THE HUB-BUB Hudson Lake Mennonite Church

Esther Lanting, Pastor

7503 N. Walker Rd.

New Carlisle, IN 46552

574-654-8388

Vol. 15 No 7 July 2012

Thoughts from the Pastor

This is the fourth and last in a series of summary introductions to the seven priorities adopted by the

Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) at the 2011 General Assembly in Pittsburg. These priorities will guide

the future work and direction of the MC USA. These priorities are:

Christian Formation; Christian Community; Holistic Christian Witness; Stewardship;

Leadership Development; Undoing Racism and Advancing Intercultural

Transformation; and Church-to-Church Relationships

Christian Formation is described as fashioning and molding our lives after that of Jesus Christ. Christian Community

reflects the belief that congregations are a vital part of sharing and communicating God’s mission in the world. We

strengthen the witness through our worship, by practicing and extending hospitality, doing Biblical discernment

together, developing and working at Christ-centered unity and learning to agree and disagree in love. Holistic

Christian Witness calls us to a broad spectrum of witness including, in part, pace and justice, evangelism, health and

service ministries. Stewardship invites us to reflect God’s abundance through our generosity in achieving missional

goals.

The fifth priority, Leadership Development, states: The church calls forth leaders as prompted by God to inspire the

congregation for its evangelizing mission in the world and to ensure that every member/ participant in the faith

community is empowered, equipped and supported for their unique vocation in witness. As missional communities

we will develop leaders at all levels of the church, helping every member to reach their God-given potential as they

follow Christ’s call.

Undoing Racism and Advancing Intercultural Transformation is the sixth priority. Racism, hostility and alienation

between different cultural groups stand in the way of Christ’s kingdom of love, justice and peace. As missional

communities we will seek to dismantle individual and systemic racism in our church, develop intercultural

competence, heal racial divisions, and value all the gifts of God’s diverse people. We envision people of many

nations, tribes, people and languages as participants in the kingdom of God.

The final priority is Church-to-Church Relationships. This priority reflects the belief that the unity of Christ’s church

is hindered when any congregation remains disengaged and isolated from others who belong to the same Body of

Christ. In a world of global economic disparity and vast cultural differences, our unity in the church bears witness to

an alternate reality where we feel each other’s pain and rejoice when others rejoice. As missional communities we

will learn and grow through interaction with other Christian fellowships.

Do you see Hudson Lake Mennonite Church working at these? Do you see efforts at a using and developing the gifts

of everyone in the congregation? Are we aware of places where racism exists? Do we live in ways that promotes or

dismantles racism? Are we actively learning about other cultures? How are we doing at relating to other

congregations in our Area Council? How about other churches within our Conference?

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SundaySundaySundaySunday/Monday/Monday/Monday/Monday ---- July July July July 22222222ndndndnd & 23& 23& 23& 23rdrdrdrd - Gene Van Accordion Benefit Concert 7:00 p.m. EDT At Kern Road Mennonite Church

Health Tips from John Quest Blood Pressure – Part 2 – (all you ever wanted to know and more)

At your first visit to a new doctor, make certain that your blood pressure is checked on BOTH arms,

and at least once a year thereafter. A difference in the blood pressures, if there is one, could indicate a

problem. Normally, blood pressure should ALWAYS be checked on the LEFT arm. The left arm is more of a

"straight shot" off the heart, and is more accurate than a right arm blood pressure. Unless there is a medical

problem which would prevent a left arm BP check, I recommend that you insist on a left arm check. Sit back

and relax with both feet on the floor. Whatever you do, do NOT cross your legs, because to do so will close

off some huge blood vessels behind your knees and make the pressure go sky high.

One last thought.......... in case you are a lover of licorice. Twice within the past few years, I have

been able to intervene in two cases of sudden-onset hypertension (high blood pressure) which was caused by

eating huge amounts of licorice. Licorice is chemically identical to aldosterone, an anti-diuretic hormone

which causes retention of fluid in the body. Fluid retention, in turn, causes the blood pressure to go up, as

you probably already know. Source: John Quest, who is a licensed nurse. John retired from nursing after 25 years.

