There are times when I am disheartened by the things I read in the news, by

the events going on in both our own nation and around the world. I confess I have

days when I avoid the news, simply because I need a break from the onslaught of

heartbreak in the broken world around me. There are times when I am frustrated and a little hopeless

for the future of The United Methodist Church, and times when I feel powerless as the special session

of General Conference approaches in February of 2019. Perhaps you have felt this way as well? But I

write this newsletter article from Institute, an annual camp that gathers United Methodist youth from

our geographic area together for a week of worship, reflection, and growing closer to God. Institute

meets at Baker University, one of our United Methodist schools, and we stay in the residence halls on

campus all week. (I am thrilled to be joined by a youth from Crestview this year, Amber Schmidt!) I

feel the presence of God as these young people sing songs, ask difficult questions, and learn about this

crazy thing we call faith. Last week I had an amazing time at Crestview with our children (and

adults!) at Vacation Bible School, where we learned about God and celebrated being children of

God. As we played and learned, I saw God's reign alive and well in their eyes. Yes, sometimes the

weight of all that is going on the world can threaten to overwhelm me, but both the youth at camp and

the children at VBS remind me that God is doing powerful things in the world. In a turbulent time in

the world and in our own denomination, I invite you to pause, and give thanks for God's work in your

own life, and in the lives around you. To lift up a prayer of thanksgiving for the entirety of God's

boundless creation, and remember the prayer of Julian of Norwich: "All shall be well, and all manner

of things shall be made well."

Blessings, Pastor Kara

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“Looking to Jesus, the Pioneer and Perfector of our faith.” Hebrews 12: 2 “The Crestviewer” is published monthly by: Volume 2018, Issue 7 July 18, 2018

Crestview United Methodist Church 2245 SW Eveningside Dr. Topeka, KS 66614 Phone: (785) 272-3676 or 272-3702 Fax: (785) 271-9551 E-mail: crestviewumc@gmail.com Web address: cumctopeka.org We are also on Facebook; search for us by our name. Office Hours: Monday - Friday: 9:00a-12:30p /1:00p-2:30p

Senior Pastor: Kara Eidson

Organist: Connie Roth

Custodian: Tony Romero

Nursery Director: Vicki Durr

Nursery Assistant: .

Financial Secretary: Michele Turley

Asst. Financial Secretary: Marilynn Hiegert

Music Director: Jennifer Bahr-Slocum

Secretary/Treasurer: Terresa Mountain

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It’s Your Business: Our financial status through June 30, 2018 Bank Balance: $ 61,479.47 Designated Funds: $ 58,493.02 General Funds: $ 2,986.45 ‘18 Mission Shares {assigned $25,441.00} paid for 2018: $ 3,007.87 Total unpaid Mission Shares for 2018 $ 22,433.13

2018 - Mission Shares assigned: $ 25,441 / Budget: $ 190,153 = $ 215,594 Total Needed

Please note: We are refreshing the prayer requests on the white board in the office and in the weekly bulletin & newsletter. Prayer requests will be renewed every 2 weeks with the exception of ongoing critical needs. We hope this keeps us updated and brings our attention to new requests. Thank you. Pastor Kara

Death: Rev. Allen Baumgartner (6/27/18) Ongoing Concerns: Marion Taylor (Hospice Care), Carol Weaver, Robert & Kathy Singer, LaMoyne Smith, Patsy Hubbard, Gladys Glogau, Bob MacLeay. Gene & Betty Dunn’s great-grandson (Falcon Murillo)

Our Men and Women currently serving in the Military: Matt Thompson; JoAnn Montgomery’s grand-son, (Jacob Crawshaw); Rick & Laura Anderson’s son (Matt Anderson); Vera Hrabak’s grandsons (Jared Hrabak, Joshua Roe & Bruce Hrabak, Jr.); Oleta Schafer’s grandsons (Matt Cavanaugh & Ben Tressler) & Doris Henderson’s grandson (Sterling Williams)

Wednesday, Aug. 15th, is the deadline for the Sept. 2018 Crestviewer.

The Topeka Rescue Mission clients were served lunch on Tues. noon, June 26, by Debbie Ba-som, Ila Hewitt, Galen & Shirley Postier. 184 clients were served a nutritious mac 'n cheese meal. It is always amazing to those of us serving how grateful the majority of clients are for their meal. The next time we are scheduled to serve is Tuesday, July 24. Give Shirley a phone call at 246-2308 if you are willing to help with the noon meal. Thanks to those who do volun-teer and reap the reward of service to others.

