OVESTA EWS Published monthly by: Novesta Church of Christ 2896 N. Cemetery Rd. Cass City, MI 48726 Phone: (989) 872-3658 [email protected]www.novestachurch.org Brad Speirs, Minister August Issue VOL. XXXVII - - - No. 8 August 5, 2012 UPCOMING SERMON SERIES Our next series will focus on some very spe- cial ladies’ names in the Bible. Though you may have never heard of them in this light, their names are “Grace,” “Faith,” and “Hope.” Make sure to come and get to know them, they might just change your life! COME TOGETHER TODAY @ 3pm Church Mania begins!! There will be music, games, free swim from 3-5pm @ the Cass City Pool, free hot dog/chips, etc., a time of worship and a short devotion given by the local ministers @ 5:30pm. God works in amazing ways when his people are in harmony, so let’s “Come Together” and watch Him move in Cass City! CAMPFIRE SERVICE Our last campfire of the season will be Au- gust 26 th at Dave & Karen Speirs’ residence back at the river. (4866 Akron Rd. Cass City, MI) Bring your lawn chairs, a snack to share, a heart for worship and fellowship, and maybe even a fishing pole! 6pm is the official start time, but you are more than welcome to come earlier to fish, canoe, or just re- lax and enjoy the scenery! 5th QUARTERS It’s crazy to think, but fall is just around the corner and with that comes 5 th Quarters! We will be having 4 parties this fall—August 24 th , Sep- tember 7 th , 14 th , and 28 th . As a reminder, these are for all 7 th -12 th graders following the end of the football game until 11pm. There is always lots of food, fun, games, and goofy times had by all. We will definitely be needing adults to help those nights, so if you are able, please come on out and lend a hand! Any ?’s, see Brad Speirs. TOMORROW NIGHT — 6 p.m. We are having a parent meeting for ALL parents of students 2-18 years. This is to plan all of the fall programming. In order to keep our programs successful, we really need you to come alongside us as we plan for the future. You may think “What can I offer? I’m not a leader. I’m not a planner. I’m not a visionary. I don’t have teaching ability.” God used people time and time again with seemingly nothing to offer, and accomplished GREAT things through them. All He needs is a willing heart that trusts Him and He will produce the fruit!!! Come grow with us and your children! BOARD MEETING ~ TOMORROW NIGHT ~ AUGUST 6 ~ AT 7:00 P.M.
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OVESTA EWS
Published monthly by:
Novesta Church of Christ 2896 N. Cemetery Rd. Cass City, MI 48726
Our next series will focus on some very spe-cial ladies’ names in the Bible. Though you may have never heard of them in this light, their names are “Grace,” “Faith,” and “Hope.” Make sure to come and get to know them, they might just change your life!
COME TOGETHER TODAY @ 3pm Church Mania begins!! There will be music, games, free swim from 3-5pm @ the Cass City Pool, free hot dog/chips, etc., a time of worship and a short devotion given by the local ministers @ 5:30pm. God works in amazing ways when his people are in harmony, so let’s “Come Together” and watch Him move in Cass City!
CAMPFIRE SERVICE Our last campfire of the season will be Au-gust 26th at Dave & Karen Speirs’ residence back at the river. (4866 Akron Rd. Cass City, MI) Bring your lawn chairs, a snack to share, a heart for worship and fellowship, and maybe even a fishing pole! 6pm is the official start time, but you are more than welcome to come earlier to fish, canoe, or just re-lax and enjoy the scenery!
5th QUARTERS It’s crazy to think, but fall is just around the corner and with that comes 5th Quarters! We will be having 4 parties this fall—August 24th, Sep-tember 7th, 14th, and 28th. As a reminder, these are for all 7th-12th graders following the end of the football game until 11pm. There is always lots of food, fun, games, and goofy times had by all. We will definitely be needing adults to help those nights, so if you are able, please come on out and lend a hand! Any ?’s, see Brad Speirs.
TOMORROW NIGHT — 6 p.m.
We are having a parent meeting for ALL parents of students 2-18 years. This is to plan all of the fall programming. In order to keep our programs successful, we really need you to come alongside us as we plan for the future. You may think “What can I offer? I’m not a leader. I’m not a planner. I’m not a visionary. I don’t have teaching ability.” God used people time and time again with seemingly nothing to offer, and accomplished GREAT things through them. All He needs is a willing heart that trusts Him and He will produce the fruit!!! Come grow with us and your children!
