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The Messenger McMannen United Methodist Church
4102 Neal Road, Durham NC 27705
Sunday, September 20Sunday, September 20Sunday, September 20Sunday, September 20
11:00 am11:00 am11:00 am11:00 am
Potluck lunch following the service
NO 8:45 serviceNO 8:45 serviceNO 8:45 serviceNO 8:45 service
Our special guest Preacher for Homecoming is
our new Assistant to the District Superintendent,
The Reverend Jessie Larkins.
The Reverend Jessie
Larkins grew up at
Aldersgate UMC in Chapel
Hill, NC where she learned
how to love Christ and the
life of the church. She
attended college at UNC-
Asheville where she met
her husband while studying Math and French.
Following college, Jessie served for a year with
the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, a young adult
service year. In this year she came alongside
battered women and children in an emergency
domestic violence shelter. Her experience of
injustice and the silence of the church pushed
her back to NC for seminary where she attended
Duke Divinity School and became ordained an
elder in the NC Conference.
Jessie has served churches around the Durham
area as an associate and solo pastor where she
has delighted in helping congregations
understand the radical implications of following
the Risen Savior as they engage in ministry with
their local communities.
Jessie’s other vocation is to be the mother of
Elijah and Noah and wife to David. They love
living in Durham, enjoying the culture of the local
community, and engaging with their neighbors to
ensure that Durham is a great place for ALL
people.
Your recycled magazines would be appreciated at C.A. Dillon Youth
Development Center Suggested magazines: cars, sports, youth, Our State,
video games
Our Church Family: James & Marti Bennett; Marian Clark; Family of Bobbie Morgan; Emma Jean Phelps; Dean Porterfield; Barbara Rovetto; Delma & Dick Smallwood; Wendell Family; our college students; preschool families
Friends and Family: Joe Blum; Katie Bradley; Howell Brown III, Philip Browning; David Clayton; Robin Clements; Alida Cockerman; Jill Conelly; Rose Eapen; Judge Carl Fox; Willene Gilreath; Mike Goodwin family; Graham & Lotz families; Gwen Hall; Stanley Hutchins: Allison Jenkins; Charles Johnson; Judy Johnson; Elsie King; June King; Ruth King; Luther King; Rod Mabry; Alwood Mangum; Grady McCutcheon; Donald McFarland; Patti Morrison; Mary Ann Norris; Amory Oliver (Carolyn Woolley’s aunt); George Paulides and family; Jimmy Riley; Louis Rivers; Caroline Sasser; Carl Schmidt; Parker, Melissa & Gene Schumacher; Susan Steele (Kim Stainback’s mom); Jeff Stutts; Randy Taylor; Bonnie Toaso; Janet Truckner; Laura Turkel; HA Turlington; Taylor Wagner; Carole Ward; Rachel Whitt; Alex Whitaker; Andrea Wilkins; Zhang family; the unemployed and their families; the victims of violence; travel mercies; Residents and staff at C.A. Dillon; Christian Believer Bible study group; Iraqi Christians; our armed forces and military
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3
If you are willing to help, please contact
Hardy Hutchins at 919.477.2900 or [email protected]. There’s a job for everyone! Lend your hand to support this
important event at McMannen.
Thurs, September 10 “My Fair Lady” at Temple Theater, Sanford. Lunch @ Ms. Lacy’s 11:20 am--5:15 pm Deadline 9/7 noon $40
Friday, September 11 Lunch and meeting at 12:00 pm. Our guest speaker is Jenny Noyes who will be teaching us about how to build
a tower garden.
Primetimers Exercise at 10:30 am Monday & Wednesdays in Fellowship Hall
To receive more information about a Primetimers program or to sign up for the trip, please contact Jim Lore at 384-2102.
September Committee Meetings
SPRC Tues, September 15 @ 6:30 (E201)
Finance September 22 @ 6:30 pm (FH)
Sunday, Sept 13
8:00 am
All are welcome!
