Dear Members and Friends,

June is always such a busy month with so much going

on including the school year ending, graduations,

weddings, family reunions, work-related company

picnics, and vacations to name just a few. As we move

into these summer months, I want to invite you to

join us every Sunday morning for worship at either

9:30am for our traditional service in the sanctuary

or 11:40am for our contemporary service in the

fellowship hall. If you are away on vacation or are

unable to attend our

worship services on

Sunday, please be

reminded of our

Immersion Service

every Wednesday at

7:00pm in the parlor.

We had such a wonder-

ful celebration for our

Preschool on Sunday afternoon, May 18, 2014 at

2:00pm in our fellowship Hall. We celebrated thirty-

two years of faithful service both to our Lindenwald

Church and the surrounding neighborhood communi-

ties. In fact, the total number of students who graduat-

ed from our Preschool in those years totaled 3,665.

So many, many children received a solid educational

foundation through our Preschool’s ministry. We

thank especially our Director, Mrs. Jane Dickey, for

her outstanding leadership over the course of those

thirty-two years. We also wish her well in her retire-

ment. Congratulations on a job well done!

At our Preschool Celebration, Mr. Brent Dickey, grown

son of our Director, Jane Dickey, wrote the following

poem in honor of his mother’s retirement. I wanted to

share it with and so it is printed below.

My Mother Is A Teacher . . . by Brent Dickey

My mother is a teacher, she lives her life to teach

Who knows how many kids whose lives she got to reach

She loves to teach, and those she taught gave her so much great joy

She remembers so much about each girl and boy.

My mother is a teacher, she lives her life to teach

She tried to teach oh so much but sometimes could not reach

She tried to teach me piano, but I would just laugh and giggle

I would sit upon the piano bench, and fidget, squirm and wiggle

At parties she will want to know, your life story and so much more

She will ask a thousand questions, and block you from the door

She will poke and prod, like the most skillful of physician

You come away having just survived the grand inquisition

The reason she asked so many questions is because she truly cared

She wanted to make sure that, for life you were prepared

June 2014

Lindenwald UMC . . . a Stephen Ministry Church

Our Mission Statement: The LUMC exists to make disciples!

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Committee NewsCommittee NewsCommittee News

The Education and Ministries Trust now has funds

available for grants.

Two kinds of grants can be made. The first is for

projects of almost any kind which advance or facili-

tate the ministries of the church. The second is for

scholarships for non-church related education at

the bachelor’s level or lower.

A completed application is required for any grant

to be considered. Applications are available in the

church office.

A Warm Notes of Thanks . . .

Dear Pastor Val and LUMC,

Thank you very much for the Cheesecake Factory

gift card. I’m sure to enjoy it; that was very nice.

I’ve enjoyed working there at the preschool the past

17 years, always told people it was my “fun” job.

The church staff have all been very friendly. If I

wasn’t already a Lutheran member, I’d definitely

consider Lindenwald. Thanks again!

Sincerely, Chris Allen

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She taught thousands of kids and wanted to fill their lives with fun

And to our total amazement, she remembered each and every one

How could this woman that I could easily pat upon the head

Simply grit her teeth and glare at me and fill me with such dread

She is a rock and on her convictions will not sway

She will always say to get things done “if there’s a will there is a way”

My mother is a teacher, she lives her life to teach

I’m so very proud of her, but I’m not here to give a speech

She taught so many great lessons and at times her words were few

But the greatest lesson she ever taught was “I love you”

Thanks, Brent, for such a beautiful poem!

See you in church this summer! The following items are needed for our Lindenwald

UMC Food Pantry:

12 oz. cans of tuna

Canned chicken breast

Spam

Spaghetti

Spaghetti sauce

Regular size can of vegetables

Regular size can of fruit

Pancake mix

Pancake syrup

Macaroni and Cheese

Beans

Peanut Butter

Jelly

Free Community MealFree Community MealFree Community Meal

Feeding the Body & Soul Community Meal offers a free

meal to those who may be hungry and have no food.

This meal is free and open to the public and will be

served on the third Saturday of each month from

5:00pm to 6:30pm.

Our food pantry is also open during those same hours

and bags of groceries are given to those in attend-

ance.

If transportation is an issue and you live within the

limits of Butler County, Ohio, we will arrange to have

our church van pick you up and take you home.

