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MAPLE LEAF PARISH NEWS

JULY 2016

Cherry Grove UMC

18183 160th Street

Spring Valley, MN 5575

Worship: 10:00 am Sunday

Cowboy: 6:00 pm First Sunday

of each month

Rev. Deanna Woodward

Rev. David Lieder

Email: revdeannaw@gmail.com

Phone: 1-507-346-2830 or

1-507-765-9856

Faith UMC

617 Maple Lane

Spring Valley, MN 55975

Worship: 9:00 am Sunday

Rev. David Lieder

Rev. Deanna Woodward

www.faithsv.net

Email: faithunited@centurytel.net

Phone: 1-507-346-2830

Fountain UMC

Cedar Street & County Road 8

Fountain, MN 55935

Worship: 8:30 am Sunday

Rev. Deanna Woodward

Email: revdeannaw@gmail.com

Phone: 1-507-346-2830 or

1-507-765-9856

Having written about my plans for a garden in the May newsletter, I am happy to re-port that the planting was ac-complished and the garden is growing well. Tomato plants are beginning to bloom and today I picked the first lettuce

leaves of the season. At the end of May our grandson, age 4, helped plant the last of the potatoes, which reminded me of times I had helped in the family garden as a child. In the later childhood and teen years, gardening became an unwelcome chore. But now I

these hands she will pick up toys, pet the dog and build castles in the sand. She will use them to open books and unlock the doors to knowl-edge. These are the hands that may someday sculpt, make music, or cuddle chil-dren of her own. Her hands are so tiny now, and yet

within them lie the fu-ture and the ful-fillment of all her

precious dreams. So hold her gently and watch with pride as she reaches out in love and joy to all of life.” Praise God, Creator and Sustainer of life! May your summer also be filled with the joy of life’s blessings.

Pastor Deanna

have come full circle (second childhood?) and am enjoying it—especially watching the gar-den grow and reaping the re-sults. Now to find time be-tween rain showers to pull the weeds! As my garden is growing so my family is growing. On June 6, Mark and I welcomed our second grandchild, a little girl, into the family circle. She and her mom are doing well fol-lowing the birth, and my thoughts are filled with grati-tude to God for this miracle of new life, and for the privilege of watching the grandchildren grow. A greeting card we re-ceived expresses some of our feelings of joy and gratitude: “Her fingers are so tiny, so marvelously perfect. Soon they will reach out to touch the smiling faces of everyone around her…These little hands will explore, discover, and bring the world to her for her inspection and delight. With

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Faith United Methodist Church

617 Maple Lane

Spring Valley, MN 55975

Web Page: www.faithsv.net

Sunday morning worship 9:00 am

Coffee & fellowship at 10:00 am

Sunday School at 10:00 am

Office Hours:

8:00 - 4:00 Tuesday through Friday

Office Phone:

507-346-2830; Fax: 507-346-2877

Office E-mail: faithunited@centurytel.net

Rev. David Lieder:

Office Hours: As needed and

Monday-Thursday mornings

Phone: 346-2878

Email: dave@centurytel.net

Rev. Deanna Woodward

Phone: 507-346-2830

Or after office hours at 507-765-9856

Email: revdeannaw@gmail.com

Office Manager:

Louise Winfield

Custodian:

Paul Eberle

Organist:

Suzanne Eberle

Bell Choir Dir.

Kathy Casady

Choir Pianist:

Kristie Shorter

DEADLINES

NEWSLETTER: The newsletter

deadline this month is July 21st at 4:00

pm.

BULLETIN: Please submit announce-

ments for the Sunday bulletin by noon

on Thursday. Occasionally these dead-

lines may need to be adjusted. Please

submit your articles as soon as possi-

ble. Thank you for understanding.

JULY WORSHIP SCHEDULE

07/03 8:30 Fountain Rev. Deanna

9:00 Faith Rev. Dave

10:00 Cherry Grove Rev. Deanna

6:00 Cowboy Church Rev. Deanna

07/10 8:30 Fountain Barb Paul

9:00 Faith Rev. Dave

10:00 Cherry Grove Barb Paul

07/17 8:30 Fountain Rev. Deanna

9:00 Faith Rev. Dave

10:00 Cherry Grove Rev. Deanna

07/24 8:30 Fountain Rev. Dave

9:00 Faith Rev. Deanna

10:00 Cherry Grove Rev. Dave

07/31 9:00 Faith Rev. Dave

10:30 Parish at Fountain Rev. Deanna

Park w/ picnic

Following service

FAITH UMC - SERVICE GROUP

The Service Group handles the Sunday Coffee Hour the first, sec-

ond, and fourth Sunday of the month. The Christian Ed/Youth han-

dles the 3rd Sunday and the 5th Sunday will be served by Cursillo

participants.

