FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SEPTEMBER 2021
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FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
SEPTEMBER 2021
115 3rd St SE
“Lettuce” Give Thanks for Gardens
Jamestown, ND
and God’s Miracles
Phone: 701-952-3718
Despite the hot dry weather, our vegetable
Fax: 701-952-3717
garden is producing lots of good food this sum-
jamestownfirst@daktel.com
mer. We’ve been enjoying fresh peas, cucum-
bers and tomatoes, and once the frost comes
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later this fall, we’ll have tasty carrots, too. So much healthy food
Monday – Thursday
grown in our own backyard!
9:00am-12:00pm
Gardens happens because of our cooperation with God’s mira-
1:00pm-4:30pm
cles of nature. We provide the labor of tilling, planting, weeding,
mulching, pruning, and gathering. God provides seed sprouting,
Pastor Marty Toepke-Floyd
stalks and leaves growing, bees buzzing and fruits ripening. To-
Cell: 701-325-0378
gether we produce so much more than we can eat ourselves that
Office: 701-952-3718
we have to share it with neighbors, family and friends.
Home: 701-952-5809
In our partnership, God doesn’t plow the ground and stop the
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weeds from growing. I can’t make a seed germinate and turn it
into a plant. God doesn’t pick and distribute the resulting fruit,
Pastor Michelle Brennan
and I shouldn’t hoard it all and keep it all for myself. God made
Family Life Director
the soil and the seed, sends the rain and the sunshine, and I get
Cell: 701-269-3640
healthy outdoor exercise. We each have our part to play in the
michellebrennan@hotmail.com
harvest.
Growing a garden is like living as a disciple. It’s something that
Tami Severance
we do together with God. You can read the Bible and sing songs
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on your own, but that won’t make you a productive disciple. You
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can feed people who are hungry and give money to alleviate pov-
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erty, but that doesn’t make you joyful follower of Jesus. A good,
knowledgeable person without faith, might receive the praise of
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his or her community, yet they’d be missing out on greater things.
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The miracles happen when we work with God. Transformation
takes place in ourselves and others that we didn’t think possible.
Barriers are bridged, obstacles removed, boundaries crossed when
God gets involved. Abundance that we couldn’t imagine pours out
into the world, and fills hearts with praise to the Lord.
Forty years ago, I saw a miracle unfold in Laredo, Texas, when
I and other people of faith got together to respond to a hunger
SUNDAY WORSHIP crisis. In 1982, the Mexican peso fell from 20 to the dollar to 80
SCHEDULE to the dollar within a month, impacting many families on both sides
9:30am of the border. Mexican families couldn’t afford to shop in the US,
and businesses had to lay-off employees, so they were going hun-
Wednesday Worship will gry, too.
Our group prayed about what to do and were led by God to be-
resume September 15th
gin a food bank in partnership with community organizers and local
businesses. We had everything ready to go except enough money
to rent a warehouse to start operating. Because we had a Presby-
terian minister on our board, the national church sent him a check
for $30,000! He never asked for the grant, it just came in the
OCTOBER mail. We worked, God provided, and the food bank began meeting
NEWSLETTER DEADLINE the needs of poor families.
Please have newsletter Over the years, I’ve seen more miracles happen through Solar
articles and announcements Oven Partners and other faith based groups I have been a part
at the church by Tuesday, of. God calls us to work alongside of one another and in concert
September 16th. with God. Our local church helps feed people through the Daily
Bread program in Jamestown, and through our partnership with
the church in Las Banderas, Nicaragua. God needs our cooperation
and willingness to learn, labor and lead as together we share God’s
SERMON BY PHONE blessings with those in need.
DIAL 252-1656 The world could use some more miracles of hope and life, couldn’t
Enjoy just the it? Is God waiting for you to grow as a disciple who will bring some-
message at home thing amazing to life – an answer to someone’s prayer?
without a com- It all starts with hearing, learning and living the story of Jesus
puter or smart Christ. With God’s input, your discipleship can produce abundant
phone, passwords fruit, resulting in glory to God. We can’t do it alone, but we can
or codes. do it together working alongside God. This fall I invite you to join
Just dial 252-1656 during with me and others at First United Methodist to grow in faith, love
the week and hear the latest and service.
sermon.
