St. James United Methodist Church AWARE December 2018 · Carol Carlson Jill Featherwolf TBA TBA SOUND & PROJECTION Bill Kraemer Ed Ramsaroop Bill Kraemer TBA USHER CAPTAIN Nancy Von

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AWARE December 2018

St. James United Methodist Church

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Hello Everyone! Greeting from Laos.

As I am in my second week of vacation,

my thoughts of our time when we will be

together again turn to Advent. For our ser-

mons I will be using hymns from the UM

Hymnal that focus on carols from around

the world, as well as focusing on the scriptures of the

lectionary.

The first song hymn we will focus on is “Infant Holy and

Infant Lowly,” a Polish carol. It’s theme is the Holy comes

to us as an infant and He becomes the lowly. But he

was welcomed first by the lowly animals and shepherds.

The Holy comes to serve, help, and live among the

people. He becomes the Holy for the universe and the

earth, a tiny part of galaxy. He comes to save whales

whose tummies are filled with several plastics and pollut-

ed food. He comes as the global and universal Savior of

our known and unknown environment. In this confused

natural and political world, we need living and loving

Mothers and Fathers.

We will read scriptures from this perspective for the four

Sundays of Advent and Christmas Eve.

Are there infants and lowly in our presence? I am one

of the infants and lowly in front of Jesus and I learn from

his lessons and example.

The second week the focus will be on a French carol.

The third week of advent is a German carol: “Silent Night

and Holy Night”. The fourth we will have the pleasure of

hearing our choir put on a cantata of songs mostly from

the hymnal, and we will speak of an English Carol as

time allows. For Christmas Eve I will cover an American

carol and “O Holy Night.” “White Christmas” and

“Dashing through the Snow.”

I hear it snowed in areas of Wisconsin and in the mid-

west, and that the temperatures are very cold. In Laos

our average afternoon temperature is over 90’s.

Time here is coming to close, and now I am counting

days to return to my daily routine in Appleton and Onei-

da.

As we approach the Advent season, I wish all of you a

very meaningful Advent and Christmas. I will see you

soon.

Pastor Dong Su from Vientiane, Laos

~~~~~~~~~~~~PASTOR~~~~~~~~~~~

Dongsu Lee [email protected]

~~~~~~~LAY LEADERSHIP~~~~~~~

Lay Leader/Lay Member Ann. Conf.

Larry Gyrion [email protected]

Staff Parish Relation Chairperson

Gary Linstad [email protected]

Administrative Board Chairperson

Tom Schemm [email protected]

Council Secretary

Deb Kraemer [email protected]

Treasurer

Deb Ebben [email protected]

Finance Chair

Chris Bahr [email protected]

Financial Secretary

LuAnn Van Handel [email protected]

Trustees Chair

Bill Kraemer [email protected]

Mission Co-Chairs

Kay & Charlie Christenson

[email protected]

Member Care Lead

Dongsu Lee [email protected]

Worship Committee

Sharon Ramsaroop [email protected]

Education Leader

Sierra Gyrion [email protected]

Website

Bill Kraemer [email protected]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~STAFF~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Administrative Assistant

Deb Kraemer [email protected]

Organist

Linda Lee [email protected]

Custodian

Kari Sturm [email protected]

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12/04 Linda Lee

12/08 Ella Genke

12/08 Audrey Genke

12/08 Darcie Lind

12/08 Julie Remmel

12/10 Duane Maves

12/10 Sherri Gyrion

12/11 Pastor Dongsu

12/12 Hunter Price

12/14 Jennifer Graham

12/14 Caleb Bahr

12/16 Jon Krein

12/17 Debra Ebben

12/18 Mark Ebert

12/18 J.R King

12/19 Tenley Lang

12/21 Kelsey Shepard

12/23 Carol Carlson

12/27 Mackenna Gyrion

12/28 Martina Olson

12/28 Issabelle Davies

12/29 Preston Price

12/30 Bonnie Behling

12/01 Paul & Jamie Davies (13y)

12/04 Rich & Bev Stewart (47y)

SAVE THE DATE For updates: umcsj.org

Dec. 1 St James Holiday Fair (9a.m.-3p.m.)

Dec. 2 Flower Orders Due

Dec. 8 Homeless Connection Meal Serving (4-7 p.m.)

Dec. 10 Lunch Bunch

Dec. 15 Oneida Spaghetti Dinner (5:30 p.m.)

Dec. 23 Choir Cantata during worship

Dec. 25 Merry Christmas!! Office closed

Dec. 30 Hymn Sing

Jan. 1 Happy New Year! Office closed

Scripture Readings

Sermon titles will be given closer to each week.

