Island In The Son United Methodist Church Beach Treasures May 2011 Page 1 Join us at Island in the Son for an EMMAUS SUNDAY GATHERING 10:00 AM ~ May 15, 2011 followed by a covered dish lunch Celebrating the Walk to Emmaus, Journey to Damascus & Chrysalis Communities The Emmaus movement does not exist primarily for the weekend Walks. Its purpose is to deepen the faith of individuals, to increase the faith of congregations, and to bring Christianity to the world. CC District Choir to Sing at SWTX Annual Conference The CC District is convening a District Choir to sing at the opening of Annual Conference worship service on Wednesday, June 8. All singers are invited to perform with the group. You do NOT have to be a regular member of the Praise Team. If you are interested and to get more details, contact Sue Utley (361-443-9451). Full rehearsals will be: Wednesday, May 25~6:00 PM at St. John's UMC Sunday, June 5~4:00 PM at St. Luke's UMC We are in the process of scheduling some rehearsals here at IITS to familiarize you with the music prior to the big rehearsals. New Pastor Announced for Island In the Son UMC Rev. Ken Houston will become pastor of Island in the Son UMC following the Annual Conference of the Southwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church in June. Rev. Houston comes to us from Karnes City United Methodist Church, where he has been pastor since 2002. He is married to his wife Lynn and has 4 sons and 6 grandchildren. Rev. Houston sums up his theology as follows: My prayer has always been to base my ministry on Paul s statement in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit s power, so that your faith might not rest on men s wisdom, but on God s power. My goal as a pastor is to love the church with an agape love and preach the Word. We look forward to welcoming Rev. Houston and his wife Lynn into the IITS family! Looks like he s ready for IITS! LEADERSHIP TEAM MEETING TUESDAY ~ MAY 3, 2011 6:00 PM Please send a representative of your team or area if you are unable to attend.
Page 2 Page 2 All FIVE Mondays matter in May - here s some suggested ways to make them count! May 2: It s the seemingly little things that really count - today all you have to do is smile at everyone you see, and you will be amazed at the rewards to them and you! May 9: This is considerably harder. If you smoke, try to quit. Just start with this Monday. Do it for yourself and all who love you. Everyone is asked to pray for those who are trying to quit. May 16: If you are thinking about getting a pet, adopt one or contribute your time and money to a local animal shelter. They need you. Always spay and neuter your pets! May 23: Investigate taking the latest CPR class. You could save a life of the one you love most. May 30: Today is a holiday. You matter. Do what makes you happy! FROM YOUR FAITH DEVELOPMENT TEAM, based on Every Monday Matters (Emerzian/Bozza). United Methodist Women Next Meeting: 11 AM ~ Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Spring Salad Luncheon The United Methodist Women will meet on Wednesday, May 11 th at 11:00 AM in the Celebration Center. A short business meeting will be followed by our Spring Salad Luncheon. Please bring a salad or other food to share. If you have a Secret Sister, you may bring a final gift because each Secret Sister will reveal her identity. Pastor Dana Hamilton will attend this meeting. We will recess for the summer and resume our meetings on September 14 th. All women of the church are invited to attend our meetings to enjoy fellowship and to help with mission projects for women and children. Jolly Roger Home Group will meet at 7:00 PM, Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 13826 Jolly Roger Street We meet in the home of John & Shirley Forrester. Please join us! Call John Forrester at 739-9964 for more information. Southwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church Annual Conference ~ June 8-11, 8 2011 Since 1939, clergy and laity members of the Southwest Texas Conference have gathered annually to pray, worship and confer about the ministry of the church and have fellowship with one another. This gathering follows a tradition dating back to John Wesley. The 2011 conference will meet from Wednesday, June 8 through Saturday, June 11. The Worship Services and Business Sessions will be at