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Sewickley United Methodist Church
August 2020 Minutes
From The Pastor’s Heart
My 4-year-old daughter loves to play the game, “I spy with my two littles eyes.” At least that is how she says it. You might
recognize the game better if I said, “I see something you don’t see” or “riddle riddle ree I see…” These are all variations of the
same game. Regardless of how you phrase it, you are calling out a color and the other players have to identify the object you are
looking at by the color you chose. The best way to win this game against a 4-year-old is to think like a 4 year old. What do her
little eyes see?
It is good to be seen, isn’t it? Whether by a 4-year-old or a 40-year-old, it is good to know that someone sees you. To be seen by
someone goes deeper than recognizing an object, but to truly see someone means to see whether they are happy, or sad, to see if
they are struggling with something, or to recognize when they are full of great joy and anticipation. To be seen by someone is to
be known by someone and I believe we all have that deep desire to be known.
Very early on in the start of quarantine I was struggling with how do I do ministry without being able to “see” people. I relied upon
gathering together, playing my own game of “I spy,” and approaching people with an understanding of how they are doing and how
I could be present with them. With the separation, I thought that was no longer possible. During one of my times of self-pity and
prayer, the Holy Spirit graced me with this message, “I don’t need you to be present with people in order to be able to see them
and help them; I just need you to be present with me.” And there it was, the recognition that I had been relying upon my own
understanding too much.
We don’t need to be able to see people face-to-face to make an impact on their lives. We just need to spend time with the Holy
Spirit and be present with the work the Holy Spirit is doing. It’s like a game of I spy, but instead of, “with my two little eyes,” it’s with
“my spiritual eyes.” Too often we depend upon what is right in front of us to make decisions, when the truth is we know we are
only working with limited information. The Holy Spirit sees all and knows all.
I spy with my Spiritual eyes, YOU! I wish I could be physically present with you. I wish I could see you face-to-face, but in the
meantime, I want you to know that I see you. At least I am spending time with the Holy Spirit who sees you and knows you. With
that time, I am praying for you and seeking ways to help you stay connected to the One who truly matters, to God. That is, after
all, the work of the Holy Spirit, to always be pointing us back to God.
What have you seen with your Spiritual eyes today? As you seek the answer to that question remember these words found in
Proverbs 3:5-7, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways submit to Him and
He will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own EYES; fear the Lord and shun evil.” Amen!
From One Light to Another,
Pastor Hannah's availability: I am available Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
On Sundays I am available following the church service till 4 p.m. If I am not in the office I can be reached via my
cell phone. I am available after-hours on my cell phone for emergencies. My email address is open 24 hours a
Church Office: (412) 741-9430 Pastor’s Office: (412) 741-9433 Cell Phone: (412) 294-7587
E Mail: pastor@sewickleyumc.org Website: www.sewickleyumc.org
AUGUST 2020 MINUTES PAGE 2
COMMUNITY ONLINE VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
AUGUST 3—5
Do you know what free Community Zoom VBS means?
Grandparents, it means your grandchildren from Bell Acres and Baldwin and
Boston can share a VBS journey together. It means cousins from Coraopolis
and Carrick and California can take a VBS journey together.
Parents, it means friends from dance class, soccer teammates and scout
buddies can share a VBS experience. It means your child, and her best friend from kindergarten who moved to Atlanta, can take a
VBS trip together.
Good neighbors, it means you can invite the children from across the street, the ones who love your puppy and your blueberry
muffins, to join our VBS journey.
Aunts and uncles, you can invite nieces and nephews to our VBS, and you can join them as a volunteer Squad Leader.
A free Community Zoom VBS means the children you love can safely spend time in the Light and Love of Jesus with other
children.
Our shared journey, hosted by Sewickley United Methodist and St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Sewickley, will be held via Zoom on
August 3—5, 6 to 7 pm, and will feature Bible stories, songs, games, science and crafts.
To register, or for more information, send an email to SewickleyVBS2020@gmail.com.
