The Lamplighter

PASTORS PEACE

Zion
United Church
of Christ
October 2016
Inside This Issue

1 Pastors Peace
2 Palm of Prayer
3 Worship Ways
4 This Months Events
5 Community & Conference Clamor
6 Butterfly Room
7 Celebration Occasions
8 Worship Whirl
No matter who you are or where you are
on life's journey, you are welcome
here. We believe in extravagant welcome. This is why we insist that God's communion table is open, not closed, and
God's gift and claim in baptism are irrevocable. We advocate justice for
all. Our congregations extend hospitality
as a sign of God's inclusive love. We
teach that evangelism - offering bread to those
in search of it - is God's mission. Our perspective is global, not provincial. We work with - not
against - people of other faiths. Why?
Because God is still speaking!

"Election Season and Your Soul" Installment III

From article posted July 6, 2012 by Brian Zahnd
Please take to heart the final installment of this
powerful article.
"7. Your task is to bring the salt of Christian civility to
an ugly and acrimonious political process.
If you cannot contribute to the redemption of the political process, but are instead being contaminated by it, then
you are salt that has lost its savor...and what's the point?
8. To dismember the body of Christ over politics is a
grievous sin.
This business of denying that someone is true brother or
sister in Christ based upon their politics is horrible and must
be repented of! it is no small sin. When the Corinthian
church carried their class divisions to the communion table,
the Apostle Paul said, "Anyone who eats and drinks without
discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself."
Don't do it!
9. Exercise your liberty to vote your conscience and
conviction, while accepting that other Christians will do
the same and vote differently than you.
There are committed Christians who conscientiously
vote Republican. And there are committed Christians who
conscientiously vote Democratic. This is true. you simply
have to accept it.
10. It's more important that your soul be filled with
love than it is for your political team to win the game.
If your team loses, the sun will come up and life will go
on. But if you damage your soul by succumbing to politically-motivated vitriol that causes love to whither, you
would have been better off to have never got yourself politically entangled in the first place.

Zion United Church of ChristEstablished 1880

105 N. Mary, Mayview, Missouri 64071-8224
Phone and FAX: (660) 237 - 4355

I leave you with this...

Love is patient and kind.
Love does not envy or boast.
Love is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way.
Love is not irritable or resentful.
Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing,
Love rejoices with the truth.
Love bears and believes all things.
Love hopes and endures all things.
Love never fails.
This is what the Apostle Paul calls the "more excellent
way."
It is the way of Christ.
It is the holy way of love.
It is the way we are called to.
It is the way of human flourishing.
And if you have to choose between love and politics-choose love.
BZ

Pastor Kristin
You are my
place of safety. You are like a
shield that keeps me safe. I have
put my hope in your word. Psalm

PALM of PRAYER

114

119:114 (NIRV)

Concerns Please continue to surround in love and

prayer, those experiencing health difficulties & or
recovering from surgery, the loss of family and
friends, & those adjusting to new seasons in their
lives: Dennis Berger, Ashley Snyder, Carl Hoeppner,
Rich Reyna, Michael Jewell, Jessica Bass, Kenny
Faigh; friends and family of Clarence Miller, Dave
Houston, Stephanie Shafer, and Dolores Hook; the
election of our nations leaders; police offers and first
responders; victims of random acts of violence;
military personnel and their families; families around
the world that are in the midst of tensions, conflicts,
acts of violence and wars.

Joys
Greentop Baptist Church is celebrating 150 years!
Kathleen Begemann celebrated her 80th birthday.
Birth of Jamie Hawthornes baby Makenzie!
Engagement of Amy Nolte and Don Kennedy.

