Thee and Me
Plainfield Friends Meeting
Newsletter
105 S East Street
Plainfield, IN 46168
(317) 839-6490
www.PlainfieldFriends.org
June 2015
Finding Your Way Back to God
want to find God. It’s about making the biggest
"Finding Your Way Back to God" is the theme
wager of your life: “God, if you are real, then
for this Summer. The Bible is a book of stories
make yourself real to me” – and seeing if God
about people wandering toward God and away
from God. People like Abraham, David, Isaiah,
Peter, John and Paul sometimes seek God
and sometimes run away from God. And we
walk (and run) in their footsteps. Rufus Jones
summed up the Good News this way: "The
reason we can hope to find God is that [God]
is here, engaged all the time in finding us."
responds.
Each of us spends our lives on a journey
Sunday mornings @ 10:30
toward God. Yet often our most deeply felt
longings—for
meaning,
for
love,
for
significance—end up leading us away from,
Bill
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Highlights of the May
instead of toward, our Creator and what we
Monthly Meeting
were made to be.
Finding Your Way Back to God shows you how
to understand and listen to your longings in a
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whole new way. It’s about waking up to who
you really are, and daring to believe that God
wants you to be found even more than you
Minutes of 4th month were approved,
with corrections.
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A letter to all pastors and clerks was
received from West Middleton Friends,
stating that they will be remaining with
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WYM.
on May 29 for themselves and the Cub
Pastor Bill Clendineng reported that it
Scouts on May 30.
was a good Easter and that the Pancake
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putting a banner on the west end of
Della Stanley-Green met with teachers
building announcing we are a Friends
The Meeting focus during June and July
children's program begins on the second
will have cards at Farmers' Markets to
will be based on the theme, "Finding
Sunday of June and runs until August.
hand out to people. We are supplying
Tom Newlin reports that we have been
the venue for the market as part of our
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Bill Heald reported that a request for a
denied tax exempt status from Duke
community involvement.
vacation for Pastor Bill was approved
Energy. He recommends that we apply
from June 17-23. Approved.
for our own 501(c)3 status, instead of
Ann Long on Saturday, August 15th at
Ministry and Counsel recommended that
being under the WYM "umbrella." The
the Inter Urban Depot for their 50th
there will be no Monthly Meeting in
cost will be $850. Approved.
wedding anniversary.
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WYM.
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with
day went well and the memorial tree for
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Friends Apartments will be having a sale
guests
from
the
The task group has decided to plan an
extended Sunday school and child
program along with breakfast beginning
Della
selling used books at the Yard Sale. The
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4th and August 1st.
We are not
Stanley-Green reported that PME will be
about
on June 6th, then another one on July
planted.
The Yard Sale is on May 30.
There will be a party for Roger and Mary
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Fellowship Meal &
Monthly Meeting
June 21st
community. The next breakfast will be
Dean and Carolyn Turner has been
meeting our expenses.
Wayne Carter tells us that the May 2
Pancake Breakfast was very successful
Morey Gladden reports that the work
and income went down.
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Interim Christian Education Director of
Mennonite church.
Tom Newlin states that both expenses
Congratulations to Andrew Heald on his
graduation from Purdue and becoming
Ministry and Counsel recommended that
membership as they have joined a
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recommends
Meeting and are an active church. We
the Furnish family be removed from
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Counsel
The Summer
Approved.
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and
and Kathy Clendineng.
July, as it will conflict with WYM.
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Ministry
Breakfast on May 2nd went very well.
Your Way Back to God." Approved.
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on June 14th.
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We will be inviting Young Adults. Will
try to have them meet around the fire pit
as well as adults.
Make plans to stay for the fellowship meal
and Monthly Meeting, following worship on
Sunday, June 21st.
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Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
2
1
3
Friday
Saturday
4
5
10 am - Worship at
Friends Apt Homes
Junior High Camp
7
Sandy Hardin
John Hutchens
8
8:30 - Quiet Worship
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship
2:30 - Worship at Plainfield
Health Care Center
Senior High Camp
Amy Carpenter
9
12 pm - Missions
Meal
14
15
Cliff Frost
16
21
28
1 pm - USFW
10 am - Worship at
Friends Apt Homes
4 - 7 pm Farmers'
Market
Edna Pedigo
Judith Richardson
6 pm - MOPS
Committee
Ashley Gibbons
Sandy Hohlweg
17
18
Nancy Newlin
Barbara Sisson
12
19
13
Faye Mosier
20
4 - 7 pm Farmers'
Market
22
Bill Clendineng
11
10 am - Worship at
Friends Apt Homes
23
8:30 - Quiet Worship
Adventure Camp
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship
Fellowship Meal & Meeting for
Business
LaRia Rumball
10
9 am - Neighborhood
Pancake Breakfast
Beginners Camp
8:30 - Quiet Worship
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship
2 pm - Worship at Sugar Grove 7 pm - Ministry &
Senior Living
Counsel
Tom Newlin
Father's Day
4 - 7 pm Farmers'
Market
Philip Johnson
6
Mabel Derbyshire
24
Clark Hoage
25
Martha Bryant
26
27
7:30 am - Quaker
Men
10 am - Worship at
Friends Apt Homes
4 - 7 pm Farmers'
Market
29
30
8:30 - Quiet Worship
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship
Everett Stanley
Rachel Furnish
Plainfield Friends Meeting
David Bryant
Gladys Mongan
Steven Thompson
105 S East Street
Plainfield, IN 46168
(317) 839-6490
www.plainfieldfriends.org
[email protected]
June 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
1
Plainfield Friends Meeting
105 S East Street
Plainfield, IN 46168
(317) 839-6490
www.plainfieldfriends.org
Friday
Saturday
3
3
10 am - Worship at
Friends Apt Homes
[email protected]
5
Thursday
6
7
4 - 7 pm Farmers'
Market
7 pm Athenaeum
Pops Orchestra
8
8:30 - Quiet Worship
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship
Ruth Hadley
Julie Nobumori
Independence
Day
4
9-11 Neighborhood
Pancake Breakfast
9
10
Carl Walton
11
10 am - Worship at
Friends Apt Homes
4 - 7 pm Farmers'
Market
12
8:30 - Quiet Worship
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship
2:00 - Worship at Sugar
Grove Senior Living
5:30 - Movie Night
13
Morey Gladden
14
Deanna Everhart
15
Virginia Vapor
17
Jaymie Cowell
18
Yearly Meeting Sessions 16-19
7 pm - Ministry &
Counsel
19
20
James Carpenter
Chad Hardin
Mark Newlin
4 - 7 pm Farmers'
Market
21
22
Deborah Roberts
23
Laura LaPorte
Shawn Peterson
24
26
Teddy Means
27
Nancy Copeland
28
4 - 7 pm Farmers'
Market
Jim Wilson
Ron Copeland
29
Debra Clark
Joanne Clark
Denise JaeckelCopeland
7:30 am - Quaker
Men
10 am - Worship at
Friends Apt Homes
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship
8:30 - Quiet Worship
9:30 - Sunday School
10:30 - Worship
2:30 - Worship at Plainfield
Health Care Center
16
30
Andrew Heald
31
Bill Heald
LuAnne Turner
10 am - Worship at
Friends Apt Homes
4 - 7 pm Farmers'
Market
Clark Hadley
July 2015
25