Weekly Connection for June 10, 2021

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The Weekly Connection

June 10, 2021

In this edition of the Weekly Connection:

Worship

Worship Information
Worship Times/Places & Reopening
Link to the Order of Worship for Sunday, June 13, 11am
Video of Last Sunday's Service

CIA: Mission & Outreach

I-58 Mission: June Current Needs
Youth Day at Bloomcloset - July 8
Backpack Buddies Update

Connexion Groups, Team News & Spiritual Growth

Summerama Registration
Summerama Food Donations Needed
Upper Room Connexion Group
Bible Study - Mark
Trip to Callaway Gardens Beach
What is Ordinary Time?
Our Hymn - A Closer Look: "Faith of Our Fathers"

SUMC Info

Our Financial Stewardship
SUMC Online Giving
Church Calendar
Church Staff

Worship

Sunday, June 6, 2021

2nd Sunday after Pentecost

Holy Communion

Scripture:

Psalm 130

Sermon:

Faith - Waiting

Click here for more Sermon Videos!

Sunday, June 13, 2021

3rd Sunday after Pentecost

Scripture:

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon:

Faith - Mustard Seed

Click here for a printable bulletin for the 11:00 service

Please observe social distancing and please wear a mask if you are not vaccinated. Visit the CDC site for more information:

Link to CDC Info

Worship Notes:

This SUNDAY

Sunday Worship Services in the Sanctuary:

In person at 9:30

11:00AM either in person or on Facebook Live

https://www.facebook.com/senoia.umc/

Our 9:30am service is a 30 minute service, more contemplative in nature.

Our 11:00am service provides another opportunity to worship

in the traditional setting with the talents of our gifted musicians.

Use this LINK for a printable copy of the 11am Order of Worship

Use this button to Give for Tithe, Offering, Memorials, etc., online or set up recurring giving by check, credit or debit card

Or mail your offering to: Senoia UMC, P.O. Box 98, Senoia, GA 30276

The mission of the Church is to make disciples of Jesus Christ

for the transformation of the world.

Worship Last Sunday

Visit our YouTube Channel

CIA: Missions and Outreach

CURRENT NEEDS:

I-58 takes donations Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 10-2.

If the church office is not open you may leave your donations

on Ashley's porch.

Youth - Save the Date!

The Youth will be helping at Bloomcloset on July 8.

The Bloom closet gives clothes, books, shoes, games, etc. to kids in foster care. I have signed us up to volunteer there on July 8. Let me know if your kid(s) would like to attend.

Meet at SUMC at 9:15 and we'll be back at SUMC at 1:30.

Lunch included but bring water bottle.

RSVP to Ashley by July 1st

Backpack Buddies - Schedule Update

Dorinda Hilbun, Janice Reed and Cathie Lusted will be doing July; August is covered by Chuck and Pat Eichorst; October by Doug and Lori Kolbenschlag. So we have September, November and December open in 2021. Also keep in mind that you can do this more than once a month.

This is a fun project to do with your family or friends. These kids really do need this extra nutrition when school is out.

If you would like to volunteer or need more information, please contact Doug Kolbenschlag (404) 660-4657 .

Connextion Groups, Team News

and Spiritual Growth

Senoia UMC Summerama!

June 22 and July 13 - 9:30-3:00

June 22 Theme: The Coat of Many Colors

July 13 Theme: Miracles in the Bible

Two summer days of learning, fun and fellowship

for the children and youth of Senoia UMC.

At the June session we will do tie-dye t-shirts, so we need to know your size right away!

Each day will begin with Bible story time with Miss Jean and include outdoor games, art, a science time, hand chimes and lunch! We will end our days with a “journey” to Beeze Freeze.

Children and youth of Senoia UMC – grands, friends, and neighbors –

are invited to join us for our Summerama!

To be sure we have the supplies and t-shirts needed, AND especially lunch,

we ask that participants register through Lee or Barb in the church office.

Summerama !! June 22 and July 13!

