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July - August 2018 Riverside UMC Reminder

Riverside United Methodist Church Ignites Faith – Invites Others – Involves Service

In the May/June newsletter you were encouraged to take the Real Discipleship Survey to see where you are in each of six dimensions of discipleship and where we are as a congregation. Thank you to the thirty-nine of you who have taken the survey so far. If you have not taken the survey you may do so by visiting this link http://realdiscipleshipsurvey.com/survey/take.html and using this code: gzMtLi. If you do not have computer access you can call the church office (288-4257) to arrange to take it here or on paper. Several have done it this way.

Here is a matrix which indicates the percentage of people who placed themselves in each of the levels of maturity for each dimension of discipleship:

With a quick glance you will notice that there are two areas with very few who responded that they were in the “Maturing” level of discipleship. No one indicated that they were maturing in the dimension of “A Life of Hospitality.” None of us are intentionally seeking to build relationships with unchurched people in order to share God’s love. Only eighteen of us are seeking to relate to others both in the church and beyond in ways that reflect God’s hospitality to us. Only five of us indicated we are “Maturing” in “A Life Obeying Jesus” by partnering with God to help others grow in openness and obedience to Christ. Fourteen of us are growing in our life obeying Jesus by daily seeking to apply the teaching of scripture to my own life. As you can see these are two areas where we can grow as individuals and as a congregation.

I hope those of you who have taken the survey have read the personalized report created for you describing where you indicated you are on the path to maturity in Christ, offering next steps, and resources to help you grow. You can access your report by going to http://www.realdiscipleshipsurvey.com/survey/review.html and entering your email address and code. You should have received an email with the link and the code.

The survey summary reminds us

Discipleship is a lifelong journey into the abundant life Jesus desires for us. It is a process of continual development through which we grow in maturity (become Christ-Centered or fully surrendered). In a culture obsessed with end results and perfection, it is crucial to remember that, for a disciple, it's the journey itself that is most important.

Disciples are often described as 'learners,' but this is one, potentially limited, understanding of discipleship. Discipleship in the biblical tradition is not learning about Jesus, but becoming like Jesus-doing life as Jesus did life.

The three dimensions of the life of a disciple (being part of the body of Christ, becoming more like Jesus, and joining Jesus in ministry) are broad strokes of commitment. Notice that they do not limit the options for how one may engage the body of Christ or how one grows to become like Jesus or even dictate how one must be engaged in ministry. They only point to the reality that discipleship is inclusive of all three of these dimensions of growth. Each disciple must personally discover how God has 'wired' them and is calling them to be engaged.

There is no 'one size fits all' for discipleship. May you continue to grow in Christ, John

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IGNITE INVITE INVOLVE

PASTORAL CARE While Pastor John is on vacation from June 30 – July 15 the Reverend Lisa Schubert Nowling, pastor at College Avenue UMC will cover pastoral care until July 12. She can be reached via [email protected], work: 765-289-7337 and cell: 317-607-0245. From July 13-15 Rev. Dr. Dale Mendenhall will be covering pastoral care. Cell: 765-744-6541 and email: [email protected]. Sunday, July 1 Reverend Dr. Dale Mendenhall Sunday, July 8 Hymn Sing Sunday, July 14 Cindy Miller

Conference Superintendent for the East District Rev. Dr. Aleze Michelle Fulbright has been appointed as the Conference Superintendent for the East District as of July 1. The district is renting room 306 for her office so if you see her greet her warmly.

Aleze is a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and went on to Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. She received her Master’s in Divinity from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. She also has an earned Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Leadership from Houston Graduate School of Theology.

Aleze has spent most of her working career in the field of accounting for several major corporations in the Dallas, Texas area. Before entering full time ministry in 2008, she was the Assistant Controller for the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, Inc. Aleze is an Ordained Elder in The United Methodist Church, having served the Indiana Conference as the Director of Leadership Development. Before coming to the Indiana Conference, Aleze served in the North Texas Conference in a host of ministry settings, as the Associate Director of Leadership Development, the Associate Pastor at First United Methodist-Commerce and Campus Minister for Wesleyan Campus Ministry at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Dr. Aleze’s joys in life are her son Myron Fisher Jr. who attends Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, on academic and athletic scholarship, studying Sports Psychology and playing basketball. She enjoys fellowshipping with family and friends, in addition to connecting with community through her sorority involvement. Above all else, Dr. Aleze has a passion for empowering people to recognize and live out their God-giveness with purpose.

