....to sow, grow and serve in the name of Christ.
Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, break up your unplowed ground
for it is time to seek the Lord. Hosea 10: 12
September/October 2016
VOLUME 13
Sunday School 9 am Worship Service 10 am
(937) 884-5129
ISSUE 5
In This Issue:
From Pastors Desk
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Servants for Ministry Schedule
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Church News-Calendar
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UMW News
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More Gordon News & Youth News
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Ad Council Minutes
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Ilumination Festival
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This is not normal.
On August 19, 2016 eight Greenville varsity football players walked across the field toward
their local rival, the Ansonia varsity football team. It wasn’t game night, and as a matter of fact,
the official season hasn’t even begun yet. These football players showed up for a very different
reason. They didn’t come to meet their opponents on the line and battle for a win. The
Greenville High School football players approached their rivals on the football field in order to
share the life-changing message of the Gospel. Unlike the woman at the well, here in Darke
County God is leading the way with the youth. They are beginning to truly understand the truth
of the Gospel and its power in their lives, and they are running with it. This is not normal. But
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it’s becoming the new normal here in Darke County,
Ohio.
Hello Church,
It is hard to believe that Summer is almost over, and by the time I write to
you again, we will be seeing the signs of fall beginning to set in. The past
couple months have been a whirlwind with transition, ministry opportunities, and the grace of God. Today as I sit here and ponder all that I have
been witness to this summer, I am reminded of Psalm 25:8-11
“Good and upright is the Lord;
Therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way.
All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful
toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.
For the sake of your name, Lord,
UPCOMING forgive my iniquity, though it is great.”
SERMON
SERIES
On August
6th, God brought together a group of sinners from literally all across our country
and He instructed us to begin the initiative that we have called Revive Ohio. In just a couple weeks, we have seen God move so much. At this point, hundreds of people have accepted Christ as Savior and the revival is building. We have seen God open the door to
ministry in the courthouse, ministry in city buildings, and even ministry in schools. Speaking of schools, seventeen of the Arcanum varsity football team stood up and claimed Jesus
their Lord. This group of students is near to our heart and so we have made the commitment to disciple them over the next year. We don’t know exactly what it looks like yet, but
we do know that we are going to throw all of our resources at this opportunity to strengthen
the next generation and the future of our communities.
Please pray for our staff, and the team as we learn God’s will and work together to seek it
out.
Serving Christ,
Pastor Travis
WELCOME JESSE TEAL
AS OUR NEW
DIRECTOR OF FAMILY LIFE
On August 7, 2016, we were blessed to welcome Jesse
Teal and his wife Ashley! They both were born and
raised in Greensboro North Carolina and have graciously accepted our offer to be part of our church family here in Gordon, Ohio. Jesse comes to us with multiple years of not only speaking and leading worship services but also teaching and working with youth. His
goal is to equip the youth for where they are and prepare
them for where they are going. The only way to do this
is to help them find a solid identity in Christ. 2Welcome
Jesse & Ashley!
