Fulfilling A Mission

One thing we can count on is change. No matter where we live or what we do change will find us. As the sun rises and sets day after day so does change come to us as part of the circle of life.

We are changing into another month, the month we call June. The month we remember on the 21st as the summer solstice and perhaps even to remember our dreams of the midsummer. Yet there is more, there is always more.

This year makes the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy. On June 6, 1944 troops landed on beaches along the coast of France to liberate Europe from the Nazis during the Second World War. If you did not personally experience this day you no doubt know, or have known people who do have a personal connection. There are many stories to be told of that day and the days that followed. Stories that reveal the struggle of humanity.

I recently read part of the story about two medics from the 161st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore. In the small 11th century Church in a small village in France they set up an aid station. Their goal and objective was to treat the wounded from both sides, Allies and Axis.

What I found most interesting and telling was the community has maintained this memory of those days. The Church has not replaced some of the damage done by the war, such as blood stains and floor tile damaged from bombs etc. Yet there is more.

Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore chose to treat all the wounded. Within this sacred space they chose to take a stand for healing and care. No weapons were allowed in the Church, the weapons were piled up outside.

They chose to take a stand for healing and hope in the midst of chaos, turmoil and war. These medics were very much a priestly pair fulfilling a mission to heal the broken.

Today, here and now in the community of Solon and beyond, we too have a mission to fulfill. The summer activities are all around us, so too is the ever changing ministry and mission call of the Church.

Here at the Solon United Methodist Church we are set to “Welcome, Connect, Ignite and Love.” We seek to do this as we move together to the upward and outward call to, ‘Making disciples of Jesus Christ for the Transformation of our World.’

Shalom, Ken

Fulfilling A Mission pg 1

Music Ministry pg 2

Worship Schedule pg 2

Worship Videos pg 2

Church Council minutes pg 2

Attendance & Nursery Info pg 2

Opportunities & Events pg 3

Solon Senior Support pg 3

Matt 25-Transform Week pg 3

Children—Sunday School pg 4

UMC & 4-H Camps pg 4

Vacation Bible School pg 4

Mission U pg 4

Youth—HS Graduation pg 5

Solon Archery pg 5

Mission Trip pg 5

Summer Opportunities pg 5

C3 Crafts & SOS pg 6

Church & Society pg 6

UMW / UMM News pg 6

Prayers & Celebrations pg 7

Mission Moments pg 7

Birthdays pg 7

May 6 Communion

Scripture: Acts 10:44-48

Msg: Holy Spirit Poured Out

by Pastor Lisa

Music: Youth Bells, Chancel Choir

May 13 Mother’s Day

Scripture: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26

Msg: Chosen by Pastor Scott

Music: Chancel Choir

May 20 Pentecost

Honoring High School Grads

Scripture: Acts 2:1-21

Msg: Recharging by Pastor Scott

Music: Chancel Choir

May 27 Memorial Sunday

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Msg: Time for Every Matter

by Pastor Scott

Music: Chancel Choir

Nursery is available every Sunday from 8:00—11:15 am for children infant to age

5 in the lower level of the church by trained paid staff.

Upcoming Music The choirs take a break over the summer and this opens the opportunity to anyone in the congregation or community to share their musical gifts: instrumental or vocal; solo, duet or groups! Sign up to offer special music for our worship services at 8:00 and 10:15. Invite your grandchildren or someone you know to share their talents! Variety is the joy of life! Sign up on

the clipboard or contact Pastor Lisa (319-325-4566 or schroederl@soloniaumc.org).

Jill Richards will be home for the summer so she will be playing for us most of the summer, with Marian Andersen playing when Jill is not available. Hsin Hui Liu is traveling to Taiwan to visit family over the summer but will return to be our full-time accompanist in August. This would be a great time to send them a thank you for their beautiful music!

Don’t miss the chance to listen to the wonderful music of Jacob Metzler (piano) and Jena Nahnsen (clarinet) here in our sanctuary on Wednesday June 5, 6:30-7:30! Open to all of the community, an evening of music to the church Jacob grew up in, with reception to follow (free will donation). Please give them your support and attend this concert.

