March
2010 Newsletter
Holy
Week Schedule
| March 28 |
Palm Sunday |
10:30 Worship |
| April 1 |
Maundy Thursday |
7:00
pm Service |
| April 2 |
Good Friday (Community
Service) |
12:15 at
Chelsea: First United Methodist |
| April 4 |
Easter |
8:30
SonRise Service by the youth
9:30 Breakfast & Egg Hunt
10:45 Easter Worship |
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Futuring Seminar
Seven church members gathered in the Fellowship Hall on a Sunday
afternoon in February to learn about the Futuring process.
Rev. King and Anne Hanna led us through the beginning processes of
vision and hope for North Lake UMC. "How family-friendly is
your church?" was the focus of this first meeting.
Rev. Hanna reminded us of these truths:
- Proverbs tells us that where there is no vision, people
perish.
- It's important to act on your vision, but not devalue what
you havenow.
- Make a change in place, rather than space.
- Build on your strengths.
The next meeting with the Hannas is set for 3 p.m. on Sunday, March
21st. Everyone is encouraged to attend so that we can begin
to plan out a vision and the future direction of our church.
Please
mark your calendar to attend this important event.
Nancy
McKinnon, Council Chair
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ALL WHO WILL ATTEND ---
The next FUTURING MEETING
Sunday, March 21, at 3 p.m.
We need YOU!
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PUPPETS, BRUNCH, AND MISSIONS
(Name Change! Now God,
Puppets & Sharing!)
Sunday, March 7, following Worship
Free-will offering
Our puppet team has been busy this winter preparing a program that will
help turn your hearts to Jesus Christ. The U.M.W. is always
looking for new opportunities to be in Mission. They have
teamed up together to offer you this Lenten special, a dinner-puppet
theater program. Please come, and give generously as together
we serve the Lord.
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BISHOP'S
DAY – MARCH 13
9 a.m. til 4 p.m., at Albion College
Bishop Robert Schnase will be the guest speaker for this all day
seminary. He will be introducing his popular book, 5 Practices of Fruitful
Congregations. Pastor Alice wants YOU to go, and will pay
your registration fee, but needs to know by March
3rd.
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ONE GREAT HOUR OF
SHARING
March 14, 2010
Anahit (not her real name), 24, lived in a small town in Armenia. In
need of a job, she traveled to Dubai. Lured by empty promises of work,
Anahit found herself trapped in a world of prostitution and human
trafficking. When police conducted a raid, Anahit and other trafficked
survivors were deported to their home countries.
Thankfully for Anahit and others like her, there is hope for a better
life through refuge and shelter services provided by UMCOR Armenia’s
Anti Human Trafficking Project. The project helps trafficked survivors
reintegrate into society and recover from their traumatic experience.
When you give to One Great Hour of Sharing, your gift will help cover
UMCOR's cost of doing business and allows us to keep our promise that
100 percent of every other contribution you make to a specific UMCOR
project, like the one in Armenia, will be spent on that project and not
on administrative costs.
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Be
A First Responder for UMCOR?
May 1 at Plymouth First
UMC
A disaster just happened. Did you ever watch the chaos on the
news and well up with a feeling that you would like to be there and
help? Well! Now you can.
UMCOR will be offering a seminar for First
Responder Training, on Saturday, May 1. It is a 6-hour
training. After completion, you will be put on a list to be
called when a disaster happens. You are not under obligation
to go, but are offered the opportunity. For more information,
contact Dave or Marilyn Jachalke.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
As many of you are aware, my youngest daughter, Kimberly, will be
getting married on March 27th. Therefore, I will be taking a
few days vacation that week. I will not be at the Egg Supper,
or be here on Palm Sunday. The choir will be providing the
worship experience for Palm Sunday.
Pastor
Alice
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Of
Cabbages
and
Kings
March
2010
Forty Days:
Lent is a Christian season of forty days, not counting
Sundays. One rather large Christian denomination will be
sponsoring a "fish fry" every Friday during the Lenten
season. I suppose for some reason or another this "fish fry"
on Friday will instill in the attendees the reason why the early
Christian Church established the tradition of the season of Lent. The
sponsors expect to serve 700 people at $8.00 a plate; this is no small
piece of change. Is this activity really what the early
church had in mind? I don't think so.