Fellowship Dinner with Remedy City Church Saturday, August 4 at 5:30 pm

Mark your calendars for an opportunity to fellowship with and get to know the Remedy City Church community we partner with in Kingdom ministry.

Sunday Morning Fellowship Because of our wonderful volunteers we will be enjoying coffee again in September while fellowshipping with others in the Narthex on Sunday mornings. Please add your name to the sign-up sheet in the Narthex. Tom and Janet Schamp will be happy to show you how to operate the coffee brewer.

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Notes To and From Our Church Family

Amy Clevenger writes: Thank you, Caring Friends, for sending flowers during mother’s recent stay in the hospital. It lifted her spirits to know she was being thought of and cared for by her church family. Mary Whitaker writes: Caring Friends, thank you so much for your card. It is such a good feeling to know you have me in your prayers. I need that blessing as I deal with discomfort every day and all day. I wish for all of you at Riverside the very best. Keep in touch. God Bless. The Festival of Motherly Love and the Festival of Fatherly Love has come and gone but not without a lot of help from many wonderful people. Thank you Amy and Mark Clevenger, Sandy Abbott and Sandy Hunter for packaging the tea cookies and tea bags and a special thank you to Missi Young for making the decorative tags attached to each package of cookies that were handed out. We enlisted some of our excellent bakers to bake cookies for the Fathers. Thank you to our bakers, Jan Phelps, Pat Brown, Judy Turner, Linda Keyton, Sandy Hunter and Janet Schamp. Thank you also to Jan and Mick Phelps and Janet Schamp for packaging the cookies that were handed out. God Bless Each of You The Worship Team

Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart for… A grant of $1,500.00 from the United Methodist Foundation of Indiana to help with the cost of repairing the plaster in the prayer room and Tom Schamp’s office. The plaster was also repaired in the kitchen and fellowship hall.

Barry Turner for repairing the water line to the ice maker in the refrigerator at the parsonage which leaked and damaged the flooring in the kitchen and the carpet in the dining room. Pat Brown, Nancy Campbell, Wilma Grile and Sandy Abbott for preparing & serving the food donated by many in our congregation to the family and friends of Jerry & Ann Golden. Joe Speece & Alan McGee for trimming the gigantic burning bush by the steps to the upper parking lot and for all their work on Riverside’s Community Garden and church landscaping. Barry Turner for repairing the water leak in the ice maker in the church kitchen. Our friendly and faithful Greeters, Host, Minglers and Ushers who show Radical Hospitality every Sunday. .



Back to School Sneakers

Again this year we have been asked to continue our support of Difference Makers and Hearts and Hands United in providing 2,000 pairs of shoes to school children throughout Delaware County. Riverside’s goal is to raise enough money to buy 50 pairs of size 4 sneakers for boys. We estimate the price to be from $10 to $15 per pair. The sneakers will be given away Saturday, July 28 at the annual Tools for School event held at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. If you would like to donate to this very worthy cause please write Sneakers on the memo line of your check or on your offering envelope with the amount on the special projects line. Donations must be in by Sunday the 15th of July.

Fellowship and Creative Opportunities to Learn and Grow

Close Knit Friends The Riverside knitters have been meeting each Tuesday evening from 7:00-8:00 upstairs in room 301. Anyone with an interest in knitting is welcome to join this delightful intergenerational group. Some are just learning to knit, beginning with a dish cloth. Other more experienced knitters work on prayer shawls. And some are continuing with projects that were already underway when we began meeting. All knitters are welcome each Tuesday from 7:00-8:00 pm. Questions? [email protected]

Woodcarvers and craftersWoodcarvers and crafters meet the 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursday’s each month at 10:00 a.m. in Fellowship Hall. Everyone is welcome to bring their woodcarving and crafting projects and have a time of fellowship as you continue your interests. Questions? [email protected]

Quilters This group of quilters is comprised of people from Covenant Partners and from Riverside. They meet on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursdays of each month from 10:00 am to noon in room 101. Just come and see what everyone is working on and join in!

July-August 2018 Riverside UMC Reminder

Riverside United Methodist ChurchIgnites Faith – Invites Others – Involves Service

News from the Missions Team May and June were busy months for Mission Outreach. On June 3 we collected $811.08 from our M&M jars

to help support our mission program. Everyone enjoyed a delicious baked potato bar and hearing Frank

Baldwin share about the Muncie Mission’s outreach programs. Riverside donated $100 to the Mission and it

was matched, doubled.

Volunteers continue to work at the Fresh Direction Inside/Out Kitchen preparing meals on Mondays and

Thursdays.

