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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST —
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NOVEMBER IS ——
NATIVE••AMERICAN••HERITAGE••MONTH
NATIVE AMERICAN CREED
by The Rev. Roger Scott
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
I believe in God, Creator of our unique
native languages,
Who gifted us this identity as a distinct
people through
our native tongues,
so that our native spiritual leaders could
relay God's love
to our native people who could not
understand
that foreign tongue called English.
I believe in Jesus Christ, our relative,
Who talked of us when he said, "I have
other sheep out there,
besides those I have here."
I believe in Jesus Christ who knew the
pain of our native
people who were forced from their
homeland and had no place to lay
their head.
I believe in Jesus Christ as our Chief
Cornerstone as we
begin to build a new generation of native
spiritual leaders.
I believe in Jesus Christ who does not say
"goodbye" in any language,
but says "I will come again."
I believe in the Holy Spirit as tongues of fire
lighting upon our native people to witness
to their people
and to the world, through the native song
and dance.
I believe in the Holy Spirit as our guide and
the
driving force for our native people to do a
new thing
as we walk a new journey, toward
perfection for all humankind.
A PROLONGED WHISPER
by Adrienne Trevathan
Port Gamble S'Klallam tribe
This was written when participants were
encouraged to remember and celebrate the
gifts given by the elders in their families.
• She did not know that the way she stood
would influence the way I stand. As I step
back through my mind's eye, my brain
skips through photograph after
photograph of her short and strong frame,
leaning contently on her children or
grandchildren, both arms grasped tightly
with affection around their chests or
waists, her head gracing their shoulders in
pride. It has now been five years since my
grandmother's death, and I feel the weight
of her head on my shoulder today.
There is a force that dwells beyond our
ability to know each other and wraps us in
an unspeakable knowledge. In the past
eight years, I've become quite good at
rationalizing my attempts to understand it
by assuming I could access it through
writing or repackaging it apart from
emotion. In my more honest moments, I am
surrounded by a powerful urge that rises
up within me and wells over when I least
expect it . . and I suspect it is coming from
my grandparents.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND –
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS TODAY
21TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
THIS IS ALL SAINTS DAY
White or Red for All Saints Day or
Green for 21st Sunday After Pentecost
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ADAIR UMC’s FALL DINNER TODAY —
WE HAVE JOINT WORSHIP SERVICE IN
ADAIR COMMUNITY CENTRE AT 9:30 A.M.
SCRIPTURE READINGS —
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JOSHUA 3:7–17
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Joshua receives instructions and instructs
the people of Israel in how to cross the
Jordan River. The priests who carried the
Ark of the Covenant take the lead. As soon
as they stepped into the river, the water
stopped flowing upstream, allowing the
people to cross on dry ground.
(A new Exodus!)
will begin to make you great in the eyes of
all Israel. They’ll see for themselves that
I’m with you in the same way that I was
with Moses. You will command the priests
who carry the Chest of the Covenant:
‘When you come to the edge of Jordan’s
waters, stand there on the river bank.’”
9-13 Then Joshua addressed the People of
Israel: “Attention! Listen to what God, your
God, has to say. This is how you’ll know
that God is alive among you—he will
completely dispossess before you the
Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites,
Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites. Look
at what’s before you: the Chest of the
Covenant. Think of it—the Master of the
entire earth is crossing the Jordan as you
watch. Now take twelve men from the tribes
of Israel, one man from each tribe. When
the soles of the feet of the priests carrying
the Chest of God, Master of all the earth,
touch the Jordan’s water, the flow of water
will be stopped—the water coming from
upstream will pile up in a heap.”
people left their tents to cross the Jordan,
led by the priests carrying the Chest of the
Covenant. When the priests got to the
Jordan and their feet touched the water at
the edge (the Jordan overflows its banks
throughout the harvest), the flow of water
stopped. It piled up in a heap—a long way
off—at Adam, which is near Zarethan. The
river went dry all the way down to the
Arabah Sea (the Salt Sea). And the people
crossed, facing Jericho.
17 And there they stood; those priests
carrying the Chest of the Covenant stood
firmly planted on dry ground in the middle
of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on
dry ground. Finally the whole nation was
across the Jordan, and not one wet foot.
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PSALM 107:1–9, 17–37 (UMH 830)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
1-3 Oh, thank God—he’s so good!
His love never runs out.
All of you set free by God, tell the world!
Tell how he freed you from oppression,
Then rounded you up from all over the
place,
from the four winds, from the seven seas.
4-9 Some of you wandered for years in the
desert,
looking but not finding a good place to
live,
Half-starved and parched with thirst,
staggering and stumbling, on the brink
of exhaustion.
Then, in your desperate condition, you
called out to God.
He got you out in the nick of time;
He put your feet on a wonderful road
that took you straight to a good place to
live.
So thank God for his marvelous love,
for his miracle mercy to the children he
loves.
He poured great draughts of water down
parched throats;
the starved and hungry got plenty to eat.
