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November 1, 2016 Volume 1, Issue 11
First United Methodist Church
The Chimes
“I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly
praying
with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because
of
your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. I am
con-
fident of this, that the one who began a good work among you
will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus
Christ” (Philippians 1:3-7, NRSV).
As we approach November we naturally begin to reflect on
Thanksgiving and the things for which we are thankful. I
have
many things for which I am thankful. But near the top of that
list
is this church, and the Kenton First Family. So many people
have come around my family and me, made us feel welcome,
served others, and engaged in the ministry of this church.
For
that, I am extremely thankful.
We have spent the last month challenging ourselves,
especially
around stewardship and finances. But we transition to
spending
this month celebrating and giving thanks. We celebrate All
Saints Day, and all the saints who have gone before us, to
build
up this church into what it is. We celebrate Veterans Day, and
all
who have sacrificed for the Kingdom of God. We celebrate
Christ the King Sunday, and Thanksgiving, and give thanks
for
God’s final victory which is already sure.
These two themes merge beautifully. Paul tells us in
Philippians
4 that living a life of generosity creates thanksgiving to
God.
This church has been generous in giving, in serving, and in
pray-
er. Now, we give thanks for all God has done for us, in us,
and
through us.
Thank you for your generosity. Thank you for your service.
Thank you for embracing the challenge of the last month.
Now,
let’s celebrate God’s great works!
Pastor Jonathan
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Preschool News ........................2
Mission Moment ......................2
Children’s Ministry ..................3
Youth News ..............................3
Sermon Series ..........................4
Auction .....................................4
All Saints ..................................5
SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST
Helping Haiti
Mittens and More!
Be the Highest Bidder!
Christmas Calendar
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“Then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same
love, being one in spirit and of one mind.” -Philippians 2:2
Thank you for your support and all who donated their time,
resources, and money to the bake sale that Breanna and I held on
Sunday October 16th. Without the support from our congre-gation we
would not be able to serve in the ways that we can. So we thank you
from the bottom of our hearts.
We will be leaving at 4:45am Friday November 11th to begin our
journey to the Savannette region of Haiti. We will be gone
approximately 10 days. A ma-jority of what we will be doing will be
relief type work since the whole nation is struggling to bounce
back from the recent hurricane. Here is a quote from a
well-respected man in the communi-ty and the agronomist in regards
to the Savannette:
"The hurricane swept away eve-rything we had. No trees man-goes,
no coconuts, no bananas, and no fruits absolutely left stand. We
were not in misery be-fore this, but now we going to know what does
misery mean. We are out of lives. We do not know how we are going
to live in the coming days. It seems like, we Haitian people we
were born to suffer it might be our destiny."
Here is another quote from a Savan-nette community member,
"All over the SUD got flooded. Cayes is flooding and all the
river is coming up. There is no way to get at anyplace. We can't
get more rain. We will be done or finished."
It is our hope that our team of Ameri-cans can go and help
rebuild what was destroyed during this devastating hur-ricane. But
beyond that, these people’s faith has been tested to the limit, so
we hope that when they see us they will see hope. They will see
that with God all things are possible, and that in the midst of all
their suffering and despair that God is still with them. Our leader
Jan shared this verse with us that she says is very well
descriptive of the Hai-tian people.
"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed: perplexed,
but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; stuck down, but
not destroyed."
2 Corinthians 4:8&9
God Bless,
Jackie Stalder & Breanna Alexander
PRESCHOOL NEWS
MISSION MOMENT
Psalm 105:1 “Oh, give thanks to the
LORD, call upon HIS name, make
known HIS deeds among the peo-
ples!”. I thank the Lord that he pro-
vided wonderful weather for our pre-
school this month as we took a field
trop to the pumpkin patch/apple or-
chard at the Althauser’s Farm. The
students enjoyed every aspect of the
trip from the bus ride to watching the
apples being picked to discovering
more than just pumpkins in the
pumpkin patch.