Pastor Marty
COMING IN SEPTEMBER – WISDOM ON WEDNESDAYS (WOW)
“See, I am doing a new thing!” Isaiah 43:19a
The Education Committee, Pastor Marty and Pastor Michelle are busy prepar-
ing for a new fall format. Beginning in September the Education Committee
will be partnering with Wednesday Worship with M & M’s and moving Chris-
tian education opportunities to Wednesday evenings. Keeping in mind First
Church’s new mission statement, “Hearing, Learning, Living the Story of
Jesus Christ” we will be following a new discipleship format.
FALL FESTIVAL KICK OFF
Wisdom on Wednesdays will kick off with a Fall Festival on Wednesday, September 15th. The Fall
Festival will feature a meal, fun, games and fellowship beginning at 5:30 PM in the lower level din-
ing hall and ending with a worship service at 7:00 PM. Then the following Wednesday, September
22nd we will begin the new discipleship format outlined below.
WISDOM ON WEDNESDAYS (WOW) SCHEDULE WILL LOOK LIKE THIS:
Food at Five Thirty a simple meal will be provided for children, youth and adults.
Story at Six Fifteen we will break into age appropriate groups to learn the story.
Service at Seven we will Worship with Mystery & Mindfulness (M & M’s).
STORY AT SIX FIFTEEN GROUPINGS & COORDINATORS
School Age Kindergarten – 4th grade Coordinated by Melonie Roemmich
Youth 5th – 8th grade Coordinated by Sheri & Tyrone Rosenau
High School (& Adults?) Coordinated by Amanda Schlepuetz
Adults (?) Coordinated by Pastor Michelle
If there is enough interest we will split the High School and Adult groups with Amanda
Schlepuetz coordinating the High School group and Pastor Michelle coordinating the Adult group.
Whether combined with High School or meeting separately the Adult group will meet in the dining
hall so that adults participating with younger children may have their children nearby in the up-
dated play area.
If you have any questions about one of the age groups, or are interested in helping to lead, con-
tact one of our coordinators. If you are willing to help with meal preparations on Wednesdays
contact Pastor Michelle.
WORSHIP WITH MINDFULNESS AND MYSTERY
Wednesday worship with Mindfulness and Mystery will once again be a joyful and lively worship
experience with contemporary music, skits, special performances and the Question of the Night.
Children and youth attending worship will receive a packet of M&Ms as they leave the Wednesday
worship service.
VALUES WORKSHOP
a Dakota Annual Conference tool for local churches
Here in Jamestown First UMC
on Sunday, September 26th, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
(After worship with catered lunch – please RSVP so we know how much food to order)
If someone were to ask people in our local congregation to name the church’s top five core values,
how many answers do you think they would get? Would there be some similarities? Differences?
Values drive our behaviors and decisions, and are a part of
the unique identity of each local congregation.
The Dakotas Strategy Team has developed a 4-hour work-
shop to assist churches in discovering and defining their core
values. The workshop uses videos, personal refection, small
group discussion, and large group conversation and consensus to help our congregation define our
core values and it costs us nothing but our time.
District Superintendent, Rev. Joel Winckler will lead the Values Workshop after worship here on
Sunday, September 26th, helping us do the life-giving and critical work of determining our core val-
ues. These values serve as a guide to how our church can live out our mission, to make disciples of
Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
This workshop is especially important as we consider staffing priorities after Pastor Michelle re-
tires in December.
The more people in our congregation who participate - the more accurate our statements of our
congregational values.
Please register with the church office (952-3718) by Wednesday, Sept. 22nd, so we know how much
food to serve. Thank you.
CHILDCARE CAN ALSO BE PROVIDED IF REQUESTED WHEN YOU REGISTER
UNITED METHODIST NEWS!!
Get ready to meet again!! We plan to have a Unit Meeting on Thursday,
September 9th at 1:30 pm…hoping to have our Shepherdess visiting us too.
