We are all disciples. If you consider yourself a Christian, along with that comes a call to live differently. We are not called to think about ourselves first and exclusively. We all already know that. But do you understand the call that is upon you to be a “minister” - someone involved in ministry?
The new Hospitality Ministry is not a volunteer church job. It is a ministry of helping people to feel welcomed and important; not just to St. John’s, but to the kingdom of God.
Kindness is one of the most powerful, life-changing ministries we have from which to choose. Any other ministry, if not done with kindness, may be totally undermined. To feed someone that is hungry with an attitude of resentment; to bring someone in from the weather, but then treat them with hostility; to try to show someone the Gospel without caring about them first; all of these are useless without kindness.
We need several coordinators to help with our Hospitality Ministry. You will have the help and support of Donna Bruce and Wayne Shirley. You will have their encouragement and ideas. You will know their kindness. Will you help?
St. John’s United Methodist Church— Loving God, Loving People, Changing Lives!
-Craig
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St. John’s United Methodist Church www.stjohns-abq.org (505) 883-9717
2626 Arizona Street NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87110 Church Office Hours:
Monday—Thursday, 8:30 AM—4:00 PM Facebook: www.facebook.com/stjohnsumc Twitter: www.twitter.com/stjohnsabq YouTube: www.youtube.com/connectatstjohns July 12, 2015
Weekend Worship Services
Communion Worship (Sanctuary): 8:15 AM, Sundays Contemporary Worship (FLC):
9:30 AM, Sundays Traditional Worship (Sanctuary):
11:00 AM, Sundays Jazz Vespers (Sanctuary): 2nd Saturday of every month at 5:00 PM
St. John's United Methodist Church Telephone Extensions
Craig Cockrell Senior Pastor 122
John Schwarting* Executive Pastor 121
Matt Greer Music and Worship 125
Jarrod Conyers Youth Director 126
Trisha O'Keefe Contemporary Worship Leader 127 Brandie Spletzer Children & Families 133
Pauleta Hendrickson Children's Music 137
Tim Nuzum Food Ministry 141
Carmen Vargas Director of Preschool 129
Chris Cockrell Communications 136
Griselda Sandoval Bookkeeper 123
Claudia Giese Office Manager 128
Front Desk Receptionist 138
Pastor 24-hour Hotline 331-8121
Custodian's On-call 315-4542
*John Schwarting’s Cell Phone 331-8121 CHILDREN’S SUNDAY SCHOOLWILLBEHELDTODAY!
*SEETHEBULLETINBOARDUPSTAIRSORNEARTHE SONSHINE CAFÉFORINFORMATIONABOUTROOMSANDACTIVITIES. A NURSERYISALSOAVAILABLEFORYOUNGCHILDRENIN ROOM 138.
St. John’s Welcome Statement
“We are people of varied opinions and backgrounds. We worship in
varied ways. We live and think in varied ways. We are drawn together
in the everyday challenge to be more like Jesus. None of us is perfect.
None of us has all the answers. We hope to lead with love and grace.
We try not to judge. It is our wish that every person will discover the
support of friends and the comfort of home with us. Welcome!”
Member Care
Our sympathies go out to the family and
friends of
Dave Goodmon, who passed
away on Wednesday, July 1st. He is
survived by his wife, Helen Goodmon.
A funeral service will be held in the
sanctuary today, July 12th, at 2:00 PM,
with a reception following in the SonShine Café from
3:00 PM—4:00 PM.
