Church Events/Meetings Finance Committee will meet Mon., Aug. 10th at 6pm in the Pastors’ Study. Foster Friends will meet Aug. 10th & 24th in the Pastors’ Study. Lay Leadership will meet Aug. 10th at 7:15pm in the Pastors’ Study. Martha Circle will not meet in Aug. Miriam Circle will not meet in Aug. Moving Forward will not meet in Aug. Ruth Circle will not meet in Aug. Staff Parish will meet Mon., Aug. 24th at 6:30pm in the Pastors’ Study Trustees Committee will meet Mon., Aug. 3rd at 6:30pm in the Pastors’ Study. Worship Planning will meet Mon. Aug. 3rd at 7:30pm in the Pastors’ Study. Women of Faith Bible Study will meet every Tuesday at 10am at CUMC. Contact Carol@christumchurch.org if you need information.

For a current list of events go to www.christumchurch.org/calendar

For the month of Aug. we will be collecting Canned Chicken, Canned Applesauce, Peanut Butter (small size), Macaroni & Cheese, and Canned Beans & Rice. Cases of items are appreciated as well as monetary donations. Donations can be left in the shopping carts near the entry to the Gym. Questions: please see Diana Jones or phone her at 765- 474-3528. Indeed, we are “feeding the least of these” and providing an expression of

God’s love to hungry children in our community. THANKS for your loyalty and support.

Stay Connected and Worship online https://www.facebook.com/pg/christumchurch/videos/

You do not need a facebook account to watch the Sunday Worship Service or other video posts.

You do need an account if you would like to interact and comment.

Or check out our YouTube Channel

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Be sure to catch Pastor Kurt and Aaron every weekday at 7:30am on Facebook for your daily devotional. https://www.facebook.com/christumchurch If you miss it in the morning you can watch it on our church YouTube Channel

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To the people of God in Christ Jesus in Lafayette, Grace and peace to you. Right now in my personal devotions, I am reading through the Psalms. It is a great study and I am enjoying it and wishing I had done it before I did Psalms for Daily Office. I guess I will have to come back to Psalms another year to share some of what I have learned in deeper reflection. Learning never ends my friends. I have read through the Bible every year multiple times and I continue to learn and be in awe of the depth of relationship and wisdom and wit these people had. Their faith is instructive to ours. We are in an era where faith is necessary. We are in a time when courage is necessary. We can learn from the past. As our students prepare to return to school in whatever way they return, how are you returning to learning? I intend to offer an in person Bible Study on Sunday evenings beginning after school starts back. If you are interested, please let the office know. Shalom, Rev. Kurt CONFIRMATION We will return to confirmation for those students who began the process beginning the last Sunday in August at 4 before youth starts at 5ish. Please bring your Bible, journal, and mentor with you!

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Weekly Lunches for Lafayette Transitional Housing

Each Saturday, a team of volunteers from CUMC

prepare and deliver lunches filled with a

sandwich, chips and cookie to LTHC to feed

people facing homelessness. One week, CUMC

summer campers volunteered to make Saturday

lunch! These campers made up 75 sandwiches,

puppy chow, graham crackers with icing, chips

and a treat to be delivered to help feed the those

in need.

The Feed the People ministry

“REACHES OUT” to those in need

in our community as we show the

love of Christ by serving others. If

you would like to be involved in

our Feed the People ministry,

please contact Carol at

carol@christumchurch.org.

The year of 2020 has been filled with new experiences

and a lot of uncertainty.

What we can be certain about at CUMC is that

OUR CONGREGATION PERSEVERES!

Through this year so far you have continued to give faithfully to

the church and with your faithfulness we have been able to

continue helping our community through our ministries,

missions, and outreach. Here are a few of the many things we

have been doing to continue our mission of “Making disciples of

Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world”.

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Early Learning Collects 2,000 Cans of Food!

Early Learning held a food drive for the CUMC Edgelea Backpack Program on Friday, June 26th. Campers collected the donations in the East parking lot and were so excited when people would

drive up with their donations. This food drive accomplished a few things.

1. We collected a lot of food for the kids of Edgelea experiencing food insecurity.

2. Ministries in our church came together helping each other for others.

3. We were able to teach our children the love you feel when you do good things for others!

CUMC Summer Campers are excited to help support the Edgelea Backpack Program mission to stock the shelves for the upcoming school year!

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Thankfully Covid has not stopped some of our small groups from their Bible Study. The Women’s Bible Study has started meeting in the Sanctuary on Tuesdays. They still Zoom with the ladies who are not comfortable attending in person. And The Wesley Fellowship Sunday School class has begun meeting on Wednesday’s. As you can see we take all the precautions so that our church family remains safe and healthy.

