2018, Issue 4 MAY West Richmond Church of the Brethren National Youth Sunday We will celebrate National Youth Sunday with the rest of the denomination on Sunday, May 6. Please join in supporting the youth as they lead worship. Our BRIEF Spring Congregational Business Meeting is scheduled for after worship on Sunday, May 21, to hear the Year-End report from Hilltop Preschool Director, Jackie Algood, and announce member changes to Hilltop s Board of Directors. Come Share Lunch With Us! Following worship on Sunday, May 20, our Christian Ed. Commission hosts a Potato Bar Luncheon to raise money to cover National Youth Conference expenses for Shaun Finchum and advisor Dustin Dedrick, who will attend the July 21-26 conference in Colorado. The cost of NYC is around $2,000 for their registration and plane fare. Of that, $1,000 is covered by our budget, so olny $1,000 needs to be raised. The luncheon is strictly donation only so all people are welcome. From Our Pastor 2 In Our Congregation 3 Calendar & Schedule 4-5 With Our Community 6 Around the District 7 On the Horizon 8
P age 2 The Herald Six Ways To Help Your New Pastor Succeed Very soon, David Whitten and his family will arrive to live and work among you. Plans are already well under way to offer welcome and hospitality in generous and practical ways. As you continue to make preparations, think and pray over these over-arching ways you can help David thrive here. 1) ENCOURAGE YOUR PASTOR TO WORK FROM HIS STRENGTHS. No pastor can do everything well. Enable your pastor to emphasize his strengths and draw on the gifts of others to assist in areas where he is not as gifted. 2) ENCOURAGE YOUR PASTOR TO MAKING SPENDING TIME WITH GOD A PRIORITY. A pastor should work for God first and foremost, so it follows that he should be intentionally listening to God and growing in his relationship with God. His schedule should be balanced between prayer and study and being out and about responding to the needs of the church and the world. 3) ENCOURAGE YOUR PASTOR TO PUT FAMILY FIRST. I once knew a pastor that believed that if he took care of the church, God would take care of his family, but it just doesn t work that way. Expect your pastor to work hard, but allow him to put family first and join him in loving and supporting them. 4) DON T EXPECT YOUR PASTOR TO BE A MIRACLE WORKER. Almost every church wants a 35 year old pastor with 20 years of experience who will bring in lots of families with young children and restore the church to her glory days. Sorry, but that s not his job. His calling is to help the church discern and follow God s leading to be its best, faithful self for today and tomorrow. Assist him in this process by being open and willing to imagine a new and hopeful future for WRCOB. 5) CONTINUE TO GIVE YOUR PASTOR FREEDOM IN THE PULPIT. Your pastor will often preach sermons that offer comfort and encouragement, and this is good and right. But other times, he will be burdened with a prophetic message that may be hard to hear and even harder to live into. Stand with him and encourage him to share what he believes God has laid on his heart. 6) FINALLY, PRAY THAT YOUR PASTOR WILL BE NOT THE MINISTER THAT THIS CHURCH NEEDS, BUT THE MINISTER THE WORLD NEEDS. Of course the pastor will tend to the needs of the flock here, but he also needs to be involved in the wider church and in the world. Help him to balance caring for you with enabling you to be the church the world needs. I look forward to hearing how God is working in and through you as you begin this journey together. Until then, I m on the journey with you, Tracy (Thanks to my ministry colleague Larry Hovis for supplying the initial points for this article.)
