News from Utica United Methodist Church August 15th, 2018

Welcome to Heartbeats.This communication is provided for you to deliver news and information about Utica UMC ministries and convey opportunities for you to serve Him.

Submission for articles to be published in Heartbeat is available through the church office email. Please have submissions copy-ready with all pertinent information provided.

Heartbeat is sent weekly via email to those furnishing email addresses on their Connection Card.

Inside this Issue

August 19th Worship Celebration

August 19th Willing Servants

August 26th Willing Servants

Committee Meeting Schedule

Note from our Trustees

Church Picnic at Apple Valley

Is This Bible Yours?

Twelve Months of Giving

Community Back-to-School Dinner

We Need Help

Moments with Mark

From the Office

Special!

Utica United Methodist Church

HEARTBEAT NEWSLETTER

August 15th, 2018

Sunday, August 19th Worship Celebration

This Sunday, August 19th, and continuing through September 2nd, weather permitting, our Sunday Morning

Worship Celebrations will be held at 9:00 AM in the Outdoor Sanctuary. Our worship schedule is as follows:

8:45 AM Praise Band Practice

9:00 AM Worship Celebration

Nursery (Kindergarten and Younger)

10:00 AM Adult Sunday School

August 19th Willing Servants

Refreshments: NEED VOLUNTEERS

Greeters: NEED VOLUNTEERS

Nursery: Diane Simmons

Back up: Karen Shomaker

August 26th Willing Servants

Refreshments: Jim & Bettie Shoemaker

Greeters: Jim & Bettie Shoemaker

Nursery: Marlana Baker

Back up: Marge Preston

Committee Meeting Schedule

As we begin making plans for the coming year, please familiarize yourself with our meeting schedule and make plans to attend any meetings of committees of which you may be a member.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 19TH

10:00 AM-Greeting-Media-Sound Meeting

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26TH

10:00 AM-SPRC Committee Potluck Meeting

7:00 PM-Nomination & Leadership Meeting

Note from our Trustees

Regarding our church building's security. If you find yourself the only person left in the church and you don't know how to set the alarms, please call Jim Shomaker at 740/892-3542 or Mark Smith at 740-507-3484. It is important that we use the alarm system to protect the gifts the Lord has provided. Thank you!

Church Picnic at Apple Valley

When: Sunday, August 19, 2018

Where: 113 Green Valley Drive

Howard, Ohio

Time: Anytime after 1:00 pm

Dinner: 6:00 pm

Hotdogs, hamburgers and drinks will be provided!

Bring a covered dish with your favorite food!

Don't forget your swim suit and towel!

Directions: Apple Valley is on Route 36 between Mount Vernon and Howard. Enter the valley then take a left on Apple Valley Drive. Follow this for three miles until you come to Green Valley Drive, which bears to the right. We are the fourth house on the right. Park anywhere along the road. If you get lost, call Diane or Paul at 740-501-0763 or 740-501-8388.

Is This Bible Yours?

Last month, a brown leather bound Bible was left in the outdoor sanctuary. If you are missing your Bible, please contact the office to retrieve it. Thank you.

Twelve Months of Giving

The Events Committee is continuing Twelve Month of Giving, sponsoring and collecting items for Utica's food pantry. Each month the pantry volunteers let us know what is most needed. Please place your donations in the bin upstairs or downstairs by the door. We will collect your donations at the church and deliver them to the pantry.

Items Needed for the Month of August:

Tuna and Varieties of Canned Soups

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Hebrews 13:16

Community Back-to-School Dinner

For your convenience in dropping off your donations of school supplies for our give-away this weekend, Linda Owens will have Wesley Hall open beginning at 2:30 pm on Wednesday, August 15th, and Thursday, August 16th.

