Church Staff: Rev. Heather McColl Minister Joni Burchett Secretary Teena Chinn Music Director Teena Chinn Accompanist Jestine Johnson Custodian Sunday Worship 9:30 AM: Sunday School 10:55 AM: Worship 123 East Bruen Street PO Box 4548 Midway, KY 40347 859-846-4102 Fax: 859-846-9542 E-mail: offi[email protected] Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Visit us on the web: www.midwaychrisan.org Midway Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) March 2019 Budget Update Budgeted to date: $101,666.64 Received to date: $104,227.94 Saturday, March 23rd, 9:00 a.m. “Honor One Another” Speaker: Paige Walker, Chrysalis House Saturday, March 30th, 9:00 a.m. “All Is One” Speaker: Rev. Dr. Don Gillette, Executive Director of KY Council of Churches and Pastor of East Second Street Christian Church, Lexington Saturday, April 6th, 9:00 a.m. “Love is Divine Power” Speaker: Dr. James Roach, Midway Integrative Medicine Saturday, April 13th, 9:00 a.m. “Honor One Self” Speaker: Lisa Maas, Spiritual Director Sunday, March 10th Midway Christian Goes to Cane Ridge! (Date in April or May to be announced) In continuing to celebrate our 175th anniversary, we want to invite everyone to join us on a Saturday (TBA) for A Day at Cane Ridge in Paris, KY. As many of you know, Cane Ridge is considered one of the birthplaces of the Stone-Campbell Movement which would eventually become part of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). We will gather at Cane Ridge at 10 a.m. for a brief history of Cane Ridge, take a walk around the grounds and the shrine, then at 11 a.m. Bill McDonald, a former minister of MCC, will talk about Midway Christian Church’s connection to Cane Ridge. We will end our day with worship in the old meeting house. We also plan to picnic on the grounds so everyone is invited to please bring your own brown bag lunch. If you have any questions, please see Heather or Etta. If you want to know more about Cane Ridge, check out their website, www.caneridge.org. Lenten Devoonals are available in the narthex.
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Church Staff:
Rev. Heather McColl
Minister
Joni Burchett
Secretary
Teena Chinn
Music Director
Teena Chinn
Accompanist
Jestine Johnson
Custodian
Sunday Worship
9:30 AM: Sunday School
10:55 AM: Worship
123 East Bruen Street
PO Box 4548
Midway, KY 40347
859-846-4102
Fax: 859-846-9542
E-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours: Mon-Thurs
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Visit us on the web: www.midwaychristian.org
Midway Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) March 2019
Budget Update
Budgeted to date: $101,666.64 Received to date: $104,227.94
Saturday, March 23rd, 9:00 a.m.
“Honor One Another”
Speaker: Paige Walker, Chrysalis House
Saturday, March 30th, 9:00 a.m.
“All Is One”
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Don Gillette, Executive Director of KY Council of Churches
and Pastor of East Second Street Christian Church, Lexington
Saturday, April 6th, 9:00 a.m.
“Love is Divine Power”
Speaker: Dr. James Roach, Midway Integrative Medicine
Saturday, April 13th, 9:00 a.m.
“Honor One Self”
Speaker: Lisa Maas, Spiritual Director
Sunday, March 10th
Midway Christian Goes to Cane Ridge!
(Date in April or May to be announced)
In continuing to celebrate our 175th anniversary, we want to invite everyone to join us on a Saturday (TBA) for A Day at Cane Ridge in Paris, KY. As many of you know, Cane Ridge is considered one of the birthplaces of the Stone-Campbell Movement which would eventually become part of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). We will gather at Cane Ridge at 10 a.m. for a brief history of Cane Ridge, take a walk around the grounds and the shrine, then at 11 a.m. Bill McDonald, a former minister of MCC, will talk about Midway Christian Church’s connection to Cane Ridge. We will end our day with worship in the old meeting house.
We also plan to picnic on the grounds so everyone is invited to please bring your own brown bag lunch. If you have any questions, please see Heather or Etta. If you want to know more about Cane Ridge, check out their website, www.caneridge.org.
Lenten Devotionals are available
in the narthex.
Worship News and Notes
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Serving This Month
Elders: Susan Shelton and John Batts
Deacons: Jeanne Clark, Ray Clark, Jill Giles, Carole Munson, Dottie Pollard, Melody Small, Tracy Spotts, Willa Michel, Chase
Thurman
March 3 Ray Clark
March 10 Chase Thurman
March 17 Carole Munson
March 24 Phil Dare
March 31 Dan Roller
Worship Themes
You are encouraged
to read and contemplate
the text for the day in advance.