SERVANTS
FOR MINISTRY SEPTEMBER,
2016 THRU
OCTOBER,
2016
4-Sep-16
9:00am and
10:00am
2-Oct-16
9:00am and
10:00am
Greeters/
Fellowship:
Joe & Faye Stockton
Greeters/
Fellowship:
Jim & Phyllis Bixler
Worship Leader:
Cindy Emrick
Worship Leader:
Jim Gilbert
Children's Moments:
Pastor Jesse Teal
Children's Moments:
Pastor Jesse Teal
Communion Stew- Dwight Foureman
ard:
Communion Stew- Luke Chrisman
ard:
Primary SS:
Peggy Matheny &
Gloria Begin
Primary SS:
Peggy Matheny &
Gloria Begin
Toddler SS:
Kathy Brown
Toddler SS:
Kathy Brown
Elementary SS:
Cindy Emrick
Elementary SS:
Cindy Emrick
Nursery:
Emily Harrison &
Jessica Qualls
Nursery:
Emily Harrison &
Jessica Qualls
Jr. Church:
Kathy Brown
Jr. Church:
Kathy Brown
Acolytes:
Carter & TuckerQualls
Acolytes:
Carter & Tucker
Qualls
Ushers:
Youth
Ushers:
Jim Black, Don
Rhoades
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9:00am and
10:00am
9-Oct-16
9:00am and
10:00am
Greeters/
Fellowship
Don & Janet
Rhoades
Greeters/
Fellowship
Mike Stump &
Tammy Cline
Worship Leader:
Cindy Emrick
Worship Leader:
Jim Gilbert
Children's Moments:
Lori Moore-Filbrun Children's Moments:
Lori Moore-Filbrun
Primary SS:
Peggy Matheny &
Gloria Begin
Primary SS:
Peggy Matheny &
Gloria Begin
Toddler SS:
Jessica Qualls
Toddler SS:
Jessica Qualls
Elementary SS:
Kathy Brown
Elementary SS:
Kathy Brown
Nursery:
Jane Urlage &
Dwight Foureman
Nursery:
Jane Urlage &
Dwight Foureman
Jr. Church
Jessica Qualls
Jr. Church
Jessica Qualls
Acolytes:
Nick Fry & Toria
Gross
Acolytes:
Nick Fry & Toria
Gross
Greeters/
Fellowship
Dwight & Peggy
Foureman
Greeters/
Fellowship
Jim & Vicki Gilbert
Worship Leader:
Cindy Emrick
Worship Leader:
Jim Gilbert
Children's Mo-
Pastor Travis
Children's Mo-
Pastor Travis
Jim Bixler, & Mike
Stump
Servants for Ministry
Youth
Ushers:
Jim Black, Don
Interested in serving
as a Worship
Leader,
Rhoades
Greeter/Host
for
Fellowship
hour,
Acolyte,
Jim Bixler, & Mike
orStump
as a communion steward, please let Pas18-Sep-16
9:00am
and the church
16-Oct-16 office9:00am and
tor
Travis know
or call
10:00am
10:00am
(937) 884-5129
Ushers:
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CURRENT SERMON SERIES
September Calendar Dates
FAMILY VALUES
Sept 01 – 6:30pm –Youth Advisory Mtg
Sept 06 – 7:30pm – Finance Committee Mtg
Sept 10 – 8:00am – Administrative Council
Sept 11- 6:00pm-Youth “Olympian Kick-Off”
Sept 15– 3:00pm-6:30pm—Community Blood
Drive, sponsored by Verona Fire Dept & Village of
Gordon
Sept 17 – 9:00am- Men’s Brotherhood –Hustons
Illumination Festival, Darke Co. Fairgrounds
Activities start at 12:00 Noon
Concert at 4:00pm
Sept 18 –4:00pm-Worship Design Team
Sept 20 – 6:00pm– UMW – House of Hope Spkr
Sept 25 - 6:30pm—Youth Group
Sept 04 - Family Values:
Joseph & His Brothers - Forgiveness
Sept 11 - Family Values:
Jesus, Mary, and John Caring for Family Always
October Calendar Dates
COMMITMENT
Sept 18—Commit to Pray
Sept 25—Commit to Worship
Oct 02—Commit to Serve
Oct 09—Commit to Mission
Oct 16—Commit to Church
Oct 23—Commit to Jesus
The Link will resume Wednesday
Oct 5th, with a meal at 5:30 PM. Adult
Bible study and Kids Club 6:00—7:00.
Please join us to learn and have fun!
Oct 02- 6:30pm-Youth Group
Oct 05-5:30pm The Link begins
Oct 08-Youth Mission Trip to Good Works Ministries in Athens, OH
Oct 12-5:30pm The Link begins
Oct 15—9:00-Men’s Brotherhood-Huston’s
Oct 16—181 Annual Homecoming Celebration
6:30pm-Youth Group
Oct 19-5:30pm The Link begins
Oct 23 –6:30pm-Youth Group
Oct 26-5:30pm The Link begins
Oct 30-6:30pm-Youth Group
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
OCTOBER 16, 2016
GORDON UMC - 181st
HOME COM ING S UNDAY
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Gordon UMC now offers online giving
through our website (front page, bottom left
“Make a Donation”
at www.gordonumc.com
Online giving will allow you to go to the
church website at any time to set up an automatic donation plan, change your donation
plan, make a one-time donation or view your
online donation history. etc.
