The Trinitarian Trinity Heights United Methodist Church, Newton, Kansas AUGUST 2012

ALLELUIAS TO OUR AWESOME GOD &

AUGUST ANNOUNCEMENTS TO THE

AMAZING PEOPLE OF THUMC!!!

First, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU,

to all of you who prayed, followed the elections

on internet/text/etc., sent me texts & emails,

and provided words & flowers of affirmation

comfort/welcome (especially the beautiful

flowers that awaited me in my office upon

arrival on Monday afternoon!)

I give God thanks for Lucas McConnell, who

preached on Sunday, July 22nd. Our prayers go

up for him as he embarks on his journey to

seminary and exploring further his call to full

time ministry!

Well, 2nd time around and I must say that it was

good to come back home! HAPPILY! Going

through the process of being a candidate for

bishop causes me to do some deep reflections

about myself, my call, my ministry, and The

Church!

I have learned that POLITICS is not part of my

DNA. I have learned that people are more

inclined to speak/agree/affirm where I stand

IN PRIVATE vs. speaking out in public. That has

caused me to think AGAIN about my own calling.

I ponder the question “What is it that you are calling me to do with my life, Lord?”

Well, one of the great things about our United

Methodist system is that one does not have to

go through that process alone. We have our

Bishop, the District Superintendent, and our

Staff/Parish Relations Committee, as well as

members & friends of the Church, and of course,

oneself!

I do believe that God continually shapes us and

makes a pathway for each of us so that we can

fulfill the Will of God in our lives. Sometimes it

turns out like we think and more times than not,

it does not.

I am thankful for each and every one of you. As

you live life from day to day, seek God’s Face

and Will for your life. Don’t be surprised if God

pulls a fast one on you. I am grateful that God

DOES SEE THE BIG PICTURE!

So in the meantime, let us continue to run the

race that is before us. May our faith in Jesus

increase daily AND may we grow in our Love of

God and Love of our neighbor as we love

ourselves!

In Jesus’ Love and Service, Pastor Cheryl

NOTE: 3-5pm, August 12th @ Hutch Trinity UMC for the Welcome of our new DS, Dennis Livingston. Also: Bishop Scott Jones has been assigned to the NEW Episcopal Great Plains Area for 2012 – 2016!

Ice Cream Social!

The annual Trustee sponsored Ice

Cream will be on Wednesday, August

15th at 6:30 pm. There will be ice

cream and toppings – please join us for

a great time of fellowship!

The Christian Ed. Connection

Children’s Sunday School

The Rock Solid Unit for August is “The Bible, Book of

God’s Word”

August 5 Praising God is Good Psalm 150

August 12 Living in God’s Kingdom Matthew 5

August 19 Ask, Search, Knock Matthew 7:7-12

August 26 Love Never Ends 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Adult Sunday School Classes

On Sundays, ANYONE IS WELCOME to join any of

our six adult Sunday school classes.

Bridge Builders (Room 103) lessons in August will

continue with the focus on “justice”. Some of our

discussion will address the question, what have we been

called to do to enable others to be treated justly?

Challengers (Room201) class will continue their study

of the book “More Bad Girls of the Bible” by Barbara

Essex. Vere English will lead the discussion during

August. The class welcomes you to become part of

their group.

Dream Makers (Room 203) will be viewing a series of

lectures by Bishop Spong, an Episcopal Bishop and

author. Many of the Dream Makers class are in their

late 50’s and 60’s, and are still working. They welcome

any age person.

Faith Builders (Room 101) will be studying “The

Hurried Family”. This study explores the symptoms of

a hurried family and provides counsel for restoring

calmness and giving the gift of rest to others. Faith

Builders is a growing class of 30 and 40 year olds

studying relevant topics related to society and the

church. You are welcome to become a part!

Life Group (the Cry Room) is spending the summer

visiting family and taking vacations. They will begin a

new curriculum this fall. This class is a collection of

adults with college age children. Anyone is welcome to

visit or join anytime!

Wesley Workers (Room 204) follow an eclectic path

of Christian nurture. The class will continue looking at

the subjects Dr. James W. Moore raises in his book, “I

Hear Voices, and That’s a Good Thing!” They will hear

a report on Zimbabwe and our Conference’s

relationship with the United Methodist Christians there,

as well as think about “Good Questions on Heaven and

Hell” from a book of the same name. Wesley Workers

are primarily retirement age, and enjoy getting together

for social events. Visitors are more than welcome!

VBS

Thank you to everyone who helped with VBS this

year. This week was such a fulfilling end to the months

of work that lead up to VBS week. All the helpers are

listed below along with their roles during the week.

