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First FruitsSPRINGVILLE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
474 East Main St., Springville, NY 14141
MARCH 2016 — DIGITAL EDITION
DEADLINE FOR THE APRIL FIRST FRUITS NEWSLETTER: MONDAY, MARCH 21EMAIL [email protected] OR DROP OFF ARTICLES TO CHURCH OFFICE
A look at the redesigned front of our sanctuary...
Details, Page 6
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From the Pastor’s Desk...
If I were to give you the chance to complete the state-ment, “Easter is…” this Lenten season, what would you put in the blank? It’s really not a quiz, though in one sense, it is a test for us all; especially if we claim the name of Christian. What would your answer be?
In regard to the above question, one scripture has spoken to my own heart in the past as I have re-read the Easter story as record in Luke’s Gospel. In Luke 23:42 we read this simple yet profound request, “Then he said, Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom.” To the thief ’s request, the Master says, “I tell you the truth this day you will be with me in paradise.”
What an amazing verse. First, it reminds us that even in the eleventh hour so to speak – at the very last mo-ment – for this criminal, Christ became a life giver in a sea of troubles; big troubles. To put it simply, there’s al-ways hope in Christ for the soul willing to come hum-bly and believe in Christ for whatever the need in that person’s life – the humble faith of this thief changed eternity for his soul’s sake. Secondly, here again I’m challenged by the character of Christ on the cross still ministering to the lost through love, mercy, forgiveness that only he could show.
I find forgiveness a hard journey ... then I look at the road that led to Calvary. It was no less. The road to Calvary was very difficult, but necessary for us.
A few years back I went to visit a friend in the hospi-tal who was suffering with a rare disease that brought on paralysis. One thing that blessed me the most about that visit was that he had a picture of his then little son hanging up above his bed (where he could see him with little effort). All he had to do was move his eyes to focus in on this child. He couldn’t even talk at the time, so I had to read his lips as he told me that he loved his son so very much ... I just took a chance and assumed that the picture was hanging there for hope, inspira-tion, and for a life beyond that hospital bed invested in something that matters most to him – a reason beyond himself to live!
May we do no less in our own lives as we look to the One True Son who is no longer on the cross, no longer in a cold grave, but risen indeed ... Christ has died, Christ was buried, Christ is Risen today!
Now it’s time for those who have ears to hear when you are asked to fill in the blank, “Easter is…?” What will you put in the blank? If you’ve never known the risen Savior, to you this year, Easter may be no more than eggs, beautiful flowers, and possibly new clothes. But for those who receive Christ, Easter is love beyond measure. Easter is mercy. Easter is forgiveness. Easter is a holy mystery, so let us come with great expectation as we share together in this month in celebration of this unimaginable historical holy event!
Christ is Risen indeed!
For the Kingdom,Pastor Kevin
Easter is... “Jesus remember me...”
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Sunday School News
The Men’s Classled by Bill Skura
This class is using the resource Stepping Up from Iron Sharpens Iron.
The Family Classled by Tracy & Jeff Maybray
This class is studying The Power Of A Praying Parent by Stormie Omar-tian.
The Discipleship Classled by Bud Vredenburg
The group will be doing a special Lenten Bible Study during the Sun-day School hour.
The study will be using as its re-source Adam Hamilton’s book, The Last Words which refers to the sev-en last words Jesus shared from the cross.
Anyone interested in this short-term study is welcome to attend. The class is held in room 1E downstairs.
The Women’s Classled by Mary Lou Forster
We are looking at Twelve Women Of The Bible, which is a study about 12 familiar and not-so-familiar women: Gomer, Martha, Mary the mother of Jesus, Rebekah, Abigail, Leah, Mary of Bethany, Mary Magdalene, Eve, Hannah, the Women at The Well, and the Syrophoenician Woman.
No matter what we already know about any of them, there is always more to learn. Better yet, their stories will be encouraging and enrich our lives in the process!
God’s Girls Classled by Donna Benstead
This class will look at Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World. Join us as we continue to discover what it means to work for Jesus and to sit at the feet of Jesus and learn from him.
Sunday Morning Adult Small Group Studies
Our theme for the month is “Jesus Lives.” We’ll look at “Jesus Washes Feet,” “Jesus Celebrates Passover,” “Jesus Enters Jerusalem,” and “Jesus Lives.” The key verse for the month is “I’ve Seen the Lord” from John 20:18.
Children’s Sunday School
Be on the lookout for more information about a special Easter event just for you! Mark this date on your calendar now: Saturday, March 19 from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
More information will be coming your way!
