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Faith in Action is Sunday, May 20! On this day we’ll take church out to our community! We’ll gather at the church at 10 am for a send-off prayer, and then go out to do service projects. Be sure to sign up for a project at the sign-up table in the parlor.
It’s time for Health Kits! One of our Faith in Action projects is assembling Health Kits for UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief),… so we’re starting to collect the items needed for the kits. Please pick up a card or two with items needed from the bulletin board in the parlor and bring your donation of these items to the collection bin in the parlor. For more information contact Leeann Coffin at kumc-secy@optonline.net or 914-301-5179. Thank you.
***$1.00 bills need to be added to completed kits to purchase toothpaste – Give these to Melva Pitts or put in offering envelope rather than collection bin. (NOTE: UMCOR is now purchasing toothpaste in bulk to be added to health kits before shipping to ensure that the product does not expire before they are sent.)

Katonah United Methodist Church

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Katonah United Methodist Church

Spiritual Direction Group
A spiritual direction group is a supportive environment for anyone who wants to explore their relationship with God more deeply.
In a spiritual direction group, participants pray over questions such as “Who is God for me?
What has been going on between God and me? How am I relating to God?” Each person then has an opportunity to share as they choose, while the group listens prayerfully for how God may be working in that person’s life.
Spiritual direction is a powerful resource for enriching your faith journey.
Our group will begin meeting on Sunday, April 29, 4-5:30 pm. All are welcome and encouraged to attend, no matter where you are in your spiritual journey.
If you need childcare or if you want more information, please contact Pastor Melissa.

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We welcome our guests from Anchor House, a faith-based substance abuse treatment facility in Brooklyn.  They will share music & testimonies with us in worship, and food & fellowship with us after worship in the Parish Hall.

Also on April 15 in the Parish Hall is Unity Made Visible’s annual interfaith Community Sing, at 1:30 pm.

What a great day!

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The Katonah United Methodist Church is planning a number of events for the Lenten and Easter season.  All are welcome to attend.

On Maundy Thursday , April 5, at 6:30 pm, the church will hold its annual Agape Meal (Love Feast) and Service of the Shadows commemorating the Last Supper and Christ’s death.  Your experience of the joy of the resurrection will be deeper and more meaningful if you can attend this interactive service.  The first part of the service is a convivial potluck supper of simple finger foods, i.e., fruit, cheese, dips, crackers, and bread.  Beverages are provided.  It’s a festive time of fellowship.  After the supper, we enact a symbolic hand washing and move into the dramatic telling of the Passion story.

On Good Friday the sanctuary will be open for prayer from 12-3 PM.

The annual Easter Sunrise Service will be held Sunday, April 8, at 6:00 am at the south end of the Cross River Dam.  Dress warmly.

On Sunday, April 8, the joyous Easter Service at 10 am in the church sanctuary will feature special music and musicians.  Trumpeter Sal Ciraldo, drummer Martin Fisher and violinist Lucie Gelinas will join music director Keith Burton in accompanying the church choir’s stirring musical celebration of Easter.  A special fellowship hour will follow the service.  Please sign up to bring something to share.

Help decorate the cross and bear witness to God’s power and love to our community.  All attending the Easter Service are encouraged to bring cut flowers to hang on the cross standing outside on the church lawn.  The flowers symbolically transform the cross, an instrument of suffering, humiliation, and death, into a symbol of resurrection, love, and victory.  Flowers like daffodils, tulips, and daisies from your garden or the super market are perfect.

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God’s call to care for the environment begins at home. How energy efficient is your home? Are you wasting energy dollars?

Find out at a special presentation from Energize New York on Sunday, March 18 immediately following our 10 am worship service. There will be valuable information about the Energize program as well as Q & A with a panel of local homeowners.

Questions? Call 914-232-4094 or katonahumc@optonline.net.

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“Faith is reason grown courageous.”

 

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What Christian healing is not:

1. Christian healing is not magic.  it is not manipulating God to do what we want; rather, it is surrendering to God’s healing work in us.

2. Christian faith for healing is not a prediction of what God will do; it is simple trust that God loves us and is at work in us already.

3. Christian healing is not to be sought as a spiritual thrill for the healer or the person healed but is a way to grow as a Christian.

4. Christian healing is not proof that we are faithful or holy but a sign of God’s love.

from Stretch Out Your Hand: Exploring Healing Prayer, by Tilda Norberg and Robert D. Webber

 

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From Pastor Melissa’s sermon on Power, Jan. 29:

“Wisdom is the integration of thoughts and feelings.

Leadership is the integration of resolve and responsiveness.”

 

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From Pastor Melissa’s sermon on God’s call:

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” ~~~ Frederick Buechner

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Quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere.  We are caught in an inescapable network or mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny.”

“Far from being disturbed by the presence of the Church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the Church’s silent and often vocal sanction of things as they are.”