17-22 Some of you were sick because
you’d lived a bad life,
your bodies feeling the effects of your
sin;
You couldn’t stand the sight of food,
so miserable you thought you’d be
better off dead.
Then you called out to God in your
desperate condition;
he got you out in the nick of time.
He spoke the word that healed you,
that pulled you back from the brink of
death.
So thank God for his marvelous love,
for his miracle mercy to the children he
loves;
Offer thanksgiving sacrifices,
tell the world what he’s done—sing it out!
23-32 Some of you set sail in big ships;
you put to sea to do business in faraway
ports.
Out at sea you saw God in action,
saw his breathtaking ways with the
ocean:
With a word he called up the wind—
an ocean storm, towering waves!
You shot high in the sky, then the bottom
dropped out;
your hearts were stuck in your throats.
You were spun like a top, you reeled like a
drunk,
you didn’t know which end was up.
Then you called out to God in your
desperate condition;
he got you out in the nick of time.
He quieted the wind down to a whisper,
put a muzzle on all the big waves.
And you were so glad when the storm died
down,
and he led you safely back to harbor.
So thank God for his marvelous love,
for his miracle mercy to the children he
loves.
Lift high your praises when the people
assemble,
shout Hallelujah when the elders meet!
33-41 God turned rivers into wasteland,
springs of water into sunbaked mud;
Luscious orchards became alkali flats
because of the evil of the people who
lived there.
Then he changed wasteland into fresh
pools of water,
arid earth into springs of water,
Brought in the hungry and settled them
there;
they moved in—what a great place to
live!
They sowed the fields, they planted
vineyards,
they reaped a bountiful harvest.
He blessed them and they prospered
greatly;
their herds of cattle never decreased.
But abuse and evil and trouble declined
as he heaped scorn on princes and sent
them away.
He gave the poor a safe place to live,
treated their clans like well-cared-for
sheep.
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1 THESSALONIANS 2:9–13
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Paul fondly remembers the way that the
Thessalonians received him and the
gospel he preached. He and his ministry
colleagues worked diligently to add no
burden to the people. The people gladly
heard and received the gospel.
9-12 You remember us in those days,
friends, working our fingers to the bone,
up half the night, moonlighting so you
wouldn’t have the burden of supporting us
while we proclaimed God’s Message to you.
You saw with your own eyes how discreet
and courteous we were among you, with
keen sensitivity to you as fellow believers.
And God knows we weren’t freeloaders!
You experienced it all firsthand. With each
of you we were like a father with his child,
holding your hand, whispering encourage-
ment, showing you step-by-step how to
live well before God, who called us into his
own kingdom, into this delightful life.
13 And now we look back on all this and
thank God, an artesian well of thanks!
When you got the Message of God we
preached, you didn’t pass it off as just one
more human opinion, but you took it to
heart as God’s true word to you, which it
is, God himself at work in you believers!
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MATTHEW 23:1–12
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Continuing his public teaching in the
temple, Jesus warned the crowd and his
disciples about the duplicity of powerful
Pharisees. He admonished those present
to act differently. They were to honor only
God, follow one rabbi (Jesus), and refer to
one another as siblings, or servants or
students as a sign of humility and mutual
respect.
1-3 Now Jesus turned to address his
disciples, along with the crowd that had
gathered with them. “The religion scholars
and Pharisees are competent teachers in
God’s Law. You won’t go wrong in
following their teachings on Moses. But be
careful about following them. They talk a
good line, but they don’t live it. They don’t
take it into their hearts and live it out in
their behavior. It’s spit-and-polish veneer.
4-7 “Instead of giving you God’s Law as
food and drink by which you can banquet
on God, they package it in bundles of rules,
loading you down like pack animals. They
seem to take pleasure in watching you
stagger under these loads, and wouldn’t
think of lifting a finger to help. Their lives
are perpetual fashion shows, embroidered
prayer shawls one day and flowery prayers
the next. They love to sit at the head table
at church dinners, basking in the most
prominent positions, preening in the
radiance of public flattery, receiving
honorary degrees, and getting called
‘Doctor’ and ‘Reverend.’
8-10 “Don’t let people do that to you, put
you on a pedestal like that. You all have a
single Teacher, and you are all classmates.
Don’t set people up as experts over your
life, letting them tell you what to do. Save
that authority for God; let him tell you what
to do. No one else should carry the title of
‘Father’; you have only one Father, and
he’s in heaven. And don’t let people
maneuver you into taking charge of them.
There is only one Life-Leader for you and
them—Christ.
11-12 “Do you want to stand out? Then
step down. Be a servant. If you puff your-
self up, you’ll get the wind knocked out of
you. But if you’re content to simply be
yourself, your life will count for plenty.
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• 1721 - Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of
Russia, changed his title to emperor.
• 1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave
his "Farewell Address to the Army" near
Princeton, NJ.
• 1889 - North Dakota and South Dakota
were admitted into the union as the 39th
and 40th states.