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82)

The Lamplighter
Pastoral Visits and Prayers Please feel free to
contact me at any time if a pastoral care visit or
prayer request is in your heart. The best way to
reach me is at the parsonage, 660-237-4902, and
the next best option is my cell @ 660-641-1038.
Blessings! Pastor Kristin

Honor Flight Network of KC

6 weeks from tonight, our final
flight of the 2016 season will be
heading for bed (hopefully
already there!) as they get ready
for their Honor Flight the next
day. We are still in great need
for letters and cards from adults that we can
include for Mail Call. Have YOU written your letter
yet???
TIP OF THE DAY: This flight is leaving 8 days
before Veteran's Day. Veteran's Day cards are
more than welcome for this particular trip. And
Dollar General has Veteran's Day cards out
already! Most are just $1 each, and a few are 2 for
$1!!! Buy 'em! Sign 'em. Send 'em in!!!
Honor Flight Network of KC
PO Box 46718
KC, MO 64188
913-683-1369

Access Sunday & Disabilities

Awareness Week
Each year, one Sunday is designated on the UCC
church calendar as Access Sunday. In 2016,
October 9th will be the occasion that all the UCC
will join together in celebrating the gifts of persons
with disabilities and the strides that the church has
made in being more whole through being more
accessible. It is also a day that we, the church,
acknowledge the journey yet to be taken with our
sisters and brothers with disabilities.

How a society treats its disabled is

the true measure of a civilization.
Chen Guangcheng

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TREASURERS TWITTER

MISSION COMMITTEE
Festival of SharingYou're Invited!

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible

place to stop.

Bill Hybels, Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church

YOUTH YAK
Youth went on a fun day to Pizza and Cool
Crest September 11. The second year of
Confirmation has begun.

When: Join us October 15, 2016, beginning with

worship at 8am
Where: Sedalia, MO on the Missouri State Fairgrounds
Why: To promote and support projects and programs that respond to hunger, poverty and injustice in the world.
Come to the Missouri State Fairgrounds, 2503 West
16th Street, Sedalia, MO. Enter through Gate 6A on
Clarendon Rd. and join us at the Mathewson Exhibition Center!

Neighbors in Need Offering (NIN)

Sunday, October 2
Neighbors in Need (NIN) is a special mission offering of the UCC that supports ministries of justice
and compassion throughout the United States. Onethird of NIN funds support the Council for American
Indian Ministry(CAIM). Two-thirds of the offering is
used by the UCC's Justice and Witness Ministries
(JWM) to support a variety of justice initiatives, advocacy efforts, and direct service projects through
grants.

PARISH LIFE COMMITTEE

October 2 at 4 pm Parish life is sponsoring a
Sunday School Picnic fish fry and scavenger
hunt.
BOARD of CHRISTIAN ED
The Board of Christian Education is looking for
volunteers to help lead and coordinate the
Christmas program this year. If interested
please see Amy Hoefer.
The Hanging of the Greens will be on Sunday
November 27th.

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Sunday School9:30 A.M.

Worship10:30 A.M.

October 2, 2016
Neighbors in Need Offering
World Wide Communion Sunday
Confirmation
Fish Fry & Scavenger Hunt 4pm
October 5, 2016
Choir 7pm
October 8, 2016
Honest Conversation about Race
Mayview Comm Center 10 AM3 PM
October 11, 2016
Blue Springs Terrace carpool 8am
Council 7:15pm
October 12, 2016
NO Choir
October 15, 2016
Festival of Sharing MO State Fairgrounds
Sedalia
October 16, 2016
Confirmation
October 17, 2016
BCE 7:15pm
October 19, 2016
Choir 7pm
October 22, 2016
WA. Fall meeting Southwood UCC 9:30am
October 26, 2016
Choir 7
October 29, 2016
Blue Springs Terrace Soup & Chili 11am-7pm
October 30, 2016
Confirmation

Copyright 2011 The Zondervan Corporation

WORLD FOOD DAY Oct 16

What is the Food Resource Bank?
Mission of the Foods Resource Bank: As a Christian response to world hunger, FRB links the
grassroots energy and commitment of the U.S. agricultural community with the capability and desire
of small farmers in developing countries to grow
lasting solutions to hunger.

