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First Annual Putt “n” Pray Golf Tournament for Haiti Update

The 1^st Annual Putt “N” Pray Golf Tournament was a definite success. The day (August 16, 2010) turned out to be a beautiful one, as golfers made their way to Kettle Hills in Richfield to golf for Haiti Earthquake Relief. We raised around $5,000! We’ll provide the exact amount in next month’s newsletter.

We had 75 golfers for 18 holes and 6 golfers for 9 holes. Twenty-three people also came for dinner buffet that was catered by C & R Catering of Allenton.

Thank you to our 25 hole and 1 putting green sponsors for this year’s event: Marilou Chapman (in memory of husband Chuck), Betty Nelson (in memory of daughter –in-law Karen), Felt & Lukes LLC/Tim Felt, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Bits ‘n’ Pieces Florist, TKC Enterprises/Tom Calenberg, Allan Kieckhafer (in memory of wife Jean), FAUMC Chancel Choir (in memory of Pastor Janis), Deli-Food Xpress/West Bend, Big Rivers LTD/Bruce Nissly, Ziegler/David Bast, John & Nan Becker (2 holes), Triton Trailers, M&I Bank, Fairground Mini-Storage (2 holes; Ralph Hensel), Sisters’ Bible Study, Schaarschmidt Chiropractic Health Center, Creative Design Network, Technical Products Inc., Golf ETC, First Choice Residential Repair Service, Plus Publications and Ziegler Wealth Management/John Wagner (putting green)

Thank you to these silent auction donors: Carol Adkins, Dave Bertelsen, Big Rivers LTD, Tom Calenberg, Cedar Valley Center & Spa, Don Clement, Dick Cooley, Cornerstone Christian Bookstore, Country Inn & Suites, Elderberries, En Fuengo Fitness (Jackson), Tom & Ann Farris, Sheila Goehring, Golf ETC, Tom Haebig, Hampton Inn, Hobby Lobby, Husar’s House of Fine Diamonds, JL Business Interiors, Jerry Loebe, Barbara Lovensheimer, Norene Lowers, Marolyn Kell, MC Sports, Bruce Nissly, Connie Plier, Poplar Inn, Savoring Thyme, Schauer Arts Center, Schreiber Foods, Shirley & Dick Simmons, Studio 33 Family Hair Care, Jenny Tsuzuki-Korbar, Barb Wagner

A special thank you to these donors: Jeri Bowerman, Marilou Chapman (in memory of husband Chuck), Tom & Ann Farris III (in memory of Tom Farris Sr. & Jr.), Jim & Betty Felt (in honor of their children), Audrey & Benjamin Salisbury (in memory of Pastor Janis)

These golfers received trophies after the 18 hole tournament: 3^rd place: Mike Bown, Noah Bown, Jason Wiggins, Gene Wiggins; 2^nd place: Scott Delany, Dick Cooley, Russ Groth, Patrick Sierra; 1^st place: Bruce Nogalski, Pat Nogalski, Andy Dean, Don Freitag.

These golfers won the following tournament competitions: Dick Cooley, Closest to the Pin; Jeri Bowerman, Longest Drive/Women; Mike Drewniak, Longest Drive/Men; Andy Dean, Longest Putt 18 holes; Cody Simon, Longest Putt 9 holes

Thank YOU, Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church, for your support and for making this first time community event a hole-in-one!

Schedules

Children‘s Sunday School begins on Sunday, Sept. 12th at 9am for Pre-School students through 5th Grade.

Youth Sunday school—To be announced

Adult Sunday School continues as usual at 10:15am in the Disciple Room

Nursery Summer Schedule

The nursery will be available but not staffed during the 9am worship service throughout the summer beginning May 30. Children are welcome in the worship service. Please ask an usher/greeter for a Children’s Bulletin or Activity Bag. Thank you to Christin McHugh and Jeannette Dennis who were our child care providers for the 9am nursery for the past 2 years. Staff Parish Relations Committee is in the process of finding child care workers for the Fall. The 5pm Saturday Night Nursery will still be staffed by Barb Johnson.

Prayer Chapel

Just a reminder that we have a Prayer Chapel upstairs off the balcony. Steve Kissinger, former church member who now lives in California and son of Frances Kissinger and The Late Al Kissinger, built it in 2003 in a corner altar in the Bell Tower Room.

The next time you are in church, check it out. Feel free to use it at any time.

Study Groups
Have you ever felt the need to study the Bible in depth? Or read a Christian book that expands on Christian principles? Or exchange view and/or questions with other Christians? Here are 3 such opportunities within our church:

Adult Sunday School meets every Sunday at 10:15am (study begins at 10:30) in the Disciple Room. This quarter, they are studying, “Leaders in a Covenant Community”, “An Open Invitation to Covenant Living”, and “The New Covenant Community”. All adults are welcome.

Sisters’ Study Group meets every Thursday at 7pm in the church lounge. Come join them—all are welcome.

Barb Wagner’s Book Study Group meets every Tuesday at 6:30pm at her home. They are coed and all are welcome.