Boys & Girls — Be on the Lookout!
Youth Group
Everyone’s invited!
On March 5 from 5 to 8 p.m., take a break from the (somewhat) chilly winter and bring the whole family out for a Luau Night in the Family Life Center!
There will be plenty of tropical decorations, family games, island food and even a photo booth!
Bonus points to those who come dressed in their craziest Hawaiian shirts. Best of all? It's FREE! - Sponsored by Aftershock Youth Ministry
Meetings in MarchMarch 6 - 6 to 8 p.m.
March 13 - 6 to 8 p.m.
Ginny Owens and Adam Cappa will be in concert along with Josh Brewer as a guest speaker March 20 at 7 p.m. More info on Page 4!
MARCH 207:00PM
Springville First United Methodist Church
474 E. Main St.Springville, NY 14141
$10
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On March 2, our church is in charge of the Lenten ser-vice and luncheon to be held at the Presbyterian Church beginning at noon.
Pastor Kevin will be the speaker for the service, and FUMC is responsible for providing the luncheon.
Contact Waverly Harvey or Marion Labincki at 243-6958 for more information or to provide items that may be needed.
S1UMC in charge of
March 2 Lenten service
Lenten services and luncheons are held
at noon each Wednesday
through Lent at the Presbyterian Church.
We will celebrate our Lord's Resurrection through a fellowship meal between worship services on Sunday, March 27 at 10 a.m. in the Family Life Center.
Please come with either a breakfast casserole, cinnamon rolls, a fruit platter, or other wonderful dish to share with the worshiping community! It will be a blessed time of fellowship around a meal in place of our usual Sunday School hour.
Join us for an Easter breakfast!
It’s Spring cleaning time! It's been a long winter, and our church could use a little sprucing up before we don our Easter colors.
If you'd like to gather for a devotion, a carry-in meal and some light cleaning around the church, please contact Mary Kay Williams at 942-3872. The day of the week and time will be determined by those who show interest.
March 20 is Palm Sunday as well as the First Day of Spring! We’ll have both 8:45 and 11 a.m. worship services.
There will be a Maundy Thursday worship service on March 24 at 7 p.m. in the church sanctuary. St. Paul’s Episcopal church has been invited to join in this service.
Please note the Good Friday service at the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will be held at 7 p.m. Our church has been invited to participate in the service.
On Easter Sunday, we’ll have worship at both 8:45 and 11 a.m. with an Easter breakfast between the services (see below).
Holy week worship services...
Volunteers needed for some spring cleaning
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Upcoming Events/Announcements
A special offering brochure will be available on March 6 for the One Great Hour of Sharing. When disaster strikes anywhere in the world, the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) supports global and local efforts to aid survivors by working in all facets of disaster response, from training vol-unteers in the U.S. to shipping emergency relief sup-plies internationally.
Your generous gift to the One Great Hour of Shar-ing offering helps cover the operating expenses of UMCOR and allows 100% of your designated donations to get to those who need them most. Please give gener-ously.
One Great Hour of Sharing approaching
The Memory Impairment Respite Program meets the first Wednesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Family Life Center.
Vonnie Vredenburg has the applications for both participants and volunteer workers.
Memory Impairment Respite Programcontinues to meet
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Saturday, March 19 6 p.m. Family Life Center
Plan to attend the free showing of the movie War Room, which will be shown from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 19 in the Family Life Center.
Victories don’t come by accident ... Prayer really is a powerful weapon. The award-winning creators of Fireproof and Courageous bring a movie of humor and heart that explores the power that prayer can have on marriages, parenting, careers, friendships and every other area of our lives.
Feel free to invite your friends and family. We challenge and encourage you to pray for someone to give the ticket on the first page of this newsletter to and invite them to see the movie.
These orange vinyl signs will be placed around Springville to promote our “War Room” event! They also help promote our new website, lovethe14141.com, which will have additional informa-tion about the event.
If you live in a high trafficked area and wouldn’t mind having a sign in your yard, contact Pastor Kevin or Luke Skura. And of course, any additional help you can give in promoting this event would be greatly appreciated!