Be sure to make your own music to God each day, make your life a song, sung in praise and thanksgiving for all God has done for you!

https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/06/N-Summer-Music.pdf

Sunday Sermons on Video—If you miss a service, and still want some inspiration for the week, you can find videos of the message portion of the service at http://soloniaumc.org/resources/worship-audio-2/

Are you interested in Church Business ? - The Church Council Meeting minutes with committee reports can be found at :

https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/church-council-minutes-May2019.pdf

JUNE 2019 at SUMC

Dates and Times for Church Meetings & Events: JUNE 2019 Church Calendar

https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/06/June-2019-Calendar-2.pdf

Dates and Times for SUMC & FLC (Family Life Center) activities or availability :

https://soloniaumc.org/resources/calendar/

May Worship Attendance

8:00 10:15 Total

May 5 70 57 127

May 12 65 55 120

May 19 51 76 127

May 26 50 39 89

June 2 - Communion Scripture: Revelation 22:12-14,16-17,20-21

Message: Free Gift by Pastor Lisa Music: by JEL: Jill, Ely, Lisa

June 9 - Pentecost

Scripture: Psalm 104 Msg: It comes Quietly, It comes Slowly,

It comes with Power by Renee Lunemann Music: John and Nancy

June 16 - Trinity Sunday, Father's Day

Scripture: John 16:12-15 Message: Peace and Justice by Pastor Ken

Music: by Taylor Weetman Baptism

June 23 - 2nd Sunday after Pentecost

Scripture: Luke 8:26-39 Message: Herds and Flocks by Pastor Ken

Music: Jacob Metzler

June 30 - 2nd Sunday after Pentecost Scripture: Galatians 5

Message: Standing Firm by Pastor Ken Music: TBD

Do you have an announcement to share in the bulletin or the monthly newsletter, the Circuit Rider? Please contact our Office Administrator, Deb Sheets, at (319)624-2288 or sheetsd@soloniaumc.org. Bulletin announcements are due by Thursday at Noon, news-letter announcements are due by the 20th of each month. Thank You.

Opportunities: *Recital Wednesday June 5, 6:30-7:30— Jacob Metzler(piano)

and Jena Nahnsen (clarinet) performing in our sanctuary. Come enjoy their great music!

DO YOU SHOP ON AMAZON? If you place your order through AMAZON SMILE instead, at smile.amazon.com and choose your charity as Solon Senior Support, Amazon will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to Solon Senior Support. There is no difference between ordering from Amazon or Amazon Smile, just that they will make a donation to the charity of your choice! It may not sound like much, but it will add up! Contact me if any questions! Jill 319-330-8961

The UMW is looking for ideas on how to expand their group. Would you like to be involved but work during the day? Do you have ideas for missions? What times would work best for you? If you have ideas or feedback please contact Chrisa @ 712-790-8550 or clanferg@msn.com

Do you miss Wednesday Night Family Meals? Well mark your calendars for Potluck and Music! We will be hosting Potlucks on June 19th and July 24th at 5:30pm and afterwards we’ll be walking up to Music on Main uptown at 7:00PM. Bring your favorite dish, table service and lawn chairs for a night of good food, music and fellowship!

June we’re still collecting cereal & peanut butter for the Solon Food Pantry. Drop off your donations on the shelves in the foyer. SUMC & Food Pantry Thanks You!

UMW Missions: reminds everyone to save their soaps and sham-poos from travels this summer—they’ll be collecting for mis-sions soon.

Church garden was planted May 20th! We were able to plant all of the donated plants along with the seeds for the squash and cucumbers between rains! Thank you to all who donated time, plants, seeds, and muscle. We make a great team and the effort will pay off soon. If you’d like to join the team and help weed, etc. please contact Karen McGill 329-4578. For more info: https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/church-garden.pdf

Old Gold Diner dates to remember: June 5—June Birthday Bash!

June 11—City of Solon Rep speaks

June 19—Dale Thomas entertains

June 26— Frank Zahorac entertains To see our June menu and the June list of events: https://

soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/OGD.pdf

Transform Week June 24—28, 8:30-3:30 It’s almost here—the opportunity to help transform homes in our local communities! We’re forming a team of enthusiastic volunteers from SUMC to help in this effort to make a difference! & we could use YOU! Join a host of volunteers working to rehab homes, revitalized neighbor-hoods and do various construction projects on the SW and NW side of Cedar Rapids. Projects are everything from painting, roofing, demolition, floors and lots of repair. The projects are done for people of limited in-come, ability and resources. Join us for a few hours or come and stay all week. Sign-up on the clipboard and register online at http://www.hub25.org/event/transform-2019/ For more information see Bill Musgrave: mus-grave1949@gmail.com (319)360-0712.

More info: https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/

Transform-2019.pdf

Matthew 25

SOLON SENIOR SUPPORT:

I am happy to announce that there are so many requests for visits/ help from our seniors that I can't keep up! So, church fami-ly...I need your help! Solon Senior Support will be meeting at the Solon Public Library on Wednesday, May 29th at 7pm. If you missed our first meeting, it was mainly a recap of how we got start-ed, just to give information. Now we are ready for ACTION! There are so many people who would just love a visit, a phone call, some help with simple tasks in the house or yard. YOU can be one of those people!