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Hello All, I have great news to share!! Doorstep made $25,391.67 from Topeka Gives One Day of Giving! We were 2nd highest again this year in the number of donors (122) who gave to Doorstep! We were 4th highest in the amount received from the event! The event made a total of $597,421.19 with the match money included! Amazing! I want to per-sonally thank everyone who took time to go Fairlawn Plaza two weeks ago to make a donation for Door-step! This has been a challenging year, and this finan-cial blessing was needed more now than ever! We are grateful to the Topeka Community Foundation for putting this event on each year for the benefit of the many non-profits in our community. In the past 6 years, Doorstep has made nearly $90,000 from those “one day of giving” events! The load feels a little bit lighter today… Thank you again! Lisa Cain, Executive Director Doorstep, Inc. (785) 357-5341 www.DoorstepTopeka.org From Julia Strobel: (UMW - Journey in Giving Coordinator) We will be collecting Spaghetti Sauce & Spaghetti

Noodles the month of August. Please place them in the GREEN tubs just outside the Church Secretary’s Office. Thank you.

WHAT MAKES UP A CLIENT FOOD ORDER AT DOORSTEP??? Doorstep, Inc. strives to provide a well rounded food order for our clients. The food is selected to put “meals” together and last for 5 days, 3 meals a day. The following is a list of food we need to fill those orders: Macaroni & Cheese Egg Noodles Pinto Beans Rice Spaghetti Spaghetti Sauce Canned Fruit Canned Tuna Canned Soups Canned Vegetables Tomato Corn Chicken Noodle Green Beans Vegetable Peas Ramen Noodles Pork ‘n Beans Milk—Canned/Powdered Crackers Cereal—Hot/Dry Peanut Butter & Jelly Per Client request: Sugar, Flour, Cake Mixes, Cooking Oil, etc., & personal care items if available.

Thank you for your continued support!

Chancel Choir will resume rehearsals at 7:30PM on Thursday, August 23rd! Carilloners will resume on Thursday, September 6th at 6:30 PM! This would be the PERFECT time to join, if you’re interested in music! Jennifer Bahr-Slocum ======================================================

Doorstep Newsletter Article – August 2018 We would like to thank everyone who donated items for Christmas in July! As kids are getting ready to go back to school, now is the perfect time to stock up on school supplies. Doorstep provides new school supplies to the children we adopt at Christmas to replenish them for the second half of the year. If you can help with these items while supplies are plentiful, and on sale, we would greatly appreciate your dona-tions! In the heat of summer we are seeing more requests for hygiene kits. In 2017, we gave out 852 hygiene kits! We are in need of deodorant, bar soap or body wash,

shampoo/conditioner in one, razors and shaving cream, sunscreen and chapstick. Thank you in ad-vance if you can help! Doorstep is open Monday – Friday from 8am – 3pm for donations & if you bring a donation, please let us know which Church you are affiliated with so we can give them credit! We are located at 1119 SW 10th Avenue (10th & Buchanan). (NOTE from the Secretary: There are also collection tubs outside the Church Office for your donations! Food donations go in the green tubs / toiletries, clothing, etc. go in the pink tubs! Please do not put hygiene items in the Green tubs as it taints the food!) Sign Up for Doorstep’s Neighbor Helping Neighbor Walk/5K Run! Saturday, October 6th is the date for our inaugural event! We are planning on this becoming our second annual fundraiser each year! You can sign up to participate yourself for $30 including a t-shirt (deadline September 10th to order a shirt) or sponsor a walker/runner! Those getting sponsors will get a free t-shirt with pledges of $100 or more. All proceeds will benefit Doorstep, Inc. Get your family, friends, youth, community groups together and join us this October! We are excited about this event! It will start/end from shelter houses 1 & 2 at Lake Shawnee. The Walk/Run will start at 9:30am with celebrity starter, Chris Fisher from WIBW-TV 13, after the To-peka High School Drum Line gets everyone pumped up and ready to go! After the walk/run return to the shelter houses for a continental breakfast of fruit, granola bars, bagels, juice and water. Watch for a sign up table and more information in August, and plan to join us for our first Neighbor Helping Neighbor Walk/5K Run on October 6th!