The preschool was able to take a trip
to the library to visit an Australian
author who read his books to us and
gave an autographed book to each
student. Just a little humor to end
on: One day last week while playing
with the three-year-old class, one of
my little girls asked me to play along
with her in the kitchen. I asked her
what she would like me to cook for
her. Her response was, “Oh, no, I
don’t want you to cook; you are the
servant who cleans up after me!”
Mrs. Lisa Thomsen
11/2 Max Heilman
10134 CR 265 Kenton
11/4 Barbara Houser
9691 TR 175 Kenton
11/5 Ruth Kreinbihl
306 Williams Ct. Kenton
11/21 Barbara Gault
415 Oriental St. Kenton
11/29 Gladys Hamilton
22676 CR 100 Kenton
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YOUTH NEWS
This past month our youth group visited Blanchard Place in
Kenton to give the residents who live there prayer shawls. The
Heal-ing Stitchers knit the prayer shawls. The students were shy at
first; some students had never vis-ited a nursing home. Some felt
they didn’t know the right thing to say to the residents. They
quickly warmed up to the environment and by the end of our time the
stu-dents didn’t want to leave. Right when we left they started
asking me when we could go back. Stu-dents even began brainstorming
other things we could do with the residents next time we go back.
We will be Christmas caroling there and other nursing homes in
Ken-ton on December 18th.
Upcoming events….
November 6th at 12pm- Video Scavenger Hunt
December 4th at 12pm- OneFund auction in the basement
December 18th -Christmas car-oling in the community
December 24th- Christmas play at 4:30 service
*****Practices will be the first three Sundays in Decem-ber
during Sunday school for all youth who want to be a part of this
year’s Christmas play.
-If anyone would like to volunteer for Sunday evening’s high
school youth group, or Wednesday evening’s middle school youth
group please let me know. We could always use volunteers for those
evenings.
-We are still searching for a used pool table and foosball table
for our new game room. Our goal is to have at least one game table
in the blue room before winter.
Please continue to pray for the youth of our church and of our
community.
God Bless,
Jacquelyn Stalder
Director of Youth and Family Min-istries
Write them
on the door-
frames…
Following the idea of Deuteronomy 6:9 write
them on the door-frames… Cheryl Lang-don has created amaz-ing
works of wall art in the previous 2&3 grade room to make it a
crea-tive and inspiring Ele-mentary Youth Room
for Kid’s Club, 3-6 grade Sunday school
and other youth events. This space should be
ready soon! Thank you Cheryl for all of your
hard work!
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Keep our Kids Warm
What: Donate Mittens, Hats, Scarves, and
Gloves
When: October 23rd- November 20th
Who: For students at Kenton Elementary
school ages 4-14 girls and boys
Where: Please drop off all your new mittens,
hats, scarves, and gloves in the box in the
cookie room.
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Children’s Ministries
We would like to start by say-ing THANK YOU to Marsha, Lacey,
Garnet, Susan and Da-vid, and Betty for providing our Wednesday
Night meals! The food is always delicious and we appreciate your
kind-ness. It is very helpful for our families to know that dinner
is already taken care of.
Throughout October we have followed THE FIRST series and
brainstormed ways we can put God FIRST in our lives. Thank you to
Mary and Chris K., Tom T., Abby S., for
helping the children make these connections between God’s truths
and their lives.
We have our first FAITH IN ACTION night on November 2nd. We will
be partnering with Dwane to serve God with our Acts of Helpfulness
in the church!
Adults and teens are needed for small group time. Please contact
Megan or Christa if you would like to be a Kid’s Club mentor.
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Lunch at Helmuth’s for
all ladies of the church
on November 10th. We
will meet at the church
to carpool at 11:30.
Lunch will be chicken,
mashed potatoes, noo-
dles, broccoli salad, and
assorted pies. Cost is
$12.00. Reservations to
Gladys Hamilton, Mary
Lou McNeal, or the
church office by Novem-
ber 7th.
Auction and Soup
Luncheon
December 4th 12:00
Tickets on sale now!
