2011 Highlights: Care Ministry Year-End Report
If you click HERE, you will be able to the Care Ministries 2011 End of Year Report prepared by Joan Karr and her many many partners in ministry.
When I was a full time Pastoral Counselor people would ask how things were going. My father-in-law was even more specific – “How’s business?”
How do you answer that question? If you say “good” – that means that there is a high demand for services based upon a high level of human misery – how could that be good!?
And if you say “bad” – low demand, low level of human misery – how could that be bad?!
So what does it mean to say that we are very pleased and blessed to have the Care Ministries that God has given us?
Simple gratitude and humility. God has enabled us to love others in Jesus’ name.
To show unconditional love. To help others claim his or her freedom of choice. To find forgiveness. To embrace new life in the Spirit. To bring a little bit of heaven on earth.
Eat at Bob Evans Jan. 19 and Support Kathy Rinehart
As you may have heard about in the local media, a member of our church family, Kathy Rinehart, recently had a devastating fire that destroyed her home and took the life of several of her pets.
We as a church family can help Kathy and her family in this difficult time by eating at Bob Evans on Thursday, Jan. 19, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. When you present this flier, Bob Evans will donate 15 percent of your meal to a relief fund that has been set up for Kathy and her family.
Giving Bees Busy Over Christmas
By Ken Hussar
Members of the Coed Care team pray over packages and write cards before the care packages were shipped
Well, the giving bees of Hempfield UMC were certainly busy manufacturing honey in the month of December! As a result of your sweet giving spirits, 31 families received Christmas meals and gift cards, 30 children from our community got a gift from the giving tree, 55 college students were sent packages from Coed Care, a family was helped with a UGI bill, some folks received gas cards, turkeys, hams, homemade mittens, hats and scarves, and our SHOUT youth gave a freezer full of homemade cookies.
As they say on the TV quiz shows, “And that’s not all!”: two youth visited the church with a grocery store gift card; turkeys and hams appeared in our freezer, many bags of food arrived from a neighboring elementary class; a neighboring business had a food drive for our ministry, our Noah’s Ark Preschool class delivered canned and boxed foods for the food cupboard, and another Noah’s Ark class brought jars of jelly–the day after the food cupboard’s jelly supply had been depleted. God’s timing is always perfect!
How’s that for starting the year 2012 with great news? We praise God, brothers and sisters, for your Bee-Attitudes and for the host of people who continue to pray for CARE ministries! God has blessed us mightily as a result of your generosity and intercessory prayer. We are very grateful for your support.
Romaine Stively Davidson turns 100
Our church’s oldest charter member, Romaine Stively Davidson, turned 100 yesterday. Romaine was a member of the Silver Spring charge and became a charter member of Hempfield UMC when Silver Spring and Centerville Evangelical United Brethren churches merged. She began her long career as worship leader pianist at Silver Spring in the late 1920s and continued playing for worship until the merger in 1962. She can be seen on occasion worshiping with us at the 10 a.m. service.
To help celebrate her 100th birthday yesterday, several members of the congregation gave her a surprise card shower. Thank you to everyone who took the time to send her birthday wishes. The Lancaster newspaper also ran a feature on Romaine.
Click HERE to read it.
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