United Methodist Women News
United Methodist Women’s Weekend will be held during the worship services on Sept. 11 & 12.

Board members: President: Josie Schultz; Vice President: Dee Ream; Secretary: Jean Krell; Treasurer: Marilyn Kellow; Spiritual Growth: Pat Barnhouse; Social Action/Communications: Ellen Johnson; Education & Intrepretation: Marge Wendt; Membership/Nurture Outreach: Bonnie Nissly; Program Resources/Nominations: Betsy Winquist; Kitchen Chr.: Marlene Ciriacks; Member at Large: Jenny Korbar; Funeral Chr: Norene Lowers, Cookbooks: Elaine Gust; Deaconess: Ann Farris.

Following is a partial list of United Methodist Women's Activities and Projects in 2009. See rest of list in bulletin on Sept. 11/12.

1. Bakeless Cookie Sale

2. Fifth Avenue Food Fare Cookbook sales

3. Annual Cookie Walk

4. Annual salad luncheon

5. Visitation Program - over 30 'people at home' visited each month

6. UMW weekend

7. Serve at funerals or other occasions when requested

8. Sympathy & get well cards, Birthday cards sent to people over 85 years of age

9. Cookies delivered to 'at home people' for Easter and Christmas

10. ANNUAL pledge of $5000 to Missions for National and International projects

11. Participation in Christian School of Mission

12. Special Mission Recognition for persons contributing their special talents for church and community

United Methodist Women thank the congregation of 5th Avenue United Methodist Church for their support in all of our activities and projects and give thanks to God the Father for His help and guidance.

You are Invited to a Potluck Supper!

United Methodist Women’s Weekend is September 11 and 12. The Gabler's, who are missionaries that we support, will be here for both services to give the message.

Please join us and the Gabler's for a potluck gathering after the 5:00 church service on Saturday. Beverage and table service will be provided. Please use the signup sheet in the north entrance. U.M.W. Board

Faith Fellowship continues to meet each Friday morning starting at 9:00am at Helen Rilling’s home. They continue quilting.

The Seekers Group will gather on Tuesday, Sept. 28th. Meet in the church parking lot to carpool at 10:45am. (Please note later starting time.) If you don’t wish to carpool, please meet at 11am at the Gehl Office Complex on Indiana Avenue. They will be going on a tour of the office complex.

Lunch will be served after the tour. Cost is $6.00. Please sign up by Sept. 12th as the caterer needs to know at an earlier time.

Total enrollment: 22.Total volunteers: 23 (of these 7 were youth): John Abuya, Carol Adkins, Erik Adkins, Pat Barnhouse, Dave Bertelsen, Jerry Goehring, Christy Gust, Elaine Gust, Ellen Johnson, Jake Kandel, Joe Kandel, June Knowlton-Sengpiel, Fay Lewis, Kelly Louk, Debbie Prahl, Jade Rogge, Mary Rogge, Bettie Schuler, Shirley Simmons, Mystique Thompson, Jenny Tsuzuki-Korbar, Marge Wendt, Betsy Winquist.

Day 1 of DVBS Arts Camp emphasized music. We sang lots of old and new songs.

Day 2 (Art): We made life-sized figures of ourselves and posted them against the “stone” wall (made by Carol Adkins), and put our footprints on cloth (we stand firm upon the Rock, Jesus).Our Bible verse: Don’t be afraid, I am with you always. Matthew 20.8.

Day 3 (Drama) Miss Christy and Miss Ann presented skits of the right and wrong way to act.

The children quickly chose the correct way to handle bullies and who was bullying.

Parents and children went to the sanctuary for a short worship program to end the camp.

The footprints will be made into a quilt to be sent to the Methodist orphanage in Port-au-Prince.

The women’s Friday quilt group has volunteered to tie the quilt. (We will display it at church after completion.)

Jenny Tsuzuki-Korbar and Marge Wendt made a life-size Goliath. Each student has their picture taken with the giant and was given the photo with a certificate of completion.

Daily snacks were served in the classrooms and recreation time was spent playing supervised games in a sectioned area of the parking lot.

If you are a youth, or are interested in volunteering with youth, please plan to attend one of our BRAINSTORMing sessions! Middle School youth (6-8 graders) please come at 11am.High School youth (9-12) come at 12:30pm.PIZZA will be served between sessions, so stay for lunch or come early for lunch. Please sign-up on the bulletin board! Any questions, see Ann Farris (annf@faumc.org).

Join us to play once-a-month bridge in each others’ homes. All couples welcome—friends or marriage partners. We guarantee good cards and great new friendships. Round robin tournament starts in Oct. and ends in May with Awards Dinner. You host no more than four times. Play 18 hands, serve simple dessert. Get to know some nice people who seldom get violent... just kidding. No cost except entry fee of $15 per couple which goes to United Methodist Men for their activities. For more information or to sign up, call Betty Felt at 338-1819. Deadline is Sept. 15th.

We are collecting Kemps and Golden Guernsey 5-cent milk bottle caps for schools in West Bend There is a glass urn on the floor in the corner of the north entrance, just below the container for Campbell’s soup labels for your donation. Thank you for your support!

