Cridersville Chronicle
105 Shawnee Rd.
419-645-4421
Cridersville, OH 45806
[email protected]
www.cridersvilleumc.org
May 2016
Liturgist
1) Russ Holly
8) Susie Dailey
15) Mel Reichelderfer
22) Youth
29) Jane Bowersock
Nursery
1) Betsy Wagner
8) Steve Humes
15) Marcia Clay
22) Margie Humes
29) Shawna
Kohlrieser
Power Express
8) Christy Tomsett
15) Megan Rumbaugh
22) Kari Houser
29) Diana Eversole
See page 2 for
ushers and
greeters
From the desk of Pastor Casey Irwin
Looking outside at the beautiful weather from my kitchen window, I
wonder, yet again, why I am inside doing dishes when it’s a perfect
temperature to be outdoors. Why, after all this cold weather and
breezy spring, am I staying inside my house? Well, of course we know
the answer is, that sometimes the dishes just need doing. Sometimes
responsibilities or circumstances keep us from what we wish we
could do. Yes, the dishes example is silly, but we’ve all been stuck
feeling helpless before, wishing we could change the circumstance,
feeling stuck with the situation… hemmed in.
What is making you feel helpless?
A situation at work
a family member’s behavior
a financial need
a struggle with your secret sin
forces of evil at work in our world
Maybe you’ve been trying and failing to change the circumstance.
Your efforts should work! Why isn’t it working? I just feel trapped,
hemmed in…
Author, Catherine Marshall, in her book Adventures in Prayer,
writes about her own struggle:
“For I believe that the old cliché, ‘God helps those who help themselves,’ is not only misleading, but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out
of control as to be able to do nothing at all, for myself. The Psalmist
says: When I was hemmed in, thou has freed me often (Ps. 4:1).
Gradually I have learned to recognize this hemming-in as one of
God’s most loving devices for teaching us that He is real and gloriously adequate for our problems.”
How will you allow God to work in your helplessness? Use this
season of thawing weather and blossoming plants to open your soul
to a reliance on God. Free us from all the situations that trap us, overwhelm us, and from the forces that seek to hem us in. Lord, hear our
prayer.
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Greeters
1) Ernie & Jenny
Numbers
Jean Fox
Jane Plummer
8) Larry & Bea
Musser
Sue Hinegardner
Cindy Weaver
15) George & Kathy
We collected $1334.85 for our Mission Partners. Thank you
for supporting our efforts to connect with ministries around the
world. The Missions Committee also contributed to round up the
contribution to $250 for each of the following ministries:
- Living Gifts: Heifer International- livestock investments
- Church World Services- emergency response
and community development
Krites
- Anti-Human Trafficking ministries worldwide
Gene & Neita
- Good Works, Inc of Ohio
Border
- Medicine Box- global medicine distribution
- Water and Sanitation ministries worldwide
22) Gene & Mary
Bales
Billy & Janet Pack
We are not here to be successful. We are here to be faithful.
-Mother Teresa
29) Jane Gray
JoAnn Nance
June Reichelderfer
Sandy Spillman
Ushers
Julie Smith
Mary Kay Smith
Tom Mulcahy
Deb Stroh
Women of Faith will meet on Monday, May 9 at 12:00 p.m. for the last
meeting of the year. At noon we will share a carry-in lunch. A meeting
will follow and discuss plans for next year. We will then adjourn to
complete the tote bags and fill with toiletries for our mission project
for Auglaize County Crisis Center. Thank you everyone for your donations.
Please join us and bring a friend.
Have a very nice summer.
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It’s that time of year where we
May Birthdays
celebrate achievements and
accomplishments of all of the
graduates that have worked so hard
as they end one season in their lives
and begin another.
On June 5 we will be honoring our
high school and college graduates during the
morning worship service. If you are graduating
winter/spring 2016 please let the church office know
and we will be sure to honor you.
1) Sarah McCaslin
2) Margie Humes
4) Steve Humes
Barbara Reese
8) Crystal Drexler
9) Terry Bailey
10) Deb Fairburn
Evey Dalrymple
Information needed:
11) Jennie Chambers
name of graduate, school from which they are
12) Lindsey Dalrymple
graduating, future plans.
13) Shelby Lucas
14) Barbara Johnson
Lakeside Parents meeting
There will be a Lakeside parents meeting on Sunday, May 22 at
4 pm at the Calvary Campus Youth Center.
Please mark your calendars for this very important meeting.
15) Brittney Smith
17) Ashley Blackburn
18) Makenna Erb
21) Debbie Schroeder
Brock Drexler
Carole Staver
“A child needs your love most when he deserves it least.”
—Erma Bombeck
May Anniversaries
2) Don & Susie Dailey
3) Dick & Martha Hinegardner
6) Terry & Susan Bay
17) Mark & Jennie Chambers
25) Ernie & Jane Gray
22) Larry Musser
Jane Bowersock
Emily Plummer
23) Jena Blanchong
24) Mallory Johnson
25) Dennis Simons
27) Sandy Spillman
28) K.B. Irwin
31)Kevin Bailey
Phyllis Leiberick
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C R I D E R S V I LLE C HR O NI C LE
Women’s Bible Study, Wednesdays at 10 AM. Join us for fellowship, accountability, and
growth in our knowledge and love of Christ. Refreshments provided, children are welcome.
April & May study is on the letter to the Colossians, knowing that God is ENOUGH.
