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LE ROY FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

309-962-5011 [email protected]

Website: leroypresbyterian.info

Vol. XVIII No. 3

LENTEN/EASTER DEVOTION John 1:40-42 (New Living Translation)

https://aldersgatelent2015.wordpress.com/

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of these men who heard what

John said and then followed Jesus. Andrew went to find his brother,

Simon, and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means

“Christ”). Then Andrew brought Simon to meet Jesus. Looking intently

at Simon, Jesus said, “Your name is Simon, son of John— but you will

be called Cephas” (which means “Peter”).

Andrew’s brother Simon Peter is arguably the most famous of Jesus’

twelve closest disciples. Peter is known for his passion and impulsivity.

But it is Andrew who brings Peter to meet Jesus. It’s Andrew’s curios-

ity about John the Baptist’s testimony that led him to find out more

about Jesus. And once Andrew had met Jesus, he quickly decided to

follow him.

He could have kept this life-changing decision to himself. But he

just can’t help himself! He is so excited! I can just imagine Andrew

running as fast as he can over to his brother, and breathlessly telling

him, “We have found the Messiah!!!”

Okay, so the New Living Translation doesn’t have it, but I can’t help

but think that there would be at least three exclamation points at the end

of that statement! And probably some underlining and bold, as well.

After all, that is quite the proclamation Andrew is making. The Jewish

people had been waiting for generation upon generation for the arrival

of the Messiah, and Andrew has declared that the moment has finally

arrived!

If John the Baptist is the first prophet in our Lenten story, then Andrew

is our first evangelist. He just can’t help himself!

Question: When was the last time you were so

excited about something

in your life that you just couldn’t help

talking about it?

When was the last time you felt that

way about God?

Dennis Mennenga Part II

You are invited to gather together with Dennis at either the 5 p.m. Saturday worship service on Mar. 14th or the 9 a.m. Sunday service on Mar 15th as he tells about his life experiences and the faith that has sustained him throughout.

He will share his thoughts and feelings on the death of his brother, Dale, five years ago, and the passing of his Mom shortly thereafter.

He will also talk about his near death after being shot accidently by his brother Dale, the sense of loss at the selling of the family farm, and most importantly, how his life went on and he has faced these changes through his faith in Jesus!

Registration now open!

Applications can be picked up from the church office, downloaded

from our website (leroypresbyterian.info) or obtained from Director

Kristin Smith. Registration is now open to everyone on a first come,

first served basis.

If you, or someone you know would be interested in having their

child attend our faith-based preschool, please contact us for more

information!

https://aldersgatelent2015.wordpress.com/

3/1 Randy Sigler

3/1 Jill Self

3/3 Lynn Walker

3/4 Miranda Walker

3/5 Amanda Hill

3/7 Thatcher Ross

3/8 Bonnie Crumbaugh

3/11 Sam Welander

3/12 Lucille Gross

3/16 Danna Sanders

3/17 Edward Loper

3/17 Brooke Walker

3/19 Kobe Brent

3/21 Jacob Holoch

3/22 Dennis Mennenga

3/24 Jarrett Cox

3/27 Jane Owens

3/27 Isaac Holoch

3/29 Gregg Ross

3/09 Dennis & Mary Ella Mennenga

3/19 Kenny and Katie Taylor

Thank you to our church family for your support at the time of my mother’s passing. All the cards, phone calls and prayers have been deeply appreciated.

A special thank you for the generous donation to the Alzheimer’s Assn. Our hope is that it will help provide a solution for this disease. Thank you all for caring and sharing in Christ

The Dennis McCormick family

Thanks to everyone for the cards, calls and gifts for our birthday celebration. May God bless each and everyone of you; church friends are so special!

Special thanks to Dennis and Mary Ella Mennenga for the John Deere cake. Harlan and Carol Bottles

Leona Meyers

I want to thank everyone for your prayers during my daughter Cyndi Bernadini’s illness and passing. Also a special “thanks” to Naomi for sending her a prayer shawl. It was greatly appreciated.

Leona Meyers, brother Roger, and family

Youth Summer Camp

Fundraiser

Help our students reach their fundraising goals!

We are selling Butter Braid Pastries, Cookie Dough and Pizzas.