July is National……

Blueberry Month Cell Phone Courtesy Month Hot Dog Month Ice Cream Month Hitchhiking Month

Unusual July dates … (3) Compliment your mirror day (4) Country Music Day (6) Fried Chicken Day

(7) Chocolate Day (11) Cheer up the lonely Day (12) Pecan Pie Day (13) Barbershop Music Appreciation Day

(21) Junk Food Day (22) Hammock Day (23) Vanilla Ice Cream Day (29) Lasagna Day (30) Cheesecake Day

July Anniversaries… Zippo

July B-days... 06 Kayden Leason

11 Don Carpenter

12 Ed Cain

26 Nathan Gloss

29 Elsa Littman

31 Amy Schrock

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Treat Your Body to Green Living Be aware of what you put into and on your body, and you'll be living a greener – and healthier – life.

Food: buy organic meats, produce, dairy products, and eggs, and you'll be reducing the number of pesticides and genetically modified food that you eat. To make sure you're getting the best organic food, look for the USDA label that indicates the product is organic. Also, shop in the organic or health food section of the grocery store, or shop at a specialty or health food store.

Beauty Products: many beauty products such as soap, lotion, shampoo/conditioner, and cosmetics are made with artificial fragrances and chemicals. Look for beauty products that are all-natural, made with herbal and flower extracts. Also look for beauty products that are packaged in recycled or recyclable containers, and that have not been tested on animals.

Clothes: buy clothes made with natural fibers, such as cotton, hemp, and wool, and made with all-natural dyes (such as vegetable dyes or herbal dyes). By wearing all-natural clothes, you'll be helping the environment by avoiding cloth that required a lot of energy and waste to produce, and you'll be helping yourself by avoiding irritating and uncomfortable synthetic fibers and unhealthy chemical dyes.

Firecracker Fried Chicken Drumsticks Prep Time:20 Min Cook Time: 30 Min Ready In: 1 Hr 50 Min

Ingredients

• 8 chicken drumsticks

• 1/4 cup hot pepper sauce

• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour

• 2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 3 cups vegetable oil for frying

Directions

1. Remove skin from chicken and place in a re-sealable plastic bag. Pour sauce over chicken, seal bag, and

refrigerate to marinate for at least 1 hour, up to 24 hours. The longer the chicken marinates, the spicier it

will be.

2. Heat oil in a deep-fryer or large skillet to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

3. Combine the flour, cornmeal, and salt in another re-sealable plastic bag. Add the drumsticks, seal bag,

and shake to coat.

4. Fry the chicken, uncovered, for 25 to 30 minutes or until juices run clear. Turn occasionally to brown

evenly.

Top 10 Healthiest Vegetables

1. Tomatoes 2. Broccoli 3. Brussels Sprouts 4. Carrots 5. Squash 6. Sweet Potato 7. Egg Plant 8. Bell Peppers 9. Spinach 10. Onions

Top 10 Super Foods

1. Pomegranates 2. Walnuts 3. Broccoli 4. Whole Grains 5. Cinnamon 6. Dark Chocolate 7. Avocadoes 8. Dark Leafy Greens 9. Wild Salmon 10. Green Tea

Can you solve these riddles? (Answers on page 5)

1. What comes twice in a week, never in a month, and once in a year? 2. What falls but never gets hurt? 3. What starts with t, ends with t, and is full of t? 4. What is black when clean and white when dirty? 5. What gets wetter as it dries? 6. What word contains all of the 26 letters? 7. What's as big as you and yet doesn't weigh an ounce? 8. What is voiceless, yet howls; toothless, yet bites? 9. What can you swallow that can also swallow you? 10. What has no content, yet you can see it? 11. What do you have that you can always count on? 12. What is bigger when new and grows smaller with use?

Joy is really a

road sign

pointing us to

God. Once we

have found

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joy.—C. S.

