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The Wesley Circuit
April,2017
Sunday, April 9:
PALM SUNDAY
Children are invited to participate in a Palm Parade at
either (or both) the 8:30 and 10:45AM worship services!
Please bring your child to the sanctuary entryway if they
would like to participate.
Friday, April 14:
GOOD FRIDAY
Join us for a service of remembrance with music by our
Chancel Choir in the sanctuary at 7:00PM.
Saturday, April 15:
EASTER EGG HUNT
Families are invited to meet at 10:00AM in the Fellow-
ship Hall for an Easter Egg Hunt! We will also have a kids’
Stations of the Cross activity. All kids, parents and
grandparents are welcome!
SUNDAY, APRIL 16:
EASTER SUNDAY!
Our Chancel Choir accompanied by bells and brass will
lead us in worship at both the 8:30 and 10:45AM worship
services. Invite and bring your friends and loved ones as
we celebrate Christ’s Resurrection!
For behold, the winter is past; the
rain is over and gone. The flowers
appear on the earth, the time of
singing has come, and the voice of
the turtledove is heard in our land.
Song of Solomon 2:11-12
INVITE A FRIEND
TO WORSHIP
during
holy week!
Holy Week and Easter Sunday are
wonderful times to invite friends
and loved ones to worship! We hope
you will invite – and offer to bring –
friends and family to one or more of
the special worship services and
events we have planned for that
week. Take a look at all we will be
offering, and pray about inviting
others. You can make it even easier
by forwarding church emails and
sharing our Facebook posts! Don’t
keep the Good News to yourself.
Share it with others!
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CANDY DONATIONS
NEEDED!
Wesley UMC will be hosting
an Easter Egg Hunt and
children’s Stations of the
Cross activity on Saturday,
April 15th from 10:00 to
11:00AM. We are in need of
candy to fill the tons (and
tons!) of eggs we already have. Please make
sure all donations are individually wrapped.
All candy can be brought to a table just inside
the church office door.
Wesley UMC is once again offering the
opportunity to purchase flowers to decorate
our sanctuary on Easter morning. In lieu of
flowers, you may contribute to our Music
Fund which helps to pay for special music on
Easter, as well as other music needs
throughout the year. Flowers can be ordered
for $15.00 each and may be designated in
honor or in memory of a loved one, or given
as a gift to the church. The ordering deadline
is Monday, April 10. Donations to the Music
Fund may be given in any amount and will be
recognized in the Easter Sunday bulletin.
Please write separate checks for flowers AND
for music indicating on the memo line that the
check is for Easter Flowers or Music Fund.
Plants may be picked up after the 10:45
service on Easter morning. An order form is
included in the Sunday worship bulletin, or
you may stop by the office during the week.
We have the perfect opportunity for those of
you who love little ones. Nursery helpers are
needed for both EASTER SUNDAY services.
If you attend the 8:30 service, please consider
helping out at 10:45. If you attend at 10:45,
come a bit early and help at 8:30. Easter is a
day we often have many young families
visiting, and we want them to feel welcome.
Please consider helping for just ONE hour on
April 16. Contact the church office at 217-345-
3917 OR [email protected] to
volunteer!
NAMETAGS –
DO YOU HAVE ONE?
It’s Lent – we are having visitors – we will
have a lot of them during Holy Week and on
Easter Sunday! Please remember to wear
your nametag so that folks can put names and
faces together. If you need a tag, please mark
the “I’d like to have a nametag” box at the
bottom of your Making Connections card on
Sunday morning. Your new nametag will be
available on the appropriate rack the
following Sunday.
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USHER AND GREETER
REFRESHER
AND TRAINING
Rev. Swickard will lead an usher and greeter
refresher and training event at 7:00PM on
Tuesday, April 4. All current ushers and
greeters are invited and encouraged to attend
AND if you are not currently serving, you are
invited to come and learn more about how
you can be involved in serving on one of these
welcoming teams! We do hope you will attend
this important course as we get ready to
welcome guests for Holy Week and Easter
Sunday. For more information, please speak
with Rev. Bob.
WESLEY
MEN!