Read below for more information and a detailed description of these

tasty products. The kids will be selling these delicious products from

March 15th - April 7th. Orders will be here at the church for pick up

starting April 15th

Butter Braids cost $13 (our group profit, $5.20 per order)

Cookie Dough cost $16 (our group profit, $6.40 per order)

Pizzas cost $18 (our group profit, $7.20 per order)

Please consider trying a product and help us reach our profit goal of

$1000. Thank you for your support of our youth ministries!

Butter Braid®

Our Butter Braid® is the original hand braided fundraising pastry. The

customer lets it rise 8-10 hours, or until it DOUBLES in size, and then

bakes to produce a delicious breakfast or dessert. Butter Braid® pastry

is 22ozs in size and is available in a variety of flavors:

Caramel Roll, Cherry, Cinnamon, Cream Cheese, Strawberry

Cream Cheese and new for this year….. Blueberry Cream Cheese!

Show Me Dough Cookies

Show Me Dough Cookies are delicious gourmet cookies like mom

used to make. Just take out however many of the pre-portioned cookies

you want to bake and save the rest for later. No thawing, no scooping,

no mess! There are 48 cookies per box.

Flavors include: Chunky Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, M&M®

candies, White Chocolate Macadamia Nut and Snickerdoodle (new!)

Pizzas Two delicious full-size pizzas in each box! Made locally with an

exclusive recipe using the highest quality ingredients. Enough pizza

to feed the whole family.

Toppings include: Four Cheese, Ultimate Pepperoni, Meat Lovers

and BBQ Chicken.

http://www.showmedough.com/products.html

Endless Buzz March 2015

Set Our Hearts on Fire!

I recently read a definition of humility as “being fully occupied with

God”. This definition came from our weekly Stuck on Thursdays

Bible study, by author Jennie Allen. These words have literally

“stuck” with me! The season of Lent challenges Christians to

observe 40 days of fasting, prayer, repentance and heart examination.

How do we commit our hearts fully to God and tackle the challenge

Lent offers?

Our youth in the LOOP and LANDING ministry groups are commit-

ted to a 20-30-40 Challenge. This opportunity is seeking 20 youth to

commit to 30 devotions during the 40 days of Lent. Each Wednesday

our students gather for high energy games, snacks and to hang-out,

but the main focus of the ministry is what happens when we gather to

hear and respond to God’s Message and prayer. On Ash Wednesday

“Challenge Cards” were given to over 30 students, along with Teen

Devotionals for students who did not receive one as a gift at Christ-

mas time. The students were excited for the Challenge and many

have reported they have been checking dates off of their Challenge

cards! The youth are craving a deeper walk with our Lord and a

desire to live a life of humility. (Yay God! ;)

Each person, young and old, are on their own unique and personal

faith walk. It is important during Lent for believers to evaluate

where they are and where God is leading them. Nothing excites me

more than when a visible transformation is taking place in someone’s

faith! Passion in Christ begins with a spark, then a spark grows into a

flame, and not long after, a flame bursts into a raging fire! Wow!

I hope you will join me in a Humility

Challenge; let us be sons and daughters

who are fully occupied with God and

allow Him to set our hearts on fire!

God himself is fire! Hebrews 12:29 (Message Translation)

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

7:00 PM

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

March 4th - Regular Meeting Night for all groups.


March 15th - Butter Braid Sales Begin


Spring Break - No Youth Group activities

SUMMER CAMP

FUNDRAISING

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS

AND FACEBOOK CONTACTS TO JOIN OUR FUNDRAISING EFFORTS.

If they already purchase and enjoy delicious Schwan’s products, ask them

to place their orders with our campaign and fundraising ID.

Order before Mar. 15th and our group will:

Earn 20% on Schwan’s product sales

Earn 40% on eGift Card (online only; limit 1 per customer)

In addition our group earns 5% of all orders for the rest of the year!

Order On-Line:

Visit Schwans-Cares.com; click on “Find a Campaign”

Enter Campaign ID 18613 into the search box and click to open

the campaign page;

Click on “Fundraisers” tab at the top.

Select LeRoy First Pres Youth and click the “Support

Now” button

Order By Phone:

Call 1-855-870-7208 and provide

Campaign ID: 18613 and Fundraising ID: 46084

Committee Administration Administration Administration Mission & Outreach Mission & Outreach Christian Education Worship & Music Worship & Music Special Events Clerk of Session

December June

January 2016 August

October

February 2015 / 2016 July April

March May

November September

CHURCH OFFICERS

Elders:

Dennis Mennenga Jarrett Cox Jason Smith Eric Mennenga Jim Welander Miranda Walker Londa Holoch Mary Sigler Betty Garee Naomi Chaplin

Session meets on March 11th Session Minutes are available, after approval, in the office.

