Chapel Chimes MAY 2019 “Spring Fever” I’m filled with the memories of Holy week (the time from Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter). Together we walked through the life, death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Holy Week in many ways is like “Spring Fever.” I recently learned a new meaning for the term “Spring Fever,” from a fellow disciple. I had always thought of spring fever as the time when we fall in love or when life (biologically speaking) is filled with the desire to reproduce. My new understanding of “spring fever” is that time when hope is disappointed by grief and loss. Spring Fever is that time when everything one day looks like summer is on its way and the next it looks like winter has come again. Spring fever is a time of torment. One day we are tempted by hope and the next we are depressed by grief. But here is the good news about spring fever;:SUMMER COMES! As another preacher once coined a sermon, “It may be Friday, but Sunday is coming.” We as Presbyterian believe that every Sunday is Easter; every Sunday we are reminded through our worship that the gift of resurrection has come. Jesus Christ is alive and lives within us. Life is hard, it is filled with hopes that are dashed, whether we are responsible or not. Every day we are given the opportunity for hope and we can either take a chance on living in hope or we can give up and
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Chapel Chimes
MAY 2019“Spring Fever”
I’m filled with the memories of Holy week (the time from Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter). Together we walked through the life, death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Holy Week in many ways is like “Spring Fever.”
I recently learned a new meaning for the term “Spring Fever,” from a fellow disciple. I had always thought of spring fever as the time when we fall in love or when life (biologically speaking) is filled with the desire to reproduce. My new understanding of “spring fever” is that time when hope is disappointed by grief and loss. Spring Fever is that time when everything one day looks like summer is on its way and the next it looks like winter has come again. Spring fever is a time of torment. One day we are tempted by hope and the next we are depressed by grief. But here is the good news about spring fever;:SUMMER COMES! As another preacher once coined a sermon, “It may be Friday, but Sunday is coming.” We as Presbyterian believe that every Sunday is Easter; every Sunday we are reminded through our worship that the gift of resurrection has come. Jesus Christ is alive and lives within us. Life is hard, it is filled with hopes that are dashed, whether we are responsible or not. Every day we are given the opportunity for hope and we can either take a chance on living in hope or we can give up and resign ourselves to the notion that despair is our lot in life. Hope, and a living out of our hope, turns the destruction of storms, floods and death into new life.
Easter has come and I am so thankful that death has lost its hold on me. The good news of resurrection has lifted me once again from the tomb of Good Friday into the promise of new life. With the good news of Easter, I am willing to take a chance on hope. I am willing to trust my urges to believe that summer is on its way and that mourning will change to dancing. My prayer for you this day is that you will take the chance on HOPE and be willing to live today seeing new life in tomorrow.
Blessing on you all, Pastor Mark
BOOK CLUB MEETS ON May 9 AT 1:00
The book this month is A Butterfly’s Daughter by Mary Alice Moore. The book will be presented by Georgia Sherman.
Every year, the monarch butterflies—las mariposas—fly more than two thousand miles on fragile wings to return to their winter home in Mexico. Now Luz Avila makes that same perilous journey south as she honors a vow to her beloved abuela—the grandmother who raised her—to return her ashes to her ancestral village. As Luz departs Milwaukee in a ramshackle old VW Bug, she finds her heart opened by a series of seemingly random encounters with remarkable women. In San Antonio, however, a startling revelation awaits: a reunion with a woman from her past. Together, the two cross into Mexico to await the returning monarchs in the little village Abuela called home, but they are also crossing a border that separates past from present . . . and truth from lies. (Amazon Review)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Mary Girsch – May 4 Betsey Clarke – May 13Elmon Morrison – May 5 Linda Palmer – May 23Robert Portwood – May 7 Nancy Gault – May 24Philip (PJ) Hamilton – May 9 Kathleen Roff – May 26
Hudson Hamilton – May 27
TECHNOLOGY GRANT
Our submission to the Presbytery for a technology grant of $4000.00 was approved! The church now will move forward with upgrading our web-site. More details will be coming as we move forward.
I was born in 1925 in a postage stamp size town in far western New Mexico. When I was nine months old, we moved to San Fernando, California.
