Sunday, October 18, 2009 – The 20th Sunday After Pentecost – Children’s Sabbath
Dear Centenary Church Family:
This Sunday at Centenary: October 18, 2009
The Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost / Children’s Sabbath
9:00 AM – Adult Study – The Prayers of Jesus(Sunshine Room)
9:00 AM – Rehearsal for Children’s Sabbath Service(Sanctuary)
10:15 AM – Worship & Sunday School(Grades 7-12)
Children’s Ministries Director Cathy Jean Savoia and the children
of Centenary will lead the service for Children’s Sabbath 2009
Morning Message: Commitment to Action Message Reading: Matthew 10:40-42
Lectionary Readings: Job 38:1-7 (34-41) Hebrews 5:1-10
Psalm 104:1-9. 24, 35c Mark 10:35-45
Music: Junior Choir- Song of HopeArgentinean Folk Song,
words by Alvin Schutmatt
Piano:Roselyn Giordano, Torna a Sorrientoby DeCurtis
Celebration of Found Coins:2009 CROP Walk (October 18)
11:30 AM – Fellowship Time(Room 20)
11:45 AM – Junior Choir Rehearsal(Music Room)
12:30 PM – 2009 CROP Walk for World Hunger(First Presbyterian Church)
6:30 PM – United Methodist Youth Fellowship – Grades 7-12(Youth Room)
REMINDER: Sunday School Children and Teachers participating in the Children’s Sabbath Worship Service are asked to be in the Sanctuary by 9:00 AM Sunday morning to prepare for the Worship service.
Food Collection—Sunday, October 18: Please bring cereals, staple food items in plastic jars or cans, and paper products to share with senior residents in Perth Amboy. We and they are deeply grateful for your generous sharing.
Special Appeal for Diapers and Infant/Toddler Food for Amandla Crossing:Your assistance is needed to provide diapers (sizes#3, #4, #5 & #6…andpull-ups) and infant & toddler food for children at Amandla Crossing. Please bring the items to Centenary and leave them in the boxes provided in the Narthex. Thank you. —Your Mission Committee
2009 CROP Walk ? This Sunday, October 18 at 12:30 PM
The Metuchen-Edison Area 2009 CROP (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) Walk for World Hunger will begin with sign-in and registration at 12:30 PM this Sunday, October 18, and “Step-Off” on the Walk at 1:00 PM from First Presbyterian Church, 270 Woodbridge Avenue in Metuchen (to which all walkers will return at the end of the walk).
CROP Hunger Walks help children and families worldwide—and right here in the U.S.—to have food for today, while building for a better tomorrow. Each year some two million CROP Walkers, volunteers, and sponsors put their hearts and soles in motion, raising over $16 million per year to help end hunger and poverty around the world—and in their own communities. (25% of the amount raised in the Metuchen-Edison Area Walk is returned annually to the Metuchen-Edison Area Interfaith Clergy Association to be used for emergency assistance for local individuals and households.) Last year, walkers in the Metuchen-Edison Area CROP Walk raised a little over $7,000.00. Our goal for the 2009 CROP Walk is to raise $9,000.00. And you can be part of it! Look for additional information about CROP Walks around the nation, and about the Metuchen-Edison Area CROP Walk at http://www.cropwalk.org/.
Envelopes to secure sponsors for the 2009 CROP Walk are still available through Dee Gillet and in the Church Office.We need persons who are able to walk and those who can sponsor walkers, and others who can offer support as needed. For additional information or to offer your assistance, please contact Dee Gillet at 908-380-0946 or deegillet@msn.com, or Pastor John Painter at 732-548-7622 X11 or RevJDP@aol.com.
Congratulations to Darlene “Dee” Gilletwho has been selected for membership in Phi Theta Kappa, an International Honor Society for two-year college students. Dee is currently studying at Middlesex County Community College and has distinguished herself in the Division of Arts and Sciences by earning a cumulative Grade Point Average of 3.5 or higher. Well done, Dee!
