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The Messenger
Pittsfield United Methodist Church Newsletter
The Reverend Tom Wilber, Pastor
(217) 285-9613
Fax: (217)285-5183
office@pittsfieldumc.org pastor@pittsfieldumc.org www.pittsfieldumc.org
Serving our Lord since 1839
May 2015
Dear Friends,
We are moving forward in our project with Chaddock School to provide telehealth and
educational support services to residents in several counties in west central Illinois.
The project is funded by a $194,223 USDA Telehealth/Distance Learning grant that
Chaddock has received.
Eight sites will be participating as sites for Chaddock's conferencing programs:
Camp Point United Methodist Church, Beardstown United Methodist Church, First United Methodist Church of Rushville, First United Methodist Church of Carthage, Living
Faith United Methodist Church in Bowen, Pittsfield United Methodist Church, Brown
County Elementary/Junior High School in Mt Sterling and Brown County High School in
Mt. Sterling.
Social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists in the Quincy area (and from around the
country) will provide live telecommunication feedback both audio and visual to patients
at one of the sites.
The equipment includes a TV screen, HD camera, audio equipment and special software. The software is secure and HIPAA compliant. The individual counseling session
will be secure and confidential.
Someone from our church staff or a volunteer will welcome the families and help them
connect with Chaddock and when they are finished turn everything off and secure it.
This person will not be in the room while the consultation is occurring.
Grace and Peace,
Tom Wilber
adapted from: wgem.com/story/27472203/2014/11/24/local-school-received-grant-to-help-those-in-rural-areas, 1/24/2014 retrieved 4/20/2015.
Your Golden Cross Ministries
Share God’s Love and Healing
Illinois Great Rivers Conference of The United Methodist Church
God works through your prayers and support in acts of mercy
to bless the lives of individuals of all ages and at all stages of
life.
 More than 30,000 individuals are served each year
 19,000 hours are given by more than 2,000 volunteers
 More than $10,000,000 of benevolent care is given by these
ministries
Older Adult Ministries
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Evenglow Lodge - Pontiac
Sunset Home - Quincy
The United Methodist Village - Lawrenceville
Wesley Village - Macomb
Hospital Pastoral Care
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Alton Memorial Hospital - Alton
Pastoral Care Methodist Medical Center - Peoria
Children & Family Ministries
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Chaddock - Quincy
Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House - E. St. Louis
The Baby Fold - Normal
United Methodist Children ’ s Home - Mt. Vernon
With your gifts God works through these agencies to give hope and
provide compassionate care that is “exceedingly, abundantly,
beyond all that we can imagine or think.” Ephesians 3:20
GOLDEN CROSS OFFERING —- MAY 17, 2015
Do you do online shopping? Did you know that you can shop online and give to the
church at the same time? All you have to do is r egister with UMCMar ket
www.umcmarket.org, designate our church “Pittsfield” as your organization. There
are several “Pittsfields” so make sure the address matches ours. The site will guide
you through the simple registration process.
You then, have two options:
1. Download the Browser App and you will be able to shop directly from the store’s site without having to go
to UMCMarket first.
2. Or, from UMCMarket click on the store you want to shop at and you will be taken to that store’s website.
You log in like you normally would, make your purchase, and checkout. A percentage of what you spend
will be donated to our church. If you leave the store’s site before making your purchase be sure and go
back in through UMCMarket.
The church will receive your donation anonymously. A check will be mailed
to the church when total donations reach $100 or more. Think how much our
members spend on line. Imagine how much could be donated to our church!
If you have question feel free to ask me.
HVAC Replacement Update
Receipts & Expenses to Date: April 20, 2015
Ed House Trust Advance $25,000.00
Melvina House Trust
$66,055.90
Congregation 2014
Congregation 2015
$63,440.00
$3,685.00
Total Receipts To Date
$158,180.90
Peters
Carpenters
Floor Repair
Material (carpenter)
$184,900.00
$4,992.50
$1,148.50
$1,159.13
Total Expenses to Date $192,200.13
We have paid our final bill from Peters Heating & Air Conditioning for installation of our new heating and
cooling system. We need to raise $34,019 plus the cost of the partitions around the furnaces in the lower
level, ceiling and wall repair, and incidentals. We do not have an estimate of these remaining cost. We had
to draw on our line of credit to pay Peter’s final bill.
