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The Messenger
First & Wesley United
Methodist Church
89 Center Street
West Haven, Connecticut 06516
203-933-8795
October 2018
Welcome to October! Luther took the first step of the Reformation on
October 31, 1517 by posting on the door of the Castle Church the Ninety-
five Theses, which discussed mainly the errors of indulgences. Later he
challenged the authority of the Catholic Church directly and reformed the
Church, which was the beginning of the Protestant Church.
The worship was also radically reformed from the Catholic Church. First,
the Reformers disagreed with the Catholic priests who forbade the giving of
both bread and wine to the congregation at the Lord’s Supper. At that time,
the lay people, unlike the clergy, were supposed to receive the bread only at
the Lord’s Supper. The Reformers emphasized that the sacrament does not
belong to the priests only but to all believers.
Another important change is that the worship service began to be led for “unlearned” lay folk with both their
own language and music. (Before the Reformation, the worship was preceded by Latin, which was not their
native language.) The Reformers broadened and deepened the spirit of worship and gave the common people
a more intelligible part. As a result, the common people were able to follow and participate actively in the
worship service.
These two important changes are focused on the active participation of the laity during worship. We
Protestants have inherited the wisdom of the Reformers who insisted that the worship is a work of the clergy
and the congregation, not a work of the clergy only. As a Protestant minister, I encourage you to participate
actively in our worship service.
If you have special hymns you would like to sing during worship, if you would like to write a unison prayer,
or if you want to give a sermon as a Lay Servant, please let me know. If you want to serve as a worship
leader, please contact our worship committee chair, Christine Chan. This is the way that we make beautiful
spiritual work through which we praise, please, encounter, experience, feel, and touch the living Lord.
According to the liturgical theology of the Reformers, the Christian worship is not the personal work of the
clergy but a collaboration of both the clergy and the congregation. Let us collaborate to enhance our worship
service. Amen.
Sungmu Lee
Lectionary Readings for October 2018
October 7, 2018 • Job 1:1, 2:1-10 and Psalm 26 • Genesis 2:18-24 and Psalm 8 •
• Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 • Mark 10:2-16
October 14, 2018 • Job 23:1-9, 16-17 and Psalm 22:1-15 • Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 and Psalm 90:12-17 •
• Hebrews 4:12-16 • Mark 10:17-31
October 21, 2018 • Job 38:1-7, (34-41) and Psalm 104:1-9, 24, 35c • Isaiah 53:4-12 and Psalm 91:9-
16 •
• Hebrews 5:1-10 • Mark 10:35-45
October 28, 2018 • Job 42:1-6, 10-17 and Psalm 34:1-8, (19-22) • Jeremiah 31:7-9 and Psalm 126 •
• Hebrews 7:23-28 • Mark 10:46-52
With Our Thanks...
My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Greetings from Ghana! I write to thank you for your warm wishes, your love, care and concern. It was
such a joy and a privilege to spend my 78th birthday knowing that you were thinking and praying for
me. I humbly thank you for your thoughts and prayers and I thank the good Lord for allowing me and
my family to worship in the midst of the First and Wesley United Methodist Church family.
The honor the church bestowed on me by donating $800 in my name to St. John's Methodist Church in
Apowa, Ghana is not lost on me. My Family and I are grateful!
I pray that God continues to guide and guard you in all that you do, and that His spirit remains with
you always.
