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Shelbyville United Methodist Church
938 124th Ave.
Shelbyville, MI 49344
Worship: 11:00am
Children’s Worship: 11:05am
Pastor Sean Kidd
616-401-8576
seankidd1970@gmail.com
Web site: www.martinumc.org
M A R T I N A N D S H E L B Y V I L L E U M C ’ S
Joyful Notes January 2017
Years ago I traveled to Deerfield Village with one of my children on a
school field trip. It was truly like a trip back in time. While there were a lot of
amazing things to do and see that day, one image remains indelibly burned into
my mind’s eye: It was coming upon an outdoor family meal time, with several
generations gather together on the front porch of the 19th
century home. Now of
course this was all staged. The “family members” weren’t really related;
probably just some students from the University of Michigan along with some
local middle and high school kids. But they were dressed in the garb of the era, and they were cooking real
soup over a real open fire in a real cast-iron kettle. They had all taken a break from their labors and were eating
on the front porch. It was truly a picture of authentic community and family and the nostalgia of yesteryear.
While some things can only be appreciated because of their “oldness,” some things just are better new.
Underwear for example. A car for another. There is nothing like the smell of the interior of a new car. They
even sell air fresheners with that “new car smell” scent. I’m also a sucker for a new book. There’s something
about the way the spine yields the first time that you open a stiff book and the smell of the ink on the pages.
Some things are just better new.
We are just about to enter a new year. There’s something very special about this time of year for me. I
have always liked new challenges, new opportunities, clean slates. Like most, I make goals or “resolutions,” to
stop doing things which I should’ve stopped doing years ago and to start doing the things that I have wanted to
do for a long time. While I know that I have this opportunity each and every day, there is just something special
about the new year.
The Bible says that if anyone is in Christ, a “new creation” has come. The old is gone and the new is
here. That’s what Jesus does, or at least that’s what he has the power to do. When we have an authentic
encounter with Jesus Christ we are supposed to come away changed. We are renewed. We are different. We are
supposed to reflect his love and care to the world. The unfortunate part is that far too many Christians are not
renewed at all. They’re just a different kind of worldly. They are earthly with a Christian veneer. This is not the
authentic community that Christ longs for in his church.
I look forward to 2017 with a great sense of anticipation of what God is going to do in the midst of the
communities of faith that I serve. 2016 was a year of both opportunities as well as challenges. But I believe that
2017 will be a year of foundational building and growth. That can only happen however, with those which have
truly been transformed by the nature and power of Jesus Christ. We are not looking for the same old same old
this year. We are looking for the ways of yesterday to fade and the new to be ushered in. We are looking for
great things. The good news? We serve a God who specializes great things. Happy New Year, Pastor Sean
Martin United Methodist Church 969 E. Allegan St. PO Box 154
Martin, MI 49070
Worship: 9:30a.m
Children’s Worship: 9:45am
The Rock @ 5 O’Clock First, third and fifth Saturday
rockat5mumc@gmail.com
Pat Hoekstra, Office Manager
martinumc@sbcglobal.net
Office Hours: Tuesday – Friday
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, the new creation
has come: The old has
gone, the new is here!
SHELBYVILLE CHURCH NEWS PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS THIS WEEK:
CANCER: Dustan Colyer Wayne Mills Paula Oglesbee Dana Hall
Mike Boysen Dr. Veenstra Sandy (VandenBerg) Johnson Pearce Ray
Jack Hover Roger Vink Norma Boyle Nancy Nicolai
MEDICAL ISSUES: Sarah Sabin Curt Hall Matt Moore Laurie Ann Butler
Mark Padilla Matt Johnson Jaydon Allofe Dave Nickels Jeff Burkey Lacy Logiwitz
Jeff Oldebeken Isaiah Jerry Mauchmar Ricardo Bazon Helene Todd Dave Heyderberl
Sally Dam Cindy Keyzer Kathy Vist Bob Weick Roy Anderson Jerry Curry
LIFE ISSUES: Maggie Stoken and family
DATES TO REMEMBER:
1. Administrative Council Meeting
January 4, 6pm 2. UNITED METHODIST WOMEN
Wednesday, January 11, 10am
All women of the church invited PLEASE REMEMBER OUR HOMEBOUND WITH CARDS AND CALLS: Doris Hawkey 829 116th Ave. Martin, MI 49070 Dorothy Warner Stanford Lodge 409 Naomi St Plainwell, MI 49080 Sharan Leverich 1960 10th St. Martin, MI 49070
MARTIN CHURCH NEWS PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYER: CANCER: Marla Ferguson Rainer Zacher Dana Hall Maura Martin Ragan Meeter Ed Simpson
Paula Oglesbee Betsy Losey Sandy Conklin Torey Whitten Dana Walters Jennifer Enos Julie Curry
Missy Daniel John Gray Brian Augustine Charles Brock Dustan Colyer Nancy Nicolai Laura Terry
HEALTH ISSUES Else Zacher Karen DeVries Don Pyle Jalissa Stratton Merry Ondersma Eddie Oetman
Darin Moulder Cindy Keyzer Carrie Green Tim Hoffman Rob VanderHoff Margo Roberts Austin Beilby
Jennifer Bellgraph Presley Talsma Sandy Maynaird Josh Hildebrand Morgan Foreman George Cuba
Jeff Mentzer
JANUARY ACOLYTE
SCHEDULE
Jan 1 – Jacob Wheeler
Jan 8 – Carson Cuba
Jan 15 – Maggie Stoken
Jan 22 – Danelle Wheeler
Jan 29 – Owen Cuba
THE CHURCH OFFICE
WILL BE CLOSED ON
JANUARY 1 AND 2.