December

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Jeremiah 33:14-16, Psalm 25:1-10,

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13, Luke 21:25-36

December

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Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 1:68-79,

Philippians 1:3-11, Luke 3:1-6

December

16

Zephaniah 3:14-20, Isaiah 12:2-6,

Philippians 4:4-7, Luke 3:7-18

December

23 The Choir Cantata

December

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Isaiah 9:2-7, Psalm 96,

Titus 2:11-14, Luke 2:1-20

December

30 Hymn Sing

Advent Candle Lighting Schedule

The Advent wreath is a symbol of watchfulness and

increasing joy as we anticipate Jesus’ birth. The

wreath’s circular shape symbolizes eternity, or life with-

out end. The candles remind us that Jesus

is the Light of the World — he brought

light and life to a dark world (see John 1:4

-5). On each of the four Sundays of Ad-

vent, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,

we light a new candle. As the light grows,

so do our hope, joy, peace and love.

Sunday, December 2- Chris and Caleb Bahr

Sunday, December 9– Wendy Lind & grandchildren

Sunday, December 16 - Mary & Tom Schemm

Sunday, December 23 - The Christenson Family

↓ 6:00 p.m. ↓

Monday, December 24 - Ed & Sharon Ramsaroop

ONGOING ACTIVITIES

Lunch Bunch: 12:00 p.m. on Monday, Dec.

10, at Primrose Retirement Community, 5715

N. Meade

Men’s Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, Dec 11,

at Mary’s Family Restaurant, 2312 N. Rich-

mond.

Ladies Nite Out: does not meet in Dec. See

you on January 21st at El Jaripeo in Little

Chute.

Wednesday Bible Study & Support Group:

Meets at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the

St James meeting room. We will finish up our

series by Max Lucado on Dec. 12th, then

take a small break.

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We are in need of people

to help serve a meal every

even numbered month on

the second Saturday from

4-7 p.m. If you can assist, contact Paul and Deb

Countney or the church office. The next date that

we need help is December 8th.

Thank you for all your donations! Our donation

was 90.2 pounds!!

Sunday Morning Mission offerings from

October to December. will go to…

Salvation Army Click on the link below

to find out more

Salvation Army

Thursday, May 2 to Sunday, May 5

Thursday, April 25 to Sunday, April 28

Are you looking for a gift for someone

who seems to have everything? Consider

the gift that keeps on giving, a weekend

with God.

The Walk to Emmaus is an experience of

Christian spiritual renewal and for-

mation.

It is an opportunity to meet Jesus Christ

in a new way as God’s grace and love is

revealed to you through other believers. It

begins with a 3-day short course in

Christianity. Christ will meet you where

you are, no matter where you are on your

Christian journey.

For more information, contact the church of-

fice by clinking on the link or call 734-5371.

Location TBA

The choir is planning on doing a cantata

this year, on Sunday, Dec. 23rd, during the

morning worship. These will simple Christ-

mas Carols. If you would like to join us, we

plan on doing most of the practicing on

Sunday mornings at 7:45 a.m. starting

Dec. 9th. We will also have one

practice on Saturday, Dec. 22nd, TBA

(most likely in the morning).

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Just in case you missed it….

Al Pellett has resigned as St

James Charter Representative for

Cub Scout Pack 3132 to the Boy

Scouts council, for which he did

for 49 years.

As a congregation, we owe Al our thanks for be-

ing the St James liaison to the cub scouts for so

many years.

Taking Al’s place as the new charter representa-

tive for St James is Tom Schemm. Thank you Tom for

being the new liaison for us.

Caring for Another

Tired of making small talk

at church about the weather

or sports? Then follow Ed-

ward Welch’s advice to “enter in” to the lives of

your fellow worshipers.

A churchgoer once asked Welch, author of Car-

ing for One Another (Crossway), two simple yet

profound questions: “What was the best thing

about your week, and what was the worst thing

about your week?” About a month later, when

some issues were weighing heavily on Welch’s

heart, he wondered who’d be willing to pray for

him. Immediately, the person who’d asked him

those two questions came to mind.

When worshipers are willing to enjoy one an-

other’s blessings and be burdened by one an-

other’s difficulties, Welch says, the body of Christ

gets built up.

The Joy Continues!

The “Joy Conference” will be held on Satur-

day, February 2, 2019 form 8:00 a.m. to 2:15

p.m. The event will be held at Fox Valley Lu-

theran High School in Appleton. This year we

welcome speakers, Gaye Lindfors, Annie

Meehan and Lanelle Vasichek. Please share

with your family and friends – and save the

date for the 44th annual Conference. Registra-

tion will open December 14th. For more infor-

mation please call Outagamie County UW—

Extension at 920-832-4763.

