The Weekly E-Mail Newsletter of Pasadena United Methodist Church

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September 18, 2015

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IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO HELP!

HELPERS ARE NEEDED BEFORE AND AFTER THE RACE.

PLEASE CONTACT JIM CALVERT AT

7th ANNUAL

“RACE TO THE LAKE”

September 19, 2015

(This date was chosen so more folks can participate!)

Exciting 5k (3.1 miles) course begins & ends at the church

& features over a mile on the beautiful cross-country trails

of Lake Waterford Park

ADULT REGISTRATION $20 - REGISTER BY JULY 31st for ONLY $16

YOUTH REGISTRATION $12 - KIDS RUN AFTER THE 5K FREE!

Register online at

THANKS TO ALL OF OUR GOLD MEDAL SPONSORS!

McCully - Polyniak

Funeral Home

Pasadena
3204 Mountain Rd
Pasadena, Maryland 21122

Lee Talbot Insurance Agency

170 Ritchie Highway

Severna Park, MD 21146-1117

DONUT SHACK

497 Ritchie Hwy
Severna Park, MD 21146

PLEASE HELP!!!

WE NEED TEACHERS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL!

AS YET WE HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP TO TEACH THE NURSERY AGE GROUP (3-4) IN SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY, MARCH, AND APRIL!

WE HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP TO TEACH THE 5-6 YEAR-OLDS IN NOVEMBER, FEBRUARY, AND MAY!

WE HAVE NO ONE SIGNED UP TO TEACH THE 7-11 YEAR-OLDS IN OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, APRIL, AND MAY!

PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING IN ANY WAY YOU CAN!

Please sign up during the worship service, or speak with Pastor Marshall or Laura Stumpfoll!

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JANE COX, who was badly injured with a fractured wrist and a fractured ankle in an automobile accident last month, needs our help. She is at home recovering, but NEEDS HELP WITH MEALS, AND TRANSPORTATION FOR HER BOYS TO COME TO CHURCH UNTIL SHE IS ABLETO DRIVE AGAIN.

If you can help with either of these things, please visit the link for meal sign up: or contact Jane at to let her know if you can drive the boys, Jonah and Daniel, to church.

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CHARGE CONFERENCE 2015

CHARGE CONFERENCE 2015 is a CLUSTER CHARGE CONFERENCEthis year, and will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. at John Wesley UMC, Glen Burnie.Anyone is welcome to attend. We will hear presentations from all five churches. Members of the PUMC Leadership Team will be eligible to vote.

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JOB OPENING

Pasadena United Methodist Church has an opening for an Administrative Assistant for our very busy church office. Applicant must be personable, self-starter with proficiency in Microsoft Office. 30 Hours per week, Monday - Friday. Responsibilities include, but not limited to, answering phones, produce printed material, computer tasks, and Care Corner management. Send cover letter & resume to or mail to PUMC 61 Ritchie Highway, Pasadena MD 21122. Attn: SPRC

Dresses for Girls Mission 2015

(NOTE: NEW MEETING DAY AND TIME)

Let us bring out the sewing machines and supplies and continue our Mission of Sewing Dresses for Girls. This year we are not designating a specific country, but UMCOR will send them wherever the need is greatest.

Please join us for a time of fellowship and putting your hands to work for the glory of God. We will meet on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd,in the Choir Room. WE WILL BE MEETING FROM 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM, instead of our usual 10-2 time frame. We usually brown bag our lunch and will have coffee, tea, and water available. Please join us.

Pasadena United Methodist Church

The Rev. Dr. Sherrin Marshall Email:

Church Office: 410-647-3090 Email:

GOD’S WEEK AT OUR CHURCH

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 17TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – RALLY DAY! - Sunday School begins today for ages 3-18. We’ll kick off our “Dare to Believe” campaign today with a focus on Christian Education and Formation. We’ll have an indoor picnic with slide presentations to kick off the celebration of our many ministries and missions. Bring a side dish to share if possible. Invite a friend or neighbor!

9:00 AM – Sunday Morning Book Club (C)

10:00 AM – Sunday School for Youth (grades 6-8 and 9-12)

10:30 AM - Traditional Worship in the Sanctuary (S) with music by the Children’s Choirs with blessing and dedication of the Choir Director and all members, and dedication of Sunday School teachers, helpers, and children.

