CHURCH CALENDAR CHURCH CALENDAR THURSDAY, JUNE 15 6:30PM Radiance Yoga SUNDAY, JUNE 18 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 1:00PM Family Bike Ride MONDAY, JUNE 19 9:00AM Parade Float Build TUESDAY, JUNE 20 9:30AM Prayer Shawl Ministry WED-SUN, JUNE 21-25 5:00PM Friendship Festival Booth SUNDAY, JUNE 25 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 12-7PM Friendship Festival Booth 12-1PM Friendship Festival Parade MONDAY, JUNE 26 9:00AM Newsletter Articles Due Secretary’s Vacation Days: MON-THUR, JUNE 26-29 TUESDAY, JUNE 27 6:30PM Radiance Yoga WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 4:00PM Farmer’s Market/Bake Sale WED-THURS, JUNE 28 & 29 4-7PM Wednesday Rummage Sale 9AM-4PM Thursday Rummage Sale THURSDAY, JUNE 29 6:30PM Radiance Yoga SATURDAY, JULY 1 8:00AM Radiance Yoga TUESDAY, JULY 4 Office Closed for 4th of July SUNDAY, JULY 16 2-4PM Ice Cream Social 8th Annual Ice Cream Social Sunday, July 16th 2:00- 4:00PM Please mark your calendars now and plan to attend. There will be ice cream with toppings, homemade dessert, and a drink, all for just $4! There will also be cakewalks and door prizes. Tickets will be sold before and after church July 2 nd & 9 th , as well as at the door. Sign-up sheets will soon be in the Narthex and Welcome Center to either donate or help run the social. Pasta Dinner for Disciples Mission Fund The Pasta Dinner and Dessert Auction for Disciples Mission Fund raised over $550 on June 4 th . Over 20 dessert items were auctioned and about 40 people attended the dinner. Special thanks to Mary Joubert and Shirley Herberger our pasta chefs for the event and to all who pitched in to help set-up, serve and clean-up following the dinner. So far this year, with three successful fellowship events for DMF (Chili Cook Off, Easter Breakfast & Past Dinner), we are on track to meet the amount of giving we had previously budgeted which was removed from our 2017 operating budget for DMF. Way to go Central! Congregation Benevolent Fund Offering The first two Sundays in July we will receive a special offering for the Congregaonal Benevolence Fund which is available to help members and friends in crisis. We have helped temporarily house homeless families, provided food for families, provided travel assistance for job seekers, and helped with expenses during a medical crisis. Your giſts to the Benevolent Fund will help us help our neighbors and one another. Mark your giſt Benevolent. The fund is administered confidenally by Rev. Bushey in cooperaon with the Execuve Commiee.
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CHURCH CALENDARCHURCH CALENDAR
THURSDAY, JUNE 15 6:30PM Radiance Yoga
SUNDAY, JUNE 18 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 1:00PM Family Bike Ride
MONDAY, JUNE 19 9:00AM Parade Float Build
TUESDAY, JUNE 20 9:30AM Prayer Shawl Ministry
WED-SUN, JUNE 21-25 5:00PM Friendship Festival Booth
SUNDAY, JUNE 25 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 12-7PM Friendship Festival Booth 12-1PM Friendship Festival Parade
MONDAY, JUNE 26 9:00AM Newsletter Articles Due
Secretary’s Vacation Days: MON-THUR, JUNE 26-29
TUESDAY, JUNE 27 6:30PM Radiance Yoga
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 4:00PM Farmer’s Market/Bake Sale
WED-THURS, JUNE 28 & 29 4-7PM Wednesday Rummage Sale 9AM-4PM Thursday Rummage Sale
THURSDAY, JUNE 29 6:30PM Radiance Yoga
SATURDAY, JULY 1 8:00AM Radiance Yoga
TUESDAY, JULY 4 Office Closed for 4th of July
SUNDAY, JULY 16 2-4PM Ice Cream Social
8th Annual Ice Cream Social Sunday, July 16th 2:00-
4:00PM
Please mark your calendars now and plan to attend.
There will be ice cream with toppings, homemade
dessert, and a drink, all for just $4! There will also be
cakewalks and door prizes. Tickets will be sold before
and after church July 2nd & 9th, as well as at the door.
Sign-up sheets will soon be in the Narthex and Welcome
Center to either donate or help run the social.
Pasta Dinner for Disciples Mission Fund
The Pasta Dinner and Dessert Auction for Disciples Mission Fund raised
over $550 on June 4th. Over 20 dessert
items were auctioned and about 40
people attended the dinner. Special
thanks to Mary Joubert and Shirley
Herberger our pasta chefs for the event
and to all who pitched in to help set-up,
serve and clean-up following the
dinner. So far this year, with three
successful fellowship events for DMF
(Chili Cook Off, Easter Breakfast &
Past Dinner), we are on track to meet
the amount of giving we had previously
budgeted which was removed from our
2017 operating budget for DMF. Way
to go Central!
Congregation Benevolent Fund Offering The first two Sundays in July we will receive a special offering for the Congregational Benevolence Fund which is available to help members and friends in crisis. We have helped temporarily house homeless families, provided food for families, provided travel assistance for job seekers, and helped with expenses during a medical crisis. Your gifts to the Benevolent Fund will help us help our neighbors and one another. Mark your gift Benevolent. The fund is administered confidentially by Rev. Bushey in cooperation with the Executive Committee.