Rev. Marilyn Evans Karen Nickell
Pat Fulton Zoe Nicoletti
Bob and Sal H. Sandra Obeng
Angela Helms Paula Odom
Mary Huber (Roberta Davis’ sister) Lorraine Offner
Donna Hudenski and family Jim Rogansky
Linda Idecker Linda Rummens
Ron Jankowski, Sr. Blake S.
Ceel Janosik Karen S.
Veronica Johnson Mary Sava
John A. Wayne Johnson Karen Shong
Rich Altieri Jan & Brad Jones C.R. and Lorraine Simpson
Sally Barton Julian Brenda Smith
Betty Beaman Kyle Ron Smith
Bill & Barb Dr. John Keriotis Ronli Smith
Margaret Cable Joe L. Linda Sollinger
Jack Certain Dixie Lemasters Chris Speanburg
Irene Chenot (Beth Zeanchock’s mom) (Debbie Chesney’s mom) Sandy Stroebel
Chris Christy Dr. Gene Lucas Tamara
Family of Paul Collier Family of Sara McCullough Barry Yant
Family of Jacque Dawson Robert McIlvain Carol Young
Barbara Devine Jeremy McMonigal Laura Youngblood
Molly Devine Michelle Malito Rich Z.
Jodie Dolin Mary Maminski Dennis Zeveny
Beth Ellisher Tony Morgan
Cinnamon Evans Al Mutchka
AUGUST 2020 MINUTES PAGE 3
Worship Opportunities - August 2020
Online Worship service is available beginning at 10 am each
Sunday on our website (www.sewickleyumc.org)
Our non-coronavirus schedule:
Contemporary Worship Service: 9 am
Sunday School for all ages: 10 am (September—May)
Traditional Worship Service: 11 am
August 16, 2020
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Sermon Series: “Foundations - I Believe in the Church”
Scripture: Acts 7:44-50 and Ephesians 2:13-22
Liturgist: Carole Ford
Lectionary Readings
Genesis 45:1-15
Psalm 133 (UMH 850)
Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32
Matthew 15:(10-20), 21-28
August 2, 2020 August 23, 2020
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Sermon Series: “Foundations - I Believe in the Holy Spirit” Sermon: “My Call”
Scripture: John 14:25-27 and Genesis 1:1-5 Scripture: 1 Samuel 16: 1-12 and Isaiah 6:1-8
Liturgist: Mike Pedee Liturgist: Kim Benjamin
Lectionary Readings
Lectionary Readings
Genesis 32:22-31
Exodus 1:8-2:10
Psalm 17:1-7, 15 (UMH 749)
Psalm 124 (UMH 846)
Romans 9:1-5
Romans 12:1-8
Matthew 14:13-21
Matthew 16:13-20
August 9, 2020
August 30, 2020
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sermon Series: “Foundations - I Believe in the Bible”
Sermon : “Your ‘Call’”
Scripture: Isaiah 40:6-8 and 2 Timothy 3:10-17
Scripture: Romans 12:3-8 and 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
Liturgist: Ron Smith
Liturgist: Martha Boward
Lectionary Readings
Lectionary Readings
Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28
Exodus 3:1-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b (UMH 828)
Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c (UMH 828)
Romans 10:5-15
Romans 12:9-21
Matthew 14:22-33
Matthew 16:21-28
RURAL LIFE SUNDAY
August 9th
This special offering will be received for the purpose of strengthening nurture,
witness and outreach in town and rural areas. If you wish to support Rural Life
initiatives, mark you gift “Rural Life” and include it with your regular offering. You
may also use EasyTithe, electing “Rural Life” from the drop down box.
