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Mission
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2017 Vision
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We are an open community of Christians
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INVITE To cultivate a culture of invitation to Christian community |
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GROW
To commit to an ever-deepening relationship with God |
and serve our neighbors.
Luke 10:27 |
TRANSFORM
To form life-changing relationships while serving others
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Justin Roberts in Concert
May 28, 2017
Sponsors needed
Volunteers Needed
Join us on Memorial Day weekend for a family event you won't want to miss. Back by Popular Demand,
Justin Roberts and the Not Ready for Naptime Players
will rock our community park. Save your spot in front of the stage and join in the pre-show activities from 3-4. T
he concert starts at 4
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Sponsorship Opportunities are available for the Justin Roberts Concert. To become an individual or business sponsor, contact Dawn.
Want to serve the community and welcome some families to our wonderful church? Save the date to volunteer at this great event.
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Your Personal God-Centered Wellbeing
May 7
John 10:1-10
Hearing Jesus' Voice
May 14
Three Mother's Day Stories
Beth Donahey: Spirituality of a Young Mother
Jeff Corcoran: Tribute to a Grandmother
Susan Bourquard: The Mother Heart of God
May 21
May Festival
The Chancel Choir, Soloists & Instrumentalists
8:30 & 11 AM
May 28
John 17:1-11
Pray for Us, Jesus
Veterans Group Memorial Presentation
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Children & Youth Ministries {grow}
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Children's Ministry
SUNDAY SCHOOL meets from 9:45 - 10:45 Sunday mornings September - May
Kids ages 4 - 6th grade are welcome to join us in the upper education wing!
Project Sunday School
meets from
9:45 - 10:45 Sunday mornings
! Kids ages 4 - 6th grade are
 welcome to join us in the upper education wing. Project Sunday School
includes both traditional curriculum and new projects for the kids to develop and share with the congregation.
May 7: The Stories of the Lost
May 14: The Forgiving Father
May 21: Sundae School Celebration! Our last Sunday school until fall!
T.M.I. (Tween Ministry Incorporated)
T.M.I. is a ministry for kids in grades 4-6.
Together we share God's word,
complete mission activities and have fellowship together.
May 13:
Saturday Night Soiree
5 - 9:30 p.m.
Cookout, Capture the Flag and End of the year Celebration!
May 28: Volunteer at the Justin Roberts Concert!
Volunteers needed Sunday from about 2:30 - 5:30
Family.Faith.Fun Children's Ministry
Maple Grove Member Beth Wiley has created a fellowship
and service group for younger elementary kids at Maple Grove. This ministry is geared toward kids and their parents and will include fellowship and service opportunities. For Grades K-3. Please contact Beth Wiley at 614-256-8461 if you are interested in participating.
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Youth Sunday School
meets from 9:45 to 10:45 in room 125.
Youth Group will be meet for our final school year Youth Group on Sunday, May 21 from 4:00 to 5:30. Come join us to say goodbye to our seniors and celebrate a year together.
Please help with Distribution and Delivery for Youth Flower Sale! The truck arrives at Maple Grove with our flower order on
Friday, May 12th around 3:30ish and we need help unloading it. On
Saturday, May 13th, between
9 and noon, we need help handing out orders and making deliveries, and on
Sunday, May 14th, following each worship service we also distribute flowers on the patio (weather permitting).
Maple Grove Youth have a Facebook group - join so you can see what is happening!
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Please Sign Up to support the Maple Grove 
Youth Summer Mission Trip through the Kroger Community Rewards Program
Each year, Kroger requires a renewal sign up to your designated beneficiary organization. Once you signup, every Kroger purchase can help fund the Maple Grove youth mission work. Whether you are renewing or signing up for the first time, please go to
www.kroger.com and create, or sign in, to your account. Go to your account settings select Community Rewards to designated Maple Grove Youth from the organization search list and verify that it is 7 W. Henderson Rd. and then SAVE the change. Then Maple Group Youth will be listed as the recipient at the bottom of your Kroger receipt. Thank you for supporting our youth! Please contact Cathy Davis 614.262.1163 if you have questions or need help signing
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Spiritual Formation & Wellbeing {grow}
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Spiritual Formation
Weekday Opportunities
Tuesday Meditation at 7
- This hour gathering begins with prayer and a brief scripture or devotional reading, followed by 15 minutes of meditation and then time for reflecting on and sharing your experience. Meets in the Youth Room.
Friday Men's Breakfast Bunch -
Meets most Friday mornings at Bob Evans. This group of independent thinkers share a variety of ideas about religious beliefs and practices during their time together. For further information contact Bill Tenney at 614-
348-8152.
Pub Theology
- Meets every third Thursday at 7:00 pm at the Table Top Game Cafe (on High street across from Maple Grove). Beer, Conversation and God. An informal, low-key way to think and engage others about life and faith.
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God-Centered Wellbeing @ the Heart of Maple Grove
Wellbeing Connection: Your Wellbeing Matters!
