September 12, 2012

Vol. 29, Issue 19

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Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors

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BISHOP MINERVA CARCAÑO

DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT CEDRICK BRIDGEFORTH

REV. STEVE PETTY

KATIE KEVORKIAN, DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN’S AND YOUTH MINISTRIES

Rally Days

Outreach, September 16: Youth Missions, Missions, Church and Society, Senior

Ministries, Lay Ministry

Fellowship, September 23: Youth Minis-tries, Bridge, Cracker Barrel, New You, Bowling, Hiking, Primetimers, and more

Continued on Page 3

The Annual All-Church Indoor Yard Sale is almost here. Remember these important new details for a streamlined, successful event. Please bring your donated items directly to the storage bin Saturday and Sunday, September 15 and 16. The bin will be open and staffed with volunteers to help store your items from 8 AM to 5 PM. Drive up to the bin doors, or park nearby to unload your items if the drive-up line becomes too long. Small, portable furniture and oth-er last-minute donations will be accepted in Fellowship Hall on Wednesday and Thursday, September 19 and 20, until 8 PM.

Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission in Sun Valley will donate $1,000 to NUMC, if we can collect 200 large 45-gallon plastic trash bags filled with gently-used clothing. Donations will go directly to the needy and homeless men, women, and families receiving services at the mission shelters. Separate your donated clothing from your other yard sale items before you drop them off. NUMC will continue to sell donated children's clothing at our yard sale, so sort the children's and adult's clothing to stream-line the drop-off process. [Don't have 45-gallon bags? We'll accept large yard trash bags...we'll just need more than 200!] We accept your donations of small, portable furniture pieces, as well as kitchenware and small appliances;

china, dishware, and objets d'art; linens and home or hol-iday decor; books, music, and video/DVDs; gaming and home entertainment or office technology; toys, games, and puzzles; jewelry and personal care or beauty prod-ucts. Do not donate big, heavy, bulky televisions and large furniture pieces.

Remember these simple steps, to make our yard sale a great success:

Do bring your donations to the bin on Saturday or Sunday, September 15 or 16.

Do bring adult's and children's clothing separated and labeled in plastic bags.

Don't bring large, unwieldy TVs or furniture.

Do bring everything else.

Bring friends and shop on Friday and Saturday, September 21 and 22.

Many volunteers are needed. Come lend a hand if you are able. We will need helping hands: receiving do-nations at the bin September 15 and 16; placing sale items on tables in Fellowship Hall Wednesday and Thursday, September 19 and 20; and staffing the event and handling sales transactions on Friday and Saturday, September 21 and 22. The yard sale contributes greatly to NUMC's general fund to support our many ministries. Your help is much appreciated. With questions, email denisewoerner@gmail.com.

Yard Sale Important Reminders

Annual All-Church Indoor Yard Sale Friday and Saturday, September 21 and 22, 8 AM to 2 PM

Award Winning LACT Sanctuary Choir

Saturday, September 15 at 7:30 PM

Experience a musical history of gospel’s best.

Don’t miss the opportunity to hear the regional

winner of Verizon’s 2011 “How Sweet the Sound”

contest! This concert is a free-will offering program

with a reception to follow in Fellowship Hall.

The Preacher’s Part

Upcoming Sermons

Sermon Series

“Unless The Lord Builds The House”

September 16

“The Kitchen Table” –– Luke 2: 41-52

September 23

“The Other Coat” –– Luke 3: 1-14

September 30

“Beyond Barn Raising” –– Acts 4: 32-35

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Anniversaries come and go and we barely notice. Linda

and I were wed on August 8th, 1970. As our first anniver-

sary approached, Linda had it circled on the calendar as

August 9th, 1971. I still don’t know why she did that. But

we have gone back to celebrating on August 8th ever since.

When I came to Northridge two years ago, people

showed me the new sanctuary. I was told by several of them

that the building was first opened in 1992 and the earth-

quake hit two years later in 1994. So, as we approached fall

of 2012, I thought perhaps we should recognize the 20th

Anniversary of the opening of the sanctuary.

