The First Church of the Brethren Roaring Spring, PA September 2018

The First Church of the Brethren Roaring Spring, PA September 2018 901 Bloomfield St. (814) 224.4113 Roaring Spring, PA 16673 Fax (814) 224.4923 Director of Ministry: Dr. David Crumrine www.rsfirstchurch.org Living out our faith Being the hands and feet of Jesus, serving with open minds and hearts. We exist to be a community of welcome and worship where people find peace, purpose, and power through Jesus Christ. Mark your calendar for Rally Day-September 9 th! Not only will that Sunday jump us into the official beginning of an exciting new year here at First Church, we hope to use it as a celebration of all the programs and events that our members have celebrated in the last several months. That way the day can also serve to build anticipation and eagerness to be part of another great year at First Church! Christian Education classes and teachers will be celebrated as part of worship that day, and we will point forward to another year of Venture Club and worshipping with our outstanding Choir. By recognizing National Youth Conference participants, Camp Blue Diamond campers, and hearing reports on our new on-line community for young adults, Vacation Bible School, Bible Study Groups, Good Grief Support group and Men s Fellowship we will be setting the stage for another year of using our gifts and talents in spreading the love, hope and message of Jesus Christ. Following the worship service, the Men s Fellowship will be preparing hamburgers and hotdogs for a potluck meal in the Fellowship Hall. Since we are limiting their time to report on National Youth Conference during worship, the excitement brought back from NYC will spill over as youth and advisors hope to go into a deeper report following the meal. I look forward to starting this new year off with you! Pastor Dave

Highlights of Leadership Mtg. Held on July 30 th, 2018 Christian Education Team - Pat Frazier -Many thanks to all who helped with the float in the July 3 rd Martinsburg Ag parade. - Vacation Bible School was held at Shawnee. Highest day attendance was 36, avg upper 20s. - Summer adult Sunday School is averaging around 24. - Considering creating opportunity for a parent support group to meet at First Church. - Rally Day Sept. 9 will kick off Sunday School and highlight National Youth Conference and Camp Blue Diamond. Men s Fellowship will grill burgers and hotdogs for lunch. - Continue to work at developing Youth in Ministry program. Missions and Service Team - Darlene Wyland - Donation was sent for commitment to Camp Blue Diamond capital campaign. - Working to prepare for Heritage Fair. - Looking ahead to Pennies for Witness and White Gift opportunities to give. - Planning to provide opportunity for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes but also begin to promote denominational and/or local projects. Worship Team - Terry Hershberger - Really enjoying working with Pastor Dave. - Planning to get 2 more new microphones. Finance and Facility Team - Bryce Nooyen - Brick work has been delayed because of continued rainy weather. - Internet access has been upgraded. - Giving is at budgeted level but there has been very little given toward building fund for projects like brick work. - Have been looking at insurance coverage. - Money has been given to window project and 8 to 10 new windows should be installed this fall Hospitality and Communications Team - Valerie Smith - Youth are planning a Hoss s fundraiser sometime during fourth quarter. - Around 50 people attended Fifth Sunday lunch in July. - A pool party is scheduled for Aug. 24 th. - Looking for people willing to be bring in the Light of Christ during worship. Adults are welcome. Deacons' Report - Betsy Garach reported. - Continue to meet together regularly for prayer. - A committee is working on a program/ministry for 2019 Easter season. Papers are available at the Welcome Center. See chair Bethann Frederick for more information. - Continue to make visits to shut ins. Thanks expressed for Dave and Janet Imes for the many extra visits they do to ill and shut ins. Pastor Dave - Not at meeting because he was attending TRIM orientation at Bethany Seminary. - Speaking at Aug 5 th Spring Dam Worship Service. - Young Adult on-line community is growing with 18 members currently. - With Dan Hammel s bible study ending, pastor Dave will begin Tues. a.m. study of James. Discernment Team of Pastor Dave, Mitch Frederick, Kristen Hall, and Don Bookhammer is joined by Jill Brumbaugh who will finish Maureen Detwiler s term. Will be preparing 2019 slate. Next Meeting - August 28 th at 6:30

