Northridge United Methodist Church

JULY 2017

Volume 34, Issue 7

Northridge United Methodist Church

9650 Reseda Blvd.

Northridge, CA 91324

(818) 886-1555 www.northridgeumc.org

office@northridgeumc.org

To celebrate God's grace and love

while inspiring disciples of Jesus Christ for ministry in our community and the world.

Pastor.............................Rev. Dr. Joseph Choi Associate Pastor….............Rev. Karen Murata Dir. of Senior Ministry….........Char Anderson Business Manager…..............Dorrel Atteberry Facilities/Office Manager…..........Joan Coston H.R. Coordinator................Elizabeth Beckman Dir. of Youth Ministry……...........Steven Klotz Dir. of Preschool………........Debbie Goodman Dir. of Music…………….….Rayvon T.J. Moore

Section Leaders…….Carol de Leon (Soprano)

….……………………..…….Rachelle Kye (Alto)

....……...….…………....Manfred Anaya (Tenor)

……………….……....Benito Galindo (Baritone)

Organist……….........................Dr. Joseph Lee Dir. of Handbells.....................Ruben Mendoza Sunday School Lead Teacher

& Music Leader……….......Chelsea Obermeier

Sunday School Assistants……...Leslie Orozco ..............................................Lindsey Woerner Sunday Childcare..................Ashley Anderson .........................................................Liz Piceno Buildings and Grounds............Richard Grijalva Custodian.....................................Chuck Grant

Sunday Custodian.....................Matthew Nash Sound Technician………..…...Adrian Boluarte

Sunday Worship at 10 am

Sunday School & Nursery

10 am in the Kendall Building

Childcare available

All Church Picnic Sunday, July 2

After the service on the patio Hamburgers, hot dogs, watermelon,

corn on the cob, baked beans, ice cream and FUN!

Vacation Bible School Sun. – Tues., July 23 – July 25

5:30 pm – 8 pm This superhero adventure will help your

family discover the qualities and strength that make us truly heroic in God!

This is not your typical VBS.

We’re asking you to come as a family, eat as a family, worship as a family, and experience the lessons and fun-filled

activities together.

From June 14 through June 17 about 360 United Methodist churches participated in the 33rd Annual Session of the California-Pacific Conference in Redlands California. In addition to pastors Joseph and Karen, I was joined from NUMC by Martha Ruiz, Jeff Brockway, Steven Klotz and Ric Wilson. Amybeth Lake was representing the North District UMW. Nancy Easterly attended as my guest.

For Bishop Grant Hagiya’s first Cal-Pac Conference, the theme was “From Here to There” with the primary goal of revitalizing the local churches. After over ten years of decline in membership and attendance throughout the United States and Western Europe, our local churches need to find out “our Why” in our souls. Why is Northridge UMC located in our community?

Every church needs to reach out to its neighborhood:

We need to bring 10 new people to Christ every year.

We need to increase average attendance by 10% every year.

We need to meet our church apportionments to the conference every year.

And we need a vision of who God calls us to be in our neighborhood.

Bishop Grant Hagiya also shared his vision for a “transformation” of the Cal-Pac Conference. Using a foundation of God in Jesus Christ through Holy Spirit, we will:

Transform Christian Leaders through leadership development and leadership excellence

Transform Lives through disciple making and Christian spirituality

Transform Vital Congregations through church revitalization and new faith communities

Transform the World through global missions, especially in our communities.

The format of the Annual conference included:

Inspiring worship services daily incorporating a variety of music and a variety of messages from both clergy and laity.

Clear messaging on the Bishop’s vision from churches and laity organization which have already begun these transformations.

Challenging business sessions on worldwide UMC constitutional amendments, as well as Cal-Pac Conference recommendations, resolutions and rules changes.

A memorial service, a retirement service, and a commissioning and ordination service recognizing Cal-Pac United Methodist clergy and their families.

This was the first Cal-Pac Conference for most of us and we thoroughly enjoyed not only the formal meetings, but also the opportunity to talk with old friends, to make new friends and to establish valuable contacts for our challenges ahead. Many of NUMC’s former pastors were at annual conference and they all sent their greetings to you. Thank you for this opportunity to represent NUMC at annual conference and we hope that you will talk to all of us in the weeks to come. – Mike Easterly

Upcoming Sermons

July 2 (Communion Sunday) Church Picnic on the patio after service

Unexplainable Apart from God Isaiah 55:8-9

July 9 From Outside-In to Inside-Out

Philippians 4:11-12

July 16 Guest Preacher: Rev. Sandy Liddell

Another Kind of Abundance Psalm 119:105-112; Matthew 13:1-9

July 23 From Temporal to Eternal

1 Peter 4:7-11

July 30 From Mine to God’s

Philippians 3:3-9

From June 11 Jazz Vespers Service

Videos of all services are archived on YouTube. https://youtube.com/numcvideo

Upper Room Devotional Sundays at 8 am This Bible study sets aside time each week to read and reflect using The Upper Room Daily Devotional Guide. Issues of The Upper Room are available in the Narthex and online at www.upperroom.org.

