Arch Street United Methodist Church

A Reconci l ing Congregat ion 55 North Broad Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107 (S.E. corner of Broad & Arch Streets)

Telephone: 215.568.6250 | Fax: 215.568-2256 www.archstreetumc.org

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8 :3 0 A M Ser v i c e

Senior Pastor, Reverend Robin Hynicka Deacons, Reverend Nikki Kelley Kleinberg,

Reverend David Krueger, Deaconess, Darlene DiDomineck

US2, Carmen Francesco Music Director, Adam Haines

Administrative Assistants, Charlie J. Meyers & Olivia Bauer Building Supervisor, Frank Jones

Sextons, Devon Goodwin, Russell Whaley, John Buzby, Toni McIlwaine, Joe Kalil

Musician: James Dell’Orefice

Worship Leader:

Nursery Attendant: Guy McNeill

SUNDAY WORSHIP 8:30 AM

May 13, 2018 7th Sunday of Easter

PRELUDE Instrumental

PRAISE SINGING #157 “Jesus Shall Reign”

#2147 “There Are Some Things I May Not Know”

#2074 “Shout to the Lord”

OPENING PRAYER

WELCOME TO ARCH STREET & PASSING OF THE PEACE

JOYS & CONCERNS

SILENT PRAYER

REGISTRATION & ANNOUNCEMENTS

OFFERING OF TITHES & OFFERINGS

OFFERTORY

SCRIPTURE READING Russ Alexander Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 1 John 5:9-13

SPECIAL SONG #2148 “Over My Head”

*GOSPEL LESSON John 17:6-19

SERMON “A Tale of 2 Mothers” Rev. Robin Hynicka

CLOSING SONG #2279 “The Trees of the Field”

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE #2280 “The Lord Bless and Keep You”

Calendar of Events May 13th to May 20th

SUN 5/13 8:30 Worship, Chapel 9:45 Adult Sunday school, Chapel 9:45 Choir Rehearsal, Choir Loft 11:00 Worship, Sanctuary 12:20-3 Deaconess Darlene 12:30 Get Acquainted Time 5:30 Grace Café Devotions 6:00 Grace Café

MON 5/14 1:00 Tea & Talk, Chapel 5:30 AA Nichols Hall 7:00 Band Rehearsal, Chapel

TUES 5/15 12:00 Hour of Power 6:30 Unity Bible Study, Chapel

WED 5/16 6:00 AA, Nichols Hall

THUR 5/17 5:00 Diversity, Chapel 5:30 AA, Nichols Hall

SUN 5/20 8:30 Worship, Chapel 9:45 Adult Sunday school, Chapel 9:45 Choir Rehearsal, Choir Loft 11:00 Worship, Sanctuary 12:20-3 Deaconess Darlene 12:30 Get Acquainted Time 5:30 Grace Café Devotions 6:00 Grace Café

Please see the events page on our web site: www.archstreetumc.org for the full

calendar of happenings.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Welcome to Grace Café

Grace Café (ASUMC’s outreach to folks experiencing

food insecurity) is open every Sunday through the end

of June. After a brief period of faith sharing, those

gathered will enjoy a home-cooked meal hosted by

volunteer groups. 180 people attended last week’s Grace Café. Grace Café

staff and volunteers provide today’s dinner. There are still openings for

hosts to bring food and prepare a meal for about 200 people. If you

know of a group that would like to assist in this important mission, please

have them contact the church office at 215-568-6250 or Darlene

DiDomineck and Carmen Francesco at gracecafephilly@gmail.com

Greeters, servers and clean-up crew are needed and always welcome.

Unity in Diversity- Interfaith Iftar Dinner

CAIR-Philadelphia, Masjidullah, and Philadelphia Masjid invite you and a

guest to our second annual Interfaith Iftar Dinner: "Unity in Diversity -

Breaking Bread Together" It will be an evening of food, festivity, and

faith, celebrating the breaking of the daily fast during the

Sacred Month of Ramadan, and its fortuitous coinciding on

May 20th of this year with the Jewish festival of Shavu'ot and

the Christian festival of Pentecost.

Date: Sunday, May 20, 2018

Location: Masjidullah (7401 Limekiln Pike, Philadelphia)

Time: Doors open at 6 PM, program at 7:30 PM, dinner begins at 8:30 PM

RSVP: Event is free and by invitation only. Please RSVP by May 10th at:

https://pa.cair.com/iftar/ We request that you bring 3 cans of food with you to help feed

our brothers and sisters in Philadelphia.

Another Global Mission Fellow US2

Preparations are underway to

welcome a second Global

Mission Fellow, US-2. Kristi

Painter will join Carmen

Francesco in service to the

Arch Street UMC through this General Board of Global Ministries program

for young adults committed to justice and community ministry. As Carmen

completes her first year of a two-year commitment, Kristi will begin hers.

