"Fins and Feathers" Dinner @ Corvallis UMC

Corvallis UMC is hosting a "Fins & Feathers" wild game dinner this coming Friday, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (a free-will offering will be accepted).

Scripture lessons for January 29

Camp on the Boulder

The lesson for the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany comes to us from Matthew 5:1-12.

This week @ Stevi UMC

Monday: 
7:00 pm, Living Clean

Tuesday:  
7:00 pm, Choir

Wednesday:

8:00 am, WIC

10:00 am, Methodism study: Georgia & the Moravians

6:00 pm, Worship on Wednesday/youth

Friday:

10:00 am, Drop-in Bible Study (lesson 9)

10:00 am - 2:00 pm, Homeless Population Survey
5:00 pm-7:00 pm. "Fins & Feathers" wild game dinner @ Corvallis UMC 

Sunday:

9:00 am, Church school
9:00 am, Methodism study: Coke, Asbury & the early American Methodists

10:15 am, Praise singing

10:30 am, Worship

11:30 am, Fellowship

11:45 am, Chimes

A foggy morning in Stevensville

Prayers arising

"We Three Kings" from the chimes

A reading from Isaiah 9

Loving our community time

Marcia Prather offers coffee to the community

The Bitterroot Valley was shrouded in a blanket of heavy fog this morning which made for a challenging drive for congregation coming to study, worship, and share at Stevi UMC.

The chimes offered to God "We Three Kings" which continued the theme of the season after the Epiphany. Pastor Charles took the sermon from I Corinthians 1:10-15, 17-18, the desire for Christian unity.

Thanks this morning to: Liz Goddard, Belinda Alkula, Mary Hackett, and Lisa Nicholls, children's teachers; Paul Ludington, praise music; Lynn Moshier and Ed Sperry, greeters/ushers; Ollie & Rollie, acolytes; Mitch Edgar, acolyte wrangler; Julie Ludington, piano; Carol Gragg, children's message; Cammie Edgar, power point; Tom Bishop, camera; Marilyn Murphy, chimes, Bev Schneider, liturgist; and Marcia Prather, Helen Lowry, & Bev Schneider, fellowship time.

Saturday Morning UMW

Six were on hand this morning for the UMW's Saturday Morning Circle. A productive gathering, these ladies are on fire for mission!

It was decided that the group will focus on the third Sunday of each month to promote the needs of the community Food Pantry.

The effort to recycling plastic (at the parsonage) is showing great promise with the bins filling up quickly. Everyone who has brought items to the garage has removed the lids, rinsed the container, and placed it in the proper bin. 

Next meeting will be on February 18.

Valentines Dinner is coming soon!

Save the date: Saturday, February 11 @ 6:30 pm for the Fourth Annual UMM Valentines Dinner at Stevensville UMC!

The cost is the same as last year, $25.00 which includes the meal (catered by Cafe` Firenze) and some amazing music, and delightful community sharing.

We all have a part to play as we restore a broken nation

1/20/2017

 

On this inauguration day of the 45th president of the United States, may we pause in prayer for President Donald Trump. The mantle of leadership has been placed upon him. Our success as a nation rests on his success as a leader. May God’s spirit be with him, giving him wisdom to lead in difficult times, compassion to lead so the most vulnerable are cared for, grace to withstand conflict and criticism, and vision to bring us together as a country so we live into the highest of values we hold most dear.

We all have a part to play as we restore a broken nation to wholeness. I believe we in the Mountain Sky Area have a unique gift to offer in this moment. In 1992, a group gathered in Aspen, Colorado, in the recognition that the purpose of education is not only to impart knowledge, but also to impart character.

The Aspen Declaration says, in part:

"... The present and future well-being of our society requires an involved, caring citizenry with good moral character ... People do not automatically develop good moral character; therefore, conscientious efforts must be made to help young people develop the values and abilities necessary for moral decision making and conduct ... Effective character education is based on core ethical values which form the foundation of democratic society, in particular, respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, caring, justice and fairness, and civic virtue and citizenship." (www.waarden.org/studie/concepten/history.html)

I believe these values can help us in the living of these days.

Respect: We must have respect for our leaders, even when we disagree with them; we must respect others, even when we don’t understand their lives;

Responsibility: We must exhibit responsibility in how we live our lives, knowing that our choices impact the well-being of other people, and creation itself;

Trustworthiness: We must live in ways that communicate to others that they are safe with us; we will protect their dignity and work shoulder-to-shoulder when their lives are threatened;

Caring: We must let love guide all we do;

Justice and Fairness: We must seek to ensure that "justice for all" is not just a slogan, but ingrained in the way we treat each other and make laws;

Civic virtue: We must live in a way that all we do in our personal life enhances community, its well-being and the well-being of others;

Citizenship: We must remain engaged even when we want to walk away. A democracy requires the participation of everyone.

As United Methodists, may we who follow Jesus commit ourselves not only to these values, but to extending the love of God in all we do. In this moment of political change and a new beginning, may our actions mirror the One who calls us to love God and love others as we love ourselves.

Blessings,
Bishop Karen Oliveto