The June 2015 Chronicle Each month, this newsletter of Calvary Church is published to provide news and information about upcoming events and ministries in the life of Calvary Church, and to celebrate people and happenings in what God has done, is doing, and will do in us. Typically, this has been a printed item, mailed out to members and regular non-members, with a few email recipients. Beginning with the JULY, 2015 edition, we will be sending the Chronicle by email to you (except for those without email addresses or those who specifically request paper copies – who will continue to receive paper copies mailed to them via surface mail). Full copies will also be available in the Main Lobby for visitors and guests. This transition to electronic mailing will significantly reduce paper, copying, and mailing costs, and also allow us to include pictures and other visuals in color, variety, and number. If you have an email address, please make sure that you provide it to the church office ([email protected]) to receive the Chronicle, weekly e-news, and other items which are sent electronically. Look for it arriving to you soon! Worship by the Water Beginning June 21, the 8:45 worship service will be held outside, weather permitting. Bring a chair or a blanket and join us out back by the creek! A moment with Mernie... “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13) A fresh summer breeze is blowing through Calvary United Methodist Church. It follows the mighty wind of Pentecost that each year reminds us of the birth of the church. Just as birth brings new life, opportunities, and expectations, so, too, does the breeze we find blowing through our congregation. Summer brings fresh opportunities to get together, ask questions of faith, and engage in a different way. We can discover new expectations God has for the call on our lives. Will you open the window to let in the breeze or will you stay in place? Many of you, if we are honest, have grown up with the idea that summer is a time to take off from church. Perhaps it is due to the lengthening of daylight hours or change in work and study routines. Perhaps it is vacation time or seasonal commitments with family and friends. There is a problem with this---not with the daylight hours, changing routines, vacation or commitments, but with the idea of taking a season off from your faith. What happens when we don’t nurture a relationship? The relationship withers and, if left too long, can even die. The same holds true for our relationship with God and each other. What happens to the childlike faith that never asks questions? It never grows into the fullness of understanding intended for it. The same holds true for our understanding of God and what it means to be God’s people. The concern is nothing new. It reminds me of the apostle Paul’s passionate plea to the Galatians that begins, “My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you...” (Galatians 4:19). The plea shows Paul’s concern over Galatians letting forces come between them and God. Isn’t that what happens when we permit changing routines, vacation, or commitments to interrupt our devotion and faith formation times? We are entering the time of year after Pentecost that is sometimes referred to as “ordinary time”. Some mistakenly equate it with “unexciting” time. Do not let the name fool you! It is called “ordinary”, because we count the Sundays with ordinal numbers (first, second, third) instead of with cardinal numbers (one, two, three). This church season may not include Christmas or Easter celebrations, but excitement often comes with contrast. Consider for a moment what that contrast means in terms of your faith and worship life for this season after Pentecost. The change of pace or schedule that summer brings can give space for visioning and new practices that excite us. It can afford us time to nourish relationships in different ways. Take this season to be refreshed in the church. Open the window a little wider to let in the breeze. Peace and joy, Mernie Page 2 CONGREGATION NEWS On April 26, 2015 we celebrated the Sacrament of Baptism for: Lauren Elizabeth Riffle and Ryan Thomas Riffle, who are the daughter and son of Melinda and Gregory Riffle Congratulations to Kurt Sweely and Heidi Baumbach who were married on May 2, 2015. Annabelle Lee Dooley Born April 29, 2015 to Patrick & Regan Dooley. She is the granddaughter of Robert & Ken Liddick. Page 3 THANK YOU! Dear Calvary Members and Staff, Thank you very much for the prayers, well wishes, visits, and cards during my recent hospitalization. Thank you also to Pastors Mernie and Kenan for their special care shown to me. Your love helped to make my recovery easier. Sincerely, Ashlee Mergler NEW MEMBERS & CONFIRMANDS Meet Calvary’s