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THE CIRCUIT RIDER
Vol. 14, No. 6 July 2014
FROM THE PASTOR
Gree�ngs from the Harlow's!
We are excited to join you in ministry in July. Thank you for welcoming us
into your congrega�on. Linda and I are delighted to bring our family into
your circle of ministry and fellowship.
Let me tell you a bit about us. Linda is a wonderful mother, and a successful
professional. She is a graduate of James Madison University, and is now a
Cer�fied Public Accountant (CPA) with 18 years of experience in her field.
She manages endowment funds for the University of Richmond and is
currently working toward her Masters in Accoun�ng. She is also a gi2ed
vocalist (I s�ll melt when I hear her sing)! Jared just graduated from MCV
School of Pharmacy, and now lives and works in Richmond. Ryan is a
computer programmer for NASA in Hampton Roads. He specializes in video
simula�on and gaming. Natalia lives and works in Danville and is taking
classes at the local community college. Elena is a rising twel2h grader at
Atlee High School and is very excited about gradua�ng next year. Ta�ana
will also become a rising twel2h grader, a2er passing this summer’s English
class to help her graduate one year early – yikes! I am always a student, but
I graduated from Penn State (yes, I’m a Yankee), with a Bachelor’s Degree
in wildlife biology. I also hold a Master’s Degree in Theology from the
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachuse=s, and a PhD. in
Social Policy from the Bryn Mawr College School of Social Work and Social
Research in Pennsylvania. (con�nued on next page)
This Issue
From the Pastor p.1
Birthdays
Anniversaries
Addi"onal Informa"on p.2
p.3
News Around The Church
Garden Pavers
p.4
Kip and Nancy Robinson
Recep"on p.5
Arty Party p.6
Calendar
UMCOR Kits p.7
Place Stamp
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Chamberlayne Heights United Methodist Church
6100 Chamberlayne Road
Richmond, VA 23227
July 2014
IN MINISTRY
Rev. Livingstone Dore, Pastor P: (804) 338-6067 E: [email protected]
Janet Holmes, Office Administrator P: (804) 266-3551 E: [email protected]
Allison Stowers, Music Director P: (804) 266-3551 E: [email protected]
Allison Stowers, Handbell Director P: (804) 266-3551 E: [email protected]
Patricia Dombroski, Treasurer P: (804) 266-3551 E: [email protected]
Office Hours M,T,W,TH 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
6100 Chamberlayne Road / Richmond, VA 23227
P: (804) 266-3551 Fax: (804) 266-0097 E: [email protected]
W: www.chamberlayneheightsumc.org F: www.facebook.com/chumc51
If you would like to subscribe or unsubscribe to our monthly newsle=er e-mail and/or mail, please contact the church office
Our Vision Statement: ALIVE IN CHRIST:
Growing in the Word, Living the Word, Sharing the Word
Words to Digest
“It’s hard to remember that
Jesus did not come to make
us safe, rather to make us
disciples, citizen of God’s new
age, a kingdom of surprise.”
Stanley Hauerwas
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UMCOR Kits for Conference
Kits Quan"ty Total Value
Birthing Kits 5 @$8 $ 40.00
Health Kits 16 @ $12 $192.00
School Kits 21 @ $11 $231.00
Laye=e Kits 7 @ $35 $245.00
Total 49 $708.00
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S M T W TH F ST
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10:00 am ODDA
Board Mee�ng
10:00 am Renovare
7:00 pm Boy Scouts
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Independence
Day
3:00-10:00 pm
Hartwood
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8:45 am Worship
9:45 am Sunday School
11:00 am Worship
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10:00 am Renovare
7::00 pm Boy Scouts
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8:45 am Worship
9:45 am Sunday School
11:00 am Worship
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10:00 am UMW
10:00 am Renovare
7::00 pm Boy Scouts
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5:00 p.m. ODDA
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5:00 pm RARC 19
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8:00 am Men’s Breakfast
8:45 am Worship
9:45 am Sunday School
11:00 am Worship
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9:00 am Senior
Breakfast
9:30 am Old Ivy
Garden Club
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10:00 am Renovare
7::00 pm Boy Scouts
