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Weekly Gadsden Street Mail Please note that the color of the background changes with the liturgical color
UPCOMING EVENTS Sunday – Feb 26th – Leadership Training Study – 5:30pm – Pastor Gail’s Home Monday –Feb 27th -Tai Chi–2:00pm – Gathering Area Tuesday - Feb 28th – Pray & Play – 12:30pm – Library Tuesday - Feb 28th – Pancake Supper – 5pm – 7pm Fellowship Hall Wednesday – Mar 1st - Zumba– 9:30am – Gathering Area Wednesday – Mar 1st – Ash Wednesday Service– noon - Sanctuary Wednesday – Mar 1st - Tai Chi– 4:00pm – 2nd Floor Conference Room Wednesday – Mar 1st – Ash Wednesday Service– 6:30pm - Sanctuary Wednesday – Mar 1st - Choir Practice– 7:15pm – Sanctuary Sunday – Mar 5th – Leadership Training Study – 5:30pm – Pastor Gail’s Home Monday –Mar 6th --Tai Chi–2:00pm – Gathering Area Tuesday – Mar 7th – UMW Unit – 10:30am – Gahtering Area Wednesday – Mar 8th - Zumba– 9:30am – Gathering Area Wednesday – Mar 8th - Tai Chi– 4:00pm – 2nd Floor Conference Room Wednesday – Mar 8th - Choir Practice– 7:15pm – Sanctuary Thursday – Mar 9th – UMW Night Circle – 6pm – Gahtering Area
Feb 26, 2017 Gadsden Street UMC 901 Gadsden Street Pensacola, FL 32501 Web Site -http://gadsdenstreetmethodist.com Contact Us [email protected] 850-433-0014
SUNDAY, Feb 26, 2017 SERMON TOPICS & SCRIPTURE SERMON TITLE: “Indescribable” SCRIPTURE: Matthew 17: 1 - 9
Nursery Available for all Services PARENTS As Gadsden Street is a Safe Sanctuary Church, we ask that you remember that children under the age of 18 need an adult to accompany them anytime they are in the hallways or restrooms. No one should be in these areas during worship or other activities without parental supervision. This is a Safe Sanctuary guideline and is put in place for their protection and safety. Thank you for your cooperation. USHERS FOR FEB 10:30 am Captains meetings first Sunday at 9:45 am Glenn Caternang Captain Marsha Underwood Jim McMillen NURSERY & CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY BAGS Our beautiful nursery is available for infants and children. There are children’s activity bags with crayons & coloring books in the Narthex. Please ask an usher if your child would like one during our service. If you are chilly during service, please see an usher to borrow a shawl.
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandments in the Law?’ Jesus replied: “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22: 34-40) Sometimes the simplest things capture my attention. Sometimes it is the simplest things that offer profound messages. A few years back just outside the window of the room where I do my Bible study and prayer time, a spider was building a web. In this case it was a banana spider (a big with a bright yellow abdomen- Google it!) was hard at work spinning a web. Day after day she worked on spinning her web, and banana spiders weave big webs, some as much as a yard wide! Whether or not you’ve ever watched a banana spider at work, most of us know what a spider’s web looks like. A gossamer net radiating from a center with spokes connecting every edge to the center. Watching that spider work on her web day after day the thoughts of one of the Desert Fathers sprung to my mind. Dorotheos of Gaza was the son of a very wealthy family, enjoying the rare advantages of education. He was a part of a tradition of folks choosing to leave the world behind to join with others in a life of solitude, prayer and service on behalf of the world. It is Dorotheos of Gaza who invites us to think of the world as being like a giant spider’s web. In the very center of it all, in the center of all life is God. Radiating from this center are spokes radiating out to the very edges of the world. Everything is connected. Dorotheos says we are all somewhere on this web. Our lives are all on one of these lines/spokes radiating out from the center. We may be out on the very edges, or we may be somewhere along one of the spokes moving
toward God. Then Dorotheos noticed something simple and yet profound. The closer one moves on a spoke toward the center, the closer one comes to every other spoke on the web. For Dorotheos this is a reminder the closer we move toward God, the closer we move toward one another. In the simplicity of a spider’s web is a profound reminder of the geometry of love. The closer we come to God, the closer we come to one another. And the closer we come to one another, the closer we come to God. The move we love God, the more we love our neighbors. For Dorotheos, the opposite was also true. The further we move away from one another, the further we move from God, and the further we move away from God, the further is the distance and the separation from one another. All of this from a spider’s web! Blessings, Pastor Gail
If you would like more information about the mission and ministry of Gadsden Street UMC, please call the church office at 850-433-0014. If you would like to join this faith family in the covenant of member-ship, please contact Pastor Gail Baughman at the church office.
