A Note from the Pastor By Rev. Dr. Jame Hahs

1 Corinthians 13:1-7

Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut. Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first”, Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.

In Christ, Pastor Jame

Note: This was one of my daily devotions. If you would like to receive my "almost" daily devotions, email me at jamehahs@gmail.com. The devotions are also on the church’s website

————————————————————————— The Havana Revival is Sept. 22-24. Rev. Janice Griffith, the Assistant to the Bishop, will be our preacher. Rev. Griffith has served our conference as Pastor, District Superintendent and Assistant to the Bishop. Rev. Grif-fith and Bishop Beard work tirelessly to shepherd our conference. Rev. Griffith will bring to us her experience of seeing the church from the per-spective of the Bishop’s Office. She will preach on Sunday morning at Oakford and Havana. Our revival will continue Sunday evening, Mon-day evening, and Tuesday evening at 7:00. Our choir will bring special

music on Sunday evening. Jmez Kidz will lead our service on Monday. ————————————————————————-

The Summer Lunch program provided 2474 meals this summer. We provided sandwich-es Monday thru Friday at our church for the children who can come here. Two days a week, we took sandwiches to the Housing Project and Blue Sky as well as Bath and Kil-bourne. We also distributed sack lunches for the children to eat on the days we are not there. At the Housing Center: 270 meals, Blue Sky: 362 meals, Kilbourne: 307 meals, Bath: 209 meals and at our church: 1,111 meals. We have developed a wonderful work-ing relationship with the Ridge Church. We have provided 22 cases of food, 10 loaves of bread, 6 cases of Cheezits, 420 sack lunches and 10 lbs of hamburgers. We will con-tinue to supplement their feeding ministry.

———————————————————————— We raised $1,014.68 in response to the appeal for Children at the Border. The General Board of Global Ministries and UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) sent out an appeal, supported by our bishop, to provide personal hygiene kits for children in transitional holding at the borders. We received an offering in church and then we placed buckets in the local businesses so that the community could join us. Hygiene kits in-clude: one hand towel, one washcloth, a comb, a fingernail clipper, soap, a toothbrush and bandages.

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Oktoberfest The weekend of Sept. 6-8 brings the return of the Havana Oktoberfest and UM Church’s Lemonade Shake-up stand. We will begin with lemon prep at 7:00pm on Thurs. the 5th. We will also set up the stand that afternoon/evening depending upon when help is available. If you can help with either of those prep nights, it would be appreciated. We will also need extra help to take down the tent on Sunday. As in past years the shifts run for two hours with a new set starting each hour so that they overlap. Don’t worry if you haven’t helped before—it is a lot of fun and there will be “veterans” there to help you. We will always take an extra pair of hands on any shift, but we will be extra busy after the parade on Friday (6-8pm) and at lunch and dinner times on Saturday. You can sign up in the church office, or by contacting Cathy Reavley (cell (309) 582-6102, haroldr@casscomm.com,or Facebook). The serving times are 5-10pm on Friday, 10am-10pm on Saturday, and noon-5pm on Sunday. The youth will be our primary workers on Sunday and this will be the first service activity of the year. Youth group is open to all students in 5th grade through senior year. We will be continuing to donate 10% of our profits plus donations to Water is Life, an organization that goes into areas with an unclean water supply and provides a personal water purification and filtration “straw” for each member of the community. The straws are a 10 inch long tube with a 1 inch diameter that filters out particulate matter, kills organisms with an iodine compound, and then improves the taste with a carbon filter. Individuals wear the straw on a lanyard and take it everywhere they go. It is capable of cleaning drinking water for that individual for a year while the water supply is treated or a new well is drilled. The most amazing thing may be that the straws are only $10 each. For just a ten dollar bill you can give someone safe drinking water for a year! Every year we have a lot of fun and do a lot of good at the same time. If you have any questions, please contact Cathy.

New Web Page Our new web page is now up and running. It is havanaumc.org. Weekly sermons, newsletters, devotions and other pertinent information is available. Please check it out. If you have trouble getting into it, please let the church office know. Thank you!

