Welcome to Roar VBS –this summer’s mane event! This epic African adventure engages the

whole herd. At Roar, kids explore God’s goodness and celebrate a ferocious faith that powers them

through this wild life.

VBS 2019 Roar VBS will be held at

The Boys and Girls Club

of San Angelo, located at

1802 N. Lillie St.

July 15th – 19th

9 am to 11 am

Volunteers Needed -

Contact Stephanie at

stephbdobbs@msn.com

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The Pastor’s Pen June 13, 2019

What a month! We are busy in our transition be-

tween Sterling City and San Angelo. We are sort-

ing possessions, hauling some things to a tempo-

rary storage unit, and frantically packing as much

as we can. Oh, and our daughter, Ella, had her

tonsils and adenoids removed this week and is in

the rough part of the recovery as I type this letter.

Summer is supposed to be a “slow” time, but it

never seems to work out that way. I’ve also killed

three rattlesnakes near our house in the last two

weeks and we now have bees in the Sterling City

sanctuary building! I have told the snakes, bees,

skunks, foxes, rats, mice, raccoons, opossums,

and bats that it has been nice knowing them, but

they are NOT welcome to join us in San Angelo. If

any of ya’ll see them trying to sneak into the St.

Luke neighborhood, please remind them their

home is in Sterling City!

We are excited to be coming to St. Luke and look

forward to ministry and life with you all. We thank

you in advance for the beautiful home we will (or

maybe when you’re reading this, will have?) move

(d) into in a wonderful neighborhood. We thank

you for your generous gifts of prayer, time, talent,

and financial resources past, present, and future

that make St. Luke a vital home for gospel based

ministry in Christ’s Kingdom. Charlie, Heidi,

George, Larry, Cathy, Larry, Ray, and others have

shared with us numerous times and in numerous

ways how wonderful St. Luke’s is. I’m eagerly an-

ticipating our time together! Just as a reminder,

my first Sunday in worship with you will be July 7.

I am the pastor in charge in Sterling City through

June 30. At this moment, I’m planning on the first

two Sundays to be standalone sermons. The first

will be more broad and the second (July 14) will

be a “get to know me” type sermon covering what

has brought me to this point, some of the things I

believe in, and what some of my hopes and

dreams are. I normally do not preach the Revised

Common Lectionary, opting instead for series

based on books of the Bible, stories from the Bi-

ble, Bible characters, or other topics. I am always

trying to improve and learn, so please get used to

me soliciting for honest feedback. I aim to grow

each year and not to harden or regress.

I hope and plan to meet with many, most, or all

of you in the coming months. Stay tuned for more

information on how that will work logistically. My

goal is normally to spend as much time in the

community as possible meeting people (inside and

outside the church) and praying over the mission

field, even more especially early in a new location.

If you can’t find me around the office, you can

reach me on cell phone and/or Cindy will likely

know where I am.

God the Father, Jesus the Christ, and the Holy

Spirit (our Trinitarian God) are AMAZING! What a

great God we worship! There is nowhere else in

the universe to look for completeness than to Je-

sus. He is Lord of all, King of kings. I have seen

him break through some of the hardest, darkest,

evilest hearts you can imagine. There is simply no

other way to explain some of the things I’ve expe-

rienced and witnessed than that gospel is True!

Praise God!

One final note, I have had a lot of questions about

why Methodist pastors are sent as opposed to be-

ing called. We have a unique system for sure!

Some of you are familiar with the itinerant system

while some others may not be. Our Bishop, Robert

Schnase, presented on this topic at our Annual

Conference last week in Corpus Christi. I found

this presentation enlightening and tremendously

helpful, even as someone who has 9+ years heav-

ily invested in this system! The presentation is

about an hour and ten minutes, so set aside some

time. I include the link here:

https://vimeo.com/341882237 It is a privilege being your pastor!

Rev. Jim Noble

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Concho Country Emmaus Monthly Gathering

First Tuesday of the Month, 6:30PM,

Sierra Vista UMC 4522 College Hills, San Angelo, TX

FMI contact Carol Watkins @ 234-3343

or go to: www.conchocountryecc.org

Women’s Walks Men’s Walk July 25-28 August 1-4 October 24-27

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Welcome BRUNCH

for the Nobles

July 7th 10:00am

Church office will be closed in observance of

Upcoming Events & Happenings

BELIEVE THERE

IS GOOD!