March 3
Transfiguration Sunday
Guest Preacher: Kris Bentley
Scripture: II Corinthians 9: 6-15
Title: “Two Good Things”
March 10
First Sunday in Lent
Scripture: Ephesians 4: 1-15
Title: “All is One”
March 17
Second Sunday in Lent
Scripture: Romans 12: 1-2, 9-21
Title: “Hone One Another”
March 24
Third Sunday in Lent
Scripture: Psalm 139: 13-16;
Matthew 11: 28-30
Title: “Honor Oneself”
March 31
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Scripture: I John 4: 7-21
Title: “Love is Devine Power”
Acolytes
Willa Michel, Alex Woodruff,
Hannah McColl, Jonathan McColl, Clara Thurman
Joins us for Sunday School
We will start with joys and concerns at
9:15 a.m. and Sunday School will start
promptly at 9:30.
In March, we will continue with the series:
“Embracing Emergence Christianity with Phyllis Tickle on the
Church's Next Rummage Sale”
Author, historian and keen cultural observer Phyllis Tickle invites us
to join her in examining the changing face of Christianity and culture.
Phyllis surveys 2000 years of Western history, identifying the great
upheavals that occur in Western culture and Christianity every 500
years—one is happening now.
The remaining sessions are:
4) Gifts from Other Times
5) How Then Shall We Live?
6) Hallmarks of Emergence
Green Chalice will lead Sunday School on
March 24 and 31, as well as April 7 and 14.
Cong. Meeting & Potluck
Sunday, March 3rd
12:30 p.m.
Care Team: Monday, March 4th
6:30 p.m.
Admin Team: Sunday, March 10th
12:30 p.m.
Worship Team: Monday, March 11th
6:30 p.m.
Elders: Monday, March 18th
6:30 p.m.
Cabinet Weds., March 20th
6:00 p.m.
Leadership Meetings
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More Worship News
Food for the Soul
Sunday, March 3rd, 6:30 p.m.
*Topic: “God’s Trees”
Sunday, March 17th, 6:30 p.m.
*Topic: “The Parable of the Nine Botanists”
*Speaker: Dr. Tom Kimmerer, Author of “Venerable
Trees: History, Biology, and Conservation in the Bluegrass”
Worship at The Homeplace
Sunday, March 24th, 12:45
Homeplace at Midway, 101 Sexton Way
Midway Christian Church leads worship for the residents of The Homeplace at
Midway on the 4th Sunday of odd-numbered months. You are encouraged to join us!
This “dinner church” is usually
held on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of
each month in MCC’s Fellowship Hall, and includes open discussion,
a light supper, and a simple
communion service.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
*Please RSVP to 846-4102 or
Lenten Theme: The Tree of Life—Source of Healing and Growth for a Renewed Creation
The world in which we live is far from perfect. In our world, there is injustice, violence, hatred and greed. It is a long way from the Garden of Eden in which the Tree of Life first stood. Yet, even though there may be time and distance between the beginning of Paradise and now, our calling remains the same. We are to “till and keep” the garden. We are to take care of the space which contains the Tree of Life so that all can experience its beauty, so that all may find healing in its leaves. As people of faith, our calling always reminds us that “there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.”
Church Mother, St. Hildegard of Bingen describes this process as viriditas or “greening power.” She believed that there is a life force or “living light” manifested in all things. This light infuses all creation with vitality. She argued that when this life force was blocked, the results were drought or infection, leading to brokenness in the wider community. She stated that our job as people of faith was to constantly recognize the places in our lives, in our community, in our world which were cut off from this greening power. We were called to work to remove the “blockages” so that the living light could flow once more, coming to fruition in our communities.
In other words, we are to “till and keep” the garden so that reconciliation can happen, so that healing can happen, so that growth can happen. By embracing this calling, we begin to address all the things which prevent us from connecting to the life force which flows through all creation. This greening of the Tree of Life will once again serve as a sign that God is still at work in this world.
During Lent, we will take a look at the seven sacred truths which are associated with the Tree of Life. Each of these seven truths hold universal meaning and relate to the work of healing and wholeness of the wider community. These truths ground us. They connect us. They stretch us and inspire us to reach towards the heavens. Join us in our call to “till and keep” the garden as we experience the greening power which join us all to the Tree of Life.
***PLEASE PICK UP YOUR COMPLIMENTARY LENTEN DEVOTIONAL IN THE NARTHEX***
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Community Dinner
Monday, March 25th
MCC Fellowship Hall, 6:30 p.m.
Our monthly dinner, held on the last Monday of each month, is free and open to the public!
Community News & Notes
Volunteers are needed before and after: cooking, set-up, serving, clean-up.
• Donations to this mission are appreciated.
• Whenever possible we use KY Proud products!