• 1930 - Haile Selassie was crowned
emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas
E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The
Chicago Tribune published an early edition
that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS
TRUMAN." The Truman victory shocked
many polls and newspapers.
• 1959 - Charles Van Doren, a game show
contestant and huge winner on the
NBC-TV program "Twenty-One" admitted
that he had been given questions and
answers in advance.
• 1966 - The Cuban Adjustment Act allowed
123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent
residence in the U.S.
• 1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan
signed a bill establishing a federal holiday
on the third Monday of January to honor
civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• 2003 - In the U.S., the Episcopal Church
diocese consecrated the church's first
openly gay bishop.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD —
THE OFFICE IS CLOSED TODAY
• 1507 - Leonardo DaVinci was
commissioned by the husband of Lisa
Gherardini to paint her. The work is known
as the Mona Lisa.
• 1631 - The Reverend John Eliot arrived in
the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the
first Protestant minister to dedicate
himself to the conversion of Native
Americans to Christianity.
• 1793 - Stephen F. Austin was born. He
was the principal founder of Texas.
• 1796 - John Adams was elected the 2nd
U.S. President.
• 1941 - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John
Grew warned that the Japanese may be
planning a sudden attack on the U.S.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH —
THIS IS ELECTION DAY
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• 1847 - Scottish obstetrician James Young
Simpson discovered the anethestic
qualities of chloroform.
• 1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter discovered
the entry of the lost tomb of Pharaoh
Tutankhamen.
• 1924 - Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was
elected America's first woman governor so
she could serve out the remaining term of
her late husband, William B. Ross.
• 1989 - About a million East Germans filled
the streets of East Berlin in a pro-
democracy rally.
• 1999 - The United Nations imposed
economic sanctions against the Taliban
that controlled most of Afghanistan. The
sanctions were imposed because the
Taliban had refused to turn over Osama
bin Laden, who had been charged with
masterminding the 1998 bombings of the
U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH —
Happy Anniversary Tom and Darla Cline!
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ADAIR U.M.W. MEETS AT 1:30 P.M.
• SPRC Meeting at Adair UMC 7:00 P.M.
• 1844 - In California, a grizzly bear under
went a successful cataract operation at the
Zoological Garden.
• 1872 - In the U.S., Susan B. Anthony was
fined $100 for attempting to vote in the
presidential election. She never paid the
fine.
• 1935 - The game "Monopoly" was
introduced by Parker Brothers Company.
• 1940 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt
won an unprecedented third term in office.
• 1946 - John F. Kennedy was elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives at age 29.
• 1963 - Archaeologists found the remains
of a Viking settlement at L'Anse aux
Meadows, Newfoundland.
• 1998 - The U.N. announced that a Taliban
militia had killed up to 5,000 civilians in a
takeover of a town in Afghanistan.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH —
Happy Birthday Monica Weston!
Happy Birthday Susie Morgan!
Happy Birthday Austin Hall!
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• 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be
sixteenth president of the United States.
• 1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the
president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
• 1965 - The Freedom Flights program
began which would allow 250,000 Cubans
to come to the United States by 1971.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH —
THIS IS WORLD COMMUNITY DAY
Church Women United, an ecumenical
organization of Christian women who are
working to strengthen families.
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• 1811 - The Shawnee Indians of chief
Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry
Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or
Tippecanoe).
• 1837 - In Alton, IL, abolitionist printer
Elijah P. Lovejoy was shot to death by a
mob (supporters of slavery) while trying to
protect his printing shop from a third
destruction.
• 1893 - The state of Colorado granted its
women the right to vote.
• 1895 - The last spike was driven into
Canada's first transcontinental railway in
the mountains of British Columbia.
• 1916 - Jeanette Rankin of Montana
became the first woman elected to the U.S.
Congress.
• 1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma
Narrows Bridge in Washington state
collapsed during a windstorm. The
suspension bridge had opened to traffic on
July 1, 1940.
• 1944 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
became the first person to win a fourth
term as president in the United States.
• 1965 - The "Pillsbury Dough Boy"
debuted in television commercials.
• 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
signed a bill establishing the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting.
• 1999 - Tiger Woods became the first
golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win four
straight tournaments.
• 2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made
history as the first president's wife to win
public office.The state of New York elected
her to the U.S. Senate. (New York)
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH —
Happy Birthday Blake Gerhards!
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• Lay Leadership Development (LLD)
and Healthy Church Initiative (HCI)
meeting at CASEY U.M.C. 10 A.M. - 3 P.M.
•Wednesday, November 12th
A-C FOOD PANTRY AT CASEY UMC —
6:00 P.M.- 8:00 P.M.
FUTURE FOCUS —
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH —
CASEY UMC’S FALL DINNER —
JOINT WORSHIP IN CASEY UMC-9:30 A.M.
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Thank you for your willing participation in
our church life this week. These are busy
times and you are a valuable asset to our
little assembly. Thank you again.
God Bless and Keep You,
Donna