10:30 AM – Children’s Sunday School (ages 3-11)

12:00 PM – Rally Day Picnic (FH)

6:00 PM – UMYF Meeting (FH)

Monday –

7:00 PM – Cub Scout Pack 346 Meeting (FH)

7:00 PM – Finance Committee Meeting (O)

Tuesday –

11:00 AM – Dresses for Girls (C)

6:30 PM – Girl Scouts and Daisies (A, B, D)

7:00 PM – Venture Crew (FH)

7:30 PM – Christian Chimers (C)

Wednesday –

7:00 PM – Boy Scout Troop 346 Meeting (FH)

7:00 PM – Charge Conference at Wesley UMC in Glen Burnie

Thursday –

6:00 PM - Chorister Choir (C)

6:30 PM – Chapel Chimers (A)

6:30 PM – Cherub Choir (C)

6:30 PM – PUMC Musicians Rehearse (FH)

6:30 PM – Women of the Church (WOC) Meeting (FH)

Saturday –

3:30 PM – NA Meeting (C)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – 18TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST - our “Dare to Believe” campaign continues this week and focuses on WORSHIP!

9:00 AM - Café Church, informal worship in the Fellowship Hall (FH)

10:00 AM – Sunday School for Youth (grades 6-8 and 9-12)

10:30 AM - Traditional Worship (S) – Music by the Chancel Choir. The Chancel Choir, Director, and Accompanist will be blessed and dedicated.

10:30 AM – Children’s Sunday School (ages 3-11)

6:00 PM – UMYF Meeting (FH)

Pasadena United Methodist Church

celebrates

Let’s “rally” together

as summer ends and a new season of church events begin!

Sunday, September 20, 2015

10:30 AM Traditional Worship

11:45 AM Picnic in the Fellowship Hall

An old-fashioned church picnic - everyone is welcome! We’ll have an indoor picnic with slide presentations to kick off the celebration of our many ministries and missions.

Bring a favorite covered dish and we will provide

the hamburgers, hot dogs, and dessert.

Rally Day is a special day for us at Pasadena-- it's our "welcome back" from summer, regular church activities begin again such as the choirs -- and we have a church picnic following the 10:30 worship service. We hope you'll join us!

Thirty Minutes of Discipleship with your Friends!

Sunday School Classes for Middle School and High School youth are starting September 20th from 10-10:30 am.

SUNDAY SUNDAES! UMYF Open House

September 20th, 6 - 7:30pm - Come see what we are all about! Past, Present, and FUTURE! And eat ICE CREAM! Lots of ICE CREAM!

UPCOMING WORSHIP SERVICES AT PASADENA UMC

“WELCOME BACK” – SEPTEMBER - Fall is here and we are blessed to have our ministries of music and Sunday School beginning a new year once again – and happy to see folks returning from vacation! We’ll kick off our “Dare to Believe” campaign on Rally Day, September 20, with a focus on Christian Education and Formation.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 17TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – RALLY DAY! - Sunday School begins today for ages 3-18. We’ll kick off our “Dare to Believe” campaign today with a focus on Christian Education and Formation. We’ll have an indoor picnic with slide presentations to kick off the celebration of our many ministries and missions. Bring a side dish to share if possible. Invite a friend or neighbor!

10:30 AM - Traditional Worship in the Sanctuary (S) with music by the Children’s Choirs with blessing and dedication of the Choir Director and all members, and dedication of Sunday School teachers, helpers, and children. Join us for our Rally Day picnic in the Fellowship Hall after worship!

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 – 18TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST - our “Dare to Believe” campaign continues this week and focuses on WORSHIP!

9:00 AM - Café Church, informal worship in the Fellowship Hall (FH)

10:30 AM - Traditional Worship (S) – Music by the Chancel Choir. The Chancel Choir, Director, and Accompanist will be blessed and dedicated.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 – 19TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY - our “Dare to Believe” campaign continues this week and focuses on MISSIONS!

10:30 AM - Traditional Worship (S); The Chancel Choir will be singing; Holy Communion will be served.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 – 20th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – our “Dare to Believe” campaign continues this week and focuses on STAFFING AND PERSONNEL!

9:00 AM - Café Church, informal worship (FH) with Holy Communion. Join us!

10:30 AM - Traditional Worship (S); music by the Children’s Choirs

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 21st SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST - We will share the many ministries with which our UMW and Women of the Church are involved. Our “Dare to Believe” campaign continues this week and focuses on LAITY SUNDAY AND ALL OF OUR WONDERFUL PUMC VOLUNTEERS!

