***WELCOME 2016, let it be
a wonderful year for us all.***
Lenten Books
Oh,
my goodness I had not looked at the 2016 calendar until the middle of December
and noticed that Easter comes early this year.
Ash Wednesday is February 10th, so that means, I will need the Lenten
book ready to be put in book form on Monday, February 1st.
So
I need your help sooner than later, I
need Lenten devotions!! If you could submit one or two devotions to me by
January 25th, You can either bring it to the office, or email it to me at giaumc@netins.net either way would be
wonderful. Also make a note on your calendar, for Monday, February 1st @ 10:00 am the day we put the books together. Which requires stapling, folding and placing the books into the envelopes.
2016—Church Directory Schedule an appointment ASAP, call the church office at 712-778-4178 or sign up at church on Sunday, January 10, January 17, January 24 or January 31st.
Church Photography Dates will be:
Thursday –Friday— Saturday:February 11– 12—13, 2016
Weekday Photo Hours*: 2:00 - 9:00 PM
Saturday Photo Hours*: 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
There is no sitting fee and no purchase required –just for
participating, you will receive a complimentary 8”x 10” portrait and a free
pictorial church directory!
Help us make this directory complete!
It won’t be the same without you! We want to make this a complete
representation of our church family –PLEASE be a part of it!Check out the colored insert in newsletter.
If you can’t make any of the photo sessions, would you please submit a photo we could use.
*Allow 35 min to
complete your session
Just
for participating, you will receive a
Life Line
Screening, a leading provider of community-based preventive
health screenings, will host their affordable, non-invasive andhealth
screenings on 1/15/2016 at the Church.
Register for a Wellness Package which
includes 4 vascular tests and osteoporosis screening from $149 ($139 with our
member discount). All five screenings
take 60-90 minutes to complete. In
order to register for this event and to receive a $10 discount off any package
priced above $129, please call 1-888-653-6441.
We
did it, we became a “Barnabas Church” and raised the $8,500.00 we pledged to do
in 2013. -----Way to go Griswold umc
DWIGHT WRITES
Faith always begins as
a gift from God. As the years have gone
by I have come to realize that there are two components to how the life of
faith gets expressed: -1- private; -2- corporate. There are many different ways
for these to be lived out. However for a
life of faith to grow, both must be addressed/ lived out/ acted out.It seems clear to me is that for faith to flourish it takes these two components. Each one of us must have some kind of private & personal connection with God - The Holy One ~ some kind of ‘practice’ that we do, intentionally, on purpose, with some some kind of regularity. And, in order for faith to grow and flourish, that faith needs some kind of regular involvement in a community of faith. The most common way this communal aspect of faith gets lived out is to regularly attend Sunday morning worship.
As we begin a new year I think that it is only appropriate for each one of us to think about both the private side of our faith and the communal side of our faith. We all have come to realize that we will only grow into those things that are important to us and that we are attentive to - those things that we pay attention to and practice. I ask ‘What things are we being attentive to?”
Might you “Breathe in Grace” and “Breathe out Peace”. ~ Pastor Dwight
I offer the following nesting for your
reflection and enjoyment.
I invite you to read it slowly, making
the words your own, letting them speak to you:Pause to breathe in grace.
Pause
. . . To breathe in grace
fills
the soul with the gift of life.
Pause
to breathe in grace. . . .
To breathe in gracefills the soul. With the gift of life,
Mystery is made known in so many wondrous ways.
fills the soul with the gift of life.
With the gift of life
Mystery is made known. In so many wondrous ways,
grace swirls, dances and rests within me.
Pause
to breathe in grace. . . . .
To breath in gracefills the soul. With the gift of life
Mystery is made known in so many wondrous ways.
In so many
wondrous ways
grace
swirls, dances and rests within me.Grace swirls, dances and rests within me
in so many marvelous ways
beyond what words can say.
grace ~
exhaling peace.
January Responsibility list
Greeters 3 Amy Burnside & Kayli
10 James & Kay Byers
17. Danny & Kim Kirchhoff
24. Kevin & Rebecca Drake & family
31. Alice Leighton & Doris Houser
Ushers
3. Bob & Bonnie Redding
10. Logan & Britany Weirich
Matt & Sandra Leighton
17. Jason & Jennifer Reynolds & family
24. Middle & Sr. High Class
31. Troy & Deb Sederburg,
Milton & Laura Amos
Liturgist
3. Shirley Adams
10. Bette Tye
17. Marcia Anderson
24. David Adams
31. Gail Maxwell
Communion
3. Janet Weaver