BOARD MEETING ~ TOMORROW NIGHT ~ AUGUST 6 ~ AT 7:00 P.M.
COMMUNION MEDITATION: 8/5 Russ Speirs 8/12 Rob Hartwick 8/19 Ray Peasley 8/26 Ken Peters DEACONS: Craig Maurer Larry Thick Ed Nizzola Bernie Wutzke Duane O’Dell USHERS: Joel Brandel Doug Hiles Andy Gray Mark Peck Brian Hicks A.M. NURSERY: 8/5 9:30 Janie Kus 10:30 Robin Hendrian 8/12 9:30 Janie Kus 10:30 Amy Peters 8/19 9:30 Janie Kus 10:30 Karissa Schrader 8/26 9:30 Janie Kus 10:30 Jamie Peasley 9/2 9:30 Janie Kus 10:30 Shelli Herford WORSHIP LEADERS: 8/5 Samantha Corrion 8/12 Sarah Zmierski 8/19 Lauren Howard 8/26 Kristy Hicks SOUND SYSTEM: 8/5 Duane O’Dell 8/12 Dave Speirs 8/19 Scott Hendrian 8/26 Ken Peters POWER POINT: 8/5 Lyle Severance 8/12 Carol Hicks 8/19 Rob Kampo 8/26 JoEllen Bukoski COMMUNION PREPARATION & CLEAN-UP: Janie Kus
GREETERS: 8/5 9:30 (main) Doris Stimpfel & Janet Wright (center) Mark & Patty Peck 10:30 (main) Andy & Kim Gray (center) Les & Bev Auten 8/12 9:30 (main) Barry & Kerry Brown (center) Garold & Jamie Peasley 10:30 (main) Jim & Wanda Lonsberry (center) Rob & Susie Hartwick 8/19 9:30 (main) Doris Hendrick & Elfriede Englehart (center) Ryan & Shelli Herford 10:30 (main) Ed & Marideth Nizzola (center) Chad & Cindy Pruitt 8/26 9:30 (main) Phil & Cindy Klaus (center) Scott & Robin Hendrian 10:30 (main) Keith Little & Ron Speirs (center) Dave & Karen Speirs 9/2 9:30 (main) Les & Bev Auten (center) Dave & Beckie Peruski 10:30 (main) Ken & Patty Peters (center) Gib & Pam Kern JUNIOR CHURCH: 8/5 Leaders: Jamie Peasley & Heather Roberts Songs: Sharron Hartwick 8/12 Leaders: Jamie Peasley & Heather Roberts Songs: Lauren Bukoski 8/19 Leaders: Dawn Maurer & Heather Roberts Songs: Beth Mellendorf 8/26 Leaders: Dawn Maurer & Heather Roberts Songs: Bailee Ross 9/2 Leaders: Kerry Brown & Tyler Brown Songs: Sharron Hartwick
THOSE SERVING IN AUGUST
Updates For Your Directory
Whenever we have any changes in address, phone, email,
etc. we will put it in the Newsletter for you to
ADD TO YOUR DIRECTORY.
Duane & Marilyn Lester Home phone number is new:
989-912-1062
Cell phone numbers stay the same. Marilyn: 872-9876 Duane: 670-2049
Novesta Church Family, During a time like this we realize how much our family and friends really mean to us...You expres-sion of sympathy will always be remembered. Family of Ralph Ball Note: Thank you all for being so thoughtful and supported me and my family during Ralph’s funeral, and for the luncheon, we appreciated so much. Love, Winnie Ball
Novesta Church of Christ, What a comfort for us to know that our burden of grief was shared by our family and friends. Thank you for all your love & support. Family of Shirley Zellar
To our Church Family, We would like to thank you for your prayers and compassion shown us during mom’s illness and passing. We are truly blessed to be a part of this family of Christ. Thank you for the beautiful basket, the cards, visits, the hugs and comforting words. My mom is home with her heavenly Father now. McIntosh Family
Novesta Church of Christ, Thank you so much for the wonderful flowering plants. They are absolutely beautiful! Our family also wish to express our gratitude for the prayers and cards during this difficult time. We really miss my father but are comforted knowing he is in a better place. In Christian Love, Mel & Carolyn Mittlestat
Dear Church Family, Thank you Brad for all your calls and visits while I was in the hospital. Special thanks for all your prayers and cards from my church family and thanks for the basket of flowers. God bless you all. With Love, Mary Lou Spencer To My Church Family and Friends and Relatives, Just want to say a big “Thank You” for the flowers, and the plant from the church, it was the perfect one! Want to thank the “Brave” that visited while I was in “Isolation” at the hospital and the “Cautious” for all their phone calls and to everyone else for all your support, cards and prayers while I am recover-ing from this nasty case of Shingles. A special thank you to “you-know-who-you-are: for the visit and the chocolate. Umm good! In Christian Love,
Randee Speirs PS: To those of you who “qualify” I really, REALLY recommend getting a Shingles shot!!
