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The Monthly Newsletter of Reeders United Methodist Church

— OCTOBER 2017 —

We are a faith-based community introducing people to Jesus Christ and helping them become fully devoted followers of Him.

Reeders Hope

October 14th 4 pm to 6 pm

See Page 8 for updates and changes to the preparation/serving of this meal.

OCT. 14th 8 am to Noon

See Page 5 for details

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Serving In October

A new Christian Education Class will begin on December 10th at 9:15 am. It will be held in the Friendship Room behind the sanctuary. Come join us as we continue with a study of the book of James.

October 1, 2017

Greater Love: Marcy McAdams Nell Cadue Deb Elmire Anna Macias- Crowley Diane Naranjo Media Team: Brian Bolan Volunteer Needed Nursery: Tracy Altemose Joyce Baker Ushers Lloyd Manter Eliezer Hernandez Elijah Hernandez Jason Besecker

October 8, 2017

Greater Love: Kathy Andrews Tracy Altemose Volunteer Needed Lee Munch Media Team: Brian Bolan Lynda Bolan Nursery: Lisa Price Rachel Hazen Ushers: John Cady Barbara Giffels Lee Munch Volunteer Needed

October 15, 2017

Greater Love: Barbara Giffels Pauline Snyder Arlene Frailey Paul Schmid Media Team: Richard Armah Brian Bolan Nursery: Jan Ledwith Sue Wright Ushers: John Frailey Judie Gorden Tim Rogers Homer Hennings

October 22, 2017

Greater Love: Marie Loysen Linnea Weinman Paula Gordon Patricia Detrick Media Team: Bob Ellis Sue Ellis Nursery: Leigh Frailey Jan Toepert Ushers: Avon Doll Shadrack Badu Dale Eagon Denise Thomas

October 29, 2017

Greater Love: Volunteers Needed Media Team: Brian Bolan Bob Ellis Nursery: Judy Bryson Joyce Baker Lindsay Palmer (youth) Ushers: John Cady Barbara Giffels Lee Munch Volunteer Needed

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Worship In October

October 1 — World Communion Sunday "Come, Let Us Rebuild"

Nehemiah 2:11-18

October 8 —

“Remembering Me, Oh My God”

Nehemiah 5:1-19

October 15 —

“The Joy Of the Lord Is

Your Strength”

Nehemiah 8:1-12

October 22—

“It’s Celebration Time” Nehemiah 1:1-2:5

October 29—

Patrick Roberts

Speaking

In OCTOBER, please consider donating:

Letters and cards prepared for those receiving shoe box as well as small balls, jump ropes, games, cars small leggos, Harmonicas, Yo Yo’s, Small craft kits, Kazoos, Dolls, other small toys Please remember they need to fit in a small shoe box.

Drop them in the collection bin in the church lobby. See Leigh Frailey for more information.

Kathleen Yurkovitch 1 Emily Purdy 7 John Frailey 9 Rachel Hazen 9 Jane Davalos 11 Matt Hazen 11 Kevin Yurkovitch 11 Nell Cadue 12 Finn Greenan 13 Marcy McAdams 14 Patricia Detrick 18 Kyla Singer 18 Ellen Burmeister 19 Yvonne Rispoli 19 Lisa Price 22 Tracy Altemose 23 Madison Nicole Andrews 24 Micky (Michaelynn) Myers 24 Chris Welch 28 Lester Lesoine 29 Alyssa Cadue 30 Sherri Hower 31

DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO NEEDS THIS WALKER?

If so please contact David McNeese. He would like to donate it to someone in need. Please contact David if you are interested at [email protected] or 570-619-8797.

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We have sorted and pulled books that are going to be donated to the Eastern Monroe Public Library. The books we donate will be sorted and organized and

included in their annual fund raiser.

The NOOK area is being developed so it can be utilized to entertain children during various church functions or by adults waiting for appointments or gathering their children after church activities such as AWANA.

Because of the reorganization project, please do not leave book donations for the library until further notice.