MondaysMondaysMondaysMondays
7:00 pm7:00 pm7:00 pm7:00 pm Youth Center
Lead by Pastor Calvin
NO MEETING LABOR DAY
September 7
On behalf of the Chancel Choir, we would love to extend a welcome and open invitation to join the choir for the upcom-ing year! If you love to sing and praise God through music, then this is the place for you! No experience is necessary! We would love to have new members! The Chancel Choir provides music for the worship services 2-3 times per month and serves
as a fantastic small group to share the Christian faith with! Our first choir practice will begin on September 2nd at 7pm. All choir practices last from 7pm until 8:45 pm on Wednesday evenings. All are welcome! Can't make Wednesday evenings? Please join us in rehearsal Sunday mornings at 10:15am prior to the service!
“I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.” Psalm 104:33
Building Young People’s Ministries
As your nominated and elected representatives, the Staff Parish Relations Committee (SPRC) and the Church Council have been hard at work over the last year, responding to the vision of our congregation to build and invest in thriving young people’s outreach and ministries. Our first real step in that direction occurred last year with the establishment of the church budget, designed in part to support the staff and programming to ac-complish that goal.
The next big step was hiring Calvin Dickenson as the Director of Youth and Young Adult Outreach and Ministries. He has been doing a great job providing formational guidance and events for McMannen’s youth, meeting the parents of families with children, connecting with our young adult members and visitors, and building relation-ships in the community. Most recently, Calvin has been named (volunteer) chaplain of Riverside High School’s football team, and is connected with Partners for Youth Opportunity as a mentor of a High School student! God’s provision in working out those relationships with church and community members has been a joy to watch.
Even more recently, on the Children’s Outreach and Ministry front, our SPRC and Church Council have discerned that the best next step for us is to expand Jackie Bolen’s role as Preschool Director into a position that includes all of Children’s Outreach and Ministry. Since June , she had been assigned that role temporarily for the summer
months to handle the large summer events such as Vacation Bible School. SPRC, in reviewing where we are, where we want to go, and how things are progressing, recommended and the Council unanimously approved making the temporary summer role a permanent one. With that change, directing the Preschool remains Jackie’s first priority, but now Jackie is also officially responsible for the rest of McMannen’s Children’s Ministries and Outreach. We believe this is a move that demonstrates wise stewardship of the church’s financial resources, and that has the best interests of our church and neighborhood children in mind. During the school year, she will be spending about 1/3 of her time on Children’s ministries and outreach; during the summer that proportion shifts to 2/3 of her time.
Building the infrastructure, the vision, the skills,
and the relationships with young people is a
journey that will take more than a few months for
our congregation to achieve, but McMannen
believes that this is the direction God is leading.
My prayer is that your prayers and investment in
building toward this future will bear much fruit.
Along the way, I pray that we will continue to
dream together and inspire one another to be
faithful listeners to and followers of God’s call
upon our shared life as brothers and sisters in
Christ.
This month our Youth Group will be “Splashing” into the fall! After a fun, but kind of quiet summer, we are going to kick things off on
Saturday, September 12th as a part of our church-wide
Block Party. Yes! We will have a dunk tank. Yes! Pastor Calvin will
be in the dunk tank at the end of the Block Party. Then, as long as someone has good aim, a drenched Pastor Calvin will lead our
McMannen Youth Fall “Splash” at 7pm. This will
be a youth worship event that all youth are welcome to attend. We will be inviting all the youth groups we visited on our Youth Group Tour last spring and many more.