Thank you for your generous contributions to this project. If you would like to make a contribution to the
Heating and Cooling System, mark your check “HVAC.”
Tom Wilber
Chaddock Three Year Pledge to new school project: $15,000
Paid in 2014
$5,391
Paid in 2015
1,284
(4/20)
5th Sunday Mission Offering —- May 31
(will go towards our pledge to
)
Mark Your Check “Chaddock School”
(Chaddock will be breaking ground on their new school May 3)
May 31, 2015
Rev. Doug Rorex, our District
Superintendent, will be
visiting us on Sunday, May
31. Rev. Rorex will be
preaching on Luke 24:13-35,
“The Walk to Emmaus.” He
will be using a first person retelling of the Emmaus
story.
Explore our summer camps!
All the camps also include opportunities to grow
closer to God, Check out the brochure for all of our
camping opportunities. Our Church Camps change
lives!
Our church will pay a portion of the cost of attending one of our camps.
www.igrc.org/camping
SAVE THE DATES November 3, 4, 5, 2015
FOR A NEW PICTORIAL DIRECTORY
We will have Life Touch Photography (not who we had last time)
photograph a new directory for us on Tues Nov 3, Wed Nov 4 and
Thurs Nov 5, 2015. There is no cost to be photographed and you
get an 8x10 photo free. You have the option to purchase pictures for
yourself and others. We will have the pictures back before Christmas. I
will take pictures of anyone who can not be here those dates so we can
include you in the directory. The directory is used often and we have had
many changes since our last directory. Please consider having your
picture taken. There is no obligation to buy. Sign up will begin in October.
Edwina
Mission Trip
The mission team and youth group are planning a mission trip this summer, August 3rd, 4th and
5th. We will be working with the youth at Lessie Bates Community Center in East St. Louis and
staying at St. Matthews UMC in Belleville. Let Molly or Sue Grigsby know if you are interested in
participating.
The mission team is in the beginning stages of planning to provide a free meal to low income
Pike County citizens on the third Saturday of each month. If you would be interested in being a
part of this ministry, contact Sue Grigsby.
During May and June, the mission team will be collecting bras for a women's health project in
Peru. If you have new or "gently-used" bras you would like to donate, you may bring them to the
church.
Thank you for supporting our projects!
No Fuss Book Club
The No Fuss Book Club met Monday, April 20, 2015. A review of the book “Finding God
in a Bag of Groceries” by Laura Lapins Willis was given by Rita Burbridge. It is a book about
parallel journeys-of feeding the poor and the author’s exploring her own yearning for God-that
frame the words of this book. In feeding the hungry Laura saw that poverty can be an absence
of economic prosperity but also a spiritual emptiness. She saw her own poverty: a poverty of
faith, poverty of compassion, poverty of openness. She found God in unexpected moments and
in the most unlikely places, even in a bag of groceries. It is an insightful book about that same
poverty that is found in all too many of us and all to many communities in our nation.
The May meeting of the No Fuss Book Club will be held on Monday, May 18th at
1:30p.m. Please join us.
May Birthdays and
Anniversaries
01-Phil Niebur, Kelli DeSpain, Robin Riley,
Melanie Riess
Jesse & Madelyn Pattison
02-Bob Hoos, Monty Martin, Walker Filbert
Bonnie Janes
03-James Geiselman, Emily Hoover,
Hannah Hayden
04-Mary Ruth Kendall,
Darwin & Lisa Feenstra
Jim & Jocelyn Denison
05Karl & Nancy Geisendorfer
06- Tom Smith, Stephanie Reinhardt,
Bob Ideus
07– Lisa Rush
08-Susan Dodd, Chris Schlieper
10- Sophie Gresham
11-Lori Clarkson,
Nevin & Jessica Grigsby
12Peter & Anita Wright
13– Tara Bradshaw
14-Steve Dean, Matthew Greger
Wayne & Emily Forgy
15-Edwina Wilber, Don Scranton
16-Mary Lea Prentice, Jonas Rumple
Greg & Lila Kattelman,
Steve & Gina Rylander
17-Roger Baughman
18Chuck & Carol Seybold
19– Jess Hayden, Rita Burbridge, Zoe Wright
20- Kate Lagemann,
22- Darwin Feenstra, Tyler DeSpain,
Kennedy Geiselman,
Nathan & Kyndle Christianer
23-Nolan Paxton
24-Jeff Baughman, Mary Baker
Jamie & Brandi Pennock
26-Tom Edwards
28-Emily Lerch, Darlene Harter, Mike Dehart,
Greg & Rachel Smith
29-Eric Edmonds, Ian Paxton
30-Linda Carnes, Lynn Ator,
Nancy Jane Smith, Emily Kvorka,
Ellen Geiselman, Anna Geiselman,
Josh Smith
Gary & Debby Wilder
31-Cory Martin, Kristen Constable
United Methodist Women
U.M.W. trip to Jensen Woods
Tuesday, May 5.