This week I had Joan pull the bulletins from the first

service and the consecration services. Yep, you guessed it

— and some of you knew — it was 1991 not 1992. We

missed our big anniversary. Now we have to wait for four

more years to celebrate the 25th anniversary.

Well, a big celebration can wait. What can’t wait are

the upgrades to the sanctuary that need to take place now.

Last week in worship we pitched a new capital

campaign. You will find an article in this issue giving more

details about the campaign.

What I want to talk about here are some of the reasons I

think we must do these upgrades now and not wait for some

magical better time.

1) When the building was finished and occupied for the

first time on Sunday November 22, 1991 it was a huge

improvement over the old sanctuary, but the sound system

was inferior right away. The choir was impossible to hear,

and the choir couldn’t hear the service. People with even

slight hearing problems found it hard to hear with all the

subtle echoes. The mixing board was too small and too

simple for the tasks it needed to perform. There were huge

pockets of dead space in the pews.

Over the years we have addressed some of those issues

piecemeal, but some of the fixes made matters worse.

Several acoustic studies have been made of the

sanctuary over the years. I even had a sound expert out last

year to do some tests and give me some suggestions. None

of the studies in the past fifteen years have resulted in any-

thing being done that substantially changed things. It’s still

in committee, and there is no committee.

2) Even in 1991 the world had moved to video.

Tarzana St. Paul’s had been broadcasting its service on

cable for twenty years. All the big new churches had video

equipment in them. Yet, there was no consideration made

for video in the new sanctuary. (Nor was there much con-

sideration regarding where to put a band or hand bells or the

choir, for that matter.) For several years now, we have been

making a DVD of the worship service from a home video

camera on a cheap tripod with no accommodation made for

sound recording. This is barely home video quality. Our

video capabilities are super if we wake up and tomorrow is

1985. But if tomorrow will still be 2012, we are woefully

behind.

3) Community today is not limited to where you can be

physically. Friendships are built and maintained in cyber-

space. People find partners today in chat rooms. Some

committees never meet together; they discuss via Skype and

Oovoo.

Most new people who wander into church on Sunday

morning have listened to more than one worship service and

sermon on the Internet before they bother to walk in the

doors, and many members listen to worship on line when

they are away from church.

But most growing churches today are not putting their

best foot forward in audio only. It’s a visual world, and live

video is increasingly the norm.

Plus, how many members who sit in the back half of the

sanctuary — a vast majority — can see what we are doing at

Mystery Box? None. It’s a guessing game. How much

more fun would it be if the video system could project the

Mystery Box onto the screen?

New video equipment will allow us to significantly

enhance the Sunday morning live experience and the

Sunday morning online experience. A new projector will

allow us to show much better quality to the congregation,

not to mention the color red!

Finally, it’s the right time to do this. $60,000 may seem

like a lot of money, and it is, but it is a drop in the bucket

compared to what it might have cost even ten years ago, and

we can’t wait another ten years to do it. Let’s raise the mon-

ey, do the installation, and get on about the business of do-

ing the ministry we have to do today, and be ready for that

25th anniversary in 2016.

Love,

APrayers of healing for:

Pearl Adams; Ralph Anglea; Ted Barricklow

(surgery); DeWayne Johnson; Tony Mayhall;

Catharine Phillips; Ruth Scheppers; Bim

Wendler.

A memorial service for Everett Farnham will be

held on September 29 at 11 AM. Please keep Joan

Farnham and family in your prayers.

Prayers for all those undergoing treatment and

those in pain.

Prayers of safety for all our Service Personnel

serving at home and abroad.

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I would like to thank all who

provided food and dessert items

for the memorial reception for Dr.

David Scott. A special "thanks" to

Lorraine Conner, Nancy Easterly,

Jean and Milt Paris, Doug and

Sally Taylor and Chuck Grant.