To Our Family at Novesta, We want to say a huge “Thank You” to all our Christian Brothers & Sisters for all the prayers that were lifted up to God during Dad’s illness and for our family after he had gone home to be with God. Dad could really feel God’s loving arms around him and we all did, too. Thank you all for the cards and for the ones who traveled the distance for the Memorial Service. This meant so much to us. Love,
Dave & Donna Little
OUR MILITARY
Scott Brownson - (Tom & Doris Stimpfel’s nephew) Justin Fischer - (Tom & Doris Stimpfel’s nephew) Toby Kilbourn - (Jim’s son) Ben Knoblet - (Tim Knoblet's nephew) Lester Maurer - (Gloria Maurer's son) Jamie Parrish - (Kristie Speirs’ brother, Betty Stilson’s grandson) - serving in Iraq Matt Peck - Mark’s son Ashleigh Rabideau - (Robin Beckrow’s niece) Ryan Reid - (Jeff Hartel’s nephew) Julie Roche - Air Force (Doctor in Residency) Chris Skiles - Reserves Brandon Speirs - North Carolina Karl Stuckey - (Mittlestat’s nephew) Jacques Weilbach - (Jacques & Marsha’s son) - in Afghanistan Marius Weilbach - (Jacques & Marsha’s son) - in Afghanistan
FACTS & FIGURES
Average weekly attendance for the month of July 2012 was:
Bible School … 84
A.M. Worship … 190
New Members in 2012 ~ 8
Offering averages for July 2012 was:
Sunday Offerings……….…$4,167.28 (Budget per Sunday: $3,520)
BRICK Fund:
Balance: $16,826.53
Received this month for payments: $215.00
( Payment per month $1,206.75 )
BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
8/1 Logan Severance 8/2 (A) Ron & Kristen Kampo 8/3 (A) Tom & Doris Stimpfel 8/4 Ryan Koepf 8/5 Daniel Mittlestat 8/6 Jordan Kus 8/6 Chad Pruitt 8/7 (A) Steve & Andrea Ross 8/8 Nick Romzek 8/8 (A) Joel & Janice Brandel 8/10 Hailey Beckrow 8/11 Austin Keller 8/11 (A) R.J. & Katie Klaus 8/12 Carol Janos 8/12 (A) Larry & Sherry Thick 8/13 Kyla Hendrick 8/14 Skip Speirs 8/14 (A) Jeff & Ann Hartel 8/14 (A) Steven & Jennifer Steely 8/15 Tim Knoblet 8/16 John Luana 8/16 Jane Luana 8/16 Carrie Gilley 8/17 Landon Schenk 8/17 (A) Jeff & Cathy Healy 8/18 Jennifer Blehm 8/18 (A) Skip & Ellen Speirs 8/19 Logan Schenk 8/20 (A) Ken & Patty Peters 8/21 Marilyn Rosenberger 8/22 Savannah Childers 8/22 Amanda Marshall 8/22 Julia Maurer 8/23 Cindy Klaus 8/26 Randy Burghdoff 8/30 Clem Koepf, Sr. 8/30 Winnifred Ball 8/31 (A) Garold & Jamie Peasley
CONGRATULATIONS!!! ...to Charles & Amanda Kester on the birth of their son, Jas-per Charles, on July 24. He weighed 6 lbs. 1 oz. and is 18 inches in length.