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NURTURE, OUTREACH & WITNESS ACTIVITIES AND NEWS
PB & J & FOURTH SUNDAY FOOD PANTRY
COLLECTION Sewickley UMC will provide
peanut butter and jelly/jam for each family
receiving a food distribution at the Sewickley
Community Center on August 12th. The
PB&J
Outreach Committee needs your help to do that! Collection FAMILY PROMISE UPDATE – Family Promise has not been
The Community Center has been serving as able to serve guests in the traditional manner since March;
many as 40 families. Therefore, SUMC's goal is to collect 40 eventually providing each family with AirBnb accommodations.
jars of peanut butter (around 18 oz is preferred size) and 40 As of June 30th, Family Promise is no longer providing families
jellies/jams. Your donations are needed by August 9th; you with that provision. Happily, two families are now in permanent
may drop off at the church during the week from 8:30 am to 1 housing. The other two families were transferred to Women's
pm when the custodian is in, or on Wednesday and Fridays Space due to the lack of availability of AirBnb's. Family
from 9 am to 4 pm, when the office is normally open. To make Promise remains in contact with those two families.
other arrangements, please contact Martha Boward. Due to the uncertainty of the times, Family Promise is
There is no specific request for the 4th Sunday discussing what the next iteration will look like. That may be
collection. Your donations of non-perishable food the implementation of an aftercare program, serving former
may be place in the grocery carts located across guests. This is something that had been in mind for quite some
from the restrooms anytime. Thank you for time and clearly see as a need, keeping families from
supporting families and individuals in need. experiencing homelessness again.
RED BIRD MISSION – Outreach has sent further shipments of Please keep Family Promise and its families in your prayers.
face masks, specifically targeting PASTOR’S PANTRY/EMERGENCY
school age children/teens, as well as FOOD – SUMC continues to keep a small
children’s clothing to the mission, food pantry within the church, so that the
with thanks to the Olive Branch’s church office and pastor can address
Mission & More and Stitching immediate needs. Persons in need within
Together for donating the items. the Quaker Valley School District may also reach out to the
SUMC also shipped additional hand sanitizer to Red Bird. Sewickley Community Center Food Pantry with emergency
With the surge in COVID-19 cases in Kentucky, the mission needs. The normal distributions at that food pantry are the 2nd
had scale back its re-opening of community outreach. The and 4th Wednesdays from 9-11 am (summer hours), but
lack of summer work teams has also made it difficult to provide emergency needs are fulfilled when possible – 412-741-5430
that outreach, as work teams provide much of the financial or foodpantry@sewickleycommunitycenter.com. The
support for that outreach. Outreach will continue to be in touch
Community Center is located at 15 Chadwick St., Sewickley.
with Red Bird Mission, as SUMC has a longstanding
relationship with it.
HELP GET FREE BOOKS FOR READING MENTORING PROGRAM
Your purchase of a wide range of Kellogg's brand products equals the opportunity to receive a free book - YOU CAN EARN UP
TO 10 FREE BOOKS! It would be wonderful to have dozens of books to donate to Church Union's Reading Mentoring
Program. To participate in this promotion, please see the details at kelloggsfamilyrewards.com/en_US/promotions/feeding-
reading-national.html.
Print copies of the product lists are available in the Simpson Room. Kellogg's Brands include Kellogg's cereals, Pop-Tarts,
Pringles, Eggo , Nutri-grain, Rice Krispie Treats, Cheez-its. Kashi, Keebler Crackers and Townhouse Crackers (see the website
for types and sizes). You do need to upload receipt image within 30 days of purchase, then
select books prior to December 1st. As the Reading Mentoring Program works with early
elementary students, you will want to make your book selection(s) accordingly. Please place
your books in the Outreach collection box in the Simpson Room.
Don’t eat any of those products? Take advantage of the “Back to School” sales to purchase
non-perishable items and donate to the Sewickley Community Center Food Pantry!
Win-Win – food for local families, books for local kids!
AUGUST 2020 MINUTES PAGE 5
NURTURE, OUTREACH & WITNESS ACTIVITIES AND NEWS, CONTINUED
UMCOR HYGIENE KITS
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, UMCOR (the UMC disaster relief agency) continues in ministries of not only assisting following
disasters, but also in its outreach around the world. Hygiene kits are no longer shipped outside of the USA, but there remains a
great need for those kits within the USA. To assemble a kit, follow the guidelines below – a box will be available in the Simpson
Room for completed kits. The Outreach Committee is also accepting financial donations toward kit “ingredients” and for the
requested donation to cover the cost of toothpaste and shipping. Please indicate “HYGIENE KITS” on your gift or on EasyTithe.