Harriet Lewis

Church and Society and Missions teams would like to say a

BIG thank you to those who generously donated school sup-

plies this year. We were able to give a good-sized amount of

supplies to Camellia Avenue Elementary School in North

Hollywood (where Delia Curiel works), Fullbright Elemen-

tary School in Canoga Park (where Denise Woerner works)

and Topeka Drive Elementary School in Northridge (where

Sue Hollahan’s daughter Elizabeth Gaba works). There was

an even larger amount remaining, which was donated to

North Valley Caring Services in North Hills. This was a good

way to help local students with financial needs and to make

an impact in the community.

Church and Society and Missions Teams

Dear Partners in Ministry,

Thank you so very much for sharing your amazing Opera-

tion Overboard VBS scenery and decorations with Knollwood

UMC. We had 47 children registered from age 2 through 5th

grade for our four-day event. It was exciting and wonderful

to watch these children sing, dance, create crafts, see Bible

stories acted out, make science discoveries, and make connec-

tions to help them along their faith journeys. The work of

your congregation touched the lives of children beyond your

local church, and I thank you for your commitment to

Children’s Ministry and your willingness to share your artistic

talents with us.

Blessings to you all,

Pamela McPhee, Education Chair, VBS Director

Born into a family of musicians from Upstate New York, Calabria Foti was completely immersed in music from the beginning. Says Ms. Foti, "As a kid I was always around some kind of music. On any given day, I could hear my mother playing Chopin Etudes in one room, my father play-ing Bach Partitas on trombone in another, and on another day they would be playing American Songbook standards together, like Gershwin, or Porter or Berlin, or sometimes a song they wrote." Highly trained and gifted musicians, her parents passed on amazing intrinsic musical skills to their daughter (including an incredible memory and understand-ing of music after only one hearing) and their deep love for music and education. By age 12, in addition to playing several instruments and seriously studying the violin, Calabria was singing and per-forming in nightclubs and hotels with her musician parents and their colleagues. Her parents introduced her to the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis,

Jr, and Judy Garland. Says Ms. Foti, "When I sing, I want to connect with my audience on that same emotional level, as well as on many musical lev-els." In addition to her talents as a per-former, Foti is also a gifted songwriter and vocal arranger. Her passion for music education has led her to coach-ing and conducting vocal and string ensembles of all perfor-mance levels in both jazz and classical music. Early in her career, Calabria gravitated to LA, becoming an in-demand violinist and vocalist in the recording studios. Her voice has been featured in motion pictures and her solo violin can be heard on the theme to the long-running PBS show Great Per-formances. Her CD, A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening, has received rave industry reviews.

Jazz Vespers Presents… Calabria Foti Sunday, October 14 at 6 PM in the Sanctuary

More on Rally Days Continued from Page 1

Come one, come all to Fellowship Hall after the 9

AM service on September 23 to find out all about the

fun, interesting fellowship groups we have ongoing at

NUMC. You’ll find bridge groups, a hiking group,

Cracker Barrel, New You, Book Club, Primetimers,

Tai Chi, the Breakfast Club, Soul Food, Methodist

Money Makers, etc.

Join us on Sunday, September 23 at 10 AM to learn

more about these groups. Perhaps you might also

want to suggest ideas for new fellowship groups. And,

of course, there will be delicious treats for you to

sample.

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Children's and Youth Missions News

The votes are in: The name of our Seahorse is

Bubbles! Our seahorse was aquadopted through Heal the Bay. You can also help

Heal the Bay by attending the Beach Clean-Up on September 15!

The Big Day of Service: A Youth Missions Event in San Diego on September 29. Email Katie@NorthridgeUMC.org for more information and to register. Open to Junior and Senior High School Students. Learn more about Youth Missions during the Rally for Mission and Outreach on September 16 at 10 AM!

Youth Group will be held at a new time!

