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Below is the current edition of the Gathering & Scattering newsletter. If you have any questions about anything found in this newsletter, please visit our website or contact the church office by calling (225) 344-0343. We hope to see you in worship this Sunday! Not all events happening at the church are able to be highlighted in our newsletter.
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THIS SUNDAY @ UUMC:
Please read the entire newsletter for more details on the items listed below, as well as for other details of events and news from the church. Not all events happening at the church are listed below.
SUNDAY, February 22 - First Sunday in Lent
8:30 a.m. Worship Service
9:00 a.m. Children's Choir Rehearsal
9:30 a.m. Fellowship time in the Fellowship Hall
9:45 a.m. Sunday School for all ages
11:00 a.m. Worship Service
12:00 p.m. Fellowship time in the Fellowship Hall
4:00 p.m. Chapel (Youth) Choir Rehearsal
4:30 p.m. Disciple 4 Bible Study
5:00 p.m. Youth Dinner
5:30 p.m. Youth Group
This week's scriptures:
This Sunday's Sermon:
Rev. Larry Miller - Repent and Be Redeemed
This Sunday's Choral & Special Music:
8:30 AM - The Agape Ringers
11:00 AM - The Agape Ringers, The Chancel Choir
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UUMC Lenten Challenge: #feedjustone Campaign  Every day, 125,000 people in our community* do not know where they will find their next meal. Mike Manning, CEO of the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, told our Church it will take our Food Bank 12,000,000 more meals each year to ensure every adult and child in our community goes to bed without hunger. Hunger can feel like an insurmountable challenge. Millions of meals can seem out of reach and discouraging. But- we are calling our church community to action this Lent and asking you: if you can't feed millions, then #feedjustone. The Idea. During Lent, every time you go to the grocery store, buy ONE food item to be donated to the hungry in our community.. Whether you are shopping for the week for your family or running into the store for milk for yourself, each time include one food item for your community. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said "you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." Trip by trip and item by item, you can feed one, then ten, then one hundred, and TOGETHER, you will see how our church community can help feed millions. Take up this challenge during this Lenten Season. Join us in the #feedjustone campaign by picking up a reusable shopping bag, filling it- one item at a time- and bringing it to UUMC each Sunday during Lent. All donations will be given to Hope Ministries.
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Helpful links: http://www.brfoodbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/GEN-LIST-2.pdf *the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank's 11-parish service area |
LENT WORSHIP SERVICES: Wednesdays - 12:15 - 12:45 PM
Please mark you calendar for 12:15 - 12:45 p.m. each of the 7 Wednesdays of Lent for a special time of worship in the sanctuary of UUMC. We began with Ash Wednesday yesterday and we'll conclude with The Stations of the Cross worship service on April 1 of Holy Week. Each week promises to be a brief but powerful worship service to draw us closer to God during this season of Lent. We've scheduled the services from 12:15 - 12:45 p.m. so you can hopefully have time to drive from and back to work each Wednesday during Lent. Some may even choose to fast at noon each Wednesday of Lent as another spiritual means of grace.
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Support our Youth! Volunteers Needed to Provide Youth Dinners on Sunday Evenings.
Every Sunday from 5:30-6:00 PM, after choir practice and before youth group, our youth gather for a meal, fellowship, fun, and spiritual growth. Our youth leaders need your help to provide these meals! Our youth are easy to please. They love Roly Poly platters, Cane's chicken fingers, pizza, sandwich trays, a simple home-cooked foods, or anything that will feed roughly 15 youth. Please consider signing up by clicking the link below to provide a simple meal one Sunday this spring.
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Love Offering Being Received for Mr. George Laphand
Our church custodian for the last 43 years,
Mr. George Laphand, will have his last day of work at our church on March 27.
If you would like to give a love offering to thank Mr. George for his lifetime of service to our church, please make your check to UUMC and in the memo section of your check please note: "love offering for Mr. George". We will present him with one "love offering" check, as well as his final paycheck, on March 27.
Also, if you would like to write a thank you card or note to him, you can put that in an envelope marked "Mr. George", and get it to the office before March 27. We will present these letters and cards at the same time we present him with his love offering.
Mr. George started at UUMC in 1972 during the Rev. Dr. Lamar Smith's tenure, and he has outlasted numerous pastors and office staff during those 43 years. After March 27 the church will utilize a cleaning service to handle the duties Mr. George took
care of on a daily basis.
