September 8, 2016 - Centennial Christian Church

Centennial Christian Church CCC News· Sept. 8 2016
Church Work Day, p.1
Weiner Roast, p.1
Thought & Prayers, p.2
Thank You p.2
Wed@CCC, p.3
Homecoming, p.4
From the Pastor, p.5
By the numbers, birthdays, anniversaries, p.6
Upcoming events, p.7
In Remembrance, p.8
Homecoming is coming!!
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Church Work Day-Saturday
September 17
Have you noticed? The people who
call Centennial their church home
are attempting to make our church
exterior more attractive.
Your church has just been tuckpointed; it needed to be done and
the church looks vastly improved.
Additional building improvements
are in the planning stages.
On Saturday, September 17, 2016
your church is sponsoring an outside
workday beginning at 8:00 am and
going until we are done or too tired.
All the work is landscape of sorts;
trimming, weeding, spreading dirt,
laying landscape paper and laying
mulch. If you have yard tools, please
bring them with you.
Thank you everyone for the many
ways you support Centennial Christian Church.
New Sunday School for
Pre-k through 5th
Sunday, September 11
9:00 AM
See page 4
It all starts September 14th!
Wed@CCC needs your help!
See page 3 to see how you can help.
Church Wiener Roast Sunday, September 25
The church wiener roast will be at Forrest Park
on Sunday, September 25 beginning at 4:00
PM. Please bring hot dogs, buns, and a dish
to share.
April, Gary Bates, Peggy Bates, Barbara Burress, Roseann Calhoun, Ricky Cantu, Vickie Cheek, Clyde
and Julie Cleinmark, Muriel Dawson, Linda F., Lori Fry, Mike Fry, Glenda, Dorothy Gordon, Larry
Gordon, Vernon Gordon, Gene and Elaine Grosse, Tracy Hallahan, Linda Kauppi, Karen, Bill Klink,
Shawn Latta, Tammy Leonard, Austin Lowder, Lexi, Carrie Melick, Morgan’s Family, Henley Moore,
Beverley Murphy, Ann and Butch Perring, Helen Poplett, Pete Rasmussen, Rhonda, Robert, Barbara
Short, Lois Sisson, Mary Sisson, Cami Starks, Connie Smith, Cathy Timler, Laura Wallace, Tammy
Werkheiser, William, Marian Winkler, young friend of Jan Dill
AT HOME/ASSISTED LIVING: George Bohall, Ben & Sue Boyd, Eileen Cook, Earl & Pat McIntyre,
Wanda Otto, Anita Poling, June Webber, Elsie Wetzel
MILITARY: Mark Brienen, Brent Ferguson, Keyla Folsom, Troy Guyran, Benjamin Horn, Michael Iverson,
Devin Jones, Adam and Angie Lienhop, Clay Short, John Thomas, Jason Van Note, Darrell Walton,
Tyler Watson, Glen Whitecotton
NURSING HOMES: McLean County—Rosie Geske, Marilyn Sherman; Sugar Creek Care Center—
David Gibson, Don Hines; Westminster — Millie Williamson
Mid-Central Community Action and their continued services in our community.
Memorial donations in loving memory of Lois Hines were given by:
Mrs. Anne Ake, Dave Ashbrook, Steve & Sarah Aughenbaugh, Patrick & Sheri Bane, James Birky & Lori Guth,
Bart & Amanda Bittner, Tim Bittner, Homer &Jeanne Bozarth, Mary Brewer, Bennie & Esther Brown, Frances
Burns, Frederick & Joan Chapman, Jennifer Coombs, Connie Crank, Marcia Crosby, James Dee, Kimberly
Daffer, Mr. & Mrs. Russ Edge, Mark Erdman, Nancy, Keith & Amanda Erickson, Cynthia Ferguson, Ruth Ann
Fraker, Pat & Jerry Fitzgerald, Margaret Frahm, Dan & Sharon Frizzell, Nancy Froelich, David Geshiwlm, Douglas
& Kimberly Geshiwlm, Ron & Rae Geske, Joe Gibson, Kent & Stacey Gorsuch, Carman Gresham, Tomi Gross,
Ron & Nancy Guthoff, Audrey Harp, Mary Haskell, Greg & Lisa Hayward, Darla Heath, Gerald Hinshaw, James
Hinshaw, Scott & Shawn Hoeft, Ronald & Carolyn Hofbauer, Chris Huse, Harold & Kathy Johnson, Dorothy &
Maurice Jones, Faye & Syl Keller, Edward & Jancye Kilpatrick, Dave & Julie King, John and & Domine King,
Robert & Vicki King, Rosemary & David King, Doris Koch Family, Patrick & Susan Larkin, Lawrence & Marilyn
Layton, Charlotte Leach, Mark & Connie Leake, Teri Liston, Larry & Shirley Lowe, John McGillicuddy & Karen
Corrigan, Pat & Earl McIntyre, Diane McNamara, Michael McNeely & Sandra Shirk-McNeely, Kent & Karen
Meister, Pete & Patti Merna, Larry & Kellie Milby, Claude & Martha Miller, Kristin Miller, Dennis & Cynthia
Mohrman, Jane Moore, Floyd & Carol Morefield, Jim Morrissey, Rodney Murch, Beverly Murphy, Mr. & Mrs.
