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Rayne
MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH for 142 years shining the light of God’s love and grace
3900 Saint Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70115 504-899-3431 www.raynenola.org Sunday Worship at 8:45 and 11 am
February 7, 2018
We Welcome All! We warmly welcome all to worship on Sundays at 8:45 or 11 am and Sunday
School at 9:45 am, to participate freely in the life of this community of faith and love, and to become a member of this congregation. Rayne welcomes and embraces all people regardless of race, class, gender, or sexual orientation with open hearts, open minds, and open doors!
Welcome to Rayne!
Jazz Sunday
One service at 10 am with the Mark Braud Band All are welcome!
If you are interested in becoming part of the Rayne community, please contact
Jay Hogewood at 225-772-3550 or
NEW ITEMS OF INTEREST*
- Friday, February 9, 2 pm RECP Mardi Gras Parade - Wednesday , Febrary 21, 6 pm Lenten Study begins and SCL Wednesday night study resumes.
- Saturday, February 24, 8 am - 4 pm Habitat for Humanity hosts Unity Build Reunion Day - Friday, March 23, 7 - 10 pm Brass Bash at the Howlin’ Wolf to benefit Luke’s House Medical Clinic
*Highlights new events added this week. Note what interests you and find the full details in this newsletter.
Ash Wednesday Services
7-8 am Ashes, Sanctuary 12 pm Service, Mt. Zion UMC
6 pm Service at Rayne with The Chancel Choir
Directed by C. Leonard Raybon Marcus St. Julien, organist
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Lenten Study with Pastor Jay
Wednesday, at 6-7 pm, in the Friendship Class (Room 108)
This class will meditate and reflect on the last seven sayings of Je-sus upon the cross on Wednesdays during Lent (February 21 & 28, March 7, 14, & 21). All are welcome to come and experience these
powerful words that impact our lives!
Upcoming Events
Jazz Service Sunday, February 11
at 10 am with the Mark Braud Band
One service for all - children, adults, teens, parade goers, jazz music
lovers, visitors & members alike, King cake connoisseurs, krewe
members and Mardi Gras aficionados! All are welcome!
Stay for lunch after the service! Rayne 20/30 will sell hot dog lunches to raise money for the Crescent City Cafe expansion.
Hot dog meals will be $8 including all the fixins,
chips, and dessert. Support a great cause by buying a lunch & bringing a friend!
Wrist bands will be needed to enter the
building or circle drive while enjoying the parades after worship. Please purchase ($5
each for anyone age 5 and over) wrist bands for each person and plan to stay with your guests.
Make plans to attend on Sunday, February 18, 6 pm
Hosted by the UMM
Romantic 7-Course Gourmet Dinner featuring foods from Spain
•Lively Spanish music •Childcare provided
•Proceeds go to Crescent City Café & NOLA Wesley
Tickets are $25 and will be for sale
on February 11 after services.
Deadline for ticket purchases:
Wednesday, February 14. Sorry, no walk-ins or
tickets sold on the day of the event.
RECP Mardi Gras Parade - Friday, February 9, 2 pm
Announcing ~ King Jonathan and Queen Flora
of the Dalmatians Class
Come one, come all!
Come enjoy the hottest local musicians and spirits, plus a wine pull and silent auction to celebrate the
10th Anniversary of Luke’s House Clinic.
With your support, Luke's House Clinic provides 100% free medical care, eye exams, and glasses
to the medically underserved and uninsured in our city.
March 23, 7 - 10 pm , at the Howlin' Wolf
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Always Needed at the Donation Station Hotel-sized amenities: soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotions, toothpaste, toothbrushes, as well as razors, reading glasses, and bandaids. _________________________________________________
Crescent City Café This young adult ministry, “compelled by the love of Christ,” serves a gourmet breakfast restaurant-style with dignity and grace to those in need twice monthly. The next café will be Saturday, February 17, 8 am, in the Fellowship Hall. To donate or volunteer, go to www.crescentcitycafe.com _________________________________________________
Comfort Food The Salt Team will prepare a meal in the kitchen after worship on Sunday, February 25, to be served on Tuesday, February 27, at The Open Table. To join the Salt, Pepper, Spice, or Tabasco Team, email [email protected] _________________________________________________
The Open Table Servers are welcome at the Open Table! If you would like to serve Comfort Food, join us at 2700 Louisiana Avenue on Tuesday, February 27, at 3 pm.
