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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8TH —
• GOD SQUAD AT CASEY U.M.C. —
4 P.M. TO 5:30 P.M.
IS OPEN FROM 6 P.M. TO 8 P.M.
FRIDAY, APRIL 10TH —
PASTOR MELODEE ATTENDS COURSE
OF STUDY
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SATURDAY, APRIL 11TH —
This is First Day of Passover.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 12TH —
Second Sunday of Easter
COLOR: WHITE
Jesus said to him, "Have you believed
because you have seen me? Blessed are
those who have not seen and yet have
come to believe" (John 20:29, NRSV).
This week’s doctrinal focus is Thomas’s
confession, “My Lord and my God.”
The ministry focus is life in community.
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SCRIPTURE READINGS —
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ACTS 4:32-35
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Christians living in Jerusalem show
clear signs of the Risen Christ among
them by sharing all things, bearing
witness to the resurrection of Jesus,
and caring for all who are in need.
32-33 The whole congregation of
believers was united as one—one
heart, one mind! They didn’t even
claim ownership of their own
possessions. No one said, “That’s
mine; you can’t have it.” They shared
everything. The apostles gave
powerful witness to the resurrection
of the Master Jesus, and grace was
on all of them.
person among them was needy. Those
who owned fields or houses sold them
and brought the price of the sale to the
apostles and made an offering of it.
to each person’s need.
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PSALM 133 (UMH 850)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Though this was originally designed to
celebrate the unity of a small group of
pilgrims heading toward the temple in
Jerusalem, it quickly came to be used
to express the unity of a whole people
of God around the earth.
A PILGRIM SONG OF DAVID
1-3 How wonderful, how beautiful,
when brothers and sisters get along!
It’s like costly anointing oil
flowing down head and beard,
Flowing down Aaron’s beard,
flowing down the collar of his priestly
robes.
flowing down the slopes of Zion.
Yes, that’s where God commands the
blessing, and ordains eternal life.
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1 JOHN 1:1-2:2
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
More signs of the presence of the risen
Lord in our midst: honest confession,
assurance of God's forgiveness, and
lives where sin's power is overcome.
1 JOHN 1
1-2 From the very first day, we were
there, taking it all in—we heard it with
our own ears, saw it with our own eyes,
verified it with our own hands. The Word
of Life appeared right before our eyes;
we saw it happen! And now we’re telling
you in most sober prose that what we
witnessed was, incredibly, this: The
infinite Life of God himself took shape
before us.
3-4 We saw it, we heard it, and now
we’re telling you so you can
experience it along with us, this
experience of communion with the
Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. Our
motive for writing is simply this: We
want you to enjoy this, too. Your joy will
double our joy!
WALK IN THE LIGHT
5 This, in essence, is the message we
heard from Christ and are passing on to
you: God is light, pure light; there’s not
a trace of darkness in him.
6-7 If we claim that we experience a
shared life with him and continue to
stumble around in the dark, we’re
obviously lying through our teeth–we’re
not living what we claim. But if we walk
in the light, God himself being the light,
we also experience a shared life with
one another, as the sacrificed blood of
Jesus, God’s Son, purges all our sin.
8-10 If we claim that we’re free of sin,
we’re only fooling ourselves. A claim
like that is errant nonsense. On the
other hand, if we admit our sins—make
a clean breast of them—he won’t let us
down; he’ll be true to himself. He’ll for-
give our sins and purge us of all wrong-
doing. If we claim that we’ve never
sinned, we out and out contradict God–
make a liar out of him. A claim like that
only shows off our ignorance of God.
you out of sin. But if anyone does sin,
we have a Priest-Friend in the presence
of the Father: Jesus Christ, righteous
Jesus. When he served as a sacrifice for
our sins, he solved the sin problem for
good—not only ours, but the whole
world’s.
THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW WE'RE IN HIM
2-3 Here’s how we can be sure that we
know God in the right way: Keep his
commandments.
JOHN 20:19-31
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
To help Thomas believe, Jesus
appeared among the disciples, showing
Thomas the scars in his hands and side
and then invited Thomas to touch them.
TO BELIEVE
19-20 Later on that day, the disciples
had gathered together, but, fearful of the
Jews, had locked all the doors in the
house. Jesus entered, stood among
them, and said, “Peace to you.” Then he
showed them his hands and side.