At 17 I joined the Navy during WWII. I attended Aviation Ordinance School, then Gunnery School. Our squadron remained overseas till the end of the war. I was 5000 feet in the air when we heard news of the war was over. We had a cramped celebration! Afterwards I joined my older brother in a car painting business. A few years later there was talk of war with North Korea. Being single and 25 I thought I might get drafted so I joined the Navy again and was called to duty on a small aircraft carrier. After a year on the west coast of North Korea our ship was sent back to San Diego for repairs. After two weeks leave, I was transferred to the USS Essex, a larger carrier that went right back to war for another 1 ½ years. At that point I never wanted to see the ocean again! I left the war and went back to painting cars.
I met a younger lady with a five-year-old daughter; we had a delightful time for 2 ½ years. With the help of the G.I. Bill and my folks who let me stay with them I went through cosmetology school and got my license. I worked my way up to better salons and met my future wife who had two teenage daughters! The next few years we worked our way up to better salons till we hit the very top salon in Glendale, California! Shortly after we zoomed up to Las Vegas, NV and married. Managed to buy a small house to improve. It was followed by two more fixer uppers. Shortly after getting married we bought a very average salon then spent two years improving it and getting a good crew of people when the city hit us with imminent domain papers… it’s truly a long story but the city would not let us relocate. Our crew left and the two of us worked till the ending date.
Don’t know how we did this, but we bought a camper and a pickup truck, and took off for three months doing a giant loop of this wonderful country. Went to work for a friend in his salon till we bought another salon for four years. During that time our way of operating a hair-dressing salon headed in a downward direction. I managed to get a job at Universal Studios in the transportation department. Ten years later we retired and moved to Nipomo, California, a town of 6,000 population, that’s located just below Pismo Beach and San Luis Obispo. We bought a new 1,400 square foot house on an acre of land. Spent the next twenty years developing it and loving it!
Just past our fiftieth wedding anniversary my wife passed away. I immediately started preparing to sell the house to get away from her kids (another long story). During this process I had another back operation and used my time to get rid of a rotten legal problem. My realtor’s mother lives in Keizer, Oregon and pointed me to Lakeview Retirement Home in Lincoln City where I live now. Right after I arrived here a great neighbor introduced me to Chapel by the Sea where I was baptized. A fat, bald man on his 90th birthday and that made me one happy camper!Frank, thank you for sharing. God bless you. Louise McFadden April 2019
FELLOWSHIP WHITE ELEPHANT EXCHANGE: MAY 19, 2019
Fellowship is holding a white elephant exchange on the day of the pot luck picnic. For those of you who have never participated in this; you bring an item that is in good, usable condition to “donate” to the white elephant. In exchange you pick an item to take home with you. The rule is if you bring something you have to leave with something. The fun is in seeing what people bring and who knows you might leave with a treasure!
SUNDAY PICNIC
The pot luck meal usually held on the second Sunday will not take place in May, rather on May 19 (third Sunday) there will be a pot luck picnic held at the church. Fellowship will provide the hamburgers and hot dogs; you are asked to bring a picnic side dish or dessert.
FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING BIKE ADVENTURE TOUR FUNRAISER
Mission Opportunity on Memorial Day
Pasta meal at 5 o’clock on May 27, 2019
The Fuller Center for Housing, is a faith-driven and Christ-centered organization, whose quest is to provide adequate shelter for all people in need worldwide.
Chapel by the Sea is hosting The Fuller Center for Housing Bike Adventure tour fundraiser on Memorial Day. We expect about 24 riders, who will spend the night before continuing south.
The church will provide the riders a place to spend the night and the evening meal. The participants enjoy interacting with their host community, so you are welcome to join our guests for a pasta meal at 5 o’clock.
Contributions of salads, veggies, fruit, and dessert to share will be greatly appreciated.
Contact Nancy Seyfert at 503-999-8675 or Robert Seyfert at 503-400-8293 for more information or to arrange a contribution.
Thank you,Nancy and Robert Seyfert
DEACONS CORNER
Hmmm. I have a tip for you! Are you trying to find the phone number to ask about Senior and Disability Services in our area? Looking through the phone book or searching the internet, sadly, can be confusing, frustrating, and, yes, time consuming. So, here you go.
The phone number for Lincoln County Senior and Disability Services is (drum roll--TA DA!!): (541) 336-2289. That's the number for OCWCOG Senior and Disability Services department, serving as both the Area Agency on Aging (AAA), and the Medicaid long-term care agency for Benton, Lincoln and Linn Counties. Yes, "OCWCOG (Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments, Senior and Disability Services") is the name!
