June Tidings

The June 2011 edition of our monthly newsletter Tidings is now posted online on our website. Please check it out as there is much in it for you to find interesting, informational and inspirational.

New Sermons Online

Three recent sermons are up on our website now for you to revisit or to catch up if you couldn't make it on a recent Sunday.

Obituary for Rev. Kyle McGaw

Click here to view the obituary for Rev. Kyle McGaw

WORSHIP Focus Group Meetings

Members and friends of North Church were invited to participate in discussion groups concerning worship services over the past few months. We have done our best to include everyone, however, if we have inadvertently missed including you in a discussion group, please call the church office (860-649-3696) or inform us through an email to: northchurch@snet.net to make us aware. Notes from discussion groups are being reviewed by the Worship Team and recommendations based on those notes will be forth coming.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to share your thoughts and ideas.

Memorial Service for Rev. Kyle McGaw

A Memorial Service for Rev. Kyle McGaw will be held at North United Methodist Church at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, May 31, 2011.

There will be a reception at the church following the service. The family invites members of North Church to please provide desserts for the gathering.

The family requests Memorial Donations be made in Kyle's memory to any of the following organizations:

Hartford Area Habitat for Humanity
PO Box 1933
Hartford, CT 06144

North United Methodist Church
300 Parker Street
Manchester, CT 06042

MACC Charities
P.O. Box 3804
Manchester, CT 06045-3804

Donation Forms and Memorial Cards will be available at the Memorial Service.

Cleanup and a Movie

This is a reminder that tomorrow, May 14th from 9 am to 12 pm there is an All Church Clean-Up Work Day Sponsored by the Trustees. Help a little or a lot, every bit helps and all are welcome.

Come back at 6:30 pm to enjoy fellowship with a FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT as we view the movie Up.

Up is described as a "comedic adventure" starring a 78-year man named Carl Fredricksen, who's "spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest". Due to his age, he thinks life has "passed him by". One day, however, a "twist of fate", and an 8-year old "Wilderness Explorer" named Russell, changes his outlook on life. The pair go on adventures, encountering "wild terrain", "unexpected villains" and "jungle creatures".

Come join in this fun family fellowship evening. NO cost—bring family and friends. Snacks and drinks provided. A heart warming experience awaits all.

Family Movie Night This Saturday

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT—SATURDAY, May 14 at 6:30 pm

Up is described as a "comedic adventure" starring a 78-year man named Carl Fredricksen, who's "spent his entire life dreaming of ex-ploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest". Due to his age, he thinks life has "passed him by". One day, however, a "twist of fate", and an 8-year old "Wilderness Explorer" named Russell, changes his outlook on life. The pair go on adventures, encountering "wild terrain", "unexpected villains" and "jungle creatures".

Come join in this fun family fellowship evening. NO cost—bring family and friends. Snacks and drinks provided. A heart warming experience awaits all.

Watch “A Killer in the Dark” Documentary on NBC

On Sunday, May 1, Imagine No Malaria presents “A Killer in the Dark,” a documentary produced by United Methodist Communications, about the fight against malaria and how we are fighting back. This special television event, hosted by Pauley Perrette (of TV’s NCIS) will air on NBC affiliates (check your local listings).

It chronicles community-based efforts on both sides of the ocean – nationally and globally – as everyday people strive to reduce the deadly results of the disease. As one mother tucks her children into bed in Middle America, a mother in Africa does the same. In the morning, their children will wake with two very different missions directed toward the same critical goal: ending deaths caused by malaria.

Malaria kills more than one million people each year. Every 45 seconds a child in Africa dies of this preventable and treatable disease. Yet, malaria can be eliminated with the right tools: prevention, treatment, education and communication

To make sure “Killer in the Dark” is part of your NBC station’s May 1 lineup, please call or email your local NBC affiliate and ask them to share this important message with your community. Here is an NBC affiliate directory to help.

REBUILDING TOGETHER (CHRISTMAS IN APRIL)

NUMC:

Please make aware anyone else at North who may not see this.

Everyone is welcome.

We have our assignment.



LOCATION: 129 BRETTON RD, MANCHESTER, CT

TIME TO REPORT: 9:00AM

JOB TO COMPLETE: CLEAN YARD, PLANT FLOWERS



Please bring: water bottles, rakes, yard gloves, trowels, hand held pruning shears.