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The Intercessory Prayer Group This group meets each Tuesday at 1 pm in the Associate Pastor’s office to pray for the concerns of our community of believers. All are welcome to join in prayer!
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Sunday Morning Volunteers Greeters, Ushers, Kitchen Crew
If you are able and willing to help with any of these tasks on Sunday morning, email [email protected]
Children’s Choir
Resumes on
Wednesday, February 21,
at 6 pm, with
Kid’s Café at 5:30 pm,
serving PB & J sandwiches!
For more information, email
Opportunities for Service
Mardi Gras 2018
Parking, Circle Drive and Building passes are still available. Email Shaun with the days and number needed, [email protected]
Parking, Circle Drive, and Building passes for the following dates:
Thursday, February 8 Friday, February 9
Saturday, February 10 Sunday, February 11 Monday, February 12 Tuesday, February 13
Wrist bands $5— enter circle drive or building when open on Sunday & Tuesday
Parking $25-50 depending on the day
All proceeds go to the Rayne Youth Group to fund the 2018
Summer Mission Trip.
Can you lend a hand to support the Rayne Youth Group????
Volunteer to work at the potties Friday 5-8pm, Saturday 11am-2pm, or Sunday 5-8pm
By emailing [email protected]
The Rayne Food Pantry is BARE!!! The items needed are: canned meat (tuna fish, chicken, Vienna Sausag-es), canned vegetables, soup (not condensed), chili, stew, and single canned meals (Ravioli, Spaghettios, Beefaroni, etc.). Most of our neigh-bors seeking food do not have a way
to prepare it. When possible, it is better to purchase cans with easy open tabs, pouches, cartons or bottles.
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Opportunities for Spiritual Growth
Young Adult Bible Study
Mondays from 6:30-8 pm
Youth Room #219
The Good and Beautiful Life Lenten Study
The Good and Beautiful God
The Good and Beautiful Life
beginning on February 19. Contact Courtney Stuckwisch ([email protected]) to order a book.
Hot Dogs for a Cause on Jazz Sunday Sunday, February 11
Volunteer with us to cook and sell hot dog lunches to raise money for the Crescent City Cafe expansion. Hot dog meals will be $8
including all the fixins, chips, and dessert following the 10 am Jazz Sunday service. We'd love your support in buying a lunch, telling
a friend, and/or volunteering in the kitchen. Contact Courtney Stuckwisch ([email protected]) to volunteer.
Volunteer with YLC Recycles February 11
YLC Recycles will be debuting a new pilot program this year in partnership with the Arc of Greater New Orleans where we will be collecting plastic bottles and cups, aluminum cans and Mardi Gras beads to recycle. The YLC and Arc need 100 volunteers for
each parade to be successful. Water, snacks, and clean restroom facilities will be provided. Please sign-up for one or more shifts.
For more information: [email protected]
Next Women's Study
March 1
WEDNESDAY EVENING CLASS HOSTED BY SCL *Class resumes on February 21 and will convene at Rayne’s Epiphany House at 6 pm with centering prayer at 5:30 All are welcome to join this class discussion of the book Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman.
SACRED YOGA ON THURSDAYS Sacred Yoga at 9:30 am, followed by Circle Trust at 10:30 am The Thursday morning groups will take place at Rayne’s Epiphany House (3924 St. Charles Avenue). All friends and Rayne members are welcome!
NEXT WORKSHOP: Saturday, February 24, 9 am - 3 pm Opening to God: Sandplay Retreat (cost $40) Munholland UMC, 1201 Metairie Road RSVP by Feb. 11 to [email protected]
For more information: [email protected]
FAITHWORKS CLASS
Sundays, 10 am, Meeting at the Epiphany House
This class begins a study of Life Lessons: Books of 1 & 2 Peter by Max Lucado. Class will be led by attendees, including Dr. Bob
Hopkins. This study is a great opportunity to learn about these lesser known books of the New Testament. All are welcome!
GRATITUDE CLASS Sundays, 10 am, Meeting at the Epiphany House
Real Love in an Angry World explores how to stick to your convictions without alienating people. Pastor and Author
Rick Bezet shares how to speak the truth in love by spending time with Jesus, the one who did it best.