COMMITMENT CARDS If you have not already turned in your 2017 Commitment Card, please put them in the offering plate or bring them to the church office. If you need another Commitment Card, there are extras in the narthex and the church office. If you have turned in a Commitment Card, giving envelopes are available in the Office.
JOURNEY OF FAITH CONFIRMATION CLASSES It’s not too late to join our Journey of Faith Confirmation class that begins today. If you know of a young person who may be interested, please invite them to a time of exploring and experiencing faith. Our first class will be held at 11:30am today in the 2nd floor conference room.
FAT TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER On Tuesday, February 28, our Costa Rica Missions Team is sponsoring a final fundraiser. Invite your friends and neighbors to join us for hot pancakes and sausage. We will be serving in the Fellowship Hall from 5 through 7pm. Cost is $5 per person. All donations will be used for getting books to Costa Rica schools. Tickets are available from any Costa Rica Mission Team member or in the Church office.
NURSERY WORKER As you may know, Tom & April Deagan will be leaving us soon to fulfill their dream of moving to Costa Rica to further their missionary work. Wonderful for them, sad for us! This also leaves an opening in our nursery. If you know of anyone looking for a part time job that you think may be the right person to work with our very young children, please ask them to contact the Church office.
ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES We will offer two Ash Wednesday Services, noon and 6:30pm, Wednesday, March 1st. All are welcome as we prepare our hearts for a purposeful journey through Lent.
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE PLANNING MEETING All are invited as we pray and plan for our Easter Sunrise Service! We will meet on Wednesday, March 8th at 6:00pm in the 2nd floor conference room
PRAY & PLAY You’re invited for prayer, games and fellowship in the library, Tuesday, February 28th. The fun begins at 12:30pm. Don’t worry if you don’t know the game, we’ll teach you! All are welcome! Call the church office, 433-0014, for more information.
OUR MARCH OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE On Saturday, March 11th, GSUMC will team with the youth of St. Mark UMC & PUMCM to help Habitat for Humanity’s Neighborhood Revitalization efforts in the Brownsville section of Pensacola. We will meet at PUMCM by 9am; we will finish by 2pm. If you are unable to work on the cleanup/beautification efforts but are able to help prepare and/or serve lunch at PUMCM for all the workers, we need your help, too! We anticipate at least 25-30 workers and maybe more. Please let Donna Pruett or the church office know if you will join us. We need to know how many to feed and what skills we have available!
PUTTING FLOWERS ON THE ALTAR The “Flower Chart” has been wiped clean and posted in the narthex for anyone who desires to reserve a date to place flowers on the altar in memory or honor of loved ones. Arrangements for ordering and placing the flowers on Sunday mornings are the family’s responsibility. Please see Mary Yearty-Meek with any questions.
