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Grace and peace to you! By the time you are reading this we will know the outcome of the elections. Maybe, as I think back on 2000, it might be a few days. But, hopefully we will know the outcome and can begin the healing process in moving forward. It is hard to know that many of us will feel like we have lost this election. And that is unsettling if we think of four years of “this” person as the President. But we have felt disappointments before and recovered. I hope that this election cycle will give more people the courage to step forward into local elective offices. Good people are needed in the places decisions are made for all people. We are nearing the completion of our annual stewardship drive to plan the budget for 2017. The Finance Committee is working very hard to formulate a working budget. If you have not yet turned in your pledge card, please do so this weekend. You will find bright pink pledge cards on the welcome table in the narthex. You may contact Dennis Duell if you have any questions about the pledge process. Thank you to all for your faithful giving to University United Methodist Church. Your pledge makes it possible to begin planning programs for 2017. As we think about 2017, I find myself in the place of gathering information for the Great Plains Annual Conference about 2016. I report from December to November to keep our annual information during the same periods. Some of what I will report at Charge Conference is the increase in our youth and children programs. The children’s program (birth to fifth grade) experienced a 72% increase over the same period last year. In our dreaming for 2016 we set a goal of an increase of 10%. Wow! God is using us in amazing fashion. Thank you for your part in helping our church moving into the future. A huge thank you to Joe Emery and his friends for our All Saints Sunday celebration with bluegrass music. It was a wonderful morning of celebration, remembering, and sharing the sacrament of communion together. Thanks to Jane Eshelman, Dianna Stoker, Larry and Karen Rector for serving communion. Linlee Owen and Haiden Tilley helped bring in the Light as well as led us out into the world to share the Light with all we encounter. Several of the elementary children handed out prayer cards for Veteran’s Day. The Goerl family brought a great message about Jonah. Danae set the stage for our understanding why Jonah ended up in the belly of the whale. But it was 3-year-old Wyatt’s description of how Jonah got out of the whale that brought the laughter. Thanks be to God for all of the great cloud of witness to our faith and growing together. This Sunday, November 13 will be Youth Sunday with our middle and high school youth leading worship. You won’t want to miss it! Shalom, Pastor Jo

Vol. XXI, No. 45 Where experience and tradition are welcome - Where faith and reason are in dialogue Nov. 9, 2016

November 13

Acolytes Corbyn Chalfant Rylan Costello

Ushers

Bob Alley Donna Fowler Doug Stemet Bruce Walton

Administrative

Ministry Larry & Karen Rector Stephanie Strickler

Calendar Nov 9 - 16

Wednesday 9:30 a.m. - Exercise 10:30 a.m. – Line Dancing 6:00 p.m. – Snack Supper 6:00 p.m. – Youth Group 6:30 p.m. – Listen to My Life with Pastor Jo 6:30 p.m. – Creation Care 6:30 p.m. – B*L*A*S*T* 7:30 p.m. – Chancel Choir 7:30 p.m. – Nursery Thursday 10:00 a.m. – Sewcial Circle Friday 9:30 a.m. – Exercise Saturday Sunday 9:15 a.m. - Sunday School 10:30 a.m. – Worship 11:45 a.m. – Luncheon 12:30 p.m. – Team Meetings 1:30 p.m. – Ad Co Monday 9:30 a.m. – Exercise Tuesday 11:45 – Read & Eat Book Club 1:30 p.m. – KnitWits Wednesday 9:30 a.m. - Exercise 10:30 a.m. – Line Dancing 6:00 p.m. – Snack Supper 6:00 p.m. – Youth Group 6:30 p.m. – Creation Care 6:30 p.m. – B*L*A*S*T* 7:30 p.m. – Chancel Choir 7:30 p.m. – Nursery

November 6

Attendance

Worship 160

Sunday School

General Offering $6180.32

Please Remember in Prayer: Janet Brown

William & Monique Robinson Dylan Stoker, Lisa Davis

Susan Daniel-Brey Tony & Jackie Messenger

Mary Lou Wheeler Lance Dixon, Deb Dutro

Monika Stayton Becky Collier’s sister, Ann

Mission Collection Boxes If you have donations for UM Open Door or Klothes Kloset please note that the collection boxes have been moved into the west hallway with the stairs leading to Fellowship Hall. This will be their permanent residence. If you have donations for the VA Hospital you can contact Susan Bane directly at 316-686-1678. Monthly mission collections will also be located in that hallway.

