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"To make disciples for Jesus Christ by proclaiming God's Good News
and by providing a community for spiritual growth"
News From the ROCK.. . Rockbrook United Methodist Church
9855 W. Center Rd
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: 402-393-1015
Fax: 402-955-1434
E-mail: [email protected]
www.rockbrookumc.com
Thank You’s Dear Rockbrook Congregation,
(from the Confirmation Class!)
Thank you all for supporting us on Sunday, May 5th &
welcoming us into the Rockbrook family.
Special thank you’s to:
Rev. Corson for taking the time to teach
us & our new Bibles......
Dr. Gregg Drabek for participating in our
special service.....
Ms. Julie Vidlak helping us
serve Communion.....
The Education Committee for the great
reception after church & our gifts......
The UMW who helped serve at
our reception......
For all the wonderful cards we received!
Ms. Ripley for keeping us in line
every week...lol
And our parents, for bringing us to this
wonderful church!
Everything was greatly appreciated!
Jayden
Noah
Gwen
Dylan
Ethan
Rockbrook United Methodist Church
NEWS FROM THE ROCK...
On May 19th I was pleased to be part of the celebration at the Tri-Faith
Commons, for the dedication of “Abraham’s Bridge,” which crosses Hell
Creek, uniting the buildings of the Tri-Faith community; the groundbreaking
for the Tri-Faith Center building; and the “official” open house for the new
Countryside Community Church.
There is also a United Methodist presence on the Commons, as the planting
of the community garden and orchards were done through the BIG Garden
Project, and our friend Nathan Morgan.
I had a chance to chat with old friends and make new ones. I reconnected
with my old friend Wendy Goldberg, who is now the Interim Director of the
Tri-Faith Initiative. I spoke with Rev. Eric Elnes, Lead Pastor at Country-
side Church, whose books I have read but whom I had never had a chance to
meet before. I met The Most Reverend Joe Goodwin Burnett, former
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska; we talked about the progress
being made toward the Episcopal and United Methodist Churches joining in
full communion. I talked with a woman whose daughter was among those
who took shelter in the basement of Temple Israel during the tornado of
1975, as her mother and family prayed for her while they took shelter under
a desk in the basement of their home. I met so many people from so many
faith traditions sharing their good news. It was truly a blessing to be there
on that day.
It was a reminder of Jesus’ command to love one another! We are all
different. We don’t agree on everything. But when we come together in
love, and celebrate all that we have in common, the result is blessed and
joyous!
Have a blessed and joyous summer!
Pastor Jim
June 2019
News From the Rock . . .
They’re NOT going to call!
They may ask you if it’s okay to call, but
they’re not going to call.
Even if they ask you if you would like
them to call, they’re not going to call… Because of privacy laws and cutbacks, hospitals and other health care givers do not call churches any
more. Unfortunately, this has led to many people becoming angry at their churches and pastors for
not coming to make a visit.
Although this has been true for more than 15 years, most of us still are not used to it. And, to make
matters worse, hospitals have not changed the questions that they ask when someone checks in, mak-
ing it sound as if they will call your church. They’re not going to call.
Please call the church or the pastor if you are hospitalized, would like a visit, or would simply like
prayers. Also please let your families know that you would like them to call the church if you are
not able to do so. Thank you!
Save The Date!
5th Sunday Summer Picnic!All Church Event - Sunday, June 30th
Old-Fashioned Indoor Picnic
Noon - 2 p.m.
Sign up begins
June 16th in the Parlor
area or online! More
info to follow!
Sessions are
from 2:00-8:00pm. An appointment is
requested!
Sessions are
from 2-8pm!
Our Fontanelle Campers for May & June!
Rockbrook children love Camp Fontanelle!
Scholarships from Rockbrook are available to cover 1/3 the cost regardless of need!
Families should have received camp information from Julie or Lynn. Please return
scholarship applications to Julie or Lynn prior to attending camp.
Garage Sale Rockbrook United Methodist Church
July 25th, 26th, & 27th
9a-6p 9a-3p 9a-Noon
We are collecting clothes, small furniture, kitchen items, pictures, curtains, toys, jewelry, books of all kinds. Drop off downstairs in the
2 designated rooms. Follow the signs!
Have you blocked us?
With so many telemarketers, spammers, spoofers…
a lot of us are blocking calls or not answering phone numbers that we don’t recognize.
So we want you to know that Rockbrook Church actually has three lines, each with a
different phone number:
402-393-1015 (our main line)
402-393-1172 (our second line)
402-955-1434 (our third/fax line)
If you would please check your phone so that these numbers are allowed to ring, we
would appreciate it!
