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Healing Music
The Bible tells us that when King Saul had disobeyed God and God’s spirit left him, God permitted an evil spirit to torment Saul.
The Bible tells us that Saul wasn’t left without some method of finding relief. The Bible tells us that music restored peace to Saul when the evil spirit came upon him. Saul employed David to play the harp (1 Samuel 16:23):
From then on whenever the evil spirit sent by God came on Saul, David would get his harp and play it. The evil spirit would leave. And Saul would feel better and be all right again.
It was healing music.
I want to celebrate healing music. All our musicians who serve God provide us with healing music, including our choirs and singers and directors. Like Saul, we are often in need of healing music to rid us of the evil spirits that torment us so we can be at peace again. Our phenomenal music ministry is not just for entertainment. It provides us with healing music.
Through our choirs, God has sent us healing music. This is the music that tells of Jesus’ healing power. This is the music that tells of God’s saving grace. This is the music that tells of redemption, restoration, salvation and deliverance. This music tells of God’s mercy and love and faithfulness. This is the music that tells us about Jesus. And when an evil spirit has to face the sound of all those Holy Spirits singing about the Lord and playing God’s praises, it has to flee. And once those tormenting spirits are gone, we have another chance to have peace in our spirits. All because of God’s healing music.
Amazing Grace (UMH 378), Blessed Assurance (UMH 369), He Touched Me (UMH 367), Hymn of Promise (UMH 707), In the Garden (UMH 314), It Is Well With My Soul (UMH 377), My Hope Is Built (UMH 368), and many other hymns contain words of divine hope and healing. The next time you are in the pew, take some time to open up the hymnal and read the verses. Healing can occur even when they are simply read.
It is time for us to start filling our ears with some healing music. I am not saying that you can’t listen to secular music. But I am saying that hymns, spirituals and anthems, praise music and gospel music offer something that the secular can’t touch. God’s music offers divine healing. God’s music is healing music.
If you can’t find peace anymore and you are tormented by an evil spirit, send for a David and find some musicians that sing the Lord’s songs. You can find them most Sundays here at NUMC. Start listening to the praises of God and the stories of salvation and soon you will find that the evil spirit has left you. Like Saul, you will feel better and be at peace again. Invite somebody to experience this healing ministry at NUMC.
-Reverend Derrick E. Porter
Lay Leaders: Danny Fisher, Richard Gaines, Lisa Gensel, Betsy Kent
Senior Pastor Rev. Derrick E. Porter ext. 214
Campus Pastor (Wesley Foundation) Rev. Ward Mesick ext. 216
Director of Education Ministries Donna Hitchner ext. 225
Director of Youth & Young Adult Ministries Melanie Hartley ext. 217
Director of Music Ministries/Principal Organist Ned Perwo ext. 220
Sunday School Administrative Assistant Lisa Santare Business Manager Robert Cappiello ext. 218
Office Manager Danette Eberly ext. 213
Bookkeeper Pat MacKenzie ext. 215
Facility Manager Rob Taylor ext. 227
Custodian Piedad Luna ext. 227
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302/368-8774
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On May 22, NUMC's ESL program held its final class of the academic year with our usual ice cream celebration at Cafe Gelato on Main Street. This year, students and teachers alike recognized Eileen Sexton, who served as the program's director for the past eleven years. We thank Eileen for her dedication to welcoming members of the Newark community from all over the world and wish her the best as she embarks on new adventures!
To learn more about this great program, turn to page 11—and come join us!
Keeping your contribution coming in while you are out of town for the summer is just a few clicks away!
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Join us for Summer Choir!
All are welcome to join us as part of our Summer Choir on Sunday, August 6. Just come to the Choir Room at 9am for warm-ups/rehearsal for the 9:30 service.
The colors of the paraments on the altar, pulpit and lectern change with the different seasons of the church year. Do you know their significance?
GREEN is the color we see most of the year, used by the church for the common seasons. It is the color of nature, symbolic of Christian life and growth, and is used during Kingdomtide and the Trinity seasons.