JULY 8th - 11th

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“Going Deep”

There are moments doing what I do that transcend the usual goofy skits, games , group activities, bowling, movies, Twilight Zones, Little Rascals, piz-za, pizza and more pizza. We call it “going deep”. It has to be the right time with exactly the right kids and the right dynamics for it to happen. When it happens it is usually a very organic pro-cess because if it is forced it will never go there. These are the times where our “family” grows emotionally in leaps and bounds. It’s a time where the walls go down and extreme honesty is met with respect and tolerance. This is also a time where the Holy Spirit can enter these wonderful young people as they lay their emotions bare and fill up those empty spaces with God’s love for them. That’s a difficult concept for young people whose pop culture is in their faces 24/7. If you are of my generation or older, imagine your stupidest or most embarrassing moment that you shared with maybe 5 kids in your own circle and they told 5 kids so 10 people have heard your dumb kid-fueled moment. Now move forward 20 years and that same silly stupid moment happens but the 5 kids you were with have that moment on Insta-gram, Twitter, Facebook, snapchat and the 5 extra kids that knew your moment now becomes 100’s in seconds even 1000’s in minutes Suddenly that’s all you hear about from your friends, people you don’t know, people are whispering around corners and pointing and your little 5 friend world just be-came huge and snickeringly judgemental. Our last “deep” moment came a couple of weeks ago when the Sunday night Youth Time was just girls, Carol and myself. I looked at Carol and said we need to have some “girl time”. So after some of that yummy pizza we sat down around the table and answered some questions. They were ques-tions about judgement, attraction, school and church. What we discovered was pretty amazing. Every kind of personality, socioeconomic and emotional levels were represented but the main subject that came from every single girl was about judgement. They feel judged by the school, their teachers, their friends, their acquaintances and all those people snickering around the corner. Inter-estingly these are girls that know who they are. They know they are God’s children. They know where they stand socially and who they want to be

and yet the comments and ire of their peers, their teachers and more importantly the 100’s behind the social media wall can define them. Not define them totally but define them in the moment. In hearing all this you start to understand the inci-dents of depression and low self esteem that this generation can feel. They spoke of the ire of the “popular kids” and some said they liked and want-ed to be “popular kids”. All agreed on the weight of the judgement they perceive every moment of the day. Please understand that I am condensing a long conversation with 10 girls. So this is where the “going deep” happens. If I could (and I tried) to help them understand that in 10 years none of this will matter. That when they have their own family and are enjoying all that life has to offer (and this bunch of beautiful, talented young ladies will most likely experience all that life has to offer) they won’t be worried about what Bobby said in 3rd period English class. More im-portantly that no matter what, they will always be God’s beautiful, wonderful child. That they always need to see themselves the way God sees them and suddenly the 100’s of hidden judging eyes should melt away. Easier said than done. When they are told by a church member that their clothes are not appropriate in church and they should be ashamed when their clothes are stylisti-cally current. That they truly know that God doesn’t care what they wear to church because he doesn’t see the rip in their jeans but sees the love in their heart. That no “style” can trump the beau-ty that God sees as His child comes into His house. Please know that a small comment like that is a huge deal to this generation. Those comments came more than a couple of times from people in their own church which is shameful. Carol and I have always tried and will continue to try to make sure that their confidence should come from the unending love that God bestows upon us and not from the silly stupid human comments that are made in their life. It was an extreme eye opening hour long conver-sation for the only guy in the room and it made me love these girls all the more. We are so lucky to have the kids in our church and our lives that we have. We have parents that have shown God to these kids their entire lives and as they cross the road to furthering independence may they remem-ber God’s smile first before a snarky judgement from someone who won’t matter tomorrow. Please pray for our Mission Camp July 8th-11th. It could be the “Deepest” one yet!! Till next time, Peace! John

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St. Luke CCDC News

Children from St. Luke Unit-

ed Methodist Church will

participate in Beyond Belief

Camp, July 28th – August

1st. Please pray a special

prayer for Jocelyn, Abbie,

Kennedy, and Ella.

Awesome, Ever Present God,

Today, we are celebrating and asking for your

blessing over our campers. They are about to em-

bark on a journey filled with adventure, fun, and

faith formation that will help them grow closer to

you.

Bless them this week so that all of their fears and

anxieties might be met with your peace.

Bless them this week so that all of their questions

and seeking might be explored with your guid-

ance.

Bless them this week so that all of their excite-

ment and energy might be met with your joy.

(Here, name each camper individually): Bless

(Name) that she might adventure with you this

week.

Help them feel you close and remind them that

we are here, back home, praying for the exciting

week ahead. Help them know our love and our

hopes for them this week.

Bless our church, too, God. Bless us as we wait

for our campers to return home prayerfully and

patiently. Bless us so that we might be changed,

just as they are, because of their week at camp. Safari Theme at Roar!

Camp St. Luke Nature Center provided

animals to pet!

Pre-school & School aged children enjoyed a Safari at

Camp St. Luke.

Fun in the sun with homemade Bubble Blowers!

Camp St. Luke We had a fun and successful summer

camp! Camp St. Luke for Pre-school and

School aged children was held during the

month of June.