Cub Scout Popcorn
See Mary Sayre to buy
popcorn from Pack 41.
A Fat Tuesday Pancake
Supper Option
Tuesday, March 5th, 5:00—7:30 p.m.
Oxford Christian Church
2785 Oxford Village Lane, Georgetown
Since Midway Christian is not holding a Fat
Tuesday event this year, we thought we would
share the above option for a Fat Tuesday
pancake pig-out!
The proceeds from this event go to a very good
cause: Habitat for Humanity
It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time!
See Hannah
McColl or Clara Thurman
for your favorite Girl Scout
cookies and to support
Brownie Troop #2261.
5th Annual St. Matthew A.M.E. Church Community Weight Loss Challenge
• $40 entry fee per person, includes free
t-shirt & weight-loss & motivational tools.
• Teams must be 4 to 6 people • If you don’t have a team, one may be assigned to
you.
• Prizes awarded; winners determined by highest percentage of weight lost.
Weigh-In & Free Health Fair on Saturday, March 2nd
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Midway Presbyterian Church.
For more info call Eugenia at 859-227-9951.
Community Ash Wednesday Service
Wednesday, March 6th, 7 p.m.
Midway United Methodist Church
The community is invited to this special service to begin
the Lenten Season. Pastor Josh Hale from St. Matthew’s
A.M.E. Church will preach, and an offering for the
Midway Ministerial Association will be collected.
Downtown Midway St. Patrick’s Day
Saturday, March 16th, 10:00 to 6:00
Put on your greenest green and
grab the kids for some family fun
in downtown Midway. Shops
and restaurants will be in on the
“Go Green” theme, as well as
non-profits booths that will be
set up downtown.
The parade starts at 4 p.m. and will feature
“Go Green” floats, Irish bagpipers and drum-
mers, the WCHS marching band, M.U. horses
and riders, an Irish Court of Honor, firetrucks,
Scouts, and the world’s tallest leprechauns,
among others.
Chamber Music @ St. John’s Episcopal
Sunday, March 17th, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
210 N. Main Street, Versailles
The public is invited to this free concert of Classical, Romantic, and 20th century chamber music.
St. Patrick’s Party at the Homeplace
Friday, March 15th, 11:30-1:00
RSVP by March 8th to 846-4663
Come and celebrate St. Patrick’s
Day with the residents and staff of
The Homeplace, enjoying Irish fare
and Irish games!
Fellowship News
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Disciples Women Luncheon
Sunday, March 17th
12:30 p.m., Fellowship Hall
All women of MCC are invited to meet and eat!
We will continue the Bible story of Lydia, “Called
for God’s Purpose,” finalize our stained glass note
card project, and discuss the Spring Conferences
(see pg 5). PLEASE BRING A DISH TO SHARE!
Youth News
Locally Grown
(Midway Community Youth Group, grades 6-12, focused on Faith Development)
Locally Grown meets on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., usually starting at Midway
Presbyterian Church and walking to other places in the community.
Visit www.lgmidway.com for more info. Leaders: Lee & Sarah Busick, Midway
Midway Green Chalice Meeting
Tuesday, March 12th, 7:00 p.m.,
MCC Fellowship Hall
We will finalize plans for a booth at Midway’s St.
Patrick’s “Green Day” festival on March 16th.
Anyone interested in helping to care for God’s
creation is welcome to attend!
Contact Adele Dickerson
for more information about
Midway Green Chalice.
Green Chalice News
Midway Kids in Community & Service (KICS) for Kids Grades K-5
4:30—6:00 p.m. MCC Fellowship Hall
• Sunday, March 10th
Topic: “Fruit & Veggies/Who Am I?”
• Sunday, March 24th
Topic: “Fruit & Veggies/Who Is God?”
• Sunday, March 31st— Fun Field Trip—TBA Contact Cindy Batts for more information: 859-227-7624
Keenagers Luncheon
Thursday, March 28th
11:30 a.m.
Trackside at the Depot,
132 E 10th St, Paris
Please RSVP to the church office by
Tuesday, March 26, if you plan to join Keenagers
(retirees and friends) at Trackside in Paris.
Carpool from church by 11:00 on the 28th.
Kids in grades K-5 are welcome to
invite friends to this faith-based
gathering. KICS normally meets the
2nd & 4th Sundays of each month.
MCC: a Green Chalice Congregation
since 2010, a Certified Green Chalice
Congregation since 2015
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers
for the family of Julia Devers, who passed away on
February 19, 2019.
Quarterly Congregational Meeting & Potluck Lunch
Sunday, March 3rd, 12:30 p.m.
PLEASE BRING A DISH TO SHARE.