See Jackie, Marsha, or
the church office.
$3.00
All proceeds go towards
youth programs.
NOVEMBER SERMON SERIES
A big thank you to all of the 1st Church
gardeners that faithfully tended the
garden this season.
Reba Coats, Marilyn Deever, Gladys
Hamilton, Judy Dorsey, Lois Lauten-
schlager, Barb Winzenried, Jane
Landsberg, Pat Ritchey, Candy Calli-
nan, Roberta Flinn, Mary Lou McNeal,
Carole Crates, Ruth Watkins,, Joanne
Longbrake, Amy Kohl, Marlene Jolliff,
Mindy Osborn, Miriam Dulin, Leigh
Newland, Lacey Watkins, Lisha
Rawlins, Cheryl Langdon, Ray Jean
Thompson and others that lovingly
added their touch.
Thanks again for your help in keeping
our gardens beautiful.
-Jim & Sandy Pruden and
Marsha Watkins
Thank you so much for allowing us to
be married at your church. It is a
beautiful church and meant the world
to us to be married in a church.
Thank you again!
-Carey and Rich
A big thank you for the beautiful flow-
er and good food when I did not feel
well. It truly made my day.
-Marilyn Arn
Words cannot begin to say thank you
for all the prayers and cards during my
father’s recent health issues. God’s
plan for us changed in a blink of an
eye, but with his almighty love we will
make it through. Each day he is get-
ting a little stronger and that is all we
can ask. He deeply appreciates all
your encouraging cards. Again, thank
you for all the love and support! God
is good!
-Family of Dean Dulin
To my friends at First UM Church.
Thanks to Pastor Jonathan for his visit
to my stay in the hospital and to many
friends who came to the hospital and
rehab to visit. Thanks too, for the
cards and encouraging notes, flowers,
book, candy, and food. But most of all
the prayers which were so much ap-
preciated. The cement in my back is
holding well and I am gaining strength
each day. -Emmy Dunbar
Thank you to Betty A. for hosting our
Children and Youth Harvest Party!
Everyone enjoyed games of Corn Hole,
Balloon Pop, Frisbee Toss and Blast
Em off! We had delicious hot dogs,
s'mores, cider and roasted donuts over
the fire! Thank you to Don and Deb P.
for letting us borrow your corn hole set
and for your help with the fire and set
up. Also, Thank you to Abe O. for driv-
ing the bus for our youth group! Our
church is blessed to have so many gen-
erous people that give what they have
to create these lasting memories with
each other!
-Children’s Ministry Committee 4
November 6-Hebrews 11:8-16-Standing on the Shoulders of
Giants-In honor of both Reformation Day and All Saints Day, we
recognize and celebrate all those that have gone before, and
faithfully made our church what it is today. November 13-John
15:12-17-Making the Sacrifice-In honor of Veterans Day, we talk
about living a life of love and sacrifice. Not just in death, but
also in life. November 20-Colossians 1:11-23-Christ is My King-As
we wind down from elections and celebrate Christ the King Sunday,
we remember that Christ is the King of all, and the one we
serve.
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“ This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of
God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus. -Revelation
14:12
All Saints Day is Tuesday, November 1st. We will celebrate it on
Sunday, November 6th. All Saints Day traces its ori-gins back to
perhaps as early as the 4th century. The Feast of All Saints, as an
official church holiday on November 1st, can be traced back to Pope
Gregory III in the 8th century. In the Roman Catholic tradition,
the holiday celebrates saints, confessors, and martyrs.
John Wesley put his own Methodist spin on the holiday. In our
Methodist tradition, we celebrate all the faithful as saints. This
includes not only famous Christians, but Chris-tians who were
faithful without recognition. That is why on November 6th we
celebrate all the faithful who passed away in the last year.
WHY DO WE CELEBRATE ALL SAINTS DAY?