20-21 The disciples, seeing the Master
with their own eyes, were exuberant.
Jesus repeated his greeting: “Peace to
you. Just as the Father sent me, I send
you.”
22-23 Then he took a deep breath and
breathed into them. “Receive the Holy
Spirit,” he said. “If you forgive some-
one’s sins, they’re gone for good. If you
don’t forgive sins, what are you going
to do with them?”
24-25 But Thomas, sometimes called the
Twin, one of the Twelve, was not with
them when Jesus came. The other
disciples told him, “We saw the Master.”
But he said, “Unless I see the nail holes
in his hands, put my finger in the nail
holes, and stick my hand in his side, I
won’t believe it.”
26 Eight days later, his disciples were
again in the room. This time Thomas
was with them. Jesus came through the
locked doors, stood among them, and
said, “Peace to you.”
27 Then he focused his attention on
Thomas. “Take your finger and examine
my hands. Take your hand and stick it in
my side. Don’t be unbelieving. Believe.”
29 Jesus said, “So, you believe because
you’ve seen with your own eyes. Even
better blessings are in store for those
who believe without seeing.”
30-31 Jesus provided far more God-
revealing signs than are written down in
this book. These are written down so
you will believe that Jesus is the
Messiah, the Son of God, and in the act
of believing, have real and eternal life in
the way he personally revealed it.
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• 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacked
Constantinople (Istanbul).
• 1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by the
Confederacy, starting the U.S. Civil War.
• 1927 - The British Cabinet came out in
favor of women's voting rights.
• 1938 - The first U.S. law requiring a
medical test for a marriage license was
enacted in New York state.
• 1945 - U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, Georgia.
He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the
age of 63. Harry S. Truman then became
president.
• 1955 - The University of Michigan Polio
Vaccine Evaluation Center announced
that the polio vaccine from Dr. Jonas
Salk was "safe, effective and potent."
• 1983 - Harold Washington was elected
the first black mayor of Chicago.
• 1989 - In the U.S.S.R, ration cards were
issued for the first time since World War
II. The ration was caused by a sugar
shortage.
• 2002 - J.C. Penney Chairman Allen
Questrom rang the opening bell to start
the business day at the New York Stock
Exchange as part of the company's
centennial celebrations. James Cash
(J.C.) Penney opened his first retail
store on April 14, 1902.
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MONDAY, APRIL 13TH —
Happy Birthday Betty Betts!
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THE OFFICE IS CLOSED TODAY.
• 1598 - King Henry IV of France signed
the Edict of Nantes which granted
political rights to French Protestant
Huguenots.
• 1775 - Lord North extended the New
England Restraining Act to South,
Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Maryland. The act prohibited
trade with any country other than Britain
and Ireland.
• 1829 - The English Parliament granted
freedom of religion to Catholics.
• 1860 - The first mail was delivered via
Pony Express when a westbound rider
arrived in Sacramento, California from
St. Joseph, Missouri.
• 1916 - The first hybrid, seed corn was
purchased for 15-cents a bushel by
Samuel Ramsay.
• 1943 - U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson
Memorial.
• 1945 - Vienna, Austria fell to Soviet
troops.
• 1964 - Sidney Poitier became the first
black man to win an Oscar for best actor.
It was for his role in the movie "Lilies of
the Field."
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TUESDAY, APRIL 14TH —
Happy Birthday Mary Ann Palmer!
Happy Birthday Missy Hughes
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• 1775 - The first abolitionist society in
U.S. was organized in Philadelphia with
Ben Franklin as president.
• 1828 - The first edition of Noah
Webster's dictionary was published with
the name "American Dictionary of the
English Language."
• 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
was assassinated in Ford's Theater by
John Wilkes Booth. He actually died
early the next morning.
• 1902 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney
opened his first retail store in Kemmerer,
Wyoming. It was called the Golden Rule
Store.
• 1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner
Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an
iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people
lost their lives. More than 700 survived.
• 1988 - Representatives of the U.S.S.R.,
Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United
States signed an agreement that called
for the withdrawal of Soviet forces from
Afghanistan starting on May 15. The last
Soviet troop left Afghanistan on
February 15, 1989.