The very next day, Sunday, September 13th will officially begin our regular schedule for the fall. Our
10am Sunday School class will resume that morning in the Youth Center. Then from 4-6 pm we
will have a joint Youth & Parents Orientation Meeting. During this time we will talk about the
plans for the upcoming semester, make a volunteer list for meals and discuss Pilgrimage, one of our ma-
jor events which will be in Fayetteville November 13-15. Also, I will explain more about our new 4-week
PEPS pattern:
Week 1 - P = Prepare for Mission (learning and planning to be ready for service)
Week 2 - E = Engage in Mission (serve God and our neighbor)
Week 3 - P = Process Mission (review our mission experience from previous week)
Week 4 - S = Social interaction (doing something fun together)
Within each PEPS cycle we will explore a particular theme, such as compassion, teamwork, patience, etc. We will repeat this cycle with various forms of mission and fun. Please see Pastor Calvin for a more detailed youth schedule. Grace & Peace,
Pastor Calvin
Friday, September 18Friday, September 18Friday, September 18Friday, September 18
7 PM7 PM7 PM7 PM
McMannen UMC Fellowship HallMcMannen UMC Fellowship HallMcMannen UMC Fellowship HallMcMannen UMC Fellowship Hall
Enjoy a movie about acceptance; being brave; having hope; and understanding that our
differences and our mistakes are part of being
human.
Currently enrolling! Spaces available in all classes. See
Jackie for applications for need-based scholarships.
Please continue to collect the labels so this year’s preschoolers are able to take advantage of the great educational opportunities offered by this program.
Thursdays
2:00 pm
Betty Ray’s home
All are welcome! Lead by Pastor Ed
Call Anggie in the church office for the address
Visit our website to pay tuition or donate to the
scholarship fund online! Mcmannenumc.org
McMannen UMCMcMannen UMC
Community Block PartyCommunity Block Party
Saturday, September 12Saturday, September 12
55——7 PM7 PM
Activities will include a Bouncy House,
Face Painting, Yard Games, Bubbles, Corn Hole, Great
Food at fair prices, New Friends and Dunk a Minister!
Immediately following this event all youth (ages 6th grade through High School) are invited to gather in the sanctuary in community to enjoy the presence of God and start the fall off with a youth worship service.
In our culture, one of the first things that we think about when we think of the month of September
is that students go back to school. When grade-school children return to school, the first days and
weeks are o�en spent reviewing the basics that may have begun to fade from memory during the
summer months.
So too with our spiritual lives. Without a en!on, we are easily distracted by the affairs of the world
and some of the basic principles of our faith journey are suscep!ble to fading into the background. Here are a few
simple refreshers on our faith and faith community. Just for fun, so that you may join in solidarity with our young
students, I’ve wri en them in the form of a quiz. The answers are on the next page. Don’t take this quiz (or your
performance) too seriously. Perhaps they will spur you to learn more, or remind you of an important faith prac!ce
or truth that you have set aside!
1. The first followers of Jesus were known as “disciples.” As the term is used in the Bible, a disciple is which of
the following? Chris!ans are called to be disciples of Jesus even today!
a. Student/Learner b. Member of a motorcycle gang
c. Good friend d. Teacher
2. Persons who decide to publicly commit themselves to a church, and who vow to support the church with
their prayers, their presence, their gi�s, their service, and their witness are known as:
a. Crazy b. Representa!ves
c. Ambassadors d. Members
3. The closest biblical analogy to the meaning of “members” in the body of Christ is:
a. Members of an exclusive club b. Members of a plant species
c. Members of the body, like the hands or eyes, d. Members of the studio audience
which are mutually dependent on each other
4. The official Mission Statement of the United Methodist Church is to:
a. Build churches in every neighborhood b. Vaccinate all people
c. Get more members than the Bap!sts d. Make Disciples of Jesus Christ for the
transforma!on of the world.
5. John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Movement, defined several ordinary “Means of Grace,” or ways that
God had chosen to bestow God’s grace on God’s followers. The Means of Grace include:
a. Works of piety (holy living) such as prayer b. works of perfec!on, such as keeping your
and scripture reading, and works of mercy house spotless, and works of courage,
such as caring for the poor such as defending your family from wild
animals
c. displays of fashion, such as wearing fancy church d. a ending mee!ngs and balancing your
clothes, and displays of holiday cheer, vaca!on budget
such as hanging garland wreaths on your front
door at Christmas
6. The Lord’s Prayer was originally taught by:
a. Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels b. Paul, as recorded in the Acts of the
Apostles Chapter 43 verse 4
c. Athanasius, early church theologian d. John Wesley, founder of the Methodist
Church
7. Chris!ans believe God loves you:
a. When you have had a good day b. When you remember to say your prayers
before you go to bed
c. When you are angry, sad, or jealous d. All of the above
Well, I hope you have enjoyed this simple li le quiz. Please remember to keep our church’s students in
prayer, remember how much the body of Christ needs you, and please remember how much God loves you!