Lewis

Answers to riddles on page 4

1. The letter "e": wEEk, month, yEar. 2. Rain. 3. A teapot. 4. A blackboard. 5. A towel. 6. Alphabet. 7. Your shadow 8. The wind. 9. Water. 10. A hole. 11. Your fingers. 12. A pencil.

Numbers to Ponder: *On average, percentage that violent crime is reduced in the U.S. for each additional year in school: 30 *Amount the State of California spends per student per year: $8,667 *Amount the State of California spends per prisoner per year: $50,000 -source: Yes! Magazine

July/August Mission Project

School Kits for MCC

School kits are MCC’s most-

requested item. Notebooks and

pencils become treasures to families

who struggle to afford basic school

supplies. School kits also are given to

refugee and displaced children,

helping students and teachers add

some normalcy to disrupted lives.

They are frequently requested after

disasters. MCC sends school kits

around the world.

School Kit Contents

- 4 spiral or perforated notebooks (8

1⁄2 x 10 1⁄2 in and 70 sheets)

- 4 unsharpened pencils

- 1 ruler(flat, flexible plastic;

indicating both 30 cm and 12 in)

- 12 colored pencils (in packaging)

- 1 large pencil eraser

ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL

BUSINESS MEETING

Monday, July 30th

5:00 p.m. EDT

Light Dinner Provided

Some of the agenda: • 2012-2013 Budget approval

• First Fruits Discernment conversation

• Approve 2012-131 Mission Projects

• Announce results of G.D. ballot and

commission workers

• Discuss having an all-Church Retreat

this year?

• Committee Reports

• Worship at CTV

• Evaluate dish-washing experiment

Who are we? Where are we?

N X H T I F F I R G N A O J R C I Z V E V M J J M N A P

N O T S L A R L E H C A R T H E M I N G E R A O T Y R G

P Y S B S S O L G Y D D E T Y L B U L A S T N H U A E B

J O A N N E M E N D E Z U O G W N I A C H A N N A H G C

N E D H H S R L I Q G N I T N A L R E H T S E Q F J N A

E Y C V A O Q G M R K O A R X K R E X R W Z K U B A I N

Z J Q A Z K J X E O W S F R E A E R L U H C E E O C M S

C R E G N I M E H H A R A S R G G R Y Y N C L S E K E R

A A A V O T E D N A B E A C H Y N T F H A W S T H L H K

F Y R M P F E Q I N M D X Z X W I I L C E G C L A A H A

E M G O E K R N V N A N B M H E M L M A J M H C A L T J

E O O Q L G O Z A F R E G N I M E H Y E L R I H S O U Y

D N R D S K S D G J C H J B J N H D P B H M Y N X N R W

N D D K A Z E O O E I Y Q O N S E Y V N L Y W E G E Y T

I C O E L R K L X N A D H U M N I W M I H B D D G E B O

B A N N I Q A E L H C N F V C I M Y Z V U N K N G H R K

E I D O T E U V Z E A A J A I L M P R L K I I A A Q V T

L N Y L T Z F V L T R S R N W L A X A A L M N P M S A T

U R C A M T M J H A P P F P Y O J G C N E G N D A I M X

Q P K L A U A O B A E Q V E E C U Y I H A G R M R V Y H

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I T Q S U C A G T Q T H U Y A A T T D H C B K E D D C T

U D U S A B L E Z H E I J L N J O E Y R I N W D E B H K

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L O N M S E K J O H N R A L S T O N N F P B B A O A O J

G D D S L I G G N I K I D I E H Z D O N D A V I S B C D

Q U W F Y G D I A N E K U H L N J K F B Y P L N K D K K

T K O C Y Z M P A N W U P L J Q P H P V G P Y J J M B W

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GORDONDYCK HANNAHCAIN HEIDIKING IMOJEANNEJOHNSON JACKLALONE

JAMMIEHEMINGER JANCOLLINS JANETNACE JOANGRIFFITH JOANNEMENDEZ

JOHNATHONCAIN JOHNQUEST JOHNRALSTON LESGNAGEY LUPEALVARADO

MARCIACARPENTER MARYDEVOS MICHAELKUHL MISSYLALONE NEDRAGNAGEY

PATGLOSS RACHELRALSTON RAYMONDCAIN ROSEKAUFMAN RUTHHEMINGER

SANDYHEMINGER SANDYHENDERSON SARAHHEMINGER SCOTTHEMINGER

SHIRLEYHEMINGER TEDDYGLOSS

Candy bar to the person who can find and show Esther the most “found” names without the answer sheet.

