Prayer List 2

Statistics 2

VBS 2

UMW 3

Rummage Sale 3

Ask the Pastor 3

Staff Opening 3

Did You Know? 4

Nursery News 4

Graduates 4

Helping Hands 5

Camp Memories 5

Celebrations 5

David’s Kids 5

Color Page 6

Calendar 7

Another month has come and gone, another newsletter article to write. Thank goodness there weren’t any more tragedies to contemplate. Actually, flowers are blooming, the sun is shining and I’m having trouble getting this article really started so I left the office. As I pull into my driveway, there’s Larry cleaning out the underbrush and cutting some scrub trees. This made me think about summer and the cleaning out that we seem to do with our physical selves; but what about our spiritual selves?

We seem to be really good at clean-ing out our closets, drawers, and garages. If you don’t agree with that, then just check out the “glory hole” about three weeks before the next

rummage sale. We’re pretty capable of dusting all the book-shelves, sweeping away the cobwebs, washing away the winter’s gunk and grime, taking out the rugs and beating the dust out of them, and shampooing the carpets to spruce up the house and make everything smell and look better.

What about our souls? Do we have drawers that are full of doubts? Closets overflowing with anger? Prayer time that needs dusting off? Have we sins that need to be washed, or thoughts that need to be wiped out? Do we have things that are causing us to drift away slowly from God? When and where does all that cleaning get done? Do you think it all gets done on Sunday morning during

that hour from ten to eleven? Do we wash those things away when we wash dishes after the latest church dinner?

That’s a lot of questions, isn’t it? Here, hopefully, are some of the answers. Please note however, that I said “some” not “all” of the answers. At some point in time we all have drawers of doubt and anger, we have prayer time that needs dusting off, and sins that we need to have washed away. To accomplish that we need to spend more time with God than just that hour on Sunday morning. We need to really reach down inside us to confront those doubts, voice that anger, and ask for forgiveness and

strength. We then need to reach out past our-selves to those of God’s children who don’t know about God and his saving grace. We need to pray about all those things that fill those drawers with doubt, overflows our closets with anger, and causes us to drift from God. We need to read God’s word

so that we have the skills to sweep out the gunk and grime of all those things that causes us to drift past the cluttered corners and the hurts that we have hidden under our rugs.

All sounds like it might take a lot of time and energy. And you don’t want to spend your whole summer cleaning, heaven forbid! Well, ya know it’s not that hard. You see, God doesn’t just live inside those church house walls. He is everywhere and in

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Pastor Sunny’s Rays

“My Dad said that ‘Benediction’ is Latin for

’the sermon is finally over.’”

Cuba Uni ted Methodis t Church 49 Eas t Main S tree t • Cuba, NY 14727 www.cubaumc.org

June 2007

Inside this Issue...

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Prayer Requests Our World situation Annie Amundson Marg Bly Alicia & Michael Bradley & family Jim Carll Matthew Clayson Jan Clement Dawn Ellsworth (Pastor Sunny’s Mentor) Gary Enderle Bishop Fisher Gloria Fridman Julio Fuentis Tyler Griffin Mark Harrington (Marge Bly’s grandson) Ruth Hochadel Cheryl Holden (Butch Holden’s wife) Russell Ink (Doris Kellogg’s brother-in-law) Judie Jarbeck Jeff Worst’s Friend Dale Kamery

(Sandy LaFever’s brother) Jeff Kellogg (Doris Kellogg’s son) Dr. Mark Kozubowski

(Jean Bowers’ son-in-law) Kelly LaFever

(Sandy LaFever’s daughter-in-law) Sandy LaFever Betty Morton (Sandy Allen’s cousin) Arnie Nelson Paige Alex Radluff The Rothfus Family Brian Scanlon Don Schleigh (Cathy Flower’s son) Patricia Smith (Caryn Rix’ mom) Dick Spriggs (Cathy Flower’s brother-in-law) Danny Travano (Bee Mason’s grandson) Cathy Warner (friend of Cherri Quattrini’s) Marie Willer Virginia Zayac

to those at home... Leslie Arnold Alice Sweet Adaline Wakefield

to those at other residences… Cuba CMH:

Lucille Wildrick Eden Heights: Dorothy ‘Dee’ Petit Gladys McIntosh Bernice Lackey The Pines: Ruth Ella White Waters of Houghton Ernestine Green John Lawton Waters of Westfield Dawn Durkee

Military personnel and their families...