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March 6 March 13 March 20 Easter Sunday
March Worship Assistants
USHERS/GREETERS
Moodys DonnaYaeger
Towsleys Haughts
WORSHIP LEADER
DeBonenberger
Anita Domes
Mary LouForster
JanIngerson
GREETERS Mary Hill &Sue Place
ElaineBeyer
Jon & JoyMaybray
The BlesyFamily
RADIO CREW RichiePlace
JanIngerson
Mary KayWilliams
RichiePlace
MEDIACREW
MicahNarroway
ElizabethChase
KateMoody
ElizabethChase
USHERS TedWilliams
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Chili Cookoff & Pie Action
Church Renovations
Years ago when the Finance Team intro-duced the Chili cook off and Pie Auction, I must admit, I was skeptical that any-one would want to eat those two selec-tions together in the same evening. But here we are, nine of-ferings later, and still going strong!
Since the New Mortgage Fund is holding it's own, the Finance Team was gracious enough to let the Mission Team take over this fundraiser this year to benefit the Upper New York's Africa 360 initiative.
We praise the Lord that so many you, who have helped us pay for the “new building” over the last 15 years, were also there on Jan. 31 to help us reach others who are in need beyond our doors! Thanks to our chili makers, pie bakers, taste testers and voters, a total of $1,360 for Africa 360 will be presented by Pas-tor Kevin at May's 2016 Annual Conference. Make sure you look for the display to gain a little more insight concerning the Africa 360 initiative. Or visit www.unyumc.org/mission/africa-360.
- Mary Kay Williams
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Upcoming Events/Announcements
Thank you, Carolyn & Becky!
Chili cookoff raises $1,300+
A big THANK YOU goes out to Carolyn Johnson and Becky Werchowski for their many years of volunteering to prepare the altar and other various items within the church each Sunday!
Donna Fay will now be decorat-ing the altar.
Briefly...The Men’s Group meets each Tuesday morn-
ing at 7 a.m. at the Apple Dumpling Restaurant. For further information you can contact the church office.
The Pastor’s Bible Study meets on Tuesday mornings from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. For additional information, contact Pastor Kevin at 949-5653.
For those who have a heart for prayer, meet following the bible study each Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the downstairs prayer room.
For further info, contact Marion Labincki at 243-6958.
On March 6, the Family Life Center is re-served for a Scout Court of Honor from 12:30 to 5 p.m.
Please note that on March 9 the library has been reserved for an outside groups registra-tion beginning at 6:30 p.m.
On March 10 to 13, the church has been re-served for an Emmaus Walk.
Daylight Savings Time begins on March 13. Spring ahead!
Someone is temporarily needed to supervise the Youth Alive choir March 17 to April 14. Contact the church office or Linda Blesy if you can assist during this time.
Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday there is an exercise class which meets in the Family Life Center from 8 to 9 a.m.
The program is centered around Leslie San-sone’s “Walk to Be Fit” DVDs which are low im-pact aerobics. Basic Pilates are used for stretching and balance. New people are always welcome.
For more information, contact Shirley Orton at 592-4090.
The Family Life Center is reserved on Tues-days from 5:30 to 7 p.m. by an outside group and Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. for volleyball.
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Mission Moments
Last year I was tremendously blessed to be part of a preaching/teaching ministry team to Uganda for eight days.
This year, I will not be able to be part of the team going to a region further north where there are great physical and spiritual needs, though I still support the efforts of the team that is going finan-cially and prayerfully.
Their mission this year is to minister in a region where Jo-seph Kony used to wreak hav-oc. If you have never seen the documentary video, An Un-conventional War, produced by The Sentinel Group, the team highly recommend that you do so to gain an understanding of the spiritual ground they will be ministering on.
One option is to go to: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/anunconventionalwar and watch the trailer. You can also Google “The Unconventional War” to find other trail-ers. The film can be rented online for $5. It would be a worthwhile investment.
I realize this is not a mission outreach that our local church has chosen to sponsor, though it is one that I personally support and simply want to offer anyone a chance to support prayerfully and with a one time financial gift if the Lord so moves you. If you are interested, please contact the office on how you can support the team this year while they are in the country from April 28 to May 7.
Thank you for your consideration. Blessings, Pastor Kevin
Help support mission team in Uganda
Monthly collection tosupport Dan and Miranda Vaccaro
Beginning the first Sun-day of March and continuing through the first Sunday of June, our congregation will be taking up a monthly spe-cial collection which will be designated to help support Dan and Miranda Vaccaro.
You may remember that they are missionaries, whom the Lord called this past Au-gust to serve at the Malawi Campus of the African Bible College.
Miranda is the daughter of Bill Skura and Sue Putney, and the sister of Luke Sku-ra. Please be in prayer for the Vaccaros and the Skuras and be watching for the "grey bucket" each first Sunday of the month.
