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Rayne
MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
for 141 years shining the light of God’s love and grace 3900 Saint Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70115
504-899-3431 www.raynenola.org Sunday Worship at 8:45 and 11 am
April 20, 2017
We Welcome All! We warmly welcome all to worship on Sundays at 8:45 or 11 am and Sunday
School at 9:45 am, to participate freely in the life of this community of faith and love, and to become a member of this congregation. Rayne welcomes and embraces all people regardless of race, class, gender, or sexual orientation with open hearts, open minds, and open doors!
Welcome to Rayne! Prayers, Presence, Gifts, Service
2017 Operating Budget
$1,080,442
Needed Weekly 20,778 Weekly Average to Date 16,823 Received 4/16/17 19,121 154 Pledges-to-date for 2017 695,127
Contribute Online at www.raynenola.org
or scan this QR Code to set up an account.
Use your smart phone to open your own account with the church
for making contributions and viewing your giving record.
Those wishing to become members of Rayne
are encouraged to contact
one of our pastors: [email protected] [email protected]
E A S T E R T I D E
A Celebration of Creation
Verses from
Genesis 1 and 2 “And the Lord God
planted a garden…”
John 19:40-42 “Now there was a garden
in the place where he was crucified…”
Revelation 22:1-5 “...and the leaves of the tree are for
the healing of the nations.”
Message by
Callie Winn Crawford, Amanda Price,
and Max Zehner
“Get Your Hands Dirty”
The Lord’s Supper 8:45 am
in the Historic Sanctuary with musicians
Marcus St. Julien, Piano Ebonee Davis and
Nathan Ward, Soloists
Traditional Worship 11 am
in the Historic Sanctuary with The Chancel Choir
conducted by C. Leonard Raybon
and Marcus St. Julien, Organist
The Greening of the Cross
The Rayne Caring for Creation Committee
We welcome friends from the
Sugar Roots Farm, whose mission is to foster
compassion and physical wellness in New Orleans through farm-to-fork education,
and to make a positive impact on the environment using a sustainable, free-range working farm model.
We thank the Spice Team for healthy and homemade treats for this special day!
Frances Adelaide Casey baptized on
Easter Sunday April 16, 2017
United Methodist Men Plan Workday Save the Date: Saturday, June 10 Watch the newsletter for details as the men firm up plans to spend a Saturday morning with a “Honey Do” List of odd jobs and repairs around the church!
__________________________________________ Always Needed at the Donation Station Hotel-sized amenities: soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotions, toothpaste, toothbrushes, as well as razors, reading glasses, and bandaids. _________________________________________________
Crescent City Café This young adult ministry, “compelled by the love of Christ,” serves a gourmet breakfast restaurant-style with dignity and grace to those in need twice monthly. The next café will be Saturday, May 6, 8 am, in the Fellowship Hall. To donate or volunteer, go to www.crescentcitycafe.com _________________________________________________
Comfort Food Sunday, April 23, the Salt Team will be preparing a meal to be served on Tuesday, April 25, at The Open Table. To join the Salt, Pepper, Spice, or Tabasco Team, email [email protected] _________________________________________________
The Open Table Servers are welcome at the Open Table! If you would like to serve Comfort Food, join us at 2700 Louisiana Avenue on Tuesday, April 25, at 3 pm.
_________________________________________ We Welcome Sunday Morning Volunteers Greeters, Ushers, Kitchen Crew If you are able and willing to help with any of these tasks on Sunday morning, email [email protected]
_________________________________________ On Any Given Friday
Each Friday, volunteers gather to assemble the cookie trays, replenish children’s activity bags, and prepare the sanctuary for worship—refreshing the pencils, offering envelopes, and registration pads. Lend a hand! Stop by on any Friday at 10 am.
_________________________________________ Prayer Shawl Ministry Bring your latest project, patterns, yarn, ideas, and a friend to our next gathering on Sunday, May 21, 4 pm, in the Senior Pastor’s Study.
Opportunities for Service
Join Team Tabasco!
This team will cook meals to be served at The Open Table on the months having a 5th Tuesday. Captain Robert Connolly will lead this Comfort Food Team. Can you help? Contact 504-899-3431.