Bob Aaronson Daniel Bunk

Patrick Frank Mark Keenan Karl Linderman Brian Martin Charles Randall Greg Rogers Ron Traux Miles Ward

Our continued prayers go out to ALL military personnel who are serving our country by active duty & reserve status, both in the States, and abroad. Our List of Military Names is provided by the Weekly Prayer Group for our Mili-tary men and women and our world situation. Gatherings are held on Monday’s at 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Angels Roman Catholic Church at 50 South Street in Cuba. All are welcomed to attend. For more information, contact Ray Perkins at 585-968-1467

“Praying for Our Churches, Pas-tors and Leadership” Mountain View District:

May: 3: WNY Annual Conference 10: Whitesville & Stannards 17: Missions Education 24: Cheryl Isaman, Dist Admin Ast

It’s time to round up the 2007 VBS Volun-

teers for this year’s AVALANCHE RANCH !!! A RIDE THROUGH GOD’S WORD

WHERE: Our Lady of Angels Church WHEN: Sun., July 29 – Thurs., August 2 TIME: 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Please see the sign-up sheets posted on the bulletin board for this year’s VBS Volunteers! This is going to be our best year yet! In order to insure the success of this Community event, we need YOUR help! We would love to have you even if you can only come one night!!

If you have any questions, ideas, suggestions, please do not hesitate to call Sandy Tsujimoto at 968-4317 or email tsujimoto@roadrunner.com.

Needed: ∗ Someone to play a fiddle or banjo at

opening and closing each night; ∗ three more teachers ∗ Large piece of fake green grass-like

carpet ∗ Bull horns to use for decoration ∗ Old cowboy boots, in ANY condition,

needed to decorate the set Special thanks to Mr. Nick Abraham for making the VBS Sign!

Next Planning Meeting: Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 1:00 at Our Lady of Angels

Prayer List Update

Please keep our prayer list up to date. We have had names on here for YEARS!!!

Requests made in writing are pre-ferred, to assure proper spelling. You can do this in the attendance pads on Sundays, or drop your request off at the office, or email. If you call your request in, please spell out the name.

Thank you in advance for your assistance on this.

Missed a Sunday? Didn’t pick up

your newsletter? Need to know what’s going on? Don’t forget our wonderful website that our Web Master, Jim Travis, works so hard on to keep up-dated.

Get in the habit to visit often, that way you’ll always be informed! And sign the guest book while you’re there!

www.cubaumc.org

Statistics

Date SS Worship Offering 04/29 26 88 $1,711.00 05/06 23 81 $2,250.00 05/13 23 80 $1,517.00 05/20 24 73 $2,319.75

Special Offerings/Donations: AIM (Rothfus Family): $244.00 Sunday School: $20.00 Boiler Fund: $50.00 Youth Group: $183.00

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UMW News Submitted by

Cindy Dutton, President

Nearly forty women gathered together on May 7

for a “Mother Daughter” potluck dinner at church. Shirley Poore’s group included four generations! Chloe Karn from the “Poore party” was the youngest in attendance, and who cares who was the oldest! Hostesses Patti Petroni and Evelyn Steen provided breads and beverages as well as decorating the ta-bles with lots of color, including a candy favor to take home. Following a delightful dinner, the women adjourned to the sanctuary where Laurie Smalley, the Outreach Pastor at the Houghton Wesleyan Church, entertained with her folk harp. She played seven of her own arrangements of classi-cal selections and hymns intertwined. The women had fun guessing the titles of each.

The last meeting of the year will be a “dinner out.” We will return to Turfside Restaurant in Rushford on Tuesday, June 12 at 6pm. Menu choices are: Seafood Cas-serole (shrimp, scallops and crab) for $11; Herb-garlic Chicken over Fettuccini for $9 (these two entrees also get salads) or Club House Salad which is mixed greens with grilled chicken, mandarin oranges, dried cranberries and toasted almonds for $7. These prices do not include beverage or tip. Cindy will treat all to dessert - the lemon cups that we liked so much last year.

We’ll meet at the CUMC Green Street entrance at 5:30 to carpool to Turfside.

Please call Cindy at 968-3224 with your reservation and entree choice. This is the last meeting until September, so lets have a BIG turnout!!

Rummage Sale Update Submitted by Deb Battistoni, Rummage Queen

We did it! Another successful rummage sale! When we unpacked the glory hole and all the dona-tions, Wesley Hall just didn't seem as full as it does at our Fall sale (winter coats and sweaters are bulky). We spent more time "merchandising" - dis-playing more clothing by hanging them on racks, hoping to catch the buyer's attention.

I estimated by Wednesday that the sale would probably net $600 for the UMW treasury, but was I wrong! We realized a profit of over $730! Larry and Sandy Lathrop, our guardian angels, came to bag and take what we had left after Saturday's $1 bag sale to their mission in Kentucky, and didn't even fill

their truck. Queens Virginia and Deb would like to thank everyone who helped - donating, sorting, working and cleaning up. Every-thing went smoothly. We'll do this again in October!

We will be having an opening for Church Secretary sometime this summer. Cherri and her family will be relocating to the south of Pittsburgh after their house sells.

