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HOLLAND & ZOAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCHES

DECEMBER 2017

Rev. Keith Chanley, Pastor 812-655-2855

Pastor Keith

For 2018, I will be preaching a “through the Bible” series. Jesus said, "And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. (John 12:32 NIV)". That will be the goal of the series. Each week we will look for Jesus. It may be an actual presence, a foreshadowing, lineage or mystery of faith that tells us of Jesus, but we will seek to lift up Jesus each week. Along with the sermon that will follow the week’s readings, there will be a devotional thought in a blog, Monday - Friday. The blog can be found at KeithChanley.blogspot.com I invite you to read along through the Bible and join in discussion through the blogs. Each month the newsletter will contain the next month's reading plan. January's reading plan is in this newsletter. It is a five day plan each week with five chapters to be read each day. The plan begins January 1. Let us lift up Jesus.

I would like to thank everyone for their prayers, cards, gifts and well wishes during Pastor Appreciation month. It means a lot to me.

Low Carb Mini Cheesecakes 1 1/2 C. plain, nonfat Greek Yogurt 1 packet of sugar free, fat free cheesecake flavored pudding mix 1 C. Lite Cool Whip 4 Strawberries, diced 1 C. crushed honey graham crackers 4 ounces of cream cheese (optional) 1. Beat all ingredients until smooth 2. Layer 1/8 cup graham cracker crumbles, a couple spoonfuls of cheesecake mixture, strawberries, more cheesecake mixture and then top with remaining graham cracker crumbs. 3. Refrigerate for 2 hours and enjoy. Yield: 5 dessert cups

The first Sundays of February, March, May, June, August, September, November & December are Zoar’s months to conduct the worship service at The Waters of Huntingburg. Suzie & Steve Hemmer lead the worship and would love to have several from the congregation join them. The time spent singing and greeting the residents that come means a lot. The service starts at 2:30 and lasts about 30 minutes. Our next opportunity for ministry is December 3. Come and be part of it.

With your help,

Zoar UMC

sent out 120

shoeboxes

this year!

Children’s Christmas Party The children’s Christmas party will be Sunday, December 3 after church for infants through 6th graders. Lunch will be served. Please bring a $7 exchange gift.

By Patty Nance Recipes and tips for a healthy

lifestyle

ARMOR UP!

Our theme for this year’s EPIC is “Armor Up!”

and our scripture is Ephesians 6:10-18

Join us at EPIC each Wednesday at 6pm.

All 1st through 12th graders are welcome!

The youth are selling gift cards again this

year. If you need any cards for gift-giving,

pick up an order form from the front pew.

On December 6, Jeremy &

Meredith fulda will be with

us, speaking about their

mission work in Taiwan.

The congregation is invited

to come at 6:30 to hear

Them.

The UMW Christmas party has been moved to Sunday, December 10 at 11:30 a.m. All ladies of the church are

invited to stay for lunch, games, prizes and

fellowship. Please bring non-perishable goods for the food pantries.

The Pairs and Spares will have their Christmas party on December 10 at 5:00 p.m. Cost will be $5 for the meal.

Caroling, caroling

through the town,

Christmas bells are ringing!

This year we will do some

old-fashioned caroling, strolling though the streets

of Stendal. Join us on December 17 when we’ll

meet at the old Stendal store at 4pm.

Food & fellowship to follow at the Brockriede’s.

Celebrate the true meaning of Christmas at the Zoar UMC Christmas Eve Program on Sunday, December 24 at 7pm. A Christmas play will incorporate the youth of the church,

from teens through infants. The evening will conclude with a candlelight service and Christmas communion. Join your friends and family for this beautiful finale to the Advent season.

WEEKLY ATTENDANCE WORSHIP S.S.

Nov. 5 120

Nov. 12 113

Nov. 19 110

Nov. 26 98

Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m.

DECEMBER LITURGIST

Aaron Peters

DECEMBER USHERS

Gene Mattingly Dean Henke Tom Erwin Myles Brown

Please place items for the Shared

Abundance food pantry on the shelves by the kitchen door.

Items to be donated this

month: Laundry & dish detergent

Remember the items being collected by our church:

Items for bingo prizes at the nursing home ..................................