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Ed
Answers: 1)a; 2)d; 3)c; 4)d; 5)a; 6)a; 7)d
If you come to McMannen's campus early on a weekday morning, you may be surprised to find some hard-at-work students studying away.
We are delighted to welcome the students and teachers of Bull City Gymnastics (BCG) to our Youth Center, where they will hold academic classes five days a week from 7:30am-12:15pm for 3rd-8th graders throughout the school year. The students are enrolled in the Christa McAuliffe Academy (named for the astronaut), a nationally accredited online school specializing in distance education, and BCG is leasing the space from us. This arrange-ment allows their advanced gymnastics students to zip through their coursework each day with help from dedicated onsite BCG teachers, before they head to the Bull City gym (around the corner on Bennett Memorial Drive) to practice their routines. Although you may see an occasional gymnast doing cartwheels and round-offs on the front lawn in their spare time, the purpose of their time on our campus is academic rather than athletic: you're much more likely to see the youngsters here thinking about a math problem than turning a triple backflip.
Zander Howe Son of Jessica Wagstaff and Matt Howe
Baptized August 16, 2015
Leon and Gaynelle Pope Joined: June 14, 2015
Rev. Calvin (staff) Rebecca and Kathleen Dickenson Joined: June 28, 2015
Patrick & Laura Geraghty and
Elaina Baptized: May 3, 2015
Joined: May 3, 2015
Shaun Gruber Grandson of Kathy Coleman Baptized: June 14, 2015
Andrew & Sarah Fuller and
Reuben
Baptized: April 12, 2015
Sarah joined: June 28, 2015
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Please always refer to the
calendar on the McMannen
website for the most up-to-
date informa!on.
Download our calendar information: A file can be downloaded and imported into any calendar program that will let you import a comma-delimited text file. Most calendaring software, like Outlook, Lotus, etc. has this feature built right in.
• Simply click the ICAL symbol on the calendar (bottom left corner) on our mcmannenumc.org website
to download it to your hard drive.
• Then open your calendar software and import it.
4102 Neal Road
Durham, NC 27705-2320
919-383-1263
Fax: 919-383-0546
www.mcmannenumc.org
Church Office Hours:
Monday-Friday: 9 am - 1 pm
D eadline for the
next newsletter,
“The Messenger”, is
Monday, Septem-
ber 21— 9 am for
all events through
October.
Sunday Mornings 8:45 am - Worship
(in Neal Chapel)
10 am - Sunday School
11:00 am - Worship
(in the Sanctuary)
Come and Worship!
Mission: Mission: Mission: Mission: To proclaim the gospel of Jesus
Christ to the world and to live it out in loving witness to whomever we meet with the
purpose of changing hearts and
strengthening the community of believers.
StaffStaffStaffStaff
Ed Priestaf, PastorEd Priestaf, PastorEd Priestaf, PastorEd Priestaf, Pastor [email protected]
919-274-8061
Calvin DickensonCalvin DickensonCalvin DickensonCalvin Dickenson Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries & Outreach [email protected]
Jackie BolenJackie BolenJackie BolenJackie Bolen
Director of Children’s Outreach and Ministries
Anggie Thompson Anggie Thompson Anggie Thompson Anggie Thompson Office Administrator
John BentonJohn BentonJohn BentonJohn Benton Director of Music Ministries [email protected]
Floalice Reaves Floalice Reaves Floalice Reaves Floalice Reaves Organist