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Prayer request 2 Ladies Night Out 2 Ad Council Minutes 3 Helping Hands 4 June Celebrations 4 UMW Cookbooks 4 Did You Know 5 Graduates 5 Sunnys Rays (cont) 5 UMW News 6 Calendar 7 Another month has come and gone, an- other newsletter article to write. Thank good- ness there weren’t any more tragedies to con- template. 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 spiri- tual selves? We seem to be really good at cleaning 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 rum- mage sale. We’re pretty capable of dusting all the bookshelves, sweeping away the cob- webs, 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 draw- ers that are full of doubts? Closets overflow- ing with anger? Prayer time that needs dust- ing 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 dinner? That’s a lot of questions, isn’t it? Here, Pastor Sunny’s Rays “ Cuba United Methodist Church 49 East Main Street • Cuba, NY 14727 June 2009 Inside this issue hopefully, are some of the answers. Please note however, that I said “some” not “all” of the an- swers. 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 ourselves 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, over- flows 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 every- where and in everything. So let me tell you what you can do. When you’re out there in the backyard slowly turning 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 Hig- gins Clark novel, try reading the best selling book of all time, written by the author of your life. In- stead of spending time in the shopping malls, buy- ing the latest summer fashion, volunteer at a homeless shelter, hospital, nursing home or school. (continued on page 5)
Transcript of Pastor Sunny’s Rays - Cuba UMCCheryl Isaman 28 Churches in Transition Prayer List Update Please...
Prayer request 2
Ladies Night Out 2
Ad Council Minutes 3
Helping Hands 4
June Celebrations 4
UMW Cookbooks 4
Did You Know 5
Graduates 5
Sunnys Rays (cont) 5
UMW News 6
Calendar 7
Another month has come and gone, an-other newsletter article to write. Thank good-ness there weren’t any more tragedies to con-template. 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 spiri-tual selves?
We seem to be really good at cleaning 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 rum-mage sale. We’re pretty capable of dusting all the bookshelves, sweeping away the cob-
webs, 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 draw-ers that are full of doubts? Closets overflow-ing with anger? Prayer time that needs dust-ing 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 dinner?
That’s a lot of questions, isn’t it? Here,
Pastor Sunny’s Rays
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Cuba Uni ted Method is t Church
49 East Main St reet • Cuba, NY 14727
June 2009
Inside this issue
hopefully, are some of the answers. Please note however, that I said “some” not “all” of the an-swers. 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 ourselves 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, over-flows 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 every-where and in everything. So let me tell you what you can do. When you’re out there in the backyard slowly turning 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 Hig-gins Clark novel, try reading the best selling book of all time, written by the author of your life. In-stead of spending time in the shopping malls, buy-ing the latest summer fashion, volunteer at a homeless shelter, hospital, nursing home or school.
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Prayer Requests
Prayer Requests
Our World situationThe Rothfus Family Guy MosesAlicia Bradley
THOSE AT HOMEAlice SweetAdaline WakefieldMayme Giles
Jan ClementErnestine Greene
To those at other resdences…
CUBA CMHLucille WildrickLaura Clayson
ABSOLUT HOUGHTONJohn Lawton
WATERS IF WESTFIELDDawn Durkee
BATH VA CENERJohn Visser
IRIS PARK COMMONSMarge Bly
EDEN HEIGHTS-BUFFALOJane Wright
Bob Aaronson Daniel Bunk Kevin Desaultels Brad Frank Jeff Griswold Mark Keenan Karl Linderman Justin LinzaCarl Randall Alfred ReynoldsGreg Reynolds
Brandon Snyder Justin Sweet Dan Thompson Ron Truax Miles Ward Eric Young
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 Military men and women and our world situation. Gatherings are held on Mon-day’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, Pastors and Leadership” Mountain View District: June
7 Missions Education Team14 WNY Annual Conference (19-21) 21 District Administrative Asst. Cheryl Isaman28 Churches in Transition
Prayer List Update
Please keep our prayer list up to date.
Requests made in writing are preferred, 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 re-quest in, please spell out the name.
Ladies Night Out
Join the United Methodist Women on Tuesday, June 23 when they will gather for dinner at The Mill on Genesee Street in Cuba. This is the final activity before taking a summer break. The dinner choices are: Surf and Turf Dinner Salad (shrimp and steak) for $10.95, or Baked Haddock, Chicken Parmesan, Eggplant Parmesan or an 8 ounce NY Strip Steak, any of which cost $15.95. Each meal includes soup, salad, bread and dessert. All women of the church are invited to this outing that is always a good time. We will be taking reservations in mid-June. See you there!
