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4004 State Road 21 S
Keystone Heights, FL 32656
KEYST ONE UNIT ED METH ODI ST
CHURCH
A Note from our Associate Pastor
Phone: 352-473-3829
Fax: 352-4730710
WWW.keystone-umc.org
Making Christ the Keystone of Our Lives
Non-Profit
Organization
U. S. Postage
PAID Permit No. 9
A Ministry that Reaches Real Needs
Please take a moment to read about one of the most
vital ministries of our church. It is called The Love
Fund . This is not funded nor included in our budget
that provides for the total ministries of the church, it is
funded by the generosity of folks who put money in the
little “Love Fund” boxes. These boxes are located in all
three of our worship centers: the Fellowship Hall for
8:00 A.M traditional worship; the Multiple Ministry
Center for 9:15 A.M. contemporary worship; and our
Sanctuary for 11:00 A.M. traditional worship.
We get no “credit” that meets our tithes and offerings
which the IRS allows. This Love Fund is strictly an
“above and beyond” the giving which is our primary
budget, that provides for all the local, state, and world
outreach of our church.
The Love Fund is administered by our Pastor when needs that are
brought to the church that are carefully examined and meet the Pastor’s
approval and by me when needed in cases when our Pastor can not be
present.
I could write a series of books on the power of the Love Fund to reach
and share the Love of God to folks who have no other place to turn for
help. Here’s a few examples how God uses our Love Fund: A woman
who needs a bus ticket to get to her Mother’s funeral; A man who is try-
ing to keep his family together who has lost his job and needs a battery to
have transportation to get to the interviews for a possible new job; A
woman who is the sole provider for four of her grandchildren whose
washing machine won’t work and is doing a mountain of clothes, sheets,
etc. in the kitchen sink; a mother who has a sick child that needs to see a
doctor and no insurance and no money for the visit or the medica-
tions...the list goes on and on!
If each of us as we came to worship each Sunday would put $1.00 in
the Love Fund Box the Love Fund would become the answer to
many needs.
Thanks for listening! And get your $1.00 ready to help others who have
no other place to get help!
Thank you church for your generous support that allows KUMC to be the
hands and heart of our Lord!
Joyfully and Gratefully, your Associate Pastor, Tom
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September 2018
We’re all familiar with the law of the harvest. You reap what you sow. We know
that verse well; we can say it forwards and backwards.
And sometimes that’s the problem. Sometimes we want to say it — and live it —
backwards. We want permission to sow after we reap, not before.
It’s revealed in our words and attitudes: I’ll get serious about generosity when I
have more money. I’ll give 100% to my job when I have a job worth 100% of my
effort. I’ll change when my spouse changes. I’ll start showing gratitude when my
life gets better.
There’s no trick to side-stepping the process. The order never changes: you reap
what you sow, after you sow.
But it’s not too late to reap a different harvest. If the harvest you’re experiencing
today isn’t what you had in mind for your life, it’s not too late to change.
Paul was talking about money in today’s verse, but it applies to every area of our
lives…“Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows
generously will also reap generously.” (2 Corinthians 9:16)
What if you decided today to sow generously everywhere you go? What if you
chose to pour yourself into your job, even now, while you consider yourself
underpaid? What if you chose to sow forgiveness for others, even if you’re pretty
sure that you’re right and they’re wrong? What if you chose to sow obedience,
even before blessings come your way? Can you imagine what might happen
next?
See you on Sunday,
Pastor Jeff
We are counting our blessings as we begin a new school year & a new season
in the KidMin area (Children & Family Ministry). Back in the spring the Trus-
tees approved a plan to open up a wall between two rooms upstairs in the
MMC (a huge thank you to the Trustees) for the children to have a Worship
& Teaching space to call their own. It took a village to bring this project to
fruition, with lots of prayer and God leading the way we are now meeting in
this “new” space. A big “THANK YOU” to Josh, Michelle, Evie, Aleah & lit-
tle Maggie Hallberg for all of their time taking down the wall and making
this vision a reality and to the Hallberg ladies and Rachael Bush for joining
me for a painting party to help make our new space a little more fun. We
certainly couldn’t have prepared this space with out the help of Ted Stanley, Mike Britton and
Noah who had to wrestle a big couch and loveseat out of one of the rooms to create a Wor-
ship space for our kids. “Thank You” to Andrew Koehler who not only moved many, many chairs
to another location but also helped move items into our new space. God is on the move and we
are so grateful!!