We can help Melody and Alberta Pate rebuild their flooded home and business
by supporting “Those Nuts” at gracielouisenutt.com Facebook/GracieLouiseNutt
Instagram/GracieLouiseNutt 10% of “Those Nuts” proceeds return to Rayne!
Lay Servant Ministry Training April 21-22
First Grace United Methodist Church If you would like to be trained as a Lay Servant,
you are invited to begin training. For information and registration, contact
Joann Taylor 504-394-4253 or Glory S. Davis 985-986-9764.
GIVE TO: Rayne Early Childhood Program
Luke’s House
MARK YOUR
CALENDAR! MAY 2, 2017
“Godly Play” You Can Help Rayne Provide this Innovative and
Exciting New Curriculum for Our Children
The Godly Play approach helps children to explore their faith through story, to learn the language of our faith, and to enhance their spiritual experience though wonder and play. Based on Montessori principles and developed using a spiral curriculum, the Godly Play method serves children through childhood and beyond. Each Godly Play Bible story comes in a box with beautifully crafted manipulatives which the story teller slowly unwraps and employs as s/he tells the story and invites wonder, engagement, and understanding.
If you would like to purchase a story for our growing Godly Play library, contact Children’s Ministry Director, Natalie Derham at 504-899-3431 or [email protected]
May 2nd
Opportunities for Spiritual Growth
Luncheon and Program Wednesday, April 26
Noon Fellowship Hall
RSVP: 504-899-3431
Guest Speaker: Mike Strecker
Mike is a local stand-up comic
and author of
The Young Comic’s Guide To Telling Jokes.
2017 Vacation Bible School
Although registration for this year’s VBS is full,
we are maintaining a waiting list. Too, we welcome all volunteers—
in the kitchen, with the crafts, in the classroom,
on the playground, lend a hand! Contact [email protected]
Women’s Group: The Gifts of Imperfection - April 23
Brené Brown helps us to let go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embrace who we are. Join us as we go through an
interactive eCourse based on The Gifts of Imperfection featuring videos, creative activities, and discussions.
This group meets the third Sunday of every month, 7-8:30 pm.
Men's Group: How God Makes Men - April 23 The men's group will be reading and discussing the book, How
God Makes Men: Ten Epic Stories. The book draws on ten giants of the Bible from Abraham and Moses to David, Paul and others, to present a composite of principles of how God guides our lives.
The men's group will meet from 7:30-8:45 pm at NOLA Brewing Tap Room.
New Study Begins on Monday, April 24 Crazy Love, based on the best-selling book by Francis Chan.
What should our response be to a God that loves us unconditionally? In Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless
God, Chan argues the antidote to religious complacency is not working harder at a list of do's and don'ts — it's falling in love
with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. It may be hard to picture what
loving God with all of our heart, mind, soul, and strength looks like. Join us for a 10-week book- and DVD-based study of this
best-seller (over 2 million copies sold!) to learn about loving God radically in a modern world.
Rayne 20/30 meets in the Youth Room #219 on Mondays from 6:30-8 pm.
For more information: [email protected]
Caring for Creation Invites All
Caring for the Coast A Combined Sunday School Session Sunday, April 23 9:45 am, Fellowship Hall Speaker: Helen Rose Patterson, Outreach Coordinator with RESTORE the Mississippi River Delta
What’s happening in coastal restoration? 2017 brings us a new Coastal Master Plan
and more details about the future of our coast. Learn about what’s in the plan and
how you can support restoration efforts.
Wisdom Jesus Beginning on Wednesday, April 19, the School for Contemplative Living will begin a study of Cynthia Bourgeault’s Wisdom Jesus. This class, led by SCL Director, William Thiele, meets at 6-7 pm on Wednesdays and is open to all.
Those who are unable to come on Wednesdays may join the same study led by Nancy Field on Wednesdays, 12-1 pm at Advent House. For details: wwwthescl.net
Upcoming Workshops
Saturday, April 22, 9 am-1 pm "Cultivating Self-Compassion," with Lara Naughton
Saturday, May 20, 9 am-1 pm "Contemplative Practice," with Fr. Ephrem Arcement
For details, visit www.thescl.net
The Bible and the Believer This new book study begins on April 30
in the One in the Spirit Class Sundays, 9:45 am, in the Library
Open to All!
Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text?
For many people, it must be one or the other. How can we read the Bible both ways?
The Bible and the Believer brings together three distinguished biblical scholars--one Jewish, one Catholic, and one
Protestant--to illustrate how to read the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament critically and religiously.
Methodist Summer Camp Camp Istrouma
Greenwell Springs, LA Grades 2-12
To register call 225-261-2089
or go to www.campistrouma.com
Worship Leaders
Altar Guild Nancy and Bob Hopkins, Jan Jeter
Head Ushers Bob Moffett, Gary Kennan, Doug Comeaux and Richard Moore
Head Greeters Mable Thomas, Carol Thiele, Barbara Clark, Elisabeth Rietvelt and
Susie VanderKuy Sound System Justin “Razz” Hunter
Sundays 5-7 pm Youth Fellowship
5-6:30 pm Women’s Covenant Group
Mondays 10 am Staff Meeting
6 pm Ministry Meetings
6:30 pm Rayne 20/30 for Young Adults
6:30 pm AA Meeting
Tuesdays Noon Brown Bag Covenant Group
1 pm Intercessory Prayer Group
3 pm Open Table
5:30-8 pm Luke’s House Free Clinic
6:30 pm Covenant Group
Wednesdays 6 pm Children’s Choir seasonal
6 pm Wednesday Classes
7 pm Chancel Choir Rehearsal
7:30 pm Overeaters Anonymous
Thursdays 9:30 am Mom’s Bible Study
9:30 am Sacred Yoga Parker UMC
6:30-9 pm Luke’s House Free Clinic
7 pm Al-Anon/AA Meetings
Saturday 9 am STAIR Tutoring
Each W
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Meetings Coming Up Monday, April 24, 6 pm Stewardship Committee
Monday, May 1, 6 pm
Staff-Parish Relations Committee
Let Us Pray
—Mary Herbert, Kim Hough, Peggy Parr, Gary Kennan, Brenda Frey, Stephanie Stennett, Jan Bugg, Dorothy Brown, Brent Ramirez, Rick Hammontree, James Lott, Sharessa Garland, Richard Russell, Neil Viles, Stephanie Sonnier, Mary Ann Frazier, Jean Willoughby, Catherine Thiele, Sarah Biles, Leona McCoy, Kourtney Gabik, Jillian Parkhurst, Andrew McLetchie, Margie Mielke, Laura Coatney, Dan Sikes, Susan Savage, Kimm Moore, Trudi Stafford, Elaine Minojosa, Eleanor Slate, Bryan Slate, John Charles, and the residents and staff of Grace House.
We Share the Sorrow —of Andy Quinn and all who mourn the death of his father, Charles Quinn.
We Share the Joy
—of Jan and Mark Bugg honored by Touro for the many hours they have contributed as volunteer chaplains. —of Cameron and Pierce Adams, big brother Hays, and proud grandparents Libby and Mark, in the birth of Tate Campbell Adams on April 17, 2017!
Thank You
—to Robert Connolly for the baby Bay Tree now planted in our Pitt Street “Edible Garden”; —to all who participated in our special Lent and Easter Services; —to Carolyn Smith and all who contributed to our daily Lenten devotionals; —to all those who delivered Easter lilies to our homebound members!
Announcements
OUth
Recycle Your Mardi Gras Beads Last Chance! Bring your Mardi Gras beads to the bin outside the church kitchen or directly to the Strive Center, 1139 Napoleon Avenue.
Caring for the Coast Make plans to be here this Sunday, April 23, at 9:45 am in the Fellowship Hall for a power point program by Helen Rose Patterson of RESTORE about the new Coastal Master Plan.
Find a connection with friends faith, food, fun, and fellowship!
Sunday, April 23, 12 - 2 pm
All youth and chaperones going on the 2017 Mission
Trip should be present in the Library to complete forms with the notaries. Please
bring your health insurance card.
Lunch will be provided.
Many thanks to the
Easter Bunny’s assistants for
hiding eggs! It was a beautiful day
to be in the park. Nice work, team!
EASTERTIDE
Acts 2:14, 22-32 Psalm 16
1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31