Prayer Drive ThruPrayer Drive ThruPrayer Drive Thru

What’s a Prayer Drive Thru, you ask? Well, it’s

kinda like a regular drive thru, except in place of

the soft drinks and snack items, we offer prayer.

We open our parking lot to our community for

drive thru prayer. As you're driving home on that

evening, stop in and our prayer team will listen

to your request and pray with you.

The next Prayer Drive Thru will be on Thursday,

June 19, 2014 from 4:30 to 6:00pm.

Volunteers are always needed to help with the

drive thru. Call Pastor Val (863-8822) if you’d

like to help.

“Imagine No Malaria”“Imagine No Malaria”“Imagine No Malaria”

Offering to DateOffering to DateOffering to Date

$584.55$584.55$584.55 Dear LUMC,

Thank you so very much for the gift card to Cheesecake Factory. That is one of my very favorite restaurants, and I can’t wait to use it!

Working at Lindenwald Preschool has been my joy in life for so many years. I will miss you all terribly! Thank you for all you have done over the years. Love,

Debi Schubert

Rev. Val, Linda, and Lindenwald Church,

Thank you so much for honoring us at the

Preschool reception! It really meant a lot to us.

And, thank you so much for the cute card and

nice gift card! I can’t wait to use it (now that I

will have time!) It has been a joy to have been

part of the church-preschool family.

Lots of Love,

Vicki Uhl

United Methodist WomenUnited Methodist WomenUnited Methodist Women

June Circle MeetingsJune Circle MeetingsJune Circle Meetings

Friendly Circle

June 5 ~ 11:15am ~ LaRosa’s

Genesis Circle

June 10 ~ 6:00pm ~ TBD

Mizpah Circle

June 12 ~ 11:45am ~ Fellowship Hall

“Happiness cannot be traveled to,

owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritu-

al experience of living every minute with

love, grace & gratitude.”

~ Denis Waitley

Summer Shine

We are having a Summer Shine Teen Youth

Night on Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 7:00pm in

the church Fellowship Hall.

We will provide pizza, chips, dessert and drinks.

This will be a team building for Summer Shine

youth volunteers! Come on out and join the fun

and make new friends!!

United Methodist Men’s United Methodist Men’s United Methodist Men’s

Saturday BreakfastSaturday BreakfastSaturday Breakfast

The next Saturday UM Men’s Breakfast will

on June 14, 2014 at 9:00am at the Perkins

Restaurant in Fairfield. All men are welcome

to attend and … bring a friend!

Graduate Graduate Graduate

Recognition Sunday Recognition Sunday Recognition Sunday

June 22, 2014June 22, 2014June 22, 2014

For those who have graduates at any level of

education, please submit a baby picture and a

graduation picture to our Church Office as

soon as possible for Graduate Recognition

Sunday. Please let us know of your graduate’s

future plans.

We will enjoy a PowerPoint presentation of

our graduates during both services at 9:30am

and 11:40am. After the presentation, we will

present a special gift to each graduate. Please

let us know if your graduate will be present

on this special day.

SPRC News . . .SPRC News . . .SPRC News . . .

Mary Boaz-McGuire has resigned as the LUMC

Children’s Coordinator effective May 31, 2014.

Mary feels a calling to other service work and we

wish her well. We want to thank Mary for her two

years of service and leadership to LUMC and the

Children’s programs.

The Staff Parish Relations Committee is currently

accepting applications for our Children’s Director

position. Anyone interested in this position

should send a resume to Pastor Val, any member

of SPRC or the Church office.

Music Notes …

Sanctuary Choir

Thank you to the members of the Sanctuary Choir for

their commitment to provide music to enhance the

weekly worship services and additional services

throughout the year. The Sanctuary Choir sang

through Sunday, May

25, 2014 and are now

in recess for summer

vacation. Sanctuary

Choir members

include: Melissa

Backscheider, Anita

Belanger, John

Belanger, Maureen

Brabbs, Lynne Dyer,

Georgia Gossage, Neil

Hayes, Nancy McCormick, Dottie Morris, Beth Nessel-

road-Zimmerman, Judy Nesselroad, Sherry Pyrak, Sis

Rimer, Lonnie Risner, Nancy Risner, Linda Stephens,

Candy Sturgill, Dale Titus, Carrie Titus and Val Waibel.