Featured materials that will be available will be highlighted in future newsletters.

Contact Jill Bugdanavage If you have any questions or suggestions at 570-972-0320.

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Fall 2017 PUMA Studies (Pocono United Methodist Academy)

There will be small group studies meeting in October as follows:

“The Old Testament Prophetical Books” Mondays at 6 PM Reserve space with Pastor Crikelair at [email protected]

“This Life I Live” Mondays at 6:30 PM Reserve space with Pastor Sommers at [email protected]

“Discovering Faith” Tuesdays at 6:30 PM Reserve space with Pastor LaBar at [email protected]

“Act Normal” Mondays at 6 PM Reserve space with Pastor Todd at [email protected]

“God’s Broken Yet Blessed Families” Wednesdays at 6:30 PM Reserve space with Pastor Patton-Semerod at [email protected]

“The Naked Anabaptist” Thursdays at 12:00 noon Reserve space with Pastor Conrad at [email protected] Information on the location and dates of the various meetings is available on the information table in the church lobby or by contacting the church office at 570-629-1712.

The Pocono Record 2017 Readers

Choice Nominations

The Pocono Record is soliciting votes for their 2017 Reeders Choice Awards. Last year Little Blessings Nursery School was voted #1 in the Nursery School Category. If you have knowledge of or experience with Little Blessings and are inclined to do so, please go to poconorecord.com/readerschoice and cast your vote for nursery school or any of their categories.

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MISSION OF THE MONTH Re-entry Program Of Monroe County, Inc.

PO Box 1251 Stroudsburg, PA 18360

FALL CLEANUP October 14th 8 am to Noon

Please help us keep our church beautiful

by joining us for some “fall” cleanup.

There will be jobs both inside and out.

There is a job for “everyone”. Join us in

fellowship as we make our church

“shine”!

The Reeder Youth Group is sponsoring Operation Chillout for the 5th year as their mission project. They will be in the lobby every Sunday in October distrib-uting backpacks that can be taken and filled, provide a list of the items needed that they will collect during October to fill backpacks, or to collect monetary dona-tions that will be used to purchase the items needed. If you will purchase items needed, please place your donations in the box in the lobby .

Small study groups have begun. They are taking place at the times

and locations listed below:

It is not too late to participate. Please contact the church office at 570-629-1712 to sign up and participate in any of these groups.

Sun. – 9:15 AM Open Door Class Sun. – 5:30 at the Church Tues. – 1:30 at John & Donna Myra’s

home Tues. – 6:30 at Michele Miller’s Home

Electronic Giving Did you know that through a link on the Church Website or a mobile application “Joyfully2UMC” for smart phone/tablets

you can electronically process your offering/giving to Reeders. You can select a 1-time or recur-ring transaction. If you choose to give “electronically” , if possible, please opt to give through you’re a transaction from your checking account. The system does pro-vides a credit/debit card option. However, that option costs the church significantly more in pro-cessing fees. In order for Reed-ers to receive the optimum bene-fit from your giving, please con-sider utilizing an “ACH” transac-tion from your checking account.

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Pantry donations can be deposited in the bins in the Lobby to support the PVEN Food Pantry.

ATTENTION

October 14th 4-6 pm

Wednesdays 4:00 pm to 5:30

Openings Still Available!

If your children loved VBS, they will love

AWANA. Transportation from certain

Pocono Mountain schools is provided.

Parents can provide transportation for

any children who would like to attend

who are not in the Pocono Mountain

School District . Openings are available.

If you are interested in enrolling your

children, please plan on attending open

registration or contact Leigh Frailey at

570-992-4407. Enrollment forms are

available online at

www.ReedersChurch.org.

Monday’s at 10 am in the Church Conference Room

We resumed a study of women from the bible beginning with the study of “Debra”.

We meet every Monday morning in the conference room of the church. Please contact Beth Derrick at 570-872-248 or 570-872-7191 for more information. Everyone is welcome! Bring a friend and enjoy fellowship over discussion on the women of the Bible.