Sharon Caine will bring treats/dessert.
Thanks to those helped with the State Hospital ‘Birthday Celebration’/Sing a
Long and Bingo on August 24th. You are appreciated!
UPCOMING UMW EVENTS
• September 18th….Northwest District Retreat/Annual Meeting at Epworth UMC, Valley City
• October 1-2 United Methodist Women Dakotas Conference Annual Celebration at
St. Paul’s UMC, Jamestown
(Contact Dorothy Chouinard or Rosemary McDougall for more information.)
Standing with Haiti Amid Quake and Storm
https://umcmission.org/umcor/standing-with-Haiti-amid-quake-and-storm/
By Heather Hahn UM News August 16, 2021
done in the past.”
Many individual United Methodists also are
working with their longtime partners in the
Caribbean island nation to extend a helping
hand.
Still, a variety of factors complicates the
church’s response to the second catastroph-
ic earthquake to ravage the impoverished
nation in 11 years. Those factors include the
ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and a severe
economic downturn made worse by gang vio-
lence and political unrest. Just a little over
A bulldozer works at the site of the collapsed Hotel Le Man- a month ago, the country’s President Jovenel
guier in Les Cayes, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, two days Moise was assassinated.
after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern So far, the death toll has climbed to some
part of the country. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
1,300 people following the 7.2-magnitude
__________________________________ quake that struck Haiti’s southwest peninsu-
• United Methodists are working with long- la Aug. 14. The temblor — with an epicenter
time partners in Haiti to respond after a 7.2-mag- about 78 miles (125 kilometers) west of cap-
nitude earthquake and as a major storm approach- ital Port-au-Prince — triggered landslides,
es. collapsed buildings and sent aftershocks
• Church members helped rebuilding efforts across the country.
after the 2010 earthquake that claimed the lives
of hundreds of thousands people, including United
Methodist workers.
• The United Methodist Committee on Relief
is collecting donations and working on next steps
to help the impoverished country, which also faces
political unrest, gang violence and COVID-19.
__________________________________
United Methodists are reaching out with their
prayers and pocketbooks as Haiti faces a devas-
tating earthquake and encroaching major storm.
The United Methodist Committee on Relief is A view of a collapsed building following an earthquake,
collecting financial donations through its Interna- in Les Cayes, Haiti, in this still image taken from a video
tional Disaster Response and Recovery Advance obtained by Reuters on August 14, 2021. REUTERS TV
fund. The relief arm, part of the United Methodist via REUTERS
Board of Global Ministries, also is in conversation
David Draeger, mission volunteer coordinator
with partners on the ground about next steps.
for the Methodist Church in Haiti, told the
“In the aftermath of Saturday’s earthquake, we
Michigan Conference that church buildings in
grieve alongside the people of Haiti as the stag-
the region have sustained damage and many
gering loss of life and level of devastation becomes
Haitians still do not know the fate of loved
clear,” said Roland Fernandes, the top executive of
ones.
Global Ministries and UMCOR.
Read more at:
“UMCOR stands firm in its commitment to allevi-
https://umcmission.org/umcor/standing-with-
ate suffering and is working with partners on how
haiti-amid-quake-and-storm/
to best meet basic and immediate needs as it has
FAITH BY THE NUMBERS January 1 – August 22, 2021
Record of our Tithes and Offerings
Received for budget $ 152,694.98
Needed for budget $ 169,546.95
Amount over/under $ - 13,240.04
Second Mile Giving
Birthday $3,747.00 Axis $ 100.00
T4-12 $ 50.00 Noisy Offering $ 340.22
Nicaragua Church $1,200.00 Blankets $ 945.00
UMCOR $1,240.00 Daily Bread $2,460.00
Nicaragua Backpack $1,755.00 Local Backpack $2,200.00
Solar Oven $ 250.00 Holiday Baskets $ 100.00
Miracle Offering $1,070.00 Nicaragua Food $ 530.00
1 Zach Alvira, Ken Aune, Jacob Greer, Payson Lueck
Marty & Tammy Toepke-Floyd*
7 Damion & Brandee Hoyt* September 13, 7:00pm
10 Maddison Hoyt Committee’s will meet at thier
Chad & Kaycee Roemmich* own discretion.