November Missions We are collecting traditional Thanksgiving dinner items to donate to UM Open Door. Please bring your donations on Sunday November 13 and Sunday November 20 and place them on the altar railing in the sanctuary. All items will be delivered on November 21. -KayHarrison,MissionsCoordinator

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How do the youth get to go out into the world to be hands of God? I will tell you how... by the love, prayers and generous financial support of this church family! If you should wish to continue your financial support of this program be sure to write "youth programs" in the memo section of your check and place it in the offering plate any Sunday. Thank you for your support! – Cathy Fooshee

Weekly Prayer Gracious God, Some of us are feeling victorious and some of us are feeling defeated. Yet I know that the “us” is what is important. Give us grace that in our winning we do not gloat, and in our loss we do not pout. We are a nation of people with diverse beliefs and yet we have found the way to live together in times more difficult than this. Give us courage to pray for those who may have voted for someone else; give us courage to reach out in love; give us strength to live into the kingdom here and now. We give you thanks for the many people who are willing to serve in leadership for our city, county, state and nation. Amen.

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M&M Potluck Luncheon M & M’s will meet on Thursday, November 17th at noon for a pot luck meal. After the meal we will be entertained by the Threadbare Theater group. Please bring a dish to share with everyone.

The Redemption of Scrooge with Pastor Jo shows us how the teachings of Jesus can be found in Dickens’ Christmas classic. From the ghosts of Christmas past, to the Life of the present, and the resurrection of Christmas future, this Advent study will “bless us every one” and reinvigorate our spiritual journeys as we look at this familiar story through the lens of faith. This five-week class will meet on Tuesday mornings at 9:45 and Wednesday evenings beginning on November 15. The class will not meet the week of Thanksgiving. Cost is $10. Contact Katie at 316-686-6765 or uumc2220@uumc.net to reserve your spot.

E5 – Energy, Environment, Economics, Ethics and Election 2016 (11/7/2016)

GOOD NEWS! THE ELECTION IS FINALLY OVER, AND THE WINNER IS _____(TBD)____ (To Be

Determined after this article is submitted.) By the time you read this, the election will be over, and we should celebrate the conclusion of the lengthy, often ugly process that we have created to choose new leadership for our nation. Will Mother Nature (a.k.a. God) notice? More importantly, what does She expect of us now? Wentz view:

• Mother Nature is no respecter of political systems. The universe and all its diverse components, including the small planet Earth that we call home, will continue to function in accordance with the laws of Mother Nature.

• If we are wise enough to respect nature and practice environmental care, our planet, with 7 billion human inhabitants and growing, may begin recovery from excess human tampering, and begin a decades-long process toward returning to the blissful, relatively stable climate of the past several hundred thousand years.

• On the other hand, if we humans continue our path of careless massive fossil fuels extraction and burning, the planet will almost certainly continue on its path toward accelerated climate change, with increasing floods, global warming, sea level rise, and increased trauma for human and all plant and animal inhabitants.

The buck stops here. I am an optimist. Mother Nature has endowed us with the ability to reason, and the physical attributes to control and ultimately determine the destiny of the planet. Will we accept the responsibility that goes with that knowledge and power? Remember: It wasn’t raining when God told Noah to build an ark, and it hadn’t stop raining when God told Joseph to advise the Pharaoh to store food for a coming drought. Information Footnote: I highly recommend the recently released documentary, “Before the Flood,” produced by National Geographic and narrated by Leonardo Dicaprio (90 minutes). Just Google the title to view it on line.

“It Can Be Done…100% Renewables by 2050” I’M A CLEAN ENERGY PILGRIM. ARE YOU?

UUMC CREATION CARE (GREEN) GROUP: Meets Wednesdays, 6:30-7:20pm in the Parlor. Join us! Reminder: The views expressed in this column are strictly those of the writer, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Pastor or the UUMC Administrative Council...Bill Wentz, UUMC environmental guru

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Choir Contata All Church Luncheon

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