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The Methodist
A Publication of The Seward United Methodist Church
1400 North 5th Street Seward, NE 68434
Church Office: (402) 643-4156
April 19 is one of the six special Sunday offerings in the United
Methodist Church. An envelope will be in the bulletin that day for supporting Native American
ministries, both in our Conference and nation-wide.
Kid's Easter Extravaganza
Easter Sunday, April 5th
During Sunday School time
9:30-10:15
There will be Crafts, snacks
& an Easter Egg hunt!
Please join us!
Bring Your Easter Lilies
To the Kitchen By Noon
Saturday, April 4th
In Christ’s service,
Pastor Dale Lambert
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Dear friends,
With the rising of the sun on Easter morning April 5, Lent officially ends. It is common to think of Easter as one day, but the official Easter season lasts from Easter morning until Pentecost in the church. This year Pentecost Sunday is May 24.
Some people may think it is a bit strange to celebrate Easter for that many weeks, but as Christians we are Easter people. In Christ’s resurrection we find the promise of our resurrection. We are people of the resurrection.
The Easter season remembers that the biblical story tells us that the faithful took Jesus’ instructions to heart after his crucifixion. Jesus told them “...to stay in the city (Jerusalem) until you have been clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:49).
So it is that we remember Easter longer than one day. The resurrection is central to our faith, and through the Easter season we, Jesus’ followers, patiently wait to be clothed with power from on high.
I will be preaching a sermon series throughout the Easter season titled “Faith Gives.” I am doing this because more and more people are questioning faith and asking, “What’s in it for me?” In other words, why should I be a follower of Jesus?
For those of us who were born into Christian faith, the answer may seem obvious. We have faith in Jesus because that is the way we were raised. Or, we may have faith in Jesus because we have seen how Jesus changes lives. You may have another reason for being faithful.
There are many people in the community, though, who question the value of Christian faith. Some were raised without the benefit of the church. Others were raised in the church but do not see any real reason for nurturing their faith.
Perhaps through exploring what we receive through our faith in the resurrected Christ, we will be able to help others understand its value a little better. Then it may be easier to fulfill the mission of the United Methodist Church: to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
Elsewhere in this newsletter you will find the Scripture readings and sermon titles for each Sunday through May 24. You may want to read them in advance and meditate on their meanings. Some people find that doing so helps to prepare them for worship on Sunday.
Christ is risen indeed! Thanks be to God!
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Worship Schedule
8:30 a.m. Blended Worship 9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:30 a.m. Praise Worship
PRAYERS AND CONCERNS
Please remember those who were lifted up in prayer for on-going health concerns.
Prayers For:
Keep T.J. Fraser in our prayers for renewed strength Prayers for Roger Hans who is recovering from a broken hip.
Continued prayers for Jeannie Jeary's strength during her recovery We hold up prayers for Margo Gish who is going through treatments for Non Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Please keep Beth Hentzen in your prayers for health issues
Monday Nights
@ 7:30 p.m. Library Thursday Mornings
Morning at 9:30 - 10:30 Sunday Mornings - Sunday School
@ 9:30 a.m. - Library
SERMON SERIES: “FAITH GIVES” April 12 “Faith Gives Peace” Psalm 133; John 20:19-31 April 19 “Faith Gives Power” Acts 3:12-19; Luke 24:36b-48 April 26 “Faith Gives Love” 1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18 May 3 “Faith Gives Us a Gardener” 1 John 4:7-21; John 15:1-8 May 10 “Faith Gives the Law” 1 John 5:1-6; John 15:9-17 May 17 “Faith Gives Eternal Life” 1 John 5:9-13; John 17:6-19 May 24 – Pentecost Sunday Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26–27, 164b-15
Pastor Dale will be giving a report on his trip to the holy land at the joint UMW Unit/ Evening Circle Group meeting
on April 16 at 7pm in the fellowship
hall. Come join us to hear about his trip
and for fellowship
Watch us on Cable 13
at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday
And/or
10:00 a.m. Thursday mornings.
COMMITTEE MEETING TIMES:
Mon. Apr. 6, Nurture Meeting, 7:00 p.m. -parlor
Wed. Apr. 8, Witness, 5:30 p.m. -library
Thur. Apr. 9, Trustees, 7:00 p.m. -parlor
Sun. Apr. 12, Foundation, 9:15 a.m. -parlor
Sat. Apr. 18, UMW Work Day, 8:30 a.m. -fellowship hall
Thur. Apr. 16, UMW Unit/Evening Group Meeting, 7:00 p.m. -fellowship
Tues. Apr. 21, BBCDC, 6:00 p.m. -parlor
Tues. Apr. 21, Worship, 7:00 p.m. -parlor
Tues. Apr. 21, Mission & Outreach, 7:00 p.m. -library
Thur. Apr 23, Finance, 7:00 p.m. -parlor
Wed. Apr. 29, UMW Leadership Meeting, 10:00 a.m.