We extend our most heartfelt sympathy to… … Carolyn & Melvin Mittlestat, Dan & Tom, at the passing of Carolyn’s father, Lynn Fish, at the end of June. … Pat & John McIntosh, Karissa & Brian Schrader, Katie & R.J. Klaus and the rest of the family at the passing of Pat’s mom, Shirley Zellar, on July 6th. … Laura & Doug Hiles, Belle & Seth at the sudden passing of Laura’s mom, Laura Carpenter, on July 14th. … June Blehm, Tim & Jennifer and family at the passing of Harold on Saturday, July 28th. Please pray for these families that they will find peace and comfort in God’s great love for them.
PLEASE NOTE:
DUE TO VACATIONS, ETC.,
THERE WILL BE NO QUILTING
NOR FELLOWSHIP POTLUCK THIS MONTH.
WE WILL RESUME IN SEPTEMBER.
The honour of your presence is requested at the marriage of
Ashley Patricia Bullock
To James Robert Luana
On Saturday, the first of September
Two thousand and twelve At half past 3 o’clock in the afternoon
St. Peter Lutheran Church Delphos, Ohio
RSVP to Jane Luana before August 11
989-551-0607
Summer Bible Learning Trip
August 25 ~ 11:00 a.m.
At 11am on Saturday August 25th we will be heading off to Kokomo’s in Saginaw to reward all of our kids who have worked so hard at learning mem-ory verses this summer! The plan is to eat a pizza lunch there, hand out re-wards & certificates, play many of the fun games there, and return home by 5pm. Several students have learned and are continuing to learn way more points than they even need to qualify!! We’re so proud of you!
Fall Kick-off
This year’s Fall Kick-off will be September 23rd and will be an invitation for all of us to get “back to church.” The theme will be “Sundays are
Great!” and we hope to enjoy a yummy treat with the same name—after all “sundaes are great too!” Keep watching for further info on this as the date gets closer ☺
LONG TERM PRAYER LIST
**Member ** Roy Evans - heart issues **Lee Nicol - hip surgery (Irene's son) Heather Fisher - seizures (Eric & Wendy’s daughter) Chris Klco - (Amy Peters' brother) Quinton Simpson - in a coma (Dena Anderson's nephew) Carol Hartman - awaiting heart transplant (friend of Pat McIntosh) Lester O’Dell - Emphysema Don Buehrly - Tendercare Diane Wojtaszke - cancer (Ann Hartel contact person) Aneita Denhoff - (Carrie Gilley’s mother) Elmer Lewis - (Doris Hendrick’s brother) Les Auten, III - awaiting transplant **Heather Roberts - continued healing of MS **Dena Anderson - brain tumor (U of M appt. Sept. 11) Caleb Blehm - cist on brain Steve Wilkinson - aneurysm **Bill Britt - healing from his surgeries Don Kruse - recovery (Michelle Speirs’ grandpa) **Larry Harper - Intestinal problems Mike Zmierski - Frontotemporal Dementia **Burt Rosenberger - recuperating at home **Marilyn Rosenberger - recuperating at home Marge Johnson - nursing home in Indiana Allison Newbegin - tumor (Sharron Hartwick’s great niece) Nancy Gyomory - tumor (Doris Hendrick contact) Debbie Van Horn - (Gilleys & Lesters contact) Tonya Armstrong - cancer (Sharron Hartwick’s niece) Mark Pierson - (Zmierski’s cousin) Lee Hartel - recovery from surgery Mary Gyomory - recovery from hip surgery Ed Howard - Becky’s father-in-law ATTENTION: If you know any of these on this list that are well and can be eliminated from it, please let the church office know.
SAGINAW SOUP KITCHEN
August 17 ~ 8:50 a.m. If you would like to join the group from Novesta that goes to Saginaw Soup Kitchen to help prepare and serve food to those in need. Sign up on the bulletin board in the middle hallway if you would like to help.
BIBLE BOWL REPORT
Congrats again to the Bible Bowlers for an outstanding season and for being such great representatives of Christ as you trav-eled throughout the year. We are so proud of your year’s accomplishments and of course, your National’s successes—1st place in their pod, 15th place in the double elimi-nation tourney, and for Sarah Zmierski achieving top 12 in the quoting bee. The 2012-2013 season will be kicking off after school on September 5th. All 6th-12th grad-ers are welcome to join the group as they learn the powerful book of Acts. Bible Bowl is an amazing program that can give you the opportunity to travel, develop lifelong friendships, and create great study habits. But, more importantly, your heart and mind will be filled with scripture that God will use to mold, shape and direct entire life. You’re thinking, “Wow, when you put it that way—where do I sign up?!” See Brad or Karen Speirs and they’ll give you all the necessary info!