A Note of Thanks: My deep appreciation to everyone for the cards, calls and prayers for my family on the death of my 24 year old Grandson Ryan Sherwood. It touched our hearts. Delores (Dee) Sherwood
CUMC Music Ministry
presents
Silent Movie Night
featuring
Harold Lloyd
in
“Safety Last”
with
Jonathan Benjamin
at the piano
Saturday, October 17that 7:00 PM
Suggested Donation: $5:00
Snacks will be available
Centenary United Methodist Women
CAMPBELL SOUP LABELSand other related products: We are still collecting these labels for the Red Bird Mission. There have been BIGchanges to the Labels program. The part of the label that we need is the UPC section along with the Labels for Education symbol.Please check out the UMW bulletin board (in the area near the Men’s Room) for more information on how these labels need to be collected. There is a basket in the Church Library to receive your labels. The Red Bird Mission, in Beverly, Kentucky, is a Mission Project of the United Methodist Church. The latest newsletter from the Red Bird Mission says they expect to be able to acquire a van in 2009 with their 1,600,000 points received from all the Labels that they received for the last two years.
PECANS, TRAIL MIX, CHOCOLATES, ETC.will be available in late October or early November. This will be a fund raiser for the church budget this year.
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 the2009Refreshment Chart in the Narthex. You may wish to “team up” with another person/family to provide refreshments for Fellowship Time. Please speak with Pastor Painter, and we will do our best to find someone with whom you can team up. Information on what you need to provide is available on the information sheet attached to the Refreshment Chart.Thank you for providing hospitality on a Sunday morning.
Community Harvest Dinner
Saturday, October 24th at 6:00 PM
Dinner = Chicken, mashed potato, corn, green beans, salad, rolls and butter.
Fall Dessertsinclude Apple pie and Pumpkin pie.
Apple dunking, games, build a scare-crow contest and a whole lot of fun.
Please sign up on the bulletins boards in the Narthex and hallway.
A Barrel Offering will be received.
Sponsored by Children’s Ministries
Metuchen-Edison Area
Interfaith Clergy Association
is pleased to present
the Showing of the Film:
Footsteps: A Journey in Faith
Sunday, October 25, 2009
at Centenary United Methodist Church
200 Hillside Avenue, Metuchen
Twelve religious leaders of very different traditions come together for an extraordinary trip to the Middle East; to a land they’ve read about, a land they’ve preached about for years, and a land some of them will see for the very first time. This documentary follows these leaders into the Holy Land where they witness each other’s faith and hope to deepen their friendship in the process.
This trip was not about solving the century-old crisis in the Middle East. Rather to explore faith – looking at the similarities that bring people together while looking honestly at the differences that stand to divide our world today. That same division tears the group apart when phone calls from the U.S. Embassy and Israeli Defense Force reveal a kidnapping threat just hours before their journey to the West Bank.
Upon their return, they realize that the journey has just begun. Now they tell this story of interfaith experience and understanding. The story empowers the group and challenges the viewer to really listen and act in faith.
6:00 PM Pizza/Salad Dinner and Gathering
6:30 PM Movie Viewing
7:30 PM Discussion of the Movie
8:30 PM Goodbye! See you at our Next Program.
Dinner is Sponsored by the Metuchen-Edison Area Interfaith Clergy Association
However, we ask that you RSVP so we can order food accordingly.
Please RSVP by Monday, October 19 to interfaithclergy@verizon.net
Questions?? Ask your clergy…
Mark the Date:
Halloween “Trunk or Treating”
on Saturday, October 31 at 7:00 PM in the Rear Parking Lot
Please fill your trunk with individually store-wrapped goodies and back your vehicle towards the sidewalk. Refreshments served for parents and children alike.
All Saints’ Day: Sunday, November 1, 2009
At our 10:15 AM (EST) Service of Worship on Sunday, November 1, 2009, we will name and remember those members and friends of the Centenary Church Family who have joined the Communion of Saints since last November. If you have loved ones or friends who have died since November 2, 2008, and you would like their names lifted up in memory during our All Saints’ Day Service, please provide that information to the Church Office by Wednesday, October 28so that they may be included. You may leave those names with Mary Kay Dangremond by phone during regular Church Office hours (9:00 AM-1:00 PM weekdays), or provide them to the Church by E-mail (CentaryUMC@aol.com), Fax (732-548-6256), or regular mail.
