunities. Rick has recommended a great book for our reading: First Impressions : Creating Wow Experiences in Your Church. The following is an introduction to this book, which was written by Mark L. Waltz. Guests in church often decide whether to return or not before service even starts. It's crucial to create a welcoming environment for guest of your church--to ensure that their first impression is the best impression. Author Mark Waltz gives you practical strategies that have worked in his own church--that you can easily implement in yours. Learn how to make guests feel welcome the moment they pull in to your parking lot. Gain an understanding of the philosophy, strategy, and implementation of a ministry that focuses on welcoming guests. Get practical ideas that take your church "greeting" to a whole new level. If you would like to read this book, please contact a member of the Going Forward Committee to borrow our copy. After service, be sure to come to our Fellowship time in the blue room. Please continue to wear your nametag, so we all can easily call each other by name. When you leave you may either place your nametag in our nametag collection basket or replace it on the board. From 50 Ways to Welcome a New Pastor Send cards of welcome and encouragement to the incoming pastor. Know that welcoming your new pastor in genuine and effective ways lays the ground work for a healthy and vital relationship and the development of stable, long-term ministries together. Show love, regard, and even grief, for your departing pastor. Wear your name tag. (UMCE note: Let s practice by wearing our badges now, so we do not forget in July.) Provide the congregation the opportunity to say thank you and goodbye to the outgoing pastor. (UMCE note: Please reserve June 2 to celebrate Pastor John s retirement.) Respectfully submitted, Going Forward Committee Lorraine Creedon, Don Crouser, Carrie Kinney, Doug Oakes, Linda Thorn, Wendy Morse 3

4 April Birthdays 9. Ally Tetro 11. Paul Allen Jeremy Hart 14. Matthew Gagnon Brendan Kinney Mark LaBranche 15. Cole Boissonneault Don Kinney 16. Karen Piret 17. Doug Oakes Lynne Tracey-Thim 19. Eloise Allen John Riley 21. Sue Peterson 23. Matthew Leduke 24. Holli Simmons 26. Don Griffee 28. Scott Shepherd 29. Jason Phelps Happy Anniversary Don & Carrie Kinney April 13, 2002 Join us for some wonderful Southern Gospel Music! Friday, April 6, :00PM There is no charge for the concert. A goodwill offering will be taken. Meet our New Pastor! Brief Bio of Rev. Janet Deranian Beginning July 1, our new pastor will be Rev. Janet Deranian. Pastor Janet is a second-career pastor, having worked as a history curator for twenty years in museums in New England and Pennsylvania. She heard God s call to ministry while participating in the life of Asbury UMC in York, Pennsylvania, several years after a friend invited her to a Sunday morning adult faith class. Never underestimate the power of an invitation! Pastor Janet loves to bake, and is known for her desserts. She never has enough room for her cookbooks, which seem to multiply when she isn t looking. She was born and grew up in eastern Massachusetts. Her family includes two brothers and their families, along with friends scattered all over the country. Pastor Janet said God s action in my life has taken me to many interesting places. From Pennsylvania back to New England, to seminary in North Carolina to Mystic CT for my first appointment and to Lenox MA for my second appointment. Now I find myself back in Connecticut! I look forward to serving The United Methodist Church of Enfield, a congregation that clearly is committed to serving Christ in the wider community. We are having a reception after the Needham s The Men s Group meets concert! Please consider helping us with this every Thursday morning event. If you would like to contribute by at 10:00AM for a hot bringing or making finger food for this time of breakfast and fellowship. hospitality, please contact Linda Thorn or the Please join us. church office. Thank you! 4

