St. Paul's United Methodist ChurchDa Lay Speak!
JUNE, 2009
Hola y bienvenido to our “June/Pentecost Is Busting
Out All Over” edition….a Roster update….and whatever else we can dig
up……
Da Roster
Kudos to Linda, Joyce, and Mary for filling in last month while Padre
Pat was away for a vacation/sabbatical. Good job pounding the pulpits,
ladies!! What tough acts to follow, eh? Colleen is up on Conference
Sunday (21) followed by yours truly and Bill waiting our turns.
Training Opportunities
Nothing on the horizon coming up in our District. As with others, summer
classes aren’t being offered, and no news as yet on what might be
happening in the latter parts of this year.
Delta District is taking down their tents for summer and has listed the
following Fall classes:
· Hermeneutics – September 26 – UM Conference Center, W. Sac – Deadline
9/22 – Cost $25
· Tell Stories – October 24 – UM Conference Center – Deadline 10/20 –
Cost $25
Pre-Registration is required for all classes. Some classes require
homework prep before attending. Contact
Delta District, Attention Cindy Buna, deltadist@calnevumc.org. Cost
includes materials, books, refreshments and lunch. These would be a good
“re-cert” class for every 3-years if you need it.
Have you completed at least one class within the past 3-years to retain
your certification?
From My Notebook
This month we continue on to some more stuff from my Notebook related to
Leading Public Prayer..
A leader may pray extemporaneously—that is, without reading from a
text—with the people either silently making the prayer their own or
spontaneously interjecting words or phrases such as Amen or Yes, Lord.
Praying extemporaneously in public is difficult for many people, and it
is a skill best learned by repeated practice in a supportive
environment, such as a small prayer group. The important thing is to be
yourself and speak from your heart. Do not let worries about exact
wording get you down. Do not feel you have to imitate some style of
praying that does not come naturally to you.
(Continued)
Segue
From the Church Newsletter in the Lovelock Methodist/Episcopalian
Community Church, Pastor Rollie Rollins tries to answer the question,
“Why Go To Church?”.
“A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor for a newspaper and
complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. ‘I’ve
gone for 30 years now,’ he wrote, ‘and in that time I have heard
something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a
single one of them. So I think I’m wasting my time and the pastors are
wasting theirs by giving sermons at all.’
This started a real controversy in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ column,
much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone
wrote this clincher: ‘I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time,
my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot
recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know
this: they all nourished me and gave me strength I needed to do my work.
If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead
today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be
spiritually dead today!’
You see, when you are down to nothing, God is up to something! Faith
sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the
impossible! Thank God for our physical and our spiritual nourishment!
All right, now that you’re done reading, send it on! I think everyone
should read this! When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say
‘Jesus, could you get that for me?’”
The Lord’s Laughter (from the Joyful Noiseletter)
Questions You Might Not Think To Ask – Part 1
· “Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?”
· “How many ‘First’ Methodist churches are there?”
· “Is it true that if you don’t pay your exorcist, you get repossessed?”
· “If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys
and apes?”
· “Why is a person who invests all your money called a broker?”
· “Where do you tell people in Hell to go?”
· “Did you know that when two egotists meet, it’s an ‘I for an I’?”
· “Where do the Joneses live and why should we keep up with them?”
See ya Sunday and Happy Dad’s Day!
Diz