Weekly Gadsden Street Mail

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UPCOMING EVENTS Sunday – Mar 19th – Confirmation Class – 4pm – Conference Room Monday –Mar 20th --Tai Chi–2:00pm – Gathering Area

Tuesday – Mar 21th – UMW Day Circles – 10:30am – Library & Mary Martha Class Room Wednesday – Mar 22th - Zumba– 9:30am – Gathering Area Wednesday – Mar 22th - Tai Chi– 4:00pm – 2nd Floor Conference Room Wednesday – Mar 22th – Worship Team Meeting– 6pm – Conference Room Wednesday – Mar 22th - Choir Practice– 7:15pm – Sanctuary

Sunday – Mar 26th – Confirmation Class – 4pm – Conference Room Sunday – Mar 26th – Sunday Evening Study – 5:45pm – Stan & Alice McKinney’s Home Monday –Mar 27th --Tai Chi–2:00pm – Gathering Area

Tuesday – Mar 28th – Pray & Play – 12:30pm – Library Wednesday – Mar 29th - Zumba– 9:30am – Gathering Area Wednesday – Mar 29th - Tai Chi– 4:00pm – 2nd Floor Conference Room Wednesday – Mar 29th - Choir Practice– 7:15pm – Sanctuary

Sunday – Apr 2nd – Confirmation Class – 4pm – Conference Room Sunday – Apr 2nd – Sunday Evening Study – 5:45pm – Stan & Alice McKinney’s Home Monday –Apr 3rd --Tai Chi–2:00pm – Gathering Area

Tuesday – Apr 4th – UMW Unit Meeting – 10:30am – Gathering Area

Mar 19, 2017

Gadsden Street UMC 901 Gadsden Street Pensacola, FL 32501

Web Site -http://gadsdenstreetmethodist.com

Contact Us office@gadsdenstreetmethodist.com 850-433-0014

SUNDAY, Mar 19, 2017

SERMON TOPICS & SCRIPTURE SERMON TITLE: “Mumbling and Grumbling” SCRIPTURE: Exodus 17: 1-7

Nursery Available for all Services

PARENTS

As Gadsden Street is a Safe Sanctuary Church,

we ask that you remember that children

under the age of 18 need an adult to

accompany them anytime they are in the

hallways or restrooms. No one should be in

these areas during worship or other

activities without parental supervision. This

is a Safe Sanctuary guideline and is put in

place for their protection and safety. Thank

you for your cooperation.

USHERS FOR MAR 10:30 am

Captains meetings first Sunday at 9:45 am

Stan McKinney Captain

Betty Roberds Dr. Jack Pruett

NURSERY & CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY BAGS

Our beautiful nursery is available for infants and

children. There are children’s activity bags with

crayons & coloring books in the Narthex. Please

ask an usher if your child would like one during

our service.

If you are chilly during service, please see an usher to borrow a shawl.

Today, if you hear (God’s) voice, do not harden

your hearts as you did at Meribah, and as you did

that day at Massah in the desert, where your fathers

tested and tried me, though they had seen what I

did.” (Psalm 95:11)

This week I made a mistake. Last week I was

ticked off, but this week I made a mistake. So again,

here’s what happened. On Monday evening Ron and

I showed up for our yearly HOA meeting. We

thought this would be an excellent opportunity to

meet some of our neighbors, share in a “free meal,”

and to be active participants in our community. At

this point some of you are probably laughing right

out loud. I must admit HOAs are a new thing for us.

As many places as we’ve lived, as many homes as

we’ve owned through the years, this is our first

experience with an HOA.

My first hint that I’d made a mistake should

have been the fact that with 96 homes in our

community there were 24 people at the meeting. The

meeting began well enough, with the HOA president

welcoming everyone to the gathering, but it didn’t

take long before it went downhill-fast! After hearing

the reports of the folks who coordinate all of the

details of the HOA, the complaining began. It didn’t

take long for whining and complaining, mumbling

and grumbling to fill to the room. After an hour of

this, I’d had enough and we left the meeting in

progress.