Registration is open now - simply call Barb or Lee at the church, 770-599-3245, or Nancy Lewis 678-877-6560.

June 22: Joseph's Coat

of Many Colors

July 13: Miracles of the Bible

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If you would like to help sponsor our June Summerama trip to Beez Freeze, the Art project or Science project, please email the office at [email protected], give at Sunday worship, or give online at https://onrealm.org/SenoiaUMC/give/now and select VBS Summerama from the drop down box.

We're Heading to Callaway Gardens Beach

A Day at Callaway Gardens Beach: Tuesday, June 29th we’ll be heading out to the beach at Callaway Gardens. The beach is a mile long, the largest man made beach in America.

All kids, youth and adults are invited!

Meet at the church at 9:30am and we expect to return by 2:30pm.

The cost is $15 for under 13, $20 for over 13. and we hope all the kids and youth will join us.

You will need to pack a lunch and some water, but most importantly your swim suit, sun screen, towel and a change of clothes.

Please RSVP to either the church office or Ashley by June 25 so we can get the tickets reserved. Scholarships are available.

Bible Study with Barb

A new Bible study is starting this Wednesday, June 16. During the early summer, Bible Study with Barb will be studying the Gospel of Mark.

We meet at 7:00 in the Fellowship Hall, or you may join us on Zoom if you prefer. This week as we read and discuss chapters 1 & 2 in Mark, we’ll learn about John the Baptist, the baptism and temptation of Jesus, hear Jesus call his first disciples, and walk with Jesus as he begins his ministry in Galilee.

We also have a wonderful little book, Through Mark’s Eyes, which corresponds with each chapter in the Bible as a more contemporary narrative reading.

This Bible study is open to everyone, whether you have done one before or been part of any other group here at church. Call or text me, Barb Combs, at 419-680-2103, if you have any questions or would like a copy of the book we’ll be using (even if it’s a Bible you need – I can get one for you!). I’m looking forward to having y’all join in on this study as we learn more about Jesus! Blessings, Barb

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://zoom.us/j/196787919

Password: ashley

Meeting ID: 196 787 919

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Upper Room Connexion Group

The Upper Room at SUMC Connexion group will meet on Wednesday morning, June 16, at 10:00 in the JOY Room at the front of the church.

Each week on Wednesday we read the devotion from The Upper Room devotional booklet, discuss it and our lives over the past week, as well as any of the other daily readings from the past week.

This is a wonderful group of delightful ladies but is open to any of you guys also! There are still a few copies of The Upper Room available if you would like to pick one up and join us on Wednesday. I know you will enjoy it!

Call or text me, Barb, at 419-680-2103 if you have any questions.

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Please text or call me, 419-680-2103, with all your questions about any Connexion Group. Blessings, Barb

What is Ordinary Time?

What do all those colors mean?

The Christian year includes two central cycles focused on major events in the life of Christ: the Christmas cycle (Advent-Christmas-Epiphany) and Easter cycle (Lent-Easter-Pentecost).

Each of these seasons begins with a time of preparation and anticipation followed by a time of celebration. A season designated as Ordinary Time follows each cycle.

The word "ordinary" here does not mean “routine” or “not special.” Instead, it refers to the "ordinal numbers" (first, second, third, etc.) used to name and count the Sundays (such as the Third Sunday after Epiphany). This term comes from the Latin ordinalis, meaning "numbered" or "ordered," and tempus ordinarium, “measured time.”

The first period of Ordinary Time, called the Season after Epiphany, begins on Epiphany Day and ends on the day before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent). The central theme of this season is the calling of disciples and the early ministry of Jesus.

For some congregations, this will mean a focus on evangelism, as found in the Old Testament and Gospel reading for each week. For others, the focus will be preparing to help others grow in their discipleship. The Epistle reading each week emphasizes this.

The second period of Ordinary Time, the Season after Pentecost, follows the Easter cycle. It begins the day after Pentecost and continues to Advent. The purpose of this season is to support new disciples and the whole congregation in living out the gifts and callings discerned during the Easter Season and commissioned on the Day of Pentecost.

