News and Events
George and Jennifer Hobson, would like to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers for our sister-in-law, Becky
Hobson. We appreciate those who made donations toward and attended the fund raiser, which raised more than $20,000.
On behalf of Becky and Greg Hobson, thank you.
The Welcoming Committee invites you to a picnic following the Outdoor Worship Service on August 28. The Welcoming
Committee will be providing hotdogs and all the fixings and bottled water. We welcome salads, desserts, chips, and any
other side dishes.
Saints and Sinners It's hard to think that we are approaching the end of summer on a day like today that is so beautiful. In
October we will begin our dinner groups of Saints and Sinners. So why am I talking about this now? Because we want to get
the word out there and to start signing up. For those who are not familiar with what Saints and Sinners is, it's small groups of
7-9 people that rotate once a month hosting that dinner. Now that does not mean that the host provides the whole meal. The
host has the main course and the other members of that group bring the rest from appetizer to dessert. This year we
thought it would be fun to have the option of going to restaurants. The host of that month would pick a restaurant then the
group could come back to the hosts home for dessert (or not). The groups this year will be smaller in size so the host is able
to invite new people just for that evening. It is always encouraged to invite someone who is not in another group to replace
anyone that is not able to not attend that particular night. The red sign-up sheet will be in the narthex Sunday, August 28th.
Note you can check either restaurant or home (or both) that you would prefer. Saints and Sinners is a great way to meet
others in the congregation. Many times over the years I have heard someone say how hesitant they were to sign-up, but how
much fun they had getting to know others in our church family. Please consider signing up and having fun this fall through
spring. Submitted by Linda States.
The youth did a wonderful job packing backpacks for our mission trip!! Check out the Youth Group Facebook page to see
the pictures. We are finalizing details for the trip. Plan to be at church at noon on Thursday, August 25 and the group will
return mid-afternoon on Sunday, August 28. More specific details, packing lists and permission slips coming soon. WE NEED
AT LEAST ONE MORE CHAPERONE!!! If you would like to chaperone or you are planning to go and have not contacted Katie,
please let her know ASAP!! Please also let her know if you can no longer attend. Thank you so much for all the helping hands
as we get ready to head out on another wonderful trip over the mountains to support Moses Lake United Methodist.
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Cedar Cross Birthdays and Anniversaries
Anniversaries
Tom and Camille Williams - August 4
Carl and Katie Rugg - August 6
Buell and Gloria Hembree - August 7
Dennis and Jo Anne White - August 15
Geoff and Katie Albright - August 25
Jim Clarke and Paula McCutcheon - August 25
Danny Neel and Janice Scott - September 2
Charles and Nancy Lang - September 8
Birthdays
Kenneth Clarke - August 5
Kris Cutter - August 5
Kerry Amos - August 6
Gabriel Rowe - August 9
Lilian Rowe - August 9
Trevor Church - August 10
Robin Hirano - August 11
David Dean - August 12
Mara Lautzenhiser - August 12
Jo Anne White - August 16
Pat McNees - August 19
Tom Roe - August 22
Anna Lautzenhiser - August 21
Stephanie Church - August 29
Rachel Davis - September 2
Kian Snider - September 6
Tom Howorth - September 6
Jill Hansard - September 7
Geoff Albright - September 7
Lucas Morehouse - September 11
Katie Albright - September 12
Shayla Peddy - September 12
Youth Camper Scholarship:: The Cedar Cross Finance team is requesting your support in helping supplement our Youth
Camper Scholarships fund. First you need a little history. In late 2014 the Church leadership team approved adding a
budget item of $3,000 a year to subsidizes youth scholarships allowing more youth to attend retreats without placing undo
monetary stress on their parents. There are four camps that we send our youth to yearly, and two of those camps cost
almost $200 and the others are over $100. As a church , we request that each parent pay $50 for their youth to attend.
Since we have been subsidizing the Youth to attend these retreats a good thing has happened. Cedar Cross Youth has been
having the largest attendance at these retreats. Last year in April we requested your financial support for our Youth Group
and through your generous donation we raised $3,100. Last year we spent $6,720 on sending the Youth to these retreats and
for this year we have spent $6,045 on just two of the retreats with two yet to go. We are averaging 17 youth and 4 adults for
each event. It is estimated that $4,200 will be required for the remaining retreats. We currently have $1,100 remaining from
the funds raised last year so that leaves a shortfall of $3,100 that is needed for this year. All funds received for the Youth
Camper Scholarship and not utilized this year will carry over into next year. Please be generous in your giving to support our
youth again this year. Submitted by Larry States
Worship Schedule
August 21, 2016
14th Sunday after Pentecost
1 Chronicles 28:9-10
1 Peter 4:10-11
“One if by Land! Two if by Sea!”
Diane Van Dorn, guest preacher
August 28, 2016
15th Sunday after Pentecost
Outdoor Worship Service
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
“Jesus Died Outside the Camp”
September 4, 2016
16th Sunday after Pentecost
Labor Day Weekend—Guest Preacher
September 11, 2016
17th Sunday after Pentecost
Isaiah 42:1-9, Luke 6:20-26
Return to 8:45 and 11:00am Services
“9-11 Revisited”
September 18, 2016
18th Sunday after Pentecost
Luke 15:1-10
“Lost in Translation”
September 25, 2016
19th Sunday after Pentecost
Bible Sunday
Luke 16:1-13
October 2, 2016
20th Sunday after Pentecost
World Communion Sunday
II Timothy 1:1-14
“What Kind of Capital Do We Want?”
