Choir Notes
Wednesday choir rehearsals will begin on Wednesday, October 2, at 8:00 p.m. The group will begin providing music during worship on Sunday, October 13. All are welcome to join!!
Rehearsals for the bell choir will begin soon! If you are interested in ringing this year (or even for just a part of this year), please contact Lindsay Schultz. New ringers are welcome!! Look for details of this year’s rehearsal schedule in the Sunday bulletin!
CROP Walk
The yearly Crop Walk will be held on Sunday, October 13 beginning in West Milton. Lorraine Craig will once again be representing Nashville UCC on the walk. She would love to walk with friends from Nashville, so ask her for details if you are interested in walking. Even if you choose not to walk, you can be a sponsor! Talk to Lorraine, who will be happy to take your donation!
Peanut Brittle News
The schedule of the Peanut Brittle Project is just around the corner. The United Mites Fellowship will be preparing to cook many pounds of candy to sell for our mission project.* We will need helpers in measuring, cooking, cooling, buttering pans, filling bags and as always, dish washing and clean up. You do not need a degree to participate in this project. We all have a lot of fun and fellowship. There will be coffee, donuts, and a light lunch each candy making session. If you feel you can help please!! come and join this happy group.
Schedule times and dates
Monday, October 28 ..................... 8 AM to 1 PM
Monday, November 4................... 8 AM to 1 PM
Monday, November 11.................. 8 AM to 1 PM
Monday, November 18................. 8 AM to 1 PM
Monday, November 25................ 8 AM to 1 PM
More dates and times will be scheduled as needed
Thank you for all your continued support. If you have any questions about the candy please feel free to see Esther Jackson, Judy Butts, Becky Blauser, Norma Brumbaugh, Carol Homan, Mike Homan, or Ed Miller.
*The profits from the sale of peanut brittle supports Missions and Love Gifts for those in need.
Listening to the Spirit: Congregational Discernment
Back on September 8, Pastor Lynn explained the six-month process of congregational discernment through a PowerPoint presentation. There are handouts of that presentation in the church sanctuary. For those of you who were not present on the 8th or have not received a handout, here is the content of the PowerPoint. Please ask Pastor Lynn if you have any questions or comments!
“Listening to the Spirit: Congregational Discernment”
We have a decision to make: what do we do with our recreation park? Do we improve it? Sell it? Do nothing? And if we improve it, HOW should we improve it?
How should we decide? One way is by analyzing all the facts: the pros and cons of each possible decision. That’s certainly a crucial step in any decision! Another important step is to listen to each other. But where is the voice of the Holy Spirit? A process of congregational discernment is a way to listen intentionally to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
How is congregational discernment different from the programs we have tried before?
Unlike Flight School, it is not top down, and there are no Saturday morning meetings! Unlike New Beginnings, it moves beyond conversations and opinions to focus on a specific question.
Congregational discernment is an integrated program of individual experience, group feedback, and Sunday sermons. Individual experience is guided by weekly questions and meditations that are provided through the church newsletter. The meditation topics will invite you to open your heart to the guidance of the Spirit. Group feedback will be invited through posters that will be displayed in the sanctuary. There will be no extra meetings! Sunday sermons will be coordinated with the
weekly meditations and the monthly topics. This program will last a minimum of six months. At the end of the discernment period, we will be ready to make a decision regarding the recreation park.
What kinds of topics will the congregation be asked to consider? Here are the monthly topics.
September: Where are we now as a congregation? What are our strengths and weaknesses?
October: Where have we been as a congregation? What is our history?
November: Where do we want to go and who do we want to be? What is our vision?
December: What discourages us? What are we afraid of?
January: What encourages us? What keeps us going?
February: What is our plan; and what part does the recreation park play in it?
God wants to guide us! Let’s learn to listen to the Holy Spirit so that God can do just that!
Weekly Christian Study opportunities
Don’t forget to pick up a shoe box or two and fill it with gifts for a child who lives on the Rosebud Indian Reservation! Empty shoe boxes are located in the east narthex, together with lists of suggested gifts for children of a variety of ages. Filled shoe boxes (unwrapped, please) are due back by late November, and can be dropped off under the table in the east narthex.
Why Do We Do That?
You may have noticed that someone rings the church bell every Sunday as we are beginning our worship. Why do we do that, anyway? The answer is that Nashville has always been a rural church. In the “old days,” church members were called to worship by the ringing of the church bell. When they heard the bell, they knew that they needed to get going, because worship would begin soon! In these days of clocks and standardized time, that’s not important; but we still ring our bell as a signal that worship is about to begin. And that’s why we do that!
Wednesday choir rehearsals will begin on Wednesday, October 2, at 8:00 p.m. The group will begin providing music during worship on Sunday, October 13. All are welcome to join!!
Rehearsals for the bell choir will begin soon! If you are interested in ringing this year (or even for just a part of this year), please contact Lindsay Schultz. New ringers are welcome!! Look for details of this year’s rehearsal schedule in the Sunday bulletin!
CROP Walk
The yearly Crop Walk will be held on Sunday, October 13 beginning in West Milton. Lorraine Craig will once again be representing Nashville UCC on the walk. She would love to walk with friends from Nashville, so ask her for details if you are interested in walking. Even if you choose not to walk, you can be a sponsor! Talk to Lorraine, who will be happy to take your donation!
Peanut Brittle News
The schedule of the Peanut Brittle Project is just around the corner. The United Mites Fellowship will be preparing to cook many pounds of candy to sell for our mission project.* We will need helpers in measuring, cooking, cooling, buttering pans, filling bags and as always, dish washing and clean up. You do not need a degree to participate in this project. We all have a lot of fun and fellowship. There will be coffee, donuts, and a light lunch each candy making session. If you feel you can help please!! come and join this happy group.
Schedule times and dates
Monday, October 28 ..................... 8 AM to 1 PM
Monday, November 4................... 8 AM to 1 PM
Monday, November 11.................. 8 AM to 1 PM
Monday, November 18................. 8 AM to 1 PM
Monday, November 25................ 8 AM to 1 PM
More dates and times will be scheduled as needed
Thank you for all your continued support. If you have any questions about the candy please feel free to see Esther Jackson, Judy Butts, Becky Blauser, Norma Brumbaugh, Carol Homan, Mike Homan, or Ed Miller.
*The