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8:45 am Worship
9:45 am Sunday School
11:00 am Worship
3:00 pm Finance Mee�ng
3:00 pm Outreach/
Missions Commi=ee
4:00 pm Administra�ve
Council
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10:00 am Renovare
7::00 pm Boy Scouts
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July 2014
Prayer Ministry
Family Bill & Nelma Short
Carolyn &
Emmett Spurlock
Dorothy Grainger
Louise King
Phyllis Cartwright
Billy Moore
Jerry Slaunwhite
Imogene & Quincy Watson
Liz Lowry
Beverley Jackson
Friends Debbi Byrd
Pam Butler
Billy Tatum
Elizabeth Swank
Eydie Vechery
Jackie Wade
Jack Sutton
Alonzo Lynch
Mike Adee
Mary Grace Brooks
Greg Husepth
Dawn & Tim Hawkins
Rae Green
Ben Simmons
John Pratt
Skeet Best-West
Susan Taylor
Rik Davis
Hazel Buhrman
Margaret Miller
Sandy Berry
Dee Carter
Tim Beachverhey
Pat Koontz
Rev. Curtis Campbell
Russell Williams
Judy Barta
Rosetta Harrison
Military Personnel Mark Baldwin
Kevin Morgan
Thomas Muniz
Emmett Spurlock III
Clay Minter
Missions Sierra Leone: Kip and
Nancy Robinson
UMCOR Sierra Leone: Rebecca
Long
Birthdays & Anniversaries July Birthdays 3 Michael Hull
6 Allyson Ritchie
8 Ed Lanford
10 Fred Dombroski
11 Phyllis Robertson
19 Reuben Blevins
19 Martha Ecker
19 J.J. Taylor
20 Jonathan Smuts
22 Phin Wood
22 Foster Hayes
23 Liz Lowry
25 Roy Brissette
25 Antoinette Mitchell
28 Thomas Peay
28 Myrtle Ruth Stockman
July Anniversaries
10 Art & Sue Long
21 Clyde & Flora Bellamy
30 Quincy & Imogene Watson
From the Pastor (con’t)
Chamberlayne Heights UMC will be my fourth full-�me appointment in the Virginia
Conference over the course of ten years. With these ten years, and roughly ten more
years as a pastor in Massachuse=s, Georgia, and Pennsylvania many years ago, I bring
about twenty years of pastoral ministry experience. I entered the Order of Elders and
full connec�on with the Virginia Annual Conference in June, 2007. In recent years I
have served as Chair of the Virginia Conference Leadership Development Ins�tute, and
Chair of the Board of Higher Educa�on and Campus Ministry, and s�ll help out now
and then with various projects usually related to data or organiza�onal change.
I also bring about twenty years of experience in the academic and government sectors
as an instructor, administrator, researcher, and consultant. Before entering full �me
ministry with the UMC, I was on the faculty at Old Dominion University in Norfolk for
about six years as the Director of The Social Science Research Center, where we
evaluated program effec�veness for various community-based organiza�ons, schools,
and state and local government agencies. I love to teach, and I currently serve on the
faculty of Virginia Union University in Richmond in their Department of Social Work.
Other than telling goofy stories to make my girls laugh, or working in the garden with
Linda, my favorite pas�mes are to read and write, especially about applied theology. I
think God has called me to lead local congrega�ons in our pursuit of effec�ve, applied
Chris�an theology. I believe the only “good” biblical theology is one that is openly
demonstrated in the life of a local church.
I look forward to serving with you as your pastor and teacher. I am thrilled about what
I have already learned about your ministry ac�vity. You are doing God’s work in the
community! God has richly blessed you, and I pray God will con�nue to richly bless all
of us in the coming months and years.
Grace to you, and peace,
Jeff
June, 2014
Addi"onal Informa"on
• Chamberlayne Heights
UMC now has a page on
www.faithstreet.com. This
allows people in the area
to search for us and easily
access more information
about what ministries we
have available.
UMW GATHERING On Wednesday, July 16, the United Methodist Women will meet in the Fellowship Hall
to make pillow case dresses for children in Haiti. We will meet at 10 o’clock—stop for lunch and then work for a couple of hours in the afternoon. Juanita Hutto and
Martha Bragg will guide us. All of us will not be sewing. Some of us will be cutting, pinning and helping in other ways.
A number of you have said you have portable sewing machines. If you can, please
bring them to help with this important project. This is a wonderful way for us to get together to fellowship with one another during the summer months and in the process
know that we are continuing to do God’s work.