We are trying
to get a group
of men (all
ages!) together
to attend the
Iron Sharpens Iron Conference at the New
Horizon UMC in Champaign on Saturday,
April 8. There is a sign-up sheet and
additional info at a table in the sanctuary
hallway by the Information Center. Stop by,
check it out, and sign up! To learn more about
this event, please check their website:
http://www.ironsharpensiron.net/confer
ences.html?cid%5B0%5D=404
APRIL MISSION
PROJECT:
UMCOR SUNDAY
Wesley’s April
mission project
is UMCOR
Sunday.
This is the
annual appeal
for funds to
underwrite the
operational ex-
penses for UMCOR (United Methodist
Committee on Relief), formerly known as One
Great Hour of Sharing.
UMCOR is in its 77th year of helping people
in crisis around the world. In 2014, UMCOR
contributed $373 million to United Methodist
benevolent causes such as soup kitchens,
clothing drives and other causes. $28 million
was donated by UMCOR for disaster
responses, both locally and internationally.
UMCOR's ability to respond is due to the
generosity of United Methodist congregations
and individuals around the world. Gifts to
UMCOR Sunday underwrite UMCOR's costs of
serving local churches in times of disaster.
This helps keep the promise that 100% of
every gift made to UMCOR projects goes
directly to those in need – not for
administrative costs. Incidentally, if funds
collected for UMCOR SUNDAY exceed the
amount needed, the overage is directed to the
most needy or under-funded UMCOR projects.
(Continued, next page)
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(April Mission, continued)
If you would like to help with this effort,
please write your check to Wesley UMC with
UMCOR SUNDAY on the memo line or visit
our website at www.charlestonwesley.org
and click on the $ button at the bottom of the
page. If you prefer to make a cash donation,
there are blue mission offering envelopes in
the pew backs. Thank you very much for your
support.
Your Missions Work Area
BE SURE TO MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
We hope you will join us for our annual Great
Day of Music which will be observed on
Sunday, April 30 at both the 8:30 and 10:45
worship services. Our choirs will be singing
and ringing, and there will also be special
music and congregational singing. Bring your
voice, and come praise God with us!
WEDNESDAY WOMEN’S
STUDY GROUP RESUMES
The Wednesday morning Women’s Study
Group will resume meeting on Wednesday,
April 5. All women of the church are invited
to join them in the library each Wednesday
morning at 7:30AM for book study,
conversation and fellowship. New members
are always welcome!
CHANGE THE
WORLD DAY –
SATURDAY, MAY 20
Change the World Day is on the horizon for
WUMC, and during upcoming weeks we will
learn of opportunities to have an impact at
both the congregation and community levels.
Change the World Day is part of a larger UMC
initiative for the May 20-21 weekend, and for
Charleston WUMC, the Church and Society
Ministry Team is planning six service projects
for Saturday, May 20: (1) serving lunch at
PADS, (2) a Helping Hands Ministry work day,
(3) nursing home/homebound visits, (4) a
carwash project by the youth group, (5)
activities by younger children to spruce up
the exterior of the church—e.g., planting
flowers, and (6) a rice/beans packaging
project in partnership with the Wesley
Foundation. As you can see, the opportunities
to serve and help are for all ages and interests.
For more information, please contact Rich
Wandling ([email protected]) or
Congregational Care Minister, Rev. Janice
Kahl ([email protected]).
"Spring shows what
God can do with a drab
and dirty world."
- Virgil A. Kraft
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SUMMER CHURCH CAMP!
ICRC camping information brochures are
here! Wonderful opportunities for fun,
adventure and Christian fellowship are
offered in many different camp settings. Pick
up a booklet from the office or table outside
the sanctuary and see what’s available.
Wesley helps with one half the cost of
registration, up to $325.00. Registration by
April 15 also receives a $25 discount. Come
experience the beauty of God’s creation and
the awesome experiences that church camp
can provide!
NEWS FROM OUR
SCOUTS
During the spring
school break, Wesley’s
scouts visited the
Courthouse, sitting in
on traffic court,
following which Judge
Bovard took them on a
tour of the county jail. Troop 141 also
camped at Rhodes-France Scout Reservation,
with another campout planned for April
8. The next night we will host 10-year-old
Webelos Scouts who, with their parents, will
camp out on the EIU field behind the church.
