REMINDERS —
MONDAY JULY 1ST —
Belated Wishes:
• Happy Birthday Stacy Harris
• Happy Birthday Leland Vorrath and
• Happy Birthday Vickie Moore
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TUESDAY JULY 2ND —
Belated Wishes:
• Happy Birthday Bill Elgin
• Happy Birthday Ward Umbaugh and
• Happy Birthday Josh Harris
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WEDNESDAY JULY 3RD —
• Happy Birthday Amber Anderson
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THURSDAY, JULY 4TH —
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
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FRIDAY, JULY 5TH —
• Happy Birthday, Debie Stolk
• Happy Birthday, Lisa Rochholz
• Happy Birthday, Chris Peterson
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SUNDAY, JULY 7TH —
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
COLOR: GREEN
— WE HAVE HOLY COMMUNION TODAY —
SCRIPTURE READINGS —
2 KINGS 5:1-14
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
The king of Aram sends his army commander,
Naaman, to the king of Israel to be cured of
leprosy. The king of Israel sends him to Elisha.
He sends Naaman to wash in the Jordan River
for healing.
king of Aram. He was important to his master,
who held him in the highest esteem because it
was by him that God had given victory to Aram:
a truly great man, but afflicted with a grievous
skin disease.
expeditions against Israel, captured a young girl
who became a maid to Naaman's wife.
my master could meet the prophet of Samaria, he
would be healed of his skin disease."
4 Naaman went straight to his master and
reported what the girl from Israel had said.
send a letter of introduction to the king of Israel."
So he went off, taking with him about 750
pounds of silver, 150 pounds of gold, and ten
sets of clothes.
6 Naaman delivered the letter to the king of Israel.
The letter read, "When you get this letter, you'll
know that I've personally sent my servant
Naaman to you; heal him of his skin disease."
7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he was
terribly upset, ripping his robe to pieces. He said,
"Am I a god with the power to bring death or life
that I get orders to heal this man from his
disease? What's going on here? That king's
trying to pick a fight, that's what!"
8 Elisha the man of God heard what had
happened, that the king of Israel was so
distressed that he'd ripped his robe to shreds.
He sent word to the king, "Why are you so upset,
ripping your robe like this? Send him to me so
he'll learn that there's a prophet in Israel."
9 So Naaman with his horses and chariots
arrived in style and stopped at Elisha's door.
10 Elisha sent out a servant to meet him with this
message: "Go to the River Jordan and immerse
yourself seven times. Your skin will be healed
and you'll be as good as new."
11-12 Naaman lost his temper. He turned on his
heel saying, "I thought he'd personally come out
and meet me, call on the name of God, wave his
hand over the diseased spot, and get rid of the
disease. The Damascus rivers, Abana and
Pharpar, are cleaner by far than any of the rivers
in Israel. Why not bathe in them? I'd at least get
clean." He stomped off, mad as a hornet.
13 But his servants caught up with him and said,
"Father, if the prophet had asked you to do
something hard and heroic, wouldn't you have
done it? So why not this simple 'wash and be
clean'?"
himself in the Jordan seven times, following the
orders of the Holy Man. His skin was healed; it
was like the skin of a little baby. He was as good
as new.
PSALM 30 (UMH 762)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
A psalm in thanksgiving for healing from a
deadly disease.
A PSALM OF DAVID
1 I give you all the credit, God— you got me out
of that mess,
you didn't let my foes gloat.
2-3 God, my God, I yelled for help
and you put me together.
God, you pulled me out of the grave,
gave me another chance at life
when I was down-and-out.
4-5 All you saints! Sing your hearts out to God!
Thank him to his face!
He gets angry once in a while, but across
a lifetime there is only love.
The nights of crying your eyes out
give way to days of laughter.
6-7 When things were going great
I crowed, "I've got it made.
I'm God's favorite.
He made me king of the mountain."
Then you looked the other way
and I fell to pieces.
8-10 I called out to you, God;
I laid my case before you:
"Can you sell me for a profit when I'm dead?
auction me off at a cemetery yard sale?
When I'm 'dust to dust' my songs
and stories of you won't sell.
So listen! and be kind!
Help me out of this!"
11-12 You did it: you changed wild lament
into whirling dance;
You ripped off my black mourning band
and decked me with wildflowers.
I'm about to burst with song;
I can't keep quiet about you.
God, my God,
I can't thank you enough.
