May 2017

Wesley United Methodist Church

Pastor Joel Deaner-Rogers 205 E. 3rd Street, Marshfield, WI 54449

wumc@solarus.net l www.wumcmfld.org 715.384.2292

The Church at the Heart of the City

Pastoral Prophecies from Joel:

Tower Chimes

Upcoming Events:

May 7th

Volunteer

Recognition Sunday

May 10th

Mother-Daughter-

Friend Banquet

May 14th

Gold Cross Sunday

Graduation Sunday

Mother’s Day

May 21st

Last Day of

Sunday School

May 29th

Memorial Day

June 3rd

Dairyfest

Breakfast

Bishop Jung Responds to Judicial Ruling

Long and anxiously awaited decisions handed down by our Judicial Council pleased some, angered others, and mystified yet others. A full report can be found at UMC.org by Linda Bloom, but the Judicial Council predictably maintained a straightforward and conservative reading of our current Book of Discipline. This is exactly what the Judicial Council exists to do. It does not challenge doctrine and polity; it does not reinterpret doctrine and polity. Our Judicial Council holds the institution of The United Methodist Church accountable to the legislative decisions of the General Conference. So, there is really no surprise, though different perspectives were hoping for different outcomes.

Our denomination continues to navigate through a minefield of differing opinions, beliefs, interpretations, and theological worldviews. During certain times in our history, this grace-space for the broadest spectrum of Christian interpretation has been our strength. Not so much in recent years. Living in the liminal spaces of uncertainty and disagreement is stressful, and the current rulings move us no closer to resolution. Our Commission on A Way Forward is doing the interpretive and generative work. We will see what they offer very soon.

And where does this leave us? It leaves us in the same flawed and imperfect world in which humankind dwelt since Eden. It leaves us “working out our own salvation with fear and trembling” in the grand tradition of our Philippian forebears. It leaves us as beloved children of God, living together in grace and compassion, seeking to be faithful to love God and one another. Nothing has really changed. We are the same church today that we were yesterday – but by God’s grace we are becoming the people of faith our world most desperately needs. It is my deepest hope and desire that we can unite in our faith in Christ and our love for God’s church that we might witness to healing love and restorative justice. Our journey toward full inclusion is fraught with perils, pressures and problems, but our God is greater!

This is a time to pray for Karen Oliveto, the Mountain Sky Conference, and our whole United Methodist denomination. Now is a time for intercessory prayer. Now is a time for adoration and praise. Now is a time for confession and petition. Now is a time for us to find our center in our faith as we pray, together, “not our will, but thine be done.”

Published: 29 April 2017 By the Wisconsin United Methodist Conference

Wesley Happenings

May 7: Volunteer Recognition Sunday

May 10: Mother-Daughter-Friend Banquet

May 14: Mother’s Day

Gold Cross Sunday

Graduation Sunday

May 21: Last Day of Sunday School

May 29: Memorial Day—Office Closed

June 3: Dairyfest Breakfast

Graduation Sunday has been moved up to May 14th.

We’ll be honoring James Bauer and Conner Peterson. There will be slips of paper in the bulletin that Sunday where you can write a special message to the graduates that we will put together for a special presentation at a later date. All submissions are welcome and can be submitted to the church office sooner if you’d like.

Sunday, May 7

Acts 2:42-47 Psalm 23 Epistle Lesson: 1 Peter 2:19-25 Gospel Lesson: John 10:1-10

Sunday, May 14 Acts 7:55-60 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 Epistle Lesson: 1 Peter 2:2-10 Gospel Lesson: John 14:1-14

Sunday, May 21 Acts 17:22-31 Psalm 66:8-20 Epistle Lesson: 1 Peter 3:13-22 Gospel Lesson: John 14:15-21

Sunday, May 28 Acts 1:6-14 Psalm 68: 1-10, 32-35 Epistle Lesson: 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 Gospel Lesson: John 17:1-11

Women of Wesley/Church Family: Thank you for the care package! It couldn’t have come at a better

time as I just finished midterms. It made not only my week, but made my moth, as I do love getting

things in the mail. Thank you for thinking of me as I am away at college. —Jessica Meinders

Thank you: for giving so generously. $143 was collected for Feed My Starving Children and will go

directly to helping pay for the food costs. Thousands of meals were packed!

