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As you might know, for several weeks our Sunday message series focused on building spiritual habits which, if

established and followed, can help make our current and our future relationship with Jesus Christ stronger. In

short, implementing these habits can help us reach the “abundant life” for this world that Jesus promises in

John 10:10. Throw in eternal benefits, and it becomes well worth our time to invest in this manner. In

addition, this practice can help us come out of this quarantine better than how we went in.

Richard Foster, in his book “Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth” provided a list of potential

areas for us to consider working at. It was his list that helped form the outline for our series of messages.

The response to these messages was very positive. In fact, some of the congregation have asked for a copy of

this list of disciplines, or habits, so that they might have a checklist of ideas to follow through on. While

Foster’s is not a name many of us are familiar with, most certainly will recognize the name Benjamin Franklin.

It was Franklin, who in order to help ensure that he worked on the character traits that he felt would make

him a better person, made a checklist of those traits, and marked off everyday which ones he practiced.

Those without checkmarks, he knew to focus on in following days. So, to help you with establishing those

habits and disciplines which can help you grow in your spiritual walk, we have included Foster’s list.

Inward Disciplines

Meditation

Prayer

Fasting

Study

Outward disciplines

Simplicity

Solitude

Submission

Service

The Corporate Disciplines

Confession

Worship

Guidance

Celebration

If you decide to follow this “what gets measured gets done” principle, do not feel you need to have a

checkmark beside each habit each day. Pick one or two from each category and be honest with yourself about

where you stand. Checking the list each day, may help you in your growth!

Pastor Dave

The First Church of the Brethren

Roaring Spring, PA

June 2020 Newsletter

Living out our faith Being the hands and feet of Jesus, serving with open minds and hearts.

We exist to be a community of welcome and worship where people find peace, purpose, and power through Jesus Christ.

901 Bloomfield St. (814) 224.4113 Roaring Spring, PA 16673 Fax (814) 224.4923 Director of Ministry: Dr. David Crumrine www.rsfirstchurch.org

Bible Study is now being held at 9:30 am on Tuesday

mornings. Enter through the quilt room. Small groups, like the knitters and Bible Study, can again

meet. They must schedule in advance with Jan in the office.

Changes have been made during this time to the sound

system, speakers, and screen recently.

Highlights of Leadership Mtg. April 28th & May 12th, 2020

Small group meetings in Church building - If still in “yellow phase” small groups will be allowed to meet in the church beginning May 26th. A letter will be sent out soon explaining guidelines. Groups must contact the Church to schedule gatherings and must follow distancing guidelines. Faith and Grace Day Care - Will resume May 26th. They will enter and exit thru fellowship hall doors only. They will be responsible for cleaning /sanitizing their areas. The congregation should not be in kitchen, fellowship hall or Day Care wing until notified that they are available. Sunday in Church Worship - Much discussion on guidelines for meeting again in the Church for Sunday worship. Tentatively plan to begin limited size participation late June. Information will be going out. Finance and Facility Team - Bryce Nooyen - Work on upgrades to sound and video system is finishing up. - People continue to send offering in. Thank you for the faithful giving by those who are able. Missions and Service Team - Adam Lanzendorfer - Roaring Spring Food Pantry is reopening May 7th. Donations are needed. May be dropped off at the porch of St. John’s Lutheran or at First Church and we will deliver to the Pantry. - Open for ways to reach out to community. Hospitality and Communications Team - Valerie Smith - Graduate breakfast will not be held. A recognition time will be held when able. - Looking forward to fellowshipping together as soon as we can. Christian Education Team - Pat Frazier - Senior High youth have been meeting together via Zoom. - Tuesday morning Bible study will resume at the church May 26th. Social distancing precautions will be observed. Details will be out soon or call Church office for information. Worship Team - Terry Hershberger - Sunday morning video service still going well. Continue to look for fresh ideas. Have been incorporating extra people with music, children’s story, etc. Several youth participated in Mother’s Day service.

- Posted on church website, rsfirstchurch.org, You Tube and Facebook. - Sunday morning and Wednesday evening Zoom Bible studies continue with good participation. Information on how to join in is on the Church’s website, rsfirstchurch.org.

Deacons' Report - Dan & Jane Brumbaugh - Contact a Deacon or the church if you need anything.

Pastor Dave - Continuing recorded Sunday Services and video bible studies. - Will be leading the Tuesday morning Bible study.