SERVING IN SEPTEMBER Greeters Deacon Greeters Acolyte Audio Technician Front: Ethel Burket Rear: Charley & Shirley Smith Mike & Becky Bianconi Travis Russell Fellowship Time Genesis Class 2 9 16 23 30 Organist Pianist Darlene Wyland Marcia Fleck Cathy Petre Barb Wineland Cathy Petre Cathy Petre Brenda Fluke- Garber Marcia Fleck Marcia Fleck Cathy Neal Storyteller Pastor Dave Betsy Garach Pattie Conlon Rufus Petre Mandy Keith Nursery Attendant Welcome Center Parking Lot Greeters Flowers Bulletins Jane Brumbaugh Memory of Ralph & Lola Glass Audrey Smith Signe Dellinger Carol Emerick Jeannie Stiffler Arlene Beers Nancy Forshey Dave Imes Dave Imes Dave Imes Memory of Margaret Imes Memory of Bob Hoover Worship Leader Kaye Russell Pattie Conlon Jacob Reilly Rusty Hoover September 9, 2018 Men s Fellowship will provide hamburgers and hot dogs. Sign up if you will be attending, and if you are willing to bring a dish to share. Italain Theme Meal and Activity Noon Sunday, September 30 th

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them. BREAKFAST September 15, 2018 8 am at New Frontier If God has blessed you with a voice to sing with, we would encourage you to join the choir! Chancel Choir practice begins for the year on Wednesday, August 29 th at 6:30 pm. No auditions needed! We meet in the sanctuary. Be the Light of Christ - Know the Scripture Tuesday morning Bible Study will continue for the month of Sept. beginning at 9:30am and concluding at 10:45am. Plan to join Pastor Dave in the Alpha classroom and look forward to learning more about what the Bible has to say to you. If your summer schedule didn t provide a free window of time to attend the studies - no worries!! New faces are always welcome! Please email any pictures of church events to churchoffice@rsfirstchurch.org. If leaving something in the office, please leave a note what is for, who it is from so it gets where it needs to go. PENNIES FOR WITNESS Donations may be placed in the container in the Overflow Room. Final collection day will be September 30 th.

Sisters of Faith Breakfast 8 am September 15 The Bistro The Children activity bags have been replaced with clip board coloring pages and crayons They are still in the Narthex in a basket. Gary & Barbara Wineland have disconnected their landline. Please use their cell phones as listed in the directory. Heritage Fair September 22, 2018 Contact Darlene Wyland if you are willing to lend a helping hand, or see the sign up sheets at the Welcome Center. We need help taking things to CBD, setting up, and working at the booth. If you can t attend and want to give a monetary donation, put it in the offering with the note Heritage Fair. Mentoring will kick-off the year on September 16 th. Team pictures will be taken in the Fellowship Hall from 8:45 9 am. Donuts will be available, so plan to stop in. Teams are asked to sit together during worship as they will be dedicated during the service. 9/1 Cindy Hamm Mike Holsinger 9/5 Vicki Fisher Sherwood Bumbarger 9/6 Angie Delozier Hank Meetze Darlene Eicher 9/7 Ben Brumbaugh 9/8 Guy Forshey Caelan Padilla 9/9 Tim Eger 9/10 Tom Dick 9/12 Ben Wilt Aric Foor 9/15 Daren Brumbaugh Jane Brumbaugh Alexander Zychowski Jocelynn Kressler 9/16 Rachael Caldwell 9/17 Kaleb Eger Eli Hershberger 9/18 Adam Frederick 9/20 David Dodson Dee Myers Sage Evans 9/21 Nancy Forshey Jerry Ritchey 9/22 Lydia Loucks 9/23 Chelsey Dick Malaki Frederick 9/25 Kyle Musselman Cobee Shuff 9/26 Janet Imes Scott Thompson Meeka Foor 9/27 Aubreyalice Flamish 9/28 Mindy Dicken 9/29 Shelby Burns Clara Hoffman 9/30 Dominic Trigona