This position is part-time, averaging 15 hours a week (daytime hours.) Experience in Microsoft Office w/ Publisher a must.

Please send letter of introduction and current resume with references to the church by June 4th.

Beginning Next month, we are going to start a new column - providing there is interest. Do you have questions regarding Pastor Sunny’s Probationary Period? Questions on what she needs to do to complete her schooling and become ordained? How about

questions concerning prayer? Or how to forgive? Or how to become more involved in our church?

Please send your questions via email to Pastor Sunny at cubapastor@adelphia.net, or drop them off in her mail slot in the upper hallway.

Again, this new column will be based on YOUR input.

Thanks in advance!

UMW Dinner Out

Tuesday June 12

Meet at CUMC at 5:30 and carpool to

Turfside Restaurant In Rushford

RSVP to Cindy 968-3224

A Big THANK YOU to Jim Travis for accepting the huge responsibility of being our Church Sexton! Let’s all try to help him out!

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The region surrounding Virginia Tech is receiving a faith-based message of comfort and hope from the people of The United Methodist Church through television and radio spots and newspaper ads address-ing the college campus massacre. During the week of April 23, more than 300 television spots and radio tags were reminding listeners and viewers in southwestern Virginia that The United Methodist Church in Virginia is praying

with them. On Sunday, April 22, a full-page ad in The Roanoke Times proclaimed that "fear is not the only force at work in the world today." All the media spots invite people to visit the Roanoke District Web site (www.roanokeumc.org) for a listing of practical suggestions about how to talk with children about the shootings to help them feel safe in a sometimes violent world. The site also helps visitors search for a local United Methodist church.

NURSERY NEWS Submitted by Deb Battistoni

We all know where to go when our automo-biles get broken and need to be repaired. But what do we do when our Rocking Elephant's frame is broke? We take our elephant to Mr. Mike Jefferies, Auto Body Repair and Elephant Welder!

It was a sad day in the nursery when the adults realized the elephant was not usable - our children had happily rode on this toy (and some of our children are nearing 30 years old!). We took it downstairs, thinking it might need to go to the elephant graveyard (Allegany County transfer station), but decided to take a chance to see if it could be welded or have a new part put on.

Mike took 10 minutes of his time (and he refused to charge us!) and spot welded the frame! Now he can add ‘Elephant Repairman’ to his list of accomplishments!

We took a group photo of the children in the nursery with the Rocking Elephant, and will send it to Mr. Mike, showing him how much we appreciate him!

Submitted by Dean Wildrick

everything. So let me tell you what you can do. When you’re out there in the backyard slowly turn-ing yourself over periodically so as not to become a lobster, spend some time in prayer. As your sitting by the pool or the local swimming hole, instead of reading the best-selling Mary Higgins Clark novel, try reading the best selling book of all time, written by the author of your life. Instead of spending time in the shopping malls, buying the latest summer fashions, volunteer at a homeless shelter, hospital, nursing home or school.

I hope and pray that wherever you spend your summer that you will have spent some time strengthening your relationship with God and cleaning out your soul.

I hope that I will still see you in church (along with your checkbook ☺). If you are traveling then I pray you have safe travels and make some good memories. And please remember that God loves you and so do we.

Congratulations Graduates!

We would like to congratulate the following people on their graduation:

High School Graduates: ∗ Sarah Krott, daughter of Tom & Judy Krott, will

be graduating from CRCS High School. Sarah will be attending the University at Buffalo where she will pursue a degree in Marketing along with becoming a member of the Women's Track Team.

∗ Elyse Petroni, daughter of Louis & Patti Petroni, is graduating from CRCS High School. Elyse will be attending West Virginia University, majoring in Broadcast Journalism.

∗ Raymond Hatfield, grandson of Art & Jean Higby, will be graduating from High School in Ontario, NY. He will be attending the Geneseo State University this fall.

College Graduates: ∗ Jasmyn Dorsey is proud to announce the

graduation of her Papa, Larry Mauser, from Alfred State College. Larry earned his Associates degree in Architecture and will continue on in the fall to obtain his Bachelors in Construction Management.

Graduates Honored

It is asked that our graduates attend worship service on Sunday June 17th so that their church family can honor them and congratulate them on their graduation. Following Service, there will be a reception in Wesley Hall in their honor.

Please plan to attend and congratulate our graduates!

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June Helping Hands

A memory book is being put together for Camp Findley. It will include testimonies from people who have had meaningful ex-periences at the camp. If you would like to submit a short story, poem or other written memories (no longer

than one typed page) please submit them to:

Kim Wasden 424 Rehoboth Rd. Bowman, GA, 30624

You can email your submission to: kbmarie25@yahoo.com

Please call Kim at 706-371-1058 if you have any questions.