Book Study Sundays at 9 am Join us for our study of

the book “Reading the

Bible Again for the First Time” by Marcus Borg.

Bernie Dresel with his album

Photos courtesy of Teresa Priem

The artwork by the late artist Diane Nelson Gold with her husband and son

Children & Family

Family Fun & Faith Gatherings: June Kick-Off! Family Devotions (undivided: living for and not just with one

another), potluck & pool party!

Save the Date for future

Family Fun & Faith

Gatherings: Family VBS: July 23-25th

5:30pm-8:00pm and Friday August 4

Drive- In Movie night in NUMC

parking lot (we will meet at 7pm before the movie for family

devotional & activity)

CHILDREN’S CHOIR WILL

MEET THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER! SUNDAYS from 11AM-11:45AM

IN THE KENDALL BUILDING

Changing Lives One Plate at a Time

Thank You! Fred Rohde, Gretchen & Bruce Keeler, Dorine Collins, Joann DeSantis, Barbara Stiles, Jeri Barricklow, Coriolis & Lourdes Koch, Nancy & Mike Easterly, Wayne Aller & his niece, Carine Shashaty and Pastor Karen – our wonderful Dinner Hosts for June at SFV Rescue Mission. The beef tacos, beans, rice and watermelon were a big hit with the families we served. We had a wonderful time preparing, serving and cleaning up - but the best time was sharing our meal with all of the families and getting to know each other. Pastor Karen personally invited each family as our guests at NUMC Family VBS in July. We already have our dinner hosts for July’s spaghetti dinner. SFVRM is blessed to have a beautiful facility with a commercial kitchen and a spacious dining room. We will be inviting the families to come to NUMC for Sunday worship and Sunday school. After an August break, NUMC will be hosting dinner at SFVRM on the second Tuesday: SEPTEMBER 12 OCTOBER 10 NOVEMBER 14 DECEMBER 12 Contact Mike Easterly if you have a group that wants to take the lead for a specific date or if specific dates are good for you personally.

Kiva exceeds $1 Billion in Loans In 2005 Kiva pioneered crowdfunding by connecting people worldwide through lending to alleviate poverty. Soon thereafter, NUMC Church and Society through the leadership of Ted Barricklow became one of the early lending teams.

Since joining Kiva as a lending team, NUMC Church and Society has coordinated: Raising $1,048 in funds Making 205 loans to individuals and groups in 41 countries Making the equivalent of $5,150 in loans (loaned - repaid - re-loaned)

Take time to talk with Ted, Amybeth Lake, Joann DeSantis, Teresa Priem and other members of Church & Society about this successful outreach. Let them know if you want to help grow the funds available for future loans.

Mission & Outreach

Delights as seen by the Primetimers at their trip to the Long Beach Aquarium on June 16. Photos courtesy of Jim Benham

Senior Ministries - Save the Dates Primetimers - August 18 - USS Iowa Senior Fraud Prevention Symposium - Fellowship Hall - October 18 Watch for more information later Primetimers - October 27 - Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance

Our members in need What do you think when you see the names of our members on the screen who need our prayers each Sunday? Some of them are there because they have a near-term health concern, some because they are homebound or in a long-term care facility. What would it mean to these dear ones if each Sunday everyone took one name and sent them a card? Our Senior Ministry Team is working on being more active at keeping in touch with these people. Would you be willing to help us be a more caring, outreaching congregation by sending a card or making a phone call?

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Medical Equipment update We need to update our medical equipment list that we have available to lend when it is

needed. Please give me a call (818 998 0594) or drop me a note (charanderson2@earthlink.net) as to what equipment you have and would be willing to loan.

Prayers Marilyn Watkins, Ramona Crutchfield, Don Miller, Kevin Burkholder, Kyle Catterlin,

Randie Jarvis, John Turner, Christine Coons, Chuck Grant, Win Wheatley, Phineas Icenbice, Bob & Fran Ulrich, Ellie Madrid, Heather Slutsky, Amy Wong

“We want to thank you for your prayers, sympathy, cards, notes and phone calls after the death of our father, Marvin C. Witt on June 8, 2017. He lived a full life of 93 years.

Words cannot express how much we appreciate all your support. At his request and that of my brother’s, there will not be a memorial service. Instead his

wishes were that a contribution be made to the charity of your choice in his name. Thank you again” – Mike and Beth (Witt) Sullivan, Brian Witt

Church and Society Movie Night On July 10, 2017, at 7:00 p.m., Church and Society will screen "The Eagle Huntress," a story Aisholpan, a 13-year-old Kazakh girl from Mongolia, as she attempts to become the first female eagle hunter to compete in the eagle festival at Ulgii, Mongolia, established in 1999. She belongs to a family of nomads that spend their summers in a yurt in the Altai Mountains and their winters in a house in town. The men in her family have been eagle hunters for seven generations, and she wants to follow in their footsteps. The movie was nominated for several awards when it was released in 2016. The film's dialogue is in Kazakh and the narration is in English. The movie is rated G and has a running time of 87 minutes.