We will leave from the church parking lot at
9:00 a.m. We will eat at DOT Foods
Restaurant in Mt. Sterling.
Sunday, May 10
U.M.W. Sunday / Mother’s Day
Monday, May 18
1:30p—No Fuss Book Club in the Media
Center on the lower level.
Tuesday, May 19
9:00 a.m.—U.M.W. Board Meeting in the
Hillerbranner Room.
Tuesday, May 26
9:00 a.m.—Madonna Fellowship in Orr
Hall.
May 3
COMMUNION DELIVERY
Rich & Elaine Smith
Carol McCartney and Pam Wood
June 7
Bob & Patty Capps
Les & Connie Allen
Thank you!
Memorial Committee
Monday, May 11 at 5:30p.m. in the
Hillerbranner Room.
Mission Committee
Tuesday, May 12 at 5:30p.m. in the
Hillerbranner Room.
Board of Trustees
Tuesday, May 26 7:00 p.m.
Hillerbranner Room.
Administrative Council
Monday, June 1 at 7:00p.m. in the
Hillerbranner Room.
Graduate
Recognition Sunday
May 31
Do you have a graduate this
year? We are interested in
grade level of 8th grade, high
school and college. Please let
us know school, degree, and
what they will be doing. Please
bring a baby picture and a current picture of
your graduate to the church office by MAY 22 to
be used in the Power Point presentation. Digital
prints may also be given to us or sent to our email address. You will receive your pictures
back!
We need your help to make our
Graduate Recognition Sunday very
“Special”!!!
April 5
Total Worship Attendance
235
Sunday School
18
Current Expense Fund
$ 5,316.10
Building Fund
$
379.00
HVAC
$
300.00
April 12
Total Worship Attendance
152
Sunday School
23
Current Expense Fund
$ 4,664.25
Building Fund
$
137.00
HVAC
$
620.00
April 19
Total Worship Attendance
108
Sunday School
16
Current Expense Fund
$ 3,416.29
Building Fund
$
72.00
HVAC
$
120.00
April 26
Total Worship Attendance
131
Sunday School
34
Current Expense Fund
$ 2,705.10
Building Fund
$
37.00
HVAC
$
200.00
ATTENTION:
Newsletter Articles
The deadline for articles for the June
newsletter will be May 20th. Please mail or stop
by the church office with
your articles or
e-mail them to us at:
office@pittsfieldumc.org
Thank you Notes
Thank you Methodist Church Youth
Group, for the pretty sun catcher you
made and sent to me. The sun
catcher made my day a little brighter.
Thank you for thinking of me.
Agnes Peile
Dear Molly, Amy and Youth Group,
Thank you so much for the amazing
Sun—Catcher ! We were having a bad
day and it really brightened our spirits. It
was so kind of you to think of us. Thanks
for being such super young people. Love,
Steve and Gina
To the individual or group who sent me
the sun catcher -- thank you.
As I look at the colorful cross hanging in
my window I think my Grandson Ty is saying, "I'm O.K. in Heaven, Grandma."
Mary Lea Prentice
United Methodist Church,
Thank you so much for the use of Orr Hall
and the kitchen for the 1st Annual Ty
Rylander Redneck Run. We appreciate
your kindness and generosity. Ty loved
and was proud of his Methodist heritage.
Thanks again, Steve, Gina and Family
Thank you to everyone who brought items
for our White Elephant Sale on April 11.