Here are the School Supply Lists for those items to be included in our book bags given to school kids at our Community Dinner on Saturday, August 19th. Please start your shopping now and bring your donations in to the church prior to August 17th. Please remember that we also need shoes for the school kids who attend our dinner so don't forget to pick up shoes to donate while you're out shopping. We also have copies of these lists on the table at the rear of the Sanctuary:

KINDERGARTEN - 5TH GRADE

The following is needed for all grades per student:

Age appropriate book bag

24 count packages of Crayola crayons (2-4)

Large box of tissues

Yellow #2 pencils (12-24)

Plastic two-pocket folder for music

Plastic plan colored two-pocket folders in blue, red, purple, yellow, and green

Pair of good scissors

Pink block pearl erasers (2-4)

8 oz. bottle of handsanitizer

Zip gallon storage bags

Zip sandwich bags

Spiral wide-ruled notebooks (red and green in color) x 4

Glue sticks (6-12)

Expo dry erase markers (2-4)

Index cards (any size) 100-200

Large container of Clorox/Lysol wipes

School box

Plastic zippered pencil pouch with three-hole punch to go in binder

Grade Specific:

First grade: 1 inch three-ring binder with outer plastic pocket x 1

Second grade: bottle of Elmer's glue

1 inch three-ring binder with outer plastic pocket x 1

Third grade: Wide-ruled loose leaf notebook paper

1.5 inch three-ring binder x 1

Fourth grade: 1 box of 12 colored pencils

Two-inch binders x 3

Three subject spiral note book x 2

One package post-it notes

Highlighter x 4

Fifth Grade: 1.5 inch three-ring binder in each color: red, green, purple

2 250 sheet package of wide ruled loose leaf notebook paper

GRADES 6-8

Pair of five-inch scissors

Set of five-tab dividers

3 x 5 lined index cards, 100 count

Black composition notebook

Package of Crayola crayons

Colored Pencils

Highlighters

Markers

Wide-rule loose leaf paper

Dry erase Expo markers

Tissues

Box or #2 lead pencls

Blue or black pens (no gel)

Two pocket folders

Clorox/Lysol sipes

Glue sticks

Grade specific:

6th Grade: Eraser caps

One-inch three-ring binder

Two-inch three ring binder

7th Grade: Combination lock for phys ed

Two-inch three ring binder x2

1.5 -inch three ring binder x2

Package of sticky notes

Spiral note book x 1

Calculator TI-30C II S

Handheld pencil sharpener

8th Grade: Combination lock for phys ed

One-inch three ring binder x4

1.5 -inch three ring binder x1

Calculator TI-30C II S

We Need Help from Willing Servants for our Worship Celebrations

We are looking for volunteers to serve refreshments and/or great your fellow worshipers for the following dates:

Sunday, September 2 Refreshments

Sunday, November 25 Refreshments

Sunday, December 16 Refreshments Greeters

Sunday, December 23 Refreshments

Sunday, December 30 Refreshments Greeters

If you are able to help on any of these dates, please send an email or make a phone call to the office to let us know which dates you can help.

Moments with Mark #196

Depending on the source you research, there are between 3,000 and 8,000 promises in God's word. What that means for the believer is God covers every situation and circumstance we might face in life with a promise! We can speak and pray these promises over our situation!

"For every problem in life, God has given us a promise. Make it your aim to get so acquainted with these promises that you can write yourself a prescription." (Max Lucado) God's word also provides us with confidence relative to the many promises of God. "For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, does not waver between 'Yes' and 'No.' He is the one whom Silas, Timothy, and I preached to you, and as God's ultimate 'Yes,' He always does what he says. For all of God's promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding 'Yes!' And through Christ, our 'Amen' (which means 'Yes') ascends to God for his glory." (2Corinthians 1:19-20 NLT)

In simple terms, we can trust God to do what He says He will do! He is faithful to his word! These promises are rock-solid commitments made by God himself. We need to trust and believe! It is His good pleasure to give us His kingdom!

Mark McDaniel

From the Office

Our regular office hours are 10:00 am to 2:00 pm Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. To submit information for Heartbeats or the bulletin, please deliver copy ready items to the office by hand or email no later than 1:00 pm on Wednesday of each week.

Sincerely,