10:30 AM - Traditional Worship (S); music by the Bell Choir. We will have a festive fellowship hour today after worship.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 22nd SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST – CELEBRATION SUNDAY! WE WILL BE HAVING JUST ONE WORSHIP SERVICE ONLY AT 10:00 AM.

10:00 AM – Join us for this wonderful service with features from both Café Church and our Traditional Worship service. And join us for the Celebration Luncheon catered by Beefalo Bob’s immediately following in the Fellowship Hall. This is PUMC’s gift to us.

LOOKING FORWARD TO NOVEMBER

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1st – 23rd SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST - ALL SAINTS’ SUNDAY

10:30 AM – Traditional worship in the Sanctuary with music by the Chancel Choir as we commemorate All Saints’ Sunday. We remember and honor all those who have gone before, members of our church, people who helped nurture us with the tolling of the bell and lighting candles; Holy Communion will be shared.

Join us for this reverent yet joyful service. There will be a special message for the children. This is a service to which you can invite a friend or neighbor, and we also invite you to bring a candle of your choice, if this is more meaningful to you.

You will receive a warm welcome at PUMC! All ages! Bring a friend or neighbor!

“DARE TO BELIEVE”

STEWARDSHIP FOR 2015 AT PASADENA UMC

This year, your Stewardship Planning Team, consisting of Debbie Jester, Andy Lentz, Rev. Marshall, Lee May, and Mike Seibert, went with a theme we had heard at Annual Conference. Do we “Dare to Believe?” Our narrative was prepared by Andy Lentz and Dave Watts, the latter of whom provided editorial help. Often it seems to folks that stewardship and giving is all about money, and, let’s face it, without money we couldn’t do the things we love about PUMC and we think you do, too. But as one of the Team said, “giving is not only about money.” Amen to that! We give to do Christ’s work here at PUMC with our ministries and missions, so we’ll celebrate different ministries and missions each week.

We’ll kick off our “Dare to Believe” campaign on RALLY DAY, SEPTEMBER 20, WITH A FOCUS ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND FORMATION. Christian Education means more than Sunday School. Worship is central for us at PUMC, but we are undergirded by Bible study, lifelong learning, and we see this reflected in many ways. Kids love Sunday School! We want this to be a place where they hear and learn Bible lessons, but also have fun. The same is true for the messages shared with them each week in church.

We have many dedicated teachers and helpers, including folks who have been teaching Sunday School for years, often assisted by teen helpers. The Pastor and willing adult helpers led a Confirmation Class in 2015 for 9 youth, who have all become full members of PUMC. We have a Sunday Morning Book Club for adults – not your typical class, so you need to check it out! And youth have the opportunity to continue to learn through UMYF (United Methodist Youth Fellowship) where again the emphasis is on learning, mission outreach, and fun. There’s a place for everyone to participate and help, from our popular Vacation Bible School in the summer, to our year-round Sunday School.

Come and enjoy our traditional Rally Day picnic following the 10:30 worship service in the Fellowship Hall! Remember to bring some side dishes if you can.

WEEK 2 – SEPTEMBER 27 – OUR FOCUS IS WORSHIP

Worship is pivotal to our lives as followers of Jesus Christ, no matter where we are on our journey of faith. Twice monthly we celebrate Café Church at 9 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall, with a unique service including our Praise Band, “All We Need,” breakfast for all, messages that focus on the lessons for the day with images on the screen and ways the Gospel speaks to us today, and holy communion monthly on the second Sunday. The informal context means that folks can get a second cup of coffee and that the little ones can run around.

We originally funded Café Church with a grant from the Baltimore-Washington Conference written by Rev. Marshall that helped us purchase the equipment we needed. Café Church has been a success from Day One! We anticipated 25 might show up, but the attendance was 45! Meet the musicians: Jenn and Ron Riegger have full-time jobs, but find time to practice and bless us with their gift of music each week. Sarah Jester teaches school and has more jobs than we can count (along with her marriage to Drew DelSignore in September), and she’s our lead vocalist. Lydia Gonzalez teaches and donates her time to “All We Need” as a keyboardist. All of this, the pastor’s messages, the gift of music, is given to the glory of God. A portion of your sustaining membership supports Café Church. And what’s truly amazing is that all ages worship together there and love this service.