Charles Murphy, Carl & Mary Neubauer, Carroll & Nancy Newberry, David & Carol Nyaard, Karen & Amy
Ogan, Cathy & Dave Oloffson, Imogene Olsen, Paul & Connie Patterson, Paula H. Penebaker, Anita Poling,
Joyce Ponrenke, Jane & Sam Redding, Lynne Rider, Jerry & Carole Ringer, John & Sharon Roggy, Mr. & Mrs. R
Scott Romine, Barbara & John Rosenteel, Susan H. Sears, Jim & Esther Sengpiel, Evelyn Shiner, Shirley
Soderstrom, Roy & Joanne Sparks, Harvey & Brooksie Styron, Mary Sweeney, Sharon Tallon, Jody Thoele, Susan
& Mark Thoennes, Rosemary Toohill, Larry & Laurie Turilli, Teresa Ulrich, Ruth Valentine, Kristy & Brad Wade,
Karen Walters, Pat Watson, David & Mary Webb, June Webber, Sunshine & Bill Wetzel, Rob Wills, Amy J White,
Eugene & Nancy Williams, Tim Zadoks, Joseph & Sara Zimmerman, Sheila Zunker
P.2
Wed@CCC Volunteers Needed!
Wed@CCC is our midweek program for children age 3 through High School. It consists of dinner in a
family-type setting, Bible Study, Games, Choir, and Crafts. Bible Study and Choir alternate each
week as well as Crafts and Games. Dinner is from 5:15 to 6:00 followed by a time of singing and
sharing of celebrations and prayer requests. There is also an adult Bible Study that meets each
week. Plan now to be a part of this great program! Wed@CCC runs from September 14-November
16 and from January 18-March 22. It begins at 5:15 PM and ends at 7:15 PM.
We need your help with this very successful program. The more help we have the less work it is for
everyone. All volunteers are welcome to join us for dinner each week. There is a sign-up sheet in
the entryway by the elevator.
Here are the various positions that we still need to fill:
Pre-Cooks – Make the dessert for the meal. Usually done Tues. evening or during
the day on Wed. There are entrée pre-cooks and dessert pre-cooks.
Servers/Clean-up/ Dishwashers - Help serve the meal, clean up the dining room and
kitchen, wash the dishes/operate the dishwasher, and put the dishes away. Need to be
at the church by 5:10 PM and are usually through by 6:30. (If you can’t be there by 5:10 that is
fine)
Table Parents - Eat dinner with the children at your table, build relationships with the children, and
help them with the meal and with the outreach butterflies. 5:10-6:15.
Bible Study Teachers - Lead the kids in a Bible Study every other week. Curriculum is provided.
Preschool from 6:15-6:45; K-2nd from 6:15-6:45; 3rd – 5th from 6:45-7:15,
Crafts - Lead the kids in crafts every other week. 6:15-7:15. Each class is 30 minutes. Classes are
Preschool-2nd & 3rd-5th (these may be combined).
Adult Bible Study Leader - Lead the adults in a Bible study every week from 6:15-7:15. Many adults
come and volunteer for dinner/clean-up and then stay for Bible Study.
JR/SR High Youth Leaders - Help coordinate the activities of the JR/SR High.