VBS Coordinators: Stephanie Anton and Mary Kaufman

Group Leaders: Shanna Adams, Christy Rossiter,

Angela Thurston, Ann Walker, Todd Wedel and Pam

Wedel (sub)

Music Leaders: Victoria Bell and Keira Brown

Snacks: Ann Adrian, Sue Walker and Marian Stubbs,

Colleen Reinert

Games: Dan and Lisa Timmons, Robbie Lyles, Matthew

Seirer, Haley Meier

Crafts: Katie Blake and Megan Hett

Bible Story Characters: Pam Wedel, Erin Graber,

Matthew Seirer, Roger Ahrens, Richard Walker

Bible Storytellers: Pastor Cheryl and Jessica Swisher

Assembly Characters: Lydia Swisher and Lexi Colvin

Registration Table: Marian Stubbs and Cindy Engstrom

Adult Helpers: Lisa Cherry

Youth Helpers: Erin Graber, Azzy Kealy, Caitrin Kealy

and Mason Rossiter

Photographer: Cindy Engstrom

Creating posters and attendance charts and use props:

Nancy Parsons and Andrew Parsons

Setting up and running giant shark: Doug and Austin

Crumrine

Please join us Sunday, July 29, to hear the children sing a

couple of the songs they learned this week. We will

also run a slide show with some of the pictures taken

throughout the week.

Special Program

Mark Sunday, August 26th on your calendar to attend

an informative session “50 Years of Giving at Trinity

Heights”. The session will be during the Sunday School

hour in the Fellowship Hall. Information concerning the

Permanent Endowment Fund and the Building Fund will

be shared. Bring your coffee to the Fellowship Hall and

enjoy the update on these funds.

Scoop on Youth Group

“Feelin’ HOT, HOT, HOT!”

That’s been our theme song this month.

July 8th’s dinner and auction was a huge

success. An inspiring report from the Shiloh Ranch

team, plus information about the Kansas City, KS trip,

were shared. The bidding for desserts and youth help

was led by auctioneer Wade Brubacher and his clerk,

Joan. Leftover meals were served to-go the next week.

The final total raised was $1617.00. Thanks to all

for their hard work, donations of food & desserts, and

generous contributions at the auction.

For the month of August, there will Sunday night

Youth Groups on the 12th and the 26th. The time

has been changed! Both youth groups will be

combined middle and high school and will be from

6:00-7:30. The 12th we will meet at the church for a

water gun battle and watermelon eating contest. On

the 26th, we will have a BurgerFest at Jessica’s new

home. More details will follow.

Also in August, there will be a Back-to-School

pool party sponsored by the Newton Youth Ministry

Network at the municipal pool from 7:00-9:00 p.m. All

youth are invited.

Sign-ups will also be going on in August for Youth

Choir, Youth Bell Choir, and Youth Groups for the fall

semester. Youth and parents are encouraged to make a

commitment to participation these programs.

Volunteer(s) Needed

There are a few times a year when the

secretary needs to be out of the office.

We do have one back up person but it

would be helpful if there were a couple

other people that we would be able to call

upon to help out. The needs would be to take care of

the phone and if possible have the computer skills to

finalize and print bulletins and fold them (on the folding

machine). Also, it would be helpful if the volunteers

would be able or willing to learn to transfer the power

point from the computer to a flash drive and print out

the handouts for the media techs – this is not difficult!

If you would have any interest in this area please

contact the church office. Thank you.

United Methodist

Committee on Relief

There's a way you can help with the wildfire

devastation in our Western states: Make your donation

payable to "Trinity Heights United Methodist Church".

On the memo line: UMCOR Advance 901670 Western

US Wildfires. Susie Wickiser

We are very excited about the

accessible playground rapidly

taking form! We want to invite our

Respite Care family and friends to celebrate the new space,

and are now looking at Sunday, August 26, 4:00pm, as a

time when we can do that. Please stay tuned for more

information.

Saturday, August 4 is “Sorting Saturday” at the church

office. If you would like to help sort items for next

January’s This ‘n’ That Sale, join us between 10am-noon.

In August, we will start taking donations for the This ‘n’

That Sale. Call Cathy to let her know if you will be bringing

in items: 283-6441.

Question: Can you buy postage and

benefit Trinity Heights UMC? Yes! When

you visit the Customer Service Desk at

Dillon's, you can buy postage and ship

packages with your Dillon's Gift Card.

Buying flowers for a special occasion? Use

your Dillon's Gift Card! All purchases on these gift

cards return 5% to THUMC.