Monthly Budget: $30,134
February 2015
Donations: $23,152
Expenses: $32,308
Donations: General Operating & Mission Shares
Expenses: Budgeted Items Only
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GAME NIGHT
Sunday, Apr. 26th
5:00 - 7:00 Bring a snack to share.
Anyone welcome! ~Playing Pitch~
July 14,15 & 16 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (each evening)
more information to come...
Cooper Kallhoff
Zachary Brown
NATIONAL HEALTHCARE DECISIONS DAY Join Americans across the county in making future healthcare decisions known to family, friends and
healthcare providers. Share your wishes and complete your advance directive, because...YOUR DECISIONS MATTER.
GRANDMA'S YELLOW PIE PLATE Whether planning ahead, transferring property or dealing
with inheritance, this presentation will help you learn how to prepare for the future.
THURSDAY, APRIL 16th 12:00 pm - GREENE PLACE - 600 Church St. Seward
RSVP: Carrie 402.643.9111
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POWER UP FOR SUMMER AT CAMP FONTENELLE
**CONNECT WITH CHRIST
**CONNECT WITH NATURE
**CONNECT WITH OTHERS
Camp Fontanelle, north of Fremont is offering the following 2015 summer camps.
Family Camp – June 19-21
Adult Camp – July 10-12
Preschool – Kindergarten: Guardian Angel (with adult) June 6-7 or July 18-19
Grades 1 and 2: Sonshine (with adult) May 29-31 or July 24-26
Grades 3-6: Splish Splash – July 27-31 and Man Camp – Aug 3-7
Grades 3-9: Tree Frog/Tree Monkey – June 1-5. Zoobilee – July 6-9, and Cowpoke – July 13 – 17
Grades 4-8: Girls Only/Girl Power – July 20 -24
Grade 5-8: F.R.O.G. – June 22-26
Grades 5-9: God’s World of Science – June 15-19
Grades 7-12: Joyful Noise– June 17-21, Survivor – July 27-Aug1, and Road Rules – Aug 3 – 7
Grades 9-12: F.R.O.G.G.E.D. – June 22 -26 and Girls Only – Chicktastic – July 20 – 24
Pick up a flyer at the Welcome Center for a complete rundown of camp activities or go to www.CampFontanelle.com for further information or to register. You can also call for a
Registration Form at 402-478-4296.
Camperships Offered!
To encourage attendance at Methodist Church camps this summer,
Seward United Methodist Women have set aside $1,000 to pay 50% of the
church camp cost.
Contact Evelyn Hastings at 402-429-2096 for further information on UMW camperships
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Singers, Musicians, Directors, Technical Staff:
AN INVITATION TO SUPPER
To thank all of our members who offer their talents to our music ministry, UMW
will provide a “Thank You” meal on Wednesday, April 22. Supper will be
available from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. We do hope that members of musical groups who do not practice on Wednesday nights will also be able to join us this evening.
Library Corner:
Another new, donated book 172-
The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate by Gary Chapman. The author helps couples work as a team through Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Gifts, Acts of Service and Physical Touch.
MISSING IN ACTION !!
If you borrowed the red two-wheeled hand cart and have
forgotten to return it, please return it to the church.
Thanks!
The next Sewing Saturday
(UMW workday) will be on
Saturday, April 17, 8:30-1 or 1:30.
Please bring sewing machines if possible,
and a sack lunch. We will
be sewing and tying twin and kid quilts.
Bring a friend-UMW membership is not
required to participate in this fun and
productive experience. Questions?
-call Phyllis at 402-643-6077.
As an aside--I had a lady ask us what we
do on our workdays--do we clean the
kitchen and refrigerators?? (maybe they
thought we needed to do that task) so-
-we decided to call the day 'Sewing
Saturdays’ even tho we probably will
include " UMW workdays" in parenthesis
for a while anyway so as to not confuse
people Brown Family Mike & Peggy
Daughter Sarah & Son Zach
Kallhoff Family Joe & Kylie
Sons: Creighton, Kyler & Cooper
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Bright Beginnings Child Development Center
Preschool & Pre K classrooms have been busy learning. We have 5 of our Pre K students who will be attending Kindergarten in the fall. This past month the Pre school and Pre K classes had an entire week celebrating Dr. Seuss. Crazy hair day, Green eggs and ham and crazy sock day were some of the high lights. The students loved reading the Dr. Seuss books. With the warmer weather the teachers are gearing more learning outdoors and the students love it. They learned about weather also in March. One day they even had a
Science experiment to make rain in a cup. Lots of fun hands on learning is happening with this group. We are currently taking applications for our next year Preschool and Pre K classes.
The Toddler class really enjoyed seeing the baby chicks that Ms Kerry brought into the center. Ms Kori and Miss Steph do a great job with teaching this classroom. It has been amazing how quickly they have picked up on new things that are being introduced to them. Beau is in the process of moving up to the 3 year old room. In April this class will be learning about Easter, Weather, Yellow, the shape Oval, the letter E and the number 4. More fun activities are being planned with this fun group.