Dear Church: Every week we “borrow” some of your paper towels Please accept our gift of new

ones! Thank you! - Girl Scout Troup 6129

Thanks, Wesley volunteers: for another week of service at the SOS Food Pantry. Helping out this

month were Karalee Lamon, Betty Schultz, Dick & Leslie Plechaty, Fay Joseph, and Sandra

Herbert. We appreciate your help with this local Marshfield Mission Project. Wesley's next scheduled

week to staff the Food Pantry is June 12th through the 16th.

Thank you to the Mission Nurture Outreach Team members: for delivering the various May Day gifts

to some of our homebound individuals and to Karalee Lamon for baking the various kinds of breads.

-Leslie Plechaty MNO Chairman

Thank you to the Wesley Family: Due to the generosity of the Wesley Family, the students away at

school have received another care package. Thanks, Women of Wesley.

Sabbath Café: Thank you to everyone who participated in our Sabbath Café hour during the month of April: Karalee Lamon, Dick & Leslie Plechaty, Wesley Church Members. You’re generosity and dedication are appreciated.

Thank You

Missions

Noisy Can Mission of the Month

The American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge is a unique facility that provides a short term, comfortable place to stay (at no cost to the patient) for those receiving outpatient oncology treatment at St. Joseph’s Hospital here in Marshfield. Hope Lodge also provides an outstanding support group and network for loved ones and their families who are walking through the difficult road of cancer. Known as the “Home of Hope”, it’s a beautiful ministerial way our community can help ease both the financial and decisional burdens of many who find themselves in that difficult place no one ever wants to find themselves in.

They have an excellent and comprehensive website dealing with all sorts of topics relating to cancer. You can access it via this link:

www.cancer.org/treatment/support-programs-and-services/patient-lodging/hope-lodge/marshfield.html

Preparations

for June Dairy

Breakfast

Ruth Bergman Marshfield Care Center

LaVerne Dean Cedar Rail Court

Jane Gray, George & Anna Magnin Aster Center

Prayer

Women of Wesley

Paul Webster United Methodist

Pastor & Missionary in Zambia

Ardis’s Daughter—Sheila Swansby

Joan Binning

Mary Jo Clark

Mother Daughter Friend Banquet

Wednesday, May 10th

Wesley's Annual "Mother/Daughter/Friend" event is scheduled for Wednesday, May 10th. All ladies of the church and friends are welcome

to attend. Please join us for:

BUTTONS & BOWS & BLESSINGS! Wednesday, May 10th

Social Gathering 5:30PM | Dinner to follow at 6PM Dinner will be a "Simply Elegant Salad Buffet" with dessert and beverages.

Cost $10/person |Children 5 and under free.

Please call the church office for reservations by Friday, May 5th. We will share a time of fellowship and inspiration, with music

provided by our own Wesley members.

Committee News

Wesley Fund Balance: $106,459.94

April Noisy Can: $97.65 FMSC Special Offering: $143.00

Finance Report

CURRENT COMMITTEE CHAIRS FOR WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH We are grateful for your gift of time, talent and service to Wesley!

Church Council:

Committee on Finance: Penny Mahringer

Board of Trustees: Joel Tomlinson

Memorial Fund: Jackie Zoellner

Staff-Parish Relations Committee: Deb Tomlinson

Committee on Lay Leadership: Joel Deaner-Rogers

Worship and Music Ministry Team: Tom Watson

Youth Ministry/Education: Linda Duffy, Leslie Plechaty

Mission, Nurture and Outreach Ministry Team: Leslie Plechaty

Lay Member of Annual Conference: Penny Mahringer

Kitchen Coordinator: Todd Tooley

Bulletin Board Coordinators: Kristin Van Ness, Linda Duffy

Update on the altar candles: Wesley members who

provided feedback on the LED altar candles, revealed

that the candles were hard to see and not liked. We have

gone back to candles for the altar. Thank you for the

feedback, the Worship and Music Committee.