We are thankful for another summer of God’s blessings and pray
that fall will refresh us and give us joy and peace within. Thanks
to all who helped with our August Grace Resurrection Soup
Kitchen, especially Pastor Travis and Jesse and Ashley. It was a
blessing to introduce them to our Soup Kitchen ministry. We
will be doing this again in November. Becky and Jim Black will
be in charge.
Gordon UMW delivered diapers to the Wesley Center in
Dayton, OH ( Aug, 2016)
Our September 20 meeting will be held at the church,
6:00pm, with all of the ladies hosting. We have invited Amy Raines of Ithaca House of
Hope to give us an update on where they are with this ministry. Ithaca St Matthews
WELCA, Ithaca Faith UMW and the Ithaca Open Bible Church ladies will be invited to attend.
On September 24, everyone is invited to attend the Miami Valley District UMW
“Taste of Mission” Meeting at Faith UMC in Arcanum. Coffee is at 9:00am and the meeting will last until 11:30am. This is a perfect opportunity to get a taste of what we missed at
School of Missions in July. Erin McKenzie will be facilitating Climate Justice, the Social
Issue study. She is one of the 2016 Miami Valley District UMW Martha Scholarship recipients, a member of Ginghamsburg UMC and serves on the Miami Valley District Green Team and Greater Dayton Creation Connections. Erin is a former smallscale organic farmer and life-long avid gardener. Reservations are required, so let me know
if you would like to attend.
“Light Up the Darke” House of Hope Pig Roast will be held at the Kennedy Vineyard, October 15th, 2pm -10pm. A meal will be served at 2pm. Tickets are $7 for Adults,
$3 Kids (12 & under). Call 937-317-1930 for a reservation.
Peggy Foureman will be hosting and presenting the program for our Oct 18 th meeting.
Our UMW District Annual Gathering will be held at Faith Community UM Church
in Xenia on October 22. During this meeting, women who gave of their time and love to
United Methodist Women will be honored including my mother, Margaret Cullers. She was
so honored to have served as Dayton North District President, going on to be an officer on
the Conference level. She was thankful for these experiences and had many treasured
friends. If possible, I hope to be present for the meeting. If anyone would like to ride
along, please let me know. Reservations will be required.
Janet Rhoades, President
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October Birthdays
September Birthdays
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Jim Black
Shawn Bonner
Rick Usserman
Andrew Byrd
Haley Robinson
Chet Pease
Greg Bogan
Mara Begin
14 James Powell
17 Dani Robinson
22 Carmen Detling
24 Jodi Burns
25 Mary Bogan
29 Brady Harrison
29 Carter Quallsl
29 Wade Qualls
September Anniversaries
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09
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Ron & Georgia Gross
Travis & Jessica Qualls
Chris & Jodi Robinson
Tyler & Julie Neitzelt
Youth Group is having an Olympian Kick-Off
on September 11 at 6:00pm. Then on Sunday
evenings youth group will start up on September
25th at 6:30pm. A Youth Mission Trip is planned
October 8 to Good Works Ministries in Athens,
OH. A planned family retreat for November, and
Confirmation classes will be held at Christmas
and Easter, with a Spring, 2017, Planned Confirmation family retreat.
Plan now for the Youth Mission Trip-Oct. 8th
The weekend of October 7-9, Gordon and St.