“Suffering for the Gospel”
October 9, 2016
21st Sunday after Pentecost
Stewardship I
October 16, 2016
22nd Sunday after Pentecost
Stewardship II
October 23, 2016
23rd Sunday after Pentecost
Stewardship III
October 30, 2016
24th Sunday after Pentecost
Stewardship IV
November 6, 2016
25th Sunday after Pentecost
All Saint’s Sunday
Daylight Savings Ends - Fall Back!
Pastor’s Page
Can We Get Along?
“We live in interesting times.” This quote is purported to be of Chinese origin and
was meant as a curse – that life is full of mayhem, division and conflict. As I have
looked back over this past year I do feel the division and conflict especially. The
events at General Conference have dominated the attention of our Church; the
thought that our denomination might even split!? And then we are in the midst of
an election year, but this doesn’t feel like any other election year. I feel the conflict
and division this year perhaps more than I ever have. More recently there are the
violent deaths of both young black men and police officers. I can’t help but
resurrect the words of Rodney King, “Can we get along?”
Pastor James Clarke
These have been my thoughts in choosing what to read and study in our Adult
Sunday School and Wednesday Class. (Adult Sunday school meets almost every
Sunday beginning September 11 at 10:00 am and the Wednesday Study meets at 9:30 on Wednesday
mornings beginning September 14.) I have chosen two books by authors who both grew up in very
conservative churches but have then been transformed and are more progressive. Yet, because of where they
come from they have an understanding of the evangelical/conservative/ fundamentalist perspective.
In the Adult Sunday School we will be reading a book by Jim Wallis, who is the founder of the Sojourners
community in Washington, D.C. and the editor of the journal also called, Sojourners (available at the Everett
Library). The Sojourners communities ministry is to reach out to the poor in the poorest neighborhoods in
D.C. a stones throw from the seats of power in our country. Perhaps because of this proximity Wallis has
focused on the relationship between faith and politics: Justice for the Poor, God’s Politics, and his most
recent book, America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America. We will be
reading On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good.
Written after the last presidential election and then bemoaning the state of politics in America, Wallis focuses
on the common good as a place where we can find some unity, and get along. I expect to discuss the
divisions that plague us, in our families, churches and communities. How we discern what the common good
is, and what is about God’s will and not our own. And I expect we will talk about how to relate to those with
whom we disagree. This is timely discussion for this fall.
In the Wednesday class we will be reading a book by Brian McLaren, another prolific writer about how we
live as Christians in our culture. His books include Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross
the Road? Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World; A New Kind of Christianity; and most recently, The Great
Spiritual Migration: How the World’s Largest Religion is Seeking a Better Way to be Christian. We will be
reading his most popular book, A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant,
liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, fundamentalist/Calvinist,
Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, catholic, green, incarnational, depressed but hopeful, emergent, unfinished
CHRISTIAN.
That is the official title of the book and it reveals his purpose, to relate to all the varieties of Christianity.
But how does one do that? I’m expecting that we will talk about how to accept those that believe differently
than we do; in a world that feels so divisive how do we interact with those on the other side?
Culturally our world is about taking sides – in our families, on the court, field or pitch, in business and even
in the church. This is the theme of this fall: how do we take sides and follow Jesus at the same time? When
we have such strong feelings about those on the other side, how do we live as if there is unity in Christ? How
do we be prophetic but not judgmental? I look forward to out discussions.
I am open to adding a Sunday night class to read Generous Orthodoxy if enough people are interested.
Please let me know. P.Jim
Adult Education
The information for classes in September is in the article: Sunday mornings we will be reading and discussing Jim Wallis’ On
God’s Side and on Wednesdays (and perhaps Sunday evenings we will be reading Brian McLaren’s Generous Orthodoxy. You
may order and purchase either book on your own, or if you would like us to order a book for you please let us know.
Finance
Church Calendar
Summer Weekly Meetings
and Events
Other Meetings and Events
Wednesday, August 17
Cedar Crossings
Sunday, August 21
14th Sunday after Pentecost
6:00pm: Children’s Ministries Meeting [13]
Thursday, August 25
12:00pm: Youth Group Mission Trip [OS]
Friday, August 26
Youth Group Mission Trip
Saturday, August 27
Youth Group Mission Trip
Sunday, August 28
15th Sunday after Pentecost
Youth Group Mission Trip
No Youth Group
Sunday, September 4
16th Sunday after Pentecost
No Youth Group
Monday, September 5
Labor Day - Church Office Closed
Tuesday, September 6
Cedar Crossing Articles Due Before Two
Wednesday, September 7
Cedar Crossings
9:00am: Mission Quilters [12]
9:30am: Wednesday Class [13]
Sunday
10:00am: Worship Service [C]
6:00pm: Youth Group [C]
Monday
10:00am: Caring Committee [13]
Tuesday
7:00pm: Boy Scout Troop #221 [C]
Wednesday
7:00pm: S Anon (12)
Friday
5:30pm: Serenity - Alanon [13]
Saturday
8:00am: S Anon [13]
Next newsletter will be Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Articles for this edition are due by Tuesday, September 6 before two!
Cedar Crossings will be back to bi-weekly with the
September 7 Edition.
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