BBCDC Upcoming Events:
~ BBCDC students will be singing for the 10:30 church service on Sunday, April 26 ~ Pre K graduation will be Sunday May 31st 3-5 pm. All of the Preschool and Pre K students will perform for us and 5 of our students will graduate from Pre K into Kindergarten. This is open for everyone. Refreshments will follow the program.
~Fund raisers will be going towards our new playground. Plans are being drawn up for the new playground. We are all excited to see this dream become a reality.
Reminder: BBCDC will be closed on Good Friday 4/3/2015
Check us out on our FaceBook page. [email protected]
Lots of pictures of our different classrooms and activities.
Infant Room 2 celebrated Ezra’s 1st birthday on Friday March 13th. They weren’t really sure about the cupcakes at first. The class now has 3 that are a year old and Mac will turn 1 in March. This group is always on the move and delightful to visit with. They sure do enjoy the warmer weather and getting outdoors.
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BLUE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PANTRY
Collection item for APRIL:
Soup Wednesday, April 8th @ 6:00
CONFIRMATION SUNDAY
April 12, 2015 is a special Sunday at Seward United Methodist Church. Seven eighth grade students will
confirm their baptismal vows at our 10:30 worship service
and will become full members of our church. They are:
Carson Core, Ian Doehring, Brenden Flesner, Lindsay
Flesner, Alyssa Josoff, Camryn Opfer, and Tyler Welch.
Infant Room 1 has experienced a number of changes. Miss Laura and Mr. Jase will soon welcome little Mattie and little Grady to the room. We are welcoming our new full time head teacher Miss Alyssa. Alyssa comes to us from the Lincoln area where she has been working in early childhood for the past few years. We are striving to have a consistent teacher and helpers in this room. We realize that not everyone is cut out to provide care for our little ones and we want to assure that our little ones only receive the best care possible. Miss Cynthia has done an AMAZING job helping us out in this room. If she wasn’t a full time student we would nab her up. She will continue to help us in training Miss Alyssa along with Miss Nikki. Only great things are in the horizon in this classroom.
Our school age room enjoyed having Mr. Christopher sub while Miss Marie was on Spring break. They played soccer, Frisbee, basketball, tag, baseball and went to the high school football field. As a treat they went to Dairy Queen with Mr. Christopher and Ms Kerry. We have had 3 new friends join this group. We welcome Jadea, Tesalyn and Zaxton
The Hurley family would like to extend a HUGE THANK YOU to the group of individuals who came out and helped clean up the numerous
trees that had fallen during the Mother's day tornado. We are
sincerely grateful for the love of Christ that was shown to our family.
Kerry, Katrina, Christopher, David, Teanna, John, Rochelle, Jawaun and Denzel
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Seward United Methodist Church Family Portrait Directory
Family Portrait Dates: May 12-16, May 19-23 Times: Tues-Fri--2:00-9:00; Saturday 10:00-5:00
Free 8x10 & Free Directory per family Portrait Purchases Available
HOW DO I REGISTER FOR AN APPOINTMENT? You will be able to sign-up at church, before and after
worship, on a first come, first choice basis.
Sign Up Dates: April 12, 19, 26, May 3
Sign up online at: www.appt.lifetouch.com
Call: Maxine Moore or Randy Halder for more information
WE WILL ACCOMMODATE YOUR NEEDS!
Let us know if you have special requests for: Intergenerational family poses. Also, you can bring props and have special posing done for
extra portraits of family members.
Special Online Sign-up Offer
$10.00 discount by e-mail off your order for signing up online!
YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS PERSONALLY!
For personal photos, Lifetouch encourages you to bring to your portrait
session something that says who you are:
Perhaps a: hat...pin...scarf...musical
instrument...Bible...sports gear…or
whatever it is that’s important to you!
Bring a non-perishable
food item for our food pantry and receive $5.00 off
your order!
Receive 20% Senior
Discount—Age 60+
YOU’RE PART OF Our Church FAMILY!
IT WON’T BE THE SAME WITHOUT YOU! SIGN UP in April-May to BE PART OF OUR
CHURCH Family DIRECTORY AND RECEIVE YOUR 8 x 10 COMPLIMENTARY PORTRAIT AND
FREE DIRECTORY! We want you!
~MAY~ MAILBOX DEADLINE
Monday, April 20
Submit News by NOON
Drop off your article at the office,
call Krystel at the church office OR
e-mail articles to [email protected]
UMW Local Church Activities
Chair persons for APRIL are:
Juanita Hill
643-2538
Sue Imig
643-9747
Church Office Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. M-F
Phone: 402-643-4156
Fax: 402-643-4159
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sewardumc.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sewardunitedmethodist BBCDC: 402-643-2141
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