The Henderson Mission Team Exemplifies “Being the Church” When long time church member, Jim Applegate, returned home after recovering from a fall he realized it had become difficult and dangerous to get in and out of his home. His daughter called the church for some advice/help. That is when Carol thought about our Henderson Mission Team. For the past 3 years our CUMC Henderson Mission team spent a week at Henderson Settlement in Frakes, KY doing work projects in one of the poorest areas of the Appalachian Mountains. Sadly, because of Covid

19 this couldn’t happen this year. However, this opened up a new opportunity for our team. They were able to get together and build a new front porch for Jim! Now Jim Applegate can safely sit on his front porch & enjoy his neighborhood. Jim was thrilled and humbled by his church coming together for him. Even in the midst of COVID God calls us to serve & love our neighbors ......and we can!

Before

During

Gary Kingma, Jim Applegate, and Dave Patton

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The Kids Kloset

During the past few months we were faced with the question, “How do we serve our local children in need of clothes if they can not come in and use our Kids Kloset”?

So, we sent out an online order form. For the month of June people were able to place their order online and come pick up the clothes outside delivered to their car.

On Sunday, June 28th, we welcomed 11 people into full membership at CUMC! Their membership class was a little different than most with COVID coming in at the middle and causing them to Zoom the rest of the way. If you are interested in membership at CUMC contact Carol Yarian. carol@christumchurch.org

Learning, Sharing, & Caring

One of the activities for the summer camp kids was a cooking class. One day Miss Carrie taught the kids how to make cookies along with how to care for others. These yummy cookies were then

delivered to some of our church members so they know they are loved and that we are thinking of them and praying for them.

Cheryl Servies Kids Kloset Volunteer

Pictured left to right: Gary and Virginia Dowling, Carole Gilbert, Hope Wooldridge, Jean Foust, Audra & Nate High with Spencer.

Pictured left to right: Ed & Becky Crabb, Becky & Carter Sims

Bethany Swisher

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Our Friend

God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:9

The Lord is always near us, We feel His guiding hand, At times when we are troubled, And things are hard to understand. ‘Tis then we know He’s near us, On Him we can rely, To help us make decisions As time goes passing by. No friend is always faithful Like our Lord in heaven above, He sends us all His blessing, He gives us wondrous love. If only we would listen, Let our conscience be our guide,

We’d know the path to travel, With our Savior by our side. He’s with us in the winter When days are dark and bleak, He’s with us in the summer On every day, all week. So let us all be thank ful For the goodnss He has done, For the friend who stands beside us, Our Lord, the Holy one. Maxine Lyga

Hunger Hike is an annual community fundraising event whose mission is to raise awareness and make a difference in the fight against hunger. So join our CUMC team to raise $500.00 and

let’s walk together to make a difference!!!!! Hunger Hike 2020 will kick off Sunday, September 13th with a week long challenge and then on Sunday, September 20th at 1 pm they will host a livestream event and 3K walk. CUMC Outreach Ministries is asking you to join us in the fight against hunger.. The proceeds from Hunger Hike support the work of three different agencies.

1. Lafayette Urban Ministry will use it to feed the homeless, stock the LUM Protein Food Pantry, and feed children in the after school and summer childcare programs.

2. Food Finders Food Bank, Inc. will use it to feed people impacted by COVID-19 here in Tippecanoe County.

3. St. Thomas Aquinas Haiti Ministry will use it to promote the hybrid seed and food storage programs, open a community store, and bring clean drinking water to the parish of Baudin.

So get a team of family, friends, co-workers and neighbors together, set a goal and just walk. Maybe 50 cents for every mile walked or how about $5.00 for every mile walking. If walking is not your thing, that’s fine, you can still support us through a donation and your prayers. If you would like to support Hunger Hike, go to www.christumchurch.org/giving and choose Hunger Hike 2020, or send a check with Hunger Hike 2020 in the memo line to the church office: 3610 S. 18th St., Lafayette, IN 47909 All donations will then be presented to Hunger Hike. Contact Carol Yarian | carol@christumchurch.org if you would like a Hunger Hike form for colleting donations or for any questions.

