Please pray for the family of Vane Gokey, father of Tony Gokey, who died on May 11.
Pray also for the family of Annie Fossum, mother of Gwen Carey, who died on June 26.
Claire Sophia Hornby was born May 29 to Kirsten and Kurt Hornby and big brother, Ollie. Please give thanks with this growing family!
Sunshine Gals
The Sunshine Gals like to spread their sunshine each month during the school year. This year they offer a program at Cedar Ridge Elder Services and Mount View Care Center on the first Wednesday mornings of the month with music, readings, humor, and shared memories on a variety of topics. The group is composed of Bernice Kohlman, Priscilla Cedar, Mary Ann Dykes, Nancy Flath, Grace Boelz, Yvonne Firary and Arlene Trull.
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Fellowship Field Trips
Love God’s Outdoors? This August, give thanks and get out into creation!
In conjunction with our August worship services that will focus on Caring for Creation, we are having four field trips on Sundays after worship. We hope you can come to one or more of them.
August 1: As we celebrate the creation, come get a closer look at its wonders. Bring a picnic lunch, and enjoy a guided nature hike at the Dells of the Eau Claire County Park. Wes Ebert, who can’t walk in any woods without explaining all the cool things he sees, will be our guide.
August 8: Realizing we often mistreat God’s world, this field trip will be a chance to do a little bit to clean it up. Our congregation sponsors a length of highway, Hwy WW, just west of Hwy W, north of Wausau toward Merrill. We will be walking our road, picking up trash for this field trip. And then we’ll head to Culver’s for some lunch together! (Ice cream is God’s good creation, too).
August 15: This Sunday we will be not only talking about cooperating with God’s creation, we will take part in it. We will go pick berries at Lakeview Farms near Mosinee. Bring a picnic lunch and your own containers. They expect to have several varieties of raspberries and possibly blackberries, blueberries, and gooseberries ripe for the picking.
August 22: One of the Bible’s favorite images for God’s forgiveness and restoration is a river. So this Sunday after worship, we will head to the Wisconsin River to play! Scott and Chris McNutt who live along the river welcome you to come try your hand at kayaking or canoeing, or just sitting on their pontoon boats. You can bring your own watercraft and put it in at Gilbert Park as well. We will make a potluck picnic out of this day – bring some food to share.
Please Sign Up! For all of these field trips, it would be helpful to know how many to plan for. Please let us know you intend to come by signing up in the Parlor. We won’t turn you away if you haven’t signed up, but it helps to know how many to expect!
Caring for Karen
You are asking how you can help me, now that I am back in treatment for cancer. Here are some specific things you can do. I promise to let you know of other ways you can help.
- First, always, pray – for me, my family, my doctors and other medical professionals, for the staff who will have to pick up the slack again. Give thanks for the two years I’ve had and pray for the endurance and humor and insight we need to make it through these next six months.
- I don’t think we will need meals this time around (though they were delicious and a God-send last time). We are a family of three cooks, I am not a big eater at the moment and we no longer have a teenage boy eating at our table!
- I may need rides to chemo in Marshfield, so you can add your name to the list if you would be available some Wednesday. Watch for a sign-up sheet.
- Write me notes. Even when I’m not up to a phone call, I can read my mail. I still feel a warm glow remembering all the letters and cards you sent the first time around. I find your love in every handwritten envelope.
- Step up and be the church in the best way you can. Visitation to our homebound members tends to slide in a crisis – can you become a regular visitor to one of those members? Watch for specific information.
- I will not be able to preach as often – do you have a witness of how you have known God in your life that you would like to share? Talk to Jerry.
- I will miss many Ministry Team meetings – if you are a member of a Ministry Team be sure to attend and care for the work of that team.
- Remember – We have done this once. We can do this again.
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. In any case, it [is] kind of you to share in my distress.”
Philippians 4:13-14
UMW ASKS YOU TO PUT YOUR FAITH INTO ACTION!
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Jose Luis Castillo Vasquez is a member of the Las Colinas Cooperative in El Salvador. Jose and his wife, Reyna, plan to send all of their children to school.
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By purchasing Equal Exchange coffee you support your community, small farmers, and the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Fair Trade enables farmers to stay on their land, receive a fair price, send their children to school, and care for the environment. Equal Exchange was founded in 1986 and is a worker owned 100% Fair Trade organization that collaborates with democratically run small farmer cooperatives all over the world: Africa, Asia, and Latin America. UMW is proud to offer these products:
Drip coffee: $6.00 per bag
Decaf and whole beans - $7.00
Flavored coffee - $7.00
The Coffee Store is located in the cupboard near the fireplace in the parlor. Make your selection, put your check or cash in a brown envelope labeled ―coffee and take the envelope to the church office or drop it in the slot in the ―office door.
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