Wesley United Methodist Church
October 2022
We are coming together again on October 16th!
We are coming together again to do another outreach event for our neighborhood this month. We will be having a Fall “Hall”oween Festival on Sunday, October 16, 2022 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. How can you participate? We need people to decorate a Sunday School room door (doors will be available for decorating starting Thursday, October 13) in a fall theme, boardgame or video game theme, or TV show/movie/cartoon theme (Don’t know what that means? Google “Fall Classroom Door Decorating Ideas” or see Amy Loaeza for ideas). This is going to be a “not scary” fall festival, so please AVOID using witches, devils, zombies, scary monsters, demons, anything dead or bloody, or scary pumpkins when decorating your door. Then, on Sunday, October 16, starting at 3 p.m., the neighborhood children can go up and down our church halls trick-or-treating at each door—kind of like a trunk-or-treat, except we don’t have to worry about the weather since we will be doing it inside. We will also need some people to be in charge of a carnival type game for the kids to play in some of the larger classrooms. We have some games all ready to go in our stock at the church or feel free to come up with your own game.
Downstairs in the basement during the festival, we will be having fall arts and crafts, a cupcake walk (like a cake walk, but giving out cupcakes to the winners instead of full cakes), and free hot dogs and popcorn.
We need workers for all these things, as well as people to direct hallway traffic during the event and clean up after the event.
Can’t work during the festival? We need LOTS of bags of candy/small prizes to hand out at our doors and as prizes for the carnival games, so you can bring those to the church any time before October 16. There will be a bin in the narthex to put them in.
If you haven’t already signed up to work or donate for that day, there is a sign-up sheet in the church office during the week (it is also being passed around on Sundays during church) or you can call LeRae in the office or contact Pastor Manuel or Amy. And don’t forget to invite your friends, family, grandkids, and neighbors to the event! We’ll have flyers on the tables next to the entry doors to the sanctuary that you can take home and hand out to friends, etc.
It’s going to be great!
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. — Galatians 5:22-23
October 5th Sunday offering is for WOW
WOW feeds the body and the soul.
October Services Projection & Lay Readers. WOW Cooks
--------------- Projection ---------------- Lay Reader --------------------------- WOW --------------
10/2/22 ------ Laura/Eliza/Wyatt ------------- Don ---------------------------- 10/5/22 ----- Nila & Karen10/9/22 ---------Mark/Emily/Bill ----------------- Dawn ---------------------------10/12/22 ---- Nila & Karen
10/16/22 ---- Kaiden/Avery/Paxton -------- Kristin --------------------------10/19/22 --- Nila & Karen
10/23/22 ------Micah/Torin/Nathan ---------- Beth -----------------------------10/26/22 -----Manuel
10/30/20------Mark/Emily/Bill--------------------Connie
Pastor Manuel has a new telephone number - 605 501-7334
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Our Members and Friends in Care Facilities or Under Home Care
Tuff Home in Hills, MN: Jackie Dreyer
Good Sam / Hill: Linda Varud,
Leisure Living in Hartford: Nona Robinson
Southridge: Guy Varud; Cleova Frahm;
VA in Luverne: Bob Morrison
2204 E. 11th: Deb Stoakes
National Bullying Prevention Month
Historically, bullying had been viewed as “a childhood rite of passage” that “made kids tougher,” but the reality has always been that bullying can leave devastating and often long-term effects such as a loss of self-esteem, increased anxiety, and depression for those involved.
Many communities have formed through partnerships with education-based organizations such as the National PTA, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association to provide schools, parents and students with the educational resources and support to better respond to bullying behavior.
The National Bullying Prevention Center laid the groundwork so that National Bullying Prevention Month is now a nationwide call to action around educating communities as to their roles in bullying prevention. This initiative has helped shift thinking away from bullying as “rite of passage” and toward the knowledge that bullying can be prevented and stopped through education and awareness.
If you know of a child that is being bullied, report it to the school. Insist that it stop and that the bullies be dealt with. Children who have been bullied can turn into the school shooter of tomorrow.