This Week’s Calendar
Sunday, July 12 8:15 AM Communion Worship Service, Sanctuary 9:30 AM Contemporary Worship Service, FLC 11:00 AM Traditional Worship Service, Sanctuary 2:00 PM Dave Goodmon Funeral, Sanctuary5:00 PM Youth Brown Bag
Bible Study, Room 260 6:00 PM Youth Reel-to-Real, Room 250 6:00 PM People of the 21st Century, Welcome Center Monday, July 13 9:00 AM SMART Camp 9:30 AM Preschool Summer Camp—
Kings & Queens Tuesday, July 14
9:00 AM SMART Camp 9:30 AM Preschool
Summer Camp—
Kings & Queens 6:00 PM NAMI Educational Meeting, FLC 6:30 PM New MexiChords, Choir Room 8:00 PM Youth Tuesday Treats, Offsite Wednesday, July 15 9:00 AM SMART Camp 9:30 AM Preschool Summer Camp—
Kings & Queens 4:00 PM Youth Game Day,
Room 260 5:30 PM LEGO Club, SonShine Cafe 7:00 PM Praise Band Rehearsal, FLC Thursday, July 16 9:00 AM SMART Camp 9:30 AM Preschool Summer Camp—
Kings & Queens 7:00 PM New MexiChords Board Meeting, Room 231 7:30 PM Thursday Evening Musicales, Choir Room Friday, July 17 9:00 AM SMART Camp 9:30 AM Preschool Summer Camp—
Kings & Queens
Saturday, July 18 10:30 AM Roadrunner Mobile Food Pantry, FLC 3:00 PM Quintessence Rehearsal, Sanctuary Sunday, July 19 8:15 AM Communion Worship Service, Sanctuary 9:30 AM Contemporary Worship Service, FLC 11:00 AM Traditional Worship Service, Sanctuary 2:00 PM Quintessence Rehearsal, Sanctuary
5:00 PM Youth Brown Bag
Bible Study,
Room 260
6:00 PM Youth Reel-to-Real,
Room 250
Thursday Evening Musicales
Please join us for our TENTH season of Thursday Evening Musicales, featuring some of New Mexico’s best musicians, up close and personal, all for a great cause. Since 2005, Thursday Evening Musicales
have raised almost $35,000 for
Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless.
Proceeds from tickets sales benefit that organization in their entirety.
Musicales will be held July 16 and 23, and start at 7:30 PM. Tickets are
$20 ($10 for students). For a listing of musicians, and to purchase
tickets, go to: www.thursdayeveningmusicales.org
July Special Offering
We have a chance to help feed the homeless and hungry people in our community during the month of July.
With your help, Project Share is open for dinner six nights a week and serves almost 40,000 meals per year! St. John’s has been a great financial supporter and provides hands-on help as well. For example, in cooperation with the food ministry, several adult Sunday School classes and other groups and individuals now serve meals nine times a year.
You generous gifts of money and/or time are much appreciated.
Special Worship Music in July
With our choirs off for the summer, we’ve got special music lined up for the month of July. Join us for worship, and invite friends!
July 12—Youth Choir from Suncreek UMC in
Allen, TX (8:15 AM and 11:00 AM Services)
July 19—Ingela Onstad, soprano, and Tony
Sadlon, trumpet (8:15 AM and 11:00 AM Services)
YOU MATTER TO US!
In our large congregation, a person
may be hospitalized, go to a rehabilitation or nursing facility,
or have some other personal crisis in their life, and the
pastoral staff and members of the congregation may not learn
about it until much later. We ask you to help us by calling the
church office or one of the pastors if you become aware of a
difficult situation
(health or other issue)
in someone’s life.
Please call 883-9717 and let us know or, if it is an emergency,
call the Emergency Pastor Contact Number at 331-8121.
PRAYER SHAWLS:
The Needle Arts group has been busy,
and there is a basket of prayer shawls and lap robes in the
Welcome Center. If you know someone who needs a warm
hug of comfort, healing, or encouragement, please consider
giving them a shawl or lap robe that has been made with
prayer. We like to know where these items go, so please put
any info you can on the clip-board provided. Thanks.
ONLINE GIVING:
You can now choose to give to the
church electronically by using a debit or credit card. All you
need to do is visit the Giving Page on the church website and
follow the simple instructions found there.
ST. JOHN’S E-MAIL NEWSLETTER—DISCIPLE
CONNECTIONS:
In addition to the Weekend Disciple,
which is published each Sunday, St. John’s also sends out an
e-mail version of their newsletter—Disciple Connections—
twice a month, along with the occasional special
announcements
(such as death/funeral notifications)
. If you
would like to start receiving this publication through your
e-mail, please send your e-mail address, with a request to be
added
to
the
mailing
list, to
Chris
Cockrell
Special Programs & Info
Rummage Sale Donation Drop-Off
As you’re going through the process of checking every nook and cranny of your home for rummage sale donations, please mark your calendar for the two upcoming
donation drop-off time periods: Thursday,
July 23rd, from 6:00 PM—8:30 PM; and
Friday, July 24th, from 12:00 PM—5:00 PM. Donations may be
delivered to the Family Life Center during those drop-off times. If you simply cannot hold your donations until those dates or will be out-of-town at the time of the sale, Doris Bowen has some space available in her storage unit; you may contact Doris at 410-7213. We will truly appreciate your donations, but will appreciate them even more if they’re pre-priced! We’ll also gladly accept donations
of furniture (no large appliances) and can provide pick up and
delivery to the church, on a limited basis; please contact Mary Beth at 508-4829 to make arrangements.
