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CHURCH CALENDARCHURCH CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 6:30PM BIB Bag Packing
THURSDAY, MARCH 16 6:00PM Meditation 6:30PM Radiance Yoga
SATURDAY, MARCH 18 8:00AM Community Prayer Breakfast 11:00AM VLT Meeting
SUNDAY, MARCH 19 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 5:00PM Dinner & Discussion
TUESDAY, MARCH 21 9:30AM Prayer Shawl Ministry 6:00PM Meditation 6:30PM Radiance Yoga
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 6:30PM BIB Bag Packing
SATURDAY, MARCH 25 CCIW Spring Gathering
SUNDAY, MARCH 26 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 5:00PM Dinner & Discussion
MONDAY, MARCH 27 9:00AM Newsletter Articles Due
SATURDAY, APRIL 1 10:30AM VLT Meeting
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 6:00PM Pastor’s Pub Talk @ Olivers
MARCH Food Collection:
Peanut Butter & Jelly
Sanctuary Easter Lilies
Three Lilies will adorn the Chancel for our Easter Season worship In
Memory of our Loved Ones. Beginning April 2nd you may sign up to
have your recognition listed in the Easter Bulletin on April 16th.
Donations in any amount toward the Lilies will be accepted during the
Offering and all funds received above the cost of the lilies will be
added to our Easter Offering for Disciples Mission Fund. Please,
mark your check/gift LILIES. Remember, with your donation you
are not purchasing a lily to carry home with you.
Sunday Supper & Study to Began March 12th at
5:00PM
We will Discuss Adam Hamilton’s Book: Half Truths: God Helps
Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn’t Say
available for order through Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Cokesbury.
Child friendly activities will be Available. RSVP TODAY!
Believers and Betrayers – March 26th In dialogue with Pulpit Guest Kelly Youngblood
Wednesday - Mark 14:1-11 Sit with Jesus as he is Honored by One and Betrayed by
Another.
Handed Over – April 2nd
Pulpit Guest – Kelly Youngblood Thursday - Mark 14:12-71
Experience the Last Supper as Jesus bids Farewell to his Friends and is Arrested for High Treason.
The Empire Strikes Back – Passion Sunday, April 9th
Friday - Mark 15:1-41 Witness the Execution of Jesus as Rome Asserts
the Power of Violence against the Nonviolent Savior.
Love Wins – April 16th
Easter Sunday – Mark 16:1-8 Celebrate the Powerful Love of God Revealed
in the Risen Jesus Christ!
Easter Offering April 9 & 16, 2017
February Giving: Central received $5,968 for the General Fund, $65 for the Building
Maintenance Fund, $79 for Fair Trade Store, $315 for Week of Compassion, and $20 for BIB RVC. Your generous giving is appreciated. Central offers Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Credit and Debit cards as well as online giving through our website and PayPal.
Please, Note We are No Longer Collecting Aluminum for Recycling at the Church. Please, recycle your aluminum on your own. Thanks!
Ladies Ministry News Thank you to everyone who helped make our Annual Women’s Pampering event a success. As women,
and as Christians, we all want to be generous and serve others. We often tend to forget to take care of
ourselves. We were able to have a massage, a manicure or other pampering.
Ladies Day at ONU Saturday April 22, 2017 | 9:00AM—3:00PM | Centennial Chapel
A special gathering for women featuring guest speaker Missy Robertson of "Duck Dynasty".
Music by Grayson Reed
Cost: $30 (a boxed lunch is available for an additional $10. Boxed lunches are limited to the first 1000
and available only through March 31st.)
We'd love to have a group attend. We can go as a group or separately, as desired. For more
information, or to register, call 855-98-SHINE. You may also register online at www.olivet.edu.
Asbury Community Outreach Ministries, Inc.
Thursday, April 27, 2017 | 10:00AM—4:00PM
Asbury United Methodist Church 196 S. Harrison Ave., Kankakee, IL 60901
We will be holding an event on April 27, 2017 in which we would like you to
participate. It is Project Homeless Connect, a day when all imaginable local service
providers gather in one building to facilitate getting needed help to those people in
our community who are presently or are at imminent risk of experiencing homelessness. This is different
from a resource fair in that we’d like to help people complete and submit applications, conduct evaluations
for need and eligibility for care or services, and have appointments made for any follow up care or services.