HYGIENE KIT – Place the following in a One-Gallon Re-Sealable Bag (items must be new and unwashed; no cartoon characters,
advertisements, and no religious, patriotic, military or camouflage symbols).
Hand towel (15 x 25 –17 x 27 inches) - No kitchen, cleaning, or microfiber towels
Washcloth - No kitchen, cleaning, or microfiber towels
Comb - Must be sturdy with at least 6 inches of teeth (No pocket combs or picks; Rattail and combs
without handles are acceptable but must have at least 6 inches of teeth)
Toenail or fingernail clipper - No emery boards or metal nail files
Bath-size soap (3 oz. bar or larger) - No Ivory or Jergen’s soap; keep in packaging
Adult toothbrush – keep in packaging - Personal advertising not acceptable
10 adhesive bandages (¾ by 3 inches) - Common household bandages acceptable
TO HAVE A PUMPKIN PATCH OR NOT?
THAT IS THE QUESTION. Pumpkin Patch
time is fast approaching and we need to make
a decision. We need YOUR input. As you
know we rely solely on volunteerism to have a Our pumpkins are tentatively scheduled to arrive October 3
successful Pumpkin Patch. We need your This will be the 19th year we’ve had a pumpkin patch
prayers as well as your input. Some questions Our pumpkins come from the Navajo Indian reservation in
to ponder and answer for us: Farmington, New Mexico
If the Covid Virus is still the same as it currently is with the
Our patch is open the entire month of October, totaling
many restrictions, what are you willing to do to help at the
about 375 hours
Pumpkin Patch?
Our sale benefits the Navajo’s who grow our pumpkins and
Would you be willing or able to help unload?
we receive a percentage of the total sales
Would you be willing to work the Patch? If so, how many
In the past 18 years we have sold $304,669.42 in pumpkins
hours per week would you be available?
Our profit to date is $101,342.39
Please contact Diane Bartley (diane15143@gmail.com, 412-266
-6113) or Lou Ann Scott (lascott518@hotmail.com, 412-983- 2019 was our most profitable year to date—we sold $30,295
8704) with your answers and thoughts. Please pray! in pumpkins, netting $9,835.97 for the Church’s General
Fund
The pumpkin patch originally started as a fundraiser for our
For those of you who are new to SUMC, the whole month of
youth group in 2002
October we sell pumpkins from our front lawn. It takes many
people to make this the success it has been. This is our biggest You can go to pumpkinsusa.com to get more information
annual fundraiser, averaging over $5,100 for the month in profit. You don’t have to lift pumpkins to work our Patch!
AUGUST 2020 MINUTES PAGE 6
LOOKING FOR THIRD GRADERS
In September we will be recognizing our new third
graders and give them their Bibles. As of this printing we
have only three students entering the third grade and
they are Riley Benjamin, Jade Burnett and Noah
Martinez. If we missed your student please let the
church office know or contact Sandra Lane, the Church’s Librarian.
Please keep all our students in your prayers as we enter the unknown of the coming new school year
with COVID-19. May God surround them with his protective arms and keep the germs away.
Dear SUMC Friends:
Thank you for delivering meals to our home following the birth of our daughter, Luna Evelyn
Dotterer. We also love the knitted baby blanket we received from the church!
As first-time parents, we would like to thank the congregation for supporting this beautiful
ministry. We would also like to thank Belinda, Andrea, Pam, Sandy, Donna and Edie for
preparing and delivering the meals. The meals helped us spend more time with Luna during
her first weeks of life.
We look forward to introducing Luna to the church soon.