In thinking about it all, I couldn’t miss the

humor in the fact that I’d spent all afternoon

studying the scripture we’ll be looking at in worship

this Sunday (March 19). Exodus 17: 1-7 tells the

story of the people of God fresh on the road from

slavery to freedom when a bout of whining and

complaining, mumbling and grumbling breaks out.

Although they’ve just experienced God’s amazing

power at work setting them free, even though

they’ve just received manna and quail, now they’re

thirsty. Not seeing any possibilities for water to

quench their thirst they begin by blaming Moses and

then whining and complaining about their condition.

Unfortunately it isn’t only the Israelites in the

desert who fall into the temptation of whining and

complaining. Unchecked mumbling and grumbling

lead to division among people, it’s destructive to

community, it inhibits hospitality. In short, in every

way it is the exact opposite of God’s intentions for

the Beloved Community.

The antidote for whining and complaining,

mumbling and grumbling is to be thankful. In the

midst of whatever circumstances we find ourselves

we trust God is with us. We give thanks for God’s

abiding presence and unending care.

This week I had an opportunity to visit with one of

our church members. She’d set aside all sorts of

poems and thoughts that have been used in crafting

gifts of encouragement for others. Among her stash

was this poem:

I do not know what next may come across

my pilgrim way,

I do not know tomorrow’s need, nor see

beyond today:

But this I know- my Savior knows the path

I cannot seek

And I can trust His wounded hand, to

guide and care for me.

I do not know what may befall of sunshine

or of rain,

I do not know what may be mine of

pleasures and of pain;

But this I know-my Savior knows and

whatever it be

Still I can trust His love to give what is

best for me.

Blessings,

Pastor Gail

If you would like more information about the

mission and ministry of Gadsden Street UMC, please

call the church office at 850-433-0014. If you would

like to join this faith family in the covenant of

member-ship, please contact Pastor Gail Baughman

at the church office.

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY BAGS

We are looking for someone to tend to our

Children’s Activity Bags for our Sunday worship

services. We need help on a regular basis to be sure

there are crayons, sharpened pencils, paper, etc…

ready to go each Sunday morning. If this sounds like

something you would like to do, please contact the

church office. Thank you!

WORSHIP COMMITTEE MEETING

If you would like to be a part of planning meaningful

authentic opportunities for worship, especially Palm

Sunday and Easter, please gather with us on

Wednesday, March 22 at 6:00pm in the 2nd floor

conference room. All are welcome!

WHAT DOES EASTER MEAN TO YOU?

One of the blessings of Gadsden Street UMC is the

number of immensely talented people.

During this season of Lent, as you consider the

fullness of the message of Easter in your life and in

our world, you are invited to create a reflection on

Easter in your medium of choice (glass or quilting,

batik or macrame, photography or painting, poetry or

woodworking, dance or music).

On Easter Sunday, you are invited to bring your

creative response to be displayed in the Gathering

Space as together we celebrate the good news of the

Resurrection.

NEIGHBORHOOD PICNIC

OUR APRIL OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE: Please join us on Saturday, April 8, from 11am - 1pm

for our April Opportunity to Serve. We will gather in

Granada Square Park - just across the street and

welcome our neighbors for food, fun & games! Our

final planning meeting for the exciting outreach

opportunity will be next Sunday, March 26th at

11:30am in the 2nd floor conference room.

PAINT DAY

Put on your painting clothes, grab your

brushes and rollers and join us on Thursday,

March 23rd as we spruce up the Shepard

Building ! Help us prepare places for ministry!

If you are able to volunteer some time and

like to paint, please contact the church office.

SHEPARD BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS

We’ve cleaned out and cleaned up our

Shepard building, making room for ministry.

We will paint the classrooms and hallways the

week of March 20th. If you are able to

volunteer some time and like to paint, please

contact the church office.

Prayer Time!

All are welcome!