Both Carmen and Kristi will live at Serenity House and offer their skills and

abilities to enhance the community and justice-seeking ministry of the

church. Kristi is completing her course of study in the Master of Divinity

degree program at Chandler School of Theology and is in the process of

pursuing ordination in the North Georgia Annual Conference as a Deacon.

Having Carmen and Kristi serve together for a year provides the opportunity

for peer support and learning. Thanks to Deaconess Darlene DiDomineck

who serves as the Regional Affiliate representative for her great work in

making this happen.

The Center – Philadelphia

The Board of Directors of The Center Philadelphia is pleased to announce

that Deaconess Darlene DiDomineck has been hired to serve as the

organization’s foundational Executive Director. The Center is designed to

carry on and enhance three critical areas of work related to the Arch Street

United Methodist Church: Grace Café, Serenity House and the Community

Center and Civic Engagement activity currently operating in the church

building. Beginning, August 1, 2018, Darlene will work closely with both

the leadership of ASUMC and The Center to establish a collaborative model

of shared space and operation. Darlene’s call to ministry as a Deaconess in

the United Methodist Church, her experience working at all levels of the

church and her most recent work as the intentional, interim Executive

Director of the National Office of the Methodist Federation for Social

Action have prepared her well for this new challenge. We are so fortunate

to have Darlene as a partner in leading this initiative.

Congratulations to Usher: Raymond Wilson Arch Street’s longtime usher and church office assistant

Raymond Wilson, was awarded by Spin Employment for 7

years of dedicated service to the Olive Garden on May 3rd.

Good job Raymond! We are proud of you!

Arch St. reads The Indigenous History of the United

States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz!

On Sunday June 3rd, the United Methodist Women will

host a book discussion of The Indigenous History of the

United States and we hope you will join us. Get your

copy from Margaret Harris today or next Sunday!

Why should you read this book? Well, it was the 2015 Recipient of the

American Book Award! What is it? The following is from Amazon’s

review: The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous

peoples-

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally

recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people,

descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The

centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely

been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the

perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for

centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly

challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against

the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the

original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals,

this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore

Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the

military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President

Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general

Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid

of them only by exterminating them.”

Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history

radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our

national narrative.

United Methodist Women Upcoming Schedule

UMW Assembly May 17-20, Greater Columbus Convention

Center

Columbus, OH: Focus on Maternal and child health, Climate

justice, Mass incarceration, Economic Inequality.

Sunday, June 3: "Book discussion of The Indigenous People's History of the

United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz”

Sunday July 8: Discuss the book When Breath Becomes Air.

Friday, July 20-21 (Friday-Saturday): Mission U at Reading I have fliers and

scholarship

All four of our Camp & Retreat Centers are hosting open houses this

month, three of them on Saturday, May 19, among other special

events. It’s a great opportunity to get an advance look and feel for new

site additions and the new summer camp season.

*Innabah Camp & Retreat Center holds its annual Open House on

Saturday, May 19, from 10 AM to 3 PM. Come with your family to enjoy

live music, a moon bounce, hayrides, a silent auction, s’mores, canoeing and

much more.

*Pocono Plateau Camp & Retreat Center will host its annual Open

House and Spring Fest May 19, from 10 Am to 3 PM, with tours, hiking,

games, hayrides, boating and canoeing, fishing, tower climbing and a savory

hot dog roast.

*Finally, Gretna Glen will host its Open House on Saturday, May 19, from

10 AM to 4 PM.

-Carson Simpson Farm Christian Camp held its annual Open House and

Plant Sale May 5

For more information please visit the following links:

*EPAUMC: https://www.epaumc.org/conference-calendar/camp-retreat-

centers-open-houses/

*Innabah Camp & Retreat: https://www.innabah.org/

*Pocono Plateau Camp and Retreat Center:

http://www.poconoplateau.org/sites/default/files/2018-SpringFest.jpg,

*Gretna Glenn: http://www.gretnaglen.org/

*Carson Simpson Farms Christian Camp: http://www.csfarm.org/.

“I Want to be Part of History”

That was a POWER member's response to the question “What is motivating

you to attend the June 20 rally for fair funding for public education in

Harrisburg?” at a recent POWER meeting.

If that sounds unrealistic you should know that a lot is happening in the PA

state legislature that could mean an end to education apartheid, where skin

color affects the funding that a school receives.

Several legislators who had not been sympathetic to correcting a racist

funding method are now actually proposing legislation do just that. We

need to support them in actually going through with it and showing their

colleagues that NOW IS THE TIME for fair and adequate funding for ALL

of Pennsylvania’s children.