Beginner Bible Bowl
All 3rd-5th graders, be watching for the start of this valuable scripture learning program coming later in the fall!! Any questions, see Sharron Hartwick or Brad Speirs.
Fantasy Football Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?!?! You’re in luck as Fantasy Football will be kicking off with the draft on August 26th! Anyone 7th grade and up, come join us for a pizza lunch after church. We can have up to 16 teams—so mark your calendars and SCORE with this awesome fellowship op-portunity!
JANELLE Janelle is currently on vacation. June and July are the busiest months for Janelle as an educa-tor. She is an education and English consultant which means trainer and mentor in all things edu-cation and English related. The school graduated their first class of Immersion students and they all passed the tough government tests and moved on to junior high. Janelle was very happy! Janelle always keeps in mind what her high goal is in being where she is.
MATT & SHELBY HONIG (Pioneer Bible Translators) Greetings from the Arctic! We’re in a slow spell translation right now, since all three of our translators are out visiting their families in their home villages, and our tester is with a group of visiting missnries in a village as well. Gives us a chance to get some other important and necessary things done for a bit like fix the van, sell our land here, send out invitations for other long-term missnries who are coming to work primarily with the Nnts and Khnty people groups, clean out our office to make room for the container load of stuff that they sent ahead of themselves for their move up here, help meet the container, get it across the river and unload it, track down local permissions for another couple that is on the train on their way here, get our own passports back after having gotten them registered on our new visas, etc. Amazing how much of our work here is logistical in addition to the day-in and day-out work of translation. I'm still amazed at how much we're all able to do here considering it's a closed region. Truly blessed. In addition to all this, I wanted to ask pr@yer for a trip that Kevin and I are making this Wednesday down river (north) to a fishing village along with our Kh friend in his boat. We're going to 1. feed the mosquitoes, and 2. meet a Kh woman who had agreed to work on an adaptation of our Luke text into the northern dialect. Having contacted her through a friend it appears that she is reconsidering because of the amount of work she thinks that adaptation would take, but we are pretty sure she thinks she will need to essentially re-translate it. If we can show her more directly how this works we might still be able to get her valuable help in this, and open Luke up to a whole new audience. Please pr@y that she is receptive; she is a believer, and she has a large family and network that would also benefit from the work and be able to participate in it. We do have other candidates for the adaptation, but from our perspective she seems the best fit. Thanks! Hard to believe we only have four months left here. Kevin and I are having some good discussions about the best way to transition the workload fully to him. We've managed to get quite an active crew going, and he's going to have his hands full, but we are so thankful to know that we've been used to start something here that has a real chance to build the foundation for faith that we've pr@yed for all along for the Kh people. Please pr@y for all these transitions, and for those who G.d has brought along to fill other needed roles for these people who need to know Him.
Have a great, and blessed day, Matt PS: - For anyone who's interested, I have some land to sell you in Siberia. No joke! :-) (Received this e-mail update a couple days later): OK, so around 11:30pm the night before we were supposed to leave for our trip to the village I got a call from our Kh friend saying they weren't ready to receive us the next day. They are "too busy," which most likely means actually that the issues I mentioned in my last e-mail have become a problem even before we get started. At the very least I am hoping to still meet up so as to explain things and peaceably agree not to work together instead of leaving something negative behind. If given the chance to explain things could also still work out, so please continue to pr@y for this situation. We're going to try to contact her again in a couple weeks to see if she'll agree to meet. Thanks! Matt WOODBURN CHRISTIAN CHILDREN’S HOME Woodburn has four new members—John (10), Kim (11), Meagan (13), and Payton (17) all have joined the Angel House. It is so great that these kids have a Christian home to live in. Lee also writes, “Recently, we’ve had a number of work groups help us with projects at WCCH. In the middle of all the heat, we had a work group come down from the Novesta Church of Christ in Cass City, Michigan to roof our pantry building. Many thanks to everyone who makes it possible to perform the ministry of the Woodburn Christian Children’s Home. POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES: FYI - The total received from Novesta in the Baby Bottle Boomerang was $982.54.