In Christian love,
Kwamena and Cecilia D. Amos
First & Wesley United Methodist Church October 2018
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1
2 10-12p Prayer Group (101 Bellevue Ave. West Haven) 5:15p Youth Choir
3 7:30p Bible Study
4 10 Koinonia Café 6p Bell Choir 7p Adult Choir
5
6
7 World Communion Sunday 9:15 Adult Sunday School 10:30 Worship & Communion Children’s Sunday School 11:30 Celebration Coffee Hour 11:45 Worship Committee Meeting 4:30p Confirmation Class
8 Columbus Day 7p CNLD Meeting
9
5:15p Youth Choir 6p Missions/Outreach Meeting 7:30p Finance Meeting
10 10 Prayer Shawl (Sharon Ewen’s 615 Lambert Rd. Orange) 7:30p Bible Study
11 10 Koinonia Café 6p Bell Choir 7p Adult Choir
12
13 9-10:30 Men’s Breakfast 4p Special Olympics
14 9:15 Adult Sunday School 10:30 Worship Children’s Sunday School 11:30 Anointing for Healing and wholeness 11:30 Coffee Hour 11:45 Craft Corner
15 16 5:15p Youth Choir
17 7:30p Bible Study
18 10 Koinonia Café 6p Bell Choir 7p Adult Choir
19
20 5-7p Love Meal
*Messenger
Articles Due
21 Laity Sunday 9:15 Adult Sunday School 10:30 Worship Children’s Sunday School 11:30 Coffee Hour
22
23 5:15p Youth Choir 7p Trustees Meeting
24 7:30p Bible Study
25 10 Koinonia Café 6p Bell Choir 7p Adult Choir
26
27
28 9:15 Adult Sunday School 10:30 Worship Children’s Sunday School 11:30 Coffee Hour 12P Youth Group: Corn Maze at Bishop’s Orchard
29
30 5:15p Youth Choir
31 No Bible Study
* Annual Harvest Fair will be held on Saturday, November 3rd, from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm.
* For further updates, visit www.firstwesleyumc.org/calendar.
Missions and Outreach
The community picnic, hosted by the men, was quite successful with about 50 people in attendance on
September 8. We were represented on the Green at WestFest on September 8.
Koinonia Cafe, on Thursday mornings 10-noon continued all summer, and is well-attended by up to a dozen
people.
We still hope to host a Veteran's breakfast on October 13.
We will be collecting the following items for Thanksgiving baskets: canned fruits and vegetables, packages of
instant potatoes and stuffing, cranberry sauce, and turkey gravy. We also place a Stop & Shop gift card, which
can be purchased from Dave Smith, in each basket.
We will be celebrating the coming holidays with several events: the Christmas breakfast on December 1, the
Alternative Christmas Market on December 2 and 9, and gifts for our Covenant to Care social worker's clients.
We are also considering a mission trip in 2019, possibly to Ghana.
We will be discussing these and other mission activities at our next meeting on Tuesday, October 9 at 6pm.
Everyone is welcome!
Wednesday bible study –
continues at 7:30pm in Kendall Hall. Our study continues with Life lessons from Matthew Lucado. Please
consider taking part in some lively discussions and great fellowship. Everyone is welcome!
Praise and Worship Concert on December 9th at 4:00pm!
Come celebrate our 150th anniversary with a free concert at First & Wesley United Methodist Church! Our
concert will include a wide variety of sacred music. All donations made will be used to purchase an electronic
drum set for our church. For more information, please contact Christine Chan (203)927-4679.
2018 - 2019 Confirmation Class
Class is open for students in 8th grade & up.
If you would like to join the class please speak to Pastor Lee.
The next meeting is on Sunday, October 7th at 4:30pm.
World Communion Sunday
October 7th is a Churchwide Special Sunday of the United Methodist Church. Your gift helps promising
scholars become leaders. The offering funds graduate racial-ethnic scholarships, with at least one-half of the
annual amount reserved for ministries beyond the United States. Donations also provide for undergraduate US
Ethnic Scholarships and Ethnic In-Service Training Programs.
First & Wesley United Methodist Church
Church Council Meeting Sunday, September 30, 2018
The meeting will take place following service. All persons associated with our Church (members or not) are
encouraged to attend and share their ideas and opinions. Please feel free to contact me with questions,
comments, or requests to add agenda items.