Deacons: Deacon of the Month

Class of 2015 Brian Cordray Bonnie Crumbaugh Mary Ella Mennenga Terri Caldwell Class of 2016 Bobbi Ready Beverly Burcham Steve Myers Randy Sigler Class of 2017 Cyndee Sinnott Janet Cormier Linda Marcum Lana Gooding

Our Christian Education committee is in the process of organizing events for the coming months. We traditionally honor all high school and college graduates with a reception in May.

If you have a graduate in your family that we need to recognize, please let the office know. Many thanks!

5:00 p.m. SATURDAY

Feb. 28

March 7

March 14

March 21 March

28

ACCOMPANIST Janice

Trachsel Mary Sigler

Janice Trachsel

Mary Sigler

COMMUNION Cyndee Sinnott

9:00 a.m. WORSHIP

March 1 March

8 March

15 March 26

March 29

ACCOMPANIST Londa Holoch

Londa Holoch

Londa Holoch

Londa Holoch

Janice, Mary, Londa

LAYREADER Naomi

Chaplin Jan

Owens Naomi

Chaplin Rick Kline

Naomi Chaplin

USHER/GREETERS

Dennis & Judy

McCormick

Harlan & Carol Bottles

Janet Cormier,

Rick Kline

Dennis & Mary Ella

Mennenga

Rex & Jan

Allen

KIDZ CHURCH

Mary Sigler, Janet

Cormier

Tracey Holoch

NO KIDZ

CHURCH

Kerri Cordray

NURSERY Brett Hill

Wendy Brent

Cyndee Sinnott

Monica Stengel

Cyndee Sinnott

TECH BOOTH

Brian & Mason

Cordray

Gerald Gooding;

Noah Stengel

Tracey & Jacob Holoch

Gerald Gooding;

Nate Smith

Randy Sigler;

Jacob Holoch

COMMUNION SERVERS

Dennis &

Judy McCormick

Naomi Chaplin

Adam Brent,

Kim Myers,

Naomi Chaplin

Phyllis Bruce,

Bobbi Ready,

Naomi Chaplin

Dennis & Mary Ella

Mennenga,

Naomi Chaplin

Bruce & Jan

Owens,

Naomi Chaplin

Called to Serve - March 2015

Church Phone: (309) 962-5011 Website: leroypresbyterian.info

E-Mail: [email protected]

CHURCH OFFICE HOURS Monday thru Thursday 8:30 - 3:00 ; Friday 8:30 - Noon

STAFF CONTACT INFORMATION

Pastor Ed’s Cell Phone: 217-685-2763 Pastor Ed’s E-Mail: [email protected] Kerri Cordray, Dir.of Student Ministries [email protected] Jill Self & Rita Vollmer, Secretaries [email protected] Rita Vollmer, Treasurer [email protected] Marty Dean, Nursery Coordinator [email protected] Kristin Smith, Little Learners Director [email protected] Ashley Sigler, Little Learners Teacher [email protected]

FINANCIAL REPORT January YTD General Fund Income

Contributed Support $ 8,907.00 $ 8,907.00

Trust & Endowment 3,000.00 3,000.00

Interest/Dividends 132.80 132.80

$ 12,039.80 $ 12,039.80

Budgeted Expenses (17,960.29) ( 17,960.29)

Gain or Loss ( $ 5,920.49) $ 5,920.49)

FEBRUARY ATTENDANCE

Sunday Dates Sat. 9:00 Total

February 1 11 54 65

February 8 7 105 112

February 15 13 104 117

February 22 19 116 135

AVERAGES 13 95 107

Ash Wednesday 40

Library News

We welcome anyone who has enjoyed material from our

library to share their thoughts about the book or video

with other readers. Janice Trachsel does a great job in

making sure there are books for a wide range of interests.

This month Mason Cordray gives a review on a book series he has

recently read:

I recommend the series "Swipe" by Evan Angler. This series is very

exciting and hard to put down. It has very climactic plot twists

keeping you interested and engaged. The storyline includes ele-

ments of a futuristic Chicago and a world without war. Although it

may sound peaceful, it isn't. The world is blinded to the corruption

of the government. Even if it sounds like the government is trying to

make the world a better place, it actually is keeping many secrets.

Get comfy and bring the whole family out to

join the fun for the special showing of the movie

Hoovey at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 15th!