Cynthia Dutton, DirectorCuba Circulating Library39 East Main StreetCuba, N.Y. 14727585-968-1668
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Administrative Council Minutes
May 5, 2009
Present: Tom Krott, Doris Kellogg, Donna Lawton, Pastor Sunny, Mary Ann Pfouts, Patti Petroni
Meeting was called to order at 7:08 p.m. with prayer by chair Tom Krott.
Minutes were read and approved.
Pastor Sunny commented on the visits of the past two months. Jim Travis will begin taping all the worship ser-vices and put them on DVD or VCR tape so that we can get those tapes to our shut-ins. New membership classes will begin in the fall; we will have a church picnic on July 26th; May 19th is the Bishop’s day on the District; Graduation Sunday is June 14th; Baccalaureate will be June 26th; Council of Churches will be hosting the Community Unity Service with the Fireman’s Appreciation day on August 23rd in Chamberlain Park with a Pig Roast, 1:30 is the ball game, 2:30 will be music, 3:30 is the meal; Easter Services went well and the Lenten Tree was an excellent teaching tool; the Lenten Luncheons were also a great success for the community; Pastor will also be attending the North Central New York Annual Conference on May 26th through May 29; and on May 30 thru June 1st Pastor will be in New Jersey performing her nephew’s wedding. Ministry is alive and well at Cuba UMC.
Sunday School staff will be meeting soon to discuss the year end activities.
UMW is preparing for the Rummage Sale on May 7, 8tand 9. Their monthly meeting will be May 16th.
Trustees have been very busy preparing for their Chicken BBQ, and work day. They have also contracted to do repairs on the steeple, repair the front doors where there is water runoff that is damaging the doors as well as installing hydraulic openers on those doors, Ron Kelly will also be doing some further work on the furnace situation that will increase efficiency of the heating system.
Old Business: From this point going forward listed in the bulletin will be the amount that is needed each week in order to meet the budget. Offerings have been up significantly and for that everyone should praise God. (FYI: As of May 13th, we have paid 44% of the Shared Ministries to date; From Jan to May $5,112 was due, we have only paid $2,271. These do need to be paid!!).
New Business: Cuba UMC will be a distribution site for the Angel Food Ministries. We will need 7 to 8 people to volunteer for this project.
Next meeting will be September 1, 2009. Meeting was adjourned at 8:01.
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Nursery 7: Sandy Tsujimoto14: Reserved for you!21: Reserved for you!28: Reserved for you!
UshersRed Hatters
Greeters:Red Hatters
Acolytes 7: Josh Tsujimoto14: Katelyn Cornell21: Michael Hupp28: Erica Goble
Altar GuildShirley Poore
VideographerJim Travis
Liturgist 7: Patti Petroni14: Cindy Dutton21: Judy Zayac28: Liz Abraham
Children’s Moment 7: Reserved for you!14: Reserved for you!21: Reserved for you!28:Reserved for youChoir director:Louis Petroni
Altar Flowers:28: Alan & Judy Zayac In Honor of Laurie & John’s Wedding Anniversary.
Organist:Donna Lawton
Pianist:Christine Berardi
Birthdays 1 - Aaron Worst 2 - Donna Burdick
Lee James 3 - Tab Loftis 4 - Anthony Berardi
Chris GoodmanJason Ricci
6 - Julie Hawks 7 - Dylan Cornell
Ann Visser10 - Alexa Leyva
Christian Worst11 - Shawn Jacobs12 - Jenny Bilotta
Franz Hodge13 - Daniel Stubbs14 - Bill Allis15 - Jim Holcomb
Larry MauserEric Young
16 - Todd Appleby17 - Debbie Donahue18 - Tim Dutton19 - Sheila Clayson20 - Kyle Butts
Bessie DillonMary Ann Pfouts
21 - Myrillyn Burrows22 - Andrea Vanik25 - Whitney Miller
Lloyd Sweet
26 - Kristin Michienzi27 - Ethan Brammer
Beth Anne BurrowsLisa StadlerBrian Worst
28 - Aaron FeldbauerRandy Knapp
29 - Michael DonahueBrian Hamilton
30 - Alicia BradleyCharlie Wildrick-Cole
June Celebrations
Anniversaries 2 - Elizabeth & Fred Edwards
6 - Iona & Clinton Matteson
10 - Cindy & Dale Dutton
21 - Sunny & Larry Mauser
22 - Cynthia & Patrick Kennedy
UMW COOKBOOKS
UMW Cookbooks are in and will be sold for $12 after each Sunday Worship. Please see one of the UMW ladies and they will be happy to help you.
Cindy Dutton, Peggy Pearce and Shirley Mosher did a beautiful job on these books.
CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES
We would like to congratulate the following people on their graduation:
College Graduates:
Jared Battistoni, son of David and Deborah Battistoni is graduated May 9 from Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, with a Masters Degree in Physician Assistant Science. After completing his final two rotations, Jared will be employed in Emergency Medicine in the Buffalo area.
Brian Krott, son of Tom and Judy Krott is graduating with his B.S. De-gree in Forest Resource Management from West Virginia University in Mor-gantown, West Virginia. He has ac-cepted a position with the US Bureau of Land Management in Dillon, Mon-tana.
Larry Mauser, grandfather of Jasmyn Dorsey and Gracie Mouser is gradu-ating from Alfred State College with a Magna Cum Laude and BS in Con-struction Management. He will be working with DOT.
Jason & Jennifer Ricci, son and daughter-in-law of John and Lisa Ricci graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University on April 25 with their Masters in Psychology. They have relocated to Waverly, NY and have both secured jobs in their field.
Submitted by Dean Wildrick
There are more than 34,000 United Methodist churches in the United States and in each one has at least one singer whose voice pierces the hearts of the faithful most Sundays. The talents vary, but the passion is the same. Susan Boyle, a 47-year-old single person bullied most of her life, stepped out in front of an un-friendly audience on “Britain’s Got Talent” and bared her soul. The result was the shaming of a hos-tile audience who first judged her on her looks before she had a chance to share her gifts. The les-son she taught us was to wait, don’t be so quick to judge, we are all God’s children blessed with gifts and talents. Her sudden fame seems like a good time to pause and appreciate those faithful and talented souls who are singing their hearts out for United Meth-odist congregations every week.
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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 you
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.
Pastor Sunny
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United Methodist Womensubmitted by Patti Petroni, President
Fourteen ladies met on Saturday morning May 16th with a delicious brunch prepared by Doris Kellogg, Sue Simmons, and Mary Lou VanValkenburgh. Patti read a short story which contained a little white lie which was about how a well intentioned woman got herself in and out of a bind through God's mercy. Mary Ann presented the treasurer's and prayer and self denial reports. Sue Simmons answered questions about the reading program. Cindy Dutton gave an update on the recipe book which is ready to go to print. Look for dates when it will be available for sale. Thank you to Cindy, Donna Burdick, Shirley Mosher, and Peggy Pearce for typing all the recipes. Cindy says, and I believe her, that this book is going to be GREAT! Remem-ber those of you that are interested in attending the Annual Day Apart at Camp Asbury should check the bulletin board for details. As soon as it is safe to do so, we will beautify the entrances of our church with lovely flowers...thanks to Gary and Joyce. Cindy is checking on details for all the ladies to attend a dinner at "The Mill" for a dinner tentatively scheduled for June 23rd at 6 pm. There will be no meetings of the UMW in July or August but we will begin once again on September 8th with a pot luck dinner in Wesley Hall. In-stead of a "pound sale" we will have a "room sale". Buy something for $10 or less on something that could be placed in a room in your house. Label the item with the name of the room and we will do the silent auc-tion sale as usual after the dinner. It is something different to have fun with and to keep us fresh! Hope to see you there! Have a great summer.
Dates to remember: Mountain View District Annual Day Apart June 6th
UMW District Meeting at CUMC June 11th 9 am
Father's Day Breakfast June 21st at 9 am
Dinner at The Mill June 23rd at 6 pm
No meetings in July or August
Next meeting September 8th at 6 pm
Women's Sunday Oct. 18th
Father's Day Breakfast
Calling all Dads! The United Methodist Women are planning a Father's Day Breakfast for you, your families and friends on Sunday, June 21st at 9 am. Anyone and everyone is welcome! We will provide all kinds of delicious breakfast casseroles, fruit, coffee cakes, breads, juice and coffee. So plan on coming with an empty stomach and filling up before attending the service that morning. No sign up necessary.
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The Shepherd’s MessengerC UBA U NIT E D M E TH ODIST C H UR CH
49 E A ST M A IN ST. • C UBA, NY 14727
The Shepherd’s Messenger is a publica-tion of the Cuba United Methodist Church, and is published monthly to re-port news & keep members and friends informed of church programs and events. Deadline for article submission is the third Monday of each month at 9:00 am. Please email articles to Editor’s email ad-dress, or drop articles off to the church office. Editor/Secretary: Mary Ann Pfouts
e-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours: Tues.& Thurs
9:00am to 2:30pm & Wed 1-5pm
Pastor: Rev. Sunny Mauser
e-mail:[email protected]
Pastor’s Office Hours:
Tues, Wed, & Thurs 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Website: www.cubaumc.org
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