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GALATIANS 6:1-16
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Paul sets up the dichotomy of life in the Spirit
and life in the flesh, then writes in large, capital
letters: "THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WANTING TO
PUT A GOOD FACE FORWARD IN THE FLESH
ARE THE ONES WHO ARE COMPELLING YOU
TO BE CIRCUMCISED, AND IT'S JUST TO KEEP
FROM BEING PERSECUTED BECAUSE OF THE
CROSS OF CHRIST."
1-3 Live creatively, friends. If someone falls into
sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical
comments for yourself. You might be needing
forgiveness before the day's out. Stoop down
and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share
their burdens, and so complete Christ's law. If
you think you are too good for that, you are badly
deceived.
4-5 Make a careful exploration of who you are and
the work you have been given, and then sink
yourself into that. Don't be impressed with your-
self. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of
you must take responsibility for doing the
creative best you can with your own life.
6 Be very sure now, you who have been trained
to a self-sufficient maturity, that you enter into a
generous common life with those who have
trained you, sharing all the good things that you
have and experience.
7-8 Don't be misled: No one makes a fool of God.
What a person plants, he will harvest. The person
who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of
others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds.
All he'll have to show for his life is weeds! But the
one who plants in response to God, letting God's
Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop
of real life, eternal life.
9-10 So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued
doing good. At the right time we will harvest a
good crop if we don't give up, or quit. Right now,
therefore, every time we get the chance, let us
work for the benefit of all, starting with the people
closest to us in the community of faith.
11-13 Now, in these last sentences, I want to
emphasize in the bold scrawls of my personal
handwriting the immense importance of what I
have written to you. These people who are
attempting to force the ways of circumcision on
you have only one motive: They want an easy
way to look good before others, lacking the
courage to live by a faith that shares Christ's
suffering and death. All their talk about the law is
gas. They themselves don't keep the law! And
they are highly selective in the laws they do
observe. They only want you to be circumcised
so they can boast of their success in recruiting
you to their side. That is contemptible!
14-16 For my part, I am going to boast about
nothing but the Cross of our Master, Jesus
Christ. Because of that Cross, I have been
crucified in relation to the world, set free from the
stifling atmosphere of pleasing others and fitting
into the little patterns that they dictate. Can't you
see the central issue in all this? It is not what you
and I do—submit to circumcision, reject
circumcision. It is what God is doing, and he is
creating something totally new, a free life! All who
walk by this standard are the true Israel of God—
his chosen people. Peace and mercy on them!
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LUKE 10:1-20
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Jesus sends out seventy disciples in pairs with
instructions to proclaim the arrival of God's
kingdom in word and deed. They return with joy.
LAMBS IN A WOLF PACK
1-2 Later the Master selected seventy and sent
them ahead of him in pairs to every town and
place where he intended to go.
"What a huge harvest! And how few the harvest
hands. So on your knees; ask the God of the
Harvest to send harvest hands.
3 "On your way! But be careful-this is hazardous
work. You're like lambs in a wolf pack.
4 "Travel light. Comb and toothbrush and no
extra luggage.
"Don't loiter and make small talk with everyone
you meet along the way.
5-6 "When you enter a home, greet the family,
'Peace.' If your greeting is received, then it's a
good place to stay. But if it's not received, take
it back and get out. Don't impose yourself.
7 "Stay at one home, taking your meals there, for
a worker deserves three square meals. Don't
move from house to house, looking for the best
cook in town.
8-9 "When you enter a town and are received, eat
what they set before you, heal anyone who is sick,
and tell them, 'God's kingdom is right on your
doorstep!'
10-12 "When you enter a town and are not
received, go out in the street and say, 'The only
thing we got from you is the dirt on our feet, and
we're giving it back. Did you have any idea that
God's kingdom was right on your doorstep?'
Sodom will have it better on Judgment Day than
the town that rejects you.
13-14 "Doom, Chorazin! Doom, Bethsaida! If Tyre
and Sidon had been given half the chances given
you, they'd have been on their knees long ago,
repenting and crying for mercy. Tyre and Sidon
will have it easy on Judgment Day compared to
you.
15 "And you, Capernaum! Do you think you're
about to be promoted to heaven? Think again.
You're on a mudslide to hell.
16 "The one who listens to you, listens to me.
The one who rejects you, rejects me. And
rejecting me is the same as rejecting God, who
sent me."
17 The seventy came back triumphant. "Master,
even the demons danced to your tune!"