Richard Memmott
Church Council Chair
Telephone: 203) 934-1953:
Email: [email protected]
DRAFT AGENDA
• Call to order
• Welcome and Opening Prayer
• Discussion, correction, and acceptance of minutes from our last meeting
• Reports from service and administrative groups and individuals:
- Treasurer and Finance – A discussion and vote
- Staff-Parish Relations – A discussion and vote
- Window Campaign – A discussion and vote
- Trustees
- Memorial
- Lay Leader
- Stewardship
- Nurture
(Worship Committee, Music, Ushers, Altar Guild, Communion Stewards, Worship Leaders, Greeter’s
Ministry, Flowers, Prayer Notes, Coffee Hour)
- Outreach
(Missions and Social Concerns, CoNAM and Public Events)
- Witness
(Adult Education, Lay Servants, Membership and Evangelism, Publicity, Website and Messenger).
- Children’s Ministry
(Sunday School, Youth (MYF), Vacation Bible School)
- Pastor
• Old business not previously considered
• New business
• Next meeting dates
• Closing prayer
Fundraiser
Just a reminder that Dave Smith is selling Stop and Shop cards to members and friends of First and Wesley.
Whether for buying groceries or to give as a gift, as an added bonus, you can earn Stop & Shop gas rewards for
every $1 spent on gift cards.
It is hard to believe that more people don’t take advantage of this marvelous way to raise money for the church.
If you buy a gift card from Dave Smith you get the full face value at the register and Stop & Shop sends a
percentage to the church. It couldn’t be simpler and it doesn’t cost you a dime.
The “Community Cookout,” hosted by First & Wesley Men's Group, was quite successful
with about 50 people in attendance on September 8th.
Thank you to all the Men's Group members who put on a delicious end of summer cookout.
Great Job everyone.
It was a lovely church-wide, community picnic and we’re so happy that the Word spread!
One “Can” Help!
Every Sunday First & Wesley UMC is collecting non-perishable food items to help fight hunger in West
Haven, CT. Please place your food donations in “HOPE & WHEAT” wagon in narthex (Center Street
Entrance).
Donated food items go to WHEAT’s food pantry (every Sunday) and Project Hope Soup Kitchen (3rd Sunday).
Coffee Hour
Please help us keep the Coffee Hour going. Coffee
hour is needed. We all need the chance to meet after
church and chat with our friends. We need kind-hearted
souls to take a turn at serving coffee after church
services. Coffee, punch, milk and sugar are set up for
you ahead of time, all you need do is put it all out just
before the service is over. Please see Myrna Clinton, or
call our church secretary at 203-933-8795.
Pastors Discretionary
Fund:
Please consider giving a “Love
Offering” to Pastor’s discretionary fund. You may place
your gift in the container on the back table of the
sanctuary. If you wish to write check to the church,
please write “Pastor’s Discretionary Fund” in the memo
section.
Tell us if you have a member information change:
example- name change, address change, marriage,
birth, death, etc.
Email: [email protected] or send to the
Church office.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Articles for the November 2018 Newsletter are
due by October 20th.
Please mark your calendars.
EVERYONE IS A REPORTER
If you give me the- who, what, when, where and
why, I will write your article for you –
Email to [email protected] or
call 203-213-6363 and leave a message.
Please send me your email address to speed up
delivery of the newsletter.
Thank you, Bill Hunt
Pennies From Heaven The Native American Penny
Collection for Conam is ongoing
to provide very much needed food and fuel. Please help
the Sunday school students by giving them your loose
change each week to support those in need.
A/V WORSHIP SUPPORT TEAM
If you are interested in helping out during our morning
worship by running the PPT for the service or monitoring
the sound, please see Helen Smith or call/text her at 203-
444-2362. Also, if you are interested in programming the
PPT for Sunday morning worship, we really need one or
two more people who would be able to do this. Again, talk
to Helen Smith if you would be willing to use your
computer skills to aid in our worship! Thank You!