Used eyeglasses for mission trips ..................................

Dog food for Happy Tails ..................................

Store-bought, individually wrapped snacks for the patients at Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center

This month’s church breakfast will be on the 10th. The money will go to help families in need at Christmas

and also to the United Methodist Youth Home in Evansville. Be sure and join us from 8:00 to 9:30.

To Join The Prayer Chain:

Enter this number (812) 392-4055

Type the following text message

@praying4u

To Join the Church Messages:

Enter this number (812)392-4055

Type the following text message @714714

To Join the Middle School and High School

Messages:

Enter this number (812)392-4055

Type the following text message: @1dad9

Christmas program

practices will be held

December 6, 13, & 20,

from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Supper will be

provided.

The Christmas

program is

December 23.

Kids In Christ

KIC is on holiday break and will resume on

January 3. Join us then!

The UMW Christmas party will be held Sunday, December 3 at 11:30 a.m. The committee is Jenner, Tresia, Kathy P. Dianne,

Joni, Elaine, Steff, and Robin.

December visitation: Deb, Dana, Lavonne & Bev

Missions: Christmas fund, bingo prizes for the nursing home, snacks for Lange-Fuhs, eyeglasses for mission trips,

laundry & dish detergents for the food pantry

Again this year, the angel tree is set up in the fellowship hall. On

the tree are envelopes in which you can put money to help make Christmas merrier for local

families in need. The envelopes can then be deposited in the jar under the tree. If you know of a

family that could use some help, please let Bev know.

~ Weekly Group Events ~

Sunday morning worship service 9:00 a.m.

Sunday school classes 10:15 a.m.

Monday evening Bible study 6:19 p.m.

Tuesday morning Bible study 10:00 a.m.

EPIC 6:00 p.m.

Thursday evening Bible study 7:00 p.m.

DECEMBER WORSHIP LEADERS

Sunday Morning Worship Service

Liturgist Kim Wampler

Ushers, Greeters, Acolytes Diane Mason & Ruth Blackgrove

Prayer card ministry Sherry Kamman

Children’s Message

Dec. 3 Dec. 10 Dec. 17 Dec. 24

Pastor Keith Amber

Brockriede

Rhegann

Fetter

Suzie

Hemmer

Dec. 31

Erin

Marshall

WEEKLY

ATTENDANCE

Worship Nov. 5 92

Nov. 12 96

Nov. 19 85

Nov. 26 99

December Mission OfferingDecember Mission OfferingDecember Mission OfferingDecember Mission Offering

Our 1st Sunday mission offering in December will go to shipping charges for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. With the rise in cost per box to ship the shoeboxes this year, the mission fund paid out over $1000. Although we are so happy to have been able to send out 120 shoeboxes, your help is needed to put some of that money back into the mission fund for the various other projects we support. Thank you again for showing the love of Christ to 120 children around the world!

January’s Reading Plan

Jan. 1: Genesis 1-5

Day 2: Genesis 6-10

Day 3: Genesis 11-15



Sunday, Jan. 7


Day. 9: Genesis 31-35




Sunday, Jan. 14

Day 15: Exodus 1-5

Day 16: Exodus 6-10

Day 17: Exodus 11-15



Sunday, Jan. 21




Day 25: Leviticus 1-5


Sunday, Jan. 28




Looking Back

Things that happened at Holland United Methodist Church...

1985

Feb. 24—We had a combined Lenten service at Otwell Methodist Church. All Methodist churches from Pike & Dubois counties participated. Our choir sang. Pete took his school bus and others from thechurch went along. We had 33 on the bus. Gloria brought popcorn & Mary Louise Fenneman brought divinity candy. The choir sang “On Golgotha’s Hill”.

March 1—Had World Day of Prayer at St. Paul UCC. All 5 churches participated. The Young at Heart Sunday School class purchased 10 new Samsonite tables. Our UMW purchased a new double door refrigerator.

March 17—Mary Reller sang the solo in the choir anthem “Ashamed of Me” because Roger Reller (who was scheduled to sing it) was too hoarse from the Southridge Raiders semi-state game.