11 Brinley Bear
12 Brittany Heim September 13, 8:00pm
13 Elaine Hanson, Shirley Meidinger Administrative Board
14 Karen Lueck, Taylor Schmeichel, Reagan SortLand
16 Madalina Ottmar September 8, 7:00pm
17 Gracelyn Pfaff Education Mtg.
18 Addy Romans
19 Larry Baumbach
21 Ted Schlepuetz
22 Belle Greer, Nancylou Jensen, Kali Roemmich
23 Lenora Legler
24 Irene Walch, Steve & Susan Roemmich*
Nathan & Amber Lueck*
26 Brycen Baumbach, Doris Cleary
If we have missed your Birthday or
Anniversary please let the church
office know.
SOLID FOUNDATION GROWING CENTER UPDATE
Welcome Fall! We here at Solid Foundations Growing Center are so
thankful to reflect back on an absolutely wonderful summer! Packed
full of outside time, park play, swimming, popsicles and just overall
fellowship--we are always grateful for the blessings summer has to
offer! Summertime is somewhat busier than our school year--as we
are happy to serve our "big kids" that normally attend
elementary school. Unbelievably, we provided care for 32 children
over the course of this summer! Wow! Multiply that by the number of family members per those
31 kids and we've got a very large group that we're serving. We're honored to be able to show
the love of our Savior on a daily basis to these families! What a ministry we are so glad to pro-
vide for our community. I always receive comments when out and about in the community, about
how many fun activities our kids get to participate in and we're so honored to be able to do so.
Also, in partnership with the fun "summer outdoor activities" we also provide our faith based cur-
riculum, in which we sing, pray and learn a new bible verse monthly (with sign language) and let me
tell you--it's so powerful to hear these children recite God's word with such excitement! I often
post video and picture updates on our Childcare Ministry's social media page--feel free to search
for Solid Foundations Growing Center on Facebook if you haven't already done so.
In coordination with the families we serve, we also are grateful to minister to many staff mem-
bers here at SFGC! One of my greatest joys as director, is that our "previous workers" that
head off to college after working for us, so often want to come back and work over the course of
the summer! They love and miss the children here at our childcare ministry and it's so
awesome to welcome our crew back to fellowship over the summer. We were blessed to have
over 12 staff over the course of this summer's program. So great!
Now, as we welcome the next season, it is with much gratitude that we welcome a new family
to our childcare, that attends and is active at First Church! We now have TWO families at our
center that attend First Church and we were so pleased when one of our SFGC families chose to
baptize at First Church! One of the goals of our ministry is to help serve the congregation of our
church body, while also encouraging our SFGC enrolled families to attend First Church. What a
blessing to report that we're able to say we see both goals happening within the course of this
childcare ministry. Please feel free to stop by our center (Covid regulations do apply) and visit
anytime, we're so happy to have First Church members volunteer read, or simply stop by to see
artwork or hear our monthly verse. God is moving here, and God is good! We are truly blessed
to provide this outreach to our Jamestown and surrounding community. We thank-you for your
continued support and prayer! Fall blessings to all,
In Him,
Lindsey Voeltz, SFGC Director
2021
SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT
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9:30am Friend-
9:30am Worship ship Circle 1:30 UMW Mtg.
1:00pm Wesley
Circle
7:00pm Educ.
Com. Mtg.
OFFICE 7:30pm Sanct.
CLOSED Choir
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7:00pm Commit- Fall Festival Newsletter
9:30am Worship tees meet at thi- 5:30pm - 7:30pm Deadline
er own discretion
8:00pm Admin.
Meeting
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Wisdom on
9:30am Worship Wednesday’s
5:30pm Meal
10:30am 6:15pm Story
Values
Workshop
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Wisdom on
9:30am Worship 2:00pm Rebecca Wednesday’s
Circle 5:30pm Meal
6:15pm Story
7:00pm Worship
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