Happy 90th

Birthday

Jean

Blessman The family of Don and Jean Blessman invite you to join

them in celebrating Jean’s 90th birthday on Saturday, September 7th at the Riverview Estates, Havana from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served, no gifts please. Cards welcome to 111 W. Adams, Havana.

NEEDED We are in desperate need of youth clothing (sizes 16 and under) for the Annual Christmas giveaway. Good used or new clothing may be brought to the church any morning (Monday thru Thursday) from 8:00 to noon. Thank you!

Our youth group will resume weekly meetings beginning Sept. 11th. Confirmation lessons will be used. We begin at 5:00 p.m. with supper and conclude at 6:00 p.m.

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OAKFORD UNITED METHODIST Worship 8:30 a.m.

Sunday School 9:00-9:20 a.m. (pre-K) 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. (elem.)

Birthdays Sep 3 Liz Watkins Sep 4 Kyle Todd Sep 6 Keri Smith Sep 7 Erica Schirding Sep 9 Beth French Sep 9 Kelleigh DeMonbrun Sep 12 Donna Hahs Sep 13 Leann Atterberry Sep 14 Rylee Boensel Sep 15 Brianna Todd Sep 15 Sarah Stone Sep 17 Tanner Lynn Sep 17 Tucker Lynn Sep 17 Stephanie Kelley Sep 21 Barb Shanle Sep 21 Eli Cory Sep 24 Bruce Shanle Sep 24 Deann Shelabarger Sep 25 Roy DeMonbrun Sep 26 Melissa McCandless Sep 29 Jacob Glick Sep 30 Jim Brauer

Anniversaries 09/04/1970 Larry & Deann Shelabarger 09/04/2010 Ryan & Brianna Todd 09/06/1986 Jeff & Lori Lynn 09/08/1957 Larry & Donna Lynn 09/18/1982 Joe & Rhonda Sidwell 09/23/1989 Charlie & Amy Todd 09/24/1988 Brian & Dee Vaughn 09/25/2010 Ross & Jeni Horn 09/30/2000 Chris & Sarah Stone

Gary Bartel, Dottie Blair, Verna Blair, Lanora Boeker, Ruth Brauer, Kenny & Shirley Brown, Donnie Ca-ley, Clara June Claussen

(infant granddaughter of Howie Claussen), Harley Claussen, Lacy Devine, Ron Jackson, Susie Lounsberry, Todd Lynn, Christen McGinnes, Lottie Mudd, Kalynn Pherigo, Bob Potts, Laura Ruble, Marilyn Schaffer, Larry Shoemak-er, Ron Shoemaker, Scott Smith, Debbie Whitley, Brenda Wilkey In the Military: Brian Caulkins, Clay-ton Hurley, Trey Irwin, Megan Smith

Annual Ice

Cream Social

Saturday, September 7th

4:00—7:00

Hand-cranked ice cream, sandwiches, desserts & drinks. Served in the air-conditioned handicap accessible church dining room. Carry-out is also available. Hope to see you there!!

On August 20th, we re-dedicated our historic Lighted Cross.

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“Helping men to grow in Christ, so others can know Christ”

The United Methodist Men meet the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month (9/11 and 9/25) at 5:00 p.m. for a meal and fellowship. All men in the church and their friends are invited to join them.

Community Food Pantry Item of the Month:

Canned Peaches, Pears and Fruit Cocktail

Our community Food Pantry (located in the basement of Central Christian Church) relies on your donations to help the people in our community. This month we are es-pecially asking for canned fruit. All dona-tions are appreciated very much. Please help us re-supply our Food Pantry.

Lunch

Bunch The Lunch Bunch for September will be hosted by Ken & Ruth Anne Beaty. Following worship

on Sunday, September 22nd, they will be going to the Two Cousins on Main, 260 N. Main St., Lewistown. If you are plan-ning to attend, please let Ken, Ruth Anne or the church office know by Thursday, September 19th. Thank you!

UNITED METHODIST WOMEN MISSION

“United Methodist Women shall be a community of women whose pur-pose is to know God and to experi-ence freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; to develop a creative, supportive fellowship; and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global ministries of the church.”