Doorstep Coordinator’s Report

Thank you to all Crestviewers for the contributions to Doorstep in June. The July food drive collected 724.5 #s of food and $381.00 for the Doorstep Food Bank. Our Crestview College Competition collecting food was won by Washburn University by ONE item! KU 307 items, K-State 185 items and Washburn 308 items for a total of 800 items collected. My thanks go out to Michele Turley, Keagan and Marilynn Hiegert for counting and bagging all of the food collected. AND Thank you Cody Shannon for delivering the whole 724.5 pounds to Doorstep in my absence. We are now accepting items for ‘Christmas in July’ for Doorstep Christmas gifts. You can pick an angel from the angel tree and donate that item through July 31st. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Neighbor Helping Neighbor Walk/5K Run: October 8, 2018, Lake Shawnee Shelter House 1& 2 West Edge Road. 8:30AM-9:15AM with walk & 5K to begin at 9:30AM. Register by Sept. 10, 2018 and pay $30.00 Entry Fee or get sponsors to donate to Doorstep as your entry fee. A continental break-fast will be provided at the finish in the shelter house. Food donations in June 89.6 pounds. Julia Marsh, Doorstep Coordinator 3

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BIRTHDAYS—August—2018

1st Marion Taylor 2nd Linda Donovan 6th Lenora Wonnell 7th Helen Conway 100th!!! 8th Ron Larison Amy Felsburg Karla Biber Preston Bahr 9th June Christensen Tim Miller Dennis Perry 10th Sheryl Usrey 13th Donny Driver 15th Marilyn Johnson Craig Smith

17th Jackie Skirvin Janice Duran 20th Mary Johnson Janelle DiGennaro 21st Jennifer Bahr-Slocum 22nd Martha Williams Hunter Voorhees 26th Fran Miller 27th Tori Mason Mike Voorhees Viola Beadleston 28th Carolyn Green Joyce Freel Janell McKinney 29th Jane Long

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY: At the present time, we have plenty of shawls and lap blankets to meet our needs. Thank you to those who crochet and knit, for your hard work with this ministry! I will let you know when we need more items. Thank you. Sandy Biber 272-1482 Lois Condley sends her love & thanks for the birthday cards, prayers, and well wishes for her birthday!

Thank you, Crestview friends for the cards and phone calls I received during my recent hospitalization and since I returned home. Pastor Kara's visit and the prayer she offered for healing meant more to me than mere words can convey. Much of the second half of June re-mains a blur to me, but I am getting stronger as each day passes. However, now I am dealing with an attack of shingles and would appreciate any and all prayers for continued healing. May God bless our Crestview family. Carol Weaver A HUGE Thank you to all our Vacation Bible School volunteers! Teresa Tuchscher-er, Amy Bitter, Bethany Weber, Michele Turley, Lori Hudson, Nicole Thompson, Vicki Durr, Debbie Basom, Rachel Miller, Jennifer Emery, Laurie Pigg, Sherry Per-ry, Kathie Duguid, Dixie Smith, Amber Schmidt, Thomas Schmidt, Cody Shannon, Mickey Shannon, Jenna Felsburg and Amy Felsburg! The kids had a great time of learning about and experiencing Jesus! You’re all HEROS!!!

Dear Crestview UMC, On behalf of Fellowship & Faith Ministry, Inc., I would like to thank you for your Finan-cial Support and we also appreciate your willingness in loaning us fans to keep our building cool until we could afford to fix the air conditioners. Your support will continue to help us in our mis-sion to assist those in our community. Support like yours and others make it possible for our organization to exist and be able to

provide all our services free to over 1,062 individuals per month. We not only provide a food pantry, but also translation services, an English as a Second Language (ESL) program, a Tutoring program for adults or chil-dren, a Computer class in English or Spanish, a Cooking/Nutrition class, a Citizenship class, as well as the Volunteer Individual Tax Assistance (VITA) program during tax season, in both English and Spanish. Thank you for your continual support! Sincerely, Adrienne Martinez, Administrator

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CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE www.cumctopeka.org

Our e-mail address is: crestviewumc@gmail.com

We do offer our newsletter via e-mail, if you prefer to receive it that way!

Crestview Church is also on Facebook and found by searching for Crestview United Methodist Church

If you would like to be notified by e-mail when there are new prayer concerns, or if you have a prayer concern you would like others to know about, please call the Church Office at 272-3676 or e-mail your information to the Church at: Crestviewumc@gmail.com.

All e-mail addresses will be kept confidential.

2245 SW Eveningside Dr. Topeka, KS 66614-1344

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Pg. 1 From the Pastor

Pg. 2 Prayer Concerns

Topeka Rescue Mission News

A new address for:

Doorstep News

It’s your Business (Finance Report)

Pg. 3 Chancel Choir resumes!

Doorstep Coordinators report

Pg. 4 August Birthdays

Thank yous

Prayer Shawl Ministry

Fellowship & Faith news

Pg. 5 August Calendar

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