Working through 50-60 overseas programs, the FRB programs focus on developing
small-holder agriculture, often in the most remote
and poorest regions of the world. Having enough
to eat for the whole year is dependent on growing
enough to last all year. Hunger often results as
families run out of lasts years food before the
current years harvest. If provided with training,
seeds, small tools or other basics, farmers can
increase their harvest and therefore their food security.
When Zions skillful gardeners and farmers
share their produce of tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, cucumbers, eggplant and more, our congregation can enjoy fresh, delicious food. But theres
another reason they are so generous! When we
take some of the produce, we can pay them
back by making a free-will donation to the Food
Resource Bank. Maybe putting a couple dollars
in the labeled box on the table is something youll
want to do or you can wait until the end of the
season and write a check to Zion UCC for your
donation. Just put Foods Resource Bank on the
notation line. Sometimes farmers or commercial
gardeners designate the profit from an acre or
more of their land to this Christian organization.
Thank you for any response you can make to
this worthwhile effort.

COMMUNITY, COUNTY &

CONFERENCE CLAMOR
Honest Conversation About Race
Please join us for an Honest Conversation About Race, sponsored by the Lafayette
Cluster on Saturday, October 8, 2016, from 10
AM 3 PM at the new Mayview Community
Center. There is no cost to attend and lunch will
be provided. The event will be facilitated by
Lora McDonald, CEO MORE2, with facilitation
partner Calvin Jones.
MORE2 was created in late 2004 as an interfaith social justice organization reflecting different
cultural backgrounds, faith traditions, skin colors and
economic means. We are united in our commitment
to transforming our communities by creating a metropolitan area that embraces all people and offers
everyone the opportunity to achieve their greatest
potential.
As people of faith, we are called to break
down barriers that divide us along the lines of race
and economic status. We know that what affects
any one of us ultimately affects all of us. We are
called to be agents of change in our communities.

Invite your friends and let's talk and

work to bring about change!

Western Assn Fall Meeting

and pledged $1,000 for 2 convertible cribs (they

convert into toddler beds); $1,000 for regular
cribs and bedding; and $1,000 for filing cabinets
that lock, of which they need 11.Our next Steppingstone meeting will be on Monday, November
14. It will be a baby shower!

Human Family
Maya Angelou
I note the obvious differences
in the human family.
Some of us are serious,
some thrive on comedy.
Some declare their lives are lived
as true profundity,
and others claim they really live
the real reality.
The variety of our skin tones
can confuse, bemuse, delight,
brown and pink and beige and purple,
tan and blue and white.
I've sailed upon the seven seas
and stopped in every land,
I've seen the wonders of the world
not yet one common man.
I know ten thousand women
called Jane and Mary Jane,
but I've not seen any two
who really were the same.
Mirror twins are different
although their features jibe,
and lovers think quite different thoughts
while lying side by side.
We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.

Steppingstone Auxiliary Report

Monday, September 12 we provided hospitality
for our auxiliary meeting. Thank you Martha,
and all who contributed! The Treasurer's Report indicated the many loving financial gifts
made in Marlene Strodtman's honor. We discussed the rise in the need for cribs with new
mothers who are on a waiting list. We voted,

I note the obvious differences

between each sort and type,
but we are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.

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BUTTERFLY ROOM

3 And

if I go
and prepare a place for you, I will come again,
and receive you unto myself; that where I am,
there ye may be also. John 14:3 (KJV)

The German Evangelical Church

which merged in Germany the Reformed and Lutheran
traditions in 1817. Immigrants from Germany in the nineteenth century were known as Evangelical instead of
Reformed or Lutheran, and settled mostly in the Midwest.
The Congregational Churches
descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims who sought religious freedom and settled in New England before
branching out across the United States.
The Christian Churches
part of the restoration movement c. 1800 which sought
to restore the simplicity of the New Testament church
and disavowed any denominational label (Presbyterian,
Methodist, etc.) except just Christian.
The Congregational and Christian churches merged in
1931, and the Evangelical and Reformed synods joined
in 1934. Almost immediately, negotiations began that
resulted in the UCC merger in 1957.
Today the UCC includes 1.2 million members across the
country, divided into thirty-eight conferences. National
headquarters are in Cleveland, Ohio.

