Dear Centenary Church Family:

Our schedule of Summer Worship and Sunday School at 9:30 AM begins this Sunday, June 24, 2007, in our air-conditioned Sanctuary. Michael Savoia plans to have a special word for the children before they are invited to participate in a Summer Sunday School program for elementary-age children. Assistant Pastor Terrilisa Durham Bauknight’s Message, Go Ahead, Break the Law, will be based on Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians 3:23-29 and a portion of the Hebrew Scriptures: 1 Kings 19:1-15a. Baritone Lester Gesteland will share Safe within Your Arms by Mark Hayes during the Offertory. Our Celebration of Found Coins for June is designated for the ClothesLine Ministry.

Refreshment Sponsors Needed: Please Note: No one has signed up to sponsor refreshments for this Sunday, June 24. Persons are invited to sponsor the time of coffee and refreshments following our Sunday Worship services. Please consider sponsoring a refreshment time and signing up for one of the available weeks on the 2007 Refreshment Chart posted in the Narthex. Thank you for providing hospitality on a Sunday morning.

Congratulations to our 2007 High School Graduates: In addition to the three young women listed in last Sunday’s bulletin, we want to add Allison Fritsche to the list of those who have graduated from High School this month. Allison plans to attend Middlesex County College in the fall. We apologize to Allison and her family for omitting her name from the printed bulletin last Sunday.

IHOP FUNDRAISER
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2007
For a change we will have a fundraiser for the Church Budget at IHOP on Centennial Avenue in Piscataway.
The deal is this: Everybody and the friends we know come to eat at IHOP between the hours of 5:00 to 8:30 PM
–See Details on the Poster in the Narthex–

Breakfast at Centenary!!
Bring family and friends
on
Saturday, June 30th
and
Saturday, July 21st
between 8:00 and 11:00
Adults – $7.00; 10 yrs. and under – $5.00
All you can eat!!
(Sponsored by our Mission Committee)

Centenary will next be serving dinner at the Ozanam Shelter on Monday, July 2. Please check the information on the bulletin board in the Narthex and sign up to assist with food preparation or serving. For further information, please contact Glenna Gundell (732-463-1431) or Mary Ellen Heim (732-548-2587). Thanks.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL—July 30 through August 3 from 8:45 AM-12:15 PM Theme: The Sea of Galilee. $12.00 per child. Registration forms are available on the Sunday School bulletin board and through the Church Office. Bring a bathing suit and towel daily. More details in parents’ letters being sent out shortly.

Summer Camp Programs Still Available
at Both Aldersgate and Pinelands Centers

Sponsored by the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Aldersgate, in Sussex County and Pinelands in Burlington County offer a variety of exciting summer camp programs for children and youth ages 6-17. Programs include: archery, sailing, horseback riding, Bible studies, canoeing, swimming, fishing, and performing arts, to name just a few. The mission of our camps is to provide, in a natural setting, facilities and program support which will enable our campers to grow in their relationship with Christ. (Scholarships are available) If you would like to learn more please visit the Aldersgate website at: www.aldersgatenj.com or call us at 973-383-5978. Pinelands Center can be reached at www.mtmisery.com or 609-893-3354. Scholarship assistance is available through Centenary Church. Please speak with Children’s Ministries Director Cathy Jean Savoia to get additional information about these programs and appropriate registration forms.

On Saturday July 21st, Aldersgate will be sponsoring a concert at the camp that combines a fun day out with an opportunity for the whole family to experience spiritual renewal. The gates will open at 2:00 PM, the pool will be open so bring your suit, as well as boating and fishing on the pond, along with the many winding trails on the property. Bring a picnic or join us for a Bar-B-Q around 5:00 PM. Our evening will culminate with a concert starting at 7:00pm with guest speaker Terry Weaver and the Tommy Bowman Band.

Families and Youth Groups welcome—children under 17 must be supervised. Call the Aldersgate office for more details: 973-383-5978.

Some Thoughts for This Week:

In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of God in us. – Kallistos Ware

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous. – Margaret Fontey

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. – John C. Bogle

“The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.” – Thomas A. Edison

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prayer and meditation have an important part to play in opening up new ways and new horizons. If your prayer is the expression of a deep and grace-inspired desire for newness of life—and not the mere blind attachment to what has always been familiar and “safe”—God will act in us and through us to renew the Church by preparing, in prayer, what we cannot yet imagine or understand. In this way our prayer and faith today will be oriented toward the future which we ourselves may never see fully realized on earth. – Thomas Merton, Contemplation in a World of Action

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. – Patricia Neal

O God, to those who have hunger give bread; and to us who have bread give the hunger for justice. – A Latin American prayer. Quoted in Cry Freedom, by Charles Ringma.

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back. – Unknown

Next Sunday, July 1, 2007:
9:30 AM – Worship & Summer Sunday School
The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost / Sacrament of Holy Communion
Preacher: Terrilisa Durham Bauknight Theme: Generation to Generation
Lectionary Readings: 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 Galatians 5:1, 13-25
Psalm 77:1-2, 11-20 Luke 9:51-62
10:30 AM – Fellowship Time (Room 20)

Painters Away in late June/early July: Tina and I will be leaving this Saturday morning, June 23, for some vacation time in the Williamsburg, VA, area. I expect to return to my Study at Centenary on Monday, July 9th.
During my absence, our Assistant Pastor, Terrilisa Durham Bauknight, is “on-call” for pastoral care emergencies. Please contact the Centenary Church Office if you have need of pastoral care. Or when our Church Office is closed, you may contact Pastor Bauknight at 908419-4101 (cellular).

You will be in our thoughts and prayers as you gather for Worship and Christian Fellowship at Centenary this Sunday.

Shalom, John