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Upcoming
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August 7th -
Blessing of the Backpacks
August 14th
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Camp Sunday
August 20th -
Habitat for Humanity
Coming in September:
September 24th
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Western Dinner & Dance Fundraiser
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Ministry Links
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Birthdays
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Tom Spencer
August 1
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Nathan de los Reyes
August 4
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Boyd Veenstra
August 4
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Jeff Bennett
August 5
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Andrew Rumsey
August 5
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Ryan Keefer
August 7
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James Wells
August 7
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Kelly Flinn Herbert
August 10
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Erica Hardbarger
August 12
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Erica Herme
August 12
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Loreta Joy Metzger
August 15
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Jaclyn Moore
August 26
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David Heetland
August 28
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Leslie Kreuzberger
August 31
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Letter From the Pastor
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"You will know them by their fruit" is written in Matthew 7:20....
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All are invited to attend this exciting new opportunity! Family Fun Night
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Western Dinner & Dance Fundraiser
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 Find out what's happening in
Maturing Ministries,
COSROW, and
Hospitality Committee.
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Circle of Faith Build, Bridges to Home, Family Promise...
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New Small World Preschool Director!
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Part 6: 50 Ways to Welcome New People
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(Next 39-46)
From the Lewis Center for Church Leadership. Tips for welcoming new people to church.
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Letter from Pastor Melissa
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Dear Beloved Community,
"You will know them by their fruit" is written in Matthew 7:20. This is the fruit that comes from practicing our faith. As we are rooted in Christ and grow in Christ the evidence of our rootedness in Christ is evident in our lives. As part of the Monday morning Bible Study discussion on being a Methodist, we discovered in J. Ellswoth Kalas' book Being a United Methodist, ". . . that when Wesley describes the true Methodist, he spends some ninety percent of his description discussing conduct rather than doctrine." This does not mean doctrine or what we believe is unimportant because it is important and we do have a standard and structure of what we believe you can read that in Scripture, our Book of Discipline, our Articles of Religion and our Creeds. These all are important to what we believe about God, about humanity and about living a life as a follower of Christ. Yet, Wesley knew living our beliefs made our faith tangible and visible. Thus making the God we serve visible and tangible to the world.
Santa Clarita United Methodist Church lives out our faith. Celebrating the 50 plus volunteers who made VBS a huge success. We opened our sanctuary to those in need during the Sand Fire providing food and drinks to Red Cross for the victims and first responders. We made Blessing Bags for people to carry in their cars and pass out to those in need. We will be building with Habitat for Humanity on Saturday, Aug. 20. We continue serving meals at Bridge to Home and providing a place for families who are homeless through Family Promise. Living our faith is part of what we do even in summer.
It is hard to believe that summer is coming to a close and we will turn our eyes to the return of school and fall schedules. I want to invite you to our annual Blessing of the Backpacks on Sunday, August 7 at both 9am and 11am services. In addition to the return of school, we are so excited to welcome Michelle Moyer on staff as our new director of Small World Preschool. She has already started to get to know our current staff and the Small World staff, parents and looking forward to welcoming children in the Fall. Please read her bio and make sure to welcome her when you are on the church campus.
Blessings as we work together to live out our faith,
Pastor Melissa
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Family Fun Night!
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All are invited to attend this exciting new opportunity! Family Fun Night is a night we come together as families for a meal and for growing in our faith. First, when we say "family" we mean anyone; you could be a family of one, a family of four and/or a family of many. Family for us means all the members of the family of God. Each Sunday night starting on August 28th at 5pm, we will gather for a meal then after dinner we will break up into groups for study. There will be a men's group, a women's group, a youth group and a children's group. This will give us all time to be together for a meal and to then be in a study specific to each interest and need. We are all busy and don't need another night out, but this way we have one night out to grow in God's grace and to grow as a family. Plan on being part of the fun on Aug. 28
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Save the Date!
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Emergency Preparedness - Letter from the Trustees
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Within the Trustees group we have a need to improve the Churches situation not just fix building issues as they crop up. Clearly we are not a huge Church and are limited to a large extent by our funding.
Some months ago we realized that we were not adequately prepared for disaster situations - we did not even have an adequate number of flashlights, little water and virtually no food! We realized that the USGS prediction of an 8.3 major quake could mean shaking 50 TIMES stronger than the Northridge quake!
We set out to develop a plan that would fix our deficiencies and take us forward to protect our members, visitors and children. We are starting to receive our emergency supplies and our plan goes much further. We want to develop an Emergency Response Team and start a training plan to ensure we have members proficient in CPR and use of Automatic Defibrillators.
We have also worked with the Red Cross and we are now a designated Evacuation facility for them!
However in true Emergency Preparation we need to finalize a plan to be self sufficient for 72 hours to ensure we are ready!
We will present to the Church members in both services our plan details in the near future.
We want to involve as many members as possible. Please come to one of our services on that day and see how you can help.
Keith Paul - Board of Trustees.
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What's Happening
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 The
Maturing Ministry (M&M's) meet the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month.
M & M's will be meeting on August 12th to celebrate August birthdays!
M& M's will next meet on August 26th to pray for all the school kids and teachers and be thankful we are out of school!!!
Hospitality
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The
Joyful Bible Study
continues the study of Namesake: When God Rewrites your Story. We will be looking for a new book to start for September. A decision we make by consensus. All our welcome.
COSROW
This year we will have monthly craft workshops to make crafts for the November Boutique, Bake and Book sale.
Come to the workshops, and/or sign up to make projects at home. For ages youth - adult.
Come join in the fun! And help COSROW defray the cost of retreats and more.
