The Fold Monthly Newsletter of Good Shepherd United Methodist Church April Spotlight Project Work Days at Brightmoor Aldersgate Initiative, Detroit Each calendar year, 20-25 teams come to do mission work in the Brightmoor area. Some come for a few hours and others for a week. Some are adults, while others are youth groups from 4th grade through high school and even college. Some come during college spring breaks, others during the summer, and local groups come all year round. Thanks to our partnership with Motown Mission, volunteers have come from as close as Clarkston and as far away as Maryland and Minnesota to work on homes in Brightmoor. They installed plumbing, painted inside and out, fixed garbage disposals, installed new gutters and fascia, and demolished garages. Other groups cleaned up the neighborhood by mowing and painting boards to place on abandoned homes. Those activities were just by-products of the hope, joy and love that they spread to the people of Brightmoor. We invite adult and youth groups to contact us about spending a day, several days, or even a week in Brightmoor doing mission and outreach work. We will tailor a day to the interests and skills of your group. Past mission teams Summer volunteers from First United Methodist Church in Rhinelander, WI work with neighbors in a garden. The Rhinelander youth also started the clean up and beautification of Acacia Avenue, a main route to Gompers Elementary and Middle School. This Brightmoor Alliance project will continue all summer long. Check out the before and after pictures. Continued on page 4 April 2018
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The Fold Monthly Newsletter of Good Shepherd United Methodist Church
April Spotlight Project
Work Days at Brightmoor Aldersgate Initiative, Detroit
Each calendar year, 20-25 teams come to do mission work in the Brightmoor area. Some come for a few hours and others for a week. Some are adults, while others are youth groups from 4th grade through high school and even college. Some come during college spring breaks, others during the summer, and local groups come all year round.
Thanks to our partnership with Motown Mission, volunteers have come from as close as Clarkston and as far away as Maryland and Minnesota to work on homes in Brightmoor. They installed plumbing, painted inside and out, fixed garbage disposals, installed new gutters and fascia, and demolished garages. Other groups cleaned up the neighborhood by mowing and painting boards to place on abandoned homes. Those activities were just by-products of the hope, joy and love that they spread to the people of Brightmoor.
We invite adult and youth groups to contact us about spending a day, several days, or even a week in Brightmoor doing mission and outreach work. We will tailor a day to the interests and skills of your group.
Past mission teams Summer volunteers from First United Methodist Church in Rhinelander, WI work with neighbors in a garden. The Rhinelander youth also started the clean up and beautification of Acacia Avenue, a main route to Gompers Elementary and Middle School. This Brightmoor Alliance project will continue all summer long. Check out the before and after pictures.
Continued on page 4
April 2018
Good Shepherd United Methodist Church 1570 Mason Dearborn, MI 48124
Sign up at the Opportunity Center in Fellowship Hall to assist with the following:
Saturday, March 31: Set up & decorate at 10 AM Sunday, April 1:
• 8:15 AM Coffee making • 8:30 AM Set out food & beverages • 8:50 AM Bring fully cooked casseroles
in disposable pans • 12 noon – 12:15 PM Clean-up:
After worship & fellowship time
Easter Breakfast
Easter Joy Ride
We'd like to thank everyone who contributed to our Valentine's Day Joy Ride. With your amazing donations we were able to pack up 10 plates of treats to distribute throughout our community. Truly an amazing outreach!
With Easter right around the corner we need to plan for our next Joy Ride. We will be collecting homemade cookies and treats on Saturday, March 31st. You may drop them off at the church that morning around 10:00. We will pack them up and have them ready for people to take with them after Easter service the following day. If you are at the church during the week and would like to bring them in, please place them in the refrigerator and label JOY RIDE.
Thank you again for all your support in this outreach program we offer!
At a Glance: March 31st 10:00 AM collecting treats and packaging.
April 1st 11:45 AM pick up treats to deliver after service and deliver around the community.
To honor the memory and the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the youth of the Archdiocese of Detroit spent a day working at our church building painting murals to use around the neighborhood.