Personal note: I have attended this

event the past few years and was very

happy to hear that it would be continu-

ing this coming year. It is a great way

to get some “me” time for women and

have some very good laughs while I do.

I highly recommend it. There is a mini-

mal cost for this event, but well worth it.

I will give you more details as they be-

come available.

Deb

Did you know? If you miss a Sunday sermon, we

post them on our website. Just go to the home

page, and click on the square that looks like the

one below. There you will find a treasure of re-

cordings from St James. Try it now, clicking below

or go to www.umcsj.org

Look for this symbol

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Choir

Cantata

24 6:00 p.m.

Candlelight

Worship

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GREETER Julie Remmel Rose Ann &

Chet Luce Carol Carlson Jill Featherwolf TBA TBA

SOUND &

PROJECTION Bill Kraemer Ed Ramsaroop Bill Kraemer Bill Kraemer Bill Kraemer TBA

USHER

CAPTAIN

Nancy

Von Der Osten

Bonnie Budreau

Carol Carlson Mike Shepard

Wayne

DeGrand TBA TBA

FELLOWSHIP

HOSPITALITY TBA

Tom & Mary

Schemm Jill Featherwolf N/A

ADVENT

CANDLE

READERS

Chris & her

grandson,

Caleb Bahr

Wendy Lind

& her

grandchildren

Mary & Tom

Schemm

The

Christenson

Family

Ed & Sharon

Ramsaroop n/a

LITURGIST Sherri Gyrion Cal

Christenson TBA Cantata Gary Linstad Hymn Sing

COUNTERS Julie Remmel &

Carol Carlson

Rich Stewart &

Chris Bahr

Deb Ebben &

Carol Carlson

Mike Shepard

&

Chris Bahr

N/A Chris Bahr &

Gary Linstad

COMMUN-

ION

SERVERS

Ed & Sharon

Ramsaroop,

Deb Ebben &

Pastor Lee

See UMCSJ.org for updates

Please contact the church office if you can fill in any TBA spots.

Volunteers

needed. Volunteers

needed.

Volunteers

needed.

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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4:30 p.m.

Jr Girl Scouts

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Office Closed

8:30-Noon

Cookie/

Candy

Drop-off &

Fair Set-up

6-8 p.m.

Holiday Fair

Set-up

1 December 9 a.m.-

3:00p.m.

Holiday Fair

4-5 p.m. GCC

Music practice

2 Communion

8:10 a.m. Praise Practice

8:45 a.m. Worship

9:00 a.m. Sunday School

9:45 a.m. Coffee Time

10:15 a.m. GCC Worship

Flower Orders Due

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4:30 p.m.

Daisy Girl Scouts

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5

1:00 p.m.

Bible Study &

Support Group

6:00 p.m.

Praise Team

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9:30 a.m. –

11:30 p.m.

VNA Foot

Care Clinic

6 p.m. GCC

bible study

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Office Closed

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4-5 p.m. GCC

Music practice

4-7 p.m.

Homeless

Connections

Meal serving

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7:45 a.m. Choir Practice

8:20 a.m. Praise Practice

8:45 a.m. Worship

9:00 a.m. Sunday School

9:45 a.m. Coffee Time

10:15 a.m. GCC Worship

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12:15 p.m.

Lunch Bunch,

at Primrose Retire-

ment Community,

5715 N. Meade

4:30 p.m.

Jr Girl Scouts

6:30 p.m. SPRC

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8:00 a.m.

Men’s

Breakfast

12

1:00 p.m.

Bible Study &

Support Group

6:00 p.m.

Disciple Group

6:45 p.m.

Praise Team

13

6 p.m. GCC

bible study

14

Office Closed

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4-5 p.m. GCC

Music practice

16

7:45 a.m. Choir Practice

8:20 a.m. Praise Practice

8:45 a.m. Worship

9:00 a.m. Sunday School

9:45 a.m. Coffee Time

10:15 a.m. GCC Worship

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4:30 p.m.

Daisy Girl Scouts

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6:00 p.m.

Praise Team

6:30 p.m.

Finance

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Office

Closed

6 p.m. GCC

bible study

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Morning St

James. Choir

practice for

time TBA

4-5 p.m. GCC

Music practice

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7:45 a.m. Choir Practice

8:45 a.m. Worship-Cantata

9:00 a.m. Sunday School

9:45 a.m. Coffee Time

10:15 a.m. GCC Worship

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Christmas Eve 6:00 p.m.

St James Worship

8:00 p.m.

Oneida Worship

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Office

closed

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6 p.m. GCC

bible study

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Office Closed

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8:45 a.m. Worship

Hymn Sing

9:45 a.m. Coffee Time

10:15 a.m. GCC Worship

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Deb out of the

office

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