"Food and fellowship"

 

We are inviting members of the community to join us for dinner the first Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m.  Everyone is welcome, whether you bring a dish to pass or not.  Congregation members are asked to invite friends and neighbors to join them for the evening.  This is a wonderful opportunity to meet other members of our community.

Going Green!

We have a start at Le Center United Methodist Church. We washed bowls and cups at some of the Wednesday night Lenten soup suppers, rather than using disposable dishes. Coffee and tea were available in china cups after worship service on Palm Sunday. The youth group served Easter breakfast using our china and glassware. They’re small things, but they’re a beginning and they do make a difference in how we live in our environment. God has given us a bountiful beautiful world. We have seemingly accepted it as our “right”, not the great blessing it is. We have squandered its resources, needlessly heaped our landfills to overflowing, ignored our own wasteful actions, avoided our duty to use His gifts consciously and wisely.

My first awareness of a means, not only to save money in our church, but also to respect our environment, came at the local grocery store. I waited in the check-out line behind someone purchasing those bright blue trash bags which must be used for garbage collection in Le Center. I was appalled at the price —$36 for 10 bags. I was even more appalled to think of how often I have seen those expensive bags in our church, stuffed to overflowing with paper and foam kitchen products and bottles, plastic and cans that could be recycled. While this may be less expensive than paying a monthly garbage collection fee, it is most assuredly a way to cut church costs.

I challenge each of us to look at our use of our church resources and to suggest ways to be good stewards of our God given gifts. Please write down your ideas and get them to Mary or Doug Krenik so that they can be published in this newsletter, posted in prominent locations in the church and practiced by this congregation.

Sandy Parks
March 22, 2008