Methodist Youth Fellowship (MYF) will be held on Fridays at 7 PM in the

YAC. All youth grades 6 through 12 are welcome to participate. Learn more

about youth activities and education during the Rally for Fellowship on

September 23 at 10 AM!

Children and Youth News

The 21 Campaign is on!

Northridge United Methodist Church is

coming of age - after all the sanctuary turns 21

this fall - and you can be part of giving 21 gifts

that will bring our church into the 21st century.

These gifts will upgrade, improve and enhance

the communication experience throughout the

campus from the 1st Sanctuary (the YAC) to

the 3rd (our current) Sanctuary with:

- Extensive video coverage in the sanctuary

with robotic cameras and enhanced projection

- Live video available via the internet and

better DVDs for our homebound.

- Improved sound for the choir with the in-

stallation of overhead mics

- Smaller and better speakers for the band

- New capabilities in the YAC for video and

live presentations

- The ability to view worship services on

multiple screens around the campus

This is your chance to give towards a gift

that speaks to your heart, whether you enjoy

the choir or the band, your video on DVD or

YouTube, or supporting education for children,

youth or adults.

or

We hope you will want to celebrate this im-

portant birthday with a significant gift that will

enhance our present worship and education

opportunities and also prepare us for the fu-

ture.

Help us celebrate the joy of becoming 21.

Bishop Carcaño Assigned to LA Episcopal Area

In 2004, Bishop Minerva Carcaño became the

first Hispanic woman to be elected to the episco-

pacy of The United Methodist Church, the se-

cond-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.

Today, she is one of 69 active bishops leading

more than twelve million members of her de-

nomination worldwide. She currently serves as

Bishop of the Phoenix Episcopal Area, Desert

Southwest Conference of the United Methodist Church, and is the offi-

cial spokesperson for the Council of Bishops on the issue of immigra-

tion. Bishop Carcaño is a 1975 graduate of the University of Texas Pan

American in Edinburg, Texas, and received a Masters of Theology from

Perkins School of Theology of Southern Methodist University in 1979.

Previous appointments have included Emmanuel UMC in Lubbock,

Texas, and La Trinidad UMC in San Jose, California, in 1979. She then

served positions in Crystal City, Carrizo Springs UMCs, as well as in

Hebbronville, McAllen in the early '80s. In 1986 she became the first

Hispanic woman to be appointed a United Methodist district superinten-

dent, serving in that capacity until 1992 in West Texas and New Mexico

and later in Portland, Oregon.

Bishop Carcaño next spent four years (1992-1996) as the organizing

pastor, South Albuquerque Cooperative Ministry. She moved next to a

position as director of the Mexican American Program of Hispanic Stud-

ies Program at Perkins School of Theology until her call to serve in the

Oregon-Idaho Conference.

A native of Edinburg, Texas, Bishop Carcaño spent her early years as-

piring to make a difference in the lives of persons who faced poverty and

discrimination. Not forgetting her roots and early hopes, her ministry has

always involved work with the poor, with farm workers, immigrants, and

refugees, even as she encourages congregations to work ecumenically

and to be active in community organizing. Of her tireless work, she has

said, "The road of ministry has not always been easy, but it has always

been an incredible blessing, and it has always been home."

Sunday School is ALL NEW for Fall

Join us as we continue

to learn about Moses!

September 16: Moses and the Pharaoh

September 23: Crossing the Sea

September 30: God's People Celebrate

Sunday School

for Preschool:

9 AM

Sunday School

for K-5:

9 and 11AM

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For parents, nothing is more heart-

breaking than the first time they learn that their child is born with a handi-cap. Take for example a child who

cannot speak or hear, or in most cases both. This is the heartbreak all par-ents of children at SHARE (Support

for the Handicaped and their Rehabili-tation Through Education) at Wesley-

an University-Philippines had to go through. Add to this the reality of poverty – the day-to-day problems of

making sure there are shelter, food

and clothes for the whole family.