5 A thought for April 2018: No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 (New Living Translation) April! Let us rejoice and sing our songs of praise and joy for this glorious world. Just look around our small town to see such wonderful diversity in people, buildings, animals, plants, everything. Rejoice in the wonder! Did you miss the Green Hair for Oswald??? Members of our congregation and our friends went green on March 18 to support Oswald and the EFS. Look at these wonderful pictures below. Lots of fun AND $711 donated to the EFS. THANK YOU! Did you join us for the February potluck? How about the March Palm Sunday Breakfast? Next activity is a Soup Cook-off on April 29! Be sure to plan your last Sunday, so you can enjoy soup from our fantastic cooks. There is a sign-up sheet for the event for our fabulous cooks. Join us in the Fellowship Hall for coffee and snack after church on Sundays. Good company. Good coffee. Good snacks. Time to relax and enjoy your church family. Please remember to wear your name tag. We will have a basket where you may leave your badge in the Fellowship Hall. Enfield Food Shelf UMCE will be the Northern Enfield collection site for the Letter Carrier s Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on Saturday May 12. A sign-up for volunteers will be available. Please come and help out. There is good fellowship and good service in this wonderful mission. Please see Don Crouser or any SON committee member for more information. THANKS YOU for all those wonderful egg cartons. The EFS has sufficient egg cartons for now, since egg donations have diminished. BUT they extend their gratitude for our collection. When the egg cartons are needed again, they will let us know. Plastic bags are still needed. Please continue to help your community Food Shelf help our poor. Pray for First Responders We have a basket with toy police and fire personnel figurines in the narthex. Please take one home as a reminder to pray for all the first responders that keep our community safe. Remember to say a pray for their skills and safety. - continued on next page - 5

6 Emergency Meals We have some special dinners in the freezer for emergency use. All are made with love and filled with prayers. Please remember this resource for anyone in need : friends, family, neighbors, etc. If you need a meal for yourself, family or friends in need, please see Pastor John or a member of the SON committee. Please let us know if the freezer is getting low on meals, so we will know, when to start cooking our next set of meals. THANKS! If you would like to join this ministry, please see Linda Thorn about the next scheduled cooking day! Coming up in May and June: May 2018 Blessings of the bicycles 5/27/2018 Pie celebration after church 6/24/2018 Watermelon celebration after church Remember: All church members are welcome to attend the following community events. Parkway Pavilion Bible Monday 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Parkway Pavilion Services scheduled by Parkway: 3/27/18 Rejoice! Celebrate the glory of God s creation, Linda Thorn Chairperson of the SON Committee Saturday, June 2 nd - Retirement Party for Pastor John & Candy More details will follow. Warming Center Update We have had an amazing year with our guests numbering up to 15 a night. The Center has stayed open longer hours during the big snow storms giving the guests a place to stay out of the worst weather. The Enfield People for People Safe Harbor Warming Center is an amazing grass roots mission that demonstrates what churches in our community can do when we work together. There are so many great stories - people getting jobs (even starting their own business), finding apartments, getting treatment for illnesses and most importantly the fellowship and support that has developed among them. It's your support that helps make all this possible thank you. Warming Center Fund Raiser A Pocketbook Auction will be held on Friday May 11th, at Holy Family Church. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Auction will start at 7:15. Pocketbooks may be gently used or brand new and there may be surprises hidden inside! Refreshments will be served. Tickets are $5. Please come and join the fun. See Lorraine Creedon if you are interested in attending or if you have pocketbooks to donate. 6

7 Save the date! May 5, 2018, 6 pm You are cordially invited to the 16th biennial Service with a Smile A Cinco de Mayo Event! Get out your serapes, Mexican hats and piñatas. The cost is $5.00 for tickets purchased in advance or $6.00 at the door. We will start with Mexican themed hot and cold hors d' oeuvres, margarita mocktails and time to preview our wonderful auction items. Our highly skilled auctioneers will start the auction, promptly at 6:45pm. We will take a break at 8:00 pm for special desserts, coffee, tea and Mexican hot chocolate. For more information see Donna Phelps or Don Crouser. Donation sheets will be on the table in the entry way. 7

8 Christian Education News Classes are from 9:00-9:45 AM We continue our studies of the Life of Jesus with "Parable of the Farmer and the Seed" on April 8. The adult class and Thursday morning Bible are using William Willimon's "Fear of the Other". Comments on the study book include: "Do not read unless you are ready to be changed and want to change the world", "Timely and prophetic", "gutsy biblically rich" - how can you stay away! VBS July Pastor John s adult Bible meets every Thursday at 11:00AM Come and join our gatherings, even if you've never attended a bible study before. SUMMER is coming! And that means VBS time! Are you available???? Come help. Come teach. Come sing. Come take part. Just come and be a part of this message of hope. Calling all women! Please join us every other Saturday for (potluck) breakfast and Bible under the Leadership of Candy Morgans! Our April gatherings are on Saturday, April 7 & 21 from 9:00am - 11:00am in the Green Room. If you have any questions, please see or Candy at: cmorgans@cox.net. Check out Isaiah 43:2 for this program s centering theme. More information to come! 8

