ANNOUNCEMENTS - March 7, 2010

Asbury United Methodist Church
March 7, 2010
Welcome to worship at Asbury United Methodist Church. If you are a visitor from another congregation, we extend to you our greetings and hope you can join us again. If you are living in the Quad City area, and are not active in a church, we invite you to consider becoming active with us.

Sunday, March 7
8:30 Traditional Worship
9:45 Children’s Sunday School Worship in UFH
11:00 Praise Worship
Monday, March 8
12:45 Ruth Circle at Bett. Library
7:00 Caring Ministry
Tuesday, March 9
9:00 Exercise Class
9:00 Hannah Circle
7:00 Rachel Circle
7:00 Trustees
Wednesday, March 10
12:00 Lenten Study
5:30 Body & Soul
5:30 Praise Team
5:30 SPRC
6:30 Cherub Choir
6:40 Children’s Music
7:00 Card Ministry
7:15 Chancel Choir
Thursday, March 11
9:00 Exercise Class
7:00 Bible Study
7:00 Ladies’ ARM at Rebecca Erickson’s
Friday, March 12
Saturday, March 13
8:30 Morning Bells
Sunday, March 14
8:30 Traditional Worship
9:45 Sunday School
11:00 Praise Worship
4:00 6th/12th Gr. Youth Grp.
Monday, March 15
Tuesday, March 16
9:00 Exercise Class
9:00 Library Committee
10:00 Dorcas Circle

ASBURY’S WORSHIP IS NOW ON CD AND AUDIO!
CDs of our 8:30 Worship services are available for one week check out in the church library. The CDs are located in the adult section, next to the check-out box. Audio of each worship service is now available to stream or download to your computer from the Asbury website (www.asbury-bett.org).

FELLOWSHIP WITH A PURPOSE
Fellowship with a Purpose meets at 8:30 a.m. on the first and third Fridays of the month. Join us for cleaning, polishing, and vacuuming to make Asbury a better place to worship! Coffee, “goodies” and fellowship follow the cleaning sessions. Call Bob Reiter at 332-5898 for more information.

CHURCHES UNITED 2010 DELEGATE ASSEMBLY
Asbury Members are invited to learn about the Churches United ministries in our community on Thursday, March 25 at First Baptist Church, 4021 91/2 St., East Moline, IL. Registration begins at 6:30 pm, the program begins promptly at 7:00, and a reception with dessert immediately following at 8:00. The keynote speaker will be Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, the general secretary of the National Council of Churches. Please call the Asbury church office at 355-5218 by March 18 to register for the Delegate Assembly.

LENTEN STUDY WITH PASTOR STEPHANIE
Wednesdays at Noon, February 24 – March 31
The study will be on the book, Wilderness Wanderings, a Lenten Pilgrimage by Marilyn Brown Oden. A light lunch will be provided for each session. Expectations: The book has six chapters (please read Chapter 3 for March 10th). Each chapter is about 12-14 pages and there is a discussion guide included in the book. Our time together will be discussion. Please RSVP to 355-5218 by the Monday before each session.

ALL ARE INVITED TO HEART AWARENESS SESSION
On Thursday, March 11th from 9:00-10:30 am, Lori Meighan and Linda McNamara, RD, of Eastern Iowa Community College will present a program on Heart Awareness to Asbury’s Exercise Class. Linda will talk about the Heart/Diet and Lori will lead the exercise session. A healthy snack will be provided at the end of the hour. Please mark this special date on your calendar and plan to join us in Asbury’s UFH!

YOUTH NEWS

6-12th Grade Youth Group will be finishing up a group study series on Sunday evening, March 14th. The next meeting time, Sunday, March 28th we will have a bowling party from 2-4, at Miller Time Bowling. This will take place at our regular meeting time.

TASTEFULLY SIMPLE YOUTH FUNDRAISER
The youth will be hosting a Tastefully Simple fundraiser Sunday, March 21 through Sunday, April 4th. On Sunday, March 28th there will be a “Taste Test” table set up in the Upper Fellowship Hall from 9:30-10:30. Please come try some of our awesome treats to order for yourself or for a gift, and help support the youth.

2010-2011 ASBURY PRESCHOOL REGISTRATION
Asbury Preschool is currently accepting applications for the 2010-2011 school year. The Tuesday-Thursday class is offered for 3-4 year olds and the Monday-Wednesday-Friday class is for children 4-5 years old. Please call 355-5218 for more information.

