Gatherings this Week
 
Monday @ 7:00 p.m. – Ad Council
Tuesday @ 7:00 p.m. – NO Emmaus Bible Study
Wednesday @ 7:00 a.m. – NO Disciples’ Bible Study
Wednesday @ 7:00 p.m. – Book Club
Saturday @ Noon – Sojourner’s Café
 
 
Future Events

   August 9th @ 7:00 p.m. – Endowment Team
      August 12th @ 7:00 p.m. – Finance Committee
      August 15th – Diamond Disciples’ Sunday
      August 21st @ 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Open Closet
      August 21st @ Noon – Sojourner’s Café
 
10th Sunday after Pentecost
August 1st 
8:00 a.m.
 
Ministers of Worship
Ushers: John Carney
Liturgist: Bonnie Carney
Greeters: Sue Atkinson
Special Music: Sharon LaRose
 
Hymns, Lectionary & Sermon
Hymns: “Song Praise to God,” “Take my life and let it Be,” “Become to us the Living Bread,” “Jesus, Lover of my Soul”
Scripture: S Luke 12:13-21
Sermon: “A Rich Fool?” – Rev’d Martin L. Cox, Jr. Preaching
 
 
9:45 a.m.
 
Ministers of Worship
Ushers: Ed Schofield, Evan Fairlie, Ken & Doris Schraeder
Liturgists: Brenda Wolpert
Greeters: Mary & Larry Kipp
Worship Leader: Bill Wolf
Special Music: Kathleen Hayes
 
Hymns, Lectionary & Sermon
Hymns: “Song Praise to God,” “Take my life and let it Be,” “Become to us the Living Bread,” “Jesus, Lover of my Soul”
Hosea 11:1-11; Psalm 107:1-9; Colossians 3:1-11 & S Luke 12:13-21
Sermon: “A Rich Fool?” – Rev’d Martin L. Cox, Jr., Preaching
 
Flowers: Bev Keleher

Prayer Concerns
 
      Judy Slifko
      Joe Faubel
      Dick Teeter
      Janice Fuller
      Ruth Lange
 
9th Week after Pentecost
July 26-August 1
 
Monday, July 26: Psalm 56 Matthew 27:24-31
Tuesday, July 27, Psalm 61; S Matthew 27:32-44
Wednesday, July 28: Psalm 72, S Matthew 27:45-54
Thursday, July 29: Psalm 71, S Matthew 27:55-66
Friday, July 30; Psalm 73; S Matthew 28:1-10
Saturday, July 31: Psalm 76; S Matthew 28:11-20
Sunday, August 1: Psalm 93; S Mark 3:20-30
 
Facebook
 
I’m not sure whether you are or are not a fan of Facebook, but if you are you might be interested in checking out the HUMC Facebook page.  It can be found under the group Hawley United Methodist Church.  This is one way of communicating and entering into some conversation and dialogue about church life and what’s happening in our own personal lives.  Why not check it out and become a member of the HUMC Facebook page?
 
All-Church Picnic
 
One of the fun times of the church year is coming up on Sunday, August 8th.  Following the second worship service, around Noon, we shall be gathering at the Falls Pavilion at Promised Land State Park.  The United Methodist Men will be providing hamburgers and hot dogs, and the church will be bringing various beverages.  We are asking you to bring a picnic dish to share with others.  You’ll want to bring your swimsuits, fishing rods, baseball equipment and be prepared for a good summer picnic.

Book Club
 
The book club will be gathering on Wednesday evening, 7:00 p.m. July 28th.  The book to be read and discussed is “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett. This will be a gathering at Marianne & Bill Wolf’s house with a light dessert. Please call Marianne and Bill for directions to their house at 857-5118.
 
Open Closet Clothing Exchange
 
The church will be hosting an Open Closet Clothing Exchange on August 21st from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.  With the beginning of the new school year approaching this is a chance to get ‘new’ school clothes without the expense.  The closet will offer free clothing to any who wishes to come.  Donations of washed, gently used clothing will be accepted up until the day of the Open Closet.  They can be left in the church youth room.  Any questions can be directed to Melissa Jones.  Anyone who wants to assist with sorting on Friday the 20th or on the cay of the Closet can come; all are welcome to help.
 
Ripples and Waves
 
We are in need of sponsors for our monthly mailing of “Ripples and Waves.”  Although a significant  number of our membership receives the weekly R&W Updates, the majority of our congregation still relies on the monthly mailings to keep in touch with the happenings at the Hawley Church.  Cost for mailing have been increasing, and it appears that we have funding only through the month of October.  If you would like to sponsor an edition of Ripples and Waves please contact the church office.
 
Thought for the Week
 
I think a strong case can be made that in general there has been a depletion or emptying of the religious imagination in our modern/postmodern culture.
 
            One consequence of such emptying is a loss of vision and a loss of passion for life.  Nothing is really worth dying for.  Life has no deep purpose.  Others have referred to the loss of “enchantment,” the erosion of a sense of mystery or the sacred, where the world is simply made up of potential means to our own material ends.  And as the individual has increasingly withdrawn into self-contained, technocratic, professional groupings or isolated units, the richness of community life has been all but lost.
          
Sandra M. Levy, Imagination and the Journey of Faith
Prayer for the Week
 
You gave us, O God,
understanding, reason and intellect,.
O my Lord,
grant that we may use them
to discern good from evil
and to do good.  Amen
 
 
Jewish prayer from the Amidah
 

The Old City of Jerusalem