TAYORI - Highland Park UMC

Highland Park United Methodist Church
TAYORI
John Mark Wang, Pastor
Ken Miyoshi, Church Council Chairperson
Margie Miyoshi, Lay Leader
Volume 60
February/March 2015
No. 1
WHAT’S INSIDE
IMAGINENOMALARIA
2
Pastorally Speaking
2&3
Birthdays
3
Pictures
4
Scripture/Notes
5
Donations
6
Donations
7 Prayer List/minutes
8 Rummage sale notice
9 Calender
10 Advertisiing
Published every 2 months
Bishop Grant Hagiya has challenged each of us to save at least one
life for each member of our families before Annual Conference. How
many lives could you save? It will take many gifts, both large and
small, to meet our goal. Here’s how you can donate :
Edited by Margie Miyoshi
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Send a text message to 27722 and a $10 donation will be added to
your phone bill. The words in your text message help your donation be credited to your conference: MALARIA PNW for Pacific
Northwest
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Donate online at imaginenomaleria.org Make sure to select your
local church so that your congregation will get credit.
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Make checks payable to Imagine No Malaria with your church’s
name in the memo line and mail to : UMC—Imagine No Malaria
PO Box 440544 Nashville, TN 37244-0544
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Give to your local church—write Maleria in memo note
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The campaign administration costs are covered by a grant from the
Gates Foundation
Next deadline : March 23, 2015
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Parsonally Speaking ...
Dear beloved church family,
Happy New Year! Our new year of 2015 started out wonderfully at the church. We have much to
be thankful for in the New Year, including our
wonderful pianist, Marie Magenta, our beautiful
bright new floor, a renovated floor heating system
for Butler Chapel, and a mild winter of snow!
These are the tangible blessings we can rejoice and
be thankful for but there is so much more. I am
thankful for the excitement and joy the Holy Spirit
has been filling our church with through your kindness and love for one another, and our community.
We continue to support Grant Elementary School
as volunteers for 2nd Harvest’s food distribution,
and are beginning a Godly partnership with Family
Promise of Spokane to combat homelessness in our
community. As a church family, we have been able
to adopt a family in need this past Christmas season, and love them through gifts, encouragement,
and support. Our work with Crosswalk Ministry
downtown serves to provide delicious and nutritious meals to youth enduring difficult life circumstances. These are the marks of the fruit of the
Spirit in us. Christ is truly dwelling in us when we
are able to love and serve the least of the world.
Praise God for our church!
Every once in a while, I am fortunate enough
to attend Christian conferences and workshops to
better serve our church. In late December, I attended Chinese Mission Conference West Coast 2014
with my parents and brother as a family vacation.
In this conference of workshops, sermons, and buffet style meals for thousands of people, the Spirit
of God was with us. One of the guest speakers,
Rev. David Choi, of a church in Chicago gave a
dynamic message and I took away three convicting
points. 1. Rejoice in God for persecution in His
name. 2. The Gospel is more worthy than our own
life. 3. We need to stop living in fear and more in
trusting God. How many of us live into this reality
as Christians on a daily basis?
Feb/March
Even as pastor, I have much to do out of pure
gratitude for the sacrifice Jesus made in order for me
to have salvation and eternal life. Jesus Christ is
Lord! Pray that we would all give more of ourselves
for the glory of God.
We have signs of the Spirit moving and stirring
our church. Several of our church members have
been following along with the Daily Bible Reading
Guide, which breaks down the Bible into a couple
chapters of reading per day until completed after 12
months. Praise God! The Bible is the Word of God
given to us to nourish our spirit, and is one way God
may speak to us. Though many of us have been
Christians for most if not all of our lives, few of us
have actually read the Word of God completely.
Friends, family, and saints this should not be! Teresa,
our small group Bible study leader, will be leading in
discussion over the fascinating book of Genesis in
Sunday school and I encourage everyone to strengthen their faith with the group. Let’s not forget that
even Jesus was a part of a small group, and they received a lot of God’s favor. God bless you!
