Hello Church,
Thank you to everyone who came out for Jack’s baptism and birthday party yesterday! We had a great time, and it was a great day to be a part of worship together and share in that moment with you.
I’m looking forward to Sunday when we’re starting a new series called, “Why Jesus?” What is going got be challenging about this, and what I hope is useful for all of us is that to answer that question we have to avoid saying the words “because Jesus.” So often, even if those words in particular aren’t used, that is what we are saying to folks outside the faith. We use language that we’re familiar with, references that we know and understand, and we assume others understand something of what we do so that what we tell them makes sense.
Except that in the world today we know that folks outside the faith don’t know these things. Here’s the other part of this. Sometimes we don’t either. We know when to use certain words, phrases, ideas, but do we always know what they mean? This series is going to take us on a journey that I hope will give us more of what we need so that we can reach out to folks in ways they will understand, and even learn more ourselves as we journey together.
Also, don’t forget. Last week we started live streaming our in person worship, so our online worship time is now the same as our in person worship. As always, if you can’t make it at that time, recordings of the services are available on Facebook and YouTube.
Our parting shots this week is from Jack’s baptism and birthday. Take a look at the end of the email to find it.
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Have a great week!
Peace,
Pastor John
Going On This Week
Monday
Eagle’s Blood Drive
Tuesday
4pm Centering Prayer on live on our Facebook Page
5pm Prayer Group meeting this Tuesday in the Elementary Sunday School Class
Wednesday
1:30pm Orpha Circle in the Fellowship Hall
Sunday
9am Sunday School
10:10am Online Worship
10:10am In Person Worship
Community Calendars
Marceline School Calendar
My Country 99.1 Community Calendar
Worship Links
Youtube Services, Messages
Worship Music Lists: YouTube, Spotifiy
We’re getting caught up for January and we’re going to start listing all of our folks who are celebrating here! If we missed you, or we have a wrong date, please let us know and we’ll get it fixed.
New Sunday School Study
Next Sunday Donna’s Sunday School class is starting “Christianity and World Religions” They’ll be starting at 9am and all are welcome to come! You can find an intro to that class by clicking on the following link. Click
Christianity and World Religions Preview
Amplify Media
We’re trying out a new online video service like RightNow Media. Take a look and see what you think.
Just go to https://my.amplifymedia.com/amplify and up in the right corner click on the person to enter our church access code: DVCKRJ
Once you have done that it will let you create an account. Take a look and let me know what you think about what you see. I want to make a decision on which service we’ll use going forward by the end of the month.
Prayer & Devotions
The Hours
The Examen
Prayer Guide - PDF (book format), Online Format
Daily Devotions
Seedbed Devotions
YMI
The Upper Room
GPS Guide from Church of the Resurrection
Our Daily Bread
Daily Meditations from the Center for Action & Contemplation
Church Blog
Check our church blog for recent announcements and newsletters. That's where we try to put more information for things that are going on.
Other Resources
RightNow Media: Sign-Up if you haven't already
Bible Project: Videos that explain books of the Bible
Five Day Bible Reading - Read through the Bible in a year
YouVersion - Online Bible
Prayer List
Goals: Grow in faith, Understand our role in the community, Listening for God's voice daily
Groups: Church: Denomination, Conference, Area UMC's, Area Churches
Schools: Students, Teachers, Administrators, Employees
Young Adults, Newcomers, Unchurched
Government: Leaders, Local, County, State, National
Situations: Covid-19 Pandemic, Racism, Economic Disparity
Individuals: Judy Payne Family, John Smith, Chris McGlothlin, Jake Jacobs, Donna’s Sister, Beth Ander’s Dad, Glenn Lindbloom, Vicki Gregg, Ron Klingsmith, Wayne Sisson, Anna Hanson, Mark Ewigman, Erin, Nova, & Jenny, John Falkenstine, Meadow Lapinski, Sam Bush, David Munson, Goldie Cupp, Fay Leppin, Shirley Holt, Joni’s niece, Tony Tucker, Harold Meyers, Adam Litchtenberg, Blake Linebaugh, Bill Westfall, Pat Watkins, Kris & Wyatt Ard, Kristen Gibson, Bob Marriott, Gene Liebhart, Gary Carlson, Kyle Lake, Linda Ewigman, Kara Robinson, Angie Builder, Bob & Pat Magee, Zoe Tolliver, Joan Sportsman, Shane Cavanah, Dan Brooks, Wayne Heins, Ruth Farris, Lynn Fellmann
Pioneer: Mabel Worley, Marylin Mears
Life Care: Annie George
Lenior Woods: Ed McLachlan
Military Service: Patric Munson, Nick Cain, LTC John Casey Welch, Tyler Nanneman, Jeffrey Tucker, Kelly Tucker, Brandon Wellman, Heath Floray, Steve Graves, Michael Pyrtle, William Leukenotte, Kerry Lowrey
Parting Shot
Again, thank you to everyone who came out for Jack’s Baptism!! It was good to see so many faces, and to share in his birthday with all of his family and his extended family like this.