You may be surprised to hear this, but there is a NEED in our town for CONNECTION. People may have kids, grandkids nearby,

but they have busy lives with work and kids' activities. And, our older generation does not like to burden their family with chores during visits. I tell them, "The only reason Solon Senior Support exists is to help. Our MISSION is to CONNECT seniors with adult and student volunteers. We can only achieve our mission if they are willing to accept our help."

If you can't make the meeting, just call/text/email me. I can send you the information from the meeting and we can figure out how you can make a DIFFERENCE in our community! As you can proba-bly tell, I am passionate about this outreach! I can't say enough about the wonderful seniors I am blessed to now call my friends!

"Do Small Things with Great Joy"

- - Jill 319-330-8961 624-2773 weetmanj@yahoo.com

Our Children Are Our Future! School is nearly done, but there are many fun options

to keep active and connected during summer vacation:

Summer 4-H on Wheels at SUMC Family Life Center,

June 13, 20, and 27 9am-11am

4-H on Wheels is a “ hands-on” summer camp for 1-5th graders. This summer’s theme,

“Scientists, Slime and Snacks” includes explor-ing science experiments, mixing a “science slime”

recipe each week, making nutritious snacks, playing outdoor games & having fun!

4-H is the youth development program of John-

son County/Iowa State University Extension; all

youth are invited to participate. No previous 4-H

experience is necessary.

Cost to attend is $24. No fee for families who

receive free/reduced lunch.

SUNDAY SCHOOL

The Sunday school year officially ended on May 5th with a Breakfast Party! The kids en-joyed Breakfast Pizza, Donuts, Fruit and other goodies. We also celebrated our wonderful teachers, who give their time to the children each week.

As I mentioned in the April newsletter, we will be looking at options to traditional Sunday school, as the number of kids participating on Sunday mornings has dropped significantly over the years. If you have any sugges-tions or ideas (maybe something you've done at another church), please contact Kera(kerarecker@gmail.com) or (weetmanj@yahoo.com).

One of our projects for the summer will be continuing to or-ganize and clean up the Teacher Workroom. If you can help, please let us know! High schoolers, Silver Cord hours will be given for your help!

We are ALWAYS looking for volunteers to teach! Please prayerfully consider helping in this way.

Have a safe and blessed summer - see you in September!

Jill and Kera

Don't miss VBS 2019 July 30-Aug. 1 from 9-4

Get your ticket (sign-up) for a trip around the world

where we will see God's work in many ways. This in-

credible race will take us to places we've never seen to

try games and crafts in new ways all while hearing the

stories that don't change about God's love.

Paper registrations are available in the church foyer or

you can register online at https://

solonvbs.myanswers.com/incredible-race/

Volunteers can sign-up on the same site. Volunteer

training and material prep will be on Tuesday June 25

from 5-9 and Sunday June 30 from 12-4. Come when

you can, any help is appreciated.

questions see Selma Kleinsmith, call 624-5088 or

email halkleinsmith@aol.com

2019 UNITED METHODIST CAMPS Did you

know that there are three United Methodist Church Camps

in Iowa? The Solon United Methodist Church and the Iowa

Annual Conference offers camper scholarships, hoping no

camper will be turned away due to lack of funds.

Register online at www.iaumc.org/camps or pick up a regis-

tration form in the church foyer. Contact Pastor Lisa

schroederl@soloniaumc.org or call the church office 319-

624-2288 if you have questions. Children & Youth Mission Activity Events

At Summer Mission U Sunday afternoon – Tuesday afternoon

July 21-23, 2019

Plant a seed & your kids may grow a passion for MISSIONS

Children (6-10) and youth (11-17) are invited to come with a parent or grandparent

for their own specially-designed activity times learning about the disciple Mark and his relationship with Jesus.

Find the UMW Mission u registration form at https://

www.iaumc.org/missionuformerlySOCM $50 per child/$75 per youth includes all activities and meals

for 48 hours of great learning and fun! (Pre-registration required by June 28 so plans can be made)

Details at : https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/Mission-U.pdf

On May 19 we celebrated with our Graduating HS Seniors &

They shared with us a glimpse into their future plans.

For more details: https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/

sites/5/2019/05/graduation-may-19-2019.pdf

Summertime means break time for our school year youth programs, but

there are numerous other summer opportunities:

Help those who need it most—join the mission trip (see below)

Play or sing for our summer special music - contact Lisa

Be a VBS volunteer - ( see more info on this page)

Help in the church garden—contact Karen McGill

Sami McAtee has done a great job leading our Middle School Youth group for several years, but is now stepping down. Please make a point to thank Sami for

her service to our kids and families! Never fear—we do have plans for this fall —Chrisa Ferguson along with Pastor Ken will be leading our Middle School youth.