Matthew youth and adults will be heading to
Athens Ohio to Good Works Ministries for our
first youth mission trip. We will leave immediately following school on Friday and will return
on Sunday afternoon. Here is some additional
info about our weekend:
Good Works welcomes groups who want to participate in a Work Retreat for a weekend or for a
week. Often churches or civic groups who are
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looking for a service opportunity come to Good
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09
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Tana May
Megan Harrison
Alan Shively
Kilea Powell
Marcia Nixon
John Hangen
Becky Black
Chase Gostomsky
Deb Lee
Ron Gross
Ashlynn Tegtmeyer
Jessica Qualls
Knox Morris
20 Betty Baker
21 Lillyan Powell
23 Phyllis Bixler
23 Robin Morris
24 Pastor John Gilmore
26 Aubrey Morris
27 Lee Morris
29 Tory Gross
30 Becky Powell
31 Dwight Fry
October Anniversaries
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Dwight & Stacy Fry
Ian & Lindsey Werts
Chet & Nichole Pease
John & Svetlana Stump
Rick & Cindy Emrick
Works. While service is one motivation to
come, some groups are also seeking to
strengthen the community aspect of their
group.
Your group will provide us with help that is
very much needed in the care of our properties
as you come and serve with us. You may be
involved with yard work, painting, agriculture,
construction, wood splitting and other projects
associated with the upkeep of the facilities and
grounds managed by Good Works. You may
also help with some of the projects that we do
to develop these properties.
Neighbors Helping Neighbors is ministry that
you may be involved with. We provide volunteers to people in our community who struggle
with poverty, age, physical limitations and disabilities. We seek to help people with a wide
range of projects based on the skill levels of
our volunteers that will enable people in the
neighborhood to continue to live safely and securely in their homes.
For more information or to sign up,
contact Pastor Jesse.
News From Administrative Council
GORDON UM CHURCH
ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL MEETING
JULY 10, 2016
Due to a conflict in scheduling, the Gordon Council Meeting for July 9 th was
changed to after church on July 10th. Meeting was Pastor Travis Qualls, Jim Gilbert, Vicki Gilbert, and Janet Rhoades.
Jim opened the meeting with prayer.
Vicki Gilbert, finance chairperson, announced a profit of $2,400.00 was realized from our June Ice Cream Social. This makes a balance of $3,237.87 in the Ice
Cream Social fund. The Finance Committee recommended transferring $2,500.00
from this fund into the Roof Fund, leaving a balance of $837.87 in the Ice Cream
Social Fund which will be an adequate amount to finance purchases for next year’s
social. In addition, $250.00 from the Memorial Fund will also be transferred to the
Roof Fund making a zero balance in the Memorial fund.
Also discussed was a change in the Pastor’s budget. The Finance Committee
has reworked the pastoral budget to create additional church funds and have reapportioned Pastor’s salary and benefits package by removing conference health insurance and reallocating a portion of those funds to be used for education accounts
reimbursable, and salary. The reallocation allows Pastor Travis and family to pay
for their own health and disability insurance while the church uses the reworked
salary package to pay other expenses in exchange. The Finance Committee moved
to accept the new pastoral budget, Jim Gilbert seconded and motion carried. This
will save Gordon $5,000.00 and St Matthew’s $5,000.00 a year. (See attached)
Pastor Travis announced the SPPRC Team has chosen Jessie Teal as our new
Director of Family Life. St Matthew’s has recently accepted this proposal as well.
His anticipated start date is the 2nd or 3rd week of August. He and his wife will be
residing in the Gordon Church parsonage.
The next council meeting will be September 10th, 8:00 am.
Janet Rhoades for Alice Rayburg
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November 22, 2016
scheduled events
Starting at noon:
Youth Group Centered activities
High Ropes Course with Zip Line
Rock Climbing Wall
Gaga Ball
Inflatable Obstacies and Bouncehouse
Laser Tag
Coffee House Stage with Local Artists
4:00pm - Grandstand Gates Open
5:00pm - Main Concert, in order:
*KJ-52
*Blanca
*Building 429
*Matthew West
Get tickets online from darkecountyfair.com or in
person at the Darke County Fairgrounds Office,
Bread of Life Bookstore, the Christian Bookstore in
Union City (no VIP/reserved), or Trinity Gifts and
Books in Richmond (no VIP/reserved.). Or see Pastor Travis at Gordon UMC for more more details.
(937) 621-7897
Bring a canned good and and help support
Darke County's FISH food program.
September/October 2016
Gordon United Methodist Church
311 East St.
Gordon, Ohio 45304
Church (937) 884-5127
Pastor Travis Qualls (937) 621-7897
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