JUNE 9TH TO JUNE 15TH —
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH —
ADAIR U.M.W. MEETING AT HAPPY CHEF
AT 8:30 A.M.
@ 5:30 P.M. TODAY.
“Yes Lord, I Have Sinned, But I Have Several
Excellent Excuses”
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THURSDAY, JUNE 6TH —
• REMEMBER D-DAY, 1944 •
• A day near the full moon was needed both
for illumination during the hours of darkness
and to take advantage of the spring tides.
• Landings were planned for the morning of
June 5th, but were delayed one day because
of bad weather.
• It was the largest amphibious invasion in
world history and was executed by land,
sea and air under direct British-American
command with over 160,000 foot soldiers
landing:
• 73,000 Americans,
• 61,715 British and
• 21,400 Canadians
JUNE 6TH, AT 6:30 A.M.
• 326,547 troops,
• 54,186 vehicles and
• 104,428 tons of supplies had landed on
the beaches of France.
For some people, wars are romanticized.
I am unable to visualize that aspect of war.
I know freedom does not come free, but the
cost is terribly high.
AMERICAN CEMETERY - ROMAGNE -
NEAR VERDUN, FRANCE
around Verdun were brought together at
Romagne where after almost half of the
bodies were repatriated to American soil,
14,246 soldiers still lie here.
overlooking Omaha Beach (one of the landing
beaches of the Normandy Invasion) and the
English Channel. It covers 172 acres, and
contains the remains of 9,387 American
military dead, most of whom were killed
during the invasion of Normandy.
• American cemetery ground was granted by
a grateful French Government - free of
charges and free of taxes. The cemeteries
are cared for by Americans.
There are several American Cemeteries
scattered about the world, indicating once
again the high cost of freedom.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH —
PASTOR MELODEE IS ATTENDING ANNUAL
CONFERENCE UNTIL MONDAY, JUNE 10TH.
CASEY U.M.W. WILL HOST
MOTHER/DAUGHTER BANQUET
IN CASEY U.M.C. AT 6:30 P.M.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH —
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
COLOR: GREEN
SCRIPTURE READINGS
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1 KINGS 17:8-24
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Your neighbors were those who live near
you, physically. We have often thought of
the "neighborhood" of a congregation in
similar physical ways.
Between "solo" commuting made
possible by automobiles, global business
made rapid by the airplane, and tele-
commuting mediated by the Internet, the
locations of our geographical neighborhood
and our social neighbors (people we
actually feel a sense of neighborliness with)
may have very little to do with those who
live close by. Elijah is directed to go live in
Sidon and to be fed by a widow in
Zarephath. When her son dies, Elijah prays
for him to be restored.
7-9 Eventually the brook dried up because of
the drought. Then God spoke to him: "Get up
and go to Zarephath in Sidon and live there.
I've instructed a woman who lives there, a
widow, to feed you."
10-11 So he got up and went to Zarephath. As
he came to the entrance of the village he met a
woman, a widow, gathering firewood. He asked
her, "Please, would you bring me a little water
in a jug? I need a drink." As she went to get it,
he called out, "And while you're at it, would you
bring me something to eat?"
12 She said, "I swear, as surely as your God
lives, I don't have so much as a biscuit. I have a
handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a bottle;
you found me scratching together just enough
firewood to make a last meal for my son and
me. After we eat it, we'll die."
13-14 Elijah said to her, "Don't worry about a
thing. Go ahead and do what you've said. But
first make a small biscuit for me and bring it
back here. Then go ahead and make a meal
from what's left for you and your son. This is
the word of the God of Israel: 'The jar of flour
will not run out and the bottle of oil will not
become empty before God sends rain on the
land and ends this drought.'"
15-16 And she went right off and did it, did
just as Elijah asked. And it turned out as he
said—daily food for her and her family. The
jar of meal didn't run out and the bottle of oil
didn't become empty: God's promise fulfilled
to the letter, exactly as Elijah had delivered it!
17 Later on the woman's son became sick.
The sickness took a turn for the worse—and
then he stopped breathing.
18 The woman said to Elijah, "Why did you
ever show up here in the first place—a holy
man barging in, exposing my sins, and killing
my son?"
19-20 Elijah said, "Hand me your son."
He then took him from her bosom, carried him
up to the loft where he was staying, and laid
him on his bed. Then he prayed, "O God, my
God, why have you brought this terrible thing
on this widow who has opened her home to
me? Why have you killed her son?"