Last April, when I went home to be

with my family for the funeral of my

99-year-old mother Isidra, I had a sur-

prise visit from two such parents. The

mother and father of Ian Meneses came in a tricycle to per-

sonally thank me so I can in turn convey their thanks to all

of you here at NUMC. Ian is one of the two boys we sent to

school at SHARE last year. Ian is a

lively boy and in this picture we took

with him, he playfully put his fingers

on his chin to pose for a photograph.

Ian is in 4th grade. Our mission

team had renewed our commitment to

support him, along with Xyran Cas-

tillo who is in 3rd grade. One NUMC

mission focus is our outreach in the

Philippines. Last year, we raised

money for their scholarship from

Change In The World and from a

Mission of the Month giving in 2011.

Their teachers continue to monitor

Ian’s and Xyran’s progress and send

us reports on the great strides they are

making in their school work and liter-

acy skills. Let us do our part in this partnership by designat-

ing a gift to our SHARE SCHOLARS.

Eleanor Serrano

SHARE (Support for the Handicapped and their Rehabilitation Through Education)

One of NUMC SHARE scholars, Ian Meneses,

with his parents, NUMC member Eleanor

Serrano, and Dr. Maria Paz Pascual, Vice

President of Academic Affairs at Wesleyan

University-Philippines

YOUR CHANGE

PUT TO WORK

Not long ago it was

brought to our attention that

the funding of two scholar-

ships for promising minis-

ters was not sufficient. It is a

fact that a very effective

way to CHANGE THE

WORLD is to put more min-

isters in place. Therefore it

was our great pleasure to put

your donated change to

work by adding enough to

the fund to move forward.

The world will be better

place in the future because

of your donations.

There are

more oppor-

tunities com-

ing in the fu-

ture so keep

that change

coming. It

can and will

CHANGE THE WORLD.

GYTTE NEEDS

YOUR SUPPORT!

NUMC members are joining Tabernacle UMC

(Fredricksburg, VA) on a mission trip to GYTTE in Jan-

uary, 2013. NUMC needs to raise $2,000 for construc-

tion materials and to pay local village workers helping us

build two projects at the GYTTE Training Center.

PLEASE make checks to NUMC with GYTTE on the memo line.

Two projects are planned:

1) Water Wheel Pump - to move water up from the springs to the upper part of the land

for the Training Center. Three dorms, a multipurpose building and the dining hall will be

supplied with electricity, as well as the livestock unit and staff houses. In addition to signifi-

cantly reducing utility costs, the project will be used as a teaching tool for Community De-

velopment workshops.

2) A typical village home will be built using readily

available materials and safe/economical processes.

This structure will also be used as a teaching tool for

Community Development workshops.

In addition to financial support, we are also looking

for a few additional mission team members. For more

details, please contact Nancy or Mike Easterly.

GYTTE provides training for people from rural com-

munities of South-Central Mexico to meet their basic

needs. Workshops are conducted at GYTTE's "Tree of Life" Training Center near

Tlanqualpican, Mexico. Workshops provide real-life skills in Community and Family

Health, Agricultural Development, Livestock Development, Community Development and

Church and Faith Development. GYTTE has been operating for over 30 years in improving

the living conditions and the earning potential of families and communities throughout

Mexico.

Mike Easterly

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Members Exchange Thoughts

The Book Club will meet on

Monday, September 24, at 7 PM, at the home of

Ruth Gray. We will discuss The Art of Fielding by

Chad Harbach. The book for October will be To

Heaven and Back by Mary C. Neal, M.D. If you

would like to join us, please notify the church office.

New Member Class Set September 23 at Noon

in the Kendall Building

If you are interested in joining

NUMC, or just want to learn more

about membership, come to the Ken-

dall Building for a light lunch. Rev. Petty will give

a brief history of the United Methodist Church and

of NUMC. If you plan to attend, please contact the

church office.