5th Grade Tweens meet each Wednesday evening at 5:45pm to
continue with their Bible/Book Study “Shaken” by Tim Tebow.
Last spring the Tweens composed a letter to Tim Tebow letting
him know how his book is impacting their lives and what they are
learning from God and him. In response, Tim Tebow made a video
message to our Tweens; we will be sharing this video with our
church family in the near future.
News from The KidMin Ministry
MARK THOSE CALENDARS! Pumpkins
will be arriving on Sunday, October
7th at 12:30pm, we need your help
unloading them and setting up our
Pumpkin Patch.
the Anglican ministry. This he declared he could not do, so
he entered a non-conformist seminary where he received
his higher education.
At the age of twenty seven he became the pastor of the
Castle Hill Congregational Church in Northhampton. He
was asked to teach at the nonconformist theological school
in Northhampton, but because of his frail health he hesi-
tated. He finally agreed and he was soon the director of
the school. Here he helped train pastors for nonconformist
churches. He was the primary teacher and taught He-
brew, Greek, mathematics, philosophy, Bible and theolo-
gy. As a result, he became responsible for the training of
a large number of preachers. Soon he became known as a
brilliant scholar and teacher. After serving here for 22
years his health failed and he came down with tuberculo-
sis. His friends wanted him to go to Lisbon, Portugal
where they thought the climate would be better for him,
but he could not afford the fare and the funds he would
need to live there. A priest of the Church of England who
admired him raised the funds needed and he went to Por-
tugal where he lived for about two years before death
overcame him. His influence crossed denominational bar-
riers.
Doddridge was considered as one of the very best writers
in the 18th century, along side such men as Charles Wes-
ley and Isaac Watts. It was Watts who became
Doddridge’s model. He wrote over 400 hymns, but very
few of them are still in use. In 1905 the Methododist Hym-
nal had 23 of his hymns. In1935 it only had 8, and today
there is only this one.
Did you notice the difference in the dates that Doddridge
lived and the dates that the writer of the music lived?
None of Doddridge’s hymns were published during his life
time. He wrote them to emphasize his sermons and they
were sung after he preached. The leader would sing a line
and then the congregation would sing it back. This was an
old way of teaching congregations to sing new hymns and
was called “lining.”
The hymn appeared first without a refrain. It was not un-
til about 1854 that the refrain was added and it was pro-
vided with its present tune. The tune we sing it to today
was arranged by Edward Rimbault from a popular song
titled “Happy Land.” He is probably responsible for the
Dr. Tom Gensel
O Happy Day Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Music, Edward Rimbault, 1816-1876
Philip Doddridge was born June 26,
1702,in London, England. Kenneth Os-
bek states that he was the youngest of
twenty children. Of these nineteen, the
first eighteen were still born and the
eighteenth one, Philip, was so weak at
birth they thought at first that he too
was still born.All his life he had a very
weak constitution. He was quite young
when both his father, who was an oil
merchant and his mother died. They
were both very pious and members of the
Non Conformists. That is, they were
members of an evangelistic congregation
that did not belong to the established
church, the Church of England.
His mother was his first teacher. She
taught him the Bible using Dutch tiles
that decorated the wall in the living
room. At the death of his parents some
kind friends took over his care and edu-
cation, but because of their poverty they
could not provide advanced education for
him even though he showed great intelli-
gence. The Duchess of Bedford learned of
him and offered to pay for his education
at either Oxford or Cambridge, but on
the condition that on graduation he enter
Grief Share Begins September 9th
Grief reaches into every feeling.
Sessions will begin Sunday, September 9
and continue each Sunday through
December 9, 3:00 till 4:30pm in Room 8
of the MMC.
For more information contact Juanita Hall at 352-473-
3951 or you can register online at www.griefshare.org.