In an attempt to streamline the use of your time we will be trying something new. Meal preparation and setup of the fellowship hall will take place at 8 PM on Friday evenings (instead of Saturdays). Volunteers will be needed on Saturdays to serve (4 to 6 pm) and cleanup (6 to 8 pm). We only need 2 or 3 people for each 2-hour period. Please make sure you sign up on the fellowship pad in your pew on Sunday or contact the Church office. Signing up will hopefully assure volunteers that your help is needed.

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UNITED METHODIST WOMEN “Jump Into Baking”

October 5th 7:00 pm

Devotions: Linda Welch Hostesses: Ellen Burmeister and Mary Ellen Rock Bulletin Board: Lynda Bolan We will be packing Military/College Boxes. We need homemade cookies wrapped in aluminum foil. Snacks and Hard Candy, Ramen, Mac & Cheese, Cereal Bars, etc. Also need notes, cards, small toiletries, tissues, etc.

All Women are welcome! Bring a friend.

Attention All Youth MUSIC students!

Mrs. Yvonne Rispoli is coordinating offering, worship music selections by the youth of the church for the Advent/Christmas season. Any youth interested should have a prepared sacred Christmas selection of music supported by the guidance of their music teacher and parents. Please contact Mrs. Yvonne Rispoli Immediately at 570-629-3146 or [email protected] if you would like to be scheduled to play for a worship service. When contacting Mrs. Rispoli, for scheduling purposes, pick at least 2 or 3 of the available calendar dates from these dates: November 26th, Dec. 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th or 31st.

500th Anniversary Reformation Walk October 29, 2017

Downtown Stroudsburg

This walk was organized by the Pocono Mission ConneXion group of UMC Churches. The walk will begin at St. Luke’s Roman Catholic Church, 818 Main Street in Stroudsburg and will end at Stroudsburg United Methodist Church,547 Main Street. The time for the walk has not been finalized as of the date of this newsletter. Please contact the Church office for more information at 570-629-1712.

Oct. 1st Regular meeting at 5:30 Oct. 8th Movie Night in Church Oct. 15th Regular meeting at 5:30 Oct. 22nd No Meeting Oct. 29th Regular meeting/5:30 pack OCC boxes

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MILITARY OF THE MONTH

Spcl. Matthew J. Braddock 1412 E. Long Place Centennial, CO 80122

Maybe you learned at one of the “summer teas” hosted to welcome Pastor Rick that Pastor Rick sings with the Zion Choral Society? Yeap - he does!!!

The Zion Choral Society has a 2017 Fall Concert Series which includes six (6) Sun-day afternoon concerts.

Two of them are closer to Reeders than

the rest;

October 22 @ 3:00 pm

Bethany Wesleyan Church

675 Blue Mountain Drive

Cherryville, PA

November 19 @ 3:00 pm

AND 7:00pm

Cedar Crest Bible

Fellowship Church

1151 South Cedar Crest Blvd.

Allentown, PA

Additional information is posted on the General Info Bulletin Board in the hall-way. A free-will offering will be taken.

Pastor

Trivia Dear Pastor Rick,

Thank you so much for inviting me to be a part of the “Back To Church” Sunday service at Reeders. What a blessing it was to be there! Your con-gregation was welcoming, hospitable, and receptive. I was grateful for the op-portunity to share God’s word. It was a pleasure to meet you. May God pour out His blessings on you and the ministries at Reeders UMC. In Him, Marian Sehman Marian & Friends Dear Brothers and Sisters in faith, Your kind words, cards, prayers and thoughts have truly helped support me through a very heavy and sad time. This outpouring is a sweet reminder of just how special this congregation is! My mother loved this church family. Her constant faith led her through many diffi-cult times in her life. She always walked with grace, dignity and humility, even until her final days. Many friends made donations to Pocono Plateau, Reeders United Methodist church or had Gideon bibles placed in her name! Thank you so very much for helping to honor my mother. The imprint that she made on many heats will be cherished. Thank you for being here for myself and for my family. I truly appreciate our out-pouring! Much love, Michaelynn Myers

