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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27TH —
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A.M. TIL NOON.
• ADAIR AT 7 P.M.
• CASEY AT 7:45 P.M.
COMBINED GROUP WILL FOLLOW.
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THURSDAY, MAY 28TH —
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A.M. TIL NOON.
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SUNDAY, MAY 31ST —
Happy Birthday Lola Peterson!
Happy Birthday Jerika Avey!
Happy Anniversary —
Bud and Lola Peterson!
COMBINED WORSHIP TODAY AT
CASEY U.M.C. AT 10:30 A.M.
COLOR: WHITE• TRINITY SUNDAY
nature of our God.
• FIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
• THIS IS PEACE AND JUSTICE SUNDAY
God calls us into the Eternal Community
of love, justice, and peace with Him and
each other.
Then I heard the voice of Jesus saying,
"Whom shall I send, and who will go for
us?" And I said, "Here am I; send me!"
(Isaiah 6:8, NRSV.)
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SCRIPTURE READINGS —
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ISAIAH 6:1-8
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
The temple furnishings come suddenly
alive for Isaiah as he experiences the
realities behind the symbols, living
cherubim ascribing triple holiness to
"Lord God of Hosts." In that encounter,
he hears himself claimed and called by
the Holy, Holy, Holy One. In the action of
the paired wings of the seraphim we see
an image of Trinity. One pair covers the
face (Father), another the feet (Son), and
with the third they fly (Holy Spirit).
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!
1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I
saw the Master sitting on a throne—high,
exalted!—and the train of his robes filled
the Temple. Angel-seraphs hovered
above him, each with six wings. With
two wings they covered their faces, with
two their feet, and with two they flew.
And they called back and forth one to the
other,
Holy, Holy, Holy is God-of-the-Angel
Armies.
His bright glory fills the whole earth.
The foundations trembled at the sound
of the angel voices, and then the whole
house filled with smoke. I said,
“Doom! It’s Doomsday!
I’m as good as dead!
Every word I’ve ever spoken is tainted—
blasphemous even!
And the people I live with talk the same
way,
using words that corrupt and
desecrate.
And here I’ve looked God in the face!
The King! God-of-the-Angel-Armies!”
Then one of the angel-seraphs flew to
me. He held a live coal that he had taken
with tongs from the altar. He touched my
mouth with the coal and said,
“Look. This coal has touched your lips.
Gone your guilt,
your sins wiped out.”
And then I heard the voice of the Master:
“Whom shall I send?
Who will go for us?”
I spoke up,
“I’ll go.
Send me!”
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PSALM 29 (UMH 761)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
In a polytheistic world, this temple song
proclaimed that YHWH rules over all
other gods in the heavens and on earth.
1-2 Bravo, God, bravo!
Gods and all angels shout, “Encore!”
In awe before the glory,
in awe before God’s visible power.
Stand at attention!
Dress your best to honor him!
3 God thunders across the waters,
Brilliant, his voice and his face,
streaming brightness—
God, across the flood waters.
4 God’s thunder tympanic,
God’s thunder symphonic.
5 God’s thunder smashes cedars,
God topples the northern cedars.
6 The mountain ranges skip like spring
colts,
The high ridges jump like wild kid goats.
7-8 God’s thunder spits fire.
God thunders, the wilderness quakes;
He makes the desert of Kadesh shake.
9 God’s thunder sets the oak trees
dancing
A wild dance, whirling; the pelting rain
strips their branches.
We fall to our knees—we call out,
“Glory!”
10 Above the floodwaters is God’s
throne
from which his power flows,
from which he rules the world.
11 God makes his people strong.
God gives his people peace.
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ROMANS 8:12-17
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
As children of God, we are led by the
Spirit of God, calling out to the Father,
and being made joint-heirs with Christ
the Son.
12-14 So don’t you see that we don’t
owe this old do-it-yourself life one red
cent. There’s nothing in it for us, nothing
at all. The best thing to do is give it a
decent burial and get on with your new
life. God’s Spirit beckons. There are
things to do and places to go!
15-17 This resurrection life you received
from God is not a timid, grave-tending
life. It’s adventurously expectant,
greeting God with a childlike “What’s
next, Papa?” God’s Spirit touches our
spirits and confirms who we really are.
We know who he is, and we know who
we are: Father and children. And we
know we are going to get what’s coming
to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We
go through exactly what Christ goes
through. If we go through the hard times
with him, then we’re certainly going to
go through the good times with him!
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JOHN 3:1-17
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
The Trinitarian nature of our salvation.
God the Father loved us and sent his
Son. We are drawn to and believe in the
Son. We are born anew of and by the
work of the Holy Spirit.
