Lake Deaton Happenings - April 28 through May 4

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In This Edition of Lake Deaton Happenings...

A Message from Your Pastors
Volunteers Needed
Couch Talk
Re-Vision Process
Discipleship
Classes Offered
Read Thru The Bible
Outreach & Missions
B&B Volunteers Needed
B&B Truck 5/23/21
Mother's Day Offering
Prayer & Care
Sonrise Respite Male Volunteers Needed

Weekly Prayer Requests
Prayer Quilts
Prayer w/ Rev. Kris Schonewolf
Men & Women
Ladies Luncheon 5/11
Men's Breakfast
Flutter By Garden Update!
Worship -
Worship Statistics
Celebrate Recovery
Tune in 97.7FM
Amazon Smile
Church Calendar
Lake Deaton Store

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Greetings Lake Deaton Family,

This study of the Five Principles of Fruitful Congregations is really about getting to the heart of living out the necessary ingredients of purposeful mission, so that we can continue to be faithful to our call to make disciples within The Villages and beyond.

Today before I was sitting down to write this article, I met with the team of leaders from our congregation that we have called the “Relaunch Team.” This is a group of people from across the spectrum of our church that began to meet last spring to study the Conference Guidelines, CDC guidelines, and also keep in touch with our own local community, to make decisions on how to open up the ministries of the church after we were originally called to shut everything down. Over the course of the past nine months, we have met regularly to evaluate where we are as a congregation and to see what we need to do to continue to be as open and hospitable as possible to our community while faithfully maintaining the guidelines given to us.

As we reviewed the current research and CDC Guidelines, we are excited to announce that we will continue to move into a more open posture over the next couple of months, as the number of people within our community continue to be vaccinated. Over the next month you will be seeing us return to being able to eat meals together at the church (with some basis guidelines on how we serve the food). You will also see us move back to passing a connection pad during worship and passing the offering basket. These are just a few things to begin to move back into a normal place, but they are significant in that they will allow us to be as welcoming as possible to all guests that come within our church grounds.

We hope that as you are vaccinated you will feel a freedom to come back to in-person worship and that you will be excited to bring new guests to see what great things are happening at Lake Deaton. Truly, life is better at the Lake.

Blessings,

We Need Volunteers!!

Please click here to view all of our fun and exciting volunteer opportunities. Together we can all help to move back to our “new normal”.

Couch Talk

Take a moment each week to watch.

The pastors and staff members weekly record Couch Talk.

Couch Talk is full of useful announcements for the coming weeks.

Our couch talk is always linked on our Facebook page & YouTube page.

Re-Visioning Process

Responding to the Light - Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations

Please Note:

Please note that the chapter in the book, Five Practices for Fruitful Congregations, for our study beginning the week of May 2 is chapter 5, not chapter 4 as is stated in the opening instructions of the Study Guide. We are doing "RISK-TAKING MISSION & SERVICE" before "INTENTIONAL FAITH DEVELOPMENT". Please remind your participates so they are reading the correct chapter in the book. The Study Guide and Sermon/Worship Series are following this sequence taking Risk-Taking Mission and Service before Intentional Faith Development. We apologize for the confusion this may create for your group!

It's not too late to sign up for the devotional, click here!! For more information on Small Groups and/ or our Re-Vision process click here.

Discipleship

Click here to check out our current class offerings - card making, fun art group, etc.

Want to go deeper in The Word?

Come meet with Pastor Jim every other Wednesday at 4 p.m. to engage in deeper conversation as we read Through the Bible in One Year. For more information, please email Pastor Jim.

Outreach & Missions

Bargains & Blessings needs additional volunteers to continue providing good experience to our customers and donors and to fulfill our mission of being the hands, feet and voice of Jesus to those in need near and far. We need help in the areas of Pickup & Delivery (drivers, helpers and schedulers), Store (floor and cashiers) and Intake (Goods and Apparel). If you, or with your friends, can help and would like to join our family of volunteers, please email us at Bargainsandblessings@ncumcfl.com or visit us at 301 N. Main St, Wildwood, to complete an application. Or for more information, contact Sondra at 315-427-3580.

Bargains & Blessings Truck

The B&B Truck will be here on Sunday, May 23rd to collect donations of clothing and household goods from 8:15 – 10:30. To schedule pickup of large items, please call (352)330-3333.

Mother's Day Offering

Next week, May 1st & 2nd, we will have a guest speaker from Kid’s Central talking about how the money raised from our 2020 Christmas Wish Tree project, ($9,220 for The Self-Sufficiency program) has helped women improve their lives and the lives of their children. A short video of a mother giving her testimonial of how this program has her on track to get her 6 children back after not living with them for about 7 years will be shown. She successfully completed the Self-Sufficiency Program and our contribution provided funds to pay some of her back rent and paid for her CNA (certified nurses assistant) preparatory class (she passed the class and is now a CNA). A Special Mother’s Day Offering will be taken up on Mother’s Day, May 9^th to benefit the Self-Sufficiency Program. Please help keep reuniting and strengthening families.

Prayer and Care Ministry

Sonrise Respite Ministry

Needs Men!!

We need male volunteers. Amazingly a majority of our participants are men, and we only have one male volunteer. If you think you might be able to dedicate one Monday a month to this ministry, contact Jan McCoy for more information.

For Prayer and Care Ministry needs, please email Denise Herzberg.

Please let us know if you, a relative, or a friend is in the hospital locally.

If permitted, we will schedule a visit from our pastoral team.

If you would like to request a prayer quilt or a prayer shawl for someone who needs prayers for comfort and healing, contact Denise Herzberg. If you would like to know more about these ministries please click here.

Prayer Concerns:

Dick Mintken, husband of Genie Mintken.

Larry Klingensmith, friend of Anita Truax.

Scott Walker, nephew of Kathy Schroeder.

Prayer Quilts

At times there will be a Prayer Quilt displayed in the narthex.

Please stop by and tie a knot on the quilt as you pray for the

the individual listed on the name card.

Prayer Room

If you need a place to pray, come to our Prayer Room. Lake Deaton UMC has a room set up to give you privacy and direction to spend a few minutes of conversation with God. If you are stopping by our building for any other reason, check our our prayer room and spend a few minutes with Jesus.

Prayer Service

Take time to pray. This is a 15 minute video for self-guided prayer.

Click on image and learn with Rev. Kris Schonewolf how to connect with God in prayer.

Men & Women

Come join us for a Birthday Celebration! Wear an accessory, piece of clothing, or a color that correlates with your birthday month. We will be serving a box lunch and our new starting time will be 11:00 am. Registration is $10.00 per person. Click here to register!

Lake Deaton Flutter By & Prayer Garden Update

Thanks to all of you for your kind and generous support of the garden project. We are working on clearing the prayer area and will have furniture placed for everyone to enjoy soon. Please check out the Garden Page on our website for future news and updates and check out the Butterfly Box in the Narthex over the next couple of weeks as there are monarch caterpillars transforming into butterflies and being released in the garden. If you are interested in having a paver painted and placed in the garden in honor or memory of someone please click here.

Thank you Lake Deaton Family! We hope you enjoy God’s creation in the garden.

Blessings,

The Lake Deaton Garden Team