Wedgwood Community Church

September 2015

Volume 42, Issue 8

The Wedgletter Contribution

If you have a personal experience for Journey Talk, a book review, or an article you would like to share with us, please let Ellen Brown know by the 15

th of the month and submit it to

her by the 23rd

.

Inside this issue:

Yard Sale 1

Upcoming Events 1

Pastor Wim’s Column 2

September Worship Themes 3

Combined Wedgwood Events 4

Board Highlights 5

Zelaya Dedication 5

LLS Light the Night 5

Ivan Maryanskiy 6

Community Conversations 6

Collected Items 6

Birthdays 7

Book Club 7

Movie Night 7

The Perfect Church 7

Did You Know? 7

Publisher: Barbara Johnson

Please contact Victoria Wenick at vwenick@comcast.net (206.550.6048) if you wish to reserve a table.

Saturday June 13 Church Work Party 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Saturday June 13 Games Night 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Tuesday June 16 Rainbow City Band Parade and Ice Cream Social 7:00 PM

Sunday June 21 Potluck and Graduation Celebration 12:30 PM

Sunday June 28 Memorial Service for Elliott Walters 2:00 PM

(at St. Barnabas Anglican Church)

Saturday September 12 Movie Night (The Age of Adaline) 6:00 PM—9:00 PM

Sunday September 13 Kickoff Sunday 11:00 AM

Saturday September 19 Community Yard Sale 9:00 AM—1:00 PM

Sunday September 20 Potluck Dinner 12:30 PM

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Pastor’s Ponderings

Called to the Starting Line

Hebrews 12:1-2

As we gather all that we have learned from Jesus this summer, clearly our progress gets measured by moving

down the path of faith. Correct belief and understanding sets us off in the right direction, and actually walk-

ing the path gets us closer to our destiny in Christ. We begin again Sunday, September 13, as we set out for

Adventures in Faith: Following the path less traveled.

Following the path less traveled will transform us, change us, and create new experiences. In order to pro-

vide opportunities for that to happen for you, leaders at Wedgwood Community Church offer you new possi-

bilities along with those that may be new to you. Here are some of the paths you might take to move closer

to our destiny in Christ.

Bible Studies mornings or evenings, home faith discussions, getting to know your neighbors through organiz-

ing disaster preparedness one-time meetings, receiving mentoring in faith sharing, movie night, reading the

Bible through in one year with weekly notes about the portions to be read, retirement and rehab center wor-

ship services, service to the homeless, becoming a worship or song leader, a children’s ministry teacher, and

many more. The full list will be available September 6 so you can decide well ahead of September 13 which

paths you are called to walk this year.

We hope Jesus will lead you on the path that will bring you to new awareness of and action with Christ. God

bless you as you pray on these things.

Pastor Wim

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September Worship Themes

September 6 Loyalty to God Matthew 7:6-12

September 13 Walking the Path Less Traveled Matthew 7:13-23

September 20 Hearers and Doers Matthew 7:24-29

September 27 Discipleship: The integration of life Matthew 28:16-20

Pastor Wim

Combined Wedgwood Congregations to Feed the Hungry of Seattle

Wedgwood Congregations will work together during the weekend of September 19 and 20 to feed the hungry of Seattle. After several discussions, the Lay Leadership Team de-cided to collaborate with Wedgwood Presbyterian and Maple Leaf Lutheran in these events:

Saturday: 9 AM – 1 PM: The Parking Lot sale will be held at the north end of Hunter’s Tree Farm block on 35

th Avenue in a parking lot owned by Wedgwood Presbyterian.

You can reserve your table with Victoria Wenick at 206-550-6048 or volunteer to help set up. Donations ($10 to reserve a table) will support the Mayor’s Day of Concern for the Hungry.

Also on Saturday, you can support the Mayor’s Day by inviting those entering the QFC on 35

th Avenue Northeast and NE 85

th Street, between 11:20AM – 1 PM or 1

– 2:20 PM, to purchase from a food list, to be donated when they leave the store. Join Bruce and Candy Sagor, as well as Marilyn Potts, who have already signed up.

Sunday: 12:30 – 1:30 PM: Potluck at Wedgwood Community Church. We will host Maple Leaf Lutheran and Wedgwood Presbyterian and have opportunities to get to know each other over some really good food. Pastor Wim will be recruiting you to help set up and clean up, so you might as well contact him and sign up before he asks!

Pastor Wim

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Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

Make “someday” today! Please join the Wedgwood Walkers Light The Night team's effort by registering to walk on October 24 at Seattle Center or by making a donation to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Your participation will help LLS achieve

our mission … a world without cancer! Thanks for your support!

http://pages.lightthenight.org/wa/SeattleL15/WedgwoodWalkers

This year we are walking in memory of our dear friend Marty Welch.