BLUE is used during the season of Advent. It is the symbol of royalty, telling us that the King is coming.
WHITE is the color of light, symbolizing purity and divinity. We use white paraments on
Christmas, Epiphany, Easter and Trinity Sundays. It may also be used for weddings.
PURPLE is the color used by kings, symbolizing mourning, and is used during Lent, the penitential season.
BLACK, symbolizing darkness and death, is used on Good Friday.
RED symbolizes blood and spirit. Used on Pentecost and Reformation, it indicates the zeal of the church, also commemorating the martyrs who shed their blood in testimony of their faith.
From your Altar Guild—
Liturgical Colors in the Church
Music Factory 2017
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6pm Wednesdays in the Chapel:
Noisy Methodist Prayer!
In addition to our first-Wednesday Taizé services of grace and peace at 7pm (resuming on 9/6), we have added this weekly opportunity to pray out loud to the Lord.
Join us as we lift up petitions and supplications for each other in the church, the community, the nation, and the world. See you next Wednesday!
August 13 @ 9:30am service
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Bunting Library News
ATTENTION PARENTS: The books this month have been selected especially for children—there are both fiction and non-fiction choices.
Love Is a Handful of Honey, by Giles Adreae. In this a warm, appealing story in rhyme, a young bear spends a fun day in activities familiar to every child, and discovering that love is all around him.
The Dragonfly Door, by John Adams. This tender story about two insect friends, about loss and change, was written to help parents express their views about life and death. Parents should read the book first to determine suitability for individual children, then perhaps read together with the child.
Just Molly and Me, by Tara Jaye Morrow. This delightful story for younger children told in rhyme describes the fun you might have if you and your mom were a couple of monkeys!
Green Wilma, by Tedd Arnold. Wilma wakes up one morning—green! What can happen to her?
Hide and Seek, by R. Brown and S. Carey. This very short story from Scholastic Books about the game of Hide and Seek is for young children.
I'm So Grumpy! By Hans Wilhelm. Noodles, a fluffy white dog, is grumpy! What can make him feel better? This is another story for young children.
Dora's Eggs, by Julie Sykes. Dora the hen wants to show off her batch of eggs to her friends, but everyone is too busy with their own interests. What happens next?
What's What in the Bible? by Derek Williams. This book is full of facts about objects, people and places—travel, trade, towns, animals, clothes, work, money, homes and houses and family life—in Biblical times. Detailed beautiful illustrations accompany throughout the book. Adults and children can learn a lot from this very interesting and informative book.
What If I Owned EVERYTHING? By Larry and Lauree Burkett. The authors are known for offering adults Scripture-based financial insights. This entertaining story for children was written to teach these principles in a way that helps them learn the basics of stewardship.
RECENT READS BOOK GROUP
Monday, 8/14, 1-2pm in Bunting Library
This fun book group began meeting 4 years ago regularly on the second Monday of each month. We love to have people join us to share about a book they have read recently, and to enjoy fellowship and refreshments with other enthusiastic readers!
Please drop in to discover how easy it is to be in this easygoing book group!
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NUMC Welcomes UD Students Saturday, August 26
Welcome, Class of 2021!
Help this year’s UD freshmen feel welcome on move-in day! Join us on Saturday, August 26 from 11am until desserts run out! This year, we are encouraging families to enjoy lunch on Main Street, then come back to NUMC for dessert and cold drinks on our small side lawn!
The Congregation in Action Team (CIA) needs YOUR help:
providing lots of homemade finger food desserts packaged as generous single servings (in small baggies)
helping with set-up (10:30am)
serving/welcoming/chatting (11am-2pm)
clean-up (1:30-2pm)
Please let us know how you can help on August 26! Contact Kathy Werrell (302-239-4646; [email protected]) or Jo Anne Deshon (738-9524; [email protected]).