newest members, received May 17, 2015. Stephen Collins 1915 Towne Centre Blvd. Unit 611 Annapolis, MD 21401 Rachel C. Brinson 1321 Old Pine Court Annapolis, MD 21409 Sharry & Don (not pictured) Reed Same address as above Vee Held 555 Osprey Point Road Crownsville, MD 21032 Donald & Lynn Ogburn 1329 Dickey Drive Davidsonville, MD 21035 William J. Regan 1903 White Heron Road Annapolis, MD 21409 Sofia Barkat Annie Fowler Brooke Quillen Sophia Hartman Ryan Riffle Page 4 Mac Hutcheson Samantha Smithson DATES TO REMEMBER: Jun 14@3:30-7pm Children/Youth Inflatable Extravaganza! Jun 21@10am Dad’s & Doughnuts Celebration Jun 23-24 3rd-5th Gr Mission Lockdown Jul 13-17@5:30-8pm Vacation Bible School Jul 19@Worship Children’s VBS Show BE COUNTED ON THE EXPEDITION TODAY!! July 13-17 from 5:30-8PM (Dinner at 5PM) July 19 VBS Show at Worship Services It is time to get your gear together to join the expedition to the summit. Sign-up today through the our church’s website link. Then you’ll be able to join us in the incredible Bible experiences & songs, fun teambuilding games & science gizmos, and tasty treats. We’ll need expedition leaders for our crews as well. On July 19, we’ll be leading the Sunday worship services to share where we met God that week! Meet ya at base camp! TRIPPIN’ WITH GOD on Tuesdays (3rd-5th Grades) Jun 30; Jul 7, 21; Aug 4, 11, 18 When we meet we will have thrilling trips, fun fellowship, transforming talks, meaningful missions, creative crafts, and lunches together. In all the midst of this fun, we’ll meet God and go deeper learning His ways. Some trips might include: SkyZone, Laser Tag, Bowling, Go-Karts, etc. For more information, contact Christy Little. SOAKIN’ IN GOD on Wednesdays (K - 2nd Grades) Jul 1, 8, 22; Aug 5, 12, 19 For our littlest treasure seekers, we will be discovering God’s love through the life of Jesus. We will play island games, create colorful crafts, and enjoy tropical snacks all while becoming richer in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. For more information, contact Christy Little at 410-268-1776, ext. 115 or [email protected]. WANNA SEE SOME PICTURES?! MISSION LOCKDOWN! Moms & Muffins and the Children’s Worship Service pictures are posted on FaceBook. Check them out! June 23-24—Times TBA (3rd-5th Grades) Be the hands, feet, and word of God as we do a missions blowout this coming summer. We’ll lockdown overnight. There will be many missions we will do; such as, serving at the Shower Ministry, making cards for shut-in’s, collecting backpack supplies for needy kids, and more. Save the dates—more details to come! Page 5 Coming Up: 6/7/15– Youth Sunday (all 3 services) Pizza Party after the 11:15 Service 6/14/15– Inflatable Extravaganza 3:30-7 pm Make sure to wear or bring socks, and bring a dish to share as we will have a potluck dinner together at 6 pm. Stay tuned to the youth weekly updates for Sunday nights and other events throughout the summer. Summer Time Madness: Confirmation Day Away at West River 2015 Camp at West River– Open to middle and high school, this is the week that I will be there to help direct June 28– July 3. Also if your student is interested in being a Counselor in Training at all during the summer, please let me know, there is a training on the weekend of June12-14! Calvary Vacation Bible School– the week of July 13. If you would like to receive the updates please contact Sarah at [email protected] Mission Trip with Urban Promise, to Camden, New Jersey: July 26– August 1. Page 6 MUSIC & ARTS NEWS Why isn’t all the new A/V upgrade completed yet? Well, like most construction projects, there are unforeseen delays while the work sometimes takes longer than anticipated. However, we are very close to being ready to have all aspects online. By the time you read this, you hopefully will have noticed an improvement in your ability to hear in the sanctuary, and all equipment should be in place, if not yet running. The monitor planned for the leaders in the chancel had to be moved to the balcony lip because to run wires through the concrete floor to the modesty walls in the front of the sanctuary proved to be very costly and unfeasible. Sometimes adjustments have to be made for everything to work without greatly escalating the costs, and our installation team, Doug Sweely and Randy Marshall, have taken great care to stay within budget. We thank them for the hundreds of hours they have put into this project. We’ve had a few members of the congregation (including youth!) express an interest in training to operate the equipment, and could use a few more to have complete teams for each service. Please pass along your interest to Stan Livengood at [email protected]. Thank you for your participation and support! We have completed a