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Pastoral Care Response Line: 999-4887 For current news go to www.canterburyumc.orgTo comment on this article, go to Dr. Bill Morgan’s Blog at http://billmorgancanterbury.wordpress.com.
Bill Morgan, Senior Minister
Sunday, June 7
weekly words from bill morgan
GRATITUDE AND FORGIVENESS…“One plants, another waters… But God gives the growth…” 1 Corinthians 3. 5-9
Hmmm. Call this weekly words #616 or so, completing that number of weeks as senior minister here. In our United Methodist Book of Worship – a treasure the depths of which we only skim the surface – there is an order of Farewell to a Pastor, a litany for congregation and minister. I thank you people of Canterbury United Methodist Church for the love and support you have shown me while I ministered among you. I am grateful for the ways my leadership has been accepted. I ask your forgiveness for the mistakes I have made. As I leave, I carry with me all I have learned and the many blessing I have received here.
We receive your thankfulness, offer forgiveness, and accept that you now leave to minister in a new place. We express our gratitude for your time among us. We ask your forgiveness for our mistakes. Your influence on our lives will not leave us with your departure.
I accept your gratitude and forgiveness, and I forgive you, trusting our time together and parting are pleasing to god. I release you from turning to and depending on me. I encourage your continuing life here. I will pray for you. I commend you to your new minister.... UM Book of Worship #598
• Gratitude, yes. But forgiveness? Perhaps some specifics we can identify here and there. On a deeper level, with all important relationships, there are times we just miss it with one another, when the way we are does not match what we hoped from one another. In any relationship that matters – family, friendship, ministerial, marriage, there is a god-enabled forgiveness that we are never exactly who we want each other to be, so we accept each other as the persons we are.
• I have expressed before how regardless of the call, preparation, examination, ordination, and appointment of a minister to a congregation, THE ordination that counts is each person who accepts the minister to be his or her minister. For reasons understood and not understood, a minister encounters in every congregation some who never quite receive you as minister. I wish I could tell you it doesn’t hurt, but I can’t. What I can express from the deepest recesses of my psyche and heart is gigantic gratitude for the flood of you who have given me the profound gift of permitting me to be one of your ministers. You continue to bless and minister to me.
• The arrival of a new minister is a God-given opportunity for YOU to re-up, recommit to prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness through the wonderful/exasperating life of this church. gratitude and forgiveness for what has been. lean into the new chapter. This is no time to ‘wait and see’ with cocked head and folded arms how the new guy does. What has worked best for the past 12+ years is when we have all jumped in, splashed and swam like all get out in the sea of god’s unlimited and unconditional love. So, gratitude, forgiveness…and doxology.
8:15 a.m. New Traditions • Rev. Julie Holly10:30 a.m. All Together Worship
Dr. Bill Morgan • Sanctuary
5:00 p.m. The WAY • Rev. Drew Clayton
All-TogeTher Summer — Beginning Sunday, June 7th, we’ll be “All Together” during 10:30 worship. June 7th and 14th are two don’t-miss Sundays as we say good-bye to Dr. Bill Morgan and welcome Rev. Dale Cohen. Both services will be held in the Sanctuary. For the remainder of the summer, through August 16, we’ll be alternating “All Together” services between the Sanctuary and Canterbury Center. Please visit www.canterburyumc.org/worship for additional information.
CommuniTy SundAy SChool —begins this week in M209. Bill Morgan will be the special speaker. On June 14 we will officially begin our study of Adam Hamilton’s The Way: Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus. Week 1: Jesus’ Baptism and Temptation. This study follows Jesus’ life and ministry using the backdrop of the Holy Land as inspiration and explanation. Yancey Trucks will be leading this session.
BroWn BAg Book CluB WiTh Annie Skinner And rAChel eSTeS — Our first selection is Love Does by Bob Goff. Come prepared to share how this book challenged and encouraged you. June 16, noon, in A123. Bring a sack lunch!
Adding evenTS To The ChurCh CAlendAr — It’s time to reserve spaces for Canterbury meetings and events from May 2015 through May 2016. To reserve a room, church bus, parking lot or other Canterbury re-source, please contact Ashley Collar at [email protected] or 874-1550. For Bible studies, please contact Ellen Thomas at [email protected] or 874-1533. Canterbury ministry events may be booked up to one year in advance. If you are part of an outside non-profit organization that would like to request the use of Canterbury facilities, these requests may be made six months prior to the event and must meet established guide-lines for consideration.
