The Light Newsletter – 6/20

Posted by UFM Admin

June 20, 2021

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YLsMZ7DGWEOe_pSt3E85L5HA7E4oq5AuKFIzTg1BT6w/edit?usp=sharing

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Sunday Church Attendance Report

DateIn PersonOnline
   
5-232913
5-303014
6-63915
6-132714

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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.

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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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