Pick up a brochure with detailed information in the Narthex
If you have questions, please call Debbie Dodt, (815-933-4408 or email, [email protected])
From Robert’s Round Table Our Lenten journey through the Last Days of Jesus
will reach the midpoint this weekend as we walk with
Jesus on Tuesday of Holy Week around 30-33 CE. I
enjoy working on this series and I believe focusing on
these days of Jesus’ life and ministry are of vital
importance to an understanding of Christian faith. I am
not alone in that thought. The gospel writers
themselves gave more words, chapters and verses to
the last week of Jesus’ earthly pilgrimage than to any
other period of his life. So, that means this story was
the one most re-told for the early church as they tried
to understand this one they called the Savior of the
world.
For some, the story of Holy Week is best left to
Hollywood and better to be skipped over. Many
Christians in other fellowships do not observe the
seasons of the church year, including Lent and when
approaching Holy Week only consider Palm Sunday
and Easter. Good Friday is too dark and depressing,
Maundy Thursday is a day most non-Catholics have
never heard of and well the other days are just too
difficult to deal with, especially due to their political
overtones. I get that we think we witness enough
suffering in the world around us that we’d prefer to
skip over the suffering of Jesus and that we get so tired
of political conversations that never seem to solve any
problems but only seem to divide people. However,
without the days leading up to and through Good
Friday, there is no Easter to celebrate. Without Holy
Week there is no reason to gather each Sunday and
worship in the name of Christ, for without Holy Week
there is no Christ, at least in the traditional
understanding of the person Jesus whose death and
resurrection demonstrated God’s salvation (love and
grace) to humanity.
Holy Week is full of drama and is admittedly hard
work emotionally and theologically for many. So, I
understand if you may have found the first couple
weeks of our series challenging as we rode with Jesus
in an organized march of resistance into Jerusalem and
as we watched him confront the Temple with anger
and condemnation for exploiting the widow and
orphan and trying to please the Romans, the insurgents
and not putting God’s dream for humanity above all
else. Yes, its messy just like humanity and this is
where it is important to remember that Jesus was flesh
and blood just like us. That’s why his story is so
special! God took the form of humanity, incarnate we
say in Jesus but having done so God did not exploit
God’s power and instead emptied himself even unto
the most humiliating death a human could suffer in
those days. And, why? So that we may know God’s
unconditional love and boundless grace – God’s desire
for every human being.
Our Lenten journey will soon take us through
Wednesday and Thursday of Holy Week and I am
delighted to share in this
journey with our newest
member Kelly Youngblood
who will participate in a
dialogue with me on March
26th when we encounter the
woman anointing Jesus and
then be our Pulpit Guest on
April 2 when we visit the story
of the Last Supper. Kelly has served in campus
ministry, taught Bible studies and courses in church
history and preached for campus chapel services. She
is a Christian blogger when parenting allows her time
to blog and she is a published author of a devotional in
the NIV Women’s Devotional Bible. I have
appreciated our dialogue leading up to this series and I
look forward to hearing her perspectives as I am sure
you will also.
As we approach Holy Week on the calendar, plans are
being made for our Maundy Thursday Passed Meal and
Drama which will take place on April 13th at 6:30PM.
We will be joined by our ecumenical partners at St
John UCC. On Good Friday we will join them for a
liturgical worship at a time to be determined. Watch
for more details soon. I do hope you are having a
prayerful and meaningful Lenten journey. See you in
worship if not before soon!
Peace & Joy, Rev. Robert Bushey, Jr.
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310 Main ST NW, Bourbonnais, IL 60914
Phone: (815) 939-4433
Email: [email protected]
Staff: Dianna Clem, Administrative Secretary;
Rev. Robert Bushey, Jr. Minister
Mobile: (815) 662-7771
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