SAve The dATe!! Family Promise Board of Birmingham AnnuAl Silent Auction!! We need your help to make this a great event and to help support an even better organization and cause!! Plan to attend, plan to bid, plan to have a Great Evening! Join us at the Black & White Bash on July 30, 2015 at Rosewood Hall in Homewood. For more information about ticket purchase, potential items to donate to the raffle, and all other questions please reach out to Tyler Busby 639-9060 ([email protected]) or familypromisebham.org.
neW ChurCh nAme TAgS — Lots of people are now wearing their new Canterbury name tags at all kinds of events on campus! Keep your name tag in your car or purse so you will be ready to put it on as you arrive on campus. This habit expresses a welcoming spirit and makes it easier to learn each other’s names! To order your new name tag, email [email protected]. Name tags may be picked up at the Main Entrance desk.
The BroWn BAg ProJeCT AT CAnTerBury Remember! The summer schedule is different than the rest of the year. Friday Drive-thru Distribution times are 8:00-11:00 a.m. Friday dates are June 19th; July 10th & 24th; August 7th & 21st. Service hour credit will be given on Fridays only. Wednesday packing is to be done by different mission teams from YouthWorks and the Exceptional Foundation. For more information, please contact Susan Dowdey at 874-1569 or [email protected] BroWn BAg AT SAmAriTAn PlACe
Pick up: 6/12; no pick up 6/19; pick up 6/26 Pack: 6/14; no pack on 6/21; pack on 6/28
Distribute: 6/8, 15, 29; taking 6/22 off (5 weeks in June)
floWerS on The SAnCTuAry AlTAr... are placed by the congregation in celebration of the ministry of Bill and Dianne Morgan.
The roSe on The SAnCTuAry leCTern iS PlACed in honor of... Violet Dumas Bond, daughter of Margaret and Christopher Bond, who was born on May 9th.
CongrATulATionS...• Mary Varnell & Selton Trent Little who were united in Holy Matrimony in the Sanctuary on June 6.
our SymPAThy...• To Allison Boone in the death of her father, William Boone, of Nashville, Tennessee.
in The hoSPiTAl as of 6/3/15...• St. Martins Charles Peay• Lakeshore Rehab Elna Shugerman• UAB Doris Wilson• Brookwood Valerie Boyd
DIRECTORY PHOTOS START In jUST 2 wEEkS!
Thanksgiving for the life ofJune Massey Henderson
May 30, 2015
www.canterburyumc.org/directory2015
Sunday, june 7AA Sunday Morning Group, M208 8:00 a.m.
New Traditions, Chapel, Rev. Julie Holly 8:15 a.m.
Transportation from Brookdale Place 9:00 a.m.
Adult Sunday School, Various Locations 9:15 a.m.
Children & Youth Sunday School, Various Locations 9:15 a.m.
Traditional Worship, All Together Worship
Dr. Bill Morgan, Sanctuary 10:30 a.m.
The WAY, Rev. Drew Clayton, Chapel 5:00 p.m.
Youth: MYF, Various Locations 5:00 p.m.
Monday, june 8Carpenter’s Hands (M-Th),
Meet lower level parking deck, Offsite 8:15 a.m.
VBS, Lower Division, Various Locations (M-F) 9 a.m. -noon
Congregational Care Meeting, A122 9:30 a.m.
AA Women’s Acceptance, M142 (M, W & F) 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, june 9Men’s Bible Study, A123 6:30 a.m
Canterbury Fitness (T, Th, F), M129 8:30 a.m.
Stephen Ministry Training, M200 6:00 p.m.
wednesday, june 10Brown Bag Project, CLOSED
Youth: Summer Wednesday Nights, Various Locations 5:00 p.m.
Praise Team Rehearsal, Canterbury Center 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, june 11Youth: Ultimate Thursdays 10:30 a.m.
UMW: Outreach Supper Circle, M226 6:00 p.m.
Friday, june 12Church Offices Close at Noon
Brown Bag Project, CLOSED
Saturday, june 13AA Saturday Morning Group, M204 8:00 a.m.
Al-Anon Saturday Morning Meeting, M209 8:00 a.m.
THIS wEEk AT CAnTERBURY
His Encouraging wordFor because of our faith, he has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently
and joyfully look forward to actually becoming all that God has in mind for us to be. – Romans 5:2
SUPPLIES nEEDED — The children’s department is collecting shoe box tops, clear 2 liter bottles, empty water bottles, and paper towel rolls for VBS. VBS is
June 8th -12th. There is a collection box by the round desk and by the Children’s Ministries offices. Thank you! Clayton Walton, [email protected].
CAnTERBURY DAY SCHOOL OPEnIngS FOR FALL 2015
Young Toddlers (T/Th) — Your child must be 6-12 months by September 1, 2015. 3’s (M/T/Th) — Your child must be 3 years old by September 1, 2015. 5k (M-F) — Your child must by 5 years old by September 1, 2015.
Please call Linda Wingo (874-1541) for more information.
VBS
