vol. 26 no.7 c mpass a publication of two rivers...

C mpass a publication of

Two Rivers Church

July 2018 Vol. 26 No.7

Car wash raises money for camp

The Two Rivers Church kids and youth

washed cars in the west parking lot on June 10.

Many members of church stayed after church to

get their cars washed by the crew.

Rain in the afternoon probably kept some

cars from pulling in, but the effort still raised

close to $400.

The kids are gearing up for a great week

of camp. They will be leaving for East Bay Camp

after church on July 22, and will return on Fri-

day, July 27. Pastor Robb is also going as the

camp Chaplain for the week.

Resource Refocus Meeting on July 29

As a continued part of the Step Up program, there will be a

special meeting on Sunday, July 29 at noon. All members of the

Church Council are encouraged to participate in this Resource/

Refocus meeting with the director of Congregational Development,

Mike Craword. All who participate in ministries at Two Rivers

Church are invited to attend. The purpose of the meeting will be to

identify the strengths of the congregation, the common values we

share, and the ways we use the resources God has entrusted to us.

Healing Touch to sing on August 5

Healing Touch, the group that brought many people

to tears with their powerful songs and testimony on June 3

in worship, will be back to sing at Two Rivers on Sunday,

August 5. Singing in both Swahili and English, their music

is upbeat and inspiring.

Plans are being made to host a special African Din-

ner after the service. Tickets to this dinner will be sold as a

fundraiser to support the children and youth ministries.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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* Regular Sun-day Schedule Communion

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3 4

Independence

Day! Church Office

Closed

5 6pm Justine Sibomana Fashion Show @ The Figge

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10:00 am Prayer Group

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12:00 pm Satur-day Meal Site

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* Regular Sun-day Schedule

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12 pm Lunch and Learn Bible Study

10 6pm Evangelism Team Meeting 7pm Leadership Meeting

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14 12:00 pm Satur-day Meal Site

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12 pm Lunch and Learn Bible Study 6 pm Sisterhood Get-Together

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21 12:00 pm Satur-day Meal Site

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August Compass

Deadline

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28 11:00 am Oper-ation Safety Net 12:00 pm Satur-day Meal Site

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12pm StepUp Meeting

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12 pm Lunch and Learn Bible Study

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* Regular Sun-

day Schedule

9:30 am Worship

10:30 am Fellow-

ship

10:45am Adult

Sunday School

***River Music Experience KidStock Summer Camp using the church building between 1-5pm***

***River Music Experience KidStock Summer Camp using the church building between 1-5pm***

2018

Pastor Robb on Vacation July 1—July 5

Pastor Robb and Two Rivers kids at East Bay Camp July 22-27

Two Rivers Prayers Presence Gifts Service

Remember in Prayer-

Mickey Dotson, Betty Frank, and Summer Etzel Volk

Our Sympathies to—

The family and friends of Helen Beselin who passed

away in May.

Our presence—

June 3 Worship— 79

June 10 Worship– 60



Our gifts—

General Funds

June 3 $ 4,349.31

June 10 $ 3,346.66

June 17 $ 2,984.08

June 24 $ 3,002.79

Our Service -

Members of the community served at

Two Rivers Saturday Meal Site & Operation

Safety Net (OSN):

June 2 — 56 Meal Site




Our Thanks —

A huge Thank You to all the S.T.E.A. M.’D Camp vol-

unteers, members of the Children and Youth Ministry

Team and the Evangelism Team for helping make this

year’s S.T.E.A.M.’D Camp and Church Picnic/Fair a

huge success . We had a record 43 kids attend

S.T.E.A.M.’D Camp this year.

July 9th-12th

10am—4pm Mon, Tues, Thurs.

10am—3pm Wed.

“We Care” Bags—Thanks So Much

Thanks to everyone who delivered “We Care”

bags to our shut-ins again this year. Our shut-in

members are all so appreciative of being remem-

bered by our church and look forward each June

to receiving the bags as well as catching up on

recent news about their church. Thanks also to

those members who donated money toward this

project. Without your support we could never

pack the bags as full as we do. God Bless you all

for making our work easier by always being will-

ing to help out with the deliveries.

Avalon and Judy

Thanks for the many prayers and visits during

my hospital stay and recovery. You have helped

me greatly.