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HOLY GRILL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
 Monday, March 2 - Friday, March 6Volunteers from our church are serving lunch the first week of March at the Interfaith Federation Holy Grill at the BREC Cadillac Street Park (6000 Cadillac Street in the Zion City neighborhood off Plank Road north of Airline Highway). Six servers are needed each day from 11:45AM-1:00PM. As a group we can carpool from the church, leaving about 11:15AM. To volunteer to feed the hungry in our city please sign up in the Fellowship Hall on Sunday, or call the church office at 225-344-0343. This is an ongoing mission that University UMC began to participate in many years ago under the leadership of the late Elmo Zufall. Thank you for helping us continue this mission. |
JOIN US FOR A NEW
LENT PRAYER GROUP
If these questions and comments seem familiar, you might want to join us for a new Centering Prayer Group during Lent. We will meet in the UUMC Sanctuary weekly beginning on Ash Wednesday, February 18th and continue through the season until Easter. Gather from 11:15 AM until 11:30 AM when we will promptly begin with some scripture readings, instruction, and approximately twenty minutes of silence. We will conclude by Noon. You are invited to stay for the Lenten Worship Service from 12:15 PM until 12:45 PM each Wednesday. Please come as you are! In her book, Paths to Prayer, Patricia Brown writes this about the practice of Centering Prayer: "To listen for God, we become quiet and still. Centering prayer brings the distracted mind to stillness, silence, and concentration. In this quiet, selfless concentration, we follow the words of the psalmist, 'Be still and know that I am God'." The sanctuary at University UMC will be open each Wednesday during Lent for prayer, quiet and worship from 7am until 5pm. Come and be!
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LSU STUDENTS: A new small group gathering on Mondays at 8pm during Lent @ The Wesley
 "Certain practices can help us attend to the work of grace in our lives..." Marjorie Thompson Spiritual Disciplines are "means by which we place ourselves where (God) can bless us." Richard Foster We will gather as a small group for the season of Lent to talk about and experience different practices that can be seen as "windows of grace" or spiritual disciplines. We'll lean on Marjorie Thompson's classic book, Soul Feast, and our own experiences of what we do to draw near to God. Thompson writes, "If we wish to see, name, and love Christ... we will eventually need some kind of intentional practice of spiritual discipline."
This small group will be facilitated by Lisa Frost and Jason Grubbs and meet in the library at the LSU Wesley Foundation on 333 East Chimes Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802 - (225) 344-7012.
February 24: Fasting- what might we let go of - even for a small time- that will let us connect more with the Spirit? This isn't all about food!
March 2: Chewing on the Word: Reading Scripture for formation- How is God speaking to me today through the reading?
March 9: Prayer (with words): How do we pray? For ourselves and others? What ways of prayer might be the most meaningful for me now? Intercessory prayer, praying with beads, praying the Psalms
March 16: Service: In the spirit of radical hospitality, how do we see serving others as a spiritual discipline? Let's take some action!
March 23: Prayer (in quiet): How do we pray without words? Meditation and Centering Prayer will be some of the ways we will explore.
March 30: Rest and margins: How might we take care of ourselves as a spiritual discipline? What makes us tired? How can we avoid "hurry sickness"? What's the balance with rest and serving others
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Kids Hope News 
Important Upcoming Dates:
Feb. 16th-20th - Mardi Gras Holiday - No Volunteering
Friday, March 13th - Conference Day at UT - No Volunteering
Wednesday, March 18th - Phase I Leap Testing at UT - No Volunteering
April 2nd - 10th - Spring Break at UT - No Volunteering
April 13th-17th - Leap Testing at UT - No Volunteering
April 27th- May 1st - Last Week of Volunteering at UT
Director, Kids Hope of UUMC
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UNIVERSITY UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
3350 Dalrymple Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
PHONE: 225.344.0343
FAX: 225.344.0530
Senior Pastor: Associate Minister: Minister of Congregational Care:
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UUMC MEETING SCHEDULE for 2015
FEBRUARY
Finance Committee: 23rd @ 6PM in the Chapel
Church Council: 23rd @ 7PM in the Chapel
APRIL
Executive Committee: 13th @ Noon
Finance Committee: 27th @ 6PM
MAY
Trustees: 11th @ 6PM
Church Council: 11th @ 7PM
JUNE
Executive Committee: 15th @ Noon
Finance Committee: 29th @ 6PM
AUGUST
Executive Committee: 10th @ Noon
Trustees: 17th @ 6PM
Finance Committee: 24th @ 6PM
Church Council: 24th @ 7PM
SEPTEMBER
Nominations Committee: 14th @ 6PM
Preschool / After School Board: 21st @ 6PM
Nominations Committee: 28th @ 6PM
OCTOBER
Staff Parish Relations: 5th @ 6PM
Executive Committee: 12th @ Noon
Finance Committee: 12th @ 6PM
Church Council: 26th @ 7PM
NOVEMBER
Trustees: 16th @ 6PM
DECEMBER
Finance Committee: 7th @ 6PM
Executive Committee: 14th @ Noon
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UUMC Seeks Full Time
Youth Director
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ANNOUNCEMENTS, NEEDS & OPPORTUNITIES:
UNITED METHODIST WOMEN:
The Susanna Wesley Circle will meet on Thursday, February 19 at 7:00 at the home of JoAnn Doolos at 5535 Riverbend Blvd. Guests are welcome! For more information please contact Susan Pourciau or contact the church office.