Labels are still being collected for Northcott Neighborhood House. Please bring Campbell labels, Franco American, Prego, and V8 labels and put them in the container in the north entrance. You can drop off either the whole label or the UPC.

Timothy & Philip Orphanage in India - Help support the Children’s Mission efforts through “Sharing Your Goodwill” each week to the children of the Timothy and Philip Orphanage. Coins and dollars may be placed in the baskets at the back of the church. Thanks for your support!

Want to celebrate or recognize a special occasion? Why not sponsor the bulletins for a certain weekend? Cost is $35 per week. If you are interested, sign up on the chart on the west wall in the north foyer or call the church office, 334-2059.

Time for Harvest House and help St. James serve folks a free, hot meal. We need 12 to 15 persons to volunteer to help set up, prepare and food and clean up; persons to bake 7 x13 size cakes. Cakes need to be delivered to St. James by 9:15am. The two or three volunteers help cook need to come at 8:30am. Volunteers who are helping set up, serve and clean up need to come at 9am. Please use the sign-up sheet in the north entrance or call Christy Gust. Thank you for your support.

There is a sign up sheet posted for help with funerals. Thank you to those who have already signed up! The reason for the sheet is to help Norene Lowers, our funeral chairperson, have names and phone numbers readily available when she needs them - it saves her time.

Our Visitation Team will be 2 or 3 visitors short for the next few months due to illness, etc. There are 26 people who get a monthly visit.

We ask that you visit the 2 persons on your list once a month. Visits can be as short at 10 minutes or as long as an hour, depends on the person’s situation that day. We ask that you call first to be sure it is convenient.

If you could help even on a short term basis, it would be much appreciated. Call Helen Rilling if you are interested.

We are looking for anyone who would be interested in working with Tom Calenberg to train with him during the summer on how to operate our Power Point and Sound Board. If you are interested, please call the church office or send an email to: church@faumc.org. The training this summer will give the experience to be a backup person.

Are you willing to pick up other congregation members for Sunday service? Do you need or would you like a ride to Sunday service? If so, contact the church office.

For more information, contact a director or the music coordinator. Click for details about Vocal Choirs .

GORDON GRANER has been in

Bolivia

for more than twenty years. Before he went to

Bolivia

to develop a rural agricultural center he worked with refugees in Chicago. In his 20 + years in Cochabamba he, with his wife Ardell, has developed a demonstration farm which includes fruit, vegetables, livestock, poultry and all the things that go with such an operation; a school; a community center; education center for Sunday School teachers and Pastors; and are still working on a gym and auditorium, not just for the school but for the community; and many programs to address the needs of the community, which is very poor, especially the elderly.

To support their work, write a check to our church and designate it for Thiu Rancho Project #12309A.

ELIZABETH CLARKE first went to

Japan

in 1948 where she taught in Fukuoka Girls School in Fukuoka in southwest

Japan

. After further study she went to a girls’ school in Nagasaki and then Tokyo. She has been on the Boards of Trustees of several Christian Institutions, the national Board for the YWCA, chair of the Leadership Training Committee and the Japan YWCA Committee on Christian Identity. She has written on the history of women’s education in

Japan

and early women’s educational history in the

U.S.

She is a Wisconsin native but is retired and living in California.

To the Members and Friends of Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church who have been so kind in remembering Pastor Janis, we want to express our most sincere thanks.

So many of you wrote such beautiful notes of how Janis touched your life in so many ways has been so gratifying to us in easing the pain and loss we are feeling.

Our desire would be to write to each of you our heartfelt thanks but that is impossible. Please know that we will always cherish your words of love and compassion. Know, too, that our thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time.

Thank you to everyone who as Liturgist, Greeter, Coffee Hour Host/Hostess or shared during Children's Time. Your service is very much appreciated.

“I would like to thank you for the cards, phone calls, etc. that I received after my knee surgery. Your thoughtfulness was very much appreciated!” - Ron Hartmann

Bill Schober, who has locked our church doors for many years, has retired. We express our deepest thanks to him for his many years of dedication!

Reminder! Our Office Manager, Alana Dalton, will be in the office Monday-Thursday from 7:30am to 4:00pm and from 8am to Noon on Fridays.

Our church library has a shelf full of new books ready to be checked out. Stop by in the Fireside Room and check out a book for your spring & summer reading. Joyce Ruesch is our librarian and she invites you to come and use this resource.

The church doors are locked on Saturdays until the time of the 5pm worship service. If you need to get in the church for any reason, i.e. deliver altar flowers, please call the church office to make arrangements. Thank you!

There are copies of minutes on the bulletin boards in the Fireside Room from various committee meetings. Feel free to read them to see what the committees are doing!

Join our automatic contribution plan
Have you wondered why your pew neighbor didn’t put anything in the offering plate? It may be that they are part of a growing number of people who make their contribution to the church through electronic transfer of funds. Ask them about how simple it is to do.
Forms for this way of contributing are available in the office. You can change amounts and stop anytime you want to.
Make it easy on you. Make it easy on us.