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The Church at Work |
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Pastor Becky Cuddeback e-mail: rcuddeback@susumc.org
Rev. Ronald French e-mail: rfrench@susumc.org
Every Member a Minister 1640 Main Street, Bloomsburg Church Phone: 784-9271
Web page: www.LightstreetUMC.org Church secretary’s e-mail: lightstumc@ptd.net
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LightstreetUnitedMethodistChurch
Our Vision – “Shining Christ’s Light with Worship, Missions, Education, Connections”
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Youth Group kayaking at Montour Preserve, today, 1:00 pm. Please let Sarah know so there will be enough kayaks.
Lightstreet United Methodist Church is in the process of updating building use and wedding policies. Members are invited to speak with our pastors and church leaders. Your input is valuable. All opinions and thoughts will be taken under advisement. Please come to one of the information gathering sessions. For information purposes there are copies of the existing wedding policies at the rear of the worship areas, along with a questionnaire to help leadership update our church profile.
All in-person meetings will be held in the church building ground floor social hall.
July 31, 6:30 pm Aug. 5, 1:00 pm Aug. 8, 6:30 pm
Mark your calendars for a special event. Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland is coming to Lightstreet with tropical animals on August 1, 6-8 pm. This animal adventure is free and open to the public and is for all ages.
A Night of Hope with Christian musician Danen Kane. Sunday, August 4, 6-8 pm. Bloomsburg Fairgrounds Free Stage. No charge; opportunities to give financially for classroom supplies for children and to support clean water in Cuba.
Mon., Aug. 5, 6:30 pm – Missions Team meeting. Have a heart for mission work? Have ideas about how you can serve those in the community (or anywhere in the world) who don’t know Jesus? Perhaps attend this meeting and work with others with the same heart for serving Christ. (church building ground floor social hall)
Tues., Aug 6, 6:30 pm – Staff-Parish Relations Committee. (Lighthouse, large classroom)
Mon., Aug. 12, 6:30 pm – Trustees meeting. Church trustees oversee the care of buildings and grounds, and represent the church in any legal matters. (Church building, ground floor social hall)
John Buck Food Bank often serves over 100 families. Food is given away on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays. Collecting: * Rice-a-Roni * Medium cardboard boxes
ScripPro gift cards to support LUMC sponsored Missions and LUMC general fund. Check out the large in-stock selection before and after the 8:15 am service or place an order and arrange to pick up at Dent Plumbing & Heating. www.LightstreetUMC.org. LUMC liaisons: Amy Dent or Pam Szilagyi. The first Sunday of each month 10:30 worshippers can purchase ScripPro cards after worship. Meet Pam and Amy in the choir room (organ side of the sanctuary).
Blessings Box request: When you donate a case of bottled water, we can hydrate the town a few bottles at a time. We also welcome individual flavored drink packets, especially Gatorade, Powerade, or Propel, in the hottest weather.
The Difficult Words of Jesus: Jesus taught how to follow God's word; discern questions of ethics and human nature; and gave comfort and encouragement. But Jesus spoke words that followers then and now find difficult. He instructs hating family members (Luke 14:26), acting as slaves (Matthew 20:27), and selling belongings for the poor (Luke 18:22). He restricts His mission (Matthew 10:6); speaks of damnation (Matthew 8:12); calls Jews the devil's children (John 8:44).
In The Difficult Words of Jesus, Dr. Amy-Jill Levine shows how these difficult teachings would have sounded to the people who first heard them, how they have been understood over time, and how we might interpret them in the context of the Gospel of love and reconciliation.
Join Dr. Levine, Pastor Becky and Pastor Ron for this exciting six-week Bible Study. Sessions are Tuesdays at 10:00 and 6:30, August 27 – October 1. Please sign up; it’s time to order books.
AA – Al-Anon – Alateen – www.aa-intergroup.org
www.aa.org www.al-anon.alateen.org www.na.org www.nar-anon.org
Al-Anon is meeting in person in The Lighthouse Mondays, 7:00 pm. Use the rear entrance.
AA is meeting in person Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 6:00 pm in the church building lounge.
Your Loving Choices paid positions:
- Development Coordinator – 24 hours/week. Monday-Tuesday 12:30-6:30 pm. Wednesday-Thursday 9:30-3:30
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS) 1 or 2 days/week
Contact Marthe Beauvais 570-784-6124 or ceo@yourlovingchoices.org