Adult Class to Study Grace: Basic Christian Practicesin November
During the first four Sundays in November, the Adult Class will offer a study called Opening Ourselves to Grace: Basic Christian Practices. This DVD series looks at the question of what is grace, and how does John Wesley’s understanding of grace affect our faith journey.
We invite you to join us for any or all of these sessions on Sunday mornings from 9:00 to 10:00 AM in the Sunshine Room.
Some Thoughts for This Children’s Sabbath Weekend:
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. – Marian Wright Edelman
Jesus chose to be around small children a number of times in his ministry, often over the objections of his disciples. Sometimes he seems to have done this in order to hold children up as examples of the childlike qualities that enable God’s Realm. But maybe, sometimes, he just wanted to hold them. – Susan Ross, from Alive Now, July/August 1994
We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children. — Pennsylvania Dutch saying
Don’t worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you. – Robert Fulghum
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. – Lady Bird Johnson
Our greatest obligation to our children is to prepare them to understand and to deal effectively with the world in which they will live and not with the world we have known or the world we would prefer to have. – Grayson Kirk (1903-1997), Educator
Children possess naturally the essential elements for having faith. The Kingdom of God is first perceived in the world children know best. Children, therefore, have as much to offer adults as adults have to offer children-perhaps more. – John H. Westerhoff III, Bringing Up Children in the Christian Faith
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. – Erma Bombeck
The character of our children tomorrow is shaped by what they learn from us today.
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. – Angela Schwindt
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. – Peter de Vries, The Tunnel Of Love
Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. – Michael Levine
If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. – Abigail van Buren, Advice columnist
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. – Joan Ganz Cooney
It is so important not to let ourselves off the hook or to become apathetic or cynical by telling ourselves that nothing works or makes a difference. Every day, light your small candle…. The inaction and actions of many human beings over a long time contributed to the crises our children face, and it is the action and struggle of many human beings over time that will solve them—with God’s help. So every day, light your small candle. – Marian Wright Edelman, Guide My Feet
Next Sunday at Centenary: October 25, 2009
The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost / Reformation Sunday
Sacrament of Christian Baptism
9:00 AM – Adult Study – The Prayers of Jesus(Sunshine Room)
10:15 AM – Worship & Sunday School(Pre-K through Grade 12)
Preacher:John D. Painter Theme: Three Cups of Humble Tea
Lectionary Readings: Job 42:1-6, 10-17 Hebrews 7:23-28
Psalm 34:1-8 (19-22) Mark 10:46-52
Message Text Mark 10:35-45
Music: Chancel Choir- O Taste and Seeby Ralph Vaughn-Williams
Celebration of Found Coins:2009 CROP Walk (October 18)
11:30 AM – Fellowship Time(Room 20)
11:45 AM – Junior Choir Rehearsal(Music Room)
6:00 PM ??? “Footsteps” Community-Wide Interfaith Program (Sanctuary/Room 20))
Prayer for the Week of October 18:Creator God, Parent of us all, we give you thanks for all the things you have given us that make our lives full: our family, friends and church. We pray today for those who do not share our joy. We pray for those who don’t know what it’s like to have brothers and sisters around the globe who in tough times love and pray for us. We share in the great cloud of witnesses you have gathered together, not based on the color of our skin, the languages we speak or our place in this world. We are your children, and we give you our love and praise. Amen.
Pastor John Painterwill be attending the annual Tipple-Vosburgh Lecture Series and Alumni/ae Reunion at Drew University Theological School next week, as part of his fulfillment of Continuing Theological Education requirements. This year also marks the 40thanniversary of Pastor John’s graduation from The Theological School at Drew University. The theme for the 2009 Lectures is Beauty and Brokenness: The Art of Repairing the World. The lectures, workshops and other alumni/ae-related events will begin at 2:30 PM on Tuesday, October 20 and conclude with lunch on Thursday, October 23. Pastor John will be commuting from Metuchen to Madison each day. If you need to reach him with a pastoral concern, please call his cell phone at 201-463-5552.
I look forward to sharing with many of you in Study, Worship and Christian Fellowship on this Children’s Sabbath at Centenary.
In Christ’s Love, Pastor John