MOON WALK 2010
The Quad City Health Initiative Wellness Champions will launch Moon Walk 2010 on Friday, April 16th. Moon Walk 2010 will pit the Quad Cities against teams from Peoria and Champaign-Urbana in a virtual community race equivalent to a trip to the moon, or 238,700 miles. This is the fifth Moon Walk for the Quad Cities, and we have won three of the past four years. We are the defending Moon Walk Champions!! The race will end on June 11th.
Asbury will again be a part of this race. Sign-up and registration forms will be available in March. If you would like to be a part of this race, please sign up in the office or tell Brenda, Parish Nurse. Once registered, Moon Walkers will keep daily logs of their mileage and report their weekly total to Brenda via phone at 355-5218, or e-mail at asburynurse@netexpress.net . (Other types of exercise can be converted into “miles walked” using the Moon Walk conversion chart.)
All Asbury members and friends are welcome to sign up! The Moon Walk is a fun way to start exercising or to reinforce the importance of daily exercise to our health maintenance and disease prevention. Let’s Walk to the Moon!!

LENTEN STEWARDSHIP
As a special Lenten Stewardship Project, Asbury’s Church & Society Commission would like to help the Bettendorf Churches United Food Pantry. The Food Pantry currently has a good supply of canned items and frozen meat, but continues to have a need for:

paper towels bar soap toothbrushes
toilet paper shampoo cake mix
tissues (Kleenex) toothpaste catsup
cereal

As part of our Lenten Discipline and outreach, please consider helping us stock the Food Pantry with the above items! You may bring them to the Food Pantry Baskets located in each narthex. There are also special offering envelopes available for monetary gifts to purchase the needed items. You may put your gifts in the offering plate at worship, bring it to the church office, or send by mail. Please give generously to help Churches United as they continue to provide emergency food to members of our community.

GARDEN MINISTRY POTLUCK
Please join us Sunday, March 21 at noon for an old fashioned potluck to celebrate the past seasons and share plans for the future! If you have heard of the Garden Ministry, eaten anything from the Garden Ministry, or worked in any of the plots you are invited!!
We hope that everyone will attend, especially families with children who might be able to help for one hour this spring with getting the plots planted. Please save the date and bring a dish to share on March 21st. It will be a good day to
celebrate and share together the excitement of a new season of working together to feed the hungry in our area!

HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
Please join in UMCOR’s (United Methodist Corps on Relief) effort to help those devastated by the recent earthquake in Haiti. 100% of UMCOR contributions to this Advance Special will go to those in need. You may make your check payable to Asbury UMC with “Haiti Relief” on the memo line.

MARY & MARTHA BOOK CLUB
Our March meeting will be at 5:30 pm Wednesday, March 24 at the restaurant Tantra. We will be discussing the book Mistaken Identity by Van Ryn. Please RSVP to Patti Sorensen at 332-6761 if planning to attend.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Tom & Mary Maack on the death of Mary’s father, Jim Martin, on Feb. 18th.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Dee Shreve on the death of her brother, Don Hesse, on March 2nd.

The Head Usher for the 8:30 service is Gary Littrel. The acolyte for the 8:30 service is Rhesa Wolfe.

Next Week’s Preparation and Your Personal Study: the Scriptures for March 14th are: Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32 (UMH 766); 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32.

AFGHAN MINISTRY NEEDS YOUR HELP
We have several beautiful afghans that have been completed recently, and now we are in need of squares to create more afghans. The completed squares should measure 7” and may be either knitted or crocheted. Brenda has just purchased several new skeins of yarn, so stop by the basket in the East Narthex and pick up a skein to knit or crochet squares for afghans. Thank you for your help in this wonderful ministry our church provides to our members and as an outreach to our community.

YOUTH SERVICE PROJECT 2011
The youth will be planning a service project for the summer of 2011. There will be a parent/youth meeting to discuss where, when and so forth, on Sunday, April 11 at 4:00-5:30. If there are others interested in joining us on this adventure, but are not able to attend this meeting, please e-mail us at asburyouth@netexpress.net and we will provide a follow up e-mail and include you in all correspondences.

ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Bettendorf, Iowa 52722 ~ 355-5218

www.asbury-bett.org Email: Asbury@netexpress.net

Ministers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The People of Asbury
Rev. Stephanie Raphael-Nakos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Senior Pastor
Rev. Tom Raphael-Nakos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Associate Pastor
Beth Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christian Education Director
Peter and Tina Wiklund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Directors of Youth Ministry
Brenda Sherrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Parish Nurse
Gail Baldwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Music Coordinator/Organist
Michael Reese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Praise Music Director
Joe Buck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chancel Choir Director
Amy Moats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cherub Choir Director