UNITED
METHODIST WOMEN
No Circle Meetings in June!
UMW Executive Board Meeting
June 24, 2019 9:30am Monday (FR)
Girls Night Out! July 10, 2019
6:30pm Wednesday
Entertainment & Catered Dinner! (FH)
News From the Rock . . .
Check out the newly decorated
UMW bulletin board going down
the steps toward the Children's
wing! Thanks to Janice Samson
for the wonderful decorations
celebrating
UMW’s 150th Birthday!
Episcopal and United Methodist churches
take step toward full communion
The Episcopal Church – United Methodist Dialogue Committee has agreed to send a
resolution for full communion to be considered by the Council of Bishops and for possible
consideration by the 2020 General Conference of The United Methodist Church.
The members of the committee made the decision during their meeting April 29-30 at
First United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas.
“We acknowledge that the decisions of the 2019 Special Session of the United Methodist
General Conference have deepened divisions within The UMC and introduced sharp and as
yet unanswered questions about the prospects for full communion between our churches,” the
members said in a statement released today. “And yet, we believe that what we are
experiencing in the various crises of our denominational life is the birth pangs of something
remarkable, something new. We believe that the forces of polarization, mistrust, and
animosity in our society and in our ecclesial life will not have the last word.”
To read the full statement from the Committee go to: http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/
episcopal-and-united-methodist-churches-take-step-toward-full-
communion#.XMtYxEKaskg.email
News From the Rock . . .
Team Rockbrook participated in the Omaha MS Walk 2019 on May 18th.
Weather was great with sunshine and a good breeze. Sixteen walkers represented Team Rockbrook as we walked to change the world for those affected
by MS. Approximately $1000 has been received in donations. THANKS to those who donated money and to those who walked on May 18th!
Linda Stroud
Rockbrook family,
Thank you for supporting Walk MS! I appreciate your your efforts to promote research for MS.
With gratitude, Sue Getzlaff
May people we remembered in prayer:
Bob Alden & family, Artie Shaw,
Bev Tomasek, Bob Glenn
& our Military personnel
June
6/01 David Marshall
6/01 Luke Welander
6/07 Anna Welander
6/08 Ella Ariza
6/11 Sara Jorgensen
6/11 David Shabram
6/11 Josh Willits
6/12 Joyce Ebers
6/15 Teresa Holdcroft
6/17 John Lehmann
6/18 Brian Schamber
6/18 Bill Getzlaff
6/22 Nathan Cox
Teri Engstrom
6/23 Ethan Zelansey
6/24 Essie Grill
6/24 Jerry Ebers
6/25 Bob Alden
PPrayerMinistry
2nd & 4th
Thursdaysof the month.
Friendship Room6:30 pm
MEN’SMinistry
Held in the Friendship Room on the 1st & 3rd Thursdays of the month at 7pm
An easy way to support Rockbrook Church –we are now on TAGG!
You can support the church by shopping at hundreds of
local businesses. Here’s how it works:
1. Download TAGG to your iPhone or Android (free)
2. Any time you visit a participating TAGG business,
submit a photo of your receipt within 7 days
3. Choose Rockbrook United Methodist Church as your
organization.
4. The participating business will donate (usually 5% of
your purchase) to the church.
Volunteer to serve a meal at the
Stephen Center with our RUMC team!
* Volunteer to donate the ingredients for our monthly meal. (Ingredient list items provided on clipboard)
•Help prepare meal at Rockbrook
•Sign-up sheet is located in the Parlor area above the coffee table on our clipboard!!
•Contact Vance Allred with any questions!!
Our next serving date at the Stephen Center will be Thursday, May 30th ,2019 or:
News From the ROCK.. .
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
2 VBS Kick-off!!
8:00, 8:45a & 10:45a
Worship Services
9:35a Faith Development
VBS - optional RSVP dinner
5:30p (FH)
3 VBS 6-8:30p
5:50p Aerobics (P)
VBS - optional RSVP
dinner 5:30p (FH)
4 VBS 6-8:30p
VBS - optional RSVP
dinner 5:30p (FH)
5 VBS 6-8:30p
5:50p Aerobics (P)
VBS - optional RSVP dinner
5:30p (FH)
6 VBS 6-8:30p 7:00p Men’s Ministry (FR )
7:30p Praise Band Reh. (S)
VBS - optional RSVP dinner
5:30p (FH)
7
8
Bob Alden
Memorial Service
10:30am (S)
Lunch to follow (FH)
9 VBS Program
10:45am Service
8:00, 8:45a & 10:45a
Worship Services
9:35a Faith Development
10
5:50p Aerobics (FH)
6:30p Radical Hospitality
(FR)
7:00 p Gracious
Generosity Team (FO)
11
7:30p Crossfire Sq.