The Primetimers are back! Our first event, on Saturday,

October 13, will be to visit the Nethercutt Museum in Syl-

mar – also sometimes called San Sylmar or Merle Norman.

Did you know that the museum was started by the Nether-

cutt family who founded and still manage the Merle Nor-

man cosmetic line?

Tour of the automobiles will be at 12 PM. We will meet

our tour guide for the other part of the museum at 1:15 PM.

The Nethercutt Museum showcases more than 130 of the

world’s greatest antique, vintage, classic and special inter-

est automobiles. There are four floors (handicap-accessible)

of treasures in the original collection showcased with an

exquisite re-creation of an opulent salon of the 1920’s and

1930’s including automobile mascots, antique furniture,

clocks and watches and one of the world’s finest collections

of musical instruments including a 5000-pipe Mighty

Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. For those interested, we will

meet at a local restaurant following the tour.

Sign-ups will be in Fellowship Hall and in the office. We

will meet at 11:30 AM to carpool to the museum. Admis-

sion is free. See you there.

Char Anderson, Director of Senior Ministries

Citrus Sunday is September 16

Bring fruit (homegrown or even store-bought (it

does not need to be washed) in plastic bags on Sun-

day, September 16th, and place it in the large round

containers that will be in the Narthex. You can also

bring fruit to the office by September 23, and we

will make sure it gets donated to the fruit drive or to

North Valley Caring Services. To learn more, con-

tact Teresa Priem.

League of Women Voters Speaker Scheduled at NUMC

Sunday, October 7 at 7 PM in Fellowship Hall

Have you heard about all the ballot measures we will be vot-

ing on in November? Our League of Women Voters representa-

tive will be discussing all of the ballot measures in an unbiased

presentation. Join us for an informative and interesting evening.

We want YOU….

To “Catch The Spirit”

Saturday, October 20th

Dinner, Auction, and Entertainment

Mark Your Calendar

Can you donate items / services, event tickets, gift cards,

make a basket to auction or help support this fundraising

event? See Greg Taylor or Nancy Easterly.

Ralphs Community Fundraising Program All members currently enrolled in the Ralphs Com-

munity Contribution Program will be required to reg-

ister or re-register for the new term at

www.ralphs.com or by using the scanbar letter at the

register starting September 1. If you received a

scanbar letter last year, it is still good and can be used

this year.

The Senior Scene: Primetimers Event October 13

Church and Society Screens Movie

September 24, at 7 PM

in the Kendall Building

The 2011 documentary film, The Interrupt-

ers, tells the story of three violence interrupt-

ers who try to protect their Chicago commu-

nities from the violence they once employed.

It examines a year in which Chicago drew national headlines for

violence and murder that plagued the city.

The film features the work of CeaseFire, an initiative of the

Chicago Project for Violence Prevention. Violence interrupt-

ers Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams and Eddie Bocanegra

look back on their past experiences with street violence to try

and steer young men and women in the right direction. This

movie is directed by Steve James who directed "Hoop

Dreams". The film won several awards, including "Best Docu-

mentary" from the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards. Film crit-

ic Roger Ebert called the film "mighty and heart-wrenching".

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Regularly Scheduled Meetings

Tuesdays:

Cracker Barrel 10:00 AM Library Sr. Exercise Class 10:45 AM Fellowship Hall Worship Band Rehearsal 7:30 PM Sanctuary

Wednesdays:

Devotional Group 6:30 AM Library Maintenance Volunteers 8:30 AM Church Office WORMS 9:30 AM Kendall Building Jubilee Bells 4:00 PM Room 5/6 Celebration Ringers 7:00 PM Room 5/6

Thursdays:

Rev. Steve’s Bible Study 10:00 AM Library

Chancel Choir 7:30 PM Sanctuary

Bible Study 2nd & 4th Thursdays Singles, couples, teens 7-10 PM Room 5/6

Young Adult Study Night 7-11 PM YAC

Fridays:

Cracker Barrel 10:00 AM Library T’ai Chi Class 10:00 AM Fellowship Hall MYF 7:00 PM YAC

Sundays:

Adult Study 8:00 AM Kendall Building Sunday School & Nursery 9:00 AM Library Youth Choir 10-11 AM Fireside Room

Resumes September 16

Cherub Choir 10:15 AM Room 5/6 Resumes September 16

Sunday School & Nursery 11:00 AM Ed. Bldg. Preschool to Kindergarten in Nursery Grades 1 to 5 in Room 5/6 Youth (Grades 6-12) in Room 4

Worship Services @ 9 & 11 AM

Childcare available at all services.