2018, Issue 4 Page 3 In Our Congregation Graduate Info Needed It s that time of year again! Please call or email the church office with news on ALL of your graduates preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle, high school, and higher education. Please supply what school they re graduating from, where they re going in the fall, and if it is higher education, their degree. We will recognize all of our graduates during worship in June. UPCOMING PULPIT SUPPLY Time has flown by and Tracy Hartman will be leaving us May 20 th. It s hard to believe that a year has gone by. We will be having guest speakers on May 27 (in negotiations), June 3 (Terrie Glass), and June 10 (Mike Hostetter). From May 21 through June 17, Dick Shreckhise will continue his duties with visitation. You can call the church office, Alyce Newman, Bob Gangwer or Terrie Glass for pastoral concerns. West Richmond Church of the Brethren 7612 Wanymala Road, Henrico, Virginia 23229-4239 Phone: 804-288-6439 Fax: 804-282-4408 www.wrcob.org wrcob@wrcob.org Interim Pastor... Tracy Hartman (804-928-8695) Interim Pastor (Visitation)... Dick Shreckhise (717-371-6393) Administrative Assistant... Barbara Beers (804-338-3482) Sunday School... 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship...11:00 a.m. Church office (M-F)... 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. If no one is in the office or the line is busy, voice mail will pick up please leave us a message. Items for the bulletin s weekly newssheet MUST be submitted by noon each Thursday to the church office. All articles for the June edition of The Herald are due in the office by May 15, 2018. If you cannot be present for worship, you can receive email copies of the bulletin. Simply contact the church office to make it happen.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 9:45 am Ladies Circle 5:30 pm Hull Street Ministry 8:30 am Ministry & Mission in VIRLINA (at Collinsville COB) 10:00 am Shredding & Electronics Recycling 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 National Youth Sunday 9:45 am Sunday School 11:00 am Worship 9:45 am Ladies Circle 6:15 pm Girl Scouts 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 8:00 am Men s Breakfast 9:45 am Sunday School 11:00 am Worship 12:15 pm Mother s Day Tea 7:00 pm Church Board 10:30 am Ladies Circle 1:00 pm Volunteer 11:00 am Hilltop s End of Year Program 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Tracy s Last Sunday 9:45 am Sunday School 11:00 am Worship 12:05 pm Congregational Business Meeting (Brief) 12:15 pm Potato Bar Fund Raiser for NYC 10:30 am Ladies Circle 27 28 29 30 31 LAMB s Basket Collection 8:00 am Men s Breakfast 9:45 am Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Guest Speaker Church Office Closed 10:30 am Ladies Circle 6:30 pm Ladies Nite Out (location to be determined)
Who s celebrating and Who s Doing What in 05/01... Faith Keithly (25 th ) 05/03... Lewis Mullins (94 th ) 05/05... Terrie Glass 05/06... Emily (Driver) Grady (25 th ) John & Jenni Wampler Vassar 05/07... Ben Alger Chris Keithly Tammara (Breen) Miller Dave Miller 05/10... Jori Carter Christopher Holsinger 05/11... Kinsey Miller 05/13... Kathy Miller 05/14... Fletcher Brunk (1 st ) Alex Martin (21 st ) Dave Reynolds Siobhan Wampler (16 th ) Joel & Dolly Guyer Marshall & Rachel (McCann) Pugh 05/15... Chris & Kaici Keithly 05/16... Maya Altic Faye Urban 05/17... Chris Wampler 05/20... Laurel Holsinger (15 th ) 05/21... Letha McKinnell 05/22... Brooke Lindgren 05/24... Betty Ziegler (90 th ) 05/25... Asha Solanky Owen Williams Donald & Margaret (Wampler) Lum 05/26... Stephanie Ryan 05/27... Gabriel Carr Chris Damour Meredith & Tori Yoder 05/28... Ken Heatwole Steve Martin 05/30... Grady Fields 05/31... Michele Damour Andrew Johnson May 6 13 20 27 Greeters (Dolly Guyer) Dolly Guyer Sandi Davis Paula Bryant Betty Altic June Diehl Worship Leaders (Lib Kinzie) National Youth Sunday Ann Andrus Joel Guyer Terrie Glass Nursery Care (Anna Welch) Annie Lipato & Faye Urban Sarah Beers & Shaun Finchum Betty Altic & Sandi Davis Charles & Belinda Layman Fellowship Hosts (Anna Welch) Dustin & Carrie Dedrick Richard Barry & Paula Bryant Carolyn Arthur & Terrie Glass Susan Robertson Tellers (Nancy Martin) Joel Guyer & Larry McCann Bob & Pat Gangwer Betty Altic & Sandi Davis Jeff Goss & Alyce Newman Mowing Crew (Jeff Goss) Joel Guyer & Ken Heatwole Dustin Dedrick & Charles Layman Want to be included in any of these activities? Please contact its coordinator. If you cannot fulfill an assigned date, please swap with someone and then contact the church office.