Every year, Christians experience the contrast between the central seasons of Christmas and Easter, where we see God in the events around the coming of Christ, and the in-between times, where we see, speak about and join God’s ongoing work in the world.

We thus experience two regular cycles of preparation, celebration and action in ministry each year, with the Ordinary Times as the primary periods of action.

This content was produced by Ask The UMC, a ministry of United Methodist Communications.

Our Hymn - A Closer Look

“Faith of Our Fathers”

Frederick W. Faber

UM Hymnal, No. 710

Faith of our fathers, living still,

in spite of dungeon, fire, and sword;

O how our hearts beat high with joy

when e’er we hear that glorious word!

Faith of our fathers, holy faith!

We will be true to thee to death.

Frederick Faber (1814-1863) grew up in a vicarage and seemed destined for priesthood in the Anglican Church. Following his education at Balliol College, Oxford, he became a Fellow at Oxford and in 1837 took Holy Orders as a priest in the Church of England.

Faber’s appointment to a parish in Elton, Huntingdonshire, in 1843 seemed to seal his destiny as an Anglican priest. But in that same year, he seceded to the Roman Catholic Church, one of several 19th-century Englishmen to make this ecclesial shift. Moving to London in 1849, he established the Oratorians, also known as Priests of the Congregation of St. Philip of Neri, with John Henry Newman, a priest and hymn writer who also followed the path from Canterbury to Rome.

Before seceding, Faber published a number of statements in defense of the Church of England. He also published a number of literary works during his Anglican years, including Cherwell Waterlily and Other Poems (1840), The Styrian Lake, and Other Poems (1842), Sir Lancelot: A Legend of the Middle Ages (1842, rev. 1857), and The Rosary and Other Poems (1845). His hymns, however, were published only after he became a Roman Catholic.

In the preface to his book Jesus and Mary: Catholic Hymns for Singing and Reading (1849), Faber describes the origins of his interest in hymn writing: “It was natural then that an English son of St. Philip should feel the want of a collection of English Catholic hymns fitted for singing. The few in the Garden of the Soul were all that were at hand, and of course they were not numerous enough to furnish the requisite variety. As translations, they do not express Saxon thought and feelings, and consequently the poor do not seem to take to them. The domestic wants of the Oratory, too, keep alive the feeling that something of the sort was needed: though at the same time the author’s ignorance of music appeared in some measure to disqualify him for the work of supplying the defect.”

Indeed, in the same preface, Faber expresses appreciation for Protestant forerunners, including famous 18th-century publications like the Olney Hymns by William Cowper and John Newton as well as collections by the Wesleys which, because of their clarity and passion, served as models.

As an Englishman, Faber also maintained a love for the Authorized King James Bible, of which he said, “It lives on in the ear like music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows he can forget.”

All of this paves the way for a better understanding of Faber’s most famous hymn, “Faith of Our Fathers,” which first appeared in Jesus and Mary. Among Faber’s interests were the lives of the saints. This is a hymn that acknowledges the legacy of Catholic martyrs in England who had died since the time of Henry VIII, who established the Church of England in the mid-16th century.

In order to make the hymn more acceptable to a wider non-Catholic constituency, some alterations were necessary. The second stanza now reads:

Faith of our fathers, we will strive,

To win all nations unto thee. . . .

This is a significant adaptation from Faber’s original stanza, which would not be acceptable to Protestants:

Faith of our Fathers! Mary’s prayers

Shall win our country back to thee.

An 1853 alteration of the original by hymnal editors came closer, but does not meet the standards required today for inclusiveness—both in terms of gender and nationality:

Faith of our Fathers! Good men’s prayers

Shall win our country all to thee.

An anonymous final stanza brings together “both friend and foe” in love as we preach God’s love in “kindly words and virtuous life.”

The refrain was added later by James G. Walton (1821-1905) for use with the tune that is common in the United States, ST. CATHERINE.

Dr. Hawn is professor of sacred music at Perkins School of Theology, SMU.