Victoria Wenick

Lay Leadership Team Meeting Highlights

Candidates for the church custodian position are being interviewed.

The speakers and the speaker stands for the sound system in the sanctuary have been purchased. Ed was given

approval to make those purchases.

There will be small group opportunities for people to sign up for - offered during the social hour at Kickoff Sun-

day on September 13.

Because more children are regularly attending Sunday School, new teachers are needed for the classes.

The Lay Leadership Team is investigating replacing windows in the Fellowship Hall.

Milt Brown

Baby Rose Dedicated

Rose Zelaya, the precious baby daughter of Gerardo and Katie

Zelaya, was dedicated during our worship service on Sunday,

August 23. Beautiful words were spoken by both of her parents and

our hearts were touched by their overwhelming love for Rose and

their commitment to her. We are blessed to have Gerardo, Katie,

and Rose as a part of our church family.

[Photograph taken by Kris Delaney]

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Ivan Maryanskiy

How Ivan happened into our church that first Sunday morning, I have no idea, but he added to our group immediately. As we “got to know” him—some more than others—we realized he needed our friendship, just as we needed his. We also came to realize that this was a young man struggling with issues of life. He never complained, nor asked us for anything, except our friendship, and was always willing to help with anything he could. He

became very faithful to anything going on in the church and I, personally, miss him very much. Most of us did not realize how deep those struggles went. If you asked him how he was doing, his re-sponse was always, “I’m struggling, but it’ll be okay. Thank you for loving me and caring.” For rea-sons unknown to us, he made a decision that it was just too hard, that he was a burden to all, and de-cided to leave this life for a better one. Hopefully, if we ever have “another Ivan” come into our midst, we will have the ability to be able to have the sensitivity and welcoming spirit to help them along the way.

Marilyn Potts

Community Conversations at Queen Anne Baptist Church

Come, join the upcoming Discussions hosted by Rev. Sean Brown in the

Queen Anne Baptist Church Sanctuary on the following dates:

Wednesday, September 16, at 7 PM – Why Don’t People Go to

Church?

Wednesday, October 14, at 7 PM – Why Do People Go to Church?

Wednesday, November 18, at 7 PM – Four Freedoms of the Baptist

Church

Collected Items

We can no longer send eyeglasses to

Haiti. It has become too expensive to

mail them. All things “carried in” have

to go through customs and have fees

paid. Workers have been able to get

supplies/donations from elsewhere for

the Eye Clinic. I will let you know if I

find another organization that can use our

no-longer-needed eyeglasses.

We are also no longer collecting soup can

labels. That avenue is no longer avail-

able for supplying goods to Camp Bur-

ton. Possibly, we can start collecting box

tops for Wedgwood school, if they par-

ticipate in that program. We’ll check

with them when school starts again.

Marilyn Potts

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We are including the birthdays of our American Baptist Special Inter-est Missionaries, including their children. If you would like to send a birthday greeting, email, or finan-cial support, please contact Ellen Brown for their mailing or email addresses. September

4 – Mason Sillence

4 – Tasha Johnson*

6 – Victoria Wenick

10 – Janet Fowler

10 – Ed Wenick

11 – Paul Chapman*

11 – Bruce Borquist*

11 – Miriam Noyes*

16 – Ellen Schwede

16 – Brian Johnson*

17 – Robbin Price

21 – Lily Hansen

23 – Fred Romig

25 – Virginia Price

25 – Jayden Moberg

28 – Mylinda Baits*

October

2 – Naomi Hwang**

11 – Gerardo Zelaya

15 – Candace Sagor

16 – Marie Sillence

16 – Colleen Williams

19 – Barbara Johnson

21 – David Jenner

24 – Sandy Romberger

25 – Marilyn Potts

28 – Norma Jenner

28 – Toshi Moberg

29 – Glen Chapman*

30 – Brian Heerdt

*Special Interest Missionary

**Child of Special Interest Missionary

The Perfect Church

I think that I shall never see

A church that’s all it ought to be;

A church whose members never stray

Beyond the straight and narrow way;

A church that has no empty pews,

Whose pastor never has the blues;

A church whose deacons always deak

And none are proud and all are meek;

Where gossips never peddle lies,

Or make complaints or criticize;

Where all are always sweet and kind,

And all to others’ faults are blind.

Such perfect churches there may be,

But none of them is known to me;

But still I’ll work and pray and plan

To make our own the best we can!

Author Unknown [submitted by Marilyn Potts]

Did You Know?