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Aug. 1 Ed Armstrong, Joshua Gilmore, Laura Willenborg Aug. 2 Miles Hanslow Aug. 3 Lynn Richardson Aug. 5 Gary Dowling, Staci Gray-Allen, Christi Lower, Helen Von Kannon Aug. 6 Margie Niles Aug. 7 Brett Bobzien, Amanda Glidden, Susan Robey Aug. 8 Evan Johnson, Bryan Miller Aug. 9 Amanda Habben, Kathleen Newman, Lou Samudio Aug. 10 Hal Acree, Reagan Johnson Aug. 11 Gary Boardman Aug. 12 Vicki Croy, Eloise Starn Aug. 13 Twyla Gibson, Amanda Pendleton, Grace Wolf Aug. 14 Robert Farrell, Tenley Walker Aug. 15 Brenda Wallar, Jamie Wolf Aug. 17 Stanley Burkart Aug. 18 Aimee Ungersma Aug. 20 Rexanne McCauley Aug. 21 Connie Hawk, Kathryn Noe, Coy Stelter Aug. 22 Aubriella Schulze, Herbert Wingard Aug. 25 Carol Aebi, Isaac Freeman Aug. 26 Karra Ferger, Brandon Gawlik, Jacob Mayer Aug. 27 Norm Blanchard, Riley Blankenship, Gary Kingma Aug. 28 Randy Lower , MarLen Slagel, Oliver Wiggins Aug. 30 Hudson Allen, Pat Wright Aug. 31 Rhonda Pendleton

We want to express our heartfelt thanks for all of your prayers, cards and notes, phone calls, and texts over the past year. Our church family means the world to us. We are grateful to be back in Lafayette where John can be home to heal and gain strength from his heart attack. Thank you to everyone for not forgetting about us. John and Carol Aebi

John & Carol Aebi 08/01/1964 Ed & Angie Johnson 08/03/1996 Jocelyn & Sean Trosper 08/09/2010 Larry & Kristin Randle 08/10/2013 Mike & Lisa Hilsabeck 08/11/2001 Aaron & Bryanna Osborne 08/14/2012 Paula & Mark Thoennes 08/14/1993 James & Inge Maresh 08/15/1971

Dean & Judy Rusk 08/15/1958 Kurt & Elizabeth Freeman 08/16/1997 Michael & Wanda Winstead 08/18/1979 Kim & Rob Outhouse 08/19/1989 Vicki & Ken Croy 08/20/1972 Russell & Beverly Herren 08/24/1968 Frank & Jan O'Shea 08/25/1962 Ed & Ruby Armstrong 08/26/1989 Robert & Melia Farrell 08/27/1994 Jim & Kathleen Newman 08/27/1972 Claude & Sharon Sawyer 08/27/1966 Joyce & Anthony Pilotte 08/28/1982 Robert & Phyllis Bell 08/29/1971 Randy & Cathy Hillyer 08/30/1970 Steven & Doreen Habben 08/31/1985 Charles & Deb Simpson 08/31/1974

Journey Through the Bible Pastor Norm Nellis invites to join him in Israel October 5-15, 2021. Visit Qasr el Yahud, where tradition says Jesus was baptized...Caesarea Philippi where Peter told Jesus he was the Messiah...see Jacob’s Well Samaria...walk the streets of Old Jerusalem. Brochures will be available in August and there will be an informational meeting in September. If you have questions or interest contact Norm at 765-491-5011 or travelwithnorm@gmail.com.

A Celebration of Life will be held to honor the life of Vera Van Hook at the Rush Pavilion at Columbian Park on August 29 between 12 pm and 3 pm. We request that everyone wear face masks except when enjoying a box lunch that will be provided.

Our backpack ministry is in need of funds to purchase new backpacks or tote bags. When the schools abruptly shut down in March the back packs that had gone home with children did not get returned. Each backpack is $50. Monetary donations would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions ask Diana Jones or Carol Yarian | carol@christumchurch.org -Thank You!

3610 South 18th Street Lafayette, IN 47909

Office Phone: 765-474-4313 Early Learning Phone: 765-474-8534

Fax: 765-474-6943

Email: info@christumchurch.org

Sunday Morning Schedule 8:30 am - 9:30 am Traditional Worship Service 10:45 am - 11:45 am Informal Worship Service

In the Sanctuary with limited capacity and Online for everyone.

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Clergy Senior Pastor Kurt Freeman, Visitation Pastor Bruce Mowery, & Pastor Emeritus Herb Wingard

Program Staff Emily Mayer, Jack Dwiggins, Carol Yarian, Aaron Osborne, Support Staff Hollie Kessler, Terra Tilley, Paula Watkins,

Vicki Croy, Glenn Pearson, Lisa Mott Early Learning Carrie McCool, Lauren McCool

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Christ United Methodist Church 3610 South 18th St. Lafayette, IN 47909

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