Celebrating with our Youth!

SOLON MS and HS Archery

A note from Gary Mechtensimer, Solon archery coach: The archery team performed well this season. Two of our seniors qualified for the world competition as individuals, our middle school team qualified for worlds as well! Two out of the last three years our archers won first place in the state!

The Solon United Methodist Church has played a large part with their continued support. (Archery Prac-tice is held Tuesdays and Thursdays in our FLC gym.) I'm very proud of our athletes. I’ll be sending a thank you card and more pictures later.

Take care, Gary

For archery photos: https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/

sites/5/2019/06/archery-pics.pdf

VBS July 30-Aug 1.

Remember VBS isn’t just for the smaller kids, the youth helpers have lots of fun too.! You can sign-up at

https://solonvbs.myanswers.com/incredible-race/volunteer/

Volunteer training and material prep will be on Tuesday June 25 from 5-9

and Sunday June 30 from 12-4. Come when you can, any help is

appreciated.

Have questions - see Selma Kleinsmith, call 624-5088

or halkleinsmith@aol.com

MISSION TRIP 2019

The 2019 mission trip destination is Indianapolis, July 21-27th! We will

be serving in soup kitchens, homeless shelters, kids clubs, and doing

home projects/repairs. We are excited for this opportunity!

There may be a few spots left— If you are in 8th - 12th grade and inter-

ested in going on this mission trip, please contact Jenn Stiegelmeyer

at stiegelmeyerj @soloniaumc.org.

Our men’s group meets every Saturday

morning at 6:00 am at the Family Life Center.

Contact Mike Turner at 624-2061 for more

information.

UMW takes a break from meetings in the summer but we still get

together for lots of fun. June 20 will be our Brunch at Helen Proffitt's

home beginning at 9:30 am. July is our annual road trip, and no

meeting in August. June 13 we’ll be at SNCC, with Nadine and Barb

providing cookies. Don’t forget June Work Day, June 11th, 8 to noon,

and see the Missions section (page 7) for May’s accomplishments!

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C3 (Crafts, creativity, & Christ)

We meet the first Thursday of each month, 6:30 pm, Fellowship Hall. June 6th we will be fashioning an art project using Glue Guns. How creative will YOU be? . Participants will need to bring a glue gun and glue sticks, everything else will be provided. Everyone’s welcome! We look forward to seeing you there! In May we created zinnias from pinecones:

https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/C3-zinnias-project.pdf

Sisters of Strength (SOS):

We are currently on Summer Break.

We will begin again in the fall with a clean slate and a renewed enthusiasm to read some books and share what we’ve learned with our friends.

We meet on Monday evenings during the school year, beginning in September. Expect more detail as the summer draws to a close.

If you would like more information on our group,

please Contact Becky Lighty blighty@solon.k12.ia.us

May is MH Awareness Month

Our Church and Society group is very active in promoting mental health awareness. During May they have been trying to inform the congregation of the issues faced by those with mental health issues and why SUMC is involved. Our vision is to become “stigma free”

where a mental illness has no shame or fear, similar to how we see a physical illness, and to provide adequate treatment and facilities to provide the needed care. To see more information and videos on the Mental Health issues, please go to https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/MH-Awareness.pdf

Solon Striders: Walking with Purpose - NAMI Walk (April 27) a SUCCESS! This walk raises money to support the mis-sion of NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness)-Johnson County which works to provide awareness, education and sup-port services related to mental health conditions and needs.

26 walkers joined our team and we raised (at last count) $4,462!! Which ranks #3 out of 77 teams! We are so pleased to be able to support NAMI in this way. Special thank you to the individuals and businesses who contributed donations!! Find more at https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/C-S-Newsletter-5-23-19.pdf

Please include it on the Communication Card or call or email the church office at (319) 624-2288, soloniaumc@gmail.com.

In Our Prayers for/of

Ed Haury –His cousin’s daughter (36 year old mother of 3 young children) who passed away unexpectedly last week.

Rick Havel and his family after the passing of his mother Carol of Grinnell on May 5th. Celebration of life May 19th at St Francis Manor, Grinnell.

2 of our members are now in the Care Center for the immediate future. Orlando Huey: room 338 Kay Radenbaugh: room 342 I’m sure they’d appreciate a visit or a card or note sent their way.