21-23 Three times he stretched himself out
full length on the boy, praying with all his
might, "God, my God, put breath back into this
boy's body!" God listened to Elijah's prayer and
put breath back into his body—he was alive!
Elijah picked the boy up, carried him downstairs
from the loft, and gave him to his mother.
"Here's your son," said Elijah, "alive!"
now—you are a holy man. When you speak,
God speaks—a true word!"
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PSALM 146 (UMH 858)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
"The Lord watches over the sojourners, and
upholds the widow and the orphan."
Hallelujah! O my soul, praise God!
All my life long I'll praise God,
singing songs to my God as long as I live.
3-9 Don't put your life in the hands of experts
who know nothing of life, of salvation life.
Mere humans don't have what it takes;
when they die, their projects die with them.
Instead, get help from the God of Jacob,
put your hope in God and know real
blessing!
sea and all the fish in it.
He always does what he says—
he defends the wronged,
he feeds the hungry.
God frees prisoners—
he gives sight to the blind,
he lifts up the fallen.
God loves good people, protects strangers,
takes the side of orphans and widows,
but makes short work of the wicked.
10 God's in charge—always.
Zion's God is God for good!
Hallelujah!
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GALATIANS 1:11-24
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Paul reminds the Christians in Galatia
again that the gospel he shared with them
was from Jesus, and not based on any
opinions of others. Paul advances the case
started in last week’s reading that the
version of the gospel he has brought is
quite simply from Jesus directly.
10-12 Do you think I speak this strongly in
order to manipulate crowds? Or curry favor with
God? Or get popular applause? If my goal is
popularity, I wouldn't bother being Christ's slave.
Know this—I am most emphatic here, friends
—this great Message I delivered to you is not
mere human optimism. I didn't receive it through
the traditions, and I wasn't taught it in some
school. I got it straight from God, received the
Message directly from Jesus Christ.
13-16 I'm sure that you've heard the story of
my earlier life when I lived in the Jewish way.
In those days I went all out in persecuting God's
church. I was systematically destroying it. I was
so enthusiastic about the traditions of my
ancestors that I advanced head and shoulders
above my peers in my career. Even then God
had designs on me. Why, when I was still in my
mother's womb he chose and called me out of
sheer generosity! Now he has intervened and
revealed his Son to me so that I might joyfully
tell non-Jews about him.
16-20 Immediately after my calling—without
consulting anyone around me and without
going up to Jerusalem to confer with those who
were apostles long before I was—I got away
to Arabia.
years before I went up to Jerusalem to
compare stories with Peter. I was there only
fifteen days—but what days they were! Except
for our Master's brother James, I saw no other
apostles.
(I'm telling you the absolute truth in this.)
21-24 Then I began my ministry in the regions of
Syria and Cilicia. After all that time and activity I
was still unknown by face among the Christian
churches in Judea. There was only this report:
"That man who once persecuted us is now
preaching the very message he used to try to
destroy." Their response was to recognize and
worship God because of me!
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LUKE 7:11-17
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
This week, we focus on how compassion may
lead and shape a ministry. The widow's son in
the story in Luke was a "young man," not a
small child as in Kings.
Jesus raises the dead son of a widow of Nain.
11-15 Not long after that, Jesus went to the
village Nain. His disciples were with him, along
with quite a large crowd. As they approached the
village gate, they met a funeral procession—a
woman's only son was being carried out for
burial. And the mother was a widow. When Jesus
saw her, his heart broke. He said to her, "Don't
cry." Then he went over and touched the coffin.
The pallbearers stopped. He said, "Young man, I
tell you: Get up." The dead son sat up and began
talking. Jesus presented him to his mother.
16-17 They all realized they were in a place of
holy mystery, that God was at work among them.
They were quietly worshipful—and then noisily
grateful, calling out among themselves, "God is
back, looking to the needs of his people!" The
news of Jesus spread all through the country.
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• 1534 - Jacques Cartier was the first to sail
into the river he named the Saint Lawrence.
• 1790 - John Barry copyrighted "Philadelphia
Spelling Book." It was the first American book
ever to be copyrighted.
• 1978 - Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old
policy of excluding black men from the Mormon
priesthood.
• 2000 - Canada and the United States signed a
border security agreement. The agreement
called for the establishment of a border
enforcement team.
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MONDAY, JUNE 10TH —
Office is closed today.
Pastor Melodee returns from Annual Conference
• Happy Anniversary, Harold and Phyllis Scholl!
