Sunday, June 2, 2013

OUR WEEK — 
JUNE 9TH TO JUNE 15TH —


REMINDERS —
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH —

ADAIR U.M.W. MEETING AT HAPPY CHEF
  AT 8:30 A.M.

SMALL GROUP STUDY IN ADAIR U.M.C.
@ 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

THE LANDINGS BEGAN ON TUESDAY, 
JUNE 6TH, AT 6:30 A.M. 
 By the end of June 11TH (D-DAY + 5),
• 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 
 Some 25,000 American tombs scattered 
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.
This cemetery is located on a bluff 
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.
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CASEY U.M.W. WILL HOST
MOTHER/DAUGHTER BANQUET 
IN CASEY U.M.C. AT 6:30 P.M. 

EVERYONE IS INVITED.
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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!"
24  The woman said to Elijah, "I see it all 
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!

   God made sky and soil,
      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.
 Later I returned to Damascus, but it was three
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 Birthday, Beverlee Magill!
• 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!
 NEXT SUNDAY, JUNE 16 —
 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