Thanks to all who came to
my 90th Birthday Party.
I am so blessed to have
wonderful church friends.
Especially Rev. Bushey &
family. May God bless
each and every one of you.
Love and Prayers…
Iris Robinson
We are accepting
Donations of Water
and Candy for the
Friendship Festival
Parade on
Sunday, June 25th
1:00-2:00PM
May Giving: Central
received $5,567 for the General Fund, $108 for the Building Maintenance Fund, $50 for Fair Trade Store, $1200 for BIB Cruise Night, and $26 for BIB RVC. Your generous giving is appreciated. Central offers Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Credit and Debit cards as well as online giving through our website and PayPal.
BAKE SALE ITEMS
NEEDED FOR FARMER’S MARKET
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 / 4-7PM
Are you a baker? We are in need of fresh home baked cookies, brownies, breads, bars, and cakes
for the Farmer’s Markets this summer. Sign up in the Welcome Center or Narthex or email the
church to let us know what you are willing to donate. Please, provide a list of ingredients for each
item you bake so that we may provide them, via Kankakee County Health Department rules.
Please, do not bring pies of any kind. All donations should be at the church by Noon on
Wednesday, June 28h and will be labeled for sale by market volunteers. All proceeds will benefit
local and global missions. Market Volunteers are also needed.
From Robert’s Round Table Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans for our area
this week and we had to postpone our first Cruise Night of
the summer for Blessings in a Backpack River Valley
Communities. A NEW date of Wednesday, July 19th has
been set and we anticipate having the John Webber Band
with us for that evening. We also have another Cruise Night
planned for August 9th. All donations of drinks will be held
for the July and August events. Thanks to all who
volunteered and donated for the event and especially our
Cruise Night Team for planning and promoting our events:
Bill Cheffer, Jerry Colbert, James Bushey, Chris Robins,
George Pfeffinger & Peggy Wilking.
Looking back at my mid-June columns from the last two
years reminded me of two horrific acts of domestic
terrorism that occurred in early June 2015 & 2016. Two
years ago we were learning of an attack on an historic
African-American congregation in Charleston, SC where
nine worshippers were murdered by an American white
supremacist whose hatred changed the life of a congregation
forever. One year ago an act of terror in Orlando against the
LGBT community at Pulse shattered our sense of security
and challenged our understanding of humanity. And, sadly
this week our nation was rocked by another mass shooting
this time targeting US Congressional officials and staff
practicing for their annual charity baseball game. Our hearts
are once again broken. God’s too. All acts of terror and
violence are sin, plain and simple. Studying the whole of
scripture, not a verse here and there, proclaims God’s will is
peaceful, loving, merciful and has no room for violence of
any kind. And, all three of these shootings are evil,
motivated by hatred and accomplished by easy access to
weapons of massacre. I wrote last June, “We could easily
debate several public issues as we sort through the
information streaming at us by all forms of media. We could
debate over gun control, LGBT rights, religious extremism,
mental health care and a whole host of issues surrounding a
heinous act by a clearly unhinged person. And, while we
may begin with prayer, it is truly not enough to offer our
thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families. When
we pledge our lives to serving Jesus as our Savior, we
pledge to live as he did and even to die as he did if
circumstances bring us to that point. We pledge to love,
overcoming fear and hatred. We pledge to be the mercy of
God in the world, not the judge or the jury. We pledge
allegiance to the Peace filled Kingdom of God, above all
other ideologies and loyalties. Following Jesus is hard work
and is counter-cultural to the madness of human self-
preservation through violence, retribution, exclusion and
greed.”
Each Sunday, I offer a benediction that I gleaned from a
mentor and colleague where I say: “Go out into the world in
peace, have courage, hold onto what is good, return no one
evil for evil, strengthen the fainthearted, support the weak,
help the suffering, honor all people. Love and serve the
Lord through the power of the Holy Spirit.” The question is:
do we? Do our conversations and our social media shares
encourage love, honor, and service? Do we practice peace
or do we propagate hatred? We are called to make disciples,
to be the Good News in our world today, to be welcoming
rather than being exclusive in the name of fear. Now
perhaps more than ever we need a movement for wholeness
in a fragmented world – our Disciples’ identity and mission.
We need the oneness Jesus prayed for his disciples to have
and practice. We need the open arms of God’s Holy Spirit
enfolding all of humanity in our beautiful diversity into one
love.
As we approach the Summer Solstice, the longest day of
daylight on the calendar, we look forward to the
Bourbonnais Friendship Festival. The theme for this year’s
festival is How Sweet It Is and we are working on our float,
Friendship is Sweeter When Your Chocolate is Fairly
Traded, which will feature our partnership with Equal
Exchange to provide alternative products that benefit small
farmers and coops across the globe. We’ll be building the
float all next week – let me know if you are willing to help
and/or walk in the parade. And, on Sunday, June 25th we
will be invited to practice our gifts of hospitality for folks
attending the Friendship Festival Parade. Our plan is to
provide shade canopies for families who wish to view the
parade from our side of Main St. In addition we will offer
free parking, cold drinks, smiles and our welcoming spirit.