On May 4 & 5 Riverside provided a great team of workers to put siding on a Habitat house. Nancy Campbell

and other ladies brought lunch and delicious cookies which was enjoyed by all!

Riverside also provided volunteers for the Christian Ministries Food Pantry in May.

In June we sent $400 to the YWCA to buy window fans and bus passes for the residents.

On May 1, Ken Vance, the missionary we support in Zambia, wrote, “We finally got the roof on the

“unfinished church” and had our first Sunday there!!!...We are very excited and happy!! It is a great day for us

in Fisenge – thank you for your part in helping us to raise the roof and be able to meet finally in our new

building!” Riverside sent $3,000 to help provide the roof.

UPCOMING MISSION OPPORTUNITIES

Inside/Out Kitchen – July and August

Food Pantry – August 22, 23, & 24

Provide a meal for the Garden at Main Street - July

Our next M&M Mission jar collection will be in August so please continue filling your jars. Your

contribution helps support all of our mission outreach!

Thank you for helping us meet our monthly goal of 70 bags to Covenant Partners. July bags will be due July

23 and August bags will be due August 20.

THANK YOU RIVERSIDE FOR YOUR CONTINUED GENEROUS SUPPORT – YOU ARE

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN PEOPLE’S LIVES

Covenant Partners Ministry

Supply Bags Due Dates Monday, July 23 Monday, August 20

1 hand soap, 1dish washing liquid, 1 box of tissues, 4 rolls of toilet paper, 1 small bottle/box laundry detergent, 1 bottle of shampoo



News from the Music Director John Rutter: The Importance of Choir

Written Transcript from an Interview given March 31, 2015…

Choral music is not one of life’s frills. It’s something that goes to the very heart of our humanity, our sense of community, and our souls. You express, when you sing, your soul in song. And when you get together with a group of other singers, it becomes more than the sum of the parts. All of those people are pouring out their hearts and souls in perfect harmony, which is kind of an emblem for what we need in this world, when so much of the world is at odds with itself…that just to express, in symbolic terms, what it’s like when human beings are in harmony. That’s a lesson for our times and for all time. I profoundly believe that. And musical excellence is, of course, at the heart of it. But, even if a choir is not the greatest in the world, the fact that they are meeting together has a social value. It has a communal value. And I always say that a church or a school without a choir is like a body without a soul. We have to have a soul in our lives. And everybody tells me, who has sung in a choir, that they feel better for doing it. That whatever the cares of the day, if they maybe meet after a long day’s school or work, that somehow you leave your troubles at the door. And when you’re sitting there, making music for a couple hours at the end of the day, that’s the only thing that matters at that moment. And you walk away refreshed. You walk away renewed. And that’s a value that goes just beyond the music itself. Of course, as a musician, I put the music at the heart of it, but all of these other values just stand out as a beacon. I think our politicians need to take note…my gosh do they ever! [laughs], and our educators, those who decide education budgets, church budgets, just need to remember it’s not a frill. It’s like a great oak that rises up from the center of the human race and spreads its branches everywhere. That’s what music does for us. And choral music must stand as one of the supreme examples of it. Our very own Riverside Singers will be starting-up again in September. We will have a kick-off get-together at the Reese/Dorn household in late August. More details to come. I hope to see many new and not so new faces. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe summer.

Caring Friends Card List “Caring Friends” is a group that meets the first Monday of each month at 3:00 pm to reach out to

people through cards, visits, flowers to hospital/home, and in other special ways.

Pat Ashcraft, The Hearth at Tudor Gardens, 11755 N Michigan Rd Apt 234, Zionsville, IN 46077-9325 Leona Barber, Albany Health & Rehabilitation Center, 910 W Walnut St, Albany, IN 47320 Mary Ann Beuoy, Palmer Hills, 2617 Maplecrest Rd, Apt 116 Bettendorf, IA 52722-7807 (563-742-1985)

Dorothy Bowman, 6609 Brindale, Muncie, IN 47304

Wilma Carney, 1600 N Walnut St, Muncie, IN 47303

Maurice and Nancy Carver, 9509 N. Sugarwood Court, Muncie, IN 47303 Julia Cougill, 1812 E 17th St, Muncie, IN 47302

Florence Irey-Crum, c/o Melinda Franz, 2807 W. Woodbridge, Muncie, IN 47304 (mother of Julia Pittenger/Susan Reno)