Dillon's Dollars team

Movers & Shakers

Want some fun, fellowship and getting in shape all at

the same time? Think about joining the Movers and

Shakers. These classes are for men & women of all

ages.

We meet on Mondays at 11:00 am and Wednesdays

at 4:00 pm. You can join one class or both classes.

Tracie Strain from the Newton Recreation Wellness

Center is our instructor. The theme is “Challenge By

Choice”, so the class if for all fitness levels. The cost is

about $4 per session.,

Table Tennis!

Neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Amen calls table

tennis the “best brain sport” “It improves hand-eye

coordination. It’s aerobic, uses both upper and

lower body and causes you to

use many different areas of the

brain to function”

Dr Amen says”Golf is good.

Tennis is terrific. Table tennis is the

best sport in the world!”

No matter if you are young or old, male or female,

you can play with us every Thursday morning at 9 a.m.

downstairs in the youth room. Free! Serve the Lord

more efficiently with a “charged up” brain.

Walt Long

SEPTEMBER TRINITARIAN DEADLINE

MONDAY, August 20th

Wheel Chair pushers at Asbury Park

Sunday, August 5th

From the Library…

How are you spending your time

during this HOT, HOT weather? -

Relax and cool off by reading a

book checked our from our THUMC library. Be sure

to look over the UMW books (the section below the

library clock) and make some points for our UMW

unit. There are some really good books in this

collection as well as in the rest of the library. Many

new children's books and videos were added recently

by the Rebekah circle.

We are pleased that so many of you have made use of

our library. If you have not, we hope you’ll come in to

check it out! In addition to fiction and non-fiction

books for children, youth and adults, we have a variety

of other resources:

Large print and audio books

Videos for all ages

Study materials and resources for S.S. classes and

teachers

Collections donated by Respite Care and Piecemakers.

PLEASE NOTE: When you check out library materials,

please write BOTH first and last names on the check

out card, as well as the due date (3 weeks for books, 1

week for videos and magazines). Thank you!

AUGUST ANNIVERSARIES

Doug & Marci Brenneman 8/01

Mike & Karen Farrell 8/03

Tim & Pat Timmons 8/06

Jared & Megan Hett 8/07

Todd & Adrianne Wedel 8/12

Bob & Pat Granaas 8/14

Rod & Dana Kreie 8/14

Tom & Phyllis Schneider 8/14

Curtis & Marian Stubbs 8/14

Don & Sue Swender 8/15

John & Connie Hosford 8/22

Douglas & Angela Thurston 8/23

Duane & Jennifer Miles 8/27

Larry & Dee Reber 8/27

Walt & Shirley Long 8/28

Robert & Pearl Simison 8/29

Thank you for your cards, prayers and

loving support in the loss of my loving

Mother. Her warm smile will be in my heart

forever. Thanks for everything you did for her that I

never knew of. Thanks to Pastor Cheryl in sharing her

time with us in Mother’s final hours.

Sincerely, Terry Breitenstein

AUGUST BIRTHDAYS

Steve McCullough 8/01

Bryttan Adams 8/02

Olivia Adams 8/02

Aryanna Rossiter 8/02

Beverly Stigge 8/02

Megan Williams 8/02

Connie Hosford 8/03

Dan Buchanan 8/04

Doug Crumrine 8/04

Mike McConnell 8/04

Joey Thiessen 8/04

Marcella Timmons 8/04

Shanna Adams 8/06

Matthew Montano (Harkness) 8/06

Edwarda Manring 8/07

Ed Stahl 8/08

Carol Heine 8/09

Jim Neal 8/10

Bonnie Royer 8/12

Doug Brenneman 8/14

Marilyn Colladay 8/15

Rosie Plenert 8/16

Jessica Swisher 8/17

Lucile Randall 8/18

Dallas Thiessen 8/18

Harlin Balzer 8/19

Vicki Howard 8/19

Rylan Dalke 8/20

Clyde Erwin 8/20

Robert Lyles 8/20

Pam McCullough 8/21

Truman Meyer 8/21

Shirley Stauffer 8/21

John Hosford 8/22

Ben Peyton 8/22

Edna Mae Grant 8/23

Tim Graber 8/24

Jason Harkness 8/24

John Nicodemus 8/24

Carole Malin 8/25

Chuck Engel 8/26

Delores Morgan 8/26

Sue Lammers 8/28

Walt Long 8/28

Tim Timmons 8/28

Max Gatz 8/30

Carla McConnell 8/31

Change of Address!

Richard & Shirley Sadowski: 1116 E. 7th, Apt. 4.

Audrey Hess: 3056 Ivy Ct., Apt. 11, No. Newton. Both phone numbers remain the same.