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Children and Youth Ministries
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Children's Sunday School
- 9:30 a.m. Every Sunday Morning -
Children’s
Ministry
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Tiny Tots Monday, February 13th ,
11 a.m.-12N
Tiny Tots will meet in the Thomas Room/Nursery. Our theme will be Valentine’s Day, and we will share songs, stories, snack, and a craft. Tiny
Tots is for children from birth through age five, and a caregiver. Questions, contact Kim Sexton at ksexton@erucc.org.
God’s Kids Club
Friday, February 10th
6 p.m
God’s Kid’s Club will meet on Friday, February 10th at 6 p.m. for tubing at Boulder Ridge at Ski Liberty. The
cost is $20 for each individual five years and older. We will meet there at 6 p.m. Please bring a bag dinner. Please sign up, pay, and turn in your release form by Feb. 6th. Sign-up sheets as well as release forms can be found on the Children’s Happenings board in the
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Boy Scout Sunday
Boy Scout Sunday will be Sunday, February 12th
. If you are a current scout and would like to take part in the service, please contact Kim Sexton at ksexton@erucc.org.
Girl Scout Sunday
Girl Scout Sunday will be March 11th
. This year we will mark the 100th Year of Girl Scouting. Ladies, dig out your handbooks, pictures, vests, and more for us
to display on that Sunday.
Souper Bowl of Caring
Join us as we help tackle hunger. Before the big game bring an extra $1 to church to place in the soup pots that are children and youth will be holding at the doors as you leave.
All donations will go to the Frederick Food Bank.
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ERUCC YOUTH GROUP
SCHEDULE
Friday–Saturday, February 3rd-4th Night Watch,
New York City
Our annual Night Watch trip will take place February 3rd-4th. We will gather at ERUCC at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, February 3rd and travel to St. John the
Divine (in NYC) for the Night Watch program. On Saturday, we will visit Ellis Island and then return to Frederick by 10 p.m. that evening. We
request $50 per person for this trip.
Sunday, February 19th
After Church – 1 p.m.
Planning for National Youth Event and summer activities with French Youth. Parents are encouraged to attend.
***Please note that we have a busy summer planned, with a trip to the UCC National Youth Event, a mission trip to West Virginia, and hosting a French Youth Group for three weeks in July. We
will need lots of help and support for these activities.
Adult Christian Education
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Faith Matters
West Classroom - Trinity Chapel
9:30 a.m., January 8th-March 25th
Love Wins
Faith Matters participants will study the book Love
Wins by Rob Bell and taught by Stefan Mach.
Seasons of the Spirit
Parish House Conference Room
9:30 a.m. Every Sunday
Seasons of the Spirit studies lectionary scripture lessons of the day. |
Adult Forum
East Classroom - Trinity Chapel
9:30 a.m.
The Adult Forum, taught by Randy Peterson, discusses the book, Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely, and concludes on February 12th. The author notes that “we think we are making rational decisions, but are
we?” The author writes out of his expertise in behavioral economics and psychology. This thought-provoking and entertaining book will
reveal the ways in which human beings are “predictably irrational.” Reading the book will add to the depth of discussion, but is not required for attendance
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Tuesday Morning Bible Study with Pastor Daniel
Confessing the Beatitudes
Matthew 5: 1-12 Luke 6: 20-26
11:00 a.m. in the Parish House Conference Room
January 31st–March 27th
The Beatitudes are some of the most loved teachings of Jesus, yet they may well be some of the most pointed. We sometimes miss their point,
however, because we do not study them within their literary, historical, and cultural contexts. In this study, we are invited to consider the Beatitudes as they might have been
heard when Jesus spoke them – to consider them in context.
Please contact the Church Office or Pastor Daniel for a copy of the study book for this Bible Study. A $5 donation is requested for the study
book.
February 7th Lesson Two: Greatly Honored
Are the Mourners!
Matthew 5:4; Luke 6: 21b, 25b
February 14th Lesson Three: Greatly Honored Are the
Humbled!
Matthew 5:5; Psalm 37
February 21st Lesson Four: Greatly Honored Are
Those Who Are Famished and
Parched for Justice!