An announcement will be available on the Recreation Department’s cancellation line 860-647-3162 at 7AM

Rain date is Sunday May 1st


Click on this link to get a map of the area.

It’s located not too far from the church:



http://mapq.st/fNdLoI



Tim

860-989-7790

One 10:30 Easter service tomorrow morning

Christ reached out to us in love so we could reach out to Him and live.

Come celebrate Easter with us at a single service tomorrow morning at 10:30, Sunday, April 24, 2011.

Ready For Easter?

The message from the Good Friday service is now online. Listen for the words of Jesus on the cross as we prepare and wait. Remember also the Prayer Vigil Saturday April 23 at NUMC from 5 pm to 8 pm. Be ready for that which is surely coming.

Good Friday Reminder

Continue to prepare for the Easter that we yearn to celebrate by joining us at the Good Friday service this evening at 7:00 pm.

New Sermons Online

Both of today's sermons are now online on our website. Be sure to hear Pastor Laurel's sermon from the 9:30 service and check out our first pulpit exchange and hear the 10:30 sermon of Rev. Linda Peabody.

Being Good Stewards of God’s Creation

Collection boxes have been placed by the exits of the church so that you may discard any components of your bulletins and announcements that you have not used or do not care to keep. These items will either be reused or recycled.

Thank you for supporting this “green” ministry!

The MACC Food Pantry

Three days hence, Sunday April 10th, please join the Outreach Committee and help stock the MACC Food Pantry shelves.

We will meet at the Food Pantry at 460 Main Street at 1:30 pm.
(The Committee will be transporting the 100+ bags!)

Come and see what happens to your generous food donations! Jacki Campion, MACC Director of Volunteers, will give us a short talk at 1:45 and then we will get to work. There is plenty of parking in the Lincoln Center parking lot. Children are encouraged to take part in this "giving" effort. There is a sign-up sheet in the Memorial Room.

The pantry is especially in need of meat products (beef stew, chili, canned pasta, hash, canned meat, meat soups), jelly, condiments, and baked beans. Coffee, hot chocolate, sugar, and paper products also are running short. Thanks to all for your donations!

Thanks to all who have been faithfully donating.

Remember: Marlene accepts monetary donations and is happy to do the shopping for the Food Pantry donations if you are unable.

Pulpit Exchange

Beginning this month our pastor, Laurel Scott, will participate in a Pulpit Exchange (once a month) within the local United Methodist church cluster.

On Sunday, April 10, we welcome Rev. Linda Peabody from Bolton UMC to join us for the 10:30 service as Pastor Laurel preaches at Bolton UMC.
Along with North UMC, the cluster includes:

South UMC (Manchester), Rockville UMC, Bolton UMC,
Crystal Lake Community UMC (Ellington), Wesley (East Hartford),
New Covenant (East Hartford), Vernon UMC

This is a great opportunity to bear witness to the message through various preachers who will bring their individual interpretations of the Word.

March Sermons

Sermons from the month of March are now online for your listening pleasure.

Support Japan 100 percent

One hundred percent of donations to this advance will help the people of Japan recover from this still unfolding disaster. Your generosity will support the rebuilding of communities, and may address the reconstruction of homes and places of worship, among other needs.

If you would like to donate to the emergency in Japan, you can go to gbgm-umc.org,
click on “advance” and enter #3021317.

By Mail: Make your check payable to NUMC. Write the name of the ministry (Japan Emergency) and The Advance code number (3021317) on the check.

Send your check to: North United Methodist Church, 300 Parker St., Manchester, CT 06042

OR place your check in the collection plate at Sunday service.

By Phone: Credit card gifts can be accepted by phone. The number is: (888) 252-6174

Please keep the people of Japan in your prayers, particularly as they wait out efforts to control the risk from the damaged nuclear reactors.

More detailed leaflets are available in the Memorial Room at Church.

April Tidings

Check out the April edition of Tidings, our monthly newsletter. There is a lot going on that you will surely want to be a part of.

Ministry Minute

Starting March 27 in each service there will be a Ministry Minute in which Lay Ministers will describe current activity in their area of service:

• April 3 — Mission Outreach
• April 10 — Trustees
• April 17 — Sunday Bible Study

This past Sunday we heard from Anita as she enthusiastically shared the exciting work going on with Fund Raising.