In 1850 Dr. John Gorrie, studying

tropical diseases in Apalachicola,

Florida, built a refrigeration unit to cool

patients’ rooms, greatly improving their

chances of recovering from malaria.

There was not yet any electricity, and he

could not find financial backers, and he

died penniless in 1855. The idea lay

dormant until 1906, when Willis Carrier

improved upon it by removing humidity

from the air and received a patent for an

“air conditioning device.”

Barbara Johnson

MOVIE NIGHT

The Age of Adaline, a romantic

drama, will be shown in the

church Fellowship Hall on

Saturday evening, September 12,

from 6 – 9 PM. Bring a snack to

share and invite a friend!

Book Club

The Book Club’s September selec-

tion is The Case for Christ by Lee

Strobel, “a journalist's personal

investigation of the evidence for

Jesus.” Everyone is welcome to join

us as we read and discuss this book.

BULLETIN BOARD

Read the Bible in One Year (September 1-30) 317 Ezekiel 24, Ezekiel 25 Hebrews 11:17-40 Psalm 124:1-8

318 Ezekiel 26:, Ezekiel 27 Hebrews 12:1-13 Psalm 125:1-5

319 Ezekiel 28, Ezekiel 29 Hebrews 12:14-29 Psalm 126:1-6

320 Ezekiel 30, Ezekiel 31 Hebrews 13 Proverbs 27:23-28:6

321 Ezekiel 32, Ezekiel 33:1-32 James 1 Psalm 127:1-5

322 Ezekiel 33:21-33, Ezekiel 34, Ezekiel 35 James 2 Psalm 128:1-6

323 Ezekiel 36, Ezekiel 37 James 3 Psalm 129:1-8

324 Ezekiel 38, Ezekiel 39 James 4 Proverbs 28:7-17

325 Ezekiel 40 James 5 Psalm 130:1-8

326 Ezekiel 41, Ezekiel 42 1 Peter 1, 1 Peter 2:1-3 Psalm 131:1-3

327 Ezekiel 43, Ezekiel 44 1 Peter 2:4-45 Psalm 132:1-18

328 Ezekiel 45, Ezekiel 46 1 Peter 3 Proverbs 28:18-28

329 Ezekiel 47, Ezekiel 48 1 Peter 4 Psalm 133:1-3

330 Daniel 1, Daniel 2:1-23 1 Peter 5 Psalm 134:1-3

331 Daniel 2:24-49: Daniel 3:1-12 2 Peter 1 Psalm 135:1-12

332 Daniel 3:13-30, Daniel 4:1-18 2 Peter 2 Proverbs 29:1-9

333 Daniel 4:19-37, Daniel 5:1-16 2 Peter 3 Psalm 135:13-21

334 Daniel 5:17-31, Daniel 6:1-28 1 John 1, 1 John 2 Psalm 136:1-12

335 Daniel 7, Daniel 8:1-14 1 John 2:12-27 Psalm 136:13-26

336 Daniel 8:15-27, Daniel 9:1-19 1 John 2:28-29, 1 John 3:1-10 Proverbs 29:10-18

337 Daniel 9:20-27, Daniel 10, Daniel 11:1 1 John 3:11-24, 1 John 4:1-6 Psalm 137:1-9

338 Daniel 11:2-35 1 John 4:7-21 Psalm 138:1-8

339 Daniel 11:36-45, Daniel 12 1 John 5:1-21 Psalm 139:1-10

340 Haggai 1, Haggai 2:1-23 2 John 1:1-13 Proverbs 29:19-27

341 Zechariah 1-4 3 John 1:1-14 Psalm 139:11-16

342 Zechariah 5-8 Jude 1:1-25 Psalm 139:17-24

343 Zechariah 9-11 Revelation 1 Psalm 140:1-5

344 Zechariah 12-14 Revelation 2:1-17 Proverbs 30:1-10

345 Esther 1, Esther 2:1-18 Revelation 2:18-3:6 Psalm 140:6-13

346 Esther 2:19-23, Esther 3-5 Revelation 3:7-22 Psalm 141:1-10

Items Currently Needed

Food Canned Fruits

Canned Soups & Stews

Canned Protein Items (tuna, corned beef

hash, chili, peanut butter-especially crunchy)

Soy Milk/Rice Milk

Vegetarian Items (tofu, canned beans, soups,

chili)

Pasta and Rice

Canned Vegetables (pasta sauce, peas, ol-

ives, etc.)

Cooking oil

Other Items

Bar Soap

Toothbrushes and Toothpaste

Toilet Paper

Shampoo

Deodorant

Pet Food

Paper and Plastic Grocery Bags

Baby Diapers, Food, Formula and Wipes