Ruth Ann Richards hospitalized Friday May 10 Fred and Jeanne Bark are asking for prayers

for their grandson, Jarod Bark, He is a paramedic, going through therapy, struggling with PTSD, particularly issues dealing with small children in life and death situations.

Scott Kober who suffered a heart attack this past Sunday, but is home recovering and doing well.

Matthew Manuel—prayers for strength and hope as he battles esophageal cancer.

Family of Mary Hurst following her passing on May 26th.

GREGOR, Timothy 06/01

MASTERS, Renee 06/01

MCGILL, Patrick 06/01

MOTTINGER, Jaynie 06/01

SWARTZENDRUBER, Dee 06/01

ALLEN, Jeffrey 06/06

KLEINSMITH, Elyjah 06/06

SHERMAN, Owen 06/06

SWAN, Garrett 06/06

JOHNSON, Reilly 06/07

SMITH, Abigail 06/07

MANIFOLD, Jar rett 06/08

HANSEN, Marilyn 06/09

ADAMS, Jack 06/11

NOVAK, Norma 06/11

PROFFITT, Jay 06/11

OAKES, Madden 06/12

EVANS, Don 06/13

HAVEL, Colten 06/13

JEDLICKA, Rick 06/13

REYNOLDS, Kirk 06/13

GNIDA, Zeb 06/14

PUMPHREY, Coleen 06/15

STEGEMAN, Sydney 06/16

VAN ROEKEL, Jake 06/17

GEGUZIS, Kay 06/18

GUINN, Bradley 06/18

GERDIN, Grant 06/19

CABBAGE, Phyllis 06/20

HUNT, Allan 06/20

KLEINSMITH, Gidyon 06/21

RUNGE, Jordan 06/22

SCHAFFER, Catherine 06/23

MCPHERON, Yuriy 06/25

MILLER, Josh 06/25

NICOL, Scott 06/25

WILKINSON, Cynthia 06/25

ERHART, Clinton 06/26

HANSEN, Maddie 06/26

JAURON, Emma 06/26

LORENCE, Jon 06/26

SHERMAN, Karen 06/27

DEIKE, Kamryn 06/29

TIEDEMANN, Henry 06/29

STEBRAL, Trey 06/30

Rejoices & Thanksgiving

Liz Kroul—”Thank you so very much to my church family for all of your concern over my daughter’s passing. It is so comforting to be remembered.”

The trustees would like to send a BIG THANKS to all who helped with the church cleanup (both inside and out) in-cluding:

In addition to normal planned cleanup activi-ties, we had the unplanned ceiling col-lapse! THANK YOU to all who helped re-store the Fellowship Hall back to normal!

Ken & Chrisa Ferguson Barb & Dolfi Kalm Penny Tompkins Connie Railsback Ed Haury Nancy Worrell Verlee Lauderbaugh Al Hulse Wayne & Shirley An-derson Tanya Kakacek Dave & Carol Richards Terry Tiedemann

Lindy Hopp Deb Sheets Bill Musgrave Mike Turner Debbie Miller Tom Moore Steve Fisher & Matthew Home repair team - Tim & Mason Note: I apologize if anyone was missed!

MISSION MOMENTS

“In Mission Together” is replacing the Missions Rainbow Covenant annual reporting.

What does this mean to you and your church? “In Mission Together” is now focusing on giving, serving, and partnering.

Giving is what we have been doing by providing financial and material gifts.

Serving is to provide physical presence to assist in programs that help spread the word of God and makes disciples of Jesus Christ. We will be trying to keep track of volunteer hours and mission experiences.

Partnering is deepening the relationship. This is where we learn names, acknowledge and share your gifts, sit, listen, laugh, cry, and worship together. You understand each other’s circumstances and make real, long-term friend-ships. This is where you share your story.

So in recap, we are asking you to continue giving financially to Missions as you have been doing; if you volunteer in programs that help spread the word of God, send us your volunteer hours of that program; if you deepened a relationship send us a brief narrative of your partnering experience. Please either send any of this information to soloniaumc@gmail.com or put in Mission box. —Tawnia Kakacek, missions chair

There’s much to report this month from the Missions Committee - https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/June-Mission-Moments.pdf

and UMW Missions— https://soloniaumc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/05/UMW-Missions.pdf

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Church Website: https://soloniaumc.org/ Church Facebook: Solon United Methodist Church—Iowa

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Lisa Schroeder, Minister of Discipleship and Music

Lindy Hopp, Deb Sheets, Office Administrator

Jenn Stiegelmeyer, High School Youth Ministries

Sami McAtee, Middle School Youth Ministries

Jill Richards, Interim Accompanist

Mary Kucera, Director of Hand Bells

Penny Tompkins, Treasurer

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