JULY 2016 *Craig & Cindy Seabright 272-1682

Ranae Clouse 346-2979

Carol Sanford 259-8833

Joe & Louise Marquardt 346-2796

Mitchell & Katie Mosher 346-7233

Tom & Kim Mosher 346-7233

Roger & Paula Ruesink 346-7189

Amanda Seabright 438-2503

Naomi Stuckey 754-5919

Coming soon… Online giving at FUMC

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Everyone is invited to a 50th Wed-ding Anniversary party for four local couples on July 23 from 4-8 p.m. at the Community Center in Spring Valley. Your presence is our present. Stu & Carol Gross, John & Darlene Vrieze, Joe & Rita Bezdicek and Bruce and Rita Hartert.

CHERRY GROVE PARADE & RUMMAGE SALE The Cherry Grove U.M. Women are having a Rummage Sale on July 4 from 9 a.m.--2 p.m. in Pixie & Jerry Nielsen's garage (former church parsonage). Donations of pre-priced items are welcome. No clothing, please. For more infor-mation, contact Pixie Nielsen or Beth Mulhern. The Cherry Grove Parade will start at 11:00 a.m. on July 4th followed by lunch in the church.

AMERICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE

Philip Hebrink, Local Coordinator with American Cultural Exchange Service (ACES), is currently reach-ing out to host families for high school exchange students from around the world. Host families provide three meals a day and a bed to sleep. Students from around the world arrive in August, speak English, have personal spending money, and health insur-ance. They are eager to learn about America and become a member of your family and community! Please contact ACES Local Coordi-nator Philip Hebrink at (507)456-2502 to learn more about available students. Bring the world home to your family! This is a wonderful opportunity to embrace a global community.

the group that has handled the Food Stand before will plan to do it Bernis will make and, with help, distribute the posters around the area and put ads in the Reader, Journal and Cresco Shopper. Janice will contact the TV stations. Recording Secretary, Bernie Finke

CHERRY GROVE UM WOMEN

June 20, 2016 The UMW met at the Ever-greens on Tuesday afternoon with A tableful of guests and members. We had a short business meet-ing. We made plans to have a Rummage Sale on the 4th of July at the UM Church from 9:30 to 1:30. We have items from the church to sell and donations would be appreciated. Donated items should have a price mark. Our program was presented by Pastor Deanna. She displayed an American Flag. We are taught to Honor our Flag and all it stands for. We are also taught to Honor and believe in our God. In our Country we have the Freedom of choice to Worship our God. God Bless America. Beth served a delicious treat of two desserts. One was a Banana Split Cake and one was a Rain-bow Dessert, yummy good and of course “no calories” . We all had an enjoyable after-noon of reminiscing & catching-up with each other. Our next meeting will be Tues-day, August 9. We will start our time together with lunch at Rack’s and then at 1:30 we will go to the Ostrander Care Center. We will have a short program and then serve a treat for August Birthdays. Minutes by Bernie as Luann was unable to attend.

CHERRY GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AD COUNCIL MEETING

JUNE 8, 2016

PRESENT: Pastor Deanna Woodward, Pastor David Leider, Marlo & Janice Mensink, Phil Hebrink Harlan Men-sink and Bernis Finke. The meeting was called to order by David L. at 7:05pm. Deanna gave an opening prayer asking for guidance as we began the business meeting. Motion by Phil to accept the Minutes and seconded by Marlo. Motion car-ried. Financial report was given by Harlan M. The Churches General Account on June 8, 2016 shows a balance of $5,295.73. Motion by Marlo to accept the report and was seconded by Phil. Motion carried. Old Business: Trustees Report: The Unisex Rest Room walls will be painted and a wall hanging changing table has been purchased and will be installed. It was reported that the old stove has been removed and the two new 30” gas stoves can be installed. The old stove weighed about 650 lbs. and John Finke received $32.50 at the salvage yard by LeRoy. (John received a round of ap-plause at church the following Sunday for removing the old stove.) Some suggestions have been made that the Cowboy Church Service should have more music; some changes will be tried. New Business: Plans for the 4th of July parade were discussed. Usually a variety of tasks are done by a variety of people and we end up with a Parade. Plans are being made to replace the old Ball Diamond bleachers. The 4th of July posters will inform people that by eating at the Food Stand in the Church Fellowship Hall the proceeds will help with the new bleachers. We also need to find persons that would like to do the Honor of being our Grand Marshall’s and Honorary Citi-zens. Persons suggested are Denny & Peggy Brusse and Dave & Luann Garri-son. Bernis will contact them. Lori Scheevel will be contacted to see if