Silent Auction & Coffee House/Open Mic Saturday, January 20, 2018
It’s never too soon to start planning to make the third biannual Silent Auction the biggest success ever. This year, we have a new twist: a Coffee House/Open Mic event! The Congregation in Action (CIA) Team invites you to join all the fun…and we need your help, too!
Go through your home and, rather than discarding items, set aside those that would be valuable to someone else so that we can auction them off! Examples of past items have included antique furniture and décor, jewelry, special basket collections, etc.
Approach businesses for contributions (but let us know whom you plan to contact, so they only get asked once)! Get copies of the “ask letter” to use.
Offer a service to be auctioned, such as tutoring, music lessons, piano tuning, etc.
Decide what talent you want to showcase at the Coffee House/Open Mic! Then watch for more details on signing up (or reserving tickets to be in the audience).
Invite your friends and neighbors!
Please contact Kathy Werrell or other CIA members to tell us how you want to be involved in this exciting dual event (302-239-4646; [email protected]).
Pentecost Sunday
Congregation in Action
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On behalf of NUMC’s Finance Team, we thank you for your faithful support of its various church ministries this past year. Unfortunately, we ended the 2017 fiscal year on June 30 with an unplanned operating budget deficit of $72,000, due primarily to
reduced income. This continued a trend that has become more critical in the past three years. Finance has reduced our annual expense budget each year to coincide with these giving trends, but the level of the decline in FY2017 was not anticipated.
Based on these trends, in preparing the 2017-18 budget, the Finance Team saw another significant gap between anticipated revenue and the requested expense budget. Realizing that was unsustainable, our target was to reduce expenses to our current income level of $701,500, and that would have involved a reduction in church staff and a significant reduction in program ministries.
The Church Council, after much deliberation, approved a one-time $25,500 extra distribution from the earnings in our Housing Fund, and approved a $755,500 budget with no staff reduction. Although this helps us this year, we will be developing a plan to sustain ongoing increased revenue of at least $75,000 annually to maintain our current level of expenses. With God’s help, that is our work for the coming year.
However, we need your immediate help to address the revenue gap in this year’s budget by prayerfully considering the following:
1. To recover as much of the 2016-17 operating shortfall as possible, we ask that you review your last year’s giving record and make a catch-up contribution if necessary.
2. We are seeking extra-mile responses to raise $50,000 to close the gap and get the 2017-18 budget year off to a good start.
Please identify your gift as either “2016-17 catch-up gift” or “2017-18 extra mile gift” and forward it to the office, place it in the Sunday offering, or submit it online (http://newark-umc.org/wp/online-giving/).
NUMC is coming off an exciting year as we have consecrated our newly refurbished building to God’s glory and service. Our intermediate goal is to identify more ways to utilize our facility and to welcome more people through the doors so that they, too, can experience our excitement as we grow in our service to God.
—Your Finance Team—
2017-18 Pledge Update
(as of July 17, 2017)
MANY THANKS to those who have responded to the call with their pledges for the 2017-18 fiscal year. This data facilitates responsible staffing and spending. If you have not already submitted a pledge card or online pledge, we encourage you to do as soon as possible.
Fiscal Year Mission/Operating Budget Building/Debt Reduction
# Pledges $ Pledged # Pledges $ Pledged
2017-18 137 $400,500 47 $28,337
2016-17 124 $335,166 37 $21,127
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Our new Delaware Avenue entrance, consecrated on Sunday, June 4, 2017.
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Heads-Up: Sunday Morning Children’s Activities
Given that the Director of Education Ministries has spent the past year re-writing the available curriculum for the two Sunday morning workshops (and Preschool class, with assistance from Carol Crowder and Julia Logan), the Christian Education Team is seeking a different solution to meet curriculum needs. We have identified a program which includes features very similar to the original Spark curriculum. It is extremely flexible, and even offers the possibility of additional workshop types which we have not been able to offer for some time. Please keep in mind that no final decision has been made concerning 2017-18 curriculum at this writing.