See Esther for answer sheet.

15 gadgets that children born now will not remember: (1) Wired home internet (2) Dedicated camcorders

and cameras (3) Landline phones (4) Slow-booting computers (5) Windowed operating systems (6) Hard drives

(7) Movie theaters (8) The mouse (9) 3D glasses (10) Remote controls (11) Desktops (12) Phone numbers

(13) Prime-time television (14) Fax machines (15) Optical discs -from yahoo.com

What's UP? - many meanings for a small word

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do

we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election

and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and

clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real

special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and thinkUP excuses. To be dressed is

one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP..We open UP a store in the morning but

we close it UP at night.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP .. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the

dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If

you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if

you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP!

Oh . . . one more thing:

What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P

Johnny's Mother looked out the window and noticed him 'playing church' with their cat. He had the cat sitting quietly and he was preaching to it. She smiled and went about her work. A while later she heard loud meowing and hissing and ran back to the open window to see Johnny baptizing the cat in a tub of water. She called out, “Johnny, stop that! The cat is afraid of water!” Johnny looked up at her and said, “He should have thought about that before he joined my church.”

What image/picture is on every page of the Hub-bub? …… A candy bar to the first person to give the correct answer to Esther.

Last month’s winner: Pat Gloss. Whoo-hoo Pat!! Runners-up: Rachel Ralston & Ruth Heminger – who each get a bite of a candy bar. ☺

UPCOMING DATES (all times listed are Eastern Daylight Time)

July 1 Communion 3 Church Council, 5:30 @ KRMC 22/23 Gene Van Accordion Group Concert @ KRMC – 7:00 p.m. 29 “5th Sunday Worship” 30 All-church/Congregational business meeting, 5:00 p.m. Dinner provided.

August 9-10 Teacher Work Days – New Prairie School District 13 First Day of School – New Prairie School District 24-25 MDC Goldenrod Benefit Auction September 3 Labor Day

July 2012 All times listed are South Bend times except when otherwise stated

July 30July 30July 30July 30thththth - Congregational Business Meeting – 5:00 p.m. EDT Dinner Provided

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1

Sermon: Esther

2

Elders, 4:00 @

Elsa’s

3 Compliment your mirror day

Ch. Council 5:30 @

KRMC

4 Happy B-day!

USA

5

6

Happy B-day!

Kayden Leason

Fried Chicken Day

7

Chocolate day

8

Sermon: Esther

9

10

National Sugar Cookie Day

11 Happy B-day!

Don Carpenter

12 Happy B-day!

Ed Cain

13 Barbershop Quartet Music Day

14

15

Sermon: Esther

Garry preach @

Miller’s Merry

Manor

Possible Church

Membership

Sunday & Carry-in

Meal

16

National Juggling Day

17

Elders, 4:30 @ KRMC

18 Ice Cream Day

19

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20

Moon Day

21

22

Sermon: Esther

Benefit Concert @

KRMC, 7:00 p.m.

Gene Van

Accordion

Orchestra

23

Benefit Concert

@ KRMC, 7:00

p.m.

Gene Van

Accordion

Orchestra

24

25

Esther at Accordion

26 Happy B-day!

Nathan Gloss

Teacher’s Guild

27

(ATG) In Chicago

28

29

“5th Sunday

Worship

Happy B-day!

Elsa Littman

30 Congregational Business Meeting, 5:00 p.m.

Cheesecake Day

31

Happy B-day!

Amy Schrock

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