Drawing from the "The United Methodist Book of Worship", Lent begins on
Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday, the Saturday before Easter
Sunday. The word Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon word
"lencten" which means "spring". The following description is important
when compared to a "fish fry". The Lenten season is a preparation
for celebrating EASTER. Historically, Lent began as a period
of fasting and preparation for baptism by converts. Lent then
became a time for penance by all Christians. The First Sunday
of Lent describes Jesus' temptation by Satan; the Sixth
Sunday (Passion/Palm Sunday), Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem
and Jesus' subsequent passion and death. Because Sundays are
always little Easters, the penitential spirit of Lent should be
tempered with JOYFUL EXPECTATION OF THE RESURRECTION.
Lent is not a "fish fry" on Friday. As Pastor Alice pointed
out during the Ash Wednesday service; "Lent is a season of reflection
and repentance. It invites us to look inside our hearts,
seeing ourselves with compassion and truth----to see our brokenness and
our beauty, our failings and our faithfulness".
"Traditionally the season of Lent has been a time of fasting, allowing
the fast to enter into our lives as a call to prayer."
Fasting is a means of focusing on our commitment to Jesus the Christ.
Fasting can be in the form of doing without particular luxuries,
material consumerism or various forms of entertainment. As we
fast and pray our thoughts are focused on Jesus the Christ's passion,
His death and His resurrection.
Note: the season of Lent is not a "fish fry"
Shalom:
Gordon G. Knight
(co-lay leader)
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Join Us for Brunch
G.P.S.
(God, Puppets, & Sharing)
North Lake United Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall
Menu:
Chicken Salad & Croissants
Tuna Salad & Crackers
Macaroni Tuna Salad
Soup
Fruit Salad
Tossed green Salad
Brownie
Beverages
Sunday, March 7 11:45 a.m.
Sponsored by United Methodist Women
Puppet Team will perform for your entertainment
Free will offering for Missions
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UMCOR
Haiti February 19, 2010
A weekly report of UMCOR's relief efforts in Haiti. (Click here
for
the most recent report.)
Thanks so much for the outpouring of support for UMCOR's Haiti relief
efforts - the generosity is amazing! As we work with the people in
Haiti to address the long term recovery and development needs, we are
thankful to move forward with the confidence that the people of the
United Methodist Church will continue to partner with UMCOR in the
years to come. Especially as Haiti prepares for the rainy season, and
the hurricane season, please be in prayer with the people of Haiti and
know that your support is critical.
As of February 18, 2010
- $12 million has been received
for UMCOR Haiti Relief
- Hundreds of thousands of kits
have been received at UMCOR Sager Brown and are being verified
for shipment to Haiti.
- Since the January 12
earthquake, UMCOR has carried out an initial assessment of
damages and needs, developed a five-year work plan, and shored
up strategic partnerships with the United Nations, NGOs, and
the Methodist Church in Haiti.
The UMCOR work plan anticipates three phases of recovery: emergency,
recovery and rehabilitation. Currently operating in the emergency phase
-- from the time of the earthquake through April and including the
start of the rainy season in March – UMCOR is addressing the most
immediate needs of access to food, clean water and sanitation,
temporary shelter and emotional and spiritual support.
This week's highlights include:
- Kate Paik commented on the
three days of remembrance in Haiti, Feb 12-14 which was "to
stop and reflect on the past month of survival. Many were
dressed in white and spent the three days, usually from 6 am
until 1 or 2 pm, at church singing and praying. It [was] a
time to gather their strength from God to go on still once
more."
- With recent reports indicating
that 75 percent of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince will need to be
rebuilt, volunteers soon will be needed to go to Haiti.
Volunteer teams are beginning to mobilize by filling out the
registration form.
- In addition to health kits,
this week, volunteers began assembling and shipping layette
kits and birthing kits to address the needs of babies born in
displaced persons camps.
To find out more about UMCOR's ministries, please visit umcor.org. You
can still donate by placing a contribution in the offering plate.
And, please pray for those who are hungry, displaced, sick or in
poverty because of these and other natural and human-made disasters,
and for the workers who minister to them.
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Music
and Worship
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. – Bell
Choir Rehearsal
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. – Choir rehearsal
Use your musical talents
for the Lord. Dianne Smith and Dawn Brennan are working
diligently to enhance our worship with great music. We know
that there are others in our church with hidden musical talent. Please
step forward and offer your gift of music. Does anyone play
guitar? Sometimes, a guitar would just be sooo
great.