BORN FROM ABOVE
1-2 There was a man of the Pharisee
sect, Nicodemus, a prominent leader
among the Jews. Late one night he
visited Jesus and said, “Rabbi, we all
know you’re a teacher straight from God.
No one could do all the God-pointing,
God-revealing acts you do if God
weren’t in on it.”
3 Jesus said, “You’re absolutely right.
Take it from me: Unless a person is born
from above, it’s not possible to see what
I’m pointing to—to God’s kingdom.”
4 “How can anyone,” said Nicodemus,
“be born who has already been born
and grown up? You can’t re-enter your
mother’s womb and be born again. What
are you saying with this ‘born-from-
above’ talk?”
5-6 Jesus said, “You’re not listening. Let
me say it again. Unless a person
submits to this original creation—the
‘wind-hovering-over-the-water’ creation,
the invisible moving the visible, a
baptism into a new life—it’s not possible
to enter God’s kingdom. When you look
at a baby, it’s just that: a body you can
look at and touch. But the person who
takes shape within is formed by some-
thing you can’t see and touch, the Spirit
and becomes a living spirit.
7-8 “So don’t be so surprised when I tell
you that you have to be ‘born from
above’—out of this world, so to speak.
You know well enough how the wind
blows this way and that. You hear it
rustling through the trees, but you have
no idea where it comes from or where
it’s headed next. That’s the way it is with
everyone ‘born from above’ by the wind
of God, the Spirit of God.”
9 Nicodemus asked, “What do you mean
by this? How does this happen?”
10-12 Jesus said, “You’re a respected
teacher of Israel and you don’t know
these basics? Listen carefully. I’m
speaking sober truth to you. I speak only
of what I know by experience; I give
witness only to what I have seen with my
own eyes. There is nothing secondhand
here, no hearsay. Yet instead of facing
the evidence and accepting it, you
procrastinate with questions. If I tell you
things that are plain as the hand before
your face and you don’t believe me, what
use is there in telling you of things you
can’t see, the things of God?
13-15 “No one has ever gone up into the
presence of God except the One who
came down from that Presence, the Son
of Man. In the same way that Moses
lifted the serpent in the desert so people
could have something to see and then
believe, it is necessary for the Son of
Man to be lifted up—and everyone who
looks up to him, trusting and expectant,
will gain a real life, eternal life.
16-18 “This is how much God loved the
world: He gave his Son, his one and only
Son. And this is why: so that no one
need be destroyed; by believing in him,
anyone can have a whole and lasting life.
God didn’t go to all the trouble of
sending his Son merely to point an
accusing finger, telling the world how
bad it was. He came to help, to put the
world right again. Anyone who trusts in
him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to
trust him has long since been under the
death sentence without knowing it. And
why? Because of that person’s failure to
believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God
when introduced to him.
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•1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act was
passed by the U.S. Congress.
The Kansas–Nebraska Act (10 Stat. 277)
created the territories of Kansas and
Nebraska, opening new lands for settle-
ment allowing white male settlers in
those territories to determine through
popular sovereignty whether they would
allow slavery within each territory.
Kansas was admitted to the Union as a
free state. On March 1, 1867, Nebraska
was admitted to the Union. By then, the
1861–1865 Civil War had been fought,
and slavery had been outlawed every-
where in the United States.
• 1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
patented "dry flaked cereal."
• 1889 - In Johnstown, PA, more than
2,200 people died when the South Fork
Dam collapsed.
• 1907 - The first taxis in the United
States arrived in New York City.
• 1913 - The 17th Amendment went into
effect. It provided for popular election of
U.S. senators.
• 1947 - Communists seized control of
Hungary.
• 1955 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered
that all states end racial segregation.
• 1962 - Adolf Eichmann was hanged in
Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official
that was executed for his actions in the
Nazi Holocaust.
• 1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was
finished after 3 years of construction.
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MONDAY, JUNE 1ST —
OFFICE IS CLOSED TODAY.
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• 1774 - The British government ordered
the Port of Boston closed.
• 1792 - Kentucky became the 15th state
of the United States.
• 1796 - Tennessee became the 16th state
of the United States.
• 1861 - The first battle of the U.S. Civil
War took place at Fairfax Court House,
Virginia.
• 1877 - U.S. troops were authorized to
pursue bandits into Mexico.
• 1915 - Germany conducted the first
zeppelin (dirigible) air raid over England.
• 1921 - A race riot erupted in Tulsa,
Oklahoma. 85 people were killed.
• 1944 - French resistance was warned
by a coded message from the British
that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
• 1963 - Governor George Wallace vowed
to defy an injunction that ordered the
integration of the University of Alabama.
