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Office Hours
Mon-Fri 9am-3pm
Phone: 765-778-8074
www.pendletonfirst.org
First United Methodist Church Ministries, Inc. Pendleton Campus
225 W. State Street—Pendleton
Worship: Sunday @ 9:45 a.m.
Adult, Children & Youth Sunday School: Sunday @ 11:00 a.m.
Ingalls Campus 301 N. Alfonte Street—Ingalls
Worship: Sunday @ 10:30 a.m—Sunday School @11:30
Connect—Grow—Commit—Serve July 2017
—Making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the World
Inside this Issue:
Camp News & Pics—pg 4
Church Council Notes— pg. 5
Dominican Republic Trip—pg 4
Food Pantry Donations— pg. 6
Ingalls Bible Study— pg. 6
Monthly Calendar—pg. 8
Online Giving— pg. 3
Pastor Doug’s Note—pg. 1
Special Events—pg. 7
Stephen Ministry— pg. 6
Vacation Bible School— pg. 3
July Special Events: July 2—Holy Communion
July 4—Independence Day
Offices Closed
July 7—First UMC Sponsors
Pool Party —FREE Swim
at Brown Pool
July 9—Decorate for VBS
July 10-14—Vacation Bible School
July 12—Anita’s Fundraiser
July 12—Romans Study at Ingalls
July 14—CREW Pool Party
July 16—VBS Celebration Worship
July 17—Bob Evans Fundraiser
July 22—UMM Golf Outing
July 22-19—Mission Trip to
Dominican Republic
Continued on page 2
Special Sunday
In preparing for The Sunday before the 4th of July Holiday, I found
this interesting article: America’s True History of Religious
Tolerance: “The idea that the United States has always been a
bastion of religious freedom is reassuring—and utterly at odds with
the historical record,” by Kenneth C. Davis, ‘Smithsonian Magazine’,
October 2010, found at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/
americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/.
From Pastor Dave: The bible tells us that “We are God’s
workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which
God prepared in advance for us to do.” —Ephesians 2:10
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In the article, Davis describes what really happened before the Constitution was written, and there was
much religious intolerance between the Protestants, Catholics, and non-believers. Davis writes, “In newly
independent America, there was a crazy quilt of state laws regarding religion. In Massachusetts, only
Christians were allowed to hold public office, and Catholics were allowed to do so only after renouncing
papal authority.”
Some of early founding fathers were successful in separating church and state. As a Christian, James
Madison (future fourth president) also noted that Christianity had spread in the face of persecution from
worldly powers, not with their help. Christianity, he contended, “disavows a dependence on the powers of
this world...for it is known that this Religion both existed and flourished, not only without the support of
human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.”
It was in Virginia that Thomas Jefferson helped pass the first separation law, called the Virginia Act for
Establishing Religious Freedom, in 1786, where he wrote that the law “meant to comprehend, within the
mantle of its protection, the Jew, the Gentile, the Christian and the Mahometan, the Hindoo and Infidel of
every denomination.”
Davis further writes:
Madison wanted Jefferson’s view to become the law of the land when he went to the
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. And as framed in Philadelphia that year, the U.S.
Constitution clearly stated in Article VI that federal elective and appointed officials “shall be bound by
Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution, but no religious Test shall ever be required as a
Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
This passage—along with the facts that the Constitution does not mention God or a deity (except for a
pro forma “year of our Lord” date) and that its very first amendment forbids Congress from making laws
that would infringe of the free exercise of religion—attests to the founders’ resolve that America be a
secular republic. The men who fought the Revolution may have thanked Providence and attended church
regularly—or not. But they also fought a war against a country in which the head of state was the head of
the church. Knowing well the history of religious warfare that led to America’s settlement, they clearly
understood both the dangers of that system and of sectarian conflict.
It was the recognition of that divisive past by the founders—notably Washington, Jefferson, Adams and
Madison—that secured America as a secular republic. As president, Washington wrote in 1790: “All
possess, alike, liberty of conscience and immunity of citizenship. ...For happily the Government of the
United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they
who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.”