Did you know that the United Methodist
Church is the second largest charter sponsor
of Boy Scouts in the world, and the largest
charter sponsor of Cub Scouts in the world? In
2016 there were 10,210 Scouting units in
6,500 UM churches, serving 324,000
American youth.
Until April 21 our scouts will be selling camp
cards for discounts at area businesses. The
$10 cards can be used repeatedly over the
next 12 months. $5 from each card sale will
be put in the scout’s troop account which can
be used by him for the cost of camp or other
scouting expenses. Among the businesses on
the cards are Rural King, Casey’s, McDonalds,
Jackson Avenue Coffee, Freddy’s, Pizza Hut,
Family Video, Arby’s, D to Z Sports, Ace
Hardware, Neal Tire, and others. Sample
cards (there are two kinds) are posted on the
troop bulletin board in the hallway. If you
would like a card, ask one our scouts, stop by
the scout room (Room 112 – off the
Fellowship Hall), or call Keith Kohanzo, 549-
5772, who will have a scout contact you.
Our sympathy is expressed to
Virginia Davis and her family on the death
of Max Davis on March 2, 2017;
to Debbie McKay’s family on
the death of Debbie’s father
Lester Fleming on March 19, 2017;
to Bud Sanders and his family on the death
of Jo Sanders on March 24, 2017;
and to Steve Green and his family on the
death of Debbie Green on March 24, 2017.
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Happy APRIL
birthday to
the following
Wesley folks!
Rick Addison Grace Braden
Joyce Cassell Max Coffey
Brenda Cooper Jane Dawson
Terry Diss David Ebdon
Savannah Esarey Judith Feterl
Sherry George Judy Gillespie
Donna Helton Dan Hockman
James Honnold Joyce Jackson
Mary Jorstad Nissa Larson
Eleanor Lawson Kenton Macy
Evelyn McArthur Dennis Pearson
Ruth Schmidt Mary Ann Taber
Sam Taber Dustha Wahls
Kaylee Wilson Carol Winkleblack
COMMUNICATION -
IT'S SO IMPORTANT!
Wesley UMC would like to know how WE can
communicate with YOU in the best way(s)
possible. If you have not yet filled out a
Communications Survey, please stop by the
table at the Information Center in the
sanctuary hallway and fill one out. You can
place it in the offering basket Sunday, or in
Rosalie Addison’s mailbox in the church
office. Thanks for communicating with us!
Please note that the
Wesley Church office
will be closed on
Good Friday
(April 14)
and
Easter Monday
(April 17)
so that our staff can
spend time with their
families.
Gifts have been given to our
Memorial Fund
in memory of
Maxine Frame & Max Davis.
Chapel
labyrinth
Wesley member June Krutza graciously left
WUMC a bequest to construct a labyrinth in
our chapel. The bequest also included monies
to be used to enhance the chapel area to
optimize the use of the labyrinth. Updated
overhang and dimmable lighting have been
added, as well as
improvements to the
communion rail. We
plan on having a
dedication of the
new labyrinth when
it is completed, and
hope to offer a
special Holy Week
prayer walk. Please stay tuned for more
information as it becomes available.
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WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
2206 4TH Street
Charleston, IL 61920-3903
Phone: 217-345-3917
www.charlestonwesley.org
RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
WESLEY UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
2206 4TH Street,
Charleston, IL
Phone: 217-345-3917
www.charlestonwesley.org
Follow us on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/charlestonwesley
Our Sunday Schedule:
Worship - 8:30 & 10:45 AM
A Time of Fellowship takes place at 9:30AM
Sunday School for all ages - 9:45AM
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THE WESLEY CIRCUIT
APRIL - 2017
In this issue of the Circuit:
PAGE 1: Holy Week Schedule
PAGE 2: Nursery Helpers for Easter
Candy Donations Needed
Order Easter Flowers
PAGE 3: April Mission Project
Usher/Greeter Refresher
Men’s Conference
PAGE 4: Great Day of Music
Change the World Day
PAGE 5: Summer Camp
Scout News
PAGE 6: April Birthdays