UPCOMING MEETINGS Costa Rica Mission Team Sunday, March 5th, 11:30am Finance Committee Tuesday, March 7th, 6:00pm
OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE
Easter Sunrise Service Planning Wednesday, March 8, 6:00pm
MARCH- Work projects in Brownsville (PUMCM and Habitat for Humanity) (Donna Pruett)
Church Council Sunday, March 12th, 11:30am
APRIL- Free Neighborhood Picnic (providing free hamburgers, hotdogs and water) (UMM- Stan McKinney, Baruch Coley, Jack Pruett)
Neighborhood Picnic Planning Sunday, March 26, 11:30am
MAY- UMCOR Kits (collect supplies throughout Lent and assemble personal care kits) (Pat Dodge) JUNE- Back to the Beach (collecting towels for Camp Happy Sands), helping to provide a lunch for campers and staff (Audrey Baldwin) JULY- Pack the Backpacks (fill backpacks with school supplies- LPCA and other schools in need) (Mary Jane McClellan) AUGUST- Classroom baskets for LPCA classrooms (basic classroom supplies- Kleenex, Purell, disinfectant wipes, etc.) (Karen Murray)
(All meetings take place in the 2nd floor conference room unless otherwise noted)
RECURRING EVENTS Chancel Choir Practice Wednesdays 7:00 pm in Sanctuary Senior Adult Exercise - Tai Chi Mondays 2pm & Wednesdays 4pm in our Gathering Space Young at Heart 2nd Tuesday 10:30am in the Fellowship Hall Pray & Play 4th Tuesday - 12:30pm in Library
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCH Martha Haney Barbara Carey Han Pyo Kim Helen Pugh Meredith Muzzy Shirlee Kegerreis Anthony Williams Sherry Hutcheson Laurie Tankersley Ron Meek Leslie Richardson Collin Morris
Our Mission Outreach TOSS IN TOWELS Bring any and all towels (slightly used or new) to help stock the shelves of Pensacola United Community Ministries, Favor House and Camp Happy Sands. Also, as you travel, collect the unopened soaps, shampoos, lotions, etc. (each mornings of your stay clear the counter of these and you will be supplied with a new set for the next day). Bring all that you don’t use and place in the containers in the front hall.
Todd & Jocquilyn Stanaker
FOOD DONATION BASKET IS LOCATED AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE DENNISON ADMINISTRATION BUILDING HELP FEED THE CHILDREN Help GSUMC feed the children of Lighthouse Private Christian Academy, by supporting the Judy Ellis Fund with monetary or jumbo can food donations. There are LPCA Students who would not otherwise receive a healthy lunch during the school year.
UPCOMING EVENTS Sunday – Feb 26th – Leadership Training Study – 5:30pm – Pastor Gail’s Home Monday –Feb 27th -Tai Chi–2:00pm – Gathering Area Tuesday - Feb 28th – Pray & Play – 12:30pm – Library Tuesday - Feb 28th – Pancake Supper – 5pm – 7pm Fellowship Hall Wednesday – Mar 1st - Zumba– 9:30am – Gathering Area Wednesday – Mar 1st – Ash Wednesday Service– noon - Sanctuary Wednesday – Mar 1st - Tai Chi– 4:00pm – 2nd Floor Conference Room Wednesday – Mar 1st – Ash Wednesday Service– 6:30pm - Sanctuary Wednesday – Mar 1st - Choir Practice– 7:15pm – Sanctuary Sunday – Mar 5th – Leadership Training Study – 5:30pm – Pastor Gail’s Home Monday –Mar 6th --Tai Chi–2:00pm – Gathering Area Tuesday – Mar 7th – UMW Unit – 10:30am – Gahtering Area Wednesday – Mar 8th - Zumba– 9:30am – Gathering Area Wednesday – Mar 8th - Tai Chi– 4:00pm – 2nd Floor Conference Room Wednesday – Mar 8th - Choir Practice– 7:15pm – Sanctuary Thursday – Mar 9th – UMW Night Circle – 6pm – Gahtering Area
Feb 26, 2017 Gadsden Street UMC 901 Gadsden Street Pensacola, FL 32501 Web Site -http://gadsdenstreetmethodist.com Contact Us [email protected] 850-433-0014
SUNDAY, Feb 26, 2017 SERMON TOPICS & SCRIPTURE SERMON TITLE: “Indescribable” SCRIPTURE: Matthew 17: 1 - 9
Nursery Available for all Services PARENTS As Gadsden Street is a Safe Sanctuary Church, we ask that you remember that children under the age of 18 need an adult to accompany them anytime they are in the hallways or restrooms. No one should be in these areas during worship or other activities without parental supervision. This is a Safe Sanctuary guideline and is put in place for their protection and safety. Thank you for your cooperation. USHERS FOR FEB 10:30 am Captains meetings first Sunday at 9:45 am Glenn Caternang Captain Marsha Underwood Jim McMillen NURSERY & CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY BAGS Our beautiful nursery is available for infants and children. There are children’s activity bags with crayons & coloring books in the Narthex. Please ask an usher if your child would like one during our service. If you are chilly during service, please see an usher to borrow a shawl.