Very Successful Last Supper

Our 16th year of the presentation is now complete and what a year! We added two new

"disciples" and a duet for a haunting rendition of "Were You There". Attendance for Monday

evening was 160 and Wednesday was a record 250! A huge thank you to our cast, support

people, those who donated food and refreshments, ushered and helped in any way but most of all

to the committee, Anola Becker, Jeanne Gray, Haley Klein, Karalee Lamon and Leslie

Plechaty. Thank you all. -Penny Mahringer

Immanuel Rummage Sale: May 5th from 8:00am-5:00pm and May 6th from 8:00am-Noon. 604 S. Chestnut Ave. Neighborhood Memory Café: Wednesday, May 10th, at Wesley United Methodist in the Fellowship Hall. All are welcome to come network and socialize with others who have been diagnosed with or care for those with memory challenges. There is no cost. This event is brought to you by Stoney River Memory Café and Marshfield Area Respite Care Center every second Wednesday of each month. Paws for Brittany: Saturday, May 13th at Wildwood Park & Zoo. Registration is at 8:00am, start time is 9:00am. Dogs on leashes are welcome! Registration forms are available at www.pawsforbrittany.com or for more information call 715-486-5140. Proceeds benefit the day to day operating costs for animals at Marshfield Area Pet Shelter (MAPS). St. Paul’s UCC invites you to join our Community Picnic: May 21st—service is at 9:30am and food, fun and fellowship are are at 10:30. We’ll be raising money and awareness for Royal Family Kids Camp in honor of National Foster Care Month. You can learn more about Royal Family kids at www.royalfamilykids.org Cow Pie Bingo & Open House: Join The Hannah Center for their 4th Annual Cow-Pie Bingo Saturday, June 3rd immediately following the Dairyfest parade. Come for lunch and watch our cow choose the winner! Look to www.hannahcenter.com for upcoming information.

Marshfield Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) Stats for 2017

The 2017 event this year was a success. As a community we packed 272,160 meals which filled one full semi-truck. We had 1,390 volunteers this year, provided by 20 churches in the surrounding area. More importantly the meals packed will provide 745 kids with something to eat every day for a year. Praise God! That’s awesome!! Please be sure to share the positive news and thank all those who packed and/or donated. Also noteworthy there were about 10 large school groups that participated over the three days from various schools. Plus the special needs department at Senior High along with the ODC special needs hospital employees played a role. The FMSC staff was very appreciative regarding how smooth the event went. We cleaned up in a record one hour with help from a young adults small group from Highland Community Church.

Financially we’re sitting in a similar position to last year. The website does not reflect our totals yet however of the $59,875 needed to pay for the food packed we have currently raised around $52,000. There are a number of churches still sending in donations from various efforts so please pray for generosity. Donations can still be made at www.marshfieldfmsc.com or by mailing a check referencing our event code 1704-026EA (Marshfield Mobile Pack)

Thanks again for another great year. If you have any questions or want further details pertaining to the event please let me know and I’ll try to get you the information.

- Shannon Nienast (local volunteer) 715-305-3160

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Pastor: Rev. Joel Deaner-Rogers wumcpastor@solarus.net Treasurer: Krista Donahue Financial Secretary: Jackie Zoellner wumcfinance@solarus.net Church Secretary: Emily Windheuser wumc@solarus.net Organist: Gigi Plautz Custodian: Jon Albrecht Nursery Care: Krista Donahue Kris Meinders Dawn Peterson

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Worship at Wesley

9:00 am Sunday Worship

Childcare provided

10:00am Fellowship Hour

10:30 am Sunday School

(September-May)

Office Hours: Monday through Friday

8:30 am to 12:30 pm

June Dairy Breakfast

A sign up sheet for food

donations or volunteer

help at the event is up in

the Fellowship Hall.

Posters and postcards

are available to hand out

or mail out. The poster is

also on our Facebook

page and website.

Please share with as

many people as you can.

Thank you!