So, according to Davis, The United States of America is a secular nation that has groundings in the
Christian religion along with its tenants. This nation also is bound to protect the freedom of all peoples
and religions whether they are Christian or not. It is freedom from government as well as no preferential
treatment to any one religion by the government.
So, for us, we Christians need to be good citizens and continue our tolerance and love for all as well as
telling what Jesus has done for us since that is a greater freedom, when compared to the freedom that
any government can give.
Enjoy your freedom and share it.
We, the People (continued from page 1)
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We will have a volunteer dinner on July 6th at 7:00 pm in the atrium. This is a chance for volunteers to meet the other volunteers, get their t-shirt and learn more about this year's VBS. On July 7th we will be sponsoring a community swim at Brown Pool. Our Praise Band will be there, we will be registering kids for VBS and have a give-away for
the kids. Please join us and bring a friend!
It’s the BEST week of the Summer!
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL July 10th—14th, 6:00-8:00 pm
VBS is right around the corner! If you haven't registered you can sign up on line at our website www.pendletonfirst.org or
sign up at church, forms are available in the atrium.
First United Methodist Church of Pendleton and Ingalls wants to remind you that
we offer electronic giving as a way to automate your regular weekly offering.
Electronic giving offers convenience for individual congregation members and
provides much-needed donation consistency for our congregation.
—Direct Debit Giving is used to automatically transfer funds from your checking
or savings account to the church’s bank account.
—Credit & Debit Card Giving allows you to make offerings automatically on a pre
-determined schedule using a credit or debit card.
—Online Giving allows you to go to pendletonfirst.org at any time to set up an
automatic donation plan, change your donation plan, make a one-time donation
or view your online donation history.
—You can also access the electronic giving through a phone app: Give+
We have had about 10-15 families already enjoying the convenience of our electronic giving. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Pastor Doug, Donna Wood, or Matt Walker (for technical issues).
ENJOY THE CONVENIENCE
OF ELECTRONIC GIVING
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Church Camp News Camp Adventure Camp Lakewood
Mission Trip to Dominican Republic
Seven Jr High students attended Camp Adventure the last week of June: Bryce Axel-
Adams, Kate Deaton, Kaitlyn Prickett, Dean Erwin, Will Kaster, Sophie Kaster and
Ethan Childers. I served as a camp director that week and Matt Clark, who attends Sr.
High youth on Wednesday and Sunday nights, served as a counselor. Everyone had a
great time, with a large variety of activities while we were there. A few of our students
either shared their testimonies or shared scripture in front of the rest of the campers
throughout the week, which was awesome to see! In Him, Dustin Ritz
From July 22nd-29th, Susan Barrett and Dustin Ritz will accompany 4 of our high school students
on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic. The volunteers from our church will join 12 students and
adults from Trinity United Methodist Church, in Lapel, for this trip.
We are in need of new youth and adult t-shirts. We will be taking these shirts with us on the
mission trip and donating them to an orphanage that we will be serving. They can be any color and have
designs/logos that are appropriate. There will be a suitcase in the atrium that you can help us fill with
t-shirts to be a blessing to others!
It's hard to believe but our time at Camp Lakewood is over for the summer. Again this year, Cherie Reeves and I were on the Director's team. Maddie Barrett and Grace Kistler were returning counselors and Anna Childers and Jason Doudt counseled for the first time. It is difficult to explain the impact our youth leaders have made in the lives of the children they were with. They loved on these children, cared for them physically, emotionally and spiritually, and made sure that they had a great time. The impact was most evident at Vespers on Tuesday evening. This is the time that we invite the children to come forward if they would like to make Jesus their forever friend. After offering the invitation to come forward I was able to stand back and watch our youth come forward and pray with their campers, God was certainly moving at Camp Lakewood and in the lives of our counselors. Cherie deserves extra praise, she not only fulfilled her role as a director but she stepped up and became a counselor again since we were short on volunteers! In August we will be having a pizza fundraiser for camp. These fundraisers not only help with the cost of sending kids to camp but allow us to bring supplies for the entire camp. You can donate to our camping ministry at anytime! Blessings, Susan Barrett
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First United Methodist Church Ministries
Pendleton and Ingalls Church Council Happenings
June 14, 2017
7:00 Devotions (5 Min.) Sunni Manges gave devotions
Acceptance of (10 min.)