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• 1776 - The Continental Congress appointed a
committee to write a Declaration of
Independence.
• 1801 - The North African State of Tripoli
declared war on the United States. The dispute
was over merchant vessels being able to travel
safely through the Mediterranean.
• 1854 - The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,
MD, held its first graduation.
• 1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago
endorsed womens suffrage.
• 1943 - Laszlo Biro patented the ballpoint pen.
Biro was a Hungarian journalist.
• 1946 - Italy established a republic replacing its
monarchy.
• 1971 - The U.S. ended a 21-year trade
embargo of China.
• 1998 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled
that poor children in Milwaukee could attend
religious schools at taxpayer expense.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 11TH —
• Happy Birthday, Myrna Whetstone!
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• 1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the
Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran
aground.
• 1793 - Robert Haeterick was issued the first
patent for a stove.
• 1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S.
patent granted to an American inventor for a
gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1947 - The U.S. government announced an end
to sugar rationing.
• 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested
in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12TH —
A-C FOOD PANTRY OPEN 9 A.M. to 11 A.M.
SMALL GROUP IN CASEY U.M.C. - 5:30 P.M.
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• 1665 - England installed a municipal
government in New York. It was the former
Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
• 1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.
• 1838 - The Iowa Territory was organized.
• 1839 - Abner Doubleday is credited with
creating the game of baseball. However,
evidence indicates that the game of baseball
was played before 1800.
• 1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife.
It was later known as the Swiss army knife.
• 2009 - In the U.S., The switch from analog
TV transmission to digital was completed.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 13TH —
• Happy Anniversary, Bob and Dorothy Oaks!
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• 1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette of France
arrived in the American colonies to help with
their rebellion against the British.
In the American Revolution, Lafayette served
as major-general in the Continental Army under
George Washington. As an ardent supporter of
the United States' constitutional principles, he
called on all nations to follow American example.
In honor of his contributions to the American
Revolution, many cities and monuments in the
United States bear his name.
• 1825 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin.
Hunt then then sold the rights for $400.
• 1866 - The 14th Amendment to the United
States Constitution was passed by the U.S.
Congress. The amendment was designed to
grant citizenship and protect the civil liberties
of all recently freed slaves.
• 1898 - The Canadian Yukon Territory was
organized.
• 1912 - In Mississippi, Captain Albert Berry
made the first successful parachute jump from
an airplane.
• 1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled
that children may not be sent by parcel post.
(Oh me!)
• 1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was
nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to
become the first black justice on the U.S.
Supreme Court.
• 1979 - Sioux Indians were awarded $105 million
in compensation for the U.S. seizure in 1877 of
their Black Hills in South Dakota.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 14TH —
Happy Birthday, Bob Oaks!
Happy Birthday, Harold Scholl!
Happy Birthday, Tom Vorrath!
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• 1777 - Continental Congress in Philadelphia
adopted the "Stars and Stripes" as the national
flag of the United States. The Flag Resolution
stated: "That the flag of the United States be
made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white;
that the union be thirteen stars, white with blue
field, representing a new Constellation."
• 1834 - Cyrus H. McCormick received a patent
for his reaping machine.
• 1893 - Philadelphia observed the first Flag Day.
• 1951 - "Univac I" was unveiled. The computer
was designed for the U.S. Census Bureau and
billed as the world's first commercial computer.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 15TH —
Happy Birthday, Art Arter!
Happy Birthday, Ryne Noland!
Happy Anniversary, John and Rita Elgin!
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• 1215 - King John of England put his seal on
the Magna Carta.
• 1752 - Benjamin Franklin experimented by
flying a kite during a thunderstorm. The result
was a little spark that showed the relationship
between lightning and electricity.
• 1844 - Charles Goodyear was granted a
patent for the process that strengthens rubber.
• 1864 - An order to establish a military burial
ground was signed by Secretary of War Edwin
M. Stanton. The location later became known
as Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1898 - The U.S. House of representatives
approved the annexation of Hawaii.
• 1916 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed
a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
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FUTURE FOCUS —
SATURDAY, JUNE 15TH —
• MOBILE FOOD PANTRY •
AT CASEY COMMUNITY BUILDING -
10 A.M. TO NOON.
You are welcome to volunteer to help with
this project. LET US KNOW!
TODAY IS FATHERS DAY.
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School is out now so keep watch for little
feet darting about here and there. They are
precious so we must keep a sharp eye.
God Bless and Keep You,
Pastor Melodee