Nursery 3: Sandy Tsujimoto 10: Judy Zayac 17: Thela Snow 24: Nicki & Casi

Ushers Bernie Hawks Rob Cornell

Acolytes 3: Katelyn Cornell 10: Brandon Cornell 17: Josh Enderle 24: Jasmyn Dorsey

Altar Guild Shirley Poore

Greeters 3: 10: 17: 24:

Liturgist 3: Maggie Watson 10: Cathy Flower 17: 24:

Children’s Moment 3: Deb Battistoni 10: Sunday School 17: 24:

Altar Flowers 3: 10: 17: Petroni Family 24:

Fellowship Hosts: 17: Sarah Krott Petroni Family

Birthdays 1 - Aaron Worst 2 - Donna Burdick Lee James 3 - Tab Loftis 4 - Anthony Berardi Chris Goodman Jason Ricci 6 - Julie Hawks 7 - Dylan Cornell Ann Visser 10 - Alexa Leyva Christian Worst 11 - Shawn Jacobs 12 - Jenny Bilotta Franz Hodge 13 - Daniel Stubbs 14 - Bill Allis 15 - Jim Holcomb Larry Mauser Eric Young 16 - Todd Appleby 17 - Debbie Donahue 18 - Tim Dutton 19 - Sheila Clayson 20 - Kyle Butts Bessie Dillon Mary Ann Pfouts 21 - Myrillyn Burrows 22 - Andrea Vanik 25 - Whitney Miller

Lloyd Sweet 26 - Kristin Michienzi 27 - Ethan Brammer Beth Anne Burrows Lisa Stadler Brian Worst 28 - Aaron Feldbauer Randy Knapp 29 - Michael Donahue Brian Hamilton 30 - Alicia Bradley

Charlie Wildrick-Cole

June Celebrations

Submitted by Deb Battistoni, Camp Coordinator

This year we lost David Enderle, a very important member of our church family and faithful supporter of the Sunday School program. A substantial donation was made in his memory, and I said that it would be nice to honor him by sending as many kids from our Sunday School program to Camp Asbury or Camp Findley, at no cost to the camper's families. We had 12 campers send in their applications (Sara Kellogg has to decide if she wants to go to a different camp, as the one she applied to is already full).

The 11 campers and the camps that they will be attending are:

Katelyn Cornell Camp Findley Horse Camp, 6/24 to 6/29 ∗ Nicki Kellogg Camp Findley Tent Camp, 7/15 to 7/20 ∗ Zachary Botens Camp Findley Tent Camp, 7/15 to 7/20 ∗ Ashley Worst Camp Asbury Jr. High Adventure, 7/15 to 7/20 ∗ Brian Worst Camp Asbury Pioneer Camp, 7/15 to 7/20

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Anniversaries 2 - Elizabeth & Fred Edwards 6 - Iona & Clinton Matteson 10 - Cindy & Dale Dutton 21 - Sunny & Larry Mauser 22 - Cynthia & Patrick Kennedy 23 - Susan & Jeff Worst 27 - Patti & Louis Petroni 28 - Dorothy & Robert Campbell 30 - Laurie & John Simons

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The Shepherd’s Messenger CUBA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 49 EAST MAIN ST. • CUBA, NY 14727 www.cubaumc.org• Pastor Sunny Mauser

The Shepherd’s Messenger is a publication of the Cuba United Methodist Church, and is published monthly to report news & keep members and friends informed of church programs and events. Deadline for article submission is the third Monday of each month at noon. Please email articles to Editor’s email address, or drop articles off to the church office.

Editor/Secretary: Cherri Quattrini e-mail: cubasec@adelphia.net Office Hours: Tues & Thurs: 9a-2p

Pastor: Rev. Sunny Mauser e-mail:cubapastor@adelphia.net Pastor’s Office Hours: T, W, Th: 10a to 2p

Church Entrance During Office Hours: Please use the ramp door facing E. Main Street.

Church Mailing address: Cuba United Methodist Church 49 East Main Street Cuba, New York 14727 (585) 968-1041

Website: www.cubaumc.org

∗ Jasmyn Dorsey Camp Asbury Splash Marathon, 7/16 to 7/21 ∗ Michael Hupp Camp Asbury Kids and Parents, 7/20 to 7/21 ∗ Haylea Ward Camp Asbury Kids and Parents, 7/20 to 7/21. ∗ Lizzy Ray Camp Asbury 6th to 8th Aquatics, 7/22 to 7/27 ∗ John-Curtis Quattrini Camp Asbury Sailing, 7/29 to 8/3 ∗ Joshua Enderle Camp Asbury "Fore" Golf, 7/30 to 8/4 ∗ Desi Burdick An experienced camper for many years, is going to be a

Camp Counselor at Camp Asbury. For most of our campers, it will be their first time attending

Church Camp. We hope they all have a wonderful time, and will want to make time every summer to attend church camp!

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