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Since much of the congregation will not have had opportunity to attend this year’s Charge Conference, I felt led to share my annual report to the Conference

here. I welcome any conversation any of us feel led to have in response to it:

PASTOR’S STATE OF THE CHURCH REPORT, 2017

I describe the overall current State of the Reeders United Methodist Church as being healthy. Three observations come to mind:

➊ We just went through a pastoral transition that, by my assessment, seemed

more like a time of celebration than challenge despite the fact that our former pastor was by-and-large warmly embraced and continues to be dearly missed by the congregation at large. I reflected out loud in response to a friend of mine who once asked how things were going for me at Reeders, “I haven’t spent an ounce of energy ‘earning the right to be there’.” July 1, I showed up. We had a party. July 2, I got to work. The biggest pastoral transition issue we’ve had to deal with to date is choosing the fabric pattern for the new pads on the furniture in my office…a decision that is, I might add, still not yet made.

➋ Our times of worship are a delight. I look forward to going to church on a

Sunday. There is an apparent spirit of welcome, engagement and expectation among the congregation that has at least sustained -- if not recorded a slight increase in -- its average attendance.

➌ Reeders has an obvious desire to be a…correction “the”…community church.

Our list of outreach initiatives warms my heart. I’m elated about the fact that I have to spend an inordinate amount of energy just trying to keep up with my congregation! Granted, we can also observe symptoms of unhealthiness, or challenge, for which we wish to provide care. Three additional observations come to mind:

➊ We continue to recognize an “in” and an “out” sense of belongingness in

relationship development and sharing. While this varies in degree from person-to-person, we see it. Our intention is to explicitly respond to it in redemptive ways when we do.

➋ Perhaps related to the former sign of “dis-ease,” we observe a generation-gap

that causes us to hold one another at arms’ length when we attempt to plan and implement ministry goals and objectives together across age-barrier lines.

➌ Our physical plant is in need of ongoing, significant modifications, updating

and remodeling. Our intention is to prioritize (as we have done), and address each of them as funding resources become available for us to do so. However, given our overall sense of well-being borne from a history of overcoming that has immunized us from the kinds of viruses that might otherwise give us pause, I am confident that we will continue working toward addressing these symptoms with the same spirit of overcoming we have observed in the past. - Rev. Rick A. Conrad, Pastor

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Reeders United Methodist Church P.O. Box 187

2167 Route 715 and Church Road Reeders PA 18352

Contact Information:

Phone: 570.629.1712

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.ReedersChurch.org

Pastor Rick: [email protected]

Pastor’s Cell: 717-576-4729

The Church Office hours are 9 am to 4pm from Monday thru Friday. Pastor’s Office hours are Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 9 am to 12 Noon. Please feel free to contact the office to confirm his availability during those hours.

Project One Step Concert Nov 5th, 2017

Stroudsburg High School Auditorium at 3:00 pm

Featuring Project One Step Community Choir and Pocono Community Orchestra featuring the music of Joel Raney and organ & piano duets by Joel Raney & Jane Holstein. Proceeds will benefit “Fill A Glass With Hope” by providing fresh milk to local food pantries

Tickets $15 - order on line at www.projectonestep.org or call

570-476-4223.

Reeders was presented a certificate at a breakfast held at the Northampton Community College Monroe Campus on September 25th. Reeders United Methodist Church is one of 16 sponsoring churches from PVEN

who were presented with a Certificate of Appreciation for our efforts to serve the hungry in our community. The certificate was presented to (men from left to right)

Pastor Conrad, Sean Braddock and Paul Schmid who coordinate our monthly community dinners and Thanksgiving community dinner by Hope ____ of PVEN and Jennifer Strauch of Monroe County United Wayon behalf of the Hungar Coalition. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS TO

ALL OF OUR DINNER VOLUNTEERS

Reeders UMC receives a special acknowledgement from the United Way sponsored

HUNGER COALITION OF MONROE COUNTY

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