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Education
News
C.O.O.L. J. Sunday School will be studying Easter People in
preparation for Easter Sunday celebration.
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We are happy to have Joey (Page) Coffey & Kristen Adkins share
the work on both COOLJ 1 during the 9:30 hour and COOL J 2 during
worship with Mrs. Harwood.
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Feed the fire of your Faith!!
Multi-generational Food
and Faith is a big hit already. Join them in
the main Fellowship Hall 9:30-10:25am. This class will go to
Feb 28th.
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Tuesday Evening Gospel study (read and discuss a chapter of Matthew
each week) is at 7:10pm in Fellowship Hall.
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Gospel Group meets every Wednesday 9-10am at the parsonage for the
winter.
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Education Committee meets on Wednesday, March 24 at 7:15 p.m.
Danna Segrest, Education Chair
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Camp
Sunday
March 7
The director from the Judson Collins United Methodist Camp will be with
us on Sunday, March 7th, to tell children, youth, and adults the many
opportunities available for Christian camping. If you have
never been to camp, or your child or youth have never been to camp,
please come and learn how camp can be not only fun, but a time to grow
in Jesus Christ.
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Easter Flowers for the
Altar
$10.00 each
______ Easter
Lily
______Daffodil
______Tulip
In honor of: _______________________________
In memory of: _____________________________
Given by:
_________________________________
Plants may be picked up after the second Easter service.
Order Deadline: March 21
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Morning Prayers
- Every Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.
Tuesday Morning Prayer Pack will continue into the fall. Join us 9-9:30
to pray for our Families, Church and World.
If you can not meet us at the parsonage, take a moment at that time to
pray with us from
wherever you are. Remember to write your concerns in the
book. Jot down if you are praying too.
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Be sure to put prayer requests AND responses in the Green Prayer Book.
We want to pray about the answers to our prayers too.
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Prayer Chain
"Our prayer chain emphasizes the mutual responsibility of our
congregation to care for one another."
To make a prayer request contact:
Nancy McKinnon
Betty Hopkins
Sandy Eisele.
If you would like to be added to the prayer chain, please contact the
church office at 475-7569 or email the secretary
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Membership
Care
& Outreach
MARCH
-- Please pick up small gifts and candy for Easter baskets
for the Stockbridge Outreach Center. They give out the candy
and gifts in small lunchbags, so please consider the size when
purchasing items.
Thank you for your support of missions this year
Jo Page,
chairperson
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Men's Fellowship Breakfast
Saturday, March 13 at 9:00 a.m.
CANCELLED
Our second breakfast of the year rallied 12 men out of bed, along with
Pastor Alice and Peggy Fraser. We had a scrumptious English breakfast
with John Tandy's biscuits and gravy. Tim Casey was the mystery
cook
Our next breakfast will be in April. The March breakfast is
cancelled. We encourage everyone to attend BISHOP'S DAY at
Albion College.
Gordon Knight, reporter
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Thank You
Dear Pastor Alice and Church Family,
Thank you so much for the Prayer Shawl and the loving and caring hearts
of your church. I was truly moved by your thoughtfulness and kindness
and wanted to express my deep appreciation to all of you.
Thank you, Patti Rostvold
(Ann Beyer's sister in law)
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Sewing
For Mission
Warm Your Heart by Making Others Warm
The Membership Care and Outreach Committee had two sewing bees to make
warm mittens, gloves, hats, and scarves for Stockbridge Outreach. Five
complete sets of hat, scarf, and mittens are finished, along with 4
sets of hat and scarf or mittens. There are many more sets still in
progress. Thanks to all the women who helped sew, cut out patterns,
make fringe, etc, and to the men's breakfast gang who helped set up.
Special thanks to Mallory and Mason Meads, it is nice to have young
missionaries too.
(Betty Hopkins and Peggy Fraser at the sewing
machines: Pat Knight, Andy Fraser, Annette Weeks(?) in the background.)
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Congregational
Notes
Birth
Rick & Carol Gorham's daughter-in-law Cassie and son
Christopher are the proud parents of Sebastian Miles Sims born 9lb 6 oz
22 inches on February 15. After 25 hours of hard labor the doctors did
a c-section. Everyone is doing very well, praise the Lord for this
newest blessing.