Next Meetings - Tuesday, May 26th, June 9th at 6:30

Those Serving in June

"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but

a guiding light whose love shows us the way." - Unknown

Greeters Deacon

Greeters

Candlelighter Audio Technician Fellowship Time

Front: Herb & Beth

Burns

Rear: Nancy Musselman

Don

Bookhammer

Men’s

Fellowship

Travis Wagner Generation Hope

June 7 14 21 28

Organist Barb Wineland Cathy Petre Cathy Petre

Pianist Brenda Fluke-

Garber Cathy Neal

Terry Hershberger

Cathy Neal

Storyteller Sandy Norris Pastor Dave Betsy Garach Bethann Frederick

Nursery Attendant

Welcome Center Jane

Brumbaugh Carol Emerick Willow Miller Darlene Wyland

Worship Leader

Children’s Church

Parking Lot Greeters

Flowers Memory of Adam Long

Bulletins Memory of

Harold Smith

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doeerr

Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous

jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

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2 Ariadne Madden Miranda Madden 3 Avery Smith 4 Tracie Madden Ron Eicher 10 Tonya Dillon 11 Michael Madden Betty Estep Lucas Leslie 12 Katy Holsinger

15 Kaye Russell Herb Burns 17 Vada Thompson 19 Alexis Petre 21 Linda Steele 25 Marjorie Rhodes 28 Audrey Smith Jane Thompson Emalee Walter 29 Rufus Petre

Zoey Zychowski Vale Thompson 30 Barbara Miller Erika Smith Craig Wagner Matt May

8 am

June 20, 2020

TBA

Sisters of Faith Breakfast

8 am June 20, 2020

The Bistro

4 Charles & Shirley Smith (65 Years!) 5 Craig & Chris Wagner 6 Paul & Julie Witkovsky 7 Doug & Maureen Detwiler 9 Donnie & Katy Roudabush 12 Daren & Jill Brumbaugh 14 Travis & Mindy Wagner

17 Gary & Pat Dick Dave & Lynda Albright 20 Ron & Rose Snyder 21 Rufus & Cathy Petre 23 Bob & Sue Mock 25 Todd & Holly Smith 26 Pat & Elaine Frazier

Hailey Dawn Burns daughter of Mike & Crystal April 29, 2020

Grant Christopher Avvampato son of Dana Crumrine & Chris Avvampato May 6, 2020

Betty Estep thanks her church family for her Easter dinner. During the Summer months we don’t schedule an Acolyte for the Light of Christ. Please feel free to help out any Sunday

you feel compelled to do so. Please be in the Narthax during announcements and let the usher know your there for the

Light of Christ.

The Light of Christ is very meaningful in our service. When the Light enters we are readying our hearts for the Lord.

When the Light leaves the service we are reminded to be the Light of Christ as we go through our week.

Eugene McKinney 437 Givler Dr., Apt 121 Martinsburg, PA 16662 814-793-0965

Dawn Reilly 814.656.8543.

Fred & Arlene Beers want to thank their church family for the cards, calls, and prayers when Fred had his stroke. They also thank the ladies for the wonderful meal.