Grace and Peace,
Pastor John
February birthdays
9
Tina Webb
11
Marilyn McDowell
21
Masako Hamada
24
Jeanne Yamada
24
Shigeko Mukai
25
Joanne Ferris
Daylight savings
begins March 8
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Feb/March
UPCOMING EVENTS:
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Ash Wednesday Service 2/18 @5:00 pm
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Rummage Sale 3/6 & 3/7 @ 9 am
Ayako Tanaka & Georgette Rogers Co-chairs
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Easter Sunrise Service 4-5-15 @ 6 am
No host Breakfast At Frankie Doodles after
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Senbei Making 4/10 & 4/11 @ 8 Am
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Suki Yaki Dinner 4-25-15
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Church Picnic 9/9
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Senbei Making 9/26
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Fall Bazaar 10/3/15
Marie Magenta
Pastor John & father, Pastor John
March Birthdays
Teresa Mulkey &Georgette Rogers
Pictures from 2014
5
Marc Takeshita
6
Wayne McDowell
10
Lili Hirata
13
Essie Webb
15
Michaela Marinos
21
Mary Ando
22
Debbie Fair
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Feb/March
Ephesians 4:1-7 (The Message)
In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do.
While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I
want you to get out there and walk-better yet, run!- on
the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of
you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone
strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And
mark that you do this with humility and discipline-not
in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out
for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.
You were all called to travel on the same road and
in the same direction, so stay together, both outwardly
and inwardly. You have one Master, one faith, one
baptism, one God and Father of all, who rules over all,
works through all, and is present in all. Everything
you are and think and do is permeated with Oneness.
But that doesn’t mean you should all look and
speak and act the same. Out of the generosity of
Christ, each of us is given his own gift.
4:14-16 No prolonged infancies among us, please.
We’ll not tolerate babes in the woods, small children
who are an easy mark for imposters. God wants us to
grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in lovelike Christ in everything. We take our lead from
Christ, who is the source of everything we do. He
keeps us in step with each other. His very breath and
blood flow through us, nourishing us so that we will
grow up healthy in God, robust in love.
Excerpts From A Blueprint for Discipleship: I
will conclude this book by pressing each of us to make
a decision about where we are going. Or if you have
already committed to becoming a disciple of Jesus, I
will remind you where you have committed to go so
that we will remain focused in our efforts to arrive at
our intended destination. In life, we have to decide
where we want to go and how we are going to get
there. We need to decide what is and is not worth living for and dying for. The most important decision
that anyone makes in life is how to respond to the love
of God in Christ Jesus. The ultimate question that
confronts each of us when we consider Jesus Christ
and the claims of Christianity is, “Where Are You Going?” If Jesus were to ask you that question directly,
how would you answer it?
We have too frequently settled for a weak God on-
ly occasionally and unpredictably involved in our lives.
We need to reawaken to the power and vitality of our spiritual heritage. We need to repent of our apathy and our
spiritual complacency. We need to turn away from having
faith in what we can do by our own powers and place our
faith in what God is able to accomplish through us by
God’s power. God calls each of us to some specific task.
God wants to use every one of us. Each of us can be a part
of God’s work in this world if we choose to follow wherever God leads us. Are you headed in God’s direction or
somewhere else? Go to God and you will find that you are
headed toward home. Finding out home with God is, after
all, what the Wesleyan blueprint for discipleship is all
about.
Excerpts from Simple Church:
Congratulations, you are a builder. Build lives. That is
what ministry is all about. It is what you and your church
are called to do. The apostle Paul gives specific instructions to church leaders (the above scripture from Ephesians). Ministry is done so that the body of Christ may be
built up. The term Paul uses for “build up” is the Greek
work oikodome. It is a construction term. It paints the picture of building a house. Constructing lives is the calling.
First Peter 2:5 and Ephesians 2:22 compare the expanding
of the kingdom of God to the building of a house. As people come to faith in Christ, the spiritual house is expanded.
The new addition is constantly being added. In both senses
you are called to partner with God in a great building project. You are to build the lives of individuals by helping
them progress in the faith. You are a builder. You must be
careful how you build. The how is important. To build
the lives of people effectively, you need a clear ministry
process. If you want your process to be clear, you must
define it, illustrate it, discuss it, and measure it.