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Retreats, Seminars, Workshops
Christmount Retreats
Church Leadership Series (formerly Elders & Deacons Workshop), March 8-9
Dr. Leah Schade will focus on environmental theology, and workshop leaders will
offer practical approaches to enabling both the faith community and individuals
to become more sensitive to the Earth.
Spring Yoga Retreat, May 3-5
Come explore and return to your truest nature in a beautiful setting, with wholesome, nourishing
food, amazing community, and intentional activities and practices.
Adult Work Week & Family Work Weekend, May 5-10 and/or May 10-12
This mission opportunity is to help prepare Christmount for the summer of wonder where lives are
changed. They need help with raking, weeding, trail maintenance, light construction, etc. And you’ll
have fun doing it!
Call 828-669-8977 or visit christmount.org for more info.
Kentucky Disciples Women’s Ministries Spring Conferences
#1 April 13 - First Christian Church, Mayfield, KY
Dr. Emily Askew of Lexington Theological Seminary will deliver the opening worship
message. Deborah Garr from 7th Street Christian in Paris will provide music.
Registration form and $25 fee are due by April 1st.
#2 April 27 - Beargrass Christian Church, Louisville, KY
Rev. Terri Hord Owens, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
in the US and Canada, will deliver the opening worship message. Music will be provided by Andra
Moran of Nashville and Deborah Garr of Paris, KY.
Registration for and $35 fee are due by April 13th.
Both conferences will include bible studies, spiritual discipline workshops, and socially-relevant work-
shops. Registration forms are available on the fellowship hall bulletin board, or at www.ccinky.net.
Lexington Theological Seminary Webinar Series
Empowering the Laity to Care for Pastors Saturday, March 23rd, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Rev. Greg Alexander
Taking the Mystery Out of Estate Planning
Saturday, April 13th, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Dr. Gary Kidwell
Register: www.lextheo.edu/webinar-series; For more info: 859-280-1212 or [email protected]
General Assembly 2019 — July 20-24
in Des Moines, IA - Registration Open
Visit www.ga.disciples.org for more info.
Please see the back of the calendar for Extension Classes, Camp Dates, etc.
On-site or Online: $10 per log-in (unlimited participants online)
Greg Alexander,
General Minister of the
Christian Church in KY
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Mission News and Notes
Blessing Box at MCC
Thank you for helping keep
the Blessing Box stocked
with non-perishable foods &
toiletries.
• Canned vegetables,
beans & fruits
• Canned/dried pastas
• Canned stew/chili/soups/sauces
• Peanut butter/canned meats
• Crackers/chips
Please check the dates on foods, and please
black out or remove the bar codes on everything,
to prevent abuse of this program (donated foods
could be returned for cash).
March Mission Payments:
LTS Scholarship
Lexington Theological Seminary is an accredited graduate theological institution related
to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The purpose of LTS is to prepare faithful
leaders for the church of Jesus Christ and, thus, to strengthen the church's participation
in God's mission for the world. (from LTS website)
Transylvania Scholarship
Transylvania University is a distinguished liberal arts college, affiliated with the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), of approximately 1,100 students that is
consistently ranked and praised in the leading national college guides.
Transylvania offers 34 majors plus the option of designing an individual major.
Students gain a strong grounding in liberal education, however the University
also emphasizes career planning. (from Transylvania University website)
Midway University (Ruth Roach) Scholarship
The Ruth Slack Roach Leadership Scholarship program was created in September 1996
in memory of Ruth Slack Roach, a great community servant-leader. The purpose of the
Midway University Ruth Slack Roach Leadership Scholarship program (RSR) is to develop
women as leaders dedicated to personal and community service exemplified in the life
of Ruth Slack Roach (pictured at right). (from Midway.edu website)
5th Sunday Offering - March 31st
When there are five Sundays in a month, we take up a
special offering for Christian Care Communities -
Kentucky’s largest faith-inspired, non-profit provider of
senior living communities and long-term care.
The Homeplace at Midway is a Christian Care Community.
Visit the website at www.homeplaceatmidway.com.
Please make your check to MCC with
“5th Sunday” in the memo line.
THANK YOU for listing Midway Christian Church as your charity of choice when you shop with Amazon Smile and
with your Kroger Plus card.
175th Anniversary Mission for March:
175 Canned Goods for
Hope Ministries Food Pantry
We are celebrating MCC’s 175th year with a
different “mission” each month. In March, we
will collect 175 canned goods for the Hope
Ministries Food Pantry in Woodford County.
Please bring a few cans to the narthex each
Sunday in March.
175th Mission for April
We are hoping to collectively
purchase 175 trees ($60), or
shares of trees ($10), for Heifer
International for our April Mission.
Midway Christian Church 123 East Bruen Street
PO Box 4548
Midway, KY 40347
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