Please bring lunch. Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Grace upon grace,
Martha Sherrod
SCHOOL KIT (Value $11.00) 1 Pair blunt scissors rounded tip only, no plastic scissors please 3 pads of paper spiral or top bound pads 150 sheets or less of loose leaf can be substituted for 1 pad combinations of spiral, top bound, side bound or loose leaf is acceptable
1 hand held pencil sharpener must be at least one inch long remove from packaging
1 –30centimeter ruler hard or flexible cartoon characters are acceptable no advertisements please
6 unsharpened pencils no advertisements, religious, patriotic, military or camouflage
symbols please cartoon characters are acceptable 1 –2inch or larger size eraser no advertisements, religious, patriotic, military or
camouflage symbols please cartoon characters are acceptable 1 –24 count box of crayons only 24 count boxes please 1 –14”x16” cloth bag homemade or purchased bags are both acceptable heavy duty fabric
only-denim, corduroy, drapery fabric etc. no advertisements, religious, patriotic, military or camouflage symbols please closures are optional but must be buttons, snaps or Velcro sewn in
middle of opening if used Don’t forget the Tax Free Weekend from August 1 through August 3, 2014.
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News around the church
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Lake Junaluska youth events work with Stop Hunger Now
LAKE JUNALUSKA, N.C. (UMNS) – Lake Junaluska summer
youth events’ adopted theme, “One Bread, One Body,” has
led to a partnership with Stop Hunger Now, an interna�onal
hunger relief agency ac�ve for more than 15 years. The
theme is based on Romans 12:5 and means being the body of
Christ in the world through service, worship and community,
which includes feeding the hungry.
History of Hymns: ‘The Head that Once Was Crowned with
Thorns’ DALLAS (UMNS) — The Ascension of Christ 40 days
a2er Easter is a longstanding observance of the church. This
hymn fills in the gaps of the scriptural account by describing
Christ's presence in heaven and the glory of those who
"dwell above" (stanza three) with him in "heaven's eternal
light" (stanza two). C. Michael Hawn of Southern Methodist
University’s Perkins School of Theology shares the story of
this hymn and its author in a column for the United
Methodist Board of Discipleship.
For more informa"on on these stories and others please visit
h=p://www.umc.org/news-and-media/archives AND/OR
h=p://www.umc.org/news-and-media/weekly-digest
Church reaches out a2er Nebraska tornadoes
PILGER, Neb. (UMNS) — The Great Plains Annual (regional)
Conference is asking for United Methodists' prayers following
twin tornadoes that devastated much of Stanton County in
northeast Nebraska on Monday, June 16. At least two
people, including a 5-year-old girl, died in the storm.
Linda Stewart, Great Plains United Methodist Conference
disaster response coordinator, is working with other groups
in Voluntary Organiza�ons Ac�ve in Disaster to help meet
the needs of those affected by the deadly twisters.
Greg Forrester, who leads U.S. disaster response for the
United Methodist Commi=ee on Relief, is in contact with the
conference.
Garden Pavers
The Memorial Garden at Chamberlayne Heights United Methodist Church established in memory of
Ruth Armour by her family.
Here’s an opportunity for you to purchase a brick paver(s) in memory of a loved one. The
brick paver will be inscribed with the name and date of someone you would like to remember.
The cost of the pavers:
2 lines with 12 Characters per line (counting spaces) $125.00
3 lines with 12 Characters per line (counting spaces) $135.00
Order forms are available in the narthex or from the church office. Also, contact the church
office, Joyce Paschall or Phin Wood with your questions or for additional information. Plans
are being made now to lay new brick pavers with inscription. This is a special way to remember those we love and those who have loved CHUMC during their lifetime.
TO JOIN TOGETHER IN FELLOWSHIP FOR
AN EVENING VISIT WITH OUR MISSIONARIES
Kip and Nancy Robinson
WHO ARE VISITING IN VIRGINIA—ON LEAVE FROM SIERRA LEONE, AFRICA
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!
Thursday, July 31, 2014
7:00 P.M.
Barton Heights Fellowship Hall
Visit on the web with our missionary couple with whom we have a Covenant
Rela�onship as we provide a minimum of $500 in support for their work annually through
Outreach/Missions.
Kip: [email protected]
Nancy: [email protected]