Parents Involved As Leaders (PIAL) Last year, we struggled at times with filling Sunday morning workshop leader/helper roles. It is extremely important that all parents/caregivers whose children attend the workshops take their turns in the workshop space on Sunday mornings. In most cases, you would be the second adult in the space (a requirement of our Safe Sanctuaries policy)
and would engage in routine helping tasks such as taking attendance, helping younger children with craft projects, and escorting choir members to rehearsal after the workshop. If you are interested in leading workshops, that also is an option: the task is made quite simple, by design. All materials are provided; you receive the workshop plan in advance and most plans come complete with teacher “scripts,” so you will not have to wonder what to say to the students.
On this year’s electronic registration form, you’ll have the option of naming your helping dates for the first quarter. All parents/caregivers whose children attended during the last program year will receive a link to this year’s electronic form via email and NUMC’s weekly e-news (if subscribed). Please submit your children’s electronic registration as soon as possible (we know that August gets busy!). We’ll mail a registration form and first-quarter helping/leading schedule to anyone not registered by August 31. If your name appears on a date which you know will not work for you, please alert Lisa ([email protected]) as soon as possible so she can help you connect with another parent to switch dates.
We invite all interested parents/caregivers to join the Christian Education Team, which typically meets on the first Sundays at 11am. Please consider joining our team!
Youth Mission Trip: God is so good! Our mission trip this year was packed with good times together, hard work, and a deeper look at our gifts and what it means to be a disciple of Christ. Our students and leaders were such a blessing to one another and to the community of Rockaway, NY.
Thank you to everyone who gave their time, money and prayers to our group. We could not have done it without you!
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NUMC Missionary Update
NUMC financially supports two global missionary programs:
Women and Community in Nicaragua: Missionary Alina Saucedo Paucara
The 5 programs in this mission—Women’s Rights, Women’s Health, Youth Leadership, Youth Scholarships, and Economic Empowerment—work with the vulnerable population who have suffered or suffer domestic violence, gender injustice, sexual abuse, and violation of human rights and citizenship. This mission has contributed to improvement in the quality of life for women and young people of Nicaragua and has served as a way to share the Good News!
Kathmandu, Nepal: Mark and Deirdre Zimmerman (here with sons Zachary and Benjamin)
Deirdre is a dietician and works as an advisor to the Nutrition Promotion and Consultancy Services. Deirdre shares, “I see this as involvement in God’s work to restore full life and to provide for all the needs of all people: nutrition and health being essential for people to achieve their God-given potential.” Mark is a physician and observed a huge gap in the level of health care between urban and rural settings. He now works to improve the health of rural Nepali people.
Please keep these missionaries, their programs, and those they serve in your prayers!
Greetings—I would like to express my thanks to all of you who have reached
out and welcomed me into my new position as Campus Pastor. I have interacted more with some of you than others over the past three years in my limited role, but I look forward to getting to know each of you as I work with both Wesley and within the church. I know that we will continue to grow and strengthen our relationship in this coming year.
—Ward Mesick
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UMW School Supplies Collection has Begun! July 30-August 20
Look for boxes marked School Supplies throughout the church. We have had a request for
composition notebooks, pencils, loose-leaf paper, portfolio folders, pocket folders, glue sticks, and dry erase markers from teachers at Elkton Middle School, and spiral bound
notebooks for school kits for UMCOR (three books are needed per kit). Additional supplies of backpacks, markers, scissors, binders and dividers, glue sticks, rulers, colored pencils, graph paper and clipboards are greatly appreciated. We support the Neighborhood House, Child Inc. and the Newark Empowerment Center, so the more we have, the more we can give! Thank you for your generosity!
Women’s Summer Gathering 2017 Saturday, August 19: Jewelry-making and potluck lunch
All women of the church are invited to a summer fellowship gathering at the home of Shirley Kirk (location information distributed to those who register) on Saturday, August 19, beginning at 10am. We’ll start with a jewelry-making activity (beaded wrap-bracelet) led by Christine Wiebe. The cost for the bracelet materials is $15 per person. Following the activity, we’ll enjoy a fellowship potluck lunch.