Dance (FH)
12
5:50p Aerobics (FH)
13
6:00p SPPRC Meeting (FR)
6:30p Scout Meeting (LL)
6:30p Prayer Ministry (FO)
7:00p Sq. Dance Lessons (FH)
7:30p Praise Band Reh. (S)
14
15
16
8:00, 8:45a & 10:45a
Worship Services
9:35a Faith Development
17
5:50p Aerobics (FH)
18
7:00p Heartland
Singles Sq. Dance (FH)
19
5:50p Aerobics (FH)
20
7:00p Men’s Ministry (FR)
6:30p Scout Mtg. (LL)
7:00p Sq. Dance Lessons (FH)
7:30p Praise Band Reh. (S)
21
Newsletter articles
due for July
Newsletter!
22
23 8:00, 8:45a,10:45a Worship
Services
9:35a Faith Development
1-4pm Reilly event (FH)
24
9:30a UMW Ex. Board
Mtg. (FR)
5:50p Aerobics (FH)
25
26
5:50p Aerobics (FH)
27
6:30p Scout Meeting (LL)
6:30p Prayer Ministry (FR)
7:00p Sq. Dance Lessons (FH)
7:30p Praise Band Reh. (S)
28 29
June 2019
(S) Sanctuary
(FR) Friendship
Room
(WW) West Wing
(BR) Bell Choir
Room
(FO) Finance Office
(P) Parlor
July Newsletter articles due by June 21st!
30 Youth Mission
Trip Program 10:45a service
8:00, 8:45a Worship Ser.
9:35a Faith Development
Noon - 5th Sunday Potluck
Picnic (FH)
Youth Mission Trip to Benton Harbor, Michigan!
From the Church Council…
John Wesley called prayer “the grand means of drawing near to God.” He diligently spent at
least two hours every day in fervent prayer and called upon us to “pray unceasingly.” Prayer
can help us turn our fears, anxiety, challenges and burdens into faith which can heal us. This
healing faith can transform us personally and collectively.
As we face personal challenges and the upheaval in our denomination, prayer must continue
to be a focus in our spiritual growth and care for one another. Prayers for our congregation are
uplifted by our Rockbrook prayer ministry. While small in number they, too, fervently follow the
lead of Mr. Wesley.
Prayer cards (available in all pews and attendance books) can be filled out for prayer by
Pastor Jim and the prayer ministry. Pastor Jim prays over all cards received and those cards
not marked as “pastor only” are shared with the prayer ministry. Prayer requests can be given
to the ushers during the service or dropped in the “prayer box” in the narthex.
All prayer requests are kept in the strictest confidence whether shared only with Pastor Jim or
with Pastor and the prayer ministry.
Let us take comfort in the words of Philippians 4:6-7: “Do not worry about anything, but in
everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to
God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and
your minds in Christ Jesus.”
You are invited to join the prayer ministry as they gather on the second and fourth Thursday
evenings at 6:30 PM in the Friendship Room.
With blessings and thanks,
Mark
Mark Heinz, Church Council Chairman
News From the Rock . . .
Marc Welander
Youth Director Rockbrook UMC
402-212-4585
2019 Confirmation Class (Front L-R): Jayden Luark, Dylan Schamber, Ethan Zelansey, Gwen Holly & Noah Richardson
June 2 (Sunday) - Morning Worship 9:35 am in the Youth Room. Then at the 10:45 service the attendees of the mis-sion trip will receive a blessing for our trip. I invite everyone who is going on the mission trip to join us this morn-ing. VBS starts this night too at 5:30 pm with optional supper. We will not have a Youth Group meeting this week as we will be helping with VBS.
June 15 (Saturday) - BBQ at the church around 5:30 pm we will gather. I need you to reply to this email if you will be attending and how many in your party. You are invited if you are receiving this email. I ask that you bring your family with you. It is important to get a reply from you with a count before June 13. If there are former youth group members you are in contact with please invite them too. This will be a send off for our mission trip as we will load the van prior to our departure the next morning.
June 16 (Sunday) - Leave for Benton Harbor, MI on our mission trip 6:30 am from the main church parking lot.
June 21 (Friday) - Return from our mission trip late afternoon. I will be using our group text on the way back to let you know our progress. We will meet at the church and go into the parlor for a "mini" debrief of our trip. Everyone is welcome to hear the great news.
Congratulations Justin!!