September Birthdays Marian Sikes 1
Val Matthews 1
Patty Shackleford-Kendall 1
Bob Redman 2
Nick Jones 3
Timothy David Leonard 3
Jack McSwain 3
Anthony McSweeney 3
Patrick Donnell 4
Luke Dennis 5
Phillip Grimaldo 5
Liz Mattox 5
Valerie Eddins 7
Hank Kyle 7
Marlene Mizell 7
Skylar Barber 8
Janice Goetzman 8
Hezekiah Knapp 8
Kathy Barrow 9
Chance Clemons 9
Linda Stanley 9
Johnny Cox 11
Kathleen Monroe 11
Ida Otto 11
Christopher Rathbun 11
Joey Knapp 12
Matthew Snowberger 12
Lester Freeman 14
LaLonnie Vann 14
Sylvia Tysinger 15
Mary Addington 16
Katherine Brown 16
Nathan Richards 17
Brandy Ramos 18
Nolin Robertson 18
Scott Huston 20
Huntley Redfearn 20
Faith Church 21
Colin Kehoe 21
Bob King 21
Tom Kirby 21
Jon Acree 22
Dorothy Denton 22
Ryan Krahn 22
Judy Miller 22
Leslie Taylor 22
Christopher Wyatt Jones 23
Kaylin Tate 23
Vince Vergara 23
Kailey Chaney 24
Barbara Detwiler 24
September Anniversaries
Dr. Tom & Mary Gensel 01 63 years
Jay & Leslie Taylor 01 32 years
Josh & Michelle Hallberg 02 12 years
Paul & Kathie Monroe 02
John & Marian Sikes 11 59 years
Alan & Suzie Bischoff 20 3 years
Don & Florence Mackay 21 67 years
SHOEBOX Updated Needs
Ken & Martha Zipperer 21 61 years
Chip & Joyce Wester 27 49 years
Kevin & Shirley Campbell 30 29 years
Brandon Nicholas 25
Jenean Platt 25
Anthony Joseph Sansone 25
John Daugharty 26
Olivia Horne 26
Mary Redfearn 26
Emily Grace Vergara 26
Donna Houghton 27
Heather Koehler 27
Emberlynn McCabe 27
Theresa Albrecht 28
Kyan Grubbs 28
Linise Ray Wesley 28
Richard Gartee 29
Cliff Shank 29
Pastor Jeff Tate 29
Edith Wolfe 29
Lori Carmichael 30
We had a great PACKING PARTY in July. The
kids, youth and adults really enjoyed packing
almost 200 boxes.
In September the circles of the United Method-
ist Women will be packing boxes as part of
their meetings.
The UMW and the UMM have been great sup-
porters of this ministry. Loads of thanks go out
to them!
After the UMW Circles meet we will have an-
other Packing Party for anyone that would like
to join us. The date is to be determined.
We are still in need of various items. We are so
blessed to have such generous members who
support us.
There are several things we are in need of:
Coloring Books
Girls toys (Jacks, jump ropes, YoYo’s, etc.)
Girls clothes
Flip Flops
Boys Socks
Note pads
Solar calculator
Small games
Small soft balls
Toothbrushes
Thank you for all your wonderful donations.
We are so blessed to be able to bless these children
around the world.
Thrift Shop News
Boy and Cub Scout News
The Thrift Store is
looking more like a
“Department Store”
one of our custom-
ers has reported
back to us!
We are blessed by
so many of your do-
nations and our sales prove it! We are able to help
so many with your donations either by the clothing
that we provide to help clothe the family that just
lost their home and the dishes and pots and pans
they may need too.
We have so many clothing donations that Barbara
Carroll and myself have held a “Fill-a-Bag” sale
last month and carrying forward into this month.
Parents have certainly appreciated it as they have
cleaned closets and refilled closets with “barely used
clothes and shoes.
The money we generate in sales every week goes to
help many other groups in our Church and a certain
percentage we are saving each month to go towards
the purchasing of a new bigger building for our
future.