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Obituary
Lauretta E. Sockow

Lauretta E. Sockow of Chelsea, MI, age 96, passed away Sunday, February
14, 2010 at the Chelsea Retirement Community. She was born on January
12, 1914 in Detroit, MI, the daughter of Douglas and Laura (Lumley)
Fraser. On November 4, 1937 she married Clifton W. Sockow in North Lake
and he preceded her in death on April 20, 1985. Lauretta had lived in
North Lake from 1920-37 and most recently lived in the area since 1983,
coming from Walled Lake. She was a member of the North Lake United
Methodist Church. Her father, Douglas Fraser, developed the Inverness
Country Club and subdivision. She is survived by two daughters, Luanne
M. Wolford of Tucson, AZ and Claudia (Don) Szerlag of Dexter; seven
grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one son-in-law, Larry
Garbarino of Ypsilanti; and one sister, Barbara Root of Ann Arbor. In
addition to her husband she was preceded in death by her daughter,
Virginia Garbarino; her four-year-old son, William; and her brother,
Douglas Fraser, Jr. Funeral services (were) held Thursday,
February 18, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. from the North Lake U.M.C. with Rev.
Alice Sheffield officiating. Burial will follow at North Lake Cemetery.
The family received friends at the Staffan-Mitchell Funeral Home on
Wednesday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to
North Lake Church or Chelsea Retirement Community.
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United
Methodist Women
March News
Calling all women to attend the two meetings in March:
- First is Cluster 3 meeting, with other units in the Ann
Arbor Area
The meeting will start at 7:00 PM, Wednesday March
17, 2010
It will be held at the
Dexter UMC located on 7643 Huron River Dr.
Dexter, 48130 Our theme is becoming "Greener" and our guest speaker is
Jacob Stevens Corvidae, from WARM. He will speak to us about being
"greener".
We will hear from each unit what they have been doing and what their
upcoming events are and when. Also things that work well for their unit
and would like to share with others.
Each unit is asked to bring a small snack to share for our fellowship.
When preparing the snack keep "green" in mind, this should be a lot of
fun. Ladies think of a snack our unit can bring and let Carol know.
- Regular meeting will be held at Betty Hopkins home at 10:00
AM on
Saturday, March 20 - we will begin work on the Spring
Tea decorations, please bring a small snack to share.
Dates to remember:
March 7 G.P.S (God, Puppets,
and Sharing)
Jo –tuna salad and crackers,
Sharon and Carol- chicken salad and croissants, soup and
milk,
Betty-macaroni tuna salad,
Nancy-fruit salad,
Diane-Green tossed salad,
Cami- brownies. ---
Coffee and tea at the church — make 15 servings per food donation.
U.M.W. – looking ahead:
April 10 9:30 –
11:30 Spring Prayer
Breakfast at Milan Marble Memorial UMC
May 1
SPRING TEA time TBD
June 17-19 Rummage sale
July 17 Mission
School of the
South at Clarenceville UMC-Livonia 8am – 3pm
Provided by Jo Page, Secretary and Carol Gorham, President
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Upcoming
Events
Mark your calendar!
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Rethink
Church
What if Church Were A Verb? Rethink
Church (United Methodist Communications)
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Attention
Coupon Clippers
Helping Others and Enjoying Your Soup, Too!
We are currently collecting:
-
Our
Family
brand items
- bar code (this is the
Polly's/Country Market brand) for Red Bird
Mission
- Box Tops for Education from General Mills
products
- Pepperidge Farms UPC codes
- A+ program labels from Tyson foods
- Campbell's
Labels for Education program has changed - They will no longer accept
the front panel from can labels. The part that can now be redeemed is
the UPC section, along
with the Labels for Education symbol (little scholar with pencil.) This
applies to all Campbell's items.
-
Pull tab on metal pop cans – for Ronald McDonald House.
(Barbara Obenchain is heading up this project.)
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E-mail
Addresses
wanted for:
- Prayer requests
- Activities not listed in the newsletter
- Receive your newsletter by email, if you
request it.
Send your email
address to church
email address.
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The
Official Church
Calendar is on the office wall.
Each committee is responsible for recording all dates of meetings and
events.
- Dates will appear in bulletin
- Meeting reminder postcards mailed
- Helps prevent scheduling overlaps
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Wanted:
Church Keys
If you have a church key that you no longer use, please return
it so it can be given to current church officers and teachers
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The church's email address: contact@northlakeumc.org.
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The Sunday School hour is the most wasted hour of the week --by the
people who aren't there.
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