Prayer Group Will meet for a time of fellowship, spiritual study, and
prayer on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018 from 10 AM to
Noon. Please come to Richard and Thelma's home, 101
Bellevue Avenue, West Haven, CT.
A prayer that could be said by us all:
Lord of all power and might, maker and giver of all
good things, we need your strength. The shelter of your
loving care and a time of quiet in your presence.
So we come to you in all our activities and meetings that
we may be joined to one another here in our church.
May we all take time for reflection and for learning with
each other. Amen!
Adult Sunday School
The Adult Sunday School class is for anyone too old
for the teenager’s class. We meet in Kendall Hall
during Sunday school hour, 9:15 – 10:00 each Sunday
morning, for energetic, lively, and wide ranging
discussions on how our faith impacts our daily lives.
We are continuing our study of the book, Noah Built His
Ark in the Sunshine, by James W. Moore. The aim of
this book is to help us build our faith, spiritual maturity,
and gratitude so that, as the author says, we can pray
“Lord, whatever this day may bring, you are here, you
are in it, you are with us.” Some sample chapters are
“Building the Ark of Compassion,” “Building the Ark
of Confidence,” “Building the Ark of Trust in God,”
“Building the Ark of Purpose.”
Come join us for an energetic and enlightening time!
Recycling of
Plastic Bags
Stop & Shop accepts plastic bags
for recycling. The collection box
is inside the entrance.
Have you visited our Church Website lately?
It is truly beautiful and informative.
The Church calendar is updated as needed and you can check on dates and times of
meetings and events.
Website is firstwesleyumc.org
Check it out!
Youth Choir News
Come and sing!
If you are in Kindergarten or up, you are invited to
come and join the youth choir. We will be singing once
a month in church, have holiday parties and have a
good time praising the Lord. We meet on Tuesdays
from 5:15 to 6:00 pm.
Youth Group News
We will be going to Bishop’s Orchard to conquer the
corn maze on October 28th after church. The cost of
the corn maze is $7 each. Helen will have permission
slips available for anyone interested in going. We
usually have at least two teams and see who can find all
the checkpoints first!
Also, we are planning on doing leaf raking on Nov.
24th. If you are unable to rake your lawn, let Helen,
Jim Stuhlman, or Jen know.
Jim Stuhlman Jen Werle Helen Smith
Every Sunday at 10:30 a.m., adults and children
gather in the sanctuary to begin worship
together. Children (ages 4 & up) are invited to
go to their Sunday School class after a
Children's Message.
Sunday School will give children the opportunity
to:
• Understand themselves as children of
God
• Explore and deepen their relationship
with God through Jesus Chris
• Love and serve God and neighbor
For more information, contact Gail Bartozzi with
questions - e-mail [email protected] or call
the church office.
The Craft Corner, a group of youth grades 5 and
up meet the second Sunday of each month from
11:45 – 1:15 to make Get Well and Thinking of
You cards or holiday cards. It’s a lot of fun! We
chat, create, and laugh. Bring a sandwich and a
drink. Chips and dessert will be provided.
Contact Gail Bartozzi if you are interested in joining our
group or have questions – call the church office or e-
mail Gail at [email protected].
October Birthdays
1 - Joshua Jerrell
Eulalee Miller
8 - Dennis Kopec
David Hawkes
15 - Sharon Ewen
18 - Beth Ammon
David Warner
24 - Thurmon Whitley
27 - Eula Wilson
30 - Marisa Jerrell
Hyeonjin Kim
October Anniversaries
There are no anniversaries in the
month of October.
If you would like to include someone for
birthdays or anniversaries please see below.
Example- name change, address change,
marriage, birth, death, etc.
Email: [email protected] or send to
church office.
The Messenger First & Wesley United Methodist Church
89 Center Street West Haven, CT 06516
Phone (203) 933-8795
www.firstwesleyumc.org
Email: [email protected]
Reverend Sungmu Lee
Sunday Worship Time: 10:30 am
The October Newsletter