The United Methodist Women will Wednesday, September 4th at 1:30 p.m. Judy Roch will introduce our speaker, René Cedillo who will tell us about her mission to Haiti. Refreshments will be served by Mary Layton and Bev Hamm. This is a great organization providing a lot of excellent services to our church.

Our Community Friendship meal will be Saturday, September 28th. The menu will consist of mixed grill meat, green beans, applesauce, cheezits and cake. Everyone is invited to come eat with us and enjoy the warmth of good fellowship.

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Sharing Our Blessings with

Others for July

Children’s Mission: Toy Giveaway: $198.63 Adult Mission: Our Conference/Our Kids: $249.00 Our Conference, Our Kids stands at $8,429.50 We collected $777.00 for hygiene kits for the children at the border. VBS raised $456.73 for Heifer Project, Inter-national. We are buying rabbits this year. The Bible Studies contributed $91 to the Alain Rocourt Endowment which supports the Methodist Schools in Haiti. Total mission giving was $1,842.36

Adult Mission Offering

Children’s Mission Offering

Project Thanksgiving The Children’s Mission Offering for Sep-tember will help fund Project Thanksgiving which is a community Thanksgiving meal served at Grandpa’s Restaurant on Thanks-giving Day. They welcome donations, food brought in or anyone wanting to help serve or deliver meals on that day.

Society of St. Andrew

Our September mission of-fering will be to help sup-port the Society of St. An-

drew. The Society of St. Andrew partners with people of all faiths, and of many or-ganizations, that we might all serve to-gether by feeding the hungry out of the abundance that we are provided.

September is End Hunger Month spon-sored by the Society of St. Andrew. We will be passing out coin boxes and a pray-er calendar this month. The suggested goal from the Society of St. Andrew is a dime a day.

I want to thank everyone for all the birthday cards and wishes I received for my 90th birthday. They were all appreciated very much.

Mary Lou Stephens

Thank you very much for all the cards, food, visits and prayers during my recent surgery.

Holly Heffren

Condolences Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Douglas Simmering

(grandson of Ann Simmering) who entered eternal life on Tuesday, July 23rd, and with family and friends of Larry Derks (son-in-law of Ann Simmering) who entered eternal life on Thursday, August 8th.

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Weekly Calendar of Events Day Time Weekly Event Sun. 10:00 a.m. - Men’s Coffee in Kitchen 9:15 a.m. - Sunday School 10:30 a.m. - Worship Mon. 4:00 p.m. - Bible Study at Hardees 7:00 p.m. - Boy Scouts Tues. 7:00 a.m. - Women’s Bible St./Hardees Wed. 7:00 a.m. - Men’s Bible St./Hardees 8:30 a.m. - Hearts at Home 3:15 p.m. - Daisies (10th & 24th) 5:00 p.m. - UM Men (11th & 25th) 5:00 p.m. - UMY 6:45 p.m. - Chancel Choir Sat. 5:30 p.m. - Saturday Eve. Worship (no service on 9/7)

This Month Date Time - Events 9/3 7:00 p.m. - Lysa Terkeurst Bible Study 9/6-8 - Octoberfest 9/9 7:00 p.m. - Ministry Team Meeting 9/10 7:00 p.m. - Lysa Terkeurst Bible Study 9/11 5:00 p.m. - UMY resumes 9/17 6:00 p.m. - Finance Meeting 7:00 p.m. - Lysa Terkeurst Bible Study 9/21 7:00 p.m. - Venture Crew 9/22 12 noon. - Lunch Bunch to Two Cousins 9/22-24 7:00 p.m. - Revival 9/28 11:30 a.m. - Friendship Meal