P age 6 With Our Community T h e H er a ld Greetings, CROP Walk Supporters! Mark your calendar now for the 2018 Richmond CROP Hunger Walk. It will be held on Sunday, September 16 at 2 PM. There are some exciting changes this year, including a new route starting from Ginter Park United Methodist Church. Your participation is appreciated. Can you find folks from WRCOB in both of these photos? Hull Street Ministry the 1 st Tuesday of each month, you can prepare meals or help serve; see Barbara McCann or Susan Robertson Community Kitchen the 3 rd Tuesday of each month, various tasks are completed; see Betty Altic or Judy McCloud LAMB s Basket the last Tuesday of the month we empty the shopping cart by the front doors, all types of non-perishables can be donated daily, as well as money to purchase fresh eggs; see Sandi Davis
2018, Issue 4 Page 7 Around Our District MINISTRY AND MISSION DAY IN VIRLINA - MAY 5, 2018 Mark your calendar for the annual Ministry and Mission in Virlina event - Saturday, May 5, 2018. It will be held at the Collinsville Church of the Brethren. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and worship will start at 9:00 a.m. Following worship, attendees will have the opportunity to pick from several workshops: "Effectively Board" by Brethren Benefit Trust, "Bridging the Divide: Skills in Conflict Transformation when Emotions are Involved" by Samuel Sarpiya, and Escaping Purgatory: Choosing WHY 2.0 to Overcome Existential Threats to Church and Camp by Barry LeNoir of Camp Bethel..1 CEU will be offered for each workshop. Workshops will be offered twice to allow ministers and others the opportunity to attend more than one. The Collinsville Church of the Brethren s Women s Fellowship will provide lunch; information about the cost will be posted as soon as it is available. Following lunch, the Annual Conference Delegate Briefing will take place, and will be led by Virlina's Standing Committee Members and Annual Conference Moderator, Samuel Sarpiya. This will begin at 1:30 p.m. and conclude around 3:00 p.m. YOUNG ADULT CONFERENCE - MAY 25-27, 2018 The 2018 Young Adult Conference (YAC) will be held May 25-27 at Camp Brethren Woods, near Keezletown, Virginia. The theme is "Teach with your life" from I timothy 4:11-16. YAC offers people ages 18-35 a chance to enjoy fellowship, worship, recreation, Bible study, service projects and more. The registration is $130 which includes food, lodging and programming. Questions? Contact Becky Ullom Naugle in the Youth/Young Adult Ministry Office at <bullomnaugle@brethren.org> or (847)429-4385. VIRLINA BUS TRIP TO NYC - JULY 17-28, 2018 Catch the bus with other Virlina youth to National Youth Conference! Transportation will be provided by Sunshine Tours and will include six nights lodging, 6 hot breakfasts, one Chuck Wagon Show and Dinner, entrance and tour of the Sky Deck in Chicago, a stop by the General Offices of the Church of the Brethren in Elgin, and trips to the Badlands, Wall Drug, Bear Country, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Custer State Park, St. Louis Arch and tram to top, and snacks and drinks along the way. The registration fee for the bus trip is $900.00 per person. Participants can expect to have $200.00 in additional expenses on food and souvenirs. Forms and information will be sent to congregations. Information is also available on <www.virlina.org>. Keep up to date with Mary St. John (2018 Bus Trip Coordinator) and trip details on the Virlina District Youth Facebook page. A $200.00 non-refundable deposit is due immediately. The remaining $700.00 is due by June 30, 2018. Please call the District Resource Center with questions. NATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE (NYC) JULY 21-26, 2018 Participants in National Youth Conference (NYC) 2018 will focus on the theme Bound Together: Clothed in Christ. The scriptural theme is from Colossians 3:12-15: As God s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Kelsey Murray is the 2018 NYC coordinator and Carol Elmore (Virlina District) is an advisor on the National Youth Cabinet. NYC will take place July 21-26, 2018, in Fort Collins, Colorado. The event is for youth who have completed ninth grade through one year of college at the time of NYC (or are age equivalent to this range) and their advisors. Online registration for NYC opens January 18th!! Don't miss out on important information and updates. Check out NYC 2018 on Facebook and <www.brethren.org/yya/nyc/>. The registration cost for NYC is $500.
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