Sunday ~ June 20, 2021
10:00 a.m. ~ Meeting for worship in person and live-streaming on Facebook and our website
Order of Worship
Prelude: Rosemary Nettrouer
Announcements
Welcome & Greeting
Call to Worship: Matthew 11:28-30
Centering Meditation
Music: “Take My Yoke Upon You,” by Nolan, Williams and Martin
Children’s Message
Prayer Concerns
Pastoral Prayer
Message: “Blessed Are the Meek”
Scripture: Matthew 5:5
Open Worship
Benediction
Postlude: Rosemary Nettrouer
Technology provided by Michael Barrett, Joe Dawley, and Erin DeGroot. Music coordination by Dawn Blue, and pastoral leadership by Catherine Griffith.
11:00 am ~ Monthly Meeting for Business
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/93104600231?pwd=ZE5qb2VoeWNPYXNRdkF5NnAva29NZz09
Meeting ID: 931 0460 0231
Passcode: 104562
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SAFETY GUIDELINES (Updated 6/15/2021)
In order even to worship in person safely, we will follow these (somewhat eased) guidelines:
· Masks that cover the nose and mouth will be required of everyone except small children. (Masks and hand sanitizer will be available for your use.)
· Length of worship will be less restricted, up to fifty or sixty minutes.
· Offering plates will still be near the front and the back of the meeting room.
· Please continue to sit in designated pews only.
· Feel free to linger and chat in the aisles, hallways, and/or outdoors.
· Instead of having bulletins, the order of worship, announcements, and prayer requests will be included in The Light This Week. If you would like to have any of that information handy on Sunday morning, you might want to print it out and bring it with you or access it on your phone.
· Are we ready to resume coffee or carry-in meals? Not yet.
Please stay home if
· you are unable or unwilling to comply with these guidelines,
· you are uncomfortable about or have health reasons to avoid attending worship even with the guidelines,
· you are sick,
· you or anyone in your household has been diagnosed with COVID-19, or
· you have been in contact with someone over the past two weeks who has been diagnosed with or is showing symptoms of COVID-19.
Also, be assured that we will continue live streaming worship for the foreseeable future, and we will continue to monitor the pandemic situation, especially emerging virus variants.
Questions and suggestions are welcome. Prayers too!
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CHILDREN’S MINISTRY
Parents may drop off younger children at the nursery on the 3rd floor (directly above the choir room). Childcare will be available from 9:45 until about 15 minutes after worship concludes. Children who can stay with parents during the service are invited to do so through
the children’s message, then exit to the upstairs children’s area where parents may meet them after the worship service.
Nut free & gluten free snacks will be provided. (Bring diapers if we might need them). We will continue to observe social distancing (as much as reasonable) and masks for adults. There is not a restroom on the 3rd floor, so we will have hand sanitizer available and/or take the group of children down a level for a handwashing/potty break before their snack.
We plan to have childcare also during the Sunday School/Monthly Meeting time.
For other questions or concerns, feel free to contact someone on the Children’s Ministry Working Group: Gwen McDonald, Greg Newby, Pam Chambers, Sue Wine.
Looking forward to being together! ~ Children’s Ministry Working Group
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Dear Friends,
Children’s Ministry is seeking volunteers to work in the nursery, share a children’s message followed by a lesson, and/or be a backup helper. Please use the following link to add your name. Volunteers may come up with their own message and lesson or we can provide a lesson for you. If you have any questions please email Gwen McDonald at mcgwenald@gmail.com.
Thank you, Children’s Ministry Working Group
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Sunday Church Attendance Report
| Date | In Person | Online |
| 5-23 | 29 | 13 |
| 5-30 | 30 | 14 |
| 6-6 | 39 | 15 |
| 6-13 | 27 | 14 |
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CHURCH ACTIVITIES THIS WEEK
Saturday, June 19, 2:30 pm, Outreach Committee
Sunday, June 20, 11:00 am, Monthly Meeting for Business
Tuesday, June 22, 6:30 pm, Book Club
Next week’s newsletter will go out Wednesday, June 23, instead of Friday. Sandy will be on vacation from Thursday June 24 through the 29th. She will be back in the office Wednesday, June 30.
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The Book Club meets at 6:30 p.m., the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month. If you would like to join via Zoom, please email Catherine at orcagriffith@yahoo.com, and she will send you an invitation. Everyone is welcome!
On Tuesday, June 22, the Book Club will be discussing Chapter 3, “Reading Meditatively” (pp. 25-39, 103-4) in Michael Birkel’s Engaging Scripture.
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PRAYER REQUESTS AND CONCERNS
· Joan Smith as she recovers from a hip replacement on Thursday, June 17
· Our church at this time of new beginnings, particularly the Pastoral Search Committee
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Shakespeare in the Park play rehearsals are still on going. Plans are to have a show in the sanctuary on Sunday, June 27 and Sunday, September 26. Both are planned for 7 pm and run about two hours. More information will follow.
Dan Schuster and Sue Wine are performing inWilliam Shakespeare’s “Richard III” June 18-20, and 25-27, 2021 www:wichitashakespeare.org.
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Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. — Hebrews 4:13 (NIV)
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