Minutes/ Happenings
Reports sent (possible list): Trustees/ Facilities; SPRC; CONNECT/ Evangelism; GROW/
Education; COMMIT/ Worship; SERVE/ Missions
Finance
>> All reports approved.
Tithe payment: Church Council authorized Donna to pay $1673 at the beginning of every month. This
is the amount saved each month by the new mortgage.
7:30 New Items Music and Art Festival hosted by Studio 3 ( a non-profit group) has asked us to have a kid friendly
booth. Church Council is not against it, and Jen and Kelsey will investigate.
Old Items
Update on Electronic Giving —Give+
7-8 people have signed up;
added categories for giving
General Operating
Ingalls Campus
Missions
Special Fund (to be designated at times)
DRT/ Capital Campaign
Capital Campaign Feasibility Study: Started June 7, 2017; some appointments made
New & Better Vision for the Church; UPDATES:
Sanctuary update - done !!!
Video streaming next
Project Update: Jen & Kelsey
Money and pledges met goal
Painters will start in August
Pocket Park will continue to be designed and discussed, but will not be made
“open to the public” or use public funds. Nor will we run off people for
using the park, unless they are abusing the park.
FYI: Upcoming Events
June/ July Preaching & Sunday School curriculum: Moses by Adam Hamilton
August Preaching Series: Trusting God: True Stories. Individuals from our
congregation will give testimonies each week with their scripture basis, and then
Pastor Doug will preach on that scripture.
Charge Conference is: Nov 5, 2017, from 3 to 5 PM, at Noblesville HS
7:35 Adjourn Next Regular Meeting: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 7:00 PM (2nd Wed of each month)
During VBS
Devotion sign up: Jul _Randy____
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UPDATES ON OUR YOUTH
PROGRAMS AT PENDLETON FIRST
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Here is an updated list of foods we need.
When possible, please choose low salt,
low sugar or fat-free items.
A & B Canned soups
C & D Canned beans/tomatoes
E & F & G Cereal & Oatmeal
H & I Canned or Box meals
J & K & L Pasta & Pasta Sauce
M Potato sides
N & O & P Pancake mix & syrup
Q & R Cornbread & muffin mix
S Rice mixes/dry beans
T & U Canned meats/tuna
V & W Peanut butter & jelly X & Y & Z Canned or dried fruit
If you feel moved to contribute toiletries, we
would appreciate shampoo, toilet paper,
facial tissues, bar soap, feminine hygiene
items, dish detergent, toothpaste/brushes.
Thank you for your support!
Thanks to all who came to the Blood Dive in June! The blood drive had 23 people check in but only 17 were able to donate. Everyone has LOW iron!! The Red Cross reported that our goal is 19 for the next drive, which will be Sept. 18
Please go by the FIRST
letter of your LAST
name to learn your
suggested donation.
Roger Wills has moved; his new address
is as follows:
Roger L. Wills, Room 124 A
Kindred Transitional Care & Rehabilitation
200 Green Meadows Drive
Greenfield, IN 46140
STEPHEN MINISTRY
Stephen Ministers provide one-to-one,
Christ-centered care to help your pastor
ensure that hurting people receive the care
they need. One way to keep our Stephen
Ministry vibrant and healthy is to train
additional leaders at a Stephen Series
Leader's Training Course. We ask the
congregation to pray for Sherri Doudt and
Jason Resler, who are called to attend training
July 30-Aug. 5, to become Stephen Leaders.
Their accepting God’s call will ensure that our
Stephen Ministry program remains strong. If
you or someone you know is hurting, find out
more about Stephen Ministry by talking with
one of our Stephen Leaders: Tammy McKean,
Dick Smith or Pastor Doug. Walker.
We will begin a new Bible Study, focusing on the book of Romans, on
July 12 at the Ingalls Campus (301 N. Alfonte Street). The group will
continue with weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 7:00 pm, and will be
led by Mary Cloud.
All you need to bring is your Bible—all other printed materials will
provided. Please let us know if you plan to attend, by contacting the
church (765-778-8074), so we prepare enough copies. All are welcome!
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