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandments in the Law?’ Jesus replied: “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22: 34-40) Sometimes the simplest things capture my attention. Sometimes it is the simplest things that offer profound messages. A few years back just outside the window of the room where I do my Bible study and prayer time, a spider was building a web. In this case it was a banana spider (a big with a bright yellow abdomen- Google it!) was hard at work spinning a web. Day after day she worked on spinning her web, and banana spiders weave big webs, some as much as a yard wide! Whether or not you’ve ever watched a banana spider at work, most of us know what a spider’s web looks like. A gossamer net radiating from a center with spokes connecting every edge to the center. Watching that spider work on her web day after day the thoughts of one of the Desert Fathers sprung to my mind. Dorotheos of Gaza was the son of a very wealthy family, enjoying the rare advantages of education. He was a part of a tradition of folks choosing to leave the world behind to join with others in a life of solitude, prayer and service on behalf of the world. It is Dorotheos of Gaza who invites us to think of the world as being like a giant spider’s web. In the very center of it all, in the center of all life is God. Radiating from this center are spokes radiating out to the very edges of the world. Everything is connected. Dorotheos says we are all somewhere on this web. Our lives are all on one of these lines/spokes radiating out from the center. We may be out on the very edges, or we may be somewhere along one of the spokes moving
toward God. Then Dorotheos noticed something simple and yet profound. The closer one moves on a spoke toward the center, the closer one comes to every other spoke on the web. For Dorotheos this is a reminder the closer we move toward God, the closer we move toward one another. In the simplicity of a spider’s web is a profound reminder of the geometry of love. The closer we come to God, the closer we come to one another. And the closer we come to one another, the closer we come to God. The move we love God, the more we love our neighbors. For Dorotheos, the opposite was also true. The further we move away from one another, the further we move from God, and the further we move away from God, the further is the distance and the separation from one another. All of this from a spider’s web! Blessings, Pastor Gail
If you would like more information about the mission and ministry of Gadsden Street UMC, please call the church office at 850-433-0014. If you would like to join this faith family in the covenant of member-ship, please contact Pastor Gail Baughman at the church office.
COMMITMENT CARDS If you have not already turned in your 2017 Commitment Card, please put them in the offering plate or bring them to the church office. If you need another Commitment Card, there are extras in the narthex and the church office. If you have turned in a Commitment Card, giving envelopes are available in the Office.
JOURNEY OF FAITH CONFIRMATION CLASSES It’s not too late to join our Journey of Faith Confirmation class that begins today. If you know of a young person who may be interested, please invite them to a time of exploring and experiencing faith. Our first class will be held at 11:30am today in the 2nd floor conference room.
FAT TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER On Tuesday, February 28, our Costa Rica Missions Team is sponsoring a final fundraiser. Invite your friends and neighbors to join us for hot pancakes and sausage. We will be serving in the Fellowship Hall from 5 through 7pm. Cost is $5 per person. All donations will be used for getting books to Costa Rica schools. Tickets are available from any Costa Rica Mission Team member or in the Church office.
NURSERY WORKER As you may know, Tom & April Deagan will be leaving us soon to fulfill their dream of moving to Costa Rica to further their missionary work. Wonderful for them, sad for us! This also leaves an opening in our nursery. If you know of anyone looking for a part time job that you think may be the right person to work with our very young children, please ask them to contact the Church office.
ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES We will offer two Ash Wednesday Services, noon and 6:30pm, Wednesday, March 1st. All are welcome as we prepare our hearts for a purposeful journey through Lent.