Also, please remember to set aside some time on Saturday, July 25th
(7:30 AM—1:00 PM), to come by and shop for your own special bargain! Your St. John’s United Methodist Women (UMW) thank you for helping in our mission-giving efforts!
Preschool Plus Summer Camps
Preschool Plus is a five-star,
nationally accredited program.
We offer seven week-long summer camps throughout June & July, from 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Camps include: Camping, New Mexico, Kings & Queens, and Ruth Krauss. Camps are for children ages 3-5 years old. Extended care is available from 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM & 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Registration for both summer camps and the 2015-2016 School Year has begun. Call (505)883-0496 to schedule a tour or visit us online at www.preschoolplus-abq.org for more information about our wonderful programs.
MYSTERY TRIP RSVP DEADLINE TODAY!
On the weekend following youth week—Saturday, August 8th, we are meeting at 8:00 AM to take our next mystery trip to an unknown destination. We will be back Sunday night, August 9th, at 9:30 PM. We can tell you no more than to pack your usual supplies as if you were going to camp along with a tent to share. The cost is $40. There are scholarships available if you talk to Jarrod. Pick up your RSVP sheet in the youth center, youth bulletin board, or church website and submit it by tonight!
REEL-TO-REAL TONIGHT
Join us for our special movie discussion groups on Sunday nights
from 6:00 PM—9:15 PM in Room 250. We watch a select
featured film and examine what it wants us to think about life and what features make the story great, unique, or inspiring. Our next feature film will be: “To Write Love on Her Arms” (PG-13) The dramatic saga of one girl’s struggle with cutting that leads to a movement of hope. Get the complete list of feature films on the Narthex bulletin board or from the church website.
BROWN BAG BOOK STUDY CONTINUES
This Sunday, before Reel-to-Real, our Summer Book Study of “Escaping the Prison of Fear” will continue. Bring a snack dinner and your Bible as we explore how fear keeps us from living life to the fullest.
TUESDAY TREATS
Sonic has half-priced shakes after 8:00 PM this Summer. Come hang out with us Tuesday nights this Summer from 8:00 PM—9:00 PM at
Sonic on Montgomery & Eubank (9900 Mont. Blvd NE). Bring some
cards or a board game!
GAME DAY THIS WEDNESDAY
Our third Summer Game Day happens this Wednesday from 4:00 PM—6:30 PM. Each week we will be playing a different game or sport. This week’s Game Day is all about Board Games. Whether they are classic, complicated, or weird—bring a board game to play or to win.
Youth News
Asbury Café Notes
There will be NO PIE PARTY this
Tuesday, July 14th, but join us
next week in the church kitchen
from 8:30 AM—10:30 AM.
We will meet every Tuesday in
July and August
(except July 14th)
.
Other ways to help include: 1) Donating money to buy
supplies, 2) Offering freezer space to store pies, and
3) Donating local fruit to make pies. Need more info—
call Doris Bowen at 299-6570.
LEGO Club
This summer, we’ll build lots of
awesome LEGO creations, learn about
Jesus, and have FUN!
Each Wednesday in July, from
5:30 PM— 6:30 PM in the SonShine
Café. For kids going into kindergarten and up.
Bring your dinner and eat
(and have some open LEGO
play time)
from 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM. Parents are always
welcome to stay and play, too! Pick up a form in the
church office to sign up. Lego Club is FREE!
S.M.A.R.T. Camp Needs Newspapers!
SMART
Camp
needs
your
old
newspapers! Please bring your old
newspapers to the church by
TODAY,
July 12th.
THE STOREHOUSE: Thanks to all of you who so faithfully contribute non-perishable food donations to our Storehouse Shopping Cart in the Welcome Center. You are truly making a difference to the hungry people in our community. And, to those of you who would like to join this effort, we invite you to add a few non-perishable items to your shopping list and donate on a weekly or monthly basis, as you wish. We’ll accept donations of any non-perishables, but, for the
month of July, our focus will be on collecting cereals, cereal bars, and
protein bars. Your generosity is appreciated!
SCHOOL KITS: On August 9th (this is a date change) we will, as a
congregation, assemble school kits to give to Zuni Elementary and to the Mountainair/Estancia Schools through the United Methodist Churches there. These school kits cost approximately $10 each; stop by the Welcome Center to see a sample. The kicker: we’ve put aside money to buy the supplies, but the money we have will not make many
kits. So, on July 26th, every $10 bill put into the offering plate will be
used for supplies for the school kits. What can you do? Start saving
those Hamiltons ($10 bills) and put them in the offering plate on
July 26th. Of course, you can write checks for any amount you want
to support this project; just be sure to write “school kits” in the memo field of your check. Bless you, St. John’s!