18-20 Jesus said, "I know. I saw Satan fall, a bolt
of lightning out of the sky. See what I've given
you? Safe passage as you walk on snakes and
scorpions, and protection from every assault of
the Enemy. No one can put a hand on you. All the
same, the great triumph is not in your authority
over evil, but in God's authority over you and
presence with you. Not what you do for God but
what God does for you—that's the agenda for
rejoicing."
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• Happy Birthday Shirley Chesnut
• Happy Birthday Larry Chesnut
• Happy Birthday Cadence Stephenson
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• 1846 - U.S. annexation of California was
proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a
Mexican garrison.
• 1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.
• 1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam,
later named Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.
• 1969 - Canada's House of Commons gave final
approval to a measure that made the French
language equal to English throughout the
national government.
• 1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced he
was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day
O'Connor to become the first female justice on
the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1983 - Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of
Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet
Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader
Yuri V. Andropov. In 1982, Smith wrote a letter
to the leader and received an invitation to visit.
She wrote a book about her excursion to the
Soviet Union, before her death at the age of 13 in
the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash.
• 2000 - Amazon.com announced that they had
sold almost 400,000 copies of "Harry Potter and
The Goblet of Fire," making it the biggest selling
book in e-tailing history.
• 2011 - The world's first artificial organ transplant
was achieved. It was an artificial windpipe
coated with stem cells.
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MONDAY, JULY 8TH —
— OFFICE CLOSED TODAY —
• Happy Birthday Jim Oberholtz
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• 1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade
march around Jerusalem.
• 1608 - The first French settlement at Quebec
was established by Samuel de Champlain.
• 1755 - Britain broke off diplomatic relations
with France as their disputes in the New World
intensified.
• 1776 - Col. John Nixon gave the first public
reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
to a group of people at Independence Square,
Philadelphia.
• 1815 - Louis XVIII returned to Paris after the
defeat of Napoleon.
• 1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers,
Wisconsin, poured chocolate syrup over ice
cream in a dish, making the first sunday. Before
this time chocolate syrup had only been used for
making ice-cream sodas.
• 1947 - Demolition work began in New York City
for the new permanent headquarters of the
United Nations.
• 1997 - The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government
warned that the diet-drug combination known as
"fen-phen" could cause serious heart and lung
damage to the patient.
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TUESDAY, JULY 9TH —
• Happy Birthday Carla Eggen
• Happy Birthday Mike Reed
• Happy Anniversary Ralph and LaVonne Sheeder
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• 1609 - In a letter to the crown, the emperor
Rudolf II granted Bohemia freedom of worship.
• 1776 - American Declaration of Independence
was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's
troops in New York.
• 1789 - In Versailles, the French National
Assembly declared itself a Constituent Assembly
and began to prepare a French National
Constitution.
• 1792 - S.L. Mitchell of Columbia College in New
York City became the first Professor of
Agriculture.
• 1816 - Argentina declared independence from
Spain.
• 1847 - A 10-hour work day was established for
workers in the state of New Hampshire.
• 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution was ratified. The amendment was
designed to grant citizenship to and protect the
civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this
by prohibiting states from denying or abridging
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States, depriving any person of his life,
liberty, or property without due process of law.
• 1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia was
established by an act of the British Parliament,
uniting the separate colonies under a federal
government.
• 1951 - U.S. President Truman asked Congress
to formally end the state of war between the
United States and Germany.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10TH —
• FOOD PANTRY OPEN FROM 9 A.M. TO 11 A.M.
AT 5:30 P.M.
• SPRC MEETING IN CASEY U.M.C. AT 7 P.M. • Happy Birthday Rick Sheeder
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• 1679 - The British crown claimed New
Hampshire as a royal colony.
• 1776 - The statue of King George III was pulled
down in New York City.
• 1778 - In support of the American Revolution,
Louis XVI declared war on England.
• 1821 - U.S. troops took possession of Florida.
The territory was sold by Spain.
• 1890 - Wyoming became the 44th state to join
the United States.
• 1913 - The highest temperature ever recorded
in the U.S. was 134 degrees in Death Valley, CA.
• 1929 - The U.S. government began issuing
paper money in the small size.
• 1949 - The first practical rectangular television
was presented. The picture tube measured 12 by
16 and sold for $12.
• 1953 - American forces withdraw from Pork
Chop Hill in Korea after heavy fighting.
• 1962 - The Telstar Communications satellite
was launched. The satellite relayed telephone
and TV signals between Europe and the United
States.
• 1991 - Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office as
the first elected president of the Russian
republic.
• 2002 - Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The
Massacre of the Innocents" sold for $76.2 million
at Sotheby's.