We had a wonderful assortment of
donated items. Thanks to everyone who
helped in any way; all week, the day of the
sale, and clean up. Thank you to everyone who purchased items. We had a
very successful sale, we made $2,371.50
towards the support of our radio ministry.
Many thanks to all the terrific volunteers
who helped, as well
as Debbie Renoud.
Keep in mind our
sale next year —
and start collecting
as you do your
spring cleaning.
Dear UMC Youth Group:
Thank you for your concern
and thoughtfulness. I am
enjoying the Sun Catcher.
Thanks again! Bob Adams
Mark Your Calendar
Vacation Bible School
Sun., July 12— Thurs., July 16
We need volunteers to help with
Vacation Bible school from 5:30-8pm.
For more information call
Molly Caughlan 217-883-2270.
Chancel Choir
Chancel Choir will practice Wednesday
evenings on May 13 and May 27 at 6:30
p.m. in the sanctuary. They also practice
at 8:30 each Sunday morning.
The choir will sing May 3, 17 and 31 during the 9a.m. Worship Service.
They welcome new members so if you
have a desire to sing please come join in.
Bike & Build
Once again, we will be hosting the Bike
and Build on their ride across country to
promote affordable housing. This year
they will be spending the night of
Thursday, July 9th. Check your calendars
to see if you would be interesting in being
a host. It is a wonderful evening visiting
with these young people, hearing their
stories and they do truly appreciate
sleeping in a bed.
The Witness Team
PRAYER CONCERNS
Anne, Barbara Gay, Bob Adams, Carrie
Prentice, Carol, Carroll Cox, Chad, Cindy
Prentice, David Vortman, Don Hass, Don &
Jayson, Donna, Dorothy Dierker, Doug, Dustin
Howes, Eloise Claus, Geneva Wendler, Glenna
Ferguson, Harry Wright, Jeremy Tate, Jim, John
W., Jolson, Katie, Kenny, Michelle, Nancy
Geisendorfer, Olive Fisher, Pat Edmonds, Patty,
Penny, Rachel, Rebekah, Roger & Moira, Sami,
Shana Anderson, Terry Robertson,
Tom Barger, Toyia Zumwalt,
Ty Sharify, and Wayne Dierker,
FOR ALL THOSE SERVING OUR
COUNTRY.
SYMPATHIES
Sympathies are extended to the family of Martha
Graves, Joyce Miller-Boren, Wayne Riley,
Wendy Craven Hartlieb, and John McDaniel.
Do You Need
Prayer For
Yourself or
a loved one?
LAY LEADER SCHEDULE
9:00 O’clock Worship Service
May 3
Acolytes: Noah & Emma Gay
Greeter: Joan Baughman
Lay Reader: Gregg Carnes
Ushers: Roger Baughman and Jack Fry
May 10
Acolytes: Jacob Bradshaw and Nicholas Niebur
Greeter: Barb Reinhardt
Lay Reader: Noue Filbert
Ushers: Susan Cox, Debbie Wood,
Mary Lea Prentice and Janet Boren
May 17
Acolytes: Payton & Madison Frieden
Greeter: Hallie Fry
Lay Reader: Tara Bradshaw
Ushers: Joe Dierker and Jack Fry
May 24
Acolytes: Alexis & Alyvia Groom
Greeter: Patty Capps
Lay Reader: Jacob Bradshaw
Ushers: Bob Capps and Phil Rhoades
May 31
Acolytes: Jayce & Jayden Stendback
Greeter: Monica Geiselman
Lay Reader: Alicia Dierker
Ushers: Norris Richards and Jack Fry
11:00 O’clock Worship Service
May 3
Acolytes: Alexis Ator and Sophie Gresham
Greeter: Anissa Miller
Lay Reader: Walker Filbert
May 10
Acolytes: Sherry Brennecke
Greeter: Sandy Henry
Lay Reader: Jamie Kelley
Call or e-mail Prayer request to the church
so they may be added to the prayer list.
Men’s Prayer Group
Wednesday mornings at 7:00
in Orr Hall.
May 17
Acolytes:
Greeter: Karen Reese
Lay Reader: Cindy Prentice
May 24
Acolytes:
Greeter: Marjorie Lazenby
Lay Reader: Joey Feenstra
May 31
Acolytes: Brock Miller
Greeter: Mary Ruth Kendall
Lay Reader: Martin Filbert
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