Odessa DeHaven, 2300 W White River Blvd, Apt 12 Muncie, IN 47303

Kay Farling, Hoosier Village, Hawthorn Hall, 9999 Hoosier Village Dr. #227 Indianapolis, IN 46268-3969

Ann Golden, 7430 W CR 550 South, Daleville IN 47334

Dorothy Hawkins, Lynd House, 3602 S Ironwood #211 B-E, South Bend, IN 46614

Nadine Johnson, 4100 N Morrison Rd, Muncie, IN 47304 (mother of Judy Turner)

Betty Lacey, Yorktown Nursing & Rehabilitation, 2000 S. Andrews Road, Yorktown, IN 47396

Roberta Phelps, Park Place Room 106, 359 Randolph St, Parker City, IN 47368, (mother of Mick Phelps) Rex and Donna Pittenger, 5801 W Bethel Ave, #531, Muncie, IN 47304

Lila Thompson, 708 S Rambler Road, Muncie, IN 47304

Melissa Wallace, 1412 W. Tree Lane, Muncie, IN 47302, (daughter of Fred Wallace)

Louise Whitaker, 5801 W Bethel Ave #602, Muncie 47304

Mary Whitaker, c/o Marsha Smith, 2000 Tam O’Shanter Dr, Mt. Vernon, IN 47620



Our Scout Troop 1 Troop 1 is going to summer camp with Troop 39 of St Mary’s Church and Crew 1. We will have a full house, 11 from Troop 39, 2 from Crew 1, and 13 from Troop 1. We have five scouts working on the Scout rank. We have 2 scouts that will be earning the rank of Tenderfoot. One scout earning 2nd Class. One scout that has earned Star rank.

Our Crew 1

Next Friday, the Crew is heading for West Virginia! (Saturday, June 30 to Saturday, July 7th) This year marks the 20th anniversary of Venturing and we are going to be at the celebration! Three scouts and I are going to be there. VenturingFest is a week long, high adventure camp that includes, skateboarding, climbing, white-water rafting, shooting, and of course Zip Lining and a whole lot more. Special events will also be held each evening. When they get back, all three are planning on going to Camp Ransburg with the Troop (Just two weeks after VentureFest). Karissa Dowd will be working on completing the Firecrafter Rank and her Ranger Award. [Both are the highest rand and award in their respective area.]

Karissa Dowd, has been selected to be the Vice President of Area 6 (the area includes some of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and all of Indiana) This is a national level of scouting and she has already started to work with scouts from all over the Central Region. So, a lot going on in just a month!

Reminder to the congregation, if you know anybody, young male or female, that is 14-20 years old, please have them get in touch with our Crew about joining this exciting program! Yours in Scouting, Scott Dowd Crew 1 Advisor

Karrissa Dowd (left) having her gold loops placed on her uniform as Vice President of Area 6 until June 2019.



Date Outside Door Inside Door

July 1 Janet Schamp Beverly Reese

July 8 Alan McGee Sally Wetzel

July 15 Sandy Abbott Sandy Jordan

July 22 Barry Turner Judy Turner

July 29 Herb Blank Karen Blank

Aug 5 Cindy Miller Lynn Wright

Aug 12 Dick Murray Jan Johnson

Aug 19 Bob Harrison Sharon Harrison

Aug 26 Darwin Keyton Linda Keyton

Sunday School

There are three Sunday School classes that meet at RUMC. All of these classes welcome new participants.

All classes resume Sept 9.

Add-a-Link 8:30 am, Main Level, Room 204

Leader: Fritz Dolak -------------------------------------------------

Master’s Charges, Upper Level 302 following worship

------------------------------------------ Builder’s Class, 8:30 am, Main Level, Room 203

Leader: Florence Shelby

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Ann Golden 8/1 Ruth Garringer 8/2 Bob Harvey 8/4 Jerry Hill 8/7 Lynn Wright 8/7 Odessa DeHaven 8/9 Donna Pittenger 8/10 Mary Ann Beuoy 8/13 Marlene Boyer 8/16 Erika Pugsley 8/16 Rex Pittenger 8/24 Peggy Park 8/31 Larry Souders 8/31

Joe Mitchell 7/1 Amy Clevenger 7/2 Julia Cougill 7/6 Peggy Polk 7/10 Marge Salisbury 7/12 Sharon Harrison 7/14 Frank Campbell 7/26 Nick Rodriguez 7/29 Cindy Miller 7/30

Happy Anniversary Herb & Karen Blank 7/28

Doran & Joyce Kendall 8/25

Rich & Aonde Carraway 8/27

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