New Initiatives, Human Connection Groups, Wellness Tips
God-Centered Wellbeing Sermon Series
Pastor Glenn is preaching on God-Centered Personal Wellbeing during the month of May. We will be focusing on activities happening in our church and in our community that support God-Centered Personal Wellbeing during May and June. Starting in July, Pastor Glenn will be preaching on God-Centered Calling Wellbeing. Watch for more details and activities to support our personal wellbeing this spring! Click here and here for Model for Healthy Living Assessment tools.
Click here to see what is happening with all of the God-Centered Wellbeing Groups at Maple Grove!
We all need someone to help us find peace and hope! Get connected with one of our Human Connection Groups.
The groups currently in formation are:
You are invited to join any of these groups. Don't see what you are looking for? Suggest a new Human Connection Group! If you would like more information on a group contact the group facilitator or
Marialice Bennett
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Cancer Care Ministry Team
The Cancer Care ministry team offers resources, support and event information for us each month.
Click here for this month's recommendations.
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Save the Date - Race for the Cure! 
May 20
Members of the Cancer Care Ministry team and other Maple Grove members will be walking or running in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. The Race will be held in downtown Columbus on
Saturday, May 20. If you are interested in joining us that morning or would like more information, please contact
Patti Rottenbiller 846-3812. To register,
visit the Race website.
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Serving Our Neighbors {transform}
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CRC UPDATES
Monthly Dinner 
The CRC Dinner will be Thursday, May 4, at 5:30 PM. Opportunities to provide food or volunteer to serve/interact with the community are available. Go to Perfect Potluck Coordinator Last Name: Norcross Password: MG CRC Contact Melessa Norcross at 614.725.8501 if you have questions.
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March for Freedom 
Sunday, May 7 @ 2 PM
Meet at Maple Grove @ 1 PM to car pool
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Maple Grove Ministry to Stop Human Trafficking
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March for Freedom
Columbus is hosting a March on Sunday, May 7 @ 2 PM. The intent behind March for Freedom - Columbus is to raise awareness of the human rights violations of sex and labor trafficking and human trafficking. We will progress from Columbus City Hall, 90 West Broad St. to the Ohio Statehouse where we will hear several heart stirring messages and take a pledge to personally fight human trafficking. Maple Grove Human Trafficking Ministry will meet at the church that afternoon at 1:00 PM to carpool together. Registration is $25 (including a a new 2017 March For Freedom t-shirt) per person ($10 for children 10 and under). Please visit
www.marchforfreedomcolumbus.org
to register. All funds received will be used for anti-human trafficking causes. For additional information or please email
or call
Sue Pohler at
614-579-8970.
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Abused Children Outreach Ministry Team's Toy & Book Drive 
Month of May
Show a child you care--d
onate a new stuffed animal and/or book to the
Abused Children Outreach Ministry team's
TOY & BOOK DRIVE.
The donations benefit children at
The Center for Family Safety and Healing.
Your gift provides comfort to a child at a time of great stress.
Donations will be received the month of May.
Bring donations to the church office or the lobby on Sunday. Stuffed animals must be new, with tags attached, and no longer than 12 inches.
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Adult Mission Trip 
Planning is underway for this summer's adult mission trip and we would love to have you join us! Several locations are being considered, including the areas in WV that were hit by last summer's disastrous flooding, and economic recovery efforts in Detroit. The trip is being planned for late July. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to serve our neighbors. No experience or specific skills are required. More details will be in the bulletin and future Maple Leaf newsletters. If you are interested in joining the mission team or would like more information, please contact
Patti Rottenbiller
Dan McDowell,
or John and Kay Hoppers
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Help the Homeless While Spring Cleaning
We are blessed in Central Ohio to have a furniture bank that helps furnish the homes and apartment of those in need.
Central Ohio Furniture Bank assists Veterans, human trafficking survivors, refugees and many more. As you are spring cleaning, please consider the Furniture Bank for your unwanted furniture and household items. You may even call to arrange pick-up. More information
here
or call 614.272.9544.
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Ronald McDonald House Volunteers Needed
The Ronald McDonald House is expanding to Riverside Methodist Hospital. They are in the final stages of completion of a RMH room for parents and families of babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Riverside Hospital.
Volunteers are needed to staff the room, which opens June 2017.
This mostly involves making sure the snacks are out, the room is reasonably clean and questions are answered for the parents with kids in the NICU.
Shifts are 9 to 1, 1 to 5, or 5 to 9 daily.
The commitment is minimal--one shift every two weeks.
Parking is paid and a meal coupon is provided.
Contact Darla Stover 614.227.6033 for more information.
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Youth Flower Pick Up
Saturday, May 13,
9 AM - Noon
Sunday, May 14, following each service
Room 8
Thank you Maple Grove for ordering your garden flowers from the Youth!
They will be ready for pick up on Saturday, May 13th, between 9 and noon in Room 8, and on Sunday, May 14th, following each worship service. If you ordered over $50 and requested delivery, delivery will be made Saturday morning May 13th.
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Calling all green thumbs or gardeners-in-training!