the Corpus Christi American Bank Center and Selena Auditorium. RECYCLING OPPORTUNITIES AT IITS Bulletins - in box by Celebration Center Entrance Aluminum Cans - in the receptacle by the kitchen Eye Glasses & Hearing Aids - in the Lion s Club box in the foyer Inkjet Cartridges & Cell Phones - in the Planet Green box on the Opportunities table Aluminum Pop tabs - in the Ronald McDonald House box on the Opportunities table Add this event to your fall calendar! Autumn in the Hills Senior Christian Retreat September 13-15, 2011 Creativity, Community & Culture Special Guest Missy Buchanan, author of Don t Write My Obituary Just Yet Mount Wesley Conference Center, Kerrville TX www.umcswtx.org/senior-christian-retreat
Insert A Dick Hamilton and Marge Foster experience the Labyrinth prayer walk on April 8. The Labyrinth was sponsored by the Tuesday Morning Prayer Geese. Kairos Is More Than a Cookie Can you imagine not having had a homemade cookie for more than five years? Many of the Men in White at McConnell Unit haven t had cookies for much longer than that, and IITS members provided 85 dozen cookies for Kairos #31! The Men in White are always amazed that you care enough to take the time to make cookies and to pray for them. Donation of your time and prayers is more of a blessing than you can ever know. We, as well as the Men in White of Kairos #31, sincerely thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Lowell and Betty Thomas Easter SONrise service on the beach with friends from Island Presbyterian Church. May Happy Birthday! to: 4...Dustin Cash David Frank 6...Estella Curtis 15...Bonnie Cox 16...Patty Baker 17...Lowell Thomas 19...Dottie Brumit McCarty Cummings 20...Eva Marie Settle 24...Kay Schroeder 27...Betty Thomas 29...Beau Hardegree Tammy Hardegree Sandy Harvey 31...JoAnn Sanderson Happy Anniversary! to: 22...George & Pam Schaffer 29...Carl & Karen Dillard Don t see your special day mentioned here? It just means we don t have it on record. Please let us know the date so we can update our database. The FAITH DEVELOPMENT team will meet on Thursday, May 19, 2011, at 6 PM at the church. LUNCH BUNCH will gather on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, May 10, at 1 PM at Whataburger on the Island. We hope to see YOU there! A sign-up sheet is available on the Opportunities table. Make a Date with the Dinner Bunch! The DINNER BUNCH will have their monthly get-together on the 4th Tuesday of the month, May 24, 6:30 PM, at Snoopy s on the Island (at the base of the JFK Bridge). Everyone is invited to this time of food and fellowship! A sign-up sheet will be available mid-month on the Opportunities table.
Island in the Son UMC Insert B Team meeting dates and times are based on information available at printing time. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 9 & 11 AM Holy Humor Sunday Cheryl Brockman, Worship Leader 2 TRUSTEES 6 PM 3 Prayer LEADERSHIP- 6 PM 4 Emmaus RG- 10 AM 5:30 - Youth Buzz Groups 5 6 7 8 9 & 11 AM (Guest Speaker) Mother s Day 9 SPRC 6 PM 10 Prayer Lunch Bunch 1 PM (@ Whataburger) 11 UMW UMW-11 AM Salad Luncheon WORSHIP-3 PM 5:30-Youth Buzz 12 Jolly Roger Group 7 PM Pastor to TMF Clergy Development Group in Navasota 13 14 THURSDAYS, 7-8:00 PM Facilitated by Cynthia Riewe 15 9 & 11 AM EMMAUS SUNDAY Gathering & Covered Dish 16 17 Prayer Pastor on vacation this week -----> 18 Emmaus Reunion Grp-10 AM 5:30 - Youth Buzz Groups 19 FAITH DEVEL- OPMENT-6 PM 20 21 22 9 & 11 AM 29 9 & 11 AM 23 24 Prayer 30 CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED Dinner Bunch 6:30 PM (at Snoopy s) 31 Prayer 25 Emmaus Reunion Grp-10 AM 5:30 - Youth Buzz Groups 26 27 28 jazzercise NEW CLASS SCHEDULE: Monday, Tuesday & Thursday: 5:30-6:30 PM Instructor: Renee Tortorello (512) 567-1713 The first names listed are greeters and the second names are clean up. You may trade with other greeters, or if you need a substitute or have questions, please contact Marge Foster at 361-949-2489. May 1: Ole & Aurora Thorsen Karl & Sandy Harvey May 8: McCarty Cummings, Skylar Powell & Victoria Epstein / Blake Powell & Seth Weber May 15: Blake Powell & Seth Weber / McCarty Cummings, Skylar Powell & Victoria Epstein May 22: Brent Curtis & Estella Curtis Steve Black & Theresa Sharpe May 29: Bob & Marihelen Boyd Kathy & Alexis Westerman