Sundays 8:30am - 9:00am

&

Wednesdays 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Our prayer room is located

upstairs on the north east corner

of the

Dennison Administration

Building

Prayer Room

John Wesley said “Prayer is where the action is”.

Each week we now have a focused prayer times. If

these times don’t work with your schedule, this

room is open for your individual or your own group

prayer.

NEW SUNDAY EVENING STUDY

Beginning Sunday evening, March 26th, we will start

to study the “Five Practices of Fruitful

congregations”. The class will be held at 5:45pm at

Alice & Stan McKinney’s home, 3001 Keats Drive,

Pensacola. All are welcome!

HONEY Has someone new moved into your neighborhood?

If you’d like to extend Christian Hospitality, please

stop by the church office and pick up a jar of East

Hill Honey to share with them. Be sure to tell them

“How Sweet to have you in the neighborhood”!

OUR APRIL

OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE:

Picnic in the Park

Saturday, April 8th

11am - 1pm

Food, fun & Games

Granada Square Park

Cervantes and 10th & 11th avenues

PUTTING FLOWERS ON THE ALTAR

The “Flower Chart” has been wiped clean and

posted in the narthex for anyone

who desires to reserve a date to

place flowers on the altar in

memory or honor of loved ones.

Arrangements or potted plants

for ordering and placing the

flowers on Sunday mornings are

the family’s responsibility. Please see Mary Yearty-

Meek with any questions.

OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE

APRIL- Free Neighborhood Picnic (providing free

hamburgers, hotdogs and water) (UMM- Stan

McKinney, Baruch Coley, Jack Pruett)

MAY- UMCOR Kits (collect supplies throughout Lent

and assemble personal care kits) (Pat Dodge)

JUNE- Back to the Beach (collecting towels for Camp

Happy Sands), helping to provide a lunch for

campers and staff (Audrey Baldwin)

JULY- Pack the Backpacks (fill backpacks with school

supplies- LPCA and other schools in need) (Mary

Jane McClellan)

AUGUST- Classroom baskets for LPCA classrooms

(basic classroom supplies- Kleenex, Purell,

disinfectant wipes, etc.) (Karen Murray)

UPCOMING MEETINGS

Worship Committee Meeting

Wednesday, March 22, 6:00pm

Neighborhood Picnic Planning

Sunday, March 26, 11:30am

Finance Committee Meeting

Tuesday, April 4th, 6:00pm

(All meetings take place in the 2nd floor conference room unless

otherwise noted)

RECURRING EVENTS

Chancel Choir Practice

Wednesdays 7:00 pm in Sanctuary

Senior Adult Exercise - Tai Chi

Mondays 2pm & Wednesdays 4pm in our Gathering

Space

Young at Heart

2nd Tuesday 10:30am in the Fellowship Hall

Pray & Play

4th Tuesday - 12:30pm in Library

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCH

1 Martha Haney 6 Pastor Han Pyo Kim

9 Helen Pugh

12 Meredith Muzzy

13 Shirlee Kegerreis

18 Anthony Williams

23 Sherry Hutcheson

24 Laurie Tankersley

24 Ron Meek

29 Leslie Richardson

31 Collin Morris

1 Todd & Jocquilyn Stanaker

Our Mission

Outreach

TOSS IN TOWELS

Bring any and all towels (slightly used or

new) to help stock the shelves of

Pensacola United Community

Ministries, Favor House and Camp

Happy Sands. Also, as you travel, collect

the unopened soaps,

shampoos, lotions, etc.

(each mornings of your

stay clear the counter of

these and you will be supplied with a

new set for the next day). Bring all that

you don’t use and place in the

containers in the front hall.

FOOD DONATION BASKET IS

LOCATED AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE

DENNISON ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

HELP FEED THE CHILDREN

Help GSUMC feed the children of

Lighthouse Private Christian Academy,

by supporting the Judy Ellis Fund with

monetary or jumbo can food donations.

There are LPCA

Students who

would not

otherwise

receive a healthy

lunch during the

school year.