Peace in Christ,
Steve and Cara Dotterer
On behalf of the residents of 511 Centennial Avenue, I want to thank the Fellowship of the Cross youth and leaders, and the
families of the church, for planting flowers in our containers this May. Robin Craig wrote: “All the flowers of all the tomorrows are
in the seeds of today.”
As the flowers bloom and flourish. they feed our souls with their quiet beauty and we enjoy their abundance of color and fragrance
from spring...to summer...to fall. Like the flowers you dress our gardens with...you bring sunshine to shady places with the worthy
service and work that you do.
God Bless You!
Dorothy Jadlowiec
Dear Friends in Mission,
Thank you for your gifts to International and US UMCOR Disaster Response and Recovery! The dear people you just helped with
your gift to UMCOR may never have the opportunity to meet you, but if they did, I am certain their response would be—Thank you!
Since 1940, UMCOR has served as the humanitarian agency of the United Methodist Church, providing disaster response and
relief to areas impacted by natural and manmade disasters around the world. And through your financial support, you are serving
within a vital network of interactive relationships as UMCOR responds to increasingly-frequent and destructive storms—sharing
100% of donated funds with those in need!
Together, may we continue to reveal the love of God for men, women, and children of all ethnic, racial, cultural, and national
backgrounds and to demonstrate genuine love for our neighbors.
Grace & Peace,
Thomas G. Kemper, General Secretary
Roland Fernandes, COO and General Treasurer
AUGUST 2020 MINUTES PAGE 7
Rural King is supporting Christian ministry by donating a
portion of sales to registered Christian churches and
organizations during their Church Week Promotion. Shop at
Rural King August 2 through August 15, upload your receipts
at ruralking.com/churchweek by September 1 and identify
Sewickley United Methodist Church and SUMC will receive
10% of each valid receipt pre-tax total.
The closest Rural King is at the Beaver Valley Mall,
300 Beaver Valley Mall Blvd, Monaca, PA 15061
724-728-2068 Hours: 7 AM - 9 PM
Or shop online at www.ruralking.com
Sewickley United Methodist Church
Financial Summary - June 2020
Budgeted to Over or
2020 Budget Paid in June Paid to Date
Date (Under) Budget
Total 60100 · CONNECTIONAL
29,072.00 14,535.98 2,422.67 14,535.98 0.00
APPORTIONMENT
Total 60200 · PASTOR & STAFF 156,372.02 80,675.44 12,340.44 72,774.01 (7,901.43)
Total 60400 · FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT 34,368.00 20,944.00 1,643.61 23,565.36 2,621.36
Total 60500 · UTILITIES - CHURCH 24,774.00 15,586.98 993.94 10,406.68 (5,180.30)
Total 60600 · UTILITIES - PARSONAGE 9,264.00 5,617.06 497.57 4,553.69 (1,063.37)
Total 60700 · CHURCH ADMINISTRATION 5,820.00 3,060.00 878.97 3,283.52 223.52
Total 60800 · WORSHIP 3,600.00 1,950.00 510.04 2,288.00 338.00
Total 60900 · EDUCATION 2,100.00 1,149.96 0.00 298.13 (851.83)
Total 61000 · NURTURE 1,550.00 775.04 178.36 1,183.85 408.81
Total 61100 · OUTREACH 3,100.00 1,550.02 196.87 1,935.45 385.43
Total 61200 · WITNESS 200.00 200.00 0.00 0.00 (200.00)
Total 61300 · FINANCE COMMITTEE 825.00 412.50 20.15 295.54 (116.96)
Total 61400 · MARKETING COMMITTEE 2,400.00 1,200.00 142.40 983.21 (216.79)
Total Budgeted Expenses 273,445.02 147,656.98 19,825.02 136,103.42 (11,553.56)
Receipts 270,061.28 128,087.58 20,676.05 119,632.17 (8,455.41)
Overage (Deficit) (3,383.74) (19,569.40) 851.03 (16,471.25)
AUGUST 2020 MINUTES PAGE 8
Summer sunsets are immense, incredibly deep Pray for the primary, middle school and high
and immeasurably wide, splashed with an school students returning to school. Pray for
infinite array of color. And they seem to linger, the faculty, staff and administration. Pray for
inviting us to consider the Creator and the families.
expanding borders of His imagination. SUNSET PRAYERS Pray for the home-schooled and their families.