METHODIST COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE If you know of a college student who is planning on attending Centenary College or Dillard University, please click here for an application form for them to fill out to apply for The Daughenbaugh Matheny Scholarship.
Lost and Found:
This week we found a silver necklace in the hallway of the Fellowship Hall Building. Please call the office if this belonds to you so you can describe it and claim it. Also, we have many other items in our lost and found such as glasses, keys, etc. If you are missing something please stop by the office one day to take a look and find your lost items!
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ADULT SUNDAY EDUCATION CLASSES FOR SUNDAY, February 22th:
[ If your Sunday School Class would like their weekly study listed below, please email Kelly Surace at
[email protected] or call 344-0343 each Monday to be included in that weeks G&S listing ] To find out more information about the Sunday School classes below, please visit our website. - Contemporary Christian Concerns (CCC) - Common Core. Barry Erwin, CEO of the Council for a Better Louisiana, Presenter. Please note that everyone is invited to hear this outstanding speaker and learn more about this definitely "hot" topic. Because of renovations to the CCC Classroom, the Joy Class has agreed to meet with the CCC class and to allow use of their classroom - 1st floor of the Trice Building, "Joy Class" is on both doors entering the classroom.
- Foundations Class - We continue our study The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands by Lysa TerKeurst. To read this weeks chapters, please click here. This class is largely made up of married couples and meets upstairs in the Trice Building. Visitors are always welcome!
- Genesis Class - Please join us in the Senior Pastor's Office for discussion!
- JOY Class - We will be combining with the CCC class for this Sunday. Barry Erwin, CEO of the Council for a Better Louisiana, will be giving a presentation on Common Core.
- Inter-Generational Class - All are invited to a special Lenten Study in the library on Sunday mornings with the Intergenerational Bible Study group. We will read and discuss "Final Words from the Cross" with a book by Adam Hamilton. There are books available for $10 or you can order your own or download on an electronic reader. These are the statements we have from Jesus that we will live with over the Lenten season:
Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.
Today you will be with me in paradise.
Behold your son...Behold your mother.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me.
I thirst.
Into your hands I commit my Spirit. - New Parent's Class - This class is newly formed of parents, single or couples, with young children and are meeting in room 208 in upstairs Trice. Rev. Larry Miller is facilitating and the current topic is "Favorite Bible Passages" Volume 1 from Cokesbury.
- Open Door Class - We begin our Lenten study, "The Path to the Cross", By Ray Vander Laan. We discover how passionate faith communities prepared the way for Jesus and are challenged to live as they did. Filmed on location in The Holy Land. Guests are always welcome!
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WITHIN THE CHURCH FAMILY...
JOYS: - Happy Birthday to Jo Salter, Douglas Deason, and Gladys Brown.
CONCERNS: - Condolences to Ramona Carpenter and family on the passing of her brother-in-law, Steven Adams.
- Condolences to Michael Wells and family on the passing of his aunt, Mamie Wells.
PLEASE REMEMBER IN PRAYER:
the family of Steven Adams, Kathleen Arceneaux, John Baker, Sue Bello, Jerry Burtner, Charlotte Carrier, Irma Cassel, Fred Churchman, Carol Civils, Jim Cole, Doris Dobson, Sue Ducote, Peyton Feigley, Sandy Godail, Martha Jane Grammer, Rosemarie Hall, Cathy Hoffman, Bishop William Hutchinson, Jack & Henrietta Jones, Carol Kelly, Dana Kinard, Penny LeSage, Cindy Mann, Lynda Perry, Louise Prescott, Pat Rives, Barbara Robinson, Debbie Roux, Bob and Alta Sanders, Tom Stogner, Marvin Stuckey, Art Swanson, Inez Townsend, Nick Trichel, Karen and Paul Unger, Phil Woodland, Claudette Whisnant, the family of Mamie Wells
*If you have a Joy, Concern, or a name for the prayer list that you would like mentioned here, please email [email protected] or call her in the church office at 225-344-0343. Deadline for submitting information to the newsletter is every Monday at noon for information to be included in that weeks newsletter. We also celebrate birthdays of our members who have reached the age of 80+, if you fit this category but we missed your birthday, please call us so we can add your birthday to our database.*
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Shirley Flake,