Not sure what to bring for lunch? Use the Sign-Up Genius page (provided to those who register) or contact Donna for suggestions. We’ll have cold storage, if needed. NO NUTS, PLEASE! If you would like to just watch the jewelry-making activity, or to come a bit later for lunch alone, let us know: to register, please use this form. To participate in the jewelry-making activity, please pay online here, putting Women’s Gathering—Jewelry in the Other field.
Women of the Church
Do you have a passion for helping women, children and youth? The United Methodist Women are looking for women just like you!
UMW supports programs locally, nationally and globally. You may have helped us collect school supplies in the summer. Maybe you brought in supplies to help us make hygiene kits for migrant and seasonal workers or helped with flood cleaning buckets for UMCOR. These are all short-term missions you can help with. Maybe you know of an organization who works with women, children and youth: you can bring awareness to the congregation and help us organize a collection for that group. Do you play the piano and enjoy singing? You can play piano for our evening group sing-along at Somerford. You can join us at our monthly meetings (the first Tuesday daytime or evening), or help with a once-a-year mission. The ways you can help are limited only by your imagination! Contact Jane Savino (302-368-2626; evenings), Sally Cavanagh (302-737-4694) or Charlotte Hanna (302-994-9306), or go to the NUMC website (newark-umc.org) and click on Contact Us to leave an inquiry.
Come Join UMW for Lunch!
September 10, 12:15pm Dining Room
Hear about the Wesley Foundation Spring 2017
Mission Trip!
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Emmanuel Dining Room:
Cookies Needed
We are asking for pre-packaged store-bought cookies to fulfill our monthly commitment to Emmanuel Dining Room. We appreciate your help in bringing these to the church office by 9am on Wednesday, August 23.
Questions? Call 302/368-8774.
English as a Second Language @NUMC
In 2001, the Newark United Methodist Women started a local mission project--English as Second Language classes. The leaders—Ruth Nicholls, Nancy Lucas, Carolyn Shortess, Karen Noble and Cindy Shermeyer—planned the program and community publicity. Our congregation responded with enthusiasm to a request for volunteer teachers.
Three teachers have been with the program from the start: Lisa Chieffo, Ella deCourcelle and Rob Detwiler—they have made such wonderful contributions! Last year, students came from more than 30 countries.
And today we give special thanks and recognition to three retiring teachers: Eileen Sexton, Lisa Chieffo and Lisa Gensel. Their enthusiasm and caring teaching have helped the program immeasurably.
Classes continue on Monday afternoons and evenings, with Morgan Prettyman ([email protected]) leading the program, Rob Detwiler (302/383-6963) and Ella deCourcelle facilitating during the afternoon gatherings, and Morgan with Bruce Gibson in the evening.
Want to volunteer? Contact Morgan or Rob or leave your name in the office.
BLESSINGS to all who have contributed to the program, the community and to the church.
Congregational Care
Congregational Care includes hospital and homebound/assisted-living visitation, TLC (Tender Loving Christians), funeral receptions, Stephen Ministry and card ministry. We try to visit those in the hospital on a daily basis Monday through Friday and visit the homebound twice a month. TLC takes care of direct needs like providing meals, rides and other help, and we have a monthly card-sending campaign. Also part of Congregational Care is NUMC’s Stephen Ministry, which provides weekly one-on-one caring support for those who ask for this ministry.
This is quite an undertaking for a church of our size, and we can always use more volunteers. We also need help from our congregants to identify members who would benefit from our caring ministries! Please contact Rich Lapointe with names, addresses, and phone numbers of those members that you are aware of (302-292-0539 or [email protected]). Your help can truly make a difference! And please prayerfully consider
becoming part of this compassionate
team.
69 East Main Street Newark, DE 19711-4645 www.newark-umc.org 302-368-8774 Return Service Requested
Parish Notes Deadline August15—email [email protected]