United Methodist Women

Contact Person

UMW Pat Small

Prayer Chain Dorine Collins

Hearts & Hands Betty Kinzy

WEEKLY:

Mondays at 9 AM Arts & Crafts Phyllis Nelson

Remaining September 2012 ACTIVITIES

25 Tuesday at 10 AM Bluejays Bridge Pearl Adams

October 2012 ACTIVITIES

8 Monday at Noon Executive Board Kendall Building

16 Tuesday at 11:30 AM Noon Fellowship Dorine Collins

23 Tuesday at 10 AM Bluejays Bridge Pearl Adams

Ongoing Community Groups

Sundays: Narcotics Anonymous at 7 PM in Fireside Room Mondays: AA (Women) at 6 PM in Fireside Room Tuesdays: Alanon at 10 AM & AA Book Study at 8 PM in Fireside Room Thursdays: AA at 7 PM in Fireside Room Fridays: Alanon at 12:30 PM in Fireside Room Boy Scouts - Troop 911: Tuesdays at 7 PM in Fellowship Hall Call John Orlick at 818-886-6229 Cub Scouts - Call Gary Kuykendall at 818-426-8195 Girl Scouts - Call Tandy Wilson at 818-886-9376

All age levels, various days.

Newsletter Articles Are Due Articles for the next newsletter, dated September 26, should be submitted before 4 PM, Tuesday, September 18. Please send pictures, articles and/or information to:

announcements@northridgeumc.org.

Remaining September Events

September 15… Saturday Morning Breakfast @ 8 AM in Fellowship Hall

Beach Clean-Up, from 9 AM to Noon Meet in the Church Parking Lot at 8:30 AM to Carpool

Friends of Music Concert @ 7:30 PM in the Sanctuary

September 16… Outreach Teams Rally Day

September 17… Caring Ministries @ 11:30 AM in the Kendall Building September 18… Endowment Committee @ 1:30 PM in the Library

Finance Committee Meeting @ 5 PM in the Library September 19… Leadership Team Meeting @ 7 PM in the Library September 21… Yard Sale, from 8 AM to 2 PM in Fellowship Hall September 22… Yard Sale, from 8 AM to 2 PM in Fellowship Hall September 23… Fellowship Groups Rally Day

New Member Class @ Noon in the Kendall Building September 24… Book Club @ 7 PM at the home of Ruth Gray

Church and Society Movie @ 7 PM in the Kendall Building Methodist Money Makers @ 7 PM in the Library

September 25… Celebration Team Meeting @ 6 PM in the Library September 29… Memorial Service for Everett Farnham

@ 11AM in the Sanctuary Long-Range Planning Committee @ 7 PM in the Library

Early October Events October 1… New You @ 7 PM at the home of Dorine Collins October 2… Ministry Team @ 6 PM in the Library October 3… Soul Food Café @ 6 PM in Fellowship Hall

SPRC @ 7 PM in the Library October 6… All-Church Hike to Wendy Trail and Satwiwa Loop Trail

Carpool from the Church Parking Lot at 8:30 AM October 7… League of Women Voters @ 7 PM in Fellowship Hall

Northridge United Methodist Women Present: Fall Boutique

Saturday, November 3, 9 AM to 2 PM

Fellowship Hall

Gifts Crafts Browse in Tillie’s Trunk

Proceeds go to our various missions programs.