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Prayer Concerns

Mission / Outreach

PROJECT DIGNIDAD NEEDS:

Canned Meat • Canned Vegetables

Canned Fruit • Canned Soups

Spaghetti Sauce • Peanut Butter • Vermicelli Pasta • Oatmeal • Pinto Beans • Rice

Please drop your items in the box in the Narthex.

Would you like to help serve

a warm meal??

We need you on any one of the following days:

Monday, July 15 - 9:30 a.m.

Monday, August 19 - 9:30 a.m.

Monday, September 16 - 9:30 a.m.

Call Cathy Talley for more information @ 944-7787

Bob Bernholtz

Ernest Cano

Luann Cate

Corina Charles

Tim Clark

Helen Cunningham

Juanita Gibson

Carson Halderman

Nelda Hazelwood

Nita Ivy

Lois Kelch

Tracey Landry

Guadalupe Martinez

Eleanor Perkins

Brent Rhodes

Cecil Richardson

Ben Sargeant

Joyce Speck

Deene Sproul

Ron Taylor

Service Opportunities & Outreach Needs

CPS & Rainbow Room

(all items must be new-often these are the first

new clothes or toys these children have had)

Gift cards for fast food Restaurants

Children & Youth Underwear - all sizes

Children & Youth clothes - all sizes

Children’s Shoes - all sizes

Diapers, wipes, formula

Hygiene Supplies

Stuffed animals & toys

Collecting items for the Border Crisis

We are collecting diapers, wipes and diaper cream to assist those in need. You can drop

them off in the Narthex and they will be deliv-ered to Del Rio.

The youth assisted with the Soup Kitchen in June!

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July Birthdays

Finance Information

Average Worship Attendance

9:00 a.m. Worship ~ 63 11:00 a.m. Worship ~ 62

June 2019

INCOME

Pledged Giving 125,632.01

Unpledged Giving 23,112.80

Miscellaneous Giving 3,016.81

Total Income $151,761.62

EXPENSES

Administrative Expenses 4,193.41

Building and Grounds 43,179.22

Staff Salaries & Compensation 87,934.04

Programs 3,934.67

Apportionments, Outreach, etc. 16,335.36

Total Expenses $155,576.70

7 /3 David Loyd, Jr.

7/4 JoAnn Walcott

7/5 Mary Larson

7/7 Cheryl McGaughey

7/8 Matthew Groth

7/10 Shawna Farris

Myles Russwurm

Vickie Wright

7/11 Ross McKee

7/12 Lee Atkins

Melinda Pratz

William Weatherford

7/13 Donna Rogers

Richard Roper

7/15 Katie McBurnie

David Neel

7/16 Clay Kitchens

Kathy Layne

7/19 Stephen Melton

Connye Ward

7/25 Guy Abbott

Joyce Speck

7/27 Anna Oswald

Jessie Schroeder

7/29 Abbie Moss

Wilson Rink

7/31 Shelby Feathers

Vaughn Gilly

Madison Goldsberry

Dollars for Mission

We have lost touch with some of

our St. Luke members - if you have an address for any of these

members, please contact the church office.

Cody Balentine Erica Palmer

Matthew Stephens Jessica Stephens

Bradford Spirit Shirts $1,000.00

Kids Eat Free $387.53

In Memory of Mike Lomas

given by: David & Judy Loyd

Unknown Addresses

7/4 - Church office closed in observance of 4th of July

7/9 - 6:00 PM - Council of Ministries Meeting - MP3

7/11 - noon - Worship Committee Meeting - MP3

7/14 - 2:45 pm - Soupers meet to cook in Fellowship Hall kitchen

7/16 - 6:00 pm - Admin Council Meeting - MP3

7/17 - 4:30 pm - Mission Committee Meeting - MP3

7/23 - 6:00 pm - Senior Adult Ministries Meeting - MP3

Important Dates on the Church Calendar

Memorials

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St. Luke United Methodist Church 2781 West Avenue N San Angelo, Texas 76904

Senior Pastor, Jim Noble

Business Administrator, Cindy Brashear

Children’s and Family Ministries, Stephanie Dobbs

Youth Ministries, John Groth

Chancel Choir Director, Jared Capps

Accompanist, Jena Janek

Nursery Director, Katina Emert

Child Development Center Director, Stephanie Dobbs

Church Office 325.949.1545 Website: www.stluke-sanangelo.org

Office Hours: Monday - Thursday

8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Friday

8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Information for the upcoming August newsletter is due in the church office

by July 26th.

Church Staff

Church Office Information

Newsletter Information

Summer Lunch Program

July 29th - August 9th

Sign-up in the Narthex to volunteer for the Kids Eat FREE ministry. Cooks and drivers are needed.

FMI: Contact the church office.