May is Asian American-Pacific Islander
Heritage Month, a celebration of Asians;
& Pacific Islanders in the United States.
This includes people who indicate their
race(s) as "Asian", "Chinese", "Indian",
"Filipino", "Vietnamese", "Korean",
"Japanese", or "Other Asian".
They compose 4.8% of the United States
population. In 2012, Asian Americans
had the highest educational attainment
level and median household income of
any racial demographic in this country.
They are beautiful people too.
OFFICE HOURS ARE:
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY,
OPEN 8 A.M. TILL NOON.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6TH —
ADAIR U.M.W. MEETS AT 9 A.M.
THURSDAY, MAY 7TH —
FOOD BANK OF IOWA CONFERENCE
IN DES MOINES.
SATURDAY, MAY 9TH —
FOR WOMEN IN THE COMMUNITY
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SUNDAY, MAY 10TH —
THE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Happy Birthday Mason Clarke!
COLOR: WHITE
— THIS IS MOTHERS DAY —
We celebrate the
Festival of the Christian Home
SCRIPTURE READINGS —
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ACTS 10:44-48
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
The Spirit pours upon Cornelius and his
household while Peter is in the middle
of speaking, even before they are
baptized. Peter recognizes it's time to
baptize them and consider them
kindred in Christ.
of Peter’s mouth than the Holy Spirit
came on the listeners. The believing
Jews who had come with Peter couldn’t
believe it, couldn’t believe that the gift
of the Holy Spirit was poured out on
“outsider” non Jews, but there it was—
they heard them speaking in tongues;
heard them praising God.
46-48 Then Peter said, “Do I hear any
objections to baptizing these friends with
water? They’ve received the Holy Spirit
exactly as we did.” Hearing no
objections, he ordered that they be
baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
Then they asked Peter to stay on for a
few days.
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PSALM 98 (UMH 818)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
The Psalm continues the overflow of
praise. Sing it! Celebrate with it!
Sing to God a brand-new song.
He’s made a world of wonders!
He rolled up his sleeves,
He set things right.
2 God made history with salvation,
He showed the world what he could do.
3 He remembered to love us, a bonus
To his dear family, Israel—indefatigable
love.
The whole earth comes to attention.
Look—God’s work of salvation!
4 Shout your praises to God, everybody!
Let loose and sing! Strike up the band!
5 Round up an orchestra to play for God,
Add on a hundred-voice choir.
6 Feature trumpets and big trombones,
Fill the air with praises to King God.
7 Let the sea and its fish give a round of
applause,
With everything living on earth joining
in.
8 Let ocean breakers call out, “Encore!”
And mountains harmonize the finale—
9 A tribute to God when he comes,
When he comes to set the earth right.
He’ll straighten out the whole world,
He’ll put the world right, and everyone
in it.
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1 JOHN 5:1-6
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
A "string of pearls" that connects faith,
overcoming the world, obedience, and
loving God through a deep relationship
of trust in Jesus Christ.
1-3 Every person who believes that
Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God
begotten. If we love the One who
conceives the child, we’ll surely love
the child who was conceived. The
reality test on whether or not we love
God’s children is this: Do we love God?
Do we keep his commands? The proof
that we love God comes when we keep
his commandments and they are not at
all troublesome.
THE POWER THAT BRINGS THE
WORLD TO IT'S KNEES
4-5 Every God-begotten person
conquers the world’s ways. The
conquering power that brings the world
to its knees is our faith. The person who
wins out over the world’s ways is
simply the one who believes Jesus is
the Son of God.
6-8 Jesus—the Divine Christ! He
experienced a life-giving birth and a
death-killing death. Not only birth from
the womb, but baptismal birth of his
ministry and sacrificial death. And all
the while the Spirit is confirming the
truth, the reality of God’s presence at
Jesus’ baptism and crucifixion, bringing
those occasions alive for us. A triple
testimony: the Spirit, the Baptism, the
Crucifixion. And the three in perfect
agreement.
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JOHN 15:9-17
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Jesus reminds his disciples who have
become his friends, that they did not
choose him; he chose them. He then
appointed them to go and bear fruit.
has loved me. Make yourselves at home
in my love. If you keep my commands,
you’ll remain intimately at home in my
love. That’s what I’ve done—kept my
Father’s commands and made myself at
home in his love.
11-15 “I’ve told you these things for a
purpose: that my joy might be your joy,
and your joy wholly mature. This is my
command: Love one another the way I
loved you. This is the very best way to
love. Put your life on the line for your
friends. You are my friends when you do
the things I command you. I’m no longer
calling you servants because servants
don’t understand what their master is
thinking and planning. No, I’ve named
you friends because I’ve let you in on
everything I’ve heard from the Father.
16 “You didn’t choose me, remember; I
chose you, and put you in the world to
bear fruit, fruit that won’t spoil. As fruit
bearers, whatever you ask the Father in
relation to me, he gives you.
17 “But remember the root command:
Love one another.
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• 1503 - Christopher Columbus
discovered the Cayman Islands.
• 1773 - The English Parliament passed
the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the
United States colonies.
• 1775 - Ethan Allen and Colonel
Benedict Arnold led an attack on the
British Fort Ticonderoga and captured
it from the British.
• 1840 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith
moved his band of followers to Illinois
to escape the hostilities that they
experienced in Missouri.
• 1865 - Confederate President Jefferson
Davis was captured by Union troops
near Irvinville, Georgia.
• 1869 - Central Pacific and Union Pacific
Rail Roads meet in Promontory, UT. A
golden spike was driven in to celebrate
the first transcontinental railroad in the
United States.
• 1872 - Victoria Woodhull became the
first woman nominated for the United
States presidency.