Choir Helper – Help Gwen with choir every other week. (6:15-7:15)
P.3
You are cordially invited to
Homecoming
“Tie a yellow ribbon ‘round the old oak tree” *
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Centennial Christian Church
9:00 AM: NEW! Sunday School Opens for Pre-School
through 5th Grade Children
Jr. High and High School Class resumes
NEW! Six-week “Basic Christian Beliefs” Adult
Class begins for seekers and new members, led
by Pastor Neal
Adult Bible Study Class resumes
10:15 AM:
HOMECOMING WORSHIP with a special
blessing and keepsake GIFT for everyone
11:15 AM:
HOMECOMING POTLUCK DINNER – join us
for the best cooking ever!
1 to 3 PM:
OPEN HOUSE at the new home of Pastor
Neal and Mary Kentch, 1410 East Olive Street
*Please wear yellow if you can, as a sign of welcoming
everyone home to Centennial.
P.4
From the Pastor
I read a book a long time ago, back in my Divinity School days,
entitled, The Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry. It was written by a
fellow named H. Richard Niebuhr with some help from a couple of his
colleagues. What did this fellow and his friends say that the purpose
of the church is? They said that the purpose of the church is the
promotion of the love of God and the love of neighbor. The church is
to promote among people these two loves.
These two loves: When Jesus was asked by some experts in the law
which is the greatest commandment in that law, he replied, “Love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and
greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Like I said, I read that book a long time ago. A long, long time ago. I’ve been in this being a pastor
“business” for quite a while since then. I’ve served churches in big cities, small towns, and even one
in the middle of a cornfield. I’ve served in a larger church, in a few small ones, and in some mid-size
churches. I’ve served churches in the north, the south, the east, and the west. I’ve been around
the block a few times. But I keep coming back to what this Niebuhr fellow wrote in that book. I
have not come up with a better answer to the question, “What is the purpose of the church?”
Sure, a church in the middle of a cornfield will set different goals for itself than a church in the big
city. And a small church may come up with a different kind of mission statement than a larger
church. And a church in the eastern part of the country will do things differently than a church out
there in crazy California. But each one, attempting in its own way to be faithful, will end up trying to
promote, in its own way, these two loves: the love of God and the love of neighbor.
I think it is important for people in churches to talk about God, sing about God, and pray to God. It
is important to talk about, sing about, and pray to God who is worthy of our love, who is lovely. This
is maybe more difficult to do in this day and age, for all kinds of reasons, than it has been in the
church’s past. But I think it can be done. And it needs to be done. I try to talk about the greatness
and power of God. And I try to talk about the beauty, goodness, and love of God. I try to talk
about these things especially as these are made known to us in Jesus Christ. I try to talk about God,
who is worthy of a human being’s love, of your love and mine, of any human being’s love.
As we talk and sing about God, who is most worthy of our love, as we pray to God most lovely,
something happens to us. As we come to love God—God, whose goodness and love falls like the
rain and shines like the sun upon us all—we come to love what God loves. We learn to love as God
loves. Sure, we will be better at it some days than other days, but we will come to love our
neighbors. We will learn to love our neighbors.
None of this is easy in this day and age and for all kinds of reasons. But, in this day and age, I
cannot think of anything more necessary, more needed. Maybe especially in these times is it
important to promote these two loves: the love of God, who is most worthy of our love, and the love
of one neighbor for another.