Highland Park Tayori
PLEDGES/GENERAL
OFFERINGS– Nov 2,
2014-Jan 11-2015
Akiyama, Mas & Miyo
Ando, Care
Ando, Mary
Barker, Mary
Beck, Marsha & Duane
Bertrand, Mieko
Bott, Vern & Kathy
Christenson, Mike &
Junko
Clevenger, David & Hiroko
Corneil, Mike & Lisel
Cooper, Patricia Edamatsu
Daly, Joseph & Michiko
Deeley, Minako
Dow, Rev. Kevin &
Elaine
Edamatsu, Phyllis
Edamatsu, Seiko
Emoto, Jerry & Linda
Evans, Scott & Jeni
Ferris, Tom & Joanne
Fukai, Pam
Furumasu, Chuck & Amy
Grendahl, Linda
Hamada, Masako
Hashimoto, Dorothy
Heyden, Gene & Toni
Hirai, Mike & Marcie
Hirata, Lili
Honda, Ada
Honda, Karla
Honda, Kazuko
Kawabata, Jim & Pat
Kessinger, Paul & Charina
Kusel, Scott & Karen
Luther, Norm & Rosalin
Magenta, Marie & Kurt
Weigel
Marinos. Chris & Patty
Maruyama, Yosh
McDowell, Wayne &
Marilyn
Miki, Mihoko
Miller, Jason & Anne
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Minata, George & Aiko
Miyoshi, Ken & Margie
Mulkey, Teresa
Munk, Diana
Murphy, David & Anita
Nakata, Harry & Kimi
Newton, Chris & Pam
Mukai, Shigeko
Oka, Nobie
Okamoto, Sumi
Okura, Bonnie
Ono, Tsuyoshi & Masako
Pelloux, William and
Yoko
Rogers, James &
Georgette
Sanders, Yaeko
Schierman, Pamela H. &
Daniel
Snowden, Chris & Sydnee
Stephenson, Bill
Suemori, Emi
Takami, Debbie
Takami, Mary
Takeshita, Patricia
Tanaka, Ayako
Tanaka, Alice
Tanaka, Mikel
Tanaka, Pat
Tarlton, Chieko
Tetsuka, Charlotte
Wakabayashi, Sakae
Walker, Ed & Serena
Walker, Motoko
Wang, Pastor John Mark
Watanabe, Theodore
Webb, Chieko & Essie
Yamada, George
Yamada, Jeanne
Yamamoto, Kaz
Yonago, Hida
Anonymous (25)
Minata, Brett Ellison Kodama, George & Hiromee
Heyamoto, George &
Susie Ehama, Shiochi &
Noe Kayahara, Teru &
Tayeko Kayahara, Arlene
Kayahara, June
Schindler:
Kaz & Grace Kayahara
Ken & Geoff Kayahara
In memory of Hito Hashimoto, Harry Emoto, Masuo Akiyama: Chris and
Pam Newton
In memory of Roy Akiyama, Marc Akiyama, Kay
& Shizuko Mita: Hisako
Akiyama
In memory of father
Katsuji, mother Matsuye,
brother Kenneth and
Aunt Tomiko: Lynda Peterson
In memory of Sam Hirata: Lisel & Michael Corneil
In memory of Tom Ando:
Care Ando
In memory of Tom Barker & Sam Tanaka & Shizue Kihara: Mary Barker
In memory of Rev. & Mrs
Shigeo Shimada & Mr
&Mrs Jintaro Kawabori:
Gloria & Isamu Kawabori
In memory of Tets Nobuku: Ayako Tanaka
In memory of Marie
Matsumoto: Ron Matsumoto
In memory of Migaki
family : Mrs. Kiyo Shioshi
MEMORIAL GIFTS In memory of Mas AkiyaIn memory of Leonard
ma:
Kaz Yamamoto
Kasai:
Tsuyoshi & Masako Ono Thelma Yasuhara
Jim &Pat Kawabata
In memory of Kansuka
& Haruko Minata, Marie Shigeko Mukai
Feb/March
Jeanne Yamada
Eva Aoyama
Karen & Allen Hatley
Miyo Akiiyama
Duane & Marsha Beck
Dorothy Hashimoto
Ada Honda family: Karla
Honda, Marcia & Michael
Hirai, Rhona Honda, Bill
Carson
Mark Houk
P.L. Johnston
Tsuyo Matsui
George & Aiko Minata
Chris & Pam Newton
Nobi Oka
Joan Schwisow
Ayako Tanaka
Pat Tanaka
David & Gwen Utley
Tina & Michael Winebarger
Steven & Laura Yoshihara
Mark & Donna Young
To Endowment: Mary
Barker, Wayne & Marilyn
McDowell
In memory of Kinuyo
Spencer: to endowment,
Motoko Walker
General donation
United Methodist Women
Youth group breakfast
fund
Sunday School Fund:
Ada Honda
Chris & Pam Newton
Charlotte Tetsuka
Use of Hall: Spochien
Toddler’s Class
Honor of 94th birthday to
youth group fund: Ada
Honda
Spokane Alliance: Marsha Beck
Tayori: Kaz & Grace
Kayahara
End of year gift: Larry &
Susan Mukai
Highland Park Tayori
Thanksgiving offering:
Ada Honda
David & Hiroko Clevenger
Kaz Yamamoto
Emi Suemori
Anita & David Murphy
Rev Shiro & Mabel Kazato
Duane & Marsha Beck to Adopt a
family
Mary Ando
Christmas Offering:
Anonymous
Pat Tanaka
Lisel & Michael Corneil
Phyllis & Ken Hathaway
Jim & Pat Kawabata
Yaeko Sanders
Motoko Walker