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THURSDAY, JULY 11TH —
• Happy Birthday Darin Peterson
• Happy Anniversary Don and Carla Eggen
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• 1786 - Morocco agreed to stop attacking
American ships in the Mediterranean for a
payment of $10,000.
• 1804 - The United States' first secretary of the
treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice
President Aaron Burr in a duel.
• 1864 - The Confederate forces led by General
Jubal Early began an invasion of Washington,
DC. They turned back the next day.
• 1918 - Enrico Caruso recorded "Over There"
written by George M. Cohan.
• 1955 - The U.S. Air Force Academy was
dedicated in Colorado Springs, CO, at Lowry Air
Base.
• 1977 - The Medal of Freedom was awarded
posthumously to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a
White House ceremony.
• 1979 - The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab
returned to Earth. It burned up in the atmosphere
and showered debris over the Indian Ocean and
Australia.
• 2008 - Apple released the iPhone 3G.
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FRIDAY, JULY 12TH —
• Happy Birthday Ryan Simmelink
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• 1096 - Crusaders under Peter the Hermit
reached Sofia, Bulgaria. There they met their
Byzantine escort, which brought them safely the
rest of the way to Constantinople. by August 1.
• 1862 - The U.S. Congress authorized the
Medal of Honor.
• 1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
witnessed the battle where Union forces repelled
Jubal Early's army on the outskirts of
Washington, DC.
• 1933 - A minimum wage of 40 cents an hour
was established in the U.S.
• 1960 - The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale.
• 1982 - "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" broke all
box-office records by surpassing the $100
million mark of ticket sales in the first 31 days of
its opening.
• 1990 - Russian republic president Boris N.
Yeltsin announced his resignation from the the
Soviet Communist Party.
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SATURDAY, JULY 13TH —
CASEY FUN DAYS
LUNCH PROVIDED BY CASEY U.M.C.
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• 1099 - The Crusaders launched their final
assault on the Muslims in Jerusalem.
• 1585 - A group of 108 English colonists, led by
Sir Richard Grenville, reached Roanoke Island,
North Carolina.
• 1754 - At the beginning of the French and
Indian War, George Washington surrendered
the small, circular Fort Necessity in south-
western Pennsylvania to the French.
• 1835 - John Ruggles received patent #1 from
the U.S. Patent Office for a traction wheel used
in locomotive steam engines. All 9,957 previous
patents were not numbered.
• 1878 - The Congress of Berlin divided the
Balkan countries among European powers.
The region is mostly inhabited by Slavic ethnic
groups - Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbians,
Croatians, Montenegrins, Bosnians, Slovenes,
Romanians, Greeks, Turks, and Albanians.
Archaeological evidence indicates the Balkans
have been settled for over 10,000 years.
• 1954 - In Geneva, the United States, Great
Britain and France reached an accord on
Indochina which divided Vietnam into two
countries, North and South, along the 17th
parallel.
• 1984 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis was injured in
a car accident and was left comatose. He came
out of the coma in June of 2003.
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FUTURE FOCUS —
JULY 15 THROUGH 18TH —
• CASEY U.M.C. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
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• ADAIR U.M.C.'s VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL.
TIME WILL BE:
9 A.M. TO 11 A.M. FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN.
9 A.M. TO 2 P.M. FOR OLDER KIDS
Bible School Program will be Thursday evening
at 6:30 PM. Location is to be announced.
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SATURDAY, JULY 20TH —
ADAIR CHUCK WAGON DAYS
AT ADAIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ———————————————————————
SUNDAY, JULY 28TH —
Loose Change offering at services are
earmarked for IMAGINE NO MALARIA, A
UMCOR PROGRAM.
UMCOR’s Imagine No Malaria Program was
launched in April, 2010 in Lumbumbashi, DR
Congo and is operating in various countries now.
At the community level, UMCOR works to
eliminate stagnant water and trash around
people’s homes. With your help, we are able to
provide training, free or low cost medications,
consultations, indoor spraying, and insecticide
treated nets for individuals and families in
malaria prone regions. United Methodists are
part of the worldwide effort to eradicate this
disease by the year 2015. UMC has raised more
than $9 million to send lifesaving insecticide
treated mosquito nets to Africa and to join the
global fight to prevent any more unnecessary
deaths from malaria.
Thank you for your hard work and focus in these
next few weeks. We will have celebration days in
our towns, and we will have Vacation Bible
School presented for the youngsters of our
community.
Thank you again for any help you can offer
during these community activities. We very
much do - appreciate you.
Donna K