Birthdays Sep 1 Jennifer Brooks Sep 2 Reese Markley Sep 2 Glendora Stout Sep 2 Kaleb Yetter Sep 2 Gresyn Tomm Sep 4 John Lynn II Sep 5 Roxann Raridon Sep 6 Jean Blessman Sep 6 Faith Foster Sep 6 Angela (Vaughn) Johnson Sep 7 Dean Pfeiffer Sep 9 Wesley Boyd Sep 9 Debbie Yetter Sep 11 Kim Lippert Sep 11 Carol Himmel Sep 11 Colleen Wolters Sep 12 Donna Hahs Sep 14 Sue Meisner Sep 17 Mae Hagney Sep 17 Chelsea Holtman Sep 18 Jacob Yetter Sep 18 Jack Murray Miller Sep 19 Meghan Ray Sep 20 Joyce Onken Sep 21 Alex Morr Sep 21 Addison Stadsholt Sep 23 Cindy Friedrich Sep 23 Dianne Hills Sep 25 Corey Friedrich Sep 25 Logan Showalter Sep 25 Jason Stadsholt Sep 26 Emily Stroub Sep 28 Melanie Dihora Sep 28 Pamela Pherigo Sep 29 Becky Morgan

Anniversaries 09/01/1985 Gary and Diane Bahl 09/03/2011 Darrin & Danielle Walker 09/14/1996 Scott & Whitney Schlueter 09/28/1985 Tad & Debbie Yetter 09/29/2007 Jason & Riki Layton 09/30/2006 Eric and Jill Snedeker

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Remember

Our

Shut-Ins Havana Health Care 609 N. Harpham St., Havana Jean Blessman Lois Francisco

Riverview Estates 200 N. Schrader, Havana Shirley Lynn Room 30

Em’s Haven of Rest 719 S. McKinley, Havana Curly Yetter

Lodge at Manito 1303 S. East Ave, Manito 61546 Ann Simmering Apt. 132

Mill Creek Alzheimer’s Special Care Unit 3319 Ginger Creek Drive, Spfld. 62711 Shirley Brown

At Home Karen Short PO Box 228 Oakford, IL 62673

Dean Gregory 1509 Noel Drive Metamora, IL 61548

Rosie Moore 821 N. Pearl Havana, Ill. 62644 309-543-1297

Mary Raikes Countryside Estates 19080 Sunny Acres Road, Box 12 Petersburg, IL 62675

In Our Prayers Kris Bell; Luana Butler; Ronnie & Carolyn Craggs; Anne Cunningham; Kay Curtis; Melvin & Darlene

Bohnsack; Sloane Davisson; Bill Foster; Tom Ford; Joanne Garlisch; Dean Grego-ry; Cathy Hagge; Floyd Hagney; Mike Hagney; Elouise Hahs; Holly Heffren; Lindsay Knopp; Courtney (Walker) Knowles; Amy & Bailey Kruse; Aimee LaFollette; Loretta Lohnes; Gloria Mar-shall; Gail McCombs; Clayton Minor; Halli Minor; Becky Morgan; Petra No-lan; Jerry Olds; Kevin & Connie Roper; Theresa Santini; Ann Simmering; Todd Turner; Natalie VanEtten; Angie Vorties; Becky Wilcoxen; Bishop Frank Beard; DS Nic Showalter; DCFS; all those serv-ing in the military; all those affected by natural disasters; the Christians & others who are being persecuted and executed throughout the world and…

Weekly Prayer Topics

Sept. 1 Help us to learn to do good works and not to be unproductive.

Sept. 8 Continued support for our local hos-pital and health care providers.

Sept. 15 Blessings and encouragement upon our Emergency Responders, Fire-men, Policemen, Civil Defense, EMT’s, and others

Sept. 22 Show us that giving to others does not lessen what we have – teach us to share.

Sept. 29 Give wisdom, patience, enthusi-asm and encouragement to our ministers as they work through-out our community

Please Note: If we missed your birthday or anniver-sary, please let the church office know so we can add you to our list. Our goal is to recognize all of our church family on their birthday & anniversary.

Thank you, Linda Vaughn

Worship

Assistants Ushers: Robert Williams Scott Blakeley

Rich Walker

Communion Steward: Annette Brown

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Fred and Brenda celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on May 31st with family and friends at the Riverside Club. Clifford & Ethel Hammack, grandparents of Brenda, also celebrated their 50th anniversary at Riverside Club in 1960.