George Yamada
Jeanne Yamada
Care Ando
Duane & Marsha Beck
Kimiko & Michael Johnston
Anita & David Murphy
Emi Suemori
Chieko Tarlton
Ayako Tanaka
Kaz Yamamoto
Hisako Akiyama
Mary Ando
David & Hiroko Clevenger
Gregory & Kathy Fjeran
Chuck & Amy Furumasu
Dorothy Hashimoto
Rev Shiro & Mabel Kazato
Haru Kuroiwa
Darrell Mihara
Mary Mihara
George & Aiko Minata
Chris & Pam Newton
Nobi Oka
Tsuyoshi & Masako Ono
David & Gwen Utley
Chieko & Essie Webb
Hida Yonago
Eva Aoyama
Mike & Junko Christenson
Fumi Munekiyo
Tsuyo Matsui
Ronald Matsumoto
Sumi Okamoto
Karla Honda
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Susan & Dennis Okamoto
Pastor John Wang
Initial Pledge Envelope:
Dorothy Hashimoto
Karla Honda
Yaeko Sander
Ayako Tanaka
Mikel Tanaka
Alice Tanaka
Hida Yonago
Imagine No Malaria fund:
Kathy & Vern Bott
Chuck & Amy Furumasu
Norm &Rozalind Luther
Chris & Pam Newton
Marie Magenta & Kurt Weigel
Phyllis Hathaway
Charlotte Tetsuka
Mosquito Net:
Mary Barker
Ayako Tanaka
Feb/March
exhibited an artistic gift at an early
age and shared it with his family,
friends and the Spokane community
for the rest of his life. He worked
as a sign painter for Markham Advertising from 1955 to 1981, painting billboards around the region.
He designed and painted the N Division White Elephant Store’s
northfacing wall and his personal
touches can still be seen there. In a
desire to express his love for his
Savior, he painted a large copy of
Sallman’s, Head of Christ, and presented it to Highland Park Church
in the early 50’s, where it is still
displayed. Mas devoted many years
of volunteer leadership to his
church, the JACL, and boy scouts
and was known for his beautiful
vegetable garden. He married his
soul mate, Miyo Yamaura, on November 22, 1945, passing away one
week after reaching their 69th anniversary. In these last years, family
was blessed to witness his love for
her every evening as he kissed and
hugged her goodnight, saying,
Masuo Akiyama passed from this
“God loves you and I love you.”
earth into the presence of his Lord Condolences to Miyo, son, Paul,
Jesus Christ on November 29, 2014 daughter, Laura Yoshihara and
at home with family in Spokane.
their families. Memorial services
He was born in Eastport, ID on
were held at Highland Park on DeMay 19, 1917 along with twin
cember 19, 2014.
brother, Makio (Mickey) The famiCondolences also to Janis Saiki on
ly, including parents Manjiro and
Rin, and older sister May, moved to the passing of her mother, Jean FinSpokane when the twins were about negan on December 24th.
4 yrs old. Mas and Mickey attend- Condolences to Mihoko Miki on
ed Lewis & Clark high school their the passing of her husband Henry.
freshman and part of their sophoHe was born in Matsqui, B.C He
more years. Due to challenges fac- received his degree in Electrical
ing them during the depression and Engineering and had a career in the
following the loss of May to tuber- aerospace industry. He and his wife
culosis at age 17, the family immi- of 50 years lived in Los Angeles
grated to Japan in 1933 when the
before moving to Spokane . Henry
boys were 16. Mas returned to
fought a long and courageous battle
Spokane when he turned 18 and
with ALS.
made it his permanent home. Mas
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Know anybody in
need of prayer?
Healing from illness
Wesley Miyoshi
Tom Ferris
Joanne Ferris
Vern Bott
Webb family
Those in nursing homes
Maggie Nishimura
Mara Mihara
Yoshiko Nakagawa
Dee Matsumoto
Sam Ogo
Healing at home
Connie Seikijima
Mitzi Saiki
Please let Pastor
John or Pat Kawabata know
Church: 535-2687
Pat: 624-6892
Feb/March
ing. Checking with Avista for an energy audit to find
where we lose the most heat. Avista may also be able
to replace the light by the short stairway.
