First United Methodist Church of Savanna, Illinois Volume 16 Issue 8

TELSTAR Our Mission Is To Be Committed Christians Inviting Others To Join Us.

Telstar is published monthly by First United Methodist Church for its members and friends. 2100 Chicago Ave, Savanna, IL 61074

Ph: 815-273-2345 / www.firstumcsavanna.org Pastor Jim Ketzel

Admin. Asst./Editor: Shauna Roberts—office@firstumcsavanna.org

Inside This Issue:

Worship Helpers 2

Pastor Pen 3

Ad Council Minutes 4

Finance Committee Announcement 5

Finance/Attendance 6

Birthdays, Announcements 7

UMW, Announcements 8

Calendar 9

Worship Helpers

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August 7 Acolyte: Brigit Jepsen Audio: Kris Yingling Children’s Time: Rev. Ketzel Coffee Hour: Vivian Eaton Communion: Erik & Alice Torrison Greeters: Bob & LaVona Grissinger Liturgist: Peg Dauphin Media: Susan Michelle Jepsen Nursery: Kathie Prins Ushers: Bob Davidson, Burt Dauphin

August 14 Acolyte: Noah Johnson

Audio: Max Purchis

Children’s Time: x Coffee Hour: Communion: x Greeters: Frank & Lois Grove Liturgist: Randy Bonjour Media: Martha Purchis

Nursery: Ushers: Kris Yingling

August 21 Acolyte: RJ Clemens

Audio:

Children’s Time: x Coffee Hour: Communion: x Greeters: Burt & Peg Dauphin Liturgist: Jason Moore Media: Kris Yingling

Nursery: Ushers: Pam Darrow, Burt Dauphin, Molly Andersen

August 28 Acolyte: Tommie Falk

Audio: Kris Yingling

Children’s Time: x Coffee Hour: Ron & Lori Miller Communion: x Greeters: Ruth Kelly Liturgist: Molly Andersen Media: Chris Falk

Nursery: Ushers:

Thank you to our worship helpers.

Greeters & ushers please be at the church

30minutes before worship is scheduled to begin. Responsibility sheet will be with the

bulletins.

Liturgist please contact the church office for

information on the readings for the morning

service.

Coffee hour - If we are low or out of paper

product supplies please let the office know

so items may be purchased.

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I am very pleased to be your interim pastor for the next five months or so. I am sure that we will work together well, and accomplish much.

By way of background, I am a Chicago native, but have lived in many different places, both when I was growing up, and since my ordination. I went through high school in Indianapolis, college at Indiana University, and seminary at the Presbyterian seminary in Louisville. I was ordained in the Presbyterian church in June of 1977, and served in Presbyterian churches as pastor for 18 years, in Kentucky, Indiana, and two places in Illinois. In 1995, I was appointed to the Methodist Church in Waterman, Illinois, where I stayed ten years. I transferred into the United Methodist Church in 2001, and that was one of the best decisions I ever made. Since then, I have served in Orangeville, Hamp-shire, and Davis/Rock City, for a total of twenty-one years in this conference, retiring last year.

My wife and I have been married for almost thirty-one years. We met in a Methodist singles group in Paducah, Kentucky in 1985. She has worked as a Director of Christian Education in various churches, including nine years at First Methodist in Downers Grove. Earlier this year she retired as an elementary school music teacher in the Rockford school district, and is currently the President of the Rockford District United Methodist Women.

My outside interests are philosophy, Christian Origins, and history, particularly the Civil War. I enjoy reading, writing, and traveling and love to be a passenger in an airplane.

I am confident that we can be a joyous and caring witness to our Lord in the future in Savanna and in the world. I can not think of anything else that this land and world needs more that an opti-mistic, loving, and positive example of how good life can be.

Faithfully,

James A. Ketzel

815 821 3145 (cell)

ketzel@aol.com (Email address)

Note: We are planning on attending the College of Christian Life in Peoria on August 15-17, and I have a wedding scheduled at White Pines on August 12. The groom is from Savanna and his family still lives there.

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FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF SAVANNA ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL

Sunday, June 19, 2016 10:45am

Chairperson Burt Dauphin called the meeting to order with 11 members present.

Peg Dauphin opened the meeting with prayer.

A motion was made by John LeComte and seconded by Paul Mayer that the minutes from

the previous meeting be approved and the motion carried.

Vivian Eaton presented the financial statement and a motion was made by Kathie Prins and

seconded by Paul Mayer to accept it and the motion carried.

TRUSTEES: Paul reported the Jang family will be moving our of the parsonage on June

29,2016 and we will start cleaning it on July 1st. He will ask members of the congregation to

volunteer for different projects according to their schedules and abilities. He will have keys

available. He made a motion, seconded by LaVona Grissinger, to purchase our hymnal CD col-

lection for $360.00 and the motion passed.

STAFF PARISH RELATIONS: LaVona is meeting with our district superintendent Lisa Kruse-

Safford tomorrow and she asked several members to meet at the parsonage for a walk-

through. She asked about raising the fee for fill-in pastors to $100 and will take this sugges-

tion back to her committee.

STEWARDSHIP/ FINANCE: Randy Bonjour is still working with the insurance company on our

embezzlement claim. There is a question about the employee theft coverage and when our

policies were in effect.

OUTREACH: Jason Moore and his committee will be helping with the Shoes for Hope pro-

gram on August 6, 2016, serving hot dogs.

NEW BUSINESS: John LeComte made a motion, seconded by Kathie Prins, to place an ad in

the West Carroll athletic programs for $150 and the motion carried.

The meeting was adjourned at 11:24am.