Dawn Armstrong
October Anniversaries
06 Bob & Barbara Gran
15 Darold and Laura Borman
17 Dean and Margie Dewes
17 Ray and Erlene Grimes
26 Richard and Kay Twedt
“We always say, ‘I am going to pray for you,’ and that’s true, but God answers those prayers with our hands and our feet and our hearts.” — Bishop Leonard Fairley, episcopal leader of the Kentucky Conference, to volunteers helping with flood relief.
HyVee Cards
Don’t forget to purchase your HyVee cards from Doug (605-321-6430) and Marcy (605 321-7108) Bird. They help support projects around the church and the UWF.
October Birthdays
02 Vicki Hanisch
05 Fiona Medema
06 Dani Swanson
07 Russ Poppenga
08 Don Wendt
08 Bev Baartman
09 Brad Kolbeck
09 Donna Roberts
10 Kathleen Storevik
11 Jonathan Small Bear
12 Barbara Gran
12 Karen Renken
17 Wyatt Potter
19 Sue Donaldson
22 Robert Morrison
22 Ernie Griner
24 Howard Baartman
25 Mark Buckley
25 Mike Wittrock
29 Katie Kendall
31 Bob Van Kirk
General Budget update @ September 30, 2022
Income 9 Months 2022------ ------------$138,530.24
Expense 8 Months 2022----------------($141,498.78)
Expense exceed Income @ 9/30/2022--(2,968.54)
Don Armstrong, Treasurer
Building and Grounds
Balance 7/31/2022-------------------------$12,493.89
Donations August & September--------- -$ 1,520.00
Interest earned: -------------------------------$8.30
Balance 9/30/2022-------------------------$14,022.19
Donna Wallin, Treasurer
Check out the Newsletter online after October 15th and see the updated financials.
Friends to hold up and remember:
Sympathy for Doug & Marcy Bird family on the death of Marcy's sister Nancy
Steve Polzin- rehab after hospital stay
Aleene Williams - biopsies negative! check up in 6 months- thankful for all the prayers
Bob Morrison- recuperating after fall
Aggie Borman - recovering from a heart transplant and doing great
Brooklyn - a little girl who has been coming to church - diminished lung capacity
Bob and Barbara Gran- both doing well after undergoing medical procedures
Pastor Laura Borman - done with chemotherapy
Lynn Margeson - high blood pressure and tests
Dave Garcia - will start chemo soon for cancer diagnosis
Ernie Griner - tests to see what's wrong
Mike Renken -prayers for healing
Lea Watson's grandson Brock - prayers for healing
Sandy - Bernie McCabe's daughter, ongoing illness
Guy and Linda Varud - both are struggling and in need of prayers
Lynn Margeson's sister Marti Swearingen recovering from a virus, after a heart transplant
Carmen Britt - Sister Kim and Brother-in-law, Dave - prayers needed
Trish Garcia - prayers for continued healing
Kolby Bohmbach – Continued prayers for good test results
Felsheim Family – working to keep Bennett safe
Karen Renken- continued prayers for healing
Bob Whiting’s daughter Robyn –doing well after a kidney transplant
Nila & Karen’s sister-in-law Karen - continued prayers
José Garcia’s mom, Maria Herrera - breast cancer
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. ~~ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
United Women in Faith
We continue to talk about the things that are changing in United Women in Faith (besides the name). But here is what is not going to change.
It Is Time to Make the New Wine
We have slowly begun to implement some of the changes that will be evident in the new UWF wineskin. It is important to know that everything is based on what women said they wanted. It's all in the data.
• We are still committed to spiritual growth, leadership development, transformative education, social justice and improving the lives of women, children and youth around the world.
• Women are seeking meaningful opportunities to engage with other faith-based women. They see themselves as modern, fun and bold and want women's groups that are personal, carefully planned and bold.
• Women are looking for unique combinations of spiritual growth and self-care, which we have come to know as soul care.
• They are ready and willing to invest their time and money into faith-based experiences, especially when they see these as soul care experiences.
So, not everything is going to change. The things we have always loved about United Methodist Women will still be available in United Women in Faith. The good news is that there will be more options to meet the needs of all our women no matter what our age, race, disability, or ethnicity. There are so many new opportunities that I will be sharing with you in this newsletter and in the conference newsletter in the months ahead. When we embrace the new changes, we are going to have a really good time singing praises to God and to his son Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God!