MOMS’ BIBLE STUDY Thursday, February 15, 6:30 pm, Meeting at the Epiphany House
Convene with other mothers on a monthly basis starting in 2018. For information please email
Holly Flora Meck at [email protected]
BIBLE, BREAKFAST, BEATITUDES Saturday, February 24 at 9 am
Rayne's Epiphany House
Meet with the community of Rayne men for fellowship and
food as we study Jesus' teaching in Matthew 5. All men are welcome!
GRACE CLASS & ONE IN THE SPIRIT CLASS Sundays, 10 am, Library, Room #107
All are welcome to meet with these classes for another Rohr study, Falling Upward - A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life.
WILDERNESS CLASS Sundays, 10 am, Friendship Room #108
This class continues a study, ON THE BRINK, and will deal with Christian values. As a person and as a society, when we have
come to the point in a crisis where we have tried everything we know how to try and none of it works---when ON THE BRINK of
something cataclysmic happening--- what do we do?
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Sundays 5-7 pm Youth Fellowship
5-6:30 pm Women’s Covenant Group
Mondays 1 pm Staff Meeting
6 pm Ministry Meetings
6:30 pm Rayne 20/30 for Young Adults
6:30 pm AA Meeting
Tuesdays 12 pm Brown Bag Covenant Group
1 pm Intercessory Prayer Group
3 pm Open Table
5:30 pm Luke’s House Medical Clinic
6:30 pm Covenant Group
Wednesdays 6 pm Children’s Choir (seasonal)
6 pm Wednesday Classes (seasonal)
7 pm Chancel Choir Rehearsal
7:30 pm Overeaters Anonymous
Thursdays 9:30 am Sacred Yoga
6:30 pm Luke’s House Medical Clinic
7 pm Al-Anon/AA Meetings
Saturday 9 am STAIR Tutoring
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Upcoming Meetings
Thursday, February 15, 6 pm
Caring for Creation Committee
Monday, February 19, 6 pm Board of Trustees
Hearing Assists Many hearing assists are missing and we need them. If you are in
possession of one, please return it to the table in the back of the Sanctuary.
Thank you!
Gluten-Free
Communion Elements Those who are on gluten-free diets may request gluten-free
elements at any station each time we celebrate the Lord’s Supper.
Announcements
Transfiguration Sunday 2 Kings 2:1-12 Psalm 50:1-6
2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9
Rayne Pledge Report
201 Pledges for 2018 701,932
155 Pledges for 2017 701,127
Contribute to Rayne:
Online at www.raynenola.org
Use your smart phone
to open your own account
with the church for making
contributions and viewing
your giving record or
text “giverayne” to 73256
Let Us Pray — for Elizabeth Rietvelt’s Father, Barbara Clark, Chloe Brown, Emma
Ryan, Mirtha Blanco, Jan Bugg, Bonnie Catalanotto, Alicia Phelps,
Michelle Mershon, Mr. Newman, Bee Norris, ReNae Kowaleski, Cecilia
Hayward, Bryan Slate, Judy Mastainich, George Mastainich, Denise
Frederick, Greta Bugg, Mina and Ernest O’Bannon, Wayne McConnell,
Samantha and Eric Sawa, Lisa Settles’ Father, Aubrey DeRobertis, George
Caldwell, Fred Young, Robert Connolly, Dan Sikes, Thaïs St. Julien,
Andrew McLetchie, Laura Coatney, and Denise Trahant.
Thank You — Rayne 20/30 for organizing our Jazz Sunday lunch and raising funds for wonderful missions in our community. — All the amazing Mardi Gras volunteers—for staffing the potties and supplying food—it takes a team—and we have the best!
RAYNE YOUTH
Find a connection
with friends, faith,
food, fun, and fellowship!
Mardi Gras is THIS week!
Remember to sign up for shifts.
Each hour worked goes toward the cost of
your 2018 Summer Mission Trip.
Mardi Gras Potties will be open February 7-13.
Youth will not meet on Sundays,
February 4, 11 & 18. See you at the potties!
HEYYYY! Throw me sumthin, Mista!!!!
Do you have an announcement for an event, class, or study happening at Rayne????
Send an email with the information to
each of the following addresses:
[email protected] [email protected]
Please note that the deadline is Tuesdays at 9 am for broadcast in the same week.