Pastor Neal
P.5
08/28
Sunday Service-General Fund
1,122.00
Hospitality Donation
MF-Lois Hines Memorial
19.06
4,155.00
Bldg Use-Bridge Club
Bldg Use-TOPS
Grand Total
98.00
30.00
5,424.06
09/04
Sunday Service-General Fund
2,397.00
Hospitality Donation
MF-Lois Hines Memorial
13 .00
335.00
Bldg Use– Bridge Club
Bldg Use-TOPS
Grand Total
74.00
30.00
2,849.00
Attendance
Members/Participants
Guests
Sunday School
Worship Total
08/28
78
15
09/04
66
5
93
71
AUGUST BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES
Jim and Esther Sengpiel
09/01
Dennis Pritchard
09/14
Pat Watson
09/03
Ben Boyd
09/16
Emma Kline
09/06
Rosie Geske
09/19
Lucerne Brienen
09/07
Steve and Sandra Lienhop
09/20
Sandra Lienhop
09/07
Sarah Todd
09/21
Inez Raney
09/08
Tyce Beckman
09/25
Barbara Short
09/11
Bill Wetzel
09/29
Bret and Brenda Foland
09/11
Don Hines
09/30
Jan Dill
09/12
Bill Klink
09/30
Neal Kentch
09/13
Pat McIntyre
09/30
P.6
New Sunday School
for Pre-k through 5th
Sunday
September 11
9:00 AM
Church Work Day
Saturday
September 17
8:00 AM
Sept.11-Sept. 17
Sept.18-Sept.24
Sept.25-Oct. 1
Oct. 2-Oct. 8
SUNDAY, Sept. 11
Bible Study
9:00 AM
Social Time
9:30 AM
Worship
10:15 AM
Homecoming Potluck
after Worship
Monday, Sept.12
Bell Choir
5:30 PM
Trustees (library) 6:30 PM
Tuesday, Sept. 13
CWF (FH)
9:30 AM
TOPS
5:30 PM
Worship (library) 6:30 PM
Wednesday Sept. 14
Bridge (GH)
12:45 PM
Wed@CCC
5:15 PM
Adult Bible Study
6:15 PM
Choir
7:30 PM
SUNDAY, Sept. 18
Bible Study
9:00 AM
Social Time
9:30 AM
Worship
10:15 AM
Praise Team during
Worship
SUNDAY, Sept. 25
Bible Study
9:00 AM
Social Time
9:30 AM
Worship
10:15 AM
SUNDAY, Oct. 2
Bible Study
9:00 AM
Social Time
9:30 AM
Worship
10:15 AM
Hospitality Time after Worship
Hospitality Time after Worship
Weiner Roast (Forrest
Park)
4:00 PM
Monday, Sept.26
Bell Choir
5:30 PM
Tuesday, Sept. 27
TOPS
5:30 PM
Elders (Psalms) 6:30 PM
Wednesday Sept. 28
Bridge (GH)
12:45 PM
Wed@CCC
5:15 PM
Adult Bible Study
6:15 PM
Choir
7:30 PM
Monday, Oct. 3
Bell Choir
5:30 PM
Christian Ed (FH) 6:30 PM
Tuesday, Oct. 4
TOPS
5:30 PM
Members FH) 5:30 PM
Wednesday Oct. 5
Bridge (GH)
12:45 PM
Wed@CCC
5:15 PM
Adult Bible Study
6:15 PM
Choir
7:30 PM
Newsletter articles due
Newsletter articles due
Thursday, Oct. 6
Bridge (GH) 11:15 AM
Outreach (FH) 5:00 PM
TOPS
5:15 PM
Saturday, Oct. 8
Bridge (GH) 11:30 AM
Adult Tween Mystery
Dinner 6:00 PM
Newsletter articles due
Thursday, Sept. 15
Bridge (GH) 11:15 AM
TOPS
5:15 PM
Saturday, Sept. 17
Church Work Day
8:00 AM
Bridge (GH) 11:30 AM
Hospitality Time after Worship
Monday, Sept. 19
Bell Choir
5:30 PM
Bunko (FH)
6:30 PM
Tuesday, Sept. 20
TOPS
5:30 PM
Property( FH)
6:00 PM
Wednesday Sept. 21
Bridge (GH)
12:45 PM
Wed@CCC
5:15 PM
Adult Bible Study
6:15 PM
Choir
7:30 PM
Thursday, Sept. 22
Bridge (GH) 11:15 AM
TOPS
5:15 PM
Ladies Nite Out 6:00 PM
Men’s Dinner 6:00 PM
Newsletter mailed/emailed
Saturday, Sept. 24
Bridge (GH) 11:30 AM
Thursday, Sept. 29
Young@Heart
(Curtis Orchard) 10:00 AM
Bridge (GH) 11:15 AM
TOPS
5:15 PM
Saturday, Oct.1
Bridge (GH) 11:30 AM
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Centennial Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ)
309.828.2185
people@centennialcc.org
www.centennialcc.org
Office Hours: 8 a.m. - 2p.m.
Monday-Thursday
Administrative Assistant:
Jerry Fitzgerald
Pastor:
Rev Neal Kentch
Return Service Requested
In Remembrance
On September 11 2001, the United States was attacked by terrorists. Approximately 3000
people were killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.
Please keep their families and them in your prayers.
“From our youngest to our oldest, we are moved by Christ’s love to worship together and
serve all people in God's name."