wonderful season of music and arts in our worship services, concert series, and Fine Arts Festival. Highlights have included hosting the Clare College Choir and the LSO, great choral and instrumental pieces for special Sundays, and seeing the fantastic art in the parlor during the Fine Arts Festival. We certainly have some talented artists among us! We appreciate all those who participate in our music and arts ministry through choirs, brass ensemble, solos, liturgical dance, concert attendance, and donations to the concert series. It is a joy to see and hear the talents that God gives to His creation. -Stan Livengood Art from the students at Calvary Center School was on display in the Church Parlor during Fine Arts Week. Page 7 UM WOMEN This morning at church I discovered the new presentation on the United Methodist Women’s bulletin board. Sandy Poland had recently put something new on the board so this morning I stopped by to check it out. The heading is as follows; A Christian School teacher asked her class to look at TV commercials to see if they could use them to communicate ideas ABOUT GOD. What they came up with is on the bulletin board. The responses start with God is like. As I stood there reading the children’s input a group gathered around. Soon we were pointing to the ones we liked best and discussing what timely messages they have. Stop by the bulletin board. It is located next to Pastor Mernie’s office. Maybe there will be a group and a lively discussion just like the one I had on Sunday. Just a reminder: Friendship Circle meets June 16 at 7 pm Harmony Circle meets June 17 at 1 pm Always in His Love, Claudette Cozad MISSIONS The Mission Team is sponsoring a Mesoamerican pot luck dinner and a presentation by the 2015 Guatemala Mission Team. They have returned safely from their 9 day trip to the Pacific coastal plains of Guatemala. Please join us in the fellowship hall on Wednesday, June 24. Dinner will be at 6 pm with the program afterwards. For further information please call Nelson Gardner, Calvary Guatemala Team Coordinator at 443-995-0606. KASAMBALA MEDICAL CLINIC IN MALAWI - a mission that Calvary supports, has made a special request for financial assistance to help provide food and medicines following a severe drought that has dried up the crops. Children are going hungry, experiencing extreme malnourishment, and dying. Our Missions Ministry Team has approved an immediate $5,000 donation from our 2015 Endowment Fund Assistance/Support to help with the relief. We are asking the congregation to match some or all of these funds so that every dollar will be doubled. Please make checks payable to Calvary UMC and mark “Malawi Relief” by June 15. Thank you. A special thank you to all who contributed to the Lenten offering this year. Your generosity resulted in our being able to distribute $3,150.67 equally among the Lighthouse Shelter, "Imagine No Malaria" and the Appalachian Service Project. Page 8 UNITED METHODIST MEN SAVE THE DATE & TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME with the KIDS & MIDS Hey, y’all, the UMM is once again sponsoring the baseball event of the summer as the Bowie Baysox entertain the NEW HAMPSHIRE FISHER CATS at PG County Stadium on Friday evening, August 7 at 1835. The evening will feature a picnic buffet, fireworks, silliness between innings, and 1100 future Naval officers (we call them Plebes) ) in their whites for the first time. (Pretty snappy salutes for the National Anthem) Please join us and bring the kids and grandkids (great playground available)! We will be upstairs at the Severn Deck, overlooking the first base line and under cover. Meetings and Missions The Men of Calvary are invited to gather on Tuesday evening, June 16, for an evening of fellowship and faith. In honor of the greatest generation and the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, our speaker will be a WWII vet who was shot down over France and escaped. Please join us to share the adventure and honor one who served. Dining (a safe bet is pizza) will begin at 6:30 with fellowship to follow. At the May meeting representatives of the Arundel House of Hope talked about the goals and achievements of their organization. This included stories relating to the successes of the Shower Trailer. There UMM will not meet in July, then gather again in August. Representatives from Chrysalis House will join us on August 18. The Shower Ministry Is up and running again every Tuesday evening. If you would like to step up and help those who need a helping hand, please contact Rob Bibblecomb ([email protected]) or drop by around 5:30 pm in the lower lot. The Parking Pros It’s only June, but September is coming along with a whole lot of Navy football fans looking for a place to