In loving memory of Clint Johnson

July 1985October 24, 2006

INSPIRATION STATION
WHO KNEW?
About the United Church of Christ (UCC)
The United Church of Christ is considered by some to
be the greatest achievement of the twentieth century
ecumenical movement, a movement to bring visible
unity to various Christian denominations.
The UCC joined two contrasting predecessor bodies,
each of which had merged two other denominations.
The motto of the United Church of Christ, That They
All May Be One, reflects its distinctiveness as a
united and uniting church.
The UCC itself is a river fed by four denominational
streams:
The German Reformed Church
out of which Corinth came with ties to the Swiss/
German Protestant reformation led by the followers of
sixteenth century reformers Ulrich Zwingli and John
Calvin. A wave of German immigration to the new
world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
flowed mostly through New York to Pennsylvania before some settlers sought new land in the fertile river
valleys of North Carolina.

The UCC tries to balance the concerns of a

congregational polity (church government system
which gives freedom and authority to the local church)
and a connectional polity (church government system
which recognizes the value of accountability to the wider
church). Ministers are ordained by the association, but
hold membership in the local church. Ministers are
called by the local church and remain in that congregation as long as both pastor and church wish to continue
the relationship.
Because of its diverse background, the UCC includes
churches of many different races, worship styles, theological emphases, and distinctives. Each local church is
unique, and one needs to get to know a particular local
church in order to find out if it can be a place of mutual
ministry for you and your family.
http://www.corinthtoday.org/

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as

autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
Nathaniel Hawthorne Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842

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Celebration Occasions
October Birthdays

Office Hours

Date

Birthday

Judy Pragman

16

Lori Figenbaum

17

Annalynn Morgan

18

Matt Begemann

Wednesday
6:008:00 PM

Carl Hoeppner
Brad Begemann
Helen Hoeppner
Doris VanCleave

Thursday
8:00 AMNoon

20
25
31

Pastor

Admin. Assistant

Tuesday
8:00 AMNoon

Tuesday
10amNoon

Thursday
10amNoon

Detta Neher

Serving Souls
O c t

Alyssa Hoefer

Brian & Rachel Murry

Calle Hoeppner

Norma M. & Jeanette S.

16

Brooklyn Murry

Garrett F. Matthew E. &

Adam H.

30

29

Jim & Carolyn Bayless

Reminder!
The deadline for submissions for the
November newsletter is
Wed, Oct. 19, 2016.
Send your submissions to:
jennyholt14@gmail.com or
zionuccsecretary@hotmail.com
Or Call (660) 237-4923

GREETERS

23

October Anniversaries

ACOLYTES

Austin Aardema
Faigh
Donovan Aardema
Faigh

Roger & Mary Ellen Thomson

Ron & Diane Wagner

Administrative Affairs
Reverend
Kristin Aardema Faigh

Home(660) 237- 4902

Church (660) 237-4355
pastorkristinatzion@yahoo.com
Cell (660) 641-1038

Council President

Juanita Wright
(816) 633-8818
wanitaright@gmail.com

Cole Courtway
Admin. Assistant

(660) 237- 4355

zionuccsecretary@hotmail.com

Jenny Holt
Newsletter

(660) 237 - 4923

jennyholt14@gmail.com

Teresa Begemann
Organist

(816) 633 - 4133

tjbegemann@yahoo.com

Dawn Stuart
Custodian

(660) 237 - 4355

Zion United Church of Christ

105 North Mary St.
Mayview, Missouri 64071-8224
Generous - Loving - Dedicated Christians
Sunday School 9:00 am
Worship at 10:00 am
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October 2016

Zion UCC Mission Statement

The avowed purpose of our church shall be:
To worship God, to proclaim and teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to celebrate the Sacraments; to experience Christian fellowship, to build unity, and to practice charity within this congregation and the wider church; and to share this witness of Jesus Christ throughout the world.

Worship Whirl
Traditional Worship

10:30 AM

Sundays

Come As You Are Service

10:30 AM

Monthly - 3rd Sunday

Sunday School

9:30 AM

Sundays

Communion

10:30AM

Monthly 1st Sunday & Special

Holidays

Church Council

7:15 PM

Monthly

Board of Christian Education

7:15 PM

Monthly

SAIL (Serving All in Love)

7:00 PM

Monthly - 4th Tuesday