Contact: Donna Everhart
Saturday Morning:
August 20 from 9 - noon
Jewelry making earrings & bracelets and more. Materials and instructions will be provided - If you have some of your own that you wish to donate or tools (needle nose plyers) to loan bring them too!
Contact: Donna Everhart donnaeverhart@roadrunner.com
Sign up for the Retreat in September on the church patio after church. Join our crafting group. We will sponsor
an event to learn all the facts of CANCER On October 22, in the Fireside Room - Keep the date open!
COSROW
will sponsor a fundraiser at the Habit on Monday, August 29th from 4-10pm. Join us and enjoy delicious charburgers, sandwiches, salads, shakes and fries. We will be at 2 locations in this valley on the same date. Pick the one closest to you! Either 28251 McBean Parkway (Grannery Square) and 28251 Newhall Ranch Road (by Smart & Final). Proceeds will go towards the Domestic Violence Center of Santa Clarita and Scholarships for women of the church to attend our annual retreat.
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J.A.M. Club
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July saw an Awesome VBS week with 101 "surfers" (the children) and 50+ "lifeguards" (youth and adult helpers) all learning about God's amazing love. The music, crafts, science, games, stories and class times were all fun and up-lifting. And the food was great! Thank you to everyone who helped physically or contributed to make our week successful.
VBS Sunday also resulted in our largest attendance in JAM (Jesus And Me) time which is our Sunday morning program for preschool thru sixth grade. This is the answer to prayers. If your child is one of those attending JAM time, please prayerfully consider volunteering your time one week each month. You do not need to be in your child's room unless you want to. We need adult participation in all 3 grade levels. You"ll receive the lesson a week in advance and all the materials you need are ready for you on Sunday morning. We need our adult coverage to grow if we want our classes to grow!
And as a bonus, our VBS offering bought 13 nets for Imagine No Malaria!!
Please take a minute to welcome our new Small World Director, Michelle Moyer. She and her staff are preparing for an exciting new year at Small World with extended hours. If you have a preschooler or a friend or neighbor looking for a preschool, Small World is taking reservations. Call Michelle at (661)296-1155 for more information.
Our children are our church's future!
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Youth Ministries
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Final Beach Day!
Our final beach trip of the year is coming up quickly...and I want it to be super big and fun!
For our final trip (
Sunday, 8/7
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Actual location is TBD (possibly Carpinteria or Rincon Beach?), and the timing will be
9am - 8pm
. Cost is still going to be $5, and we will grill burgers and hot dogs for dinner while at the beach!
All youth that are planning on joining us for this final trip
WILL NEED TO MEET AT 9AM
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Signups are being taken now on the patio between services! Visit our youth table, email, or text me to get your youth signed up for this special final trip of the summer! :)
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Faith & Action |
Here is what Santa Clarita UMC is doing in our community...
Circle of Faith Build
August 20, 2016
9:00am - 2:00pm
Habitat SF/SCV Veteran Enriched Neighborhood® Build Site,
21550 Centre Pointe Parkway
, Santa Clarita, CA 91350
$40 Registration Fee
(Includes: Breakfast, Lunch & T-Shirt)
Spaces are limited, so sign up for this incredible day of giving back
to Veterans by contacting Pastor Melissa, 661-297-3783. Building Our Circle, Building Our Faith, Building the Homes of the Brave
The Santa Clarita Valley UM
churches will be working together to feed the homeless who come to the Bridges to Home for dinner. During the summer, the shelter is not open to spend the night but 25 people come to dinner. We will provide a main dish, salad, side dish, rolls and serve the meal the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 6:00. VUMC will provide meals the second and fourth Tuesdays and Friendly Valley will provide the sack lunches. We will also provide transport of the lunches from Friendly Valley to the shelter. This is a great way for high school students to earn community service hours or scouts to work on their badges. Please visit the Outreach table to see how you can help or contact Candy Holsenbeck at 661-733-5744.
Operation Gratitude is an outreach to our military serviceman that sends care packages. We have a group of women in this congregation who are meeting to crochet or knit scarves and hats, using a pattern provided by Operation Gratitude, to put in the care packages. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Kathy Gray at the church office, 661-297-3783.
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Welcome our New Director of Small World Preschool
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My name is Michelle Moyer and I am very happy to introduce myself as the new Director of Small World Pre-School. I come to this position with over 20 years of experience in early childhood education as both a pre-school teacher and pre-school director. While living in the West Los Angeles area I attended college and completed my degree in Child Development. I was employed for fourteen years at The First School, LLC in Santa Monica where I taught in the classroom and then was the Director for the last ten years while I was there.
When our daughter was ready for kindergarten, my husband and I decided to relocate to the Santa Clarita area. We both are from the Culver City/Mar Vista area and found the "small town" atmosphere appealing and knew it was the right place to raise our daughter. After we got settled, I taught preschool in Stevenson Ranch for six years. While wanting to enrich my early childhood education experience, a wonderful opportunity was presented to me at the Child and Family Center to teach at the therapeutic pre-school there called, Bright Beginnings. When that program ended, I was honored to be offered this position here at Small World and am very excited to be a part of the school's history. I eagerly anticipate the beginning of the school year and know it will be one of discovery, joy and learning.
In our free time, my family enjoys water sports and hiking together. Our two Labrador retrievers keep us busy at home walking and playing with them.
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Part 6: 50 Ways to Welcome New People
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Become more aware of visitors and their concerns.
47. Gather feedback on how visitors respond to your church through surveys, focus groups, or interviews.
48. Conduct a "welcome audit" annually
49. Provide training on welcoming at least once a year.
50. Send your welcome team to visit other churches and report back on how they experienced their reception.
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