Oakmont UMC July 2013 Newsletter

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GENERAL FUND NUMBERSFOR MAY

Balance 4/30 $8,625.12 (deficit)Income $17,145.24Expenses $22,026.01

Balance 5/31$13,494.44 (deficit)Connectional Apportionment

(new name for Mission Share)is paid thru May

NEWSLETTER

Please submit articles for the SEPTEMBER newsletter by AUGUST 15. Ifyou would like to receive your copy by e-mail, please send us a message atoakmontumc @verizon.net.

HOSPITALIZATIONS

Please continue to pray for Jane McClelland as she continues her journey togood health.

GRADUATES

Our recent honorees celebrated on June 2 include high school graduates Ty-ler Handyside, Jason Smierciak and Cory Taggart and college grads Char-lene Jacka and Samantha McClelland. We wish these young people well astheir journey continues.

SUMMER WORSHIP HOURS

9:00 Informal-downstairs social hall 10:30 Traditiona11:30-Refreshments

Except for Aug. 4 and Sept. 8 which will be combined servic

cial hall beginning at 10:00 am.

SPECIAL MUSIC

July 7th: Tony Rollett special music and organistJuly 14th: Tony Rollett special music and organistJuly 21st: Tyler HandysideJuly 28th: Becky Houston and Sandra Mac Pherson, duet

Aug. 4th: VBS will provide special musicAug. 11th: Jocko RiceAug. 18th: Sandra Mac PhersonAug. 25th: Youth Instrumental ensembleSept. 1st: Sandra Mac Pherson

MAX & ERMAS FUNDRAISER

BENEFITS GENERAL FUND

We sincerely thank everyone who purchased Ermas June 4. A check for $97.03 for the Geits way.

FRIENDS TOGETHER

If you enjoy going places, but dont always have someonor dont have transportation, the newly formed Friends Togetheswer. Theater, movies, musicals, lunch or dinner at a restauratried these are just a few of the possibilities. This new smameeting on the 4th Saturday of each month at Paneras in Oaa.m. Possible outings will be discussed and plans will be macommitment for each and every outing, so stop by for your mobring your ideas on July 27th and/or August 24th. Junes event wApple Hill Playhouse in Delmont and Julys could be a trip to thetown. Watch the bulletin for updates. Everyone is welcome.


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HOPE CIRCLE BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Hope Circle will meet on Monday, July 8 th at 7:00 PM in the Parlor. TheShoemakers Wife, by Adriana Trigiani, is the book that will be discussed. Enzaand Ciro meet as children growing up in the Italian Alps. Enza is heartbrokenwhen Ciro is sent to America to apprentice with a shoemaker. Her family soonflees to America in the dangerous years leading up to World War I. Through tur-bulent times, the two lead their lives, separate and together, as immigrants in ourland as they seek the American dream.

The group will meet on August 12

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to discuss The People of the BookbyGeraldine Brooks. In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is of-fered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Hag-gadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Price-less and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illu-minated with images. The reader follows Hanna as she unlocks the past of thissacred volume from World War II Bosnia back through Venice, Barcelona andSeville.

Please consider joining the group for an hour of sharing and discussion.

WITNESS TEAM

Dont laughbut here is a date for your December calendar!

Sat., Dec. 7 we will travel by bus to Curwensville UMC is see their54th consecutive production of The Search for Peace performedin the dark and told through music and narration. Although the fo-

cus is the birth of Christ, it is also the exploration of our own faith as we seek thegrace of God. We took this trip a couple of times when La Mar Carlson was ourPastor and everyone felt it began the Christmas season in a very meaningful way.We will charter a bus that will leave from the church parking lot. Well stop for ameal on the way. The tableau starts at 4:30 pm. Everyone is asked to bring a

bagged lunch for the ride home. There will be a freewill offering at the church.When we get a price for the bus, well pass along the individual cost for that.


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UMW NEWS

With summer upon us, things slow down a little for the United Mdont worry, we still find things to keep us busy. We will be bakmont Street sale July 26th starting at 9 am in the kitchen. These churchs bake sale booth. As witnessed at the Pie Auction, wewho make beautiful pies! If you are a pie baker and cannot helwill be 9 inch aluminum pie pans out in the kitchen. Feel free toyour pie off at the bake sale.

Then, before you know it, its caramel time. We will begin carMonday after Labor Day, Sept 9th at 9 am and cutting and wra

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at 9 am. Come and join in the fellowship.

LIBRARY NEWS

Recent donations to our shelves include: "Teaching Tips for TerrWays to Become a Great Sunday School Teacher" and "What's sGrace?" We also now have more new Christian fiction, such as "

Glass" by Susan Meissner and "The Dilemma of Charlotte FarrowCome find some summer reading!

Barbara Marcus and Dottie Wolslayer, Churc

JUNIOR YOUTH GROUPThose who just completed Kindergarten

Through those who are age 12Meetings every Wednesday

From 5:306:30 pm in the ChapelBeginning July 3

Bring your friends!

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