Traditional Worship is our mainstay every week at 10:30. There’s music shared by all our groups, from the Chancel Choir to the Christian Chimers (Bell Choir) to the Children’s Choirs, to special music by soloists and small groups. Sarah Jester, Bill Blanchard, and Debbie Jester lead these groups that are comprised of volunteers. Our organist, Donna Dixon Ervin, accompanies us. There’s a message for children and youth offered by the Pastor, as well as sermons. We pray and recognize our joys and concerns. Communion is shared the first Sunday of the month.

We celebrate baptisms, welcoming and receiving new members, special recognition of ministries, and festive fellowship times at both services. In fact, numerous people attend both. The music and the messages may change, but the Holy Spirit is with us throughout.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 – WORLD COMMUNION SUNDAY – OUR FOCUS IS MISSIONS

Sometimes people wonder how we can do so much to help other people, when our missions are not typically funded by our church budget. The answer is that virtually the entire congregation volunteers to make our missions possible, here at home or overseas. We have supported Winter Relief for many years, and whole families turn out to help; the youth help; the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Venture Crew all help. Food is prepared and lovingly served to homeless men.

Camp Hope is a major effort in Western MD involving youth and teens working together to repair and refurbish houses for those in need – all for the love of God.

The same principle applies for our Care Corner Food Pantry. As one member said, “it’s like the loaves and fishes. When we run low on food, we ask, and the congregation always brings food in the following week.” Dresses for Girls is still going strong, and we have crafted and contributed 500 dresses, sent to Haiti, Guatemala, and where UMCOR (the United Methodist Commission on Relief) sees a need. And speaking of UMCOR, from Hurricane Katrina to Superstorm Sandy to earthquakes in Nepal, and devastation in Baltimore, PUMC has come to meet the need with flood buckets and health kits. Our Women of Church have an active Prayer Shawl Ministry – we give the beautiful shawls to those who are ill, home members, homeowners from Camp Hope, and anyone who needs to be wrapped in God’s love. The Sunday School sponsors monthly missions including Heifer International.

And we haven’t listed everything! Our School Supplies drive in late summer-early fall supports 7 elementary schools and their teachers, helping to pay for school supplies for children and youth who can’t afford them. When our Care Corner begins to dip in what is available, often our Venture Crew, a young adult scouting group, will go out to food stores and engage in “Scouting for Food” to bring many pounds into the church.

We support many missions and ministries overseas, too, through the apportionments we pay to the Baltimore-Washington Conference. We give proportionally so that each church pays its share, through the World Service Fund, Ministerial Education Fund, General Administrative Fund and others. 85 cents of every dollar of apportionments stays with local churches, 7 cents goes to the northeast jurisdiction, annual conference, and districts.

Through our apportionments and giving to the Baltimore-Washington Conference we have supported “Nothing but Nets” and “Imagine No Malaria.” We’ve consistently exceeded our goals. No one church can do it all. Thankfully, PUMC has a heart for mission and helping others in the name of God and his Son, Jesus Christ, and we are committed to doing all we can. “Open Hearts, Open Doors, Open Minds” – our motto and our credo.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2015 – OUR FOCUS IS STAFFING AND PERSONNEL

Personnel expenses are a big part of any church budget. Many times, people don’t stop to consider that pastors serve the church and congregation in good times and bad, day in and day out. Pastor Sherrin loves the little children, whether we are welcoming infants into the church or inviting children to the message for them. She’s also there for you when you’re sick or in need, and knows the route to every hospital and nursing home within at least 25 miles. Sermons, counseling sessions, meetings two or three nights a week, Pastor Sherrin is in her ninth year here at Pasadena and has seen us through numerous weddings and funerals, as well as a major renovation program.

In addition to the pastor, we have a secretary who manages our office five days a week, responsible for putting the bulletins together, the weekly e-Chimes, and the Chimes Newsletter, managing the Care Corner, and being there whenever you call the office. Although we talked about them under music, our musicians are part of our personnel budget, several holding advanced degrees. They are part-time employees, some of whom have “day jobs.” We know they keep busy even if they are retired. Once again we lift up our musicians at both services, and the addition to our staff of Laura Stumpfoll, who assumed the responsibilities of Youth Ministries Director in March, 2015. We see growth and Spirit in their activities and ask your continued support for all our staff, who consistently go the extra mile at all hours of the day and night.