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE PLANNING MEETING All are invited as we pray and plan for our Easter Sunrise Service! We will meet on Wednesday, March 8th at 6:00pm in the 2nd floor conference room
PRAY & PLAY You’re invited for prayer, games and fellowship in the library, Tuesday, February 28th. The fun begins at 12:30pm. Don’t worry if you don’t know the game, we’ll teach you! All are welcome! Call the church office, 433-0014, for more information.
OUR MARCH OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE On Saturday, March 11th, GSUMC will team with the youth of St. Mark UMC & PUMCM to help Habitat for Humanity’s Neighborhood Revitalization efforts in the Brownsville section of Pensacola. We will meet at PUMCM by 9am; we will finish by 2pm. If you are unable to work on the cleanup/beautification efforts but are able to help prepare and/or serve lunch at PUMCM for all the workers, we need your help, too! We anticipate at least 25-30 workers and maybe more. Please let Donna Pruett or the church office know if you will join us. We need to know how many to feed and what skills we have available!
PUTTING FLOWERS ON THE ALTAR The “Flower Chart” has been wiped clean and posted in the narthex for anyone who desires to reserve a date to place flowers on the altar in memory or honor of loved ones. Arrangements for ordering and placing the flowers on Sunday mornings are the family’s responsibility. Please see Mary Yearty-Meek with any questions.
UPCOMING MEETINGS Costa Rica Mission Team Sunday, March 5th, 11:30am Finance Committee Tuesday, March 7th, 6:00pm
OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE
Easter Sunrise Service Planning Wednesday, March 8, 6:00pm
MARCH- Work projects in Brownsville (PUMCM and Habitat for Humanity) (Donna Pruett)
Church Council Sunday, March 12th, 11:30am
APRIL- Free Neighborhood Picnic (providing free hamburgers, hotdogs and water) (UMM- Stan McKinney, Baruch Coley, Jack Pruett)
Neighborhood Picnic Planning Sunday, March 26, 11:30am
MAY- UMCOR Kits (collect supplies throughout Lent and assemble personal care kits) (Pat Dodge) JUNE- Back to the Beach (collecting towels for Camp Happy Sands), helping to provide a lunch for campers and staff (Audrey Baldwin) JULY- Pack the Backpacks (fill backpacks with school supplies- LPCA and other schools in need) (Mary Jane McClellan) AUGUST- Classroom baskets for LPCA classrooms (basic classroom supplies- Kleenex, Purell, disinfectant wipes, etc.) (Karen Murray)
(All meetings take place in the 2nd floor conference room unless otherwise noted)
RECURRING EVENTS Chancel Choir Practice Wednesdays 7:00 pm in Sanctuary Senior Adult Exercise - Tai Chi Mondays 2pm & Wednesdays 4pm in our Gathering Space Young at Heart 2nd Tuesday 10:30am in the Fellowship Hall Pray & Play 4th Tuesday - 12:30pm in Library
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCH Martha Haney Barbara Carey Han Pyo Kim Helen Pugh Meredith Muzzy Shirlee Kegerreis Anthony Williams Sherry Hutcheson Laurie Tankersley Ron Meek Leslie Richardson Collin Morris
Our Mission Outreach TOSS IN TOWELS Bring any and all towels (slightly used or new) to help stock the shelves of Pensacola United Community Ministries, Favor House and Camp Happy Sands. Also, as you travel, collect the unopened soaps, shampoos, lotions, etc. (each mornings of your stay clear the counter of these and you will be supplied with a new set for the next day). Bring all that you don’t use and place in the containers in the front hall.
Todd & Jocquilyn Stanaker
FOOD DONATION BASKET IS LOCATED AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE DENNISON ADMINISTRATION BUILDING HELP FEED THE CHILDREN Help GSUMC feed the children of Lighthouse Private Christian Academy, by supporting the Judy Ellis Fund with monetary or jumbo can food donations. There are LPCA Students who would not otherwise receive a healthy lunch during the school year.