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FAITH UMC COUNCIL MINUTES

JUNE 16, 2016 Jill Douglas, Chairperson, called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Rev. Dave Lieder, Rev. Deanna Woodward, Chris Howard, Jill Douglas, Jan Hammon, Paula Ruesink, Glenn Rasmusson and Louise Winfield were present. The devotion read by Paula Rue-sink was titled “Be Still With God”. A motion was made by Jan Hammon and seconded by Chris Howard to approve the May 19, 2016 minutes. m/s/c Auction Committee: The Auc-tion Committee met on June 15th. Donations are being ac-cepted and the committee is working to publicize the auction and checking with other churches to avoid conflict with other events. Education Committee: Plans for Vacation Bible School have not been finalized yet. August 13 would work for the committee but the church is reserved for an event. Good Earth Village is avail-able and for a reasonable price. The United Methodist Women voted to give $300.00 toward the cost of VBS which would cut down the cost. More information will follow. Finance Committee: The checking balance on 6/16/16 is $1,749.24 the loan balance is $7.676.90 and the apportionment balance is $16,935. Jan Hammon Membership recorded: Death of Darrel Rathbun on 6/3/2016. Withdrawal of Pam Soma-Mori on 5/30/16 and Heather Swartzentruber on 6/1/16. New members were re-ceived on 6/12/16; Melvin Green-lee, Mariel Greenlee, Trisha Montgomery. Todd Moore, and Kathy Moore. Total full member-ship is 302. Mary Grems Trustees: The Trustees met on

June 14th. A list of items being considered include repair of the carpet by the bulletin board, removal of the carpet in front of the church and removing the door stops, painting the Handi-cap Assessable area, removing the shrubs near the sign to re-place with rock, and filling the cracks in the parking lot. Sum-mer is the ideal time to work on these projects. The approximate cost of repairs would be $2,900.00. Boy Scouts and vol-unteers would help with work. Jan Hammon made a motion to approve the projects and Paula Ruesink seconded. m/s/c Worship Committee: Wor-ship Committee Minutes June 2, 7:00 p.m. Attending were Rev David Lieder, Deanna Woodward, Barb Paul, Sue Eberle, and Gail Rollie. Rev Lieder wanted to know what the committee thought of an all music service. We thought it would be fine. June 19, 2016 will be first. May have 1 or 2 more. First Sunday in August will have impromptu choir. New members Sunday June 12, 2016, 5 or 6 new members. Barb will Email members about reading scripture or doing chil-dren message, adjourn 7:45. Gail Rollie United Methodist Women: The UMW met on June 8 with 5 members present. Ruth Circle led the Prayer & Self Denial program. It was voted to send $100 to the Heifer Project as the amount would be doubled. It was voted to give $300 to the FUMC Vacation Bible School. The Bakeless Bake Sale will be included in the August newslet-ter. Darlene Vrieze. Pastor Deanna’s Report: June 21-23 Pastor Deanna & Darlene Vrieze, lay delegate to Annual Conference, will attend annual conference in St. Cloud. Pastor Deanna will be on vaca-tion July 5-14.

On July 27th Pastor Deanna will meet with the new District Superin-tendent Rev. Cynthia Williams who will succeed Rev. Clay Oglesbee. Pastor Dave will meet Rev. Wil-liams on August 3rd. A combined Parish service will be

held on July 31st at the Foun-tain Park at 10:30 a.m. with a potluck

following. Faith UMC will hold its regular service at 9:00 a.m. All are invited to attend and bring a lawn chair and dish to pass. Pastor Dave’s Report: Pastor Dave will be on vacation June 20-25. No changes were made at the United Methodist Annual Confer-ence held recently. The decision was made to stop all legislation on human sexuality and put a process forward for deep, world-wide dia-logue on the issue. Old Business: Vanco online giv-ing will be available on the web page soon. Barb Paul manages the site and will have the information available soon. New Business: Discussion was held on the need of a Trustee Chair on the bank signature cards. Glenn Rasmusson was asked to serve as Chair of the Trustee and be in-cluded on the signature cards. Glenn Rasmusson agreed to serve as Trustee chair. Jan Hammon will give the devotion at the next Church Council on July 21st. A motion was made by Jan Hammon and seconded by Glenn Rasmusson to adjourn at 7:35 p.m. Council Secretary, Louise Winfield

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death!

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Health Kits - It was decided to give money towards the health kits and Darlene Vrieze will pur-chase the items with the money. Heifer Project - The purpose of the Heifer Project was read by Darlene Vrieze. A motion was made by Diane TerMaat to give $100.00 to the Heifer Project, Judy Wille seconded, motion car-ried. Bakeless Bake Sale - An article will be placed in the United Meth-odist Newsletter for the Bakeless Bake Salle in August. Discussion was held on Vacation Bible School. Diane TerMaat made a motion we donate $300.00 for Bible School schol-ars, Shirley Hyland seconded, motion carried. A discussion was held on the de-clining United Methodist Women involvement for the Mini-Market. There will be a September Auc-tion and lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with Sloppy Jo's. A discusson was held on the auction. Shirley Hyland made a motion to adjourn the meeting. United Methodist Women closed the meeting praying "The Lord's Prayer". Shirley Hyland, Secretary

More information

will be coming later

this summer!

