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CRT Pg 4

Outreach Pg 4

Current Events Pg 7

Children’s Ministry Pg 8

Calendar Pg 9-10

Children’s Day & Family Picnic June 10th

On June 10 our Sunday School department and congregation will celebrate Children’s Day during worship service starting at 9:30 a.m. Each class will give presentations showcasing what they have learned during their time in Sunday School. We will also give attendance awards and honor our high school and college graduates. If you know of someone who is graduating, please give the name to Elaine Luoma. Be sure to join us after worship service for our annual Family Picnic on the church grounds. The Sun-day School will provide hot dogs & hamburgers and sign-ups will be taken for additional dishes/drinks. Please see Elaine Luoma if you can bring a side dish. Recreational ac-tivities are planned for the children during our picnic.

Elaine Luoma

Sunday School

& All-Church Family Picnic Sunday, June 10

Program: 9:30 a.m. (Sanctuary)

Picnic: 11 a.m. following worship

Parents and families are invited. Special Presentations and Music!

Help Keep God’s World Clean! Please join us on Saturday, May 19, when we will help clean up our commu-nity by picking up litter at a local road or park. We will meet at the church at 8:30 a.m. and begin our 3 hours of cleanup at 9. Kids are welcome, but must be accompanied by a parent. This is part of the Gloucester County Clean Communities Program, which will give us a Mini Grant for doing this work. We need at least 10 adults to help. The county provides safety vests, signs, trash bags, and recycle bags. If you’re willing to help out in the effort, please sign up at church or call or see Jennie Troxell.

National Day of Prayer

Thursday, May 3 12 noon

RiverWinds Main Lobby Join us to pray for UNITY for our leaders and people

St. Paul’s United Methodist Church West Deptford, NJ

May-June 2018

Prayers: Prayers for S. family on pass-ing of John; Prayers for family of Bar-bara who passed, she was my childhood best friend (Edith); Prayers for Mark & Dixielee (Lillian); Twins need continued prayers (Taylor); Family of Betty H needs prayers; Healing prayers for friend Chris in loss of her grandson Dominick (Sandi); Casey, on the death of her aunt (PD); Krissie asks for pray-er for a family member & family who lost their unborn child (website); Jamie & family, hard time (website) Health Concerns: Please pray for my grandmother’s recovery from broken hip (Tiff); Prayers for Dave, father of a friend, who is suffering from cancer (Molly & Betsy); Sam, 31yr, healing from cardiac surgery (Sandi); Gary, bladder cancer; Stacie, cancer; Jim, mus-cle damage (anon.); Prayers for Joyce, broken hip (Sandy); Sis-in-law, Ruth is very ill with lung cancer (Louise); Pray-ers for friend Maria, stage 4 cancer (Kathy); Jeff & Nicky - mental health, Jen - results (Gerry); Louise, lung can-cer; Virginia, heart problem (Debbie); Brother Tommy - stage 3 cancer; Wan-da has fractured pelvis; and pray for me, having tooth pulled (Sue) Every week: All those in need, unspoken requests, all servicemen/women, our nation and leaders Ongoing Prayer Concerns: Felecia A., Vanessa M., Garry & Peg P., Diane W., Samm S., F. family, Hope T., Gerry M., Barbara B., Chris S., Janet B., Betty C., Terry D., Harriet H., Rod H., Annisia M., Rachel & Regina, Helen R., Corey T. Serving in the Military: Ed S., Joseph B., Taylor P., James Thom-as A.Jr., Kailey R., Jaime Dan S. Shut-Ins & Nursing Home Residents Jean K., Jackie Z., Bertie C., Harriet H., Ron & Eve C.

2 May/June 2018 Lamplighter

JUNE BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

2– Makai Montgomery 2– Jennie Troxell 3– Heather Gibson 5– Bethany Golle 5– Michael Jones 6– Renee Conway 6– Rich Grossman 6– Jay Hamel 6– Cindy Miller 6– Carol Withers 7– Paula Carter 7– Garry Purnell 8– Collin Dechen 9– Steven Spellman 10– Stephe Miller 12– Kelsey Rinear 12 - Kali Dugan 13– Judy Brown 13– Kim Dechen 14– Eddie Yurick 15 – Claudia Ruggeri 16– Dave & Denise Hosier 16– Barbara Jones 17– Matt Moore 17– Amy White 17– Jillian Platt 18– Angel & Nina Cosme 18– Kathy Reitz 18– Jean Speakman 19– Joe Jones Sr. 19– Cheryl Platt 19– Wayne Strockbine 20 – Sharon Eichel 20– Madison White 21– David Keegan Jr. 24– Jordan Weems 25– Kelly Haase 25– Justin Stone 25– Diane Wonsetler 27– Ryan DuBois 27– Ed Yurick 29– Skylar Cooper