Respectfully Submitted,

Molly Andersen, recording secretary

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Finance Committee Announcement

Although the Finance Committee work is not finished, I have declared the bulk of the review-ing and adjusting to be in our past. We accepted $141K and have a possible claim with State Farm. State Farm was our insurance company before our current carrier.

The committee met weekly from September to December 2015. Then two times a month un-til May 2016. John LeComte was excellent counsel and kept our meeting minutes. I called him every day for months as we sorted through our claim.

Paul Mayer held the record for calls from me in a day. Five! Five phone calls in a day speaks to the ground we had to cover to make our claim. Paul devised and implemented the new money counting procedure.

Vivian Eaton became the committee's accountant. One Friday afternoon we were redrafting a letter to the insurance company. I'll admit to having one of those self-absorbed moments, thinking only of myself. Wishing I was doing something else I said, "I have 250 hours in on this project." It was a wake up call for me as to how dedicated and willing to put in the time John, Paul, and Vivian have been while serving on the Finance Committee during these unu-sual times.

Randy Bonjour

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Date Income

June 26 $866.00

July 3 $4,088.86

July 10 $2,761.00

July 17 $2,458.59

July 24 $1,232.00

Total Income $11,406.45

Insurance $142,412.92

Memorial Fund $5,000.00

Week Sat. Sun.

June 26 12 36

July 3 9 62

July 10 13 52

July 17 7 61

July 24 8 50

Avg. 10 52

Prayer Concerns

John Hamm, Glen Brunner, Lisa Holmes, Joan Cassellius, Shawn Roling, Robin Cook, John Powell, Kay Hottenstein, Rex Felten, Eli, Bill Remrey, Molly Stevens, Megan Satterly, Jerod Wood, Abby Bradbury, Lincoln Eads, James Munson, Savannah Jones, Thelma High, Larry Messemer, Wilma Brunner, Charley Meyer, Ed Arb, Duane Kistler, Penny Reynolds, Mili-

tary Personnel and their families

A big thank you to everyone who has helped do work at the parsonage. You’re work is very much appreciated. Paul Mayer, Bob Grissinger, Bob Davidson, Merle Law, Randy Bonjour, Carlo Stubbe, LaVona Grissinger, Mary Irons, Kathy Prins, Linda Jachino, Max Purchis, Mar-tha Purchis, Vivian Eaton, Jim Eaton, Burt Dauphin, Burt’s grandson Blake Volkers, Peg Dauphin helped purchase the curtains, Ron Miller and his crew broke up and removed the floor in the garage and installed a drain with a sloped floor to the new drain, Steve Miller Ron’s cousin al-so did some plaster work and LaVona Grissin-ger and Ruth Kelly brought lunches.

We are in need of people for the evening prayer

chain. If you would like

to volunteer, please call

Shauna in the office at

273-2345.

Vacation Bible School was a success with

78 kids who attended. Total dollars collect-

ed was $667, which was donated to The

Savanna Fire Department. We look for-

ward to seeing all the kids next year!!

Aug 1 Tom Neumiller

3 Bob Davidson

4 Joe Guilinger

5 Joe Jachino

7 Chris Fosdick, Cindy Law

8 Rob David, Claire Connor

9 Cameron Dreger

10 Ryan Miller

11 Jaime Mayer, Kira Jackson

12 Jennifer Nolte

13 Martha Purchis, Quinn Callahan, LaVona

Grissinger

14 Brenda Hamm

15 Justyn Spencer

16 Samantha Schoenhaar

18 Bill Jacobson, Wayne & Martha White ‘63

20 Adam Hartman, Wadeen Dauphin

22 Jean Jones

24 Marsha Deitelhoff, Ron Miller,

Brigit Michelle Jepsen

26 Jeff Law, RJ Clemens,

Jack & MaryEllen Dreger 1961

28 Sharon F. Guilinger

29 Aiden Weidman, Sharon A. Guilinger

30 Kyle Harter, Lucas Ingersoll, Tyler Miller

31 Bob Froehlich, Ramsey Miller

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UMW Meeting Tuesday August 2nd At 7pm Hostesses: Linda Jachi-no and Deb Long

Program: Kathie Prins The meeting will be held at Linda Jachino’s house, 17749 IL Rte. 84 (North of Savanna about 4 miles). There will be a Life is Sweet Ice Cream Sundae Bar. Carpool from the Church at 6:45pm.

Sunday School will be starting the Sunday after

Labor Day. Also big changes will be coming to WOW this year.

The Willow/Kent Churches will hold the 48th Annual Willow Folk Festival: August 13th and 14th in the Willow Church Yard. Saturday Ama-teur Musicians perform from 11:00am to 10:00pm. Sunday: Breakfast available; “Christ Country Choir” will lead the Worship Service at 10:15am. Following the morning service, en-tertainment by Amateur Musicians will run from 11:45am until 5:00pm.

Food and Drink available on the grounds.

Flower Gardens Schedule

(Saturday– Sunday)

May 9-15 Linda Jachino

May 16-22 Mary Irons

May 23-29 Randy & Susie Bonjour

May 30– June 5 Joe & Sharon Guilinger

June 6-12 Bill Wright

June 13-19

June 20-26 Kay Cavanagh

June 27– July 3

July 4-10 Linda S.

July 11-17 Alice Riffe-Torrison

July 18-24 Deb Long

July 25-31 Rhonda Badtke

Aug. 1-7 Molly Andersen

Aug. 8-14 Ancil & Sharon

Aug. 15-21

Aug. 22-28 Pam Darrow

Aug. 29– Sept. 4

Sept. 5-11 Bonnie Davies

Sept. 12-18 Linda Jachino

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