Sunsets in summer are big enough to embrace by Bill Utterback Pray for the pre-schoolers, their families,
our most important prayers. teachers and other adults who love and care
Let’s focus our sunset prayers in August on our children and for them.
youth, on their needs and dreams, and on the people who love Pray for the Sunday schoolers, their families and teachers. Pray
them, guide them and grow them. for youth group leaders and music directors. Pray for pastors.
As we have for more than a year, let’s turn together toward the Pray for the children and youth in your family, in your
first sunset of the month and lift a shared prayer, from wherever neighborhood, in your church. Pray for the children and youth
we are, with whomever would like to join us. Sunset on August you see every day, and those you wish you could see more
2 will launch at 8:32 pm. often.
Let’s pray for our SUMC Community Vacation Bible Study, which The list is immense, but the sunset is bigger, and it will linger
will be held August 3 through August 5. Lift the children, as well long enough to include everyone.
as the youth, adults and families who will be leading them.
And there will be another sunset on Monday, and Tuesday, and
Pray for the college students returning to campuses and the days that follow, if you would like to keep our children and
classrooms. Pray for their classmates, teachers, advisors and youth wrapped in prayer.
coaches. Pray for families.
Please write to our shut-ins and
keep them in your prayers.
The church office can provide
you with contact information.
Mignon Emmert Pat Rudy
Renee Gittins Doug Rummens
Atleah Grubb Patricia Smith
Virginia Harriger Shirley Sye
B.J. (Elizabeth) Manzinger
If you or a family member is missing from our birthday or anniversary list, please let the office know. We don’t want to leave anyone out of special wishes.
AUGUST 2020 MINUTES PAGE 9
We need health/personal supplies such as combs, hair
accessories, bar soap, washcloths, hats, socks, scarves and
bandanas, sunglasses and adhesive bandages.
We need dolls, stuffed animals, flashlights with batteries,
jewelry, toy trucks and cars, small balls and flip flops.
OCC does not accept candy or food items, toothpaste,
shampoo, liquid hand soap or liquid of any kind, or military-
July brought socks. Combs. Notebooks. Crayons. Soap. Balls. related toys, books or clothes.
Gently-used toys. If you aren’t comfortable shopping, you can purchase gifts online
July brought shoeboxes wrapped crisply in paper that features and have them shipped to the church.
penguins and polar bears, paper splashed with candy canes If you want to make a financial donation, there is now a giving
and snowflakes, paper that sings of “Peace” and “Joy.” option specifically for Operation Christmas Child through our
Christmas is pulsing in the basement of the Sewickley United online giving portal, EasyTithe, or you can send your gift to the
Methodist Church. church office, marking it “OCC.” The church address is 337
July brought hope. Broad St., Sewickley, 15143.
We’ve been masked and distanced and deprived of so much, The Fellowship of the Cross has not yet made a plan for a
but our church family is deciding that we won’t deprive the packing party. In past years, we gathered in the Simpson Room
Operation Christmas Child kids of our best effort to share the between services on a Sunday in late September. If that’s not
love and light of Jesus through shoeboxes. practical, we may choose a day in September or early October
The SUMC family, guided by the Fellowship of the Cross youth, where families and friends can make an appointment to fill
has contributed 900 shoeboxes to OCC campaigns in the past boxes while adhering to safe-distancing protocols.
nine years. We’ve filled at least 100 boxes in each of the past The boxes, at least 30 or more, will be filled, blessed and
eight years. delivered to God’s children, 2 to 14 years old, somewhere in the
In adverse conditions in 2020, we have already gathered more world. In past years, our boxes have traveled to the Dominican
than 30 gift-wrapped shoeboxes and probably enough gifts to fill Republic, Honduras, Columbia, the Bahamas, Ukraine and
them. And August and September, traditionally our best giving multiple nations in Africa.
months, are ahead of us. Operation Christmas Child also offers an online option that
The Fellowship of the Cross team is thankful for the gifts that allows you to select a number of items to fill a shoebox, which
you’ve contributed, the boxes wrapped exquisitely by Kara and they will pack and ship for you for $25. If you would like to
daughters Elliett and Evarett, and for the hope that you’ve support OCC in this manner, you can go to
kindled in challenging times. samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/buildonline.