A pizza dinner will follow.

Donations for the pizza will be accepted and will

benefit our youth summer camps fundraising

efforts. Thank you for your support!

More about Hoovey, the movie:

When promising high school basketball player Eric “Hoovey” Elliott collapses on the court, doctors discover a life-threatening brain tumor. Hoovey will survive the high-risk surgery, but at what cost? Can he relearn to walk, read, even to see clearly? The road is long, and meanwhile overwhelming medical bills

threaten to undo everything his parents, Jeff and Ruth, have taken a lifetime to build. With seemingly no one to turn to—but with tenacity and love born of faith—an entire family regains its footing. Hoovey learns to read again, to dribble and shoot a basketball and, finally, stepping out in faith, he’s back on court for another

shot at his dream . . . Hoovey Movie - our kids with Hoovey in the middle-back

Learning, Building, Growing !

Pajama Day

Valentine’s Parties

LOOP Student Fun

LEAP, LOOP,

Kidz church

LOOP girls sharing the message of God’s love Sharing Valentines at LeRoy Manor

We love LEAP :)

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

9:00 AM Worship Service/

Kidz Church 10:00 AM Sunday School

2 9:00 AM Bible Study 7:00 PM LITTLE LEARN-

ERS BOARD MEETING

3 1:00 PM MISSION &

OUTREACH 3:15 PM The LEAP

6:30 PM Prayer Gathering

4 5:30 PM LIVIN' IT 5:30 PM LOOP

6:00 PM Praise Practice 7:00 PM LANDING

5

12- 1 PM “Stuck on Thursday”

Bible Study

8:00 PM Serenity Circle (AA)

6 7 5:00 PM Worship Service

8



9 9:00 AM Bible Study

10 3:15 PM The LEAP

11 5:30 PM LIVIN' IT 5:30 PM LOOP 6:00 PM WORSHIP &

MUSIC 7:00 PM LANDING 7:00 PM SESSION MEETS

12 12- 1 PM “Stuck on Thursday”

Bible Study


13 14

5:00 PM Worship Service

Celebration of Life - Dennis

Mennenga

15

9:00 AM Worship Service


Mennenga 10:00 AM Sunday School

5:30 PM All Church Hoovey

Movie Night


6:00 PM CE MEETING

17 3:15 PM The LEAP

18 5:30 PM LOOP & LANDING


Bible Study

6:00 PM TLC2 8:00 PM Serenity Circle (AA)


22 9:00 AM Worship Service/Kidz

Church 10:00 AM Sunday School


24

25 6:00 PM Praise Practice

7:00 PM ADMINISTRATION

MEETING

No Little Learners

Spring Break


Bible Study

3:30 PM TLC 8:00 PM Serenity Circle (AA)

27 28

NO Worship Service


Church - 5th Sunday 10:00 AM Potluck Brunch

NO Sunday School


31 3:15 PM The LEAP

Deacon of the month: Cyndee Sinnott

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1



2 9:00 AM Bible Study 7:00 PM LITTLE LEARN-

ERS BOARD MEETING

3 1:00 PM MISSION &

OUTREACH 3:15 PM The LEAP

6:30 PM Prayer Gathering

4 5:30 PM LIVIN' IT 5:30 PM LOOP

6:00 PM Praise Practice 7:00 PM LANDING

5

12- 1 PM “Stuck on Thursday”

Bible Study



8




10 3:15 PM The LEAP

11 5:30 PM LIVIN' IT 5:30 PM LOOP 6:00 PM WORSHIP &

MUSIC 7:00 PM LANDING 7:00 PM SESSION MEETS


Bible Study


13 14

5:00 PM Worship Service


Mennenga

15

9:00 AM Worship Service


Mennenga 10:00 AM Sunday School

5:30 PM All Church Hoovey

Movie Night


6:00 PM CE MEETING

17 3:15 PM The LEAP

18 5:30 PM LOOP & LANDING


Bible Study

6:00 PM TLC2 8:00 PM Serenity Circle (AA)



Church 10:00 AM Sunday School


24

25 6:00 PM Praise Practice

7:00 PM ADMINISTRATION

MEETING

No Little Learners

Spring Break


Bible Study

3:30 PM TLC 8:00 PM Serenity Circle (AA)

27 28

NO Worship Service


Church - 5th Sunday 10:00 AM Potluck Brunch

NO Sunday School


31 3:15 PM The LEAP

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