HOSPITALITY VISIONING / TRAINING: On August 16,
St. John’s will be “rolling out” the new Hospitality Ministry Plan. While we are a welcoming church, we’re looking for ways to be even better. Prior to this roll-out, we are scheduling a Hospitality Ministry
Visioning/Training Session on August 2, 12:30 PM-ish (grab a
1st Sunday Lunch and bring it to the meeting) or on Monday,
August 3rd, at 6:00 PM. If you have been, are, or will be a greeter, usher, or Welcome Center volunteer, then we are asking you to attend one of these sessions. Please stop by the Welcome Center and let Wayne know which session you will attend.
HOSPITIALITY MINISTRY: We’ve had some response to the
Hospitality Ministry Insert, but there are still plenty of spots to fill. Check the insert today to see what’s available. Go by the Welcome Center after church and sign up. There are all levels of ministry and we all need to do our part.
Missions Opportunities
As We Enter a Time of Visioning . . .
Please continue to pray for the New Initiatives Team and also this prayer from our prayer walk as we look inward to the St. John’s congregation:
“Lord, we lift up the congregation of St. John’s to you. May we live worthy of your call on our lives. As we respond to that call, fulfill every purpose, every faith-filled act of service by your power. We ask that you strengthen the prayer focus in our church. Make us
into a house of prayer. We desire to be clear-minded and self-controlled so that we can pray first, always, continually, and thankfully. May everyone recognize that this is your desire for all and not just a few. Lord, revive us! Pour out your spirit on us so that we turn to you heart, soul, and strength. Open our minds to understand your Word so that our hearts burn within us. We ask for a vision that sparks a spiritual renewal in our congregation. In Jesus name, Amen.”
Get S.M.A.R.T!
Our annual Summer Music, Art, Rhythm, and Theater (SMART) Camp will be held July 13-17. The camp is for rising 1st – 6th Graders and is open to the community.
(Children must be 6 years old prior to Sept. 1st, 2015.)
The camp will run from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM at St. John’s. During the day, the children will follow a rotating schedule of sessions in various musical activities, including vocal, instrumental, creative movement, drama, and art. During the week, children will prepare a musical to be presented at the end of camp on Friday.
This year, we are exploring “Wonders in Water” through Biblical stories and song! S.M.A.R.T. Camp Space is still available, but register soon!
Enrollment is limited and camp fills up quickly. Registration forms are available throughout the church, or register online at NewSoundChoirs.org.
Aftercare now available for SMART Camp! Camper s who need car e
following SMART Camp can opt for our Aftercare Option. Care will be available following camp from 1:00 PM—5:00 PM. The cost is $30 per camper. There will be activities, movies, outdoor playtime, and a snack. For more information, contact Pauleta Hendrickson (883-9717, ext. 137, or [email protected]).
PRAYER QUILT: Dorothy Dossey is the recipient of the prayer
quilt hanging in the prayer board area (across from the church
office). Please stop by and tie a knot on Dorothy’s quilt as you say
a prayer for her.
HOSPITALITY: Hospitality is not a job, but ministry!
MARRIAGE MINUTE: “All men make mistakes, but married
men find out about them sooner.” –Red Skelton
ST. JOHN’S BLOOD DRIVES—AUGUST 2ND & OCTOBER 4TH: Please prayerfully consider giving the gift of life! There are many in need who are counting on those who can give blood. Questions? Call Linn & Mike Furnish (884-6626). You can already sign-up for the August 2nd Blood Drive online at: www.unitedbloodservices.org
CAMPING OPPORTUNITY: Did you ever sit beside the campfire and feel the urge to sing “Home on the Range” in Greek? If so, St. John’s has got just the group for you! The Greek Group probably won’t be camping, but we will be learning “Home on the Range,” “Jesus Loves Me,” and several other hymns and children’s Sunday School songs. You will be fully prepared to sing them in Biblical Greek on your next camping trip. Contact Regina Hunter (294-2877 or [email protected]) or talk to Bronwen Link at Solid Ground.
FREE BOOKS: The Library Committee is reorganizing St. John’s library. As a consequence, many books have been removed from the collection. These books are free to members of our congregation. They are located in Room 231. They are shelved on the east wall of the room, on a cart and on 3 shelves of a cabinet. They are marked “Free Books.” They will remain on these shelves through July 23rd, after which time any remaining books will be discarded. The books on the north wall will remain in the library collection. They are available for checkout, but must be returned to the church library.