MAY BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES

1– Danielle & Frank Ferrara 1– Lauren Jones 2– Gary Rutter 3– Bob & Rosalyn Platt 3– Blaine Zirbser 4– Cheryl DiVento 5– George Tait 6– Elaine Blair 6– Mike Hauck 6– Erin & Emil Vatsev 6– Jeanette Whipp 6– Jackson White 7– Ron & Eve Cervantes 7– Ann Hamel 7– Dan Taylor 10– Fred & Judy Cochran 10– Sandy & Dick Wagner 10– Bryan White 11– Billy Blair 11– Jason Miller 12– Connor Huesser 12– Ed & Linda Ruple 16– Jennifer Blair Yearby 17– Don Davis 17– Leigh Klinger 18– Majorie Rowand 18– Rob Rowand 19– Nancy Campbell 20– Rita Thomas 20– Abigail Furey 20– Nicole Lisa 21 – Christopher Bailey 22– Sandi & Mike DiLeo 23– Makenzie Previtali 24– Jim Doerrmann 24– Ed Donisi 24– Linda Ruple 25– Mike DiLeo 26– Landyn Blair 26– Kyle Mancuso 27– Mary Budd 27– Jeff Stone 28– Charlie & Deanna Kyser 28– TJ Stevens 29– Ruth & Bob Schultz 30– Izabella Reichert 30– Ashley Seaton 30– Bea Stone 31– Matthew DuBois 31– Tami Kyser

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Assistant Editor: Denise Hosier

Regular Contributors: Pastor Dave, Gary Rutter, Ruth Schultz, Carol

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THELAMPLIGHTER Bimonthly Newsletter of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church PO Box 125, West Deptford, NJ 08086 Pastor: Rev. Dave Delaney Phone (856) 845-6638 E-mail [email protected] Sunday Morning Worship .............. 9:30 a.m. Sunday School ................................... 10:45 a.m.

of Acts (I would love for everyone to read that short passage of Scripture before the 20th) we see how God’s Holy Spirit changed lives and how changed lives brought more people into the church. In the year 2018 we need to continue to grow God’s church … we need to continue to grow St. Paul’s. On May 27th we will pause to remem-ber our baptisms and there will be an opportunity to renew your baptism vows. As a church our challenge this summer will be to visit the families whose children have been baptized here to encourage them to worship with us to connect with God rather than to allow their child’s baptism to be just a party date for the family. Vacation Bible School is around the corner and yes, I really think we can get 125 children packed into our hall-ways if we all invite the families we know to join us. This is a transitional time period for our church and our world. Children need to discover God’s love and we have such a great venue to share the message of Easter with them. The month of May also brings closure

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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I have no doubt whatso-ever that every person who meets Bertie Cast, a shut in from our church family, leaves thinking, ‘what a beauti-ful woman’ and more than likely ‘what an awesome woman of God.’ Bertie Cast is a child of God even though she is getting a little older day by day. She is a child of God who has figured out that living life for God and with God matters. Her smile is radiant and even on a day when she lost a front tooth (it has now been replaced) her smile was incredibly beautiful! She sends her love to all of the St. Paul’s church family and wishes that she could worship with us. As we move into the month filled with May flowers it seems like we are all too quickly leaving Easter behind. I sit here with the sun shining through my window still challenged by a persistent question as to whether the bloom of the Easter discovery is still shining on our faces as it did on Easter morning. I wonder whether this has this been the year when the Holy season trans-formed more of us into a stronger relationship with God. Have the recent baptisms of the twins and Cody en-lightened the church family of St. Paul’s to our daily need to be God-connected rather than world-centered? Tough questions because we are busy. Tough questions because the world and our families and our neighbors and our friends want us to be some-one different than a joy-filled sharer of the faith we hold dear. On Sunday May 20th we celebrate Pentecost. I will be wearing red … will you join us in remembering the birth of the Christian church with the ener-gy and enthusiasm you associate with the birth of Christ? Can you help fill the sanctuary with the color red re-membering God’s gift of the Holy Spirit? When we reflect on chapter 2

to a season of Bible study and I am trying to decide on the studies for the fall. I really will welcome your sugges-tions. One idea that I am going to try to implement this fall is a weekly 30 minute Bible study on ZOOM at lunch time; participants can study God’s Word at work or home. Please let me know how I can create a study that you will join. The bloom of the Easter Lily of Jesus Christ never fades. The light beaming from the empty tomb illuminates the path of Salvation. Our God calls us to be different than the world and our God calls us to go into the world for God. Wherever life’s journey takes each of us it is my prayer that our daily lives reflect both that bloom and that light. Let’s see if we can all be as beautiful as Bertie …

Blessings!