Til then….

remember

“Jesus Loves You”

Faith United Methodist

Church Women Spring Valley, MN

June 8, 2016 The United Methodist Women met Wednesday, June 8, 2016, in the Fellowship Room for coffee and treats at 9 a.m. Members present were Diane TerMaat, Judy Wille, Norma Merkel, Darlene Vrieze, Shirley Hyland and pastor Deanna Woodward. Judy Wille read from the book, "Grace For The Moment" by Max Lucado. Darlene Vrieze, president, called the meeting to order at 9:40 a.m. Secretary's Report: The Secre-tary's Minutes of February 10, 2016, were read. Motion by Norma Merkel to accept the minutes as read, Diane TerMaat seconded, mo-tion carried. Treasurer's Report: The Treas-urer's Reports of March, April and May 2016 were reviewed. Motion by Diane TerMaat and seconded by

Norma Merkel to approve the Treasurer's Report, motion car-ried. Upcoming Event: July 7, 2016 - Thursday - Birthday Party at Ostrander Care Center. July 12-15 Mission U (weekday) - St. John's University, Collegeville July 16 0 Mission U (Saturday) - St. John's University, Collegeville July 18 - Meals on Wheels - Ra-chel Circle August 10, 2016 - Mission Event - Advent UMC - Eagen Confirmation Sunday there were three confirmants. The church purchased the gifts and the United Methodist Women served the lunch. Graduation Sunday there were three graduates and the United Methodist Women gave each graduate a key chain. The gifts were paid for out of the Circle money. Pastor Deanna Wood-ward gave the message at the Baccalaureate Service at Kings-land High School.

The church

is a gift from

God. Some

assembly required.

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2016 July-September Work Group Cherry Grove UMC

Members may be asked to work, furnish, or give a monetary donation during these months. The work group responsibilities are: The combined duty of ushering and greeting at Sunday services, Cowboy Church fellowship, funerals, and anything else that may come up in the church’s social life. You may ask for help from other groups, if necessary. The 4th of July Luncheon and our annual Pork Dinner are excluded as they are an all-church function.

*Lori and Art Scheevel 507-533-1001 - 507-937-3175

Ronnie & Linda Boland 507-937-3338 Charles Fravel 507-937-3458 David & Luann Garrison 507-346-1831

Phil & Lynette Grabau 507-352-2841 Corene Hamre 507-346-2291 Tom & Mary Lou Howard 507-937-3419

Joe & Ermilee Ihns 507-937-3172 Roger & Luann Jones 507-951-9671

Janette Kappers 507-937-3352 Duane & Arlys Michener 507-937-3175 Tom & Marcia Nagel 507-561-3183 Donny & Marlys Ruesink 507-937-3320 Steve & Karyl Tammel 507-937-3367 Roy & Marcella Tibbals 563-566-2205

Faith United Methodist Church 1st Annual Auction

DATE: Sunday, September 18, 2016

TIME: Silent Auction starts at 11:00am

Live Auction starts at 12:15

Food Stand: starts at 11:00am

This is a church fundraiser. Funds will be used for church expenses.

We encourage our church family to be creative and donate toward the auction.

Donated items will be accepted during coffee hours during July. If you need

to arrange a different time for your donation please contact one of the Auction

Committee members.

Please note: The Auction Committee asks that you donate items of new or like new quality. Items not accepted are

clothing and used electronics.

Ideas for donations: If you have a talent with something in particular, please think of donating. Example: cleaning

services (house or car), carpentry services, woodworking, photography or video, providing music, airplane rides, boat

rides, guided tours, sewing, etc… Other Ideas: themed baskets (movie night, fishing trip, coloring therapy, baseball,

camping). We would love to get larger or more valuable items for the live auction. We’ve already been fortunate to

have received a riding lawn-mower.

Please look for updates throughout the summer. We will keep you posted through various

means: bulletin board, church bulletins, Facebook, newsletter. Thank you, Auction Committee Members: Jan Hammon, Chair

Kathy Casady Norma Merkel Lynette & Tom Ramaker Darlene Vrieze

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Maple Leaf Parish Cherry Grove UMC

Fountain UMC

Faith UMC 617 Maple Lane

Spring Valley, MN 55975

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Spring Valley, MN

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Cherry Grove 4th of

July picnic at

11:00 a.m.

Followed by lunch

at the church