The District Superintendent and members from each church will share dreams about Open Door Churches for the future!
Sunday's worship service
will premier
at 9:45 a.m. on June 28th, 2020 with announcements and music then the service will begin at 10 a.m.
This Sunday we are celebrating our community as Open Door Churches!
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Participate in a Sunday Service!
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Do you want to participate in an upcoming Sunday service by reading a verse, playing music, or offering a prayer?
We are looking for people throughout Open Door Churches to join in by recording a piece for our worship times together.
We can talk you through how to video yourself and upload it to our Dropbox folder.
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Last Chance to Say Goodbye to Pastors
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Video Goodbyes
This is the last call for videos to say goodbye to Pastors Dan, Sandy, and Wendy. If you would like to tape yourself saying goodbye to any of the pastors, please upload your video file to the appropriate link below. All the videos for each pastor will be compiled together and privately sent to them for their enjoyment. If you have any questions, please reply to this newsletter to reach the Sarah, the Communications Coordinator.
Due date has been extended to next Monday, July 29th.
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On Monday morning, Chuck and David traveled to the contractors office to inspect the solar panels and pay the $65,000 due upon their receipt. There are actually 600 panels (20 boxes each containing 30 panels).
We learned that the contractor has to apply for the construction permits one church at a time. The first approval came for the Trinity church so that is now where he would like to start. However, neither we or they are quite ready...we haven't finished the roof strengthening project at Trinity and they don't yet have the "racks" needed to support the panels. David expects both of these issues will be resolved shortly and that the permits for the other churches will be in soon.
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An Invitation for all to FUMC's Modern Christian Life: Getting Educated on Race and Racism
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For the next four Mondays at 7:00 p.m., we will continue a Zoom conversation about an issue that has plagued our country since its inception.
One of the first things we will do – rather than trying to “fix” the problem – is to educate ourselves. We’ll do this through the use of videos, readings, and talks from people who have immersed themselves in this issue.
Please let the Modern Christian Life host,
Cesie Delve-Scheuermann
,
know if you are interested in joining this discussion, and she will send you the information you need to join the Zoom meeting. The plan is to spend about an hour together on-line.
This a long-term venture. The current pandemic gives us an opportunity to take a deep dive into this topic. We’ll meet initially for a total of six weeks, take a break, and reconvene to educate ourselves some more.
A proposed schedule for next 5 weeks follows. We’d like to hear what you are interested in learning about too. Feel free to send us an email with your suggestions. See you on Monday!
- Week 3 – June 29: Essays by Kent Wilson. Kent is a resident of Salem, an African American, and a Christian., Through his thoughtful Facebook posts he has recently and graciously been educating white people about history we should know. We will send out his short essays beforehand so that you can read them too. Best of all, Kent will be joining us for the discussion.
- Week 4 and 5 – July 6 and 13: Our own Tom Scheuermann will address topics that are in the book he co-authored with Dr. Robert Carter, Confronting Racism. Specifically, he’ll be talking about “Race-Based Trauma and Related Legal and Health Issues in the U.S.”
- Week 6 – July 20: We’ll watch Trevor Noah’s commentary on the broken “social contract” with African Americans. We’ll discuss the implications for this time and place.
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Open Door Churches Directory
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This is an on-going project and we will let you know when it is ready to share, but to complete it we need you!!
Send us your pics as soon as possible!!
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It has been quite a week. So much to process, to pray for, and to do. Many of our families have young children, and our children all have different levels of exposure to current realities of racism and anti-racist work being done in the world right now. Throughout our time together, I will be introducing the subject, and giving families the opportunity and resources to go deeper into the subject.
Kid's Opportunities
Children's Connect Zoom: We will meet the 1st and 3rd Wednesday's at 4:30 and the 2nd and 4th Sundays will be a story time or activity video posted. Here is our schedule for June:
- Godly Play: Normally last Sunday would be our last day of Godly Play for the year! So we are going to take a break for June to spend some time planning new opportunities for the summer.
- Children's Time: Each week there is a children's time during the worship service. I know it is difficult for some to find the time to "go to worship" so I will be sure to send you the children's time separately, and post it in Facebook along with a suggested family follow-up activity.
Parent Opportunities
- Parent Happy Hour continues on Fridays at 8:30
- Book Club: The CE Committee is starting up a book club with opportunities to read and reflect together. Look for information soon.
- Stories from the Inside: We are doing a series of interview with church members/families as a way to keep connected to one another stories throughout the summer.
Prayers about for peace, justice, hope, healing, and love during this time.
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Open Door UM Youth Group Zoom meetings and all Open Door Churches fall retreat
The youth still have a lot of future plans, even with the "shelter-at-home" world we are living in! We are planning the future fall retreat for all Open Door Churches and will also be recognizing our graduates, however we can! Keep youth, Ashley, Maya, Anna, and Kelsey in your prayers and encourage them as you are able!
Email any of the youth leaders below for information about joining Zoom on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and at 1:00 p.m. on Sundays.
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Coffee, Conversation, & Community Online
For an invite to the Young Adult Zoom meetings, scheduled on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m., please
email
Pastor Alyssa to be included in the Zoom link.
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