POWER will build on a solid history of achievement for children. You

should be part of it!

Please mark your calendar for June 20 and join us on a luxury bus to

Harrisburg. Contact Wilhelmina Young or Betsy Connor for details or sign

up on the POWER website: power interfaith.org.

Betsy Connor 215-232-7186, betsyfconnor@gmail.com

Nancy Megley 215-574-8320, nmegley@msn.com

Wilhelmina Young 215-227-4043, thecatalyst212@yahoo.com

Sunday school

All those interested in reading, reflecting on and

discussing the Bible passages used in each week’s

sermon are invited to meet in the Chapel every Sunday

at 9:45am. The scripture readings for today’s class are

Acts 2:1-21, Romans 8:22-27, and John 15:26-27,

16:4b-15. Readings for NEXT week are Isaiah 6:1-8,

Romans 8:12-17, and John 3:1-17.

A Look at Our Faithfulness

Combined attendance for last Sunday May 6th was 115. Your

tithes, gifts, and offerings help ASUMC make a difference in our

community.

PRAYER CONCERNS

Prayers of Healing for: Michael Adams, Owen

Brazelton, Rick Taylor, Holly McVaughn, Laura

Dragon, Anna Burton, Jonathan Legg, Lisa

Silvestri Max Northouse, Pat Taylor, Chris

Whaley, Matthew Hearn, Michael Bowman,

Jazzy, Helena & Jackie Yorker, Mrs. Bowman,

Ann Bishton, Evelyn Tinsley, Constance James,

Tyrone Christy, Virgil Watson, Jim Griscol, Gloria Young, Russell

Whaley, Tanya Graves, Dorothy Hurley, Dolores Farinre-Carey, J. J.,

Mr. Franco, Skylar, John Johnson, Len Metzler, Loretta Wootten, Jenny

Jakacki, Laura Massey, Tim Brazelton, Diann Rollins, Joan Wood,

James Williams, Anthony Mastrando, Inez Barrett-Otey, Diana Amey,

Casey Edwards, Ann Gennaro, Mark Fischer, Ida Bristoe, Maureen

Norman, Jeanne Kostenbader, Donald Lathrop, Pamela Thomas,

Sandra Parker, Marion Dabney, Patricia Pape, Yazid Jones, Ernie,

John Tucker, Lou Brooks, Jada Bascom, Minerva Clark, Vanessa &

Yaddy Sellers, Nakia Rimmer, Don Allen, Anna Cole, Christopher

Browne, Betty Flowerree, Troy McColley, Barton Burke, Thomas

Onorato, Roy Samuel Layden, Dorothy Eady, Molly Villafane, Pamela

Maupin, Mary Reece, Celestine Justin, Louis Harrigan, Mayra

Malonada, Sheldon Nixon, Althea Sea, Dumis Randolph, Rosemary

Schier, Carla Kelley, Lawrence Madison Jr (Ozella’s Cousin), Jarrod

Bolden

Prayers of Encouragement: Anna Burton, Marge Donnelly and family,

Rick Taylor, Mat Hearn, Steven Whaley, Qing-Song Chen, and David,

Rev. Brett Charsky, Anthony Eugene Smith and his mother, Christina,

Rashida Bryant, the Thompson/Norman family, Calvin Smith, Jr.,

Deborah Seely, Caroline Lopopolo, Alexander Grant, Laura Harrigan,

the Robertson family, D, Jenson family, Sympathy for the family and

friends of Rev. James Pittman

Prayers of Protection for our service people and those living in parts of

the world under conflict. Please pray for those who are hungry, ill,

displaced, or living in poverty because of natural and human-made

disasters, and for the workers who minister to them.

ARCH STREET UMC VISION

Arch Street United Methodist Church will be a welcoming Christian

community that inspires openness, understanding, healing and

reconciliation both within the congregation and in the community-

at-large.

ARCH STREET MISSION STATEMENT Arch Street United Methodist Church’s mission is to love God and

neighbor by nurturing individuals on their spiritual journeys,

encouraging creativity in faithful service, strengthening relationships

and promoting justice.

GOD’S TABLE IS OPEN TO ALL.

THERE’S ROOM AT THE TABLE FOR YOU.

Arch Street United Methodist Church is a community of faith-

keeping and faith-seeking people who embrace diversity in our

congregation and community and affirm the dignity and worth of

every person as created in the image of God. We celebrate and give

thanks for all of the gifts of God among us. Our welcome knows no

boundaries, whether of age, racial or ethnic background, gender,

sexual orientation or gender identity, economic or marital status,

physical or mental ability. We welcome all to share in the ministry,

fellowship, and blessings of full participation as members of

Christ’s body.

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for the Convention Center self-park next door. You must show the number

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