MISSION STATEMENT We, who are the Martin United
Methodist Church, are called to be
disciples of Jesus Christ, committed
to:
*SHARING God's Love
*TEACHING the Bible and spiritual
life
*INVITING the community to grow
and walk with us in Christian faith
*SERVING the needs of our
neighbors
JANUARY NURSERY
SCHEDULE Jan 1 – Danelle Wheeler & Allison Collins
Jan 8 – Kristin Ash & Javier Guevara
Jan 15 – Mary Jo Ash & Amanda Northrup
Jan 22 – Diane & Matthew Northrup
Jan 29 – Ronda Kelly & Kayleigh Collins
Monthly Loose
Change Offering January 8
Designated for the
food pantry
Shelbyville choir practice Wednesday, @ 7:00pm
OASIS YOUTH GROUP
will not meet in January
If you would like a
name added or removed
from the prayer list,
please notify the
Church Office.
Saturdays, @ 5pm
Worship, fellowship
& dinner!
Looking for ways to be
involved? Contact Mary
Baumgart or Judy Kline.
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS THIS WEEK: CANCER: Dustan Colyer, Dickie Decker, Missy Daniel, Angie Tucker, Ragan Meeter, Wayne Mills, James Connor,
Mark Wheeler, Paula Oglesbee, Gordon Willons, Letty Sherry, Laura Terry
HEALTH ISSUES: Judy Palmer, Doris Hawkey, Paige Reigler, Andrew Troyer, Helen Lane, Saundra Johnson,
Lynn Sadowski, Brandy Ferguson, Maria Patrick, Vickie Blanchard, Melissa Blauvelt, Merry Ondersma, Haley Jenkins,
Alice Pennigton, Anita Edwards, Morgan Foreman, Bob Weick, Jerry Curry
DEATH: The family of Tracey (Fitzpatrick) Drake
LIFE ISSUES: Maggie Stoken and family, Randy Bennett, TN fires
JANUARY CHURCH ACTIVITES www.martinumc.org
for more details
Oasis Youth Group will resume in February
.
NEWSLETTER DEADLINE Friday, January 20
January’s newsletter available on the website by January 27
Martin UMC Community Breakfast Third Saturday every month!
January 21 8am to 10:30am
Proceeds to Food Pantry
THIRSTY THURSDAY Will resume meeting on
January 26
PEACE DRUM CIRCLE 3rd Saturday of each month
January 21, 3pm Martin UMC Nursery
EMMAUS GATHERING may resume in March
HUMAN RELATIONS DAY
JANUARY 15, 2017 Turn on the news or drive around the outskirts of your town and you will find what Jesus called “the least of these.” Those living in the margins of society, struggling to survive. People like: An immigrant teenager in Texas’ poorest county, being recruited by a local gang A father struggling for sobriety in Little Rock, Arkansas An Oklahoma woman recently released from incarceration looking for work. Over and over Jesus served people like this, embracing them. And that’s what we want to model as the people of The United Methodist Church. To continue the ministry of Jesus we established Human Relations Day as a Special Sunday that calls all of our churches to participate in helping all God’s children to realize their potential.
Will You Support the Ministry of Christ Among Those on the Margins? Will you continue to support Human Relations Day? Will you continue nurturing at-risk youth, strengthening communities’ self-improvement efforts and advocating for the oppressed? Rev. I Maliik Safir, whose church works with those gripped by addiction in Little Rock, sums up the work of Human Relations Day by recalling Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan: “to meet the poor, the disadvantaged and the underserved at the places where others have robbed them and help them to recover from the wounds of social inequality.”
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