• 2008 - Delta Air Lines and Northwest
Airlines announced they would merge.
The two are known as Delta Airlines.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15TH —
Happy Birthday Kayla Kaufman!
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DORCAS-RUTH CIRCLE AT 1:30 P.M.
Hostess: Pat Hough
Hostess: Grace Mackrill
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• 1850 - The city of San Francisco was
incorporated.
• 1861 - U.S. President Lincoln mobilized
the Federal army.
• 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
died from injuries inflicted by John
Wilkes Booth.
• 1871 - "Wild Bill" Hickok became the
marshal of Abilene, Kansas.
• 1923 - Insulin became generally
attainable for people with diabetes.
• 1945 - During World War II, British and
Canadian troops liberated the Nazi
concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
• 1947 - Jackie Robinson played his first
major league baseball game for the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 1952 - U.S. President Harry Truman
signed an official Japanese peace treaty.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 16TH —
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• 1065 - Robert Guiscard, a Norman,
took the province of Bari, in Italy. Five
centuries of Byzantine rule in southern
Italy ended.
• 1854 - San Salvador was destroyed by
an earthquake.
• 1862 - Confederate President Jefferson
Davis approved conscription act for
white males between 18 and 35.
• 1862 - In the U.S., slavery is abolished
by law in the District of Columbia.
• 1905 - Andrew Carnegie donated
$10,000,000 of personal money to set up
the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching.
•1917 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to
Russia to start the Bolshevik Revolution
after years in exile for sedition.
• 1945 - American troops entered
Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1978 - In Orissa, India, 180 people died
in a tornado.
• 1992 - The House ethics committee
listed 303 current and former lawmakers
who overdrew House bank accounts.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH —
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• 1492 - Christopher Columbus signed a
contract with Spain to find a passage to
Asia and the East Indies. When he did
arrive in the Americas, he thought he
had reached the Indies and called our
natives Indians.
• 1521 - Martin Luther was
excommunicated from the Roman
Catholic Church.
• 1629 - Horses were first imported into
the American colonies by the American
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 1758 - Frances Williams was the first
African-American to graduate from a
college in the western hemisphere.
• 1861 - Virginia became the eighth state
to secede from the Union.
• 1865 - Mary Surratt was arrested as a
conspirator in the Lincoln assassination.
She was convicted of taking part and
sentenced to death. She was hanged,
becoming the first white woman to be
executed by the United States federal
government.
• 1917 - A bill in Congress to establish
Daylight Saving Time was defeated. It
was passed a couple of months later.
• 1969 - Czechoslovakia's Communist
Party chairman Alexander Dubcek was
deposed.
• 1983 - In Warsaw, police routed 1,000
Solidarity supporters.
• 1989 - In Poland, courts gave Solidarity
legal status.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 18TH —
Happy Anniversary —
Lyle and Mary Ann Palmer!
Happy Anniversary —
Craig and Joyce Lundy!
HCI AT CASEY U.M.C.–10 A.M. TO 3 P.M.
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• 1521 - Martin Luther confronted the
emperor Charles V in the Diet of Worms
and refused to retract his views which
had led to his excommunication.
• 1775 - American revolutionaries Paul
Revere, William Dawes and Samuel
Prescott rode through the towns of
Massachusetts giving the warning that
the Regulars were coming out.
• 1847 - U.S. troops defeated almost
17,000 Mexican soldiers commanded by
Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo.
(Mexican-American War)
• 1861 - Colonel Robert E. Lee turned
down an offer to command the Union
armies during the U.S. Civil War.
• 1906 - San Francisco, California, was
hit with an earthquake. The original
death toll was cited at about 700. Later
collected information indicated that the
death toll was probably 3 to 4 times the
original estimate.
• 1945 - American war correspondent
Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese
gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima,
off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.
• 1978 - The U.S. Senate approved the
transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama
on December 31, 1999.
• 2002 - The legislature of Berlin decided
to make Marlene Dietrich an honorary
citizen. Dietrich had gone to the United
States in 1930. She refused to return to
Germany after Adolf Hitler was in power.
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Thank you for your stamina and steel
this week. In Acts IV we read:
32-33 The whole congregation of
believers was united as one — one
heart, one mind! Its not easy to do is it?
God Bless and Keep You,
Donna
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