Kilbourne United Methodist Church E-News

February 2010

From The Pastor

In the last year you may have seen a commercial sponsored by the General Conference of the United Methodist Church under the words "Rethinking Church".  I had mentioned earlier this year our Bishop calling the local church to re-think how we can be "The Church" wherever we are. The idea is The idea is to get each of us to think about church as an active verb instead of a noun.  I place this thought before you.  How can we make our "Church" into an action that moves from being a building and turns us into an active presence in within the community.  I know that there have been members who have gone from door to door inviting neighbors to be a part of the activities we have had.  We have been frustrated when thee has been little to no response.  That does not mean we should stop trying.  The church is here to reach out regardless of our personal frustrations.  As members of Christ's Holy bride we are the hands that do God's work in the world.  The concept of "doing" is not new.  Our lord was "doing" as he went about "doing" his Father's business.  With each generation we must look anew at what it means to be the church.  With each re-examination we then need to make it relevant to our time in history.

What does the "Church" mean to you and how can you be the kind of disciple who will serve our Lord?  Each of us needs to have a clear understanding of how we are called.  We learn o our personal call within the fellowship of the "Church".  Within the Fellowship of Christ, the church is God's Sacrament which will work upon our hearts along with the study of scripture, prayer, and most important fellowship.  Paul relates that each of us is a part of the body of Christ.  We become the body of the church.  Another way of saying it is, that the Church is the body of Christ right here.  As we work to implement our personal call we are the "church" in action.  In the "old days" this was called the church militant.  Our founder John Wesley took to heart that the church could not remain within the walls of a building.  He would gather the people inside buildings where they studied, prayed, and were taught.  He then took them out into the world just as he himself went out into the world.  He preached to coal miners in the mines.  He read scripture in the foundry to the workers by the glare of the furnaces that smelted the iron for cannons.  He addressed the cold, hungry masses of England where they lived to give them the Good News of the risen Lord Jesus the Christ that they may know they were loved by God their Holy Father.  That Jesus died to set them free from sin and death.  Can we at this time do any less?  Are we so modern that we can not see that we are God's hands, or are so blind that we can not see that to be faithful to His word we must move from where we are comfortable in order to do His work.

Pastor Peter         

Contemporary Worship Service

Come join us for a modern worship experience the first and third Saturday of each month.  January’s Contemporary Worship Services will be held on Saturday, January 2, 2010 & Saturday, January 16, 2010@ 5pm.

Check out Our Website!

Similar to the newsletter, our church website needs to have updated information, not only to show what we are doing as a church, but also to share with others (outside our community) the joy and excitement we have in our church’s ministries.  The website is not only an outreach tool, but an online resource that can be utilized for keeping track of events and meetings.  As periodic additions are made to the website, many other pages of the website may be neglected.  To prevent this, suggestions are needed for improving the content as well as the accessibility of information (like: schedules, events, etc.) on the website.  I invite you to view and evaluate our website:   

www.kilbourneumc.org

Please let me know what I can do to make our webpage even better!

Thank You,

 Chris Turos

Get Set For Growth!

The education Ministry is on a roll!!!  We have revamped our program in order to better serve everyone. Lynn Wagoner is Educational Chair. The Educational Dept is now broken down into three areas. Lynn will be the Youth Education Leader, which is infant through high school seniors. Dave Veppert is the Young Adult Education Leader. He will be developing programming for those just out high school through 30 something. The Adult Education leader is Sandy Wicker. Sandy will work with our older members for Sunday School ideas and special topics.

Junior Church and Youth Choir Schedule

Junior Church will resume in January for children 1st - 6th grade.  Then all older youth need to come back for youth choir practice at the beginning of announcement time. The youth choir will sing the first Sunday of every month - there is no Junior church on this day. It is communion Sunday.

Kids... that means be at church every Sunday so we can be way super awesome and have a great time while learning about God and singing songs!

JOY (Jesus Others Yourself)

Kindergarten through 4th grade...

&

KFC (Kids For Christ)

5th through 8th grade...

 ...join us in a new adventure every other Sunday February 7th & 21st, from 12:30pm - 2pm.

Bring a friend!

VBS

We're going to the Rain Forest!!!

In July 12-16, we will all take a trip to visit Henry deep in a rain forest. During V.B.S. you will meet Tommy Toucan and other new friends of Henry, but watch out for the giant mosquitoes.                               

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Donations go toward CIA activities such as Ichthus