The Spring Break Youth Mission Project
25+ youth and adult leaders from Plymouth First UMC spent two days working on cleaning up yards and boarding up two homes on Darcy. They did a fantastic job mowing 4 lawns surrounding vacant homes and a couple of vacant properties. The team also helped unload and arrange 15 new tables and 100 new folding chairs for the church. This would not have been an easy task without them!
Tire cleanup day sponsored by Brightmoor Alliance. As Pastor Courtney said that day, “Today we break all the rules and bring the Kingdom to Brightmoor. They dumped tires on our community and now our church is the last stop as hundreds of volunteers, our neighbors, usher them out of Brightmoor to be recycled.
New painting on a Brightmoor Free Store window, courtesy of the youth group at Warren First United Methodist Church.
TEAM DEARBORN UMCGood Shepherd UMC and Dearborn First UMC have teamed up to explore ways to positively impact our separate ministries with joint ventures.
Your GS Spark Leadership is actively engaged in this endeavor. To date, three meeting have been held on Sunday afternoons during the past 6 weeks. Together we have toured the facilities of each church, shared information including our church profiles, and started a process with the expectation of “doing more together for Christ.”
During our December Charge Conference at Good Shepherd we adopted a recommendation to intentionally explore shared or cooperative ministries between Good Shepherd and other United Methodist churches. Our recommendation requested support from our Detroit Renaissance District to undertake this challenge, and we received verbal affirmation from our District Superintendent, Rev. Dr. Charles Boayue, Jr., that such assistance would be provided.
At this time, Team Dearborn UMC is working to communicate that need for assistance which could include conference staff, resources, finances, and more. We are actively seeking direction, guidelines, and leadership for this collaboration with Dearborn First UMC from our District. Please pray for this endeavor of collaboration and for its positive impact upon both church congregations and our community.
KIDS ROCK at Good Shepherd Church
Stories of Jesus…• For ages 3 through grade 5
• During the Sunday worship hour immediately after Children’s Time @ 10:45am In the Fellowship Hall
• Bible Stories + Crafts
UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) BUCKETS
Cleaning buckets for disaster relief around the world were filled lovingly by Good Shepherd’s generous congregation along with assistance from our rockin’ kids!
Seeing God’s Creation
Chris Hillier is attempting to be the first person to through-hike the Baja Divide Trail, which is used primarily by bikers using mountain bikes. Previously hikers have broken up the hike into sections and have done a section at a time to accomplish a complete hike of the entire trail. The Baja Divide is a rugged 1,700 mile off-pavement route down the length of the Baja California peninsula, from San Diego, CA, USA to San José del Cabo, BCS, MX.
Fifth Sunday Clothing DriveApril 29th will be the first opportunity in 2018 that Good Shepherd has to collect gently used clothing, working household items, and books for the Brightmoor United Methodist Church Free Store. Our donations help to stock the free store ministry, made possible through an initiative by Redford Aldersgate UMC. Every Saturday, 60-100 neighborhood people shop for their children, their homes or themselves. We will collect donations throughout 2018 on fifth Sundays in April, July, September, and December.
Thank you for your contributions and to Randy Jensen who helps deliver what Good Shepherd has collected.
GOOD SHEPHERDSPOTLIGHT MISSIONS 2018
March: Society of St. Andrew Potato Project April: Redford/Brightmoor Initiative May: Liberia Task Force June: Isaac Dunn (NOAH Missionary) July-August: Redbird Mission; Mark and Rebecca Smallwood September: Hands for Detroit October: Heifer International Fill the Ark
Good Shepherd mission: With Christ as our guide, we strive to live out our faith by serving the spiritual and physical needs of our community and the world.
