LANSING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 32 Brickyard Road, Lansing, New York 14882 Corner of Brickyard Road & Route 34B Church Website: www.lansingunited.org Church Office: 607-533-4070 LUMCoffice@twcny.rr.com Pastor Alison Schmied Alison.Schmied@gmail.com CHURCH AT WORK May 14, 2017 TODAY 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 10:30-11:30 a.m. Sunday School for All Ages 4:00-5:00 p.m. Confirmation Class DEADLINE Campership Requests REMINDER: Please Carpool! Good news! The building contractors will not need the upper parking lot as originally anticipated (this is subject to change). However, excavation has already begun in the lower lot, so only half of it is now available for parking. For the next four Sundays (until we move to the park on June 18th), please carpool with family, friends, and neighbors. Consider dropping off passengers and parking at the school stadium lot just down Brickyard Road if you are able to walk. Please do not park along Brickyard Road. Please leave the spaces in front of the building for guests and those with mobility challenges. Monday, May 15th CONSTRUCTION BEGINS IN EDUCATION WING (must be evacuated) 7:00-7:30 a.m. Pancakes & Prayer 10:30 a.m. Bible Study at Woodsedge 12:00-2:00 p.m. Bible Study at LUMC 5:30-7:00 p.m. Young Adult Exodus & Pizza 7:00-8:30 p.m. Haiti Committee Meeting 7:00-8:30 p.m. Wingmen 12:00 Midnight DEADLINE: June Sunbeam Submissions Tuesday, May 16th 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Needleworkers Group 7:00 p.m. Worship Committee Meeting
Wednesday, May 17th 12:00-2:00 p.m. Staff Meeting 6:00 p.m. Bells Angels Rehearsal 7:00-8:30 p.m. Adult Choir Rehearsal Friday, May 19th 6:00-8:00 p.m. Sr. High Youth Group (at Robin s Nest) 7:00-8:30 p.m. Jr. High Youth Group Saturday, May 20th 7:00 a.m. Men s Breakfast at Linda s Diner Sunday, May 21st 9:00 a.m. Worship Service 9:00 a.m. Youth Mission Can & Bottle Drive 10:30-11:30 a.m. Sunday School for All Ages 11:45-1:00 p.m. Youth Ministries Team Meeting 3:00 p.m. LUMC Hosts Dinner at Rescue Mission Kevin Klippel on Vacation May 8th - May 15th Kevin Klippel is on a family vacation, but can be reached via text or call if needed. He will not have access to email until he gets back. Adult Sunday School Today, Sunday, May 14th, 10:30-11:30 a.m. -- Scenes by the Wayside, Tales of the Sea -- with Ken Hover In William Parker s beloved hymn, Tell me the stories of Jesus, we sing of Tales of the Sea, or more literally, Tales of the Lake. And what better way to ease into a lakeside summer in Lansing than to discuss three of those tales as recorded in the 6th Chapter of John. We see that these stories are all connected to each other, and each connected to the lake in northern Israel, so similar in size to our own Cayuga Lake. At both lakes, the faithful gather on the shore, and the weather can change in a heartbeat! -- Listening: A Meditation Practice -- with Shared Leadership Be still and know that I am God (Psalm 46:10) Join us for a time of Holy awareness. Next Sunday, May 21st, 10:30-11:30 a.m. -- Islam 101 -- with Shada El Sayed and Pastor Alison Our friends from Moosala Noor return to share basic information about the Islamic faith, in the first of a three part series. Pastor Alison will be on hand to help clarify what we share in common, and in what ways Christianity is different. Sunday, May 28th -- Memorial Day, No Sunday School Campership Donations and Requests Deadline TODAY!, Sunday, May 14th The Camperships are funded almost entirely by donations from the congregation as well as the flower sale. If you d like to help support the Campership fund to assist families in sending their kids to Casowasco over the summer, please mark your donations specifically for Camperships and place in the collection plate or mail to LUMC. Every child should be able to go to camp, and money should be the last thing stopping them. Every dollar helps and is greatly appreciated! The deadline to submit Campership requests is today, Sunday, May 14th. Please leave them in
Kevin Klippel s mail folder near the main office. We ll help as much as we re able to! If additional help is needed in addition to a Campership from LUMC, please contact Casowasco directly. Talk to Kevin Klippel if you have any questions! June Sunbeam Submissions DEADLINE: TOMORROW!, Monday, May 15th, at Midnight Please send newsletter items for June and early July to Glenn Withiam at grw4@cornell.edu by midnight Monday, May 15th. Thank you! Young Adult Group: Exodus & Pizza Tomorrow, Monday, May 15th, 5:30 p.m. Come enjoy a time of sharing food and friendship, and a Christian perspective on walking through some of the transitions life throws at us. We'll be working through chapter 3 "Show Me Wilderness" of Exodus: Leaving Behind, Moving On under the leadership of Iain Cockram. Contact Pastor Alison if you would like a copy of the book (alison.schmied@gmail.com). UMCOR Early Disaster Response Training & Recertification (ERT) This Saturday, May 20th, in Fredonia, NY Emergencies are bad times to find yourself not ready. ERT training offered by UMCOR will make you ready to become help for someone who needs it. Fredonia UMC is holding basic ERT training on Saturday, May 20th. A 4-hour recertification class will be held at the same time for those who need to renew. Point of contact is Linda Cooper at lindacooper47@gmail.com or Brian Greenwald at Bngreenwald@windstream.net. Lansing Youth Mission Can & Bottle Drive - New Drop Spot! Next Sunday, May 21st Youth Mission collects returnable bottles and cans on the third Sunday of every month at the time of the morning Worship Service. Please bring deposit bottles and cans in boxes or tied plastic bags to the new drop spot on the grass bank under the big yellow handicapped parking sign directly across from the main front entrance. (Please do not block that parking space.) The group also has an account at Lansing Bottle & Can Redemption Center (3106 North Triphammer Road). Please ask them to credit your returns to the Lansing Youth Mission account. Thank you for your help! Kidz Quest! (Children s Sunday School) Sundays, May 21st, June 4th, & June 11th Vacation Bible School is ramping up, and we want everyone to be excited! During the Sunday School hour on these three Sundays, Kidz Quest will be doing a series of VBS retrospectives! We ll remember the themes, memory verses, some games and activities, and the worship music from great programs of the past (like G-Force and Cave Quest). Join us for a rousing look back at Vacation Bible Schools of yore as we approach this summer s Maker Fun Factory in July! LUMC Adults in Mission Hosting Dinner at Ithaca Rescue Mission Next Sunday, May 21st, 3:00 p.m. The Adults in Mission group is coordinating a dinner at the Ithaca Rescue Mission on Sunday, May 21st, at 3:00 p.m. We are in need of our congregation s assistance to provide enough food for up to 50 people. If you are interested in helping in any capacity, see the sign-up sheets in the Narthex or contact Laura Alexander (alexanderlaura@yahoo.com or 533-4869).
A Word from our Finger Lakes District Superintendent: "People were overcome with wonder, saying, 'He does everything well! He makes the deaf to hear and gives speech to those who can't speak.' " (Mark 7:37, CEV) I love Jesus for this, but I have not been able to do everything well. Have you? St. Paul wrote that he had become "all things to all people, to save some by all possible means." (I Cor. 9:23) But I have tried that and failed. I have learned over my lifetime the importance of focusing my mind, heart, and energy. I constantly have to refocus. Plus, no one person can do it all; we need each other in the body of Christ called church. Our United Methodist church has been extremely distracted. We need to focus. We cannot solve all the problems of the world. Let alone bridge the gap within our denomination on human power. We need God's direction. Pray for our Commission on a Way Forward. Pray for our General Conference Special session in 2019. Pray for our upcoming Annual Conference. This is a great time to focus again on our mission. Please read the [article linked below] from our United Methodist News Service. Our Council of Bishops is calling us back to basics together, through the Four Areas of Focus. -- Rev. Jeffrey McDowell (http://www.lansingunited.org/pastoralisondocs/umc-fourareasoffocus.pdf) P.S. Please join me and our Lay Leader, Shafeegh Habeeb, in Praying with me for our denomination, on May 21 at 2:30, at the Rose UMC. Name Tags New Location May 14th - June 11th Due to construction beginning in the education wing tomorrow, the name tags have been moved to the Narthex, under the coat racks. They will remain in this new location until Sunday, June 11th. If you need to hang your coat, there are a few hangers still available and plenty of coat hooks in the airlock of the main entrance. If you need a name tag, please let the office know (lumcoffice@twcny.rr.com) so we can create one for you. (You do not need to be a member to have a name tag.) Thank you! Free Interfaith Community Dinner -- Neighbors Getting to Know Neighbors! Thursday, May 25th, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Tikkun v Or, Ithaca Reform Temple Congregation Tikkun v Or and LUMC will co-host an Interfaith Community Dish-to-Pass on Thursday, May 25th, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Ithaca Reform Temple, 2550 N. Triphammer Rd, Ithaca. Dinner is free and everyone is welcome! Please bring a labeled vegetarian or dairy dishto-pass and an open heart to meet new friends. If time or budget, make the dish a hardship, please be our guest! Join us for an evening of good food, fellowship & conversation. Want to get involved? Questions? Contact: AdultMinistries@LansingUnited.org Did you know? that scientists recently announced the discovery of a star roughly 40 light-years away with 7 planets orbiting in that star s habitable zone? In other words, these planets are able to support liquid water and, therefore, a high possibility of living organisms. The Sr. High youth, however, discussed at youth group on Friday, May 5th, that even if life of any kind was found on another planet, they wouldn t feel like God saw Earth or humans or each person in particular as any less special or valuable. Just because we re potentially not alone in the universe doesn t mean God didn t still create us in His image and doesn t discount the special role God has given to humans of Earth in his creation. In other words, science and faith can get along just fine with each other. Imagine that!
Attendance Last Sunday: Worship 161 Nursery 5 Prayer Concerns Jim Lee Hillis Wilson Jackie Baker (no visitors please) Sally Dawson (sister of Pat Gillespie) Carl Nedrow (father of Abby Hatfield) Howard & Sharon Lewis (friends of the Bidlespachers) Prayer requests can be written on a Prayer Card and placed in the offering plate.