When you call that number, tell the operator what you need and she/he (no prejudice here!), will transfer you to whatever program is appropriate; i.e., Caregiver Resources, Food and Nutrition Services, Medicaid Program, Adult Protective Services, Veterans' Services, and, finally,
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Volunteer and Advocacy Opportunities. Oh yea, they also know about Transportation! For an easy website and more information, check out http://www.ocwcog.org/.
And for really fascinating reading (the real scoop including goals and budget), check out the OCWCOG Area Plan for January 2017 through December 2020 (217 pages), which is found on the web at http://www.ocwcog.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017-2020-SDS-Area-Plan-Final.pdf.
And if I can be of help anyone on these services and others in our community, please feel free to drop a note to me via Melissa, email me at [email protected] or just give me a call @ (541) 994-4317.
Blessings to y'all from your Community Services Deacon, Nancy McCall.
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR HEARING IMPAIRMENT: A way to show love to others and yourself
The technology to help with hearing impairment has changed light years in the 10 years since I retired as a disability analysist and rehabilitation counselor. It is amazing to look at the resources now available to us, but sad that most of us are completely unaware of what we could be using that is sometimes even free! Here is a little about devices that have been improved or are available just recently:
HEARING AIDS: They come in several options with just increasing the loudness or clarity of sound to ones with computers in them that can be adjusted to help even folks with mild hearing impairments. For example, they can block out background noise when you are trying to have a conversation at a restaurant or trying to hear the words above the music on your favorite TV program. They can be adjusted so you can hear the birds sing, your high-pitched grandchild’s voice on the phone, or hear the vowels in other’s speech that you didn’t even know you were missing. This can make an enormous difference in your ability to correctly hear others without misunderstandings, to be a better listener, and to show love and support to others more easily.
HEARING AID COSTS: There may be options for you to help with the cost through your insurance, social service agencies, or grants. But another way to reduce costs is to do some shopping. We recently found out that the hearing aids we purchased just last year would have been $1,500 cheaper at a different location!
OTHER ASSISTIVE DEVICES: Have trouble hearing all of the words on the phone? Get one that also prints out text of all those words! Many are available for free. Don’t hear the doorbell? Get a device that makes your lamp or overhead light flash when the doorbell is ringing. Can’t hear your alarm clock in the morning? There are ones that send out a vibration to where ever it is hooked on your bed. There are so many more devices that have now been invented. So, if you have a hearing impairment, there is no time like the present to start investigating the options available to you.
Wednesdays at 9:30 AM, Bible Study @ Sambo's! I wanted to share with you an opportunity that is too good to miss. Each week one of the pastors leads the group in a discussion of the passage(s) to be used in worship the coming Sunday. There is always lively and interesting discussion.
On March 17 the passage for discussion was Psalm 150. Pastor Mark Olson shared translation from the Hebrew text, saying, "hallelujah," is the commandment, i.e. "halle," "to praise," (here meaning "worship,") plus "ujah," meaning "you," (you and me): so, this is, "y'allyou" are to worship--the ineffable, unknown, no-named power...that we now call, "God!" No-named, because the word to the rabbis risked potential definition, i.e., limits, and could lead to further idolatry--or even a forbidden "graven image." Thirteen attributes of praise are listed in the psalm.
"Praise," this is each of us offering the "best" that we are...no matter our circumstances--oh, ye who are wonderfully made, forgiven, and restored through a healing relationship with Jesus Christ by God's grace and receiving that most precious gift of Thy Holy Spirit.... Woops! Of course, that is jumping ahead!
Back to Psalm 150: In verses 3, 4 and 5 of the Psalm, ancient instruments are mentioned. Robert Herman, our choir director piped up! Bob explained there was a little drum, a "tof;" a ram's horn, called a "shofar;" a kind of trumpet, the "hasosra;" a kind of pipe, an "uggab;" the lyre, a "psaltry;" and replicas of these still exist. There was also the "magrepha," a steam-operated, swinging shovel, something like the calliope. Sure, and we dunno (an Irish lad might say), how it may have sounded; as we only see it now depicted on woven tapestry from long, long ago.
And so, we invite you all to join us every Wednesday at 9:30 AM at Sambo's Restaurant, in the back room where breakfast is available or just coffee or whatever you might like. It is a "good," fun, learning and sharing time for all.