Pastor Dave

“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in

one place.” Acts 2:1

Wear Red for Pentecost May 20th


It’s time to step up to the plate with St. Paul’s!!

We are going to see the new exciting Phillies when they play the San Diego Padres on Sat-urday July 21, and every child under 14 will receive a collectible Phillies truck courtesy of WB Mason!

The game starts at 7:05 but we will be enjoying a tail gate party in the lot right across the street from Citizen’s Bank Park. Hot dogs are on us … that’s a lot better than paying $6 inside the stadium!

We have 35 tickets available for $35 each. Please see Pastor Dave to reserve yours. Money will be due later.

Phillies Game, July 21st Community Relations Team

This is a perfect game … mid-July, give-away night, and a team that the Phillies should be competitive with based on pre-season looks.

The main thing is having fun and seeing if we can get some

neighbors to show up too! Sponsored by the CRT, the Community Relations Team. Thank you all for being part of the essential ministry of our church!!!

Jake Eichel

Outreach

As we enter the Spring/Summer season, its time to look forward to enjoying the outdoors. I hope the cold weather is gone 'til next fall.

Upcoming Mission Projects & Offerings:

• May – Our first Sunday offering

(May 6) will benefit United Methodist Homes.

On the third Sunday (May 20) our offering benefits The Neighborhood Center in Camden, Summer Pro-gram.

The camp offers children a summer program including

trips, sports, art, Christian edu-cation and skill building while building self-esteem and forging meaningful bonds with new friends and the community.

The costs associated with the camp range from $375-$600 and are based on income for individual families. Your support of this amazing program will provide exceptional services to inner-city children who are not typically able to participate in programs such as this.

• June –

Our first Sunday offering (June 3) is for Native American Awareness.

Our third Sunday (June 17) will benefit the St. Paul’s Vacation Bible School.

Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers. May you have a wonderful day!

Also Happy Father's Day to all Dads. May you have a wonderful day as well on your day.

Again as always, thank you for all you do to help Reach Out to our projects.

Ruth Schultz


ANCHOR CLASS meets every week during Sunday School and raises money for various mission projects. These dedicated

ladies are part of the foundation of St. Paul’s.

YOUR GIVING

To make it easier to give, you can now donate to

St. Paul’s with a credit card or by PayPal. Just click on

the “Donate” button on the top right side of our

webpage, http://stpaulsalive.org

Thank you all for your generosity in 2017!

Family Promise returns June 17-23rd!

Help is needed in all areas!!

* Drivers, am & pm * Meals * Evening Fellowship * Overnighters

Please sign up to help with this important

ministry!

Choir Appreciation On Mother’s Day, Sunday May 13th, we will worship God through the recognition of mothers and all ladies with flowers. Our service will be a musical time of worship featuring fa-vorite choral pieces from this past year, including a combo with the praise team and children singing, “What a Mighty God We Serve.”

Please join us, and bring your mother for our celebration!


POTLUCK SUPPER & CANDY BAR BINGO: In spite of bad weather, our church family enjoyed sharing dinner and Bingo with our Family Promise guests in March.

Our next Potluck Supper & Game Night will be either Sunday, June 17 or Friday, June 22, beginning about 6:15 p.m. Watch for exact date to be announced. Bring a dish to share and join us for good food & fun!

EASTER SUNDAY was a joyous celebration, led by our choir.

Don’t miss a concert of our choir’s best songs on May 13, Mother’s Day.


LOVE is our watchword at St. Paul’s. We love God, love our neighbors,

and love each other. Photo was taken by Pastor Dave to make a poster for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High

School, the site of a deadly school shooting in February.

MEN’S BREAKFASTS are a time of sharing and fellowship for our men and the men of several other churches. Our guys meet at 8 a.m. on the first Saturday (September through June) at the Piston Diner and on the third Wednesday of every month at the Country House Diner.

THE WINNING COACH always gets Gatorade dumped over him after the championship game. Pastor Dave packed the church one Sunday in March and Mary Ann Jones did the honors. Thanks to Bev Betz for her perfect photo of the big splash.


St. Paul’s Children’s Moment is a highlight of

the Sunday Service—infusing joy into the

Word of God and the hearts of the congregation.

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