park, and for a small donation, said fans can be accommodated. Season opener is September 5 as the Mids host Colgate. (East Carolina comes in on 9/19; the Boys for Boulder on 10/3, the Green Wave on 10/24; South Florida on 10/31 and the Methodist Mustangs of SMU on 11/14. Good times and good money.) Great way to spend a few hours on a lovely autumnal afternoon. God Bless, Dave Myers PLEASE REMEMBER: All men of Calvary are UMM members. Just share your name and some basic contact info to join our group or just come to our monthly meeting—we are a friendly group. You can serve at will and when you can. Contact information can be sent to [email protected] or [email protected], or you can just say “hi” at church! Page 9 Page 10 8 12:30 Staff Meeting 6:00 Women’s Cov. Disc. 15 12:30 Staff Meeting 6:00 Women’s Cov. Disc. 7:00 Stephen Ministry Supervision 22 12:30 Staff Meeting 6:00 Women’s Cov. Disc. 29 12:30 Staff Meeting 6:00 Women’s Cov. Disc. WORSHIP SCHEDULE 12:30 SNY 5:00 Disciple Ship* 5:00 John Bible Study 14 WORSHIP SCHEDULE 3:30 Inflatable Extravaganza 5:00 Disciple Ship* 5:00 SNY 5:00 John Bible Study 21 FATHER’S DAY WORSHIP SCHEDULE 8:45 Worship by the Water Begins 10:00 Dads and Doughnuts 28 WORSHIP SCHEDULE 8:45 Worship by the Water 8:30 Men’s Cov. Disc. 9:00 Trippin’ w/ God 6:00 Shower Ministry 8:00 Men’s Cov. Disc. 30 9:15 Men’s Cov. Disc. 6:00 Guatemala Mission Potluck 7:00 Book Club 3rd-5th Grade Mission Lockdown 24 8:30 Men’s Cov. Disc. 9:00 Trippin’ w/ God 6:00 Shower Ministry 8:00 Men’s Cov. Disc. 9:15 Men’s Cov. Disc. 1:00 Harmony Circle at Moorings Bistro 7:00 Book Club 23 17 8:30 Men’s Cov. Disc. 6:00 Shower Ministry 6:30 UMM 7:00 Friendship Circle 8:00 Men’s Cov. Disc. 9:15 Men’s Cov. Disc. 7:00 Book Club 7:00 Chancel Choir 8:30 Men’s Cov. Disc. 6:00 Shower Ministry 7:00 SPR MT 8:00 Men’s Cov. Disc. 16 10 9 9:15 Men’s Cov. Disc. 7:00 Book Club 7:00 Chancel Choir 8:30 Men’s Cov. Disc. 6:00 Shower Ministry 7:30 Chamber Singers 8:00 Men’s Cov. Disc. 12:30 Staff Meeting 6:00 Women’s Cov. Disc. Wednesday 3 Tuesday 2 Monday 1 7 YOUTH SUNDAY Sunday Thursday 9:00 Employment Support 10:00 Prayer Shawl 7:00 Praise Team 25 9:00 Employment Support 7:00 Praise Team 18 9:00 Employment Support 7:00 Praise Team 7:30 Calvary Choir 11 9:00 Employment Support 6:00 Disciple IV 7:00 Praise Team 7:30 Calvary Choir 4 June 2015 Events Saturday 27 20 7:30 Maintenance Breakfast 13 6 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED SUNDAY WORSHIP SCHEDULE Friday Traditional Worship / Worship by the Water Children’s Sunday School 10:00 Contemporary Worship Children’s & Adult Sunday School 11:15 Traditional Worship * Bible Study and Children’s Choirs 8:45 26 19 12 5 JUNE BIRTHDAYS 1 Alice Pollock Joan Stillinger 2 Alexandra Dickerson Mark Farrell Kelly Finnegan 3 Allison Carnes Kaitlyn Cox Brenda Donaldson Michael Lawrence 4 Lisa Womeldorf 5 Patti Heisman Jay Irwin 6 Allie Cushley Doris Glover 7 Suzanne Bell Suzanne Drury Don Harmon Brian Kinsey Kurt Sweely 13 Lillian Eaton 8 Lauren Duncan Jenna Hiponia Laurel Riffle Linda Rodriguez Adrienne Webber 15 Joyce Hutchins Debbie Jones George Smith 9 Dick Engwall Jeff Erskine Justin Pacheco Dick Walsh 10 Dale Magnusson 11 June Catterton Sally Ehrle Derek Gardner Taylor Hill Kristen Lizzio 14 Pamela Brune Rachel Stephens 16 Barbara Hughes Mary Powell Barbara Yannon 18 Kenan Habetler Chris Latschar 19 Brennan Knight May Rynex Andy Smith Christy Trapp 20 Jane Chouinard Jean Deafenbaugh Jere Glover 26 Tom Faulkner Melissa Kerr David Sealey 21 Earl Anthony Thelma Eves Tommy Gateau Cheryl Lincoln Juliana Mazza Syble Morales 27 Dan Shearer 22 Sean Hart 23 J. Howard Beard Cynthia Conner Brian Edington Joan Walsh 24 Brian Blank Victor Gardner Penny Gladwell 25 Katie Hart Mike Titgemeyer Page 11 28 Stephanie Barnett Brian Berger Lyne Bush Rob Friedrich Shirley Rogers Jean Taylor 29 Rusty Wright 30 John Rosacker Lori Tamulevich Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Annapolis, MD Permit 207 Calvary United Methodist Church 301 Rowe Boulevard Annapolis, Maryland 21401 Ph: 410-268-1776 Fax: 410-268-5283 E-mail: [email protected] www.calumc.org As a committed United Methodist community, we strive to know and worship God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; to grow in faith and love through ministry, discipleship, and fellowship; and to go into the world to bring others to Christ through mission. We at Calvary Church are committed to making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Know….Grow…Go... JUNE HIGHLIGHTS June 7 June 13 June 21 June 23 June 24 Youth Sunday Maintenance Breakfast Father’s Day Worship by the Water begins Trippin’ with God begins Guatemala Mission Pot luck
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