Special Music

Special Music is needed throughout the year, especially

in June, July and August when the Sanctuary Choir is

on summer vacation. This is an opportunity for indi-

viduals of all ages to share God's word through solo

and/or small group presentations. Please give prayer-

ful consideration to this request to present Special

Music at the Sunday morning worship service(s).

Interested individuals should contact Charlene Elam

by email at charleneelam@yahoo.com to schedule a

date for his/her presentation. Hopeful-

ly, we will be blessed with the partici-

pation of the many talented individuals

who attend LUMC.

Hand Bells

Hand Bell Choir rehearsals will NOT

begin until maintenance issues are

completed. Please watch the bulletin

and newsletter for information regard-

ing Hand Bell Choir rehearsals.

Remember, two-octave music requires 8 ringers and

three-octave music requires 12 ringers.

Thank You

Thank you to Melissa Backscheider and Lynne Dyer for

their continued service as Song Leader at the 9:30 a.m.

worship service.

I’d like to thank everyone who

voted for me to be the honorary

bat girl at the Reds Mother’s

Day game. It was an honor and

lots of fun to be nominated.

They chose a couple, Patty Stump and Mike

Schroder. They were very deserving winners.

Thanks again and God Bless you all,

Phyllis Scales

To LUMC,

The men’s group gave me a beautiful folding Christ-

mas card. It features Charlie Brown, Peanuts the dog,

the piano player, and the girl pitcher, who is great

on the pitcher’s plate.

On my desk is this Christmas Card signed by all in

the group, and each day I see a name that reminds

me of a face and happy days to be remembered.

Wendell Gibson

Pastor Val’s Holy Land Presentation

Thanks to my Lindenwald Church family for attending

the presentation involving my recent spiritual pilgrimage

to the Holy Land in February of this year.

We gathered on Sunday afternoon, June 1, 2014, at

4:00pm in the fellowship hall and journeyed together to

Israel and many of the holy sites there.

I want to thank Anita Belanger for serving many of the

traditional foods found in Israel including: hummus, pita

bread, pita chips, mint tea, falafels, stuffed grape leaves

and baklava. It was a great afternoon!

West Ohio Annual Conference

The West Ohio Annual Conference begins on

Sunday, June 8 and continues through Wednes-

day, June 11, 2014, at Lakeside, Ohio on Lake

Erie.

Pastor Valerie Waibel along with Lay Delegate,

Angela Perpingon will be representing Linden-

wald United Methodist Church this year. Please

be in prayer for all of the clergy and lay dele-

gates as they gather together for worship and

the business of the Annual Conference.

Noisy Sunday ~ June 29, 2014

Please save your change for another “Noisy Sunday” offering on the 5th Sun-

day of June when our children will circulate among us during Children’s Time

with cans collecting our loose change. This offering will go toward covering

the cost of our “Summer Shine Program” for 2014. Please be generous!

Unity Alliance Picnic

This year’s Unity Alliance Picnic is on Saturday, June 21

at Booker T. Washington Community Center in Hamilton,

Ohio from 11:00am to 5:00pm.

There will be music, a car show, worship, food, games for

the children, and lots of Christian fellowship. Our Linden-

wald United Methodist Church is a member of the Unity

Alliance.

All are invited to this picnic.

Summer Sermon Series

Wild Goose Chase

By Mark Batteson

Please join us for an exciting Summer Sermon

Series based on the book by Mark Batterson

entitled Wild Goose Chase.

This series will begin on Sunday, June 22, 2014

and will end on Sunday, July 27, 2014. The wild

goose is the Celtic Christians’ name for the Holy

Spirit.

Summer Shine at Lindenwald UMC

July 14—18, 2014

Monday through Friday, Noon

to 3:00pm each day. It will take

the whole church and community

to welcome in the children and their families during

this wonderful week of ministry, fun and learning.

We will need help in the kitchen, Bible teachers,

craft teachers, sports, music teachers, van drivers

& co-pilots, teen-agers to lead the groups to different

areas. If God is calling you to help with Summer Shine

this year, please contact Lisa Gebhart, Director.

Celebrating Father’s Day ~ June 15, 2014

If you’re blessed with a dad you admire and respect,

how would it affect your life to make such a decision?