• 1970 - Zimbabwe came into existence.
It was formerly known as Rhodesia.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 2ND —
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A.M. TIL NOON.
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• 1537 - Pope Paul III banned the
enslavement of Indians.
• 1774 - The Quartering Act, required
American colonists to allow British
soldiers into their houses, was enacted.
• 1851 - Maine became the first U.S. state
to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
• 1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was
quoted by the New York Journal as
saying "the report of my death was an
exaggeration." He was responding to
rumors that he had died.
• 1924 - All American Indians were
granted United States citizenship by the
U.S. Congress.
• 1933 - U.S. President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt accepted the first swimming
pool to be built inside the White House.
• 1946 - Italians voted by referendum to
form a republic instead of a monarchy.
• 1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in his
native Poland on the first visit by a pope
to any Communist country.
• 1998 - Voters in California passed
Proposition 227. The act required that all
children be taught in English.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3RD —
ADAIR U.M.W. MEETS AT 8:30 A.M.
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• 1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First
Crusade captured Antioch, Turkey.
• 1621 - The Dutch West India Company
received a charter for New Netherlands
(now known as New York).
• 1784 - The U.S. Congress formally
created the United States Army to
replace the disbanded Continental Army.
• 1800 - John Adams moved to
Washington, DC. He was the first
President to live in what later became
the capital of the United States.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 4TH—
OFFICE OPEN FROM 9 A.M. TIL NOON.
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• 1615 - The fortress of Osaka, Japan, fell
to shogun Ieyasu after six months of
fighting.
• 1647 - The British army seized King
Charles I and held him hostage.
• 1792 - Captain George Vancouver
claimed Puget Sound for Britain.
• 1812 - The Louisiana Territory had its
name changed to the Missouri Territory.
• 1892 - Sierra Club was incorporated in
San Francisco.
• 1896 - Henry Ford made a successful
test drive of his new car in Detroit, MI.
He called the vehicle a "Quadricycle."
• 1911 - Gold was discovered in Alaska's
Indian Creek.
• 1919 - The U.S. Senate passed the
Women's Suffrage bill.
• 1924 - An eternal light was dedicated at
Madison Square in New York City in
memory of all New York soldiers who
died in World War I.
• 1939 - The first shopping cart was
introduced by Sylvan Goldman in
Oklahoma City, OK. It was actually a
folding chair that had been mounted
on wheels.
• 1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It
was the first major victory for America
over Japan during World War II. The
battle ended on June 6 and ended
Japanese expansion in the Pacific.
• 1944 - During World War II, the U.S.
Fifth Army entered Rome, which began
the liberation of the Italian capital.
• 1989 - In Beijing, Chinese army troops
stormed Tiananmen Square to crush the
pro-democracy movement. It is believed
that hundreds, possibly thousands, of
demonstrators were killed.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 5TH
Annual Conference: June 5th thru 9th.
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• 1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for
the first time to demonstrate that
lightning was a form of electricity.
• 1794 - The U.S. Congress prohibited
citizens from serving in any foreign
armed forces.
•1917 - American men began registering
for the World War I draft.
• 1981 - In the U.S., the Center for
Disease Control and Prevention reported
that five men in Los Angeles were
suffering from a rare pneumonia found
in patients with weakened immune
systems. They were the first recognized
cases of what came to be known as AIDS.
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• 1833 - Andrew Jackson was the first
United States president to ride in a train.
• 1844 - The Young Men's Christian
Association was founded in London.
Europe took place on the beaches of
Normandy, France. Normandy coast was
divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha,
Gold, Juno, and Sword Beach. 400,000
Allied American, British and Canadian
troops were involved. Casualties were
heaviest at Omaha Beach, with its high
cliffs. The largest seaborne invasion in
history, the operation began the invasion
of German-occupied western Europe, led
to the liberation of France from Nazi
control, and unconditional surrender of
Germany on May 8, 1945.
There are American Cemeteries all over
the world as a result of wars we have
participated in and support we have
given to countries who need help.
1,000 men. Allied casualties were at least
10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead.
I am eternally grateful that the 1,000 year
Reich did not succeed. I am absolutely
baffled when I ask myself why that man
decided he was qualified and chosen and
accepted to rule the world — ever!??
We always pay a very high price for our
freedom as the casualties indicate.
It is always written “Never again”, but
somebody always pops up and says —
“I deserve to rule the world”. As always
good people must intervene.
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• FUTURE FOCUS —————
Food Pantry open 10th of June.
Saturday, June 13th — Mother Daughter
Banquet at 6:30 P.M.
God Bless and Keep You,
Donna