March 31—The following were confirmed by Rev. Silas Stiles: Wayne Kemper, Trina Powell, Dawn Feidler, Pala Peach, Tina Fuhrman, Kristina Bacon, Dana Sickbert, & Tracey Hunefeld. Our attendance today was 240.

April—The UMW purchased a used microwave from Lavonne Powell to be used in the church’s kitchen.

May 12—Mother’s Day. Dennis Haynes was in charge and read a poem and each mother received either a white or red carnation. Paul Lindsey explained to the congregation that the church board had approved the purchase of 5 stained glass windows for the church. The committee to select the windows and other remodeling of the church are: Paul & Gloria Lindsey, Joe & Bev Schmutzler, Dean & Mary Beth Henke, and Don & Linda Kemper. Each window is to cost approximately $1200. After church, quite a few people expressed the desire to put stained glass windows in front of church, in the nursery and in the chapel which would amount to 10 windows.

by Shirley Kahle

Order Form for Christmas Memorials

Some have expressed the desire to give a monetary gift as a memorial in lieu of flowers. We are offering this opportunity for you to do

that. Please check below the items toward which you would prefer to have your memorial

donation applied. The price of the poinsettias is $25.

Any amount can be given for other memorials.

Make all checks payable to Holland UMC

_____________ Poinsettias ($25) Only 9 poinsettias are needed

_____________ General Fund

_____________ Maintenance Fund

_____________ KIC

_____________ Other ____________________________

In memory of ____________________________________

Given by ________________________________

In honor of ______________________________________

Given by ________________________________

Please turn in your order to Gloria or Dianne by

December 10

Make all checks payable to Holland UMC

Tonya & Shaun are organizing a Christmas caroling event on

Sunday, December 10 at 5:00. They would like to have you

meet at church and join them for caroling at several places in the community. Afterwards,

refreshments will be served at church. If you have any

questions, see Tonya or Shaun.

The Holland United Methodist Church

Annual Christmas program will be

held Saturday, December 23

at 7:00 p.m.

Join us as the familiar Christmas

story is told once again through the

music and voices of the children

and adults

of our

congregation.

Please inform the church office if you or a family

member is being hospitalized or is

otherwise in need of pastoral visitation.

The church office phone number is 812-536-4862. If no one is in the office, please leave a message with the information and a phone number where

you can be reached.

For communication purposes, all events scheduled at the churches must be put on

the office calendar as well as the calendars at the churches. Please call the church

office (536-4862) when scheduling your event. Thank you!

Senior Balance Exercise Class

Thursday afternoon

Senior Balance

exercise group will

meet on December 7

and then will take

a recess until January.

The group will

reconvene on Thursdays

at 2 PM starting

January 4.

Blue? Yes, blue as in the blues. As in "I am feeling blue."

There are many moments in our lives when we need

comfort. There are tough times when we yearn for consolation. The suffering people who looked for the

long-awaited Messiah were given a hope-filled image of God in the writings of Isaiah. It expresses the belief that no matter what happens to us, God will be

there to comfort and support us. For many of us, Christmas can be a time when we are in need of that reassurance and comfort. Perhaps we are grieving over the loss of a loved one, struggling

with illness, divorce or separation, or have experienced the loss of a job.

We wonder how we will get through the holidays.

A Service of Reflection, Remembrance, and Healing with the theme of “Blue Christmas” will be held Tuesday, December 19 at 7 p.m. at Zoar UMC.

Those looking for comfort, hope, wholeness, and renewal are invited to come for a time of quiet

reflection and meaningful words and music.

For a variety of delicious homemade cookies and baked

goods, come to the Augustana Cookie

Walk held in the basement of

Augustana UCC on Saturday, December 9

from 9:00 am to noon.

The Advent Candlelight service “One

Silent Night” will be held Sunday,

December 3 at 6:30 at St. James

Lutheran Church. The Senior, Youth,

and Cherub Choirs encourage you to

come witness the efforts of the peace

officers in Bethlehem to keep peace in

the midst of a census and the arrival of

rowdy shepherds and mysterious magi.

Experience the wonder of the star and

the peace of the season.

An offering will be

accepted for Dustin

Braun and Mason

Hartke.

Refreshments

following the service.

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