Would you be inspired to set sound priorities, live with

integrity, be a positive role model to the young people

you influence? For all of us — children of the only

perfect Father — may our prayer and intent be:

God, while earthly fathers are a mix of strengths and

flaws, you give yourself to us as our heavenly Father,

wholly loving, kind and passionate about our best

interests. May we, in turn, seek to reflect positively on

you. May my life spread far and wide your love, kind-

ness and passion for the best interests of all, and may

others see you in me. Amen.

Renowned actor Sidney

Poitier once said, “I decided

in my life that I would do

nothing that did not reflect

positively on my father’s

life.”

Come Celebrate With Us!

Join us here at our Lindenwald Church on

Sunday, June 15 at both the 9:30am and

11:40am worship services when we will

celebrate Father’s Day . . . a day to honor

our earthly fathers and father figures as

well as our heavenly Father.

Thank You For Your Music Ministry

On behalf of our Lindenwald Church, I want to

express my heartfelt appreciation to our wonder-

ful Choir, our Choir Director, Charlene Elam, and

our organist, Nancy McCormick for their faithful-

ness in serving the Lord through the year.

We are all grateful for their leadership and their

dedication in our worship services as God uses

them each Sunday to inspire us through their mu-

sic and song. We will miss the Choir’s music min-

istry this summer, but we look forward to their

participation in our worship services again in the

fall. Again, thank you for serving he Lord!

Pastor Val

Greetings from Teen Guard

Director, Tony Brown …

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing

them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the

Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have

commanded of you. And surely I am with you always, to

the very end of the age.” ~ Matthew 28:19-20

This passage is the theme for the Youth Conference that 14 of our youth will attend June 13-15 at

Lakeside, Ohio.

In this passage, Jesus is commissioning the disciples to make all people disciples of His Good News …

Not who we choose, or who we like, or who we think are acceptable … all people! Jesus is asking us

to drop our preferences and to open our minds and hearts to everyone. What a theme for our youth.

Every day teens in this world are subject to conforming to their peers in order to be accepted.

I believe teens should be transforming their lives so that they can understand “diversity” and learn

to love all for who they are and not what they want people to be like.

Also in this passage, Jesus uses the word always. “And surely I am with you always” … What does

this mean to a teens life? Most teens feel Jesus in their lives only when they attend youth group,

services, or anything affiliated with the church. It is important that teens understand that the triune

God is always with them, not just at church, or when they pray, or when convenient for them … but

always. Likewise, our teens need to understand that they are a reflection of Jesus always. You

cannot turn off that reflection to fit in or look cool, a true disciple of Jesus understands that their

reflection button always has to be on.

I look forward to experiencing this conference with our youth and to seeing the impact it has on

their lives. If you see a youth after June 15, ask them what the conference meant to them!

Teen Guard will have three summer sessions on July 2, 16, and 30 … The topics for these nights

respectively are Peace, Joy, and Love. If you know of any teens that would like to share their Jesus

stories and would like to apply Jesus to their lives, invite them attend these sessions from 5:15 –

7:00 (Dinner is served 6:30 – 7:00pm).

I look forward to giving the message at Sunday services on June 29 and hope that all of our lives

continue on a path of righteousness through Jesus Christ. God Bless!

Lindenwald United Methodist Preschool

1982—2014

Thank you for serving the

children of the

Hamilton/Fairfield area

for the past 32 years!

Contact Information

Phone: 513-863-8822

Email: lumc@lindenwaldumc.org

Website: www.lindenwaldumc.org

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LUMC Staff

Senior Pastor ..................................................Valerie Waibel

Teen Guard Director ........................................ Tony Brown

Music Director .............................................. Charlene Elam

Organist .................................................. Nancy McCormick

Adm. Secretary/Office Manager ................... Linda Rouse

Custodian ....................................................... Glen Chastain

Treasurers ............................. Nancy Albright, Sue McPeek

Financial Secretaries .................... Jerry Smith, Carrie Titus

Church Office Hours

Monday through Friday

8:00am to 12:30pm and 1:30pm to 5:00pm

Newsletter Deadline: Fifteenth day of month

Bulletin Deadline: Wednesdays—5:00pm

Lindenwald United Methodist

3501 Pleasant Avenue

Hamilton, Ohio 45015

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