Good Grief, our grief support group, will meet at 7 pm in the Overflow Room on September 11 th. Contact Kaye Russell if you would like more information. Celebrating September Anniversaries 9/1 Walter & Linda Piper Nathan & Stephanie Hershberger Nathan & Brandi Walter 9/3 Barry & Melanie Hoffman 9/6 Pete & Carol Imler 9/7 Fred & Arlene Beers 9/8 Don & Janie Myers 9/11 Dave & Valerie Smith 9/13 Allen & Emily Keith 9/15 Tom & Julie Dick 9/17 Scott & Barbara Smith 9/18 Tom & Janis Thompson 9/20 Adam & Cortney Lanzendorfer 9/23 Tom & Missy Glunt 9/26 Rick & Tonya Dillon Mitch & Bethann Frederick Alyssa Bianconi wants to thank everyone for their support of her Sunshine Basket project. She completed and delivered 114 baskets on August 9th to Geisinger Hospital in Danville. Everyone there was surprised, amazed and thankful for the donation. Venture Club is open to children in Kindergarten through 5 th grade. We meet on Wednesday at 6 pm. We want to invite these children and their families to Opening Night on September 26 th at 6 pm. We will share dinner and a family activity. Contact Karen Eicher if you are willing to help with this program. Hunter Price 327 7th Avenue South Williamsport, PA 17701 Children ages 6 weeks through 12 years old attend Faith and Grace Learning Center. Some are here every day, some a couple times a week, others are here before and after school. Our Pre-School is from 9 am to 11:30 am. We thank you for your prayers for our program, the children and our staff. Should you have any questions, please ask us. We go outside and play in the parking lot, so you might see us if you stop by the church during the week. We also take walks around the neighborhood!

Compelling Vision Conversation Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish (Prov. 29:18a KJV) The Church of the Brethren stands at a crossroads. Recent decades have been defined by paralyzing conflict. In response to the ongoing conflict, at the 2017 Annual Conference, the delegate body affirmed a report from the Leadership Team and the Council of District Executives regarding The Authority of Annual Conference and Districts regarding the Accountability of Ministers, Congregations, and Districts. That report concluded with this assertion: To stay on the journey together, it is also crucial that the church discern the compelling vision that this body of Christ is called to pursue. Leadership, at both the denominational and district levels, has affirmed calling a team to guide the denomination through a process of conversation and discernment in an effort to arrive at a compelling Middle Pennsylvania District An introduction will be presented during the lunch time at District Conference on October 13. Two sessions have been scheduled for your participation. Join us for the conversation on Saturday, November 10 from 3-5 pm at Memorial COB in Martinsburg Sunday, November 11 from 2-4 pm at Maitland COB in Lewistown. vision rooted in our shared commitment to live as Christ s disciples. It is an invitation to place our trust in God s Spirit and engage in a visioning process to discern what God is calling us to do together with the fervent hope that our commitment to one another and to serving our God as the body of Christ might be renewed through this shared journey and a sense of shared mission. For as Eugene Peterson says in his paraphrase of Proverbs 29:18: If people can t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what (God) reveals, they are most blessed. Conversations began at Annual Conference this summer, will continue in districts and with various constituency groups through the fall and winter, and culminate at Annual Conference in 2019. We are committed to engaging as many people as possible in the process, providing opportunities for individuals to give voice to their passions and concerns, listen to one another, and work together to identify common threads and themes that might point to a shared and compelling vision. As we embark on this journey together, it is our prayer that: our relationships with one another will be strengthened and deepened, transcending points of disagreement; we will be able to celebrate the ongoing presence and activity of God s Spirit at work among us; we will be open to what God is calling us to do together as Christ s disciples; the vision ultimately articulated will lay claim to our hearts and our minds, our imaginations and our spirits, shaping our identity and inspiring our ministry at the congregational level, the district level, and the denominational level; and we will wholeheartedly embrace the challenge set before us by that vision, affirming contextual creativity as we actively seek to embody that vision. District Conference District Conference will be held on October 12-13, 2018 at Roaring Spring First Church of the Brethren. Janet Sell is moderator and has chosen scripture from Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Friday night: Donita Keister, 2019 Annual Conference Moderator, will be in Middle PA to bring the Friday evening message, followed by a time of fellowship. Everyone is welcome! You don t need to be a delegate or non-delegate to attend. Saturday will begin with devotions and business items and reports will be shared by those important ministries. We encourage you to register as a delegate with your congregation or individuals can register as non-delegates. Offerings will be for Pennies for Witness and for the Puerto Rio District.