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Dec. 4th
6:30 pm
Dec. 18th
12:00 pm
10:00 AM
4:30 PM
11:00 PM
10:00 AM
Ollen E. Edington
James Dulin
Barbara Hatfield
Leroy “Jack” Rog-
ers
Dimitri Costoff
Nila Highslip
Herman C. Ahrens
Jr.
Donna Kay Lunce
Judy Gratz
Terestina Steel
Allison Buehler
Ken Sparks
Madeline Osborn
Lorene Sparks
Walter Sparks
Olive Wuethrich
Sid Wuethrich
Warna Smith
Roscoe Strader
All Saints Day
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Marilyn Arn
Teresa Haudenschield
Sawyer Wright
Bobbi Tandon
Peggy Wills
Karl McNeal
Susie Heilman
Tia Reffner
Dean Dulin
Mike Martino
Angie Martino
Ruth Klingler
Emmy Dunbar
Wilma Zuchetto
Bev White
Check out our new
website
Kentonfirst.org
Elizabeth Circle’s Christmas Dinner
December 14th 6:00 PM
Kathy’s Home Cooked Meals
18760 County Road 2 Forest, Ohio
$20.00 (Please bring cash)
Please bring a gift card for Helping
hands.
Call Barb Winzenried
419-673-2149 for reservations
On October 23rd we enjoyed a time of games, fellowship, and
of
course great food! Thank you to everyone who was able to
attend
the picnic for sharing your delicious covered dishes! It was
ex-
tremely nice to relax and take the time to catch up with each
other.
Even the “big kids” joined in the fun of soccer, corn hole, and
the
bouncing seats! Thank you to Pastor Jonathan and Megan and
Don
and Deb Purcell for sharing your game supplies with us. We
missed
our friends that could not make it and hope to see you next
time.
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First United Methodist
234 N. Main Street
Kenton, Ohio 43326
Reverend Jonathan Hanover
419-673-3205
EMAIL ADDRESSES
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WEBSITE
kentonfirst.org
ATTENDANCE AND OFFERING
9:00 11:00 Offering
October 2 62 84 $7445.00
October 9 68 89 $3462.00
October 16 52 109 $4598.00
October 23 67 106 $4752.00
October 30 65 96 $5187.76
November 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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9:30 Knitters 5:00 Girl scouts 6:30 Boy scouts 6:30 Bells
7:30Worship
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6:00 Dinner
6:30 Kids Club
Bible study
MS youth
3
6:30 Choir
7:30 AA
4
Office Closed
5
11:00 AA
6 9:00 Worship
10:00 SS
11:00 Worship
12:00 Youth Scav-
enger Hunt
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10:00 Staff mtg
6:00 Girl scouts
6:30 Trustees mtg
7:30 AA
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4:00 NOC mtg
5:00 Girl scouts
6:30 Boy scouts
6:30 Bells
9
6:00 Dinner
6:30 Kids Club
Bible study
10
6:30 Choir
7:30 AA
11
Office Closed
12
11:00 AA
13
9:00 Worship
10:00 SS
11:00 Worship
5:30 Youth
14
10:00 Staff mtg
6:00 Girl scouts
7:30 AA
15 9:30 Knitters
5:00 Girl scouts
5:30 SPR
6:00 Youth mtg
6:30 Bells
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6:00 Dinner
6:30 Kids Club
Bible study
MS youth
17
6:30 Choir
7:30 AA
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Office Closed
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11:00 AA
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9:00 Worship
10:00 SS
11:00 Worship
5:30 Youth
21
10:00 Staff mtg
6:00 Girl scouts
7:30 AA
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5:00 Girl scouts
6:30 Boy scouts
6:30 Bells
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Office Closed
6:30 Choir
24
Thanksgiving
Office Closed
7:30 AA
25
Office closed
26
11:00 AA
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9:00 Worship
10:00 SS
11:00 Worship
5:30 Youth
28
10:00 Staff mtg
6:00 Girl scouts
6:30 Children’s
7:30 AA
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5:00 Girl scouts
6:30 Boy scouts
6:30 Bells
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6:00 Dinner
6:30 Kids Club
Bible study