Matthew 5:6; Luke 6: 21a, 25a; Psalm 107:1-9
February 28th Lesson
Five: Greatly Honored Are Those Who Show Mercy!
Matthew 5:7; Luke 10: 25-37
Wednesday Evening Bible Study
Saving Jesus Redux
Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
Ever feel like Jesus has been kidnapped by the Christian Right and discarded by the Secular Left? Join this class led by Esther Ziegler with material from Living the Questions. “Saving Jesus Redux”
is a 12-session DVD based exploration of a credible Jesus for the third millennium. Join a host of experts like Marcus Borg, Diana Butler Bass and Brian McLaren for a conversation about who Jesus was and what we can know about
him.
ERUCC Book Group
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Tuesday, February 28th
Sing You Home, by Jodi Picoult
At the Home of Peg Stahler
Popular author Picoult tackles the controversial topic of gay rights in her latest powerful tale. When music therapist Zoe Baxter’s latest pregnancy ends in a stillbirth, her husband Max decides he can’t handle any more
heartbreak and leaves her. As she picks up the pieces of her life, Zoe is surprised to find herself falling for a school counselor who happens to be a woman.
While Zoe is finding happiness with Vanessa, Max falls off the wagon and is helped by a pastor from his brother’s evangelical church. Vanessa and Zoe wed in Massachusetts,
and Vanessa offers to carry one of the fertilized embryos Zoe and Max stored. Excited by the prospect of being a mother, Zoe goes to Max to get him to release the embryos to her and
is shocked when he instead sues her for custody of them, backed by his church. Told from the perspectives of all three major characters, Picoult’s gripping novel explores all sides of the hot-button issue and offers a CD of
folk songs that reflect Zoe’s feelings throughout the novel. From Booklist.
Library News
We have received the donation of a new children's book, Debby and Don Find New Friends, by Alice Cobb.
Look for it in our children's section.
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Tuesday, March 27th
The Bookseller of Kabul, by Asne Seierstad
At the Home of Cindy Smith and Cindy Duranko
From Publishers Weekly
After living for three months with the Kabul bookseller Sultan Khan, in the spring of 2002, Norwegian journalist Seierstad penned this astounding portrait of a nation recovering from war, undergoing political flux
and mired in misogyny and poverty. As a Westerner, she has the privilege of traveling between the worlds of men and women, and though the book is ostensibly a portrait of Khan, its real strength is the intimacy and brutal
honesty with which it portrays the lives of Afghani living under fundamentalist Islam. Seierstad also expertly outlines Sultan's fight to preserve whatever he can of the literary life of the capital during its numerous decades
of warfare (he stashed some 10,000 books in attics around town). Seierstad, though only 31, is a veteran war reporter and a skilled observer; as she hides behind her burqa, the men in the Sultan's family become so comfortable
with her presence that she accompanies one of Sultan's sons on a religious pilgrimage and witnesses another buy sex from a beggar girl-then offer her to his brother. This is only one of many equally shocking stories Seierstad
uncovers. In another, an adulteress is suffocated by her three brothers as ordered by their mother. Seierstad's visceral account is equally seductive and repulsive and resembles the work of Martha Gellhorn. An international
bestseller, it will likely stand as one of the best books of reportage of Afghan life after the fall of the Taliban.
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The
Frederick School of Religion
The School convened for its 29th year of classes on February 13th
. This ecumenical teaching organization provides a Learning for Life
experience for both laity and clergy. The 6-week series of classes includes a broad range of religious topics and spiritual exercises
representing many faith groups.
2012 PROGRAM:
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Comparing the Gospels · A History of the First Century ·
American Women of Faith · How Do They Celebrate Their Holidays ·
Genesis and Psalms ·
A New Perspective on Paul ·
Life as a Muslim in 21st Century America · The Heart of Christianity
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A Creative God
WHEN
: FEB. 13th to MAR. 20th; Monday and Tuesday afternoons and evenings.
WHERE
: Trinity United Methodist Church, 705 W. Patrick St., Frederick.
SPECIFICS
: $25 for twelve hours of class and 1.2 Continuing Education Units.
OTHER INFO
: Gail Ellam, 301-663-1067; FSR brochures in the Church Office;
School Registrar, 301-473-8246, and
School Website www.frederickschoolofreligion.org.
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