Alice and Karla are checking into a sign for the
church. Many do not know that the grounds are our
church.
Several minor repairs are needed: the kitchen sink has
a faucet that drips, men’s restroom also has dripping
faucets, several of the fluorescent lights need to be
changed.
We will be purchasing a new folding machine for the
bulletins and the newletters.
Pastor John will be taking some time off to study for
his coming ordination and has taken the week of January 11 to complete some of the paperwork. Pastor
John is gone January 16 & 17 for a conference meeting in Seattle and at the end of January will be going
to Washington D.C for a Forum sponsored by the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church. Marilyn McDowell, Chair of the PPR
Committee, reminded us that the pastor has 4 weeks
Administrative Council Minutes
of vacation time and he should take those to avoid
burn-out. This was passed down from the District SuOpening prayer given by Lay Leader, Margie Miyoshi. perintendent.
Family Promise of Spokane asked if they could use the
Minutes from November 9, 2014 were approved as
social hall for about two hours each Monday evening.
written.
They feed some homeless families from 5:30-7:30
Attendees: Ken & Margie Miyoshi, Georgette &
P.M. They will begin at the end of January. The trial
James Rogers, Wayne & Marilyn McDowell, Diana
period will be for six months. Other organizations will
Munk, Alice & Mikel Tanaka, Teresa Mulkey, Jason provide the meals. A motion to allow Family Promise
Miller, Pastor John Wang, Ayako Tanaka, Mary Bark- of Spokane to use the social hall on Monday evenings
er, Kimi Nakata, Ada Honda.
was seconded and passed. Mary Barker will monitor
the meetings.
Finance: Jason reported the project of replacing the
floor is almost completed, final step is putting a seal- Next meeting: February 8, 2015 or as called.
ant on. Alice Tanaka is getting bids for this final step.
Respectfully Submitted, Mary Barker
The metal handicap ramp was voted down, should get
bids for a concrete ramp by sometime in March. Rout- —added note from Mary -On January 18, 2015 after
church we celebrated the Japanese/Chinese New Year
ing for the walkway should be set for the bidding.
with a tasty potluck luncheon. There were many peoWe have contacted Rehm to take care of the parking
ple and it was good to visit with people we hadn’t seen
lot when at least three inches of snow or more falls.
for awhile. Several people received beautiful gifts
Cleaning of the walks is a separate matter.
when their names were drawn. There was plenty of
food so no one went home hungry and plates were
The Board consented to have a free library stand
where the community can take out books or exchange made for shut-ins. It was a nice way to greet the New
Year with Great food, Great Friends, and a Gracious
books. Jason will check into this.
God who loves us all.
The church heating system is now repaired and work-
Rummage Sale
March 6-7, 2015
Please no broken or torn articles
February 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1
2
Family Promise
5:30-7:30 pm
3
Spochien
Toddler Class
11:00 AM
4
5
Turn Around
meeting
6
7
8
Ad Council
Meeting
9
Family Promise
5:30-7:30 pm
10
Spochien
Toddler Class
11:00 AM
11
12
13
14
15
16
Family Promise
5:30-7:30 pm
17 11Spochien
Toddler Class
Food distribution 4-6 pm *
18
Ash Wednesday
Service 5:00 pm
19
20
21
22
23 Nikkei Women’s club
Family Promise
5:30-7:30 pm
24Spochien
Toddler Class
11:00 AM
25
26
27
28
*(at Grant
School)
March 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1
2
Family Promise
5:30-7:30 pm
3 Spochien
Toddler Class
11:00 AM
4
5
6
Rummage
Sale 9
7
Rummage
Sale 9
8
Daylight Savings Begins
9
Family Promise
5:30-7:30 pm
10Spochien
Toddler Class
11:00 AM
11
12
13
14
15
16
Family Promise
5:30-7:30 pm
17 11 Spochien
Toddler Class //
food Distribution 4-6 pm*
18
19
20
21
22
23 Nikkei Womens Club 11 am
Family Promise
5:30-7:30 pm
24 Spochien
Toddler Class
11:00 AM
25
26
27
28
29
30
Family Promise
5:30-7:30 pm
31 Spochien
Toddler Class
11:00 AM
*(at Grant
School)
Highland Park
United Methodist Church
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Spokane, WA 99202-2329
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