Neighborhood of Hope will be having a bake sale on Saturday, May 7, at the
firehouse. This is during the village's garage sales. We are looking for donations
of baked goods. They can be dropped off at the firehouse at 9:00 am. Bake sale
will run from 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Neighborhood of Hope helps support the local
food pantry and the local ministerial crisis fund. Thank you for your support.
Help Ch-Ki-Lo Food Pantry meet the emergency food
needs of our community by participating in the
National Association of Letter Carrier’s National
Food Drive on Saturday, May 14, 2016. Please be
generous again this year and put only nonperishable food items in a sack beside your mailbox
before your morning delivery for your letter carrier/volunteer to pick up.
PLEASE – NO GLASS CONTAINTERS
A young boy had been misbehaving, so his mother sent him to his room. Sometime later, he
came out an told his mom he’d prayed about the matter. “That’s good,” she replied. “If you ask God
for help to not misbehave, he’ll help you.”
“Oh, I didnt’ pray for help behaving,” said the boy. “I prayed for God to help you put up with
me.”
C R I D E R S V I LLE C HR O NI C LE
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April Attendance & Offerings
Sunday School
General Fund
Capital
Attendance
Offering
Improvements
199
18
$2,665.00
$50.00
April 3
127
30
$5,262.00
$65.00
April 10
122
25
$2,485.00
$85.00
April 17
149
20
$3,556.00
$85.00
Date
Attendance
March 27
Supplies Needed for Lakeside
Below is a list of needed supplies for Lakeside –please return to office by May 15
Hobby Lobby Prices
Giant Ink Pads - (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green)
2.99 each
Crayola Crayon (152 set)
19.99
Ultra Fine Point Sharpie Set (1)
29.99
Crayola 10 pkg markers (2 pkg. classic and assorted)
3.99 each
Paper Studio 4-1/2 x 6-1/2 100 count cardstock (4 pkg. primary, neon, bright and pastel)
4.99 each
Paper Studio 8-1/2 x 11 cardstock - (2 pkg. assorted designer pack)
2.99 each
Mod Podge 8 oz (5 jars)
5.99 each
Playside 12 pkg glue stick (1)
2.99
30 count paint brushes (1)
1.99
Foam brushes for glue 50 count (1)
5.99
Sargent Tempera paint 16 oz (Black, Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow, White, Red, Purple Pink)
1.99 each
6 count pack of 4 oz. glitter paint (need 2-gold, silver, green, red, blue purple) 7.99 each
Tapeffiti Decorative Tape– 60 roll dispenser (1)
Scotch Tape (5 rolls)
# 2 pencils (40)
Poster boards (4)
White card stock (50 sheets)
12.99
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Ch-Ki-LO Food Pantry
In March, CH-KI-LO Pantry served a total of 441 persons. Included in
this number was 199 for the Easter give away on March 24. The pantry
purchased 8,646 pounds of food at a cost of $1,777.19.
The pantry accepted good clean stuffed toys for the children who come through the pantry.
Also we have some hats and gloves to hold over for next fall.
The congregation’s response to Lenten Offerings “Change for Change” was greatly appreciated. A total of $1,334.85 was given. Missions added $165.15 so each of the six missions
received $250.00.
Missions also gave $500 to United Methodist Children’s Home in Worthington, Ohio
toward their renovation of a newly acquired facility. The UMCH Family Services worked
with over 1,200 children and parents across Ohio in 2015 through their Mental Health
Treatment Foster Care and Adoption and Post Adoption programs, up from 600 in 2010.
They hope to open the facility this summer.
The missions committee is asking that our congregation consider doubling their $5 on the
5th offering, one time, May 29, for this special renovation project.
Missions also voted to give $500 to our Youth campers and $200 to the Gospel tents at both
the Auglaize and Allen County Fairs.
Six workers from our church were at West Ohio Food Bank on March 14 and eight worked
on April 11.
The second highest total of medicine bottles collected in a month was 508 in March and
$5.26 was included. Also keep saving all the other items for the mission projects that are in
the Ministry Center.
Women of Valor
In A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Thomas Nelson), Rachel Held Evans explores the
concept of the Proverbs 31 woman, whose character is described as noble or virtuous. Many
scholars say the most accurate translation of the Hebrew phrase eshet chayil is actually the
“valorous woman.”
To many modern-day women, Proverbs 31 seems like an impossible-to-meet job description. But Evans says that shouldn’t be the case. “The woman of Proverbs 31 is not some ideal
that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things
with valor,” she writes. “Like any good poem, the purpose of this one is to draw attention to
the often-overlooked glory of the everyday.”
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May 14
C R I D E R S V I LLE C HR O NI C LE
5-7:30
Celebrate the end of the school year (outdoor games and fun)
Please call the church office at 419-645-4421, text or call Emily Plummer at 567-204-0861
to let us know you are coming.
Children’s Ministry Supply Board
Check out the Children’s Ministry Supply board in the Ministry Center. This will
be an ongoing board for supplies needed for the children’s ministry. Needed items
are on slips of paper that can be taken with you, purchased and returned to the
collection basket beneath the board. These items will be used for the quiet boxes
handed out during worship times or used during Power Express.
CALLING KIDS PRE-K THRU GRADE FOUR
BLESSING OF THE BIKES AND TRIKES
Cridersville United Methodist Church
105 Shawnee Road, Cridersville, Ohio
(Back Parking Lot)
10:30 A.M. Saturday, June 4, 2016
Decorate your bike or trike and come join the parade with a chance to win a prize and
learn about bike safety.
(Call the church office with questions: 419-645-4421)