If you are considering contributing to our 2020 drive, we need For more information, contact Bill Utterback or Pamela Mayo or
school supplies: crayons, markers, colored pencils, pens, pencil any Fellowship of the Cross youth.
sharpeners, erasers, rulers, glue sticks, scissors and notebooks
that fit into a shoebox.
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Matthew and Paige Marie Rossi of Trafford, PA are blessed to announce the
arrival of their daughter, Abigail Rose Rossi. She was born on Thursday July
9, 2020 at Forbes Hospital. Abigail weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces and was 20
inches long. Abigail Rose joins her “fur-sister” Macy . Maternal
Grandparents are Don & Ronna Sue Cole-Vangura of Mt Vernon, PA. Paternal
Grandparents are Steve and Sandy Rossi of Trafford, PA.
Welcoming Everyone’s Local Voices Project
How can our community respond to racism and other forms of discrimination? We can start by listening and learning. We
can recognize that prejudice in all its forms doesn’t happen only elsewhere. It’s right here in our neighborhoods.
To build this awareness, Welcoming Everyone is launching the Local Voices Project. We are gathering residents’ stories about
their personal experiences with racism or other types of inequity. The goal of Local Voices is to call us to be more compassionate
neighbors and, more importantly, to lead us to take action. Action for some might be getting to know a neighbor who looks,
worships, or loves differently than they do. For others, action may be getting involved in local initiatives to change local policies
and practices.
If you have experienced racial or other forms of discrimination and are willing to tell us about it, Welcoming Everyone
would like to hear your story. A story can be a written narrative or a script of an interview between you and a family member or
friend.
Please email your story/interview by Friday, September 4th to welcoming15143@ gmail.com. See the guidelines for
submission at sewickleylibrary.org/welcoming-everyone.
Since we are unable to meet in-person at this time, Welcoming Everyone and Sewickley Public Library will co-host an online
storytelling event on Sunday, September 20th at 6:30 PM at which several stories/interviews will be heard. The readings will be
followed by Q&A. After the event, Welcoming Everyone plans to share Local Voices with the public through our Facebook page
and by email.
We invite the community to participate in Local Voices with open minds and hearts in order to listen, learn, and be
inspired to make our community a welcoming place for all.AUGUST 2020 MINUTES PAGE 11
AUGUST 2020
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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10 AM Worship Service 6 PM - 7 PM VBS 6 PM - 7 PM VBS 6 PM - 7 PM VBS 6 PM Nominations 7 PM AA
8 PM AA 6:30 PM Leap of Faith Committee
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10 AM Worship Service 6:30 PM Finance 8 PM AA 6:30 PM Leap of Faith 7 PM AA
Committee
6:30 PM Trustees
8 PM Council Meeting
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10 AM Worship Service 8 PM AA 6:30 PM Leap of Faith 7 PM AA
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10 AM Worship Service 8 PM AA 6:30 PM Leap of Faith 7 PM AA
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10 AM Worship Service
We use “easyTithe” to offer online giving to our church
family. Those who choose to give in this way can create
a secure account from via easyTithe and set up recurring
giving with selected funds, frequency, and amount.
easyTithe allows you to securely give via your bank account or credit/debit card. You can give online by
visiting the giving page on our website. SUMC pays a monthly service fee to easyTithe, plus easyTithe
charges us 3% for each donation made. When giving via easyTithe, please considering covering the
3% transaction fee.
You can also give via the easyTithe Mobile App. It is a simple as downloading the app to your smartphone
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