A big THANK-YOU to all of you who helped bake or assemble the Val-entine care boxes that we send out to our college students and our Nursing Home residents. A total of 18 packages were mailed and we have heard back from some mighty satisfied recipients!
Thank you for helping to make Valentine’s boxes
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Library CornerHere are 4 new books in our church library for this month. The two on the left are nonfiction and are for those who
want more “intellectual” or nonfiction books in our library. In the past, these kind of books were not well read so the library leadership is watching the response to these books. The two books listed on the right are fiction, which have been well received by our readership in the past.
Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
by Timothy KellerPrayer is the only entry way into genuine
self-knowledge. It is also the main way we experience deep change-the reordering of our loves. Prayer is how God gives us so many of the unimaginable things he has for us. Indeed, prayer makes it safe for God to give us many of the things we most desire. It is the way we know God, the way we fi-nally treat God as God. Prayer is simple, the key to everything we need to do and be in life. We must learn to pray. We have to.
A challenging read for anyone but so many nuggets of truth! This book ties in nicely with the pastor’s sermons on prayer. Timothy Keller is one of the most popular authors of our times.
Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion by Os Guinness
In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular while private life is infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologet-ics. Most of these methods assume that people are open, interested and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. Our urgent need, then, is for the capacity to persuade – to make a convincing case for the gospel to people who are not interested in it.
In his magnum opus, Os Guinness of-fers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of cre-ative persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are strikingly weak in persuasion – the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Actual persuasion requires more than a one-size-fits-all approach. “Jesus never spoke to two people the same way and neither should we.’”
A Thousand Shall Fallby Andrea Boeshaar
A Civil War novel, this is the first book of the Shenandoah Val-ley saga.
In the autumn of 1864, spirited Carrie Ann Bell is searching for her runaway sister. Disguised as a Yankee soldier, she stumbles into a skirmish near Front Royal, and instead of her sister, she finds trouble.
A popular author for many!
Room for Hopeby Kim Vogel Sawyer
Neva Shilling has a heavy load of respon-sibility taking care of her children and running their family business during the depression while her husband trav-els to neighboring communities selling items from his wagon.
One day a deputy arrives with three young children and announces that her husband and wife have been killed and she now has his secret family to raise. Can she forgive her husband’s betrayal and love them the way God does? In a desperate time can Neva find forgiveness for a grievous wrong – and make room for hope?
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And when they did not find them, they dragged Jason andsome brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out “These who
have turned the world upside down have come here too.”— Acts 17:6
Workers in southern Mexico built a church in 1564, thinking the area would be heavily populated. Unfortunately, a plague dev-astated the region and the church was abandoned. In 1966, a dam was built, and the resulting lake covered the building and hid it from view. Recently a drought caused water levels to drop and the church reappeared out of the waters like a revitalized shrine. Soon, however, the waters will rise and the church will again dis-appear beneath its murky waves.
The true Church of Jesus Christ will never be overwhelmed by the world. The waters may swirl around us, but the Lord has prom-ised to build His Church and keep it strong until he returns.
One thing must be avoided at all costs. We mustn’t let the world seep into the Church. When we let the world dilute our Gospel and water down our values, we’ll disappear from sight. Let’s keep the Church holy — and wholly committed to Scripture.
The chief danger of the church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of trying to turn the world upside down.
PASTORKevin [email protected]
PASTORAL ASSISTANTRev. Vonnie [email protected]
DIRECTOR OFSTUDENTMINISTRIESLuke [email protected]
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LAY LEADERTom [email protected]
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Lay Leader’s CornerWith all the changes happening in our church, I found this
article by Dr. David Jeremiah to be a perfect fit for this month:
The Unsinkable Church
We had a great turnout for the district’s disciple learning classes. I heard nothing but great com-ments. Classes were full as I found out the hard way. There will be more offered again in the near future; expand your ministry and plan to attend. I’ll keep you posted.
Thank you for all you do as church volunteers — your time, work, effort does not go unnoticed or unappreciated. Service not for money but for love.
Thank you, Tom
A preacher was explaining to his congrega-tion how the new sound system had come to be.
“The microphone and wiring were paid for by the church,” he said, “and the loudspeaker was donated
by Mr. Thomas in memory of his wife.”
Springville First United Methodist Church474 East Main St.Springville, NY 14141
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First FruitsSPRINGVILLE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
474 East Main St., Springville, NY 14141
MARCH 2016 — DIGITAL EDITION