Looking Forward in Worship Worship Leaders April 1 Georgia Grovesteen April 8 Marti Boynton Tamaroglio April 15 Dean Lewis April 22 Carla Schneider April 29 Neicy Lines
Ushers April 1 Al Constantino & Donna Eberhart April 8 Annie Smith & Anita Polzin April 15 Anita Polzin & Donna Eberhart April 22 Al Constantino & Annie Smith April 29 Donna Eberhart & Anita Polzin
Counters 1st Scott Williams & Carla Schneider 2nd Scott Williams & Jim Woods 3rd Jim Woods & Carla Schneider 4th Carla Schneider & Scott Williams 5th Scott Williams & Jim Woods
Greeters 1st Fred Michaelson & Pam Post 2nd Donna Eberhart & Anita Polzin 3rd Annie Smith & Paula Turbett 4th Donna Eberhart & Anita Polzin 5th Fred Michaelson & Pam Post
Nursery 1st Carolyn Costantino & Lori Lawson 2nd Lori Lawson & Kathy Lewis 3rd Carolyn Costantino & Lori Lawson 4th Kathy Lewis & Paula Turbett 5th Lori Lawson
Openers 1st Thomas Garrant 2nd Al Costantino 3rd Scott Williams 4th Marti Boynton Tamaroglio 5th Georgia Grovesteen
Message and Text April 1 The First Testimony of the Resurrection of Christ (John 20:1-18)
April 8 Church as the Community of God’s Grace in Christ (Acts 4:32-35) April 15 Proclaiming Christ Crucified (Acts 3:12-19) April 22 Jesus the Cornerstone of Salvation (Acts 4:5-12) April 29 Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26-40)
Happy Birthday
April 3 Margee O’Brien Kayla West April 4 George Stoops April 9 Madison Murdoch Scott Turbett April 13 Paula Turbett April 19 Aubree Belzyt Allen Eberhart, Jr Devon Webb April 23 Lucy Lawson Daniel Rydzewski April 26 Michael Meeks Anna Woods April 29 Paula Arndt Lindsay Sandhu
Fold Articles are due on the 15th of each Month. May Fold articles are due Monday, April 16th. to the church email, [email protected].
Clean UpThe weather is warming…..It’s time for spring clean-up around the grounds of Good Shepherd. Your help is needed to rake leaves, trim shrubs, remove garden debris from the flower beds, cut back the ornamental grasses, and to pick up trash. Grab your garden tools and a friend or two and get outdoors to celebrate the arrival of spring and God’s seasonal beauty. If you have questions, talk to Fauna Navarre or Jan Poush.
Prayer Concerns The family of Dave Allerdyce Lisa Andrews Gary & Diane Atkins Bondy Family Byron Jr. and Family Jack Charlefour The family of Colleen Bushnell Nick Crossestt Devine Family Donna Draper Mike Foster Brenna Gillespie David Gray Mary-Kate Greenwell and Family Griffin Family The Family & friends of Alex Haam
Rev. James Herbolsheimer Chris Hillier Helen Hosker Robert & Kathy James Shirley Lantz Lamp Family The family of Delores Lebeck Doug & Lynn Lebeck Rev. Seok Nam Lim and Family Cassie Lubitz Elmer Lugh Jack & Marilyn MacTavish Terrie McCullough Drew & Elizabeth McDonald Mesick & Hood Family Mihalik Family Samantha Myers & family
Bill Noble Pigeon Family Amber Przygocki & Family Sally Rausch Mercedes Ruiz Family Michael Schlorff Megan Schroeder Tim Shaw Family Marie Shearer George & Karen Stoops Jeremy Travis The family of Maude Todd Andrew Urban Nate Wilson Paul Wilson and family Fran Zimmerman
Military Families Zachary Danke, Us Army
Home Bound Anne Creek, Helen Hickey, Mary Catherine Luoma, Robert Signoretti
Discipleship and Mission Pastor Lim will continue the book study, "Making Disciples of All Nations for the Transformation of the World," beginning in January. He will be using Francis Chan's Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples, and other materials.
Thursday, 5:30 pm, Fellowship Hall Apr. 12 Life in the Church Apr. 19 The Local and the Global Church
Apr. 26 The Great Commission
The FoldGood Shepherd United Methodist Church1570 Mason at Monroe, Dearborn, MI 48124
Phone: 313-278-4350Web: www.dearbornsumc.org
April
March 29 7:00 PM Maundy Thursday Service at Dearborn First UMC 22124 Garrison at Mason
March 30 7:00 PM Good Friday Service
April 1 9:00 AM Easter Breakfast Join us to Celebrate the Risen Lord. All are Welcome!