Page 3 Dear Friends in Christ, I call you friends for that is what you are to Dick and to me. This will be my last article for Beach Treasures and I find it difficult to put into words what each of you has meant to me over these past four years. You have shared the birth of our youngest grandchild, the difficult health issues facing my mother and grandmother and just general stuff of life that happens. In every instance I have felt your support, encouragement, love and God's grace in abundance. For that I thank God daily. You have helped me grow in too many ways to mention as I have served as your pastor, and I have loved every minute of it. Together we have accomplished great things and truly put Island in the Son on the map - not only in the Corpus Christi District - but also on the Island. Public awareness has grown and program ministries have increased. We have lost some beloved members and gained some new dear friends. All of this is because of your love for Island in the Son UMC and your confidence in the love and grace of God. I once heard it said that the only constant in life is change, and the time for change has once again come to us. Change can be difficult and create anxiety in those whose faith is not in God's promises. Without change nothing new ever comes into being. Without the death of creation in winter, there can be no beauty in spring. And without the death of Christ there could be no Easter. We are an Easter people. A people of hope. A people of joy and celebration. So rejoice in the new life that is to be yours under the leadership of your new pastor, Rev. Ken Houston, and continue the good work God has begun in you for the glory of God's Kingdom. Know that you are and will be in my prayers and that I love you. Via Con Dios! Go with God! Blessings and Shalom, Dana April 11, 2011 IITS Health Watch Our health report for March 2011: Prayers: We celebrated many answered prayers and joys in worship, including birthdays, anniversaries, medical recoveries, educational and athletic accomplishments. Presence: March average attendance: Worship 162 Sunday School 28 Gifts: March YTD Received $ 22,076 $ 59,319 Expenses $ 24,571 $ 56,223 Net income -$ 2,495 $ 3,096 Building Loan Payment (YTD): $5,565 Loan Principal Balance: $157,096 % Apportionments paid (YTD): 29% Service: Imagine No Malaria project; church workday; Wesley Community Center sponsorship; Oak Park UMC donation; lunch service to Timon s ministries. Dear Island in the Son United Methodist Church, On behalf of Wesley Community Center s Board of Directors and Staff, I would like to thank you for sponsoring our annual banquet celebration held Thursday, March 24, 2011. Your support will enable us to continue the programs and services we began in 1942 that have impacted the lives of homeless, CPS, and low-income children and families and uplifted and empowered those in need. Our mission is for children and their families to experience abundant life because we have dared to care for them passionately and provide for them faithfully. One of the greatest blessings God can give us is the gift of a friend who cares - thank you for being that someone. Sincerely, MaLinda Conway Faughn, Executive Director
The Beach Treasures monthly newsletter is EMAILED to the majority of our recipients. To be added to the email list or to get a mailed copy, please call the church office. Thank you for helping us save resources and the environment. Island in the Son United Methodist Church 10650 Highway 361 Corpus Christi, Texas 78418 (361) 749-0884 Email... islandintheson@yahoo.com Website... www.islandintheson.org Office Hours.. Monday-Thursday, 9 AM 2 PM Ministers... All Members of the Congregation Pastor... Rev. Dana L. Hamilton Music Director... Sue Utley Bookkeeper... Annette Chapman Administrative Assistant.. Connie Harris Maintenance... George Costanzo WORSHIP SCHEDULE Celebration Worship Service 10 AM 9 & 11 AM Coming up Sundays at Island in the Son... Page 4 May 1...Holy Humor Sunday... Cheryl Brockman, Leader May 8... Mother s Day... Guest Speaker May 15...Emmaus Sunday...Gathering & Covered Dish May 22... Feed the Heart... John 14:1-14 May 29... No Jargon. No Gobbledygook....John 14:15-21 June 5... Abandonment? No Way!...Acts 1:6-14 The mission of Island in the Son UMC is to be a place where all can come to meet, know, and serve our Lord Jesus Christ.