God's Gardeners have the following on the calendar:
May 13, 9 AM - Noon Planting Day
May 20, 9 AM - Noon Planting Day (if rained out May 13)
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Wednesday, May 17 @ 7 PM
Sanctuary
Call to Action Columbus and Maple Grove UMC present this event with Shane Claiborne
, Christian activist, social activist, author, founder of the Simple Way
, and involved in New Monasticism via Skype.
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Clear the Clutter, Find Peace and Freedom: A feng shui presentation
Wednesday, May 24 from 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Parlor
Laura Staley, a feng shui consultant, founder of Cherish Your World and author of Let Go Courageously and Live with Love: Transform Your Life with Feng Shui, will present this workshop. Come learn about the four types of physical clutter and their relationship to the quality of your life. Gain clear insights and action steps you can take to clear away what you no longer need, use, and love to create a life filled with peace and freedom. Registration is $10.00 in advance and at the door. Advance registration will be helpful in our planning |
SAVE THE DATE! 
Summer Vocal Recital
Connor Notestine, Baritone
Saturday, June 17 @ 3 PM
Sanctuary
Hello Maple Grove! My name is Connor Notestine, a member of this church family and singer in our Chancel Choir. I am currently pursuing my degree in Music Education at Otterbein University. I have been fortunate to see how music has moved and changed my soul. As such, my life's goal is to instill that love of music in students so that they can experience the same sorts of life changing moments as I have.
One such life changing experience will take place this December as the Otterbein University Concert Choir, of which I am a member, will travel to Germany as part of an American Celebration of Music Performing Tour. Over the course of the tour, the choir will visit and perform in cities such as Frankfurt, Bonn, Köln, Leipzig, and Berlin. In addition, we will be performing in some of Europe's oldest and historic churches and cathedrals as well as visiting the homes of the world's most famous composers, such as Bach and Beethoven. Sharing music with audiences is itself a surreal experience. Even more, using music as a universal language and performing in world famous venues is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity.
A trip such as this, however, does not come without costs. As such, I am holding a benefit vocal recital on Saturday, June 17, at 3:00 PM in the Sanctuary as a way to help raise funds for this monumental venture. Greg White will be featured on piano and music will include the work of Handel, Scarlatti, Copland, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, as well as German and Sacred selections. A free will offering will be taken during a short intermission and a reception will follow the performance in the Parlor. My church family at Maple Grove has meant so much to me, and I would love to have you come to the performance. Thank you!
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Vacation Bible School 
July 16 - 20
6 - 8 PM
SUMMER IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER
AND SO IS VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL!
Your kids are invited to experience the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes
of a unique culture at Passport to Peru VBS, where kids discover how
much God loves the world.
Passport to Peru
is a whole new environment
filled with incredible Bible-learning adventures, cultural experiences,
team-building games, unique treats, and cool faith-building songs
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all amazing
standout activities that help faith grow in real life. At Passport to Peru, we will help kids discover how to see evidence of God in everyday life, something we call God Sightings. Get ready to hear
that
phrase a lot! So mark these dates on your calendar: Sunday - Thursday, July 16-20 The fun starts at 6 PM
and will end at
8 PM. VBS is for kids age 4 THROUGH 6TH GRADE! Tweens and Teens entering 7th grade and up: We need you to volunteer!
Use this link to register your child or to volunteer for the best week of the summer!
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Maple Grove Event Photos!
Bookmark this link! Maple Grove has a Shutterfly Share site for you to view photos of recent and past events. Newly uploaded: Over 80 Luncheon, Bible Presentations and Pastor Appreciation Sunday!
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Ushers Appreciated
Ushers Needed
Are you willing to serve on an Usher Team once a month? Are you willing to be an occasional usher substitute? Each Sunday 6 to 8 people serve as ushers at each service. Ushers are very helpful to our congregation and an integral part of our worship service! Ushers arrive early and stand ready to distribute bulletins, they also receive the offering, serve communion and help congregants with other worship needs. Please contact Usher team leader Rob Schmidley i
f you have questions or contact Cathy Davis
to sign up for this team. Let us know which service, 8:30 or 11:00, you wish to usher. Thank you!
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Memorial Day 2017 Veterans Photos Requested
In preparation for a special Memorial Day Service on
Sunday May 28
, Bill Tenney and the Maple Grove Veterans Group are encouraging you to provide pictures of your relatives who were in the military and have passed on. The group is going to put copies of the photos on the bulletin board the way we did for Veterans' Day. You can give your photographs to Bill Tenney or leave them in the church office to his attention. If you have already given a photo to Bill for last year's Memorial Day, he still has those and will be posting them. We are planning a very special service on the 28th and you will want to be there. Please invite friends and family to "come and see" our Memorial Day Service.
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Summer Worship Hours
June - August
8:30 & 10 AM
Summer Worship hours begin
Sunday June 4
and continue through
Sunday August 27
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Do you have a daughter or son completing High School or graduating from College?
Please contact Cathy
or call the office at 614.262.1163 to let us know so that we may share the news with our congregation.
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Recently Hospitalized
Larry Loughead, Mike Matthaes, Connor Notestine, Gladys Renicker, Dave Widener
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