Love to all,

Mickey Dotson

To all members of the church:

I wish to thank you for the prayers and all the

telephone calls this past year. I had been in 4

nursing homes and on Feb. 7th two of my doc-

tors rehearsed me and I had the choice of mov-

ing to Muskogee, OK with my daughter Bonnie

and son-in-law or be put in a local nursing home

for the rest of my living life. I had to say good-

bye to two daughters, a son, 12 grand children,

18 great grand children and my only brother.

We live in the country 8 miles from town.

Lots of animals and birds. There are 5 deer in

the field across the street. I have trouble walk-

ing. I have only 3 new doctors and spend my

time reading and working on scrapbooks. I have

gone to the hospital once for a test and have

wonderful care from 18 family members here

and doctors that care for my health!

I wish to thank everyone for phone calls and

delivery of plants and cards. I love my church.

Karen C. Crowe

Thanks again for the visits and special prayers.

My new address is: 3510 S. 55h Street E.

Muskogee, OK 74403-5203

To the Church Members,

Thank you so much for the wonderful goodie

bag of such good things to eat! It will last a long

time. Thanks again.

Sincerely,

Roberta Robinson

I have enjoyed the nice treat bag that you gave

me. Thank you for your prayers during my sur-

gery and for my recovery. I always enjoy your

visits.

Thank you so very much for your kindness,

Janice Peterson

Sisterhood

July’s Sisterhood Get-Together

will be on Monday, July 16 at

6:00p.m., at Blue Cat Brewpub lo-

cated at 113 18th Street, Rock Is-

land, IL.

We try to visit a different local restaurant each

month. All women are invited to come. Feel free to

bring a friend. Join us for devotions, dinner, fellow-

ship and a fun evening out. Contact Rita Anderson at

(309) 788-7150 or Kala Lee at (309) 738-7000 for

more information.

Genesis Befriender

Course

Genesis Health Systems’

Spiritual Care Department

is offering a “Befriender

Training Course” this fall

from 9:00 am to 10:30 am on Tuesdays. Weekly Be-

friender classes begin Tuesday, September 11, 2018

and conclude on Tuesday, December 4, 2018.

Befriender participants will go through approxi-

mately 30 hours of training that emphasize learning to

listen with a particular sensitivity to stories of grief,

illness, crisis, and life review. Following training each

Befriender will visit patients for two hours, one morn-

ing per week.

The Befriender course is open to members of any

faith community who are caring, dependable, able to

maintain confidentiality, and willing to improve their

listening skills.

If you are interested in serving as a Genesis Be-

friender, please contact Chaplin Patty Tillman, coordi-

nator of Genesis Befriender Program at (563-421-

7971). An on-line application and personal interview

are part of the admission process.

Nursery Attendants Needed

Two Rivers is in need of Sunday morning Nursery

Attendants. The church office is taking applications

for this position. Please get the word out. In the mean

time, if you are willing to volunteer in the nursery

please contact the church office. Thank you.

Thank you so much for collecting all the Kleen-

ex, toilet paper, paper towels, soap, deodorant

and other hygiene items that VBS collected for

the meal site. These are very necessary items and

are not readily available at Riverbend.

Many will be served by the kindness of

S.T.E.A.M. Camp.

Thanks again,

David and Ellen Martin

Congratulations

Congratulations to Patience

Mutoni on her graduation from

Rock Island High School on

June 2. Patience received a

scholarship from the United

Methodist Men. The plaque

recognizing past winners that

hangs in the hall outside the

sanctuary has been updated.

Annual Summer Picnic/

S.T.E.A.M.’D Fair

Saturday, June 16, 2018 was a hot humid

day. There at Camp Milan under shade of the

old oak trees with a little breeze it was a nice

day. Church members were arriving along with

S.T.E.A.M.’D Camp children with their parents.

Many of the families were impressed that the

church owned Camp Milan and commented on

how nice the property was.

At 6 PM everyone was ready for dinner. Pas-

tor Robb McCoy was at the grills grilling those

delicious hamburgers and those big quarter

pound hot dogs. The church members had

brought some of the most delicious foods as

well.

As dinner was coming to a close the attrac-

tion was the S.T.E.A.M.’D Camp display in the

Great Hall of the Retreat Center. The Great

Hall was filled with tables of some of the finest

artwork and makings one could imagine. The S.T.E.A.M.’D Camp kids did a wonderful job.

As the evening continued there were a lot of kids at the volleyball court creating a lot of laughter and fun.

Many were also at the rocket field shooting off the rockets they made at camp. Looking up at the basketball

court there were also kids shooting baskets, along with kids at both swing sets, the monkey bars and slide.