Eat Out Monday Monday, July 10, 2017 (11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.) Maria’s Italian Kitchen 9161 Reseda Blvd, Northridge in Vons Shopping Center. Help Raise Funds for Family Ministries! You must take the flyer with you. “Dine In or Take Out”

Caregivers/Grief Support Group The First Sunday of Each Month at 11:15 am in the Library One of the gifts we offer to our congregation is a support group for caregivers and those who are grieving. The group meets once a month on the first Sunday at 11:15 am in the library. As one journeys down the path of grief you may feel you’re wandering in a dense fog – uncertain of what lies ahead of which way to turn. You may wonder if you’ll ever see the sun again. Then all at once the fog lifts and you are on the road to healing. The sharing of the experience with others in a similar, but not the same, situation helps each person to work through this difficult time. All are welcome and Sally Taylor is available for questions.

Fellowship

NUMC’s UMCOR Mission Team Needs Your Help The team needs fabric, scissors, needles, thread and buttons for Sewing Relief Kits. Please bring these items to the church office or we have engaged a Happy Shopper who will accept your donations and fulfill our needs. Contact Nancy Easterly with your monetary donations.

HERO CENTRAL “FAMILY” VBS

SUNDAY JULY 23 – TUESDAY JULY 25 FROM 5:30PM-8:00PM

Registration forms are available in the church office or on

our Church website at http://northridgeumc.org.

Register now to make sure we can get your t-shirt size!

Registration closes on Friday July 14, 2017.

This superhero adventure will help your family discover the qualities and strength that make us truly

heroic in God!

Each night we will come together at 5:30pm to share a meal and afterward we will have a time of praise and

worship (Opening Assembly) and an engaging bible lesson. We will finish our nights off with activities that will help us

understand the theme even better.

Our VBS Mission will be collecting items for “school kits” distributed by The United Methodist Committee On Relief (UMCOR) to children around the world following disasters - earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, floods, etc. For the school kits we are collecting: unsharpened pencils, 30-centimeter rulers, 24-count box of crayons, 2-inch or larger size eraser, hand-held pencil sharpener (at least 1” long), pads of paper (spiral/top-bound pads) loose-leaf paper, blunt scissors (rounded tip; not plastic) No advertisements, religious, patriotic, military or camouflage symbols are permitted.

VOLUNTEER NOW TO BE A “HERO” HELPER! Sign up in the church office or email Karen@northridgeumc.org. Be a hero by helping with:

Set Up on Saturday July 22 from 9am-1pm (we really need heroes for this!)

Registration and Welcome July 23 from 5pm-6pm

Activity Center Assistant on one or more of the evenings

Clean up crew after dinner or after activities on one or more of the evenings

Donate $ to cover costs of family scholarships & supplies (note “VBS” on check)

Vacation Bible School

July Events and Meetings

2 11 am July Picnic after Service on patio

Everyone welcome!

4 Happy 4th of July! Office Closed

5 No Soul Food Café

8 11 am Memorial Service for Ruth Sanders

– Sanctuary

9 11 am “Coffee & Conversation” for parents

– Library

6 pm Jazz Vespers – Sanctuary with

Jon Mayer and Friends

10 11:30 am UMW Board Mtg-Kendall Building

11 am to 10 pm Eat Out Monday at Maria’s

Kitchen, 9161 Reseda Blvd.

7 pm Church/Society Movie-Kendall Bldg.

11 5:30 pm Cook & Host dinner at The

San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission

16 10 am Guest Preacher: Rev. Sandy Liddell

11 am “Coffee & Conversation” for parents

– Library

17 7 pm SPRC – Library

18 5 pm Finance – Library

7 pm Trustees – Library

23 5:30 pm to 8 pm Family VBS

24 5:30 pm to 8 pm Family VBS

7 pm Book Club at Dorine Collins’ home

25 5:30 to 8 pm Family VBS

29 7 pm Benefit Concert for Guatemala

– Sanctuary (Carol de Leon)

Regular Weekly Events

Mondays: UMW Arts and Crafts 9 am Kendall Bldg T’ai Chi (1st & 3rd) 10 am Fireside Rm

Tuesdays: Cracker Barrel 10 am Library

Wednesdays: Maintenance 8:30 am Church Office Volunteers (WMD) WORMS 9:30 am Kendall Bldg. Jubilee Bells 5:30 pm Room 5/6 Celebration Ringers 7 pm Room 5/6

No rehearsal until September Thursdays: Chancel Choir 7:30 pm Sanctuary

No rehearsal until September 7/2-7/30 Summer choir–9 am Sunday

Fridays: Cracker Barrel 10 am Library T’ai Chi 10 am Fellowship Hall

Sundays: Devotional Group 8 am Library

Adult Study 9 am Library

Infant/Toddler Care in Nursery All morning

Worship Service 10 am Sanctuary

Brunch at 11 Fellowship Hall

Sunday School 10 am Kendall Bldg.

Grades Preschool-5 Kendall Bldg.

Children’s Choir 11 am Kendall Bldg.

Young Adult Brunch-1st Sunday- F. Hall

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