Now that we have a couple of “Men” to help us, we
ask that you please drop off your donations Tues-
day’s, Wednesday’s and Saturday’s between 9am—
12noon.
Thank you again for your continued support!
Linda Stanley
Our Troop and Pack look forward to an exciting year of camping and adventures in 2018-19!
The middle of August our Cub Scout Pack visited Wings of Dreams Air and Space Museum at Keystone
Airport. The Museum features a Space Shuttle Flight Simulator and a huge Crew Transport Vehicle used by
the astronauts.
Our Scouts camp once per month. They meet on Monday night (6:45pm start time for Boy Scouts, 7pm for
Cub Scouts. Sign up your boy at www.BeaScout.scouting.org.
Thank you for supporting KUMC Scouts!
Healing Prayer Ministry
Hi all. I thought about writing this article after Pastor Jeff's Aug 12th sermon on listening. Lis-tening during prayer for God's answer revealed to us, however He wishes. It seems that for many people about 95% of their prayer life is asking and 4% praise, love and thanksgiving. Probably 1% listening. As we look at this, we can see that this is terribly out of balance. Per-haps, this should be like 30% asking, 50% praise, love and thanksgiving, and 20% listening during prayer. Just my idea. Since there are no hard and fast rules about this, we all need to work out what we are doing during our prayer time and whether we should be changing. But, what about this listening idea. Generally, lots of people are not good at listening - at all. Many times when we are having a conversation with someone, we are not really listening to them, we are concentrating on what we are go-ing to say in reply. Maybe, we are not even tuned in to the conversation, but thinking about the long drive home or what's for dinner. I guess we could say that listening is an art form. It is also something that can be learned if we are not presently very good at it. For start-ers, consider looking the other person in the eye, concentrate on what they are saying; just be respectful of the other person. You never
know, this person you are talking with could be reaching out for help, may want a prayer, or search-ing for a way to learn more about Jesus Christ and salvation. Oh, and remembering names can be diffi-cult, too. More attention needed! As for listening for God's voice: it could be a gentle whisper, a distant voice, a dream or a sudden idea. Some people get God's answer in a Bible verse or two. I don't hear God very well because I don't take the time to "be still and know that I am God". Since sometimes I fall short of listening well, I write things down when I can. Sandy is better at it, especially during healing prayer or just letting someone talk about their concerns. At other times, she can be thinking about, well, dinner. So, let us work more on our listening skills. Most importantly, of course, is finding a way to spend more time with the Lord and listening for His voice - however He chooses to speak to us. Take the time to just be still and focus on God, our Lord and invite the Holy Spirit in. You will love the results! Healing prayer is by appointment. Call Jim or Sandy at 352-475-5211 or Ann White at 352-473-2842. God bless everyone, Jim and Sandy Wolfe
Luncheon Tuesday, September 11, 2018
The September Prime Timers luncheon will be held on
Tuesday, September the 11th at 12:00 in the KUMC
multi-ministry building. The committee will be
providing the meat (baked ham), dessert and drinks
and asks that you bring a covered dish (vegetable or
salad). There will be no charge but a donation basket
will be set out to help defray our cost and provide a love offering for our entertain-
ment. Our entertainment will be provided by the musical group “One Eyed Cat”.
Childcare will be provided.
Peru Mission Trip
Family Ties
Family Ties class begins September 16!
Join this exciting group led by Josh and Michelle Hallberg in a new study, “Cherish” with DVD leader, Gary Thomas.
Discover what it really means “to love and to cherish” your spouse. Gary Thomas of-fers practical advice to build fulfilling marriages. The 6 week study begins Sunday, September 16 at 5:30pm with a delicious potluck followed by an exhilarating study.
Childcare is provided. ALL ARE WELCOME
Peru Mission Trip!
July 12-23, 2019
Several years ago a group of our members
accompanied the Chiappini’s to Marleni’s
home country of Peru.
There are plans being made to go again. If
you have an interest and would like to
learn more about being a part of the mis-
sion team, we will have an informational
meeting on Sunday, September 16 at
3:00pm.
Space is limited.
Join this group seeking God’s design for
Families to live in our unstable world.
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