We must not forget the wonderful music produced by Mark Swessinger and the S.T.E.A.M.’D Camp kids

in the Great Hall of the Retreat Center. They put on an amazing concert. Claudia Applegate was also there

again this year with her ice cream shop with the most delicious ice cream, toppings and cones.

As the sky darkened, Pastor Robb McCoy and Mark Swessinger were busy getting ready for the movie. It

was a wonderful time to see the many people of the church and S.T.E.A.M.’D Camp participants so en-

tranced with the movie. It was truly a good old-fashioned summertime picnic! Thanks to the 60 people who

came to the picnic, the Evangelism team and S.T.E.A.M.’D Camp for putting this event together.

2018 Annual Conference Report

The 2018 Illinois Great Rivers Annual Conference was held Thursday, June 7 through Saturday, June 9 at

the Peoria Civic Center. The theme this year was “Let’s Get Fired Up . . . Moving Forward.” The conference

was shorter than previous years with fewer legislative items and no all conference dinner.

The main focuses of the conference were that the United Methodist Church has to move forward and the

OCOK -- Our Conference, Our Kids.

Moving forward was exemplified by Bishop Beard’s sermon on Saturday morning titled, “Forward

March.” In a year when we should be celebration the 50th anniversary of the formation of the United Meth-

odist Church, we could be facing the extinguishing of its flame. The bishop’s message was that the United

Methodist Church is too valuable in today’s world to allow itself to be torn apart. Next February in St. Louis,

a special General Conference will be held to attempt to find a way forward. The council of bishops has en-

dorsed one of the three plans to be presented to that conference. The plan the bishops endorsed is called

The One Church Plan. Complete details about the plan will be released as soon as it has been translated into

the six official languages of the church, hopefully in the next month or two.

The other focus was Our Conference, Our Kids. We learned about the way trauma affects the brains of

children who find themselves in need of the social services provided by the five agencies which will be fund-

ed by OCOK. The Lord works in strange and mysterious ways. I am sure that none of the speakers imagined

when they began preparing to speak to conference that the information they were imparting would have im-

minent relevance to a political situation, but that was acknowledged by more than one speaker. Over and

over the various speakers told about what happens to a child’s brain when it is stressed and how those effects

can be lifelong. They were speaking about how their agencies work to overcome and minimize that trauma

and ask for support of the conference for the OCOK special. The agencies served by OCOK are The Baby

Fold, Chaddock, Cunningham Children’s Home, Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House and Spero Family

Services (formerly the United Methodist Children’s Home).

In a small bit of irony, the most contentious legislative item on the agenda for the conference had, to my

way of thinking, the most innocuous title: Commitment to Creation Care. By a vote of 397 to 383 it was

passed encouraging all congregations to conduct an energy audit of their buildings and to form a Green

Team to “plan and monitor creation care improvements within their congregation.”

As always the ordination service was moving and I left the conference with renewed hope for the future of

our denomination in general and the United Methodist Churches of the Illinois Great Rivers Conference.

Charlotte Peterson

Lay Member of Annual Conference

COMPASS (USPS #658-720) is published monthly by Two Rivers

United Methodist Church, 1820 5th Avenue, Rock Island, IL 61201.

Periodicals postage paid at Rock Island, IL. POSTMASTER: Send

address changes to Two Rivers United Methodist Church, 1820-5th

Avenue, Rock Island, IL 61201.

Newsletter deadline

The deadline for items for the August issue of

the Compass is Monday, July 23. Please have

information or articles in by this deadline date.

Thank you.

Pastoral Leadership Rev. Robb McCoy [email protected] (815)514-3779 Program Staff Director of Music Mark Swessinger [email protected]

Organist/Handbell Choir Director Judith Litherland Ministers All of us

Support Staff Church Office Manager Brianna Pollock [email protected] Volunteer Financial Secretary Charlotte Peterson Church Custodian Ellen Martin Camp Milan Caretaker Kent Hessman

1820 5th Avenue, Rock Island, IL 61201

Office Phone: (309) 788-9384 email: [email protected]

Office Hours: Mon, Tues, Thurs. 8am—2pm & Wed. 8am—1pm

Connect Online: www.tworiversumc.org — www.facebook.com/RITwoRivers — twitter.com/RITwoRivers

Prayer Chain

Charlotte Peterson 793-7783

Nancy Cornish 788-7928

Nancy Schwegler 788-7016

If you want the prayer chain to pray for your concern

or you wish to be part of this prayer ministry, please

call one of the three contact persons listed above.

They alert the remaining chain members.

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