Disaster Response Ministries Disaster Meetings Disaster Response Team meets on the second Monday at 7 pm at Roaring Spring First COB. Join them and bring your ideas for support. August 13 September 10 Donations Donations for Middle PA District Disaster can be sent to the District Center made payable to Middle PA District Disaster. Volunteer Day at CentrePeace Disaster Response Team travels to CentrePeace to work on the third Tuesday of each month. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Joanne Dibert 814-494-2569 September 18 Trips September 9-15 Clay WV October 21-27 Lumberton NC December 9-15 Lumberton NC Opportunities for local projects such as building ramps. If you are interested in helping, please contact: Ron Dilling if you are interested in trips or local projects 814-224-5165. Heritage Fair Heritage Fair will be held on Saturday, September 22 at Camp Blue Diamond. This is a significant fundraiser for Camp and District and is not possible without your help! Join your congregation in having a booth or making a basket for the auction. Individuals can donate items for the auction or make a donation for Heritage Fair. We are always looking for ways to improve Heritage Fair and encourage you to give us your ideas. * Auction Items are apricated. We have many talented people in our congregations. Please consider sharing your works of art with those in our community of faith. Make a basket filled with themed items, crochet a blanket, make a quilt, bake a pie. These are just a few ideas of what can be brought and sold at the auction. All proceeds from the auction support youth attending Camp Blue Diamond and for training and supporting the ministers in Middle PA District. * Volunteer parkers are needed. If you are interested, please contact Dean @ Camp Blue Diamond 814-667-2355. * Dunk tank participants are needed. You can either be a Dunker or a Barker for a 1/2 hour time slot. Please contact Camp if you are interested. * Donations are welcome. We know that many cannot attend Heritage Fair for various reasons, but would still like to support this event, consider making a donation. Congregations who can no longer attend, please consider making a donation. Every little bit makes a difference in the ministries that Camp and District provide! Whatever work you do, do it with all your heart. Do it for the Lord and not for men Colossians 3:23. Please submit college address to the office and let us know if we can send them a Newsletter each month. FIFTH QUARTER is held in the Fellowship Hall following home Central football games. Youth and their friends in grades 6-12 are invited. Enter and exit through the California Street door. Parents must sign the youth out at 11 pm. Questions can be answered by advisors.

September 2018 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 9:25 am Worship 10:45 am Sunday School 3 Labor Day Office Closed 4 9:30 am Bible Study 5 9 am Ladies Aid 1 pm Prayer Shawl Ministry 6:30 pm Choir 6 9 am Bulletin Deadline 9 am Breakfast Fellowship at Spring House Grille 7 8 9 Food Bank Collection 9:25 am Worship 10:30 am Fellowship Time 11 am Sunday School 12 pm Rally Day Picnic 16 9 am Mentoring Team Pictures 9:25 am Worship 10:45 am Sunday School 11:45 am Deacon Meeting 23 9:25 am Worship 10:45 am Sunday School 30 9:25 am Worship 10:45 am Sunday School 12 PM Family Ministry Italian Theme Meal & activity 10 7 pm Disaster Response 17 10 am Book Group 11 9:30 am Bible Study 7 pm Good Grief 18 9:30 am Bible Study 24 25 9:30 am Bible Study 6:30 pm Leadership Team 12 9 am Ladies Aid 9:30 am RS Ministerium Meeting 1 pm Prayer Shawl Ministry 6:30 pm Choir 19 9 am Ladies Aid 1 pm Prayer Shawl Ministry 6:30 pm Choir 26 9 am Ladies Aid 1 pm Prayer Shawl Ministry 6 pm Venture Club Opening Night 6:30 pm Choir 6:30 pm Knitting Group 13 9 am Bulletin Deadline 9 am Breakfast Fellowship at Spring House Grille 6:30 pm Knitting Group 20 9 am Bulletin Deadline 9 am Breakfast Fellowship at Spring House Grille 6:30 pm Knitting Group 27 9 am Bulletin Deadline 9 am Breakfast Fellowship at Spring House Grille 6:30 pm Knitting Group 14 Newsletter submissions need to be received in office today 5:45 pm Parking Lot Fundraiser 9 pm 5 th Quarter 21 5:45 pm Parking Lot Fundraiser 9 pm 5 th Quarter 28 5:45 pm Parking Lot Fundraiser 9 pm 5 th Quarter 15 8 am Men s Fellowship Breakfast 8 am Sisters of Faith Breakfast 22 HERITAGE FAIR If you go the wrong way to the right or to the left you will hear a voice behind you. It will say, This is the right way. You should go this way. Isaiah 30:21 29

September 2018 Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it. Tim Fargo If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. Abigail Van Buren The happiest people don t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. Unknown When you feel like your drowning in life s situations, don t worry. Your Lifeguard walks on water! FIRST CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 814.224.4113 Fax: 814.224.4923 Email: churchoffice@rsfirstchurch.org www.rsfirstchurch.org Director of Ministry Dave Crumrine dcrumrine@rsfirstchurch.org Roaring Spring First Church of the Brethren If you wish to be removed from mailing list or correct your address, please contact us through an above means. Address Service Requested