Floyd Eugene Bantz Floyd Eugene Bantz died on May 12, 2020. He was born on November10,1925 in North Manchester, IN, to the Rev. Wilbur Monroe Bantz and Martha Ida Blessing Bantz. Mourning his death are his wife of nearly 75 years, Alta Ruth Zook Bantz and their five children: Cheryl Ruth Bantz Westley (Arlot (Bill) Hall), Anchorage, AK; Martha Christine Bantz Johns (Robyn), Elizabethtown, PA; Jonathan Ray Bantz (Melissa), Altoona, PA; Kathleen Bantz Ashworth (David), Lancaster, PA; Marcielle Annette Bantz May (Eric), Lititz, PA; and eleven grandchildren: Matthew Johns, Benjamin Westley, Jaime Bantz Baker, Andrew Johns, Joshua Bantz, Peter Westley, Whitney Ashworth Halleman, Lauren Bantz Ashworth Killian, Kelsey Bantz Ashworth, Wesley May and Simon May, and by 12 great-grandchildren. Floyd grew up in a pastor’s home and attended elementary school and secondary education in Delaware and Ohio. He graduated from the Morrison R. Waite high school in Toledo, Ohio. He received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Manchester College (now University), his father’s college. In 1945, while a college student, Floyd was sworn in as a Merchant Marine to serve as a Sea-Going Cowboy as part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He sailed aboard the F. J. Luckenbach and helped deliver horses to war-torn Europe, specifically Patras, Greece. He also received the Bachelor of Divinity (now called Master of Divinity) and the Doctor of Ministry degrees from Bethany Theological Seminary, the Church of the Brethren seminary. He was ordained to ministry in the Church of the Brethren in 1945 and served three congregations: Messiah Church of the Brethren, Kansas City, MO, 1949-1958; First Church of the Brethren, Roaring Spring, PA, 1964-1980 and the Lancaster Church of the Brethren, Lancaster, PA, 1980-1990. From 1958-1964, Floyd was a national staff member with office and residence in McPherson, KS. He also was a short-term interim pastor to three congregations. Floyd served as the moderator the District of Middle Missouri-Church of the Brethren and for the District of Middle Pennsylvania- Church of the Brethren. He also represented those districts on the denomination’s Annual Conference Standing Committee. He served three terms on the Board of Directors for Bethany Theological Seminary. Since his retirement, he has been a member of the Mountville Church of the Brethren. Although Floyd was no longer a member of the Lancaster Rotary Club, he was a long-time Rotarian and a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. In addition, Floyd spent his lifetime serving on the boards of many charitable organizations such as the American Lung Association, The Lancaster County Council of Churches, and Prescott House, to name just a few. He served on the board and delivered meals for the Hempfield Meals on Wheels program until he was 90 years old. He was a courier at St. Joseph’s/Lancaster Regional Hospital, continuing that service until in his 93 year. Floyd lived what he believed. He taught unconditional love to those he loved and served. He modeled that unconditional love always. Each of his descendants feels that he loved each one of us best! Kindness and charity were his guiding principles. He advocated for true world peace, signing his writings with that one word – Peace. Floyd’s life-long curiosity, intellectual passion and keen wit were joys to those who knew him well. He was a lover of ice cream – particularly all flavors! Due to the unfortunate circumstances of Covid-19, memorial services will be postponed until friends and family may gather safely. When available, updates will be posted to DeBord Snyder Funeral Home & Crematory’s website as well as in Lancaster Newspaper.

Cameron Croft

Parents: Dave & Michele Croft Grandparents: Bob & Sue Mock Graduated from Central High School

Samantha Foor Parents: Matthew & Charity Foor Grandparent: Tom Sell Great Grandparent: Margaret Sell Graduated from Chestnut Ridge High School Future Plans: To attend the Professional Salon Academy for Cosmetology, beginning in July.

Hailey Glunt Parents: Tom & Missy Glunt Graduated from Central High School Future Plans: To attend Allegany College of Maryland studying Computer Science/Cyber Security.

Post High School

Katy Roudabush Parents: Dave & Chris Brumbaugh Graduated September 26, 2019, from the CNA program at Homewood.

Future Plans: to pass my CNA test and continue working at Homewood in

Martinsburg to help serve our elderly in the community.

Rachel Wagner Parents: Craig & Chris Wagner Graduating in June from Altoona Career & Technology Center as an Administrative office Specialist Grandparents: Earl & Becky Bryson Great Grandparent: Gene McKinney

June 2020

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

2 9:30 am Bible Study

3 9 am Ladies Aid 1 pm Prayer Shawl Ministry

4 9 am Bulletin Deadline 9 am Breakfast Fellowship at Spring House Grille 6:30 pm Knitting Group

5

6

7

8 7 pm Middle PA Disaster Response Meeting

9 9:30 am Bible Study 6:30 pm Leadership Meeting 7 pm Good Grief



12

13

14 Flag Day

CBD Hoss’s Fundraiser Food Bank Collection 9:25 am Worship 10:30 am Sunday School

15 10 am Book Group 1 pm Newsletter submission deadline




19

20 8 am Men’s Fellowship Breakfast 8 am Sisters of Faith

21 Father's Day 9:25 am Worship

10:45 am Sunday School

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26

27

28 9:25 am Worship

10:45 am Sunday School

29

30 9:30 am Bible Study 6:30 pm Leadership Team

May we have the courage to completely surrender our whole existence to you, blessed God.

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the

most valuable assets in our society." - Billy Graham

“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up

enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” —Samuel Ullman

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

—Lord Byron

“Solutions are not found by pointing fingers; they

are reached by extending hands.” —Aysha Taryam

“No man stands taller than when he stoops to

help a child.” —Abraham Lincoln

FIRST CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN 901 BLOOMFIELD STREET ROARING SPRING, PA 16673 814.224.4113 Fax: 814.224.4923 Email: [email protected]

www.rsfirstchurch.org Director of Ministry Dave Crumrine [email protected]

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