• 1898 - A vending machine law was
enacted in Omaha, Nebraska. It cost
$5,000 for a permit.
• 1908 - The very first Mother's Day
observance took place during a church
service in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1933 - The Nazis staged massive public
book burnings in Germany.
• 1940 - Nazis invaded Belgium, France,
the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
• 1941 - England's House of Commons
was destroyed by a German air raid.
• 1986 - Navy Lt. Commander Donnie
Cochran became the first black pilot to
fly with the Blue Angels team.
• 1994 - Nelson Mandela was sworn in as
South Africa’s first black president.
• 2000 - 11,000 residents were evacuated
in Los Alamos, New Mexico, due to a fire
that was blown into a canyon. The fire
had been deliberately set to burn brush.
• 2002 - Robert Hanssen was sentenced
to life in prison without parole. Hanssen,
an FBI agent, had sold U.S. secrets to
Russia for $1.4 million in cash and
diamonds.
• 2013 - In New York, NY, crane operators
hoisted the final pieces of the spire atop
One World Trade Center (formerly called
the Freedom Tower).
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MONDAY, MAY 11TH —
OFFICE IS CLOSED TODAY.
• 0330 - Constantinople, previously the
town of Byzantium, was founded. It
later became Istanbul.
• 1792 - The Columbia River was
discovered by Captain Robert Gray.
• 1858 - Minnesota was admitted as the
32nd U.S. state.
• 1889 - Major Joseph Washington Wham
took charge of $28,000 in gold and silver
to pay military troops at various points
in the Arizona Territory. The money was
stolen in a train robbery.
• 1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana
was first established.
• 1934 - A severe two-day dust storm
stripped the topsoil from the great plains
of the United States and created a
"Dust Bowl." The storm is one of many.
• 1949 - Siam changed its name to
Thailand.
• 1960 - Israeli soldiers captured Nazi,
Adolf Eichmann in the city of
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1997 - Garry Kasparov, world chess
champion, lost his first ever multi-game
match. He lost to IBM's chess computer
Deep Blue. The first time a computer
had beaten a world-champion player.
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TUESDAY, MAY 12TH —
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A.M. TIL NOON.
• 1780 - Charleston, South Carolina fell
to British forces.
• 1870 - Manitoba entered the
Confederation as a Canadian province.
• 1940 - The Nazi conquest of France
began with the German army crossing
the Muese River.
• 1943 - The Axis forces in North Africa
surrendered during World War II.
• 2002 - Former U.S. President Carter
arrived in Cuba for a visit with Fidel
Castro. It was the first time a U.S. head
of state had gone to the island since
Castro's 1959 revolution.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13TH —
Happy Birthday Joshua Reed!
Happy Birthday Justin Rumple!
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A.M. TIL NOON.
U.M.C. FROM 6 P.M. TO 8 P.M.
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• 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia, was
settled as a colony of England.
• 1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip left Britain
for Australia. He landed eleven ships full
of prison convicts on January 18, 1788,
at Botany Bay. The group moved north
eight days later to settle at Port Jackson.
• 1865 - The last land engagement of the
American Civil War was fought at the
Battle of Palmito Ranch in south Texas,
more than a month after General Lee's
surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.
• 1982 - The Chicago Cubs became the
first major league baseball team to win
8,000 games.
• 1999 - In Moscow, the impeachment of
Russian President Boris Yeltsin began.
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THURSDAY, MAY 14TH —
Happy Birthday Darrell Kopaska!
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OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A.M. TIL NOON.
THIS IS ASCENSION DAY —
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• 1643 - Louis XIV became King of
France at age 4 upon the death of his
father, Louis XIII.
• 1787 - Delegates began gathering in
Philadelphia for a convention to draw
up the U.S. Constitution.
• 1804 - William Clark set off the famous
expedition from Camp Dubois. A short
time later, in St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis
joined the group. The group was known
as the "Corps of Discovery."
• 1904 - In St. Louis, the summer Olympic
games were held. It was the first time the
games were played in the United States.
• 1913 - The Rockefeller Foundation was
created by John D. Rockefeller with a
gift of $100,000,000. It focused on public
health, medical training, and the arts.
Rockefeller started Standard Oil Co.
• 1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army
Corps (WAAC) was established by an
act of the U.S. Congress.
• 1961 - A bus carrying Freedom Riders
was bombed and burned in Alabama.
• 1980 - U.S. President Carter initiated
the Department of Health and Human
Services.
• 1996 - A tornado hit 80 villages in
nothern Bangladesh, killing more than
440 people.
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• 1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by
Bartholomew Gosnold.
• 1862 - The U.S. Congress created the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• 1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered
the dissolution of Standard Oil Company,
ruling it was in violation of the Sherman
Antitrust Act.
• 1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the
U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for
nonessential vehicles.
• 1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace
was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD
while campaigning for the United States
presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by
the shot.
• 1988 - The Soviet Union began with-
drawal of 115,000 troops from
Afghanistan. Soviet forces were there
for more than eight years.
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SATURDAY, MAY 16TH —
Happy Anniversary
Harold and Joyce Rochholz!
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• 1770 - Marie Antoinette, at age 14,
married the future King Louis XVI of
France, who was 15.
• 1866 - The U.S. Congress authorized
the first 5-cent piece to be minted.
• 1985 - Michael Jordan was named
Rookie of the Year in the NBA.
• 1987 - The Bobro 400 set sail from New
York Harbor with 3,200 tons of garbage.
The barge traveled 6,000 miles in search
of a place to dump its load. It returned to
New York Harbor after 8 weeks with the
same load.
• 1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled
that police do not have to have a search
warrant to search discarded garbage.
Thank you for your many contributions
to our church life this week. We needed
you and you were there.
God Bless and Keep You,
Donna