9 Prayer Ministry Name Concern/Celebration Requested by Our Leaders Prayers & Guidance UMCE family Our Troops & families Prayers UMCE family Homeless Crouser Jim Holter Healing UMCE family Stephen Zavatsky Stroke/healing Lorraine Creedon Nelson family Loss of Lew Wendy Morse Mark Beginning Chemo Wendy Morse David Potter Cancer Scott Shepherd Rich Peterson 80 th birthday K. Oakes Wayne Heart surgery Darlene Farley Bob Phelps Mass in intestines Pastor John Cecy Mickey Healing Thim family Jack Bennett Pass in peace Menards Martha Platt Hospice L. Thorn Ed P Healing Doug Oakes Ganner family Loss of Irene UMCE family Howard Hip Cancer Donna Phelps Joanne Heling Dorie Justice Becker family Loss of baby Donna Pam Phelps Prayers for father & Donna cousin Patricia FitzGibbon Seeking full time work and reliable car Lee Jellinek Broken arm Pastor John Ted Robbins Surgery Mary Litsermeyer Sue Carr Small stroke Mary L/Joe Paul Gervais Lorraine Gervais Tracey Gagnon Concussion Candy Morgans Ferrell/Morgan families Loss of Kelly Candy Morgans Don Coit Strength & hope UMCE family Karen & Doug Oakes Continued healing UMCE family Anne Maria/Celia Healing Don Crouser JFK 8 th gr Orchestra Celebrate bronze medal Carrie Kinney at MICCA competition Mary LaPane & family Recovery, love & peace Mark LaBranche Sue Della Rocco & daughter Healing Lorraine Creedon Drive Details: Site: United Methodist Church of Enfield Address: 41 Brainard Rd, Enfield, CT, Room Name: Blue Room Date: Wed April 10, 2018 Time: 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM You can schedule an appointment by going to: and putting our zip code (06082) in the Find a Blood Drive blue box or call the church office at (860) The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need for patients in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds and most of us will need blood in our lifetime. Thank you for supporting the American Red Cross blood program! Download the Red Cross Blood Donor App on the App Store, Google Play or text BLOODAPP to Schedule appointments, get rewards and invite friends to join you on a lifesaving team. Please continue to be praying for your Prayer Partner. 9

10 April 2018 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Easter Sunday 9AM Sunday School 10AM Worship 2 10:15AM Parkway Bible 3 Noon AA Meeting 7:00PM Trustee Mtg 4 9:30AM Prayer Shawl 6:30 Girl Scouts 7:00PM Choir AA, CAAP 5 10AM Men s Group 11:00AM Bible 6 7:00PM Needhams Concert :30 AM Hand of Hope 9:00AM Women s Bible 8 2nd Sunday of Easter 9AM Sunday School 10AM Worship Communion offering: Loaves & Fishes Soup Kitchen 9 10:15AM Parkway Bible 10 Noon AA Meeting 1-6PM Blood Drive 7:00PM SON Meeting 11 9:30AM Prayer Shawl 7:00PM Choir AA 12 10AM Men s Group :30 AM Hand of Hope 15 3rd Sunday of Easter 9AM Sunday School 10AM Worship Loaves & Fishes Meal 16 10:15AM Parkway Bible 17 Noon AA Meeting 7:00PM Council Mtg 18 9:30AM Prayer Shawl 6:30 Girl Scouts 7:00PM Choir AA, CAAP 19 10AM Men s Group :30 AM Hand of Hope 9:00AM Women s Bible 22 4th Sunday of Easter 9AM Sunday School 10AM Worship 23 10:15AM Parkway Bible 24 Noon AA Meeting 25 9:30AM Prayer Shawl 7:00PM Choir AA 26 10AM Men s Group :30 AM Hand of Hope 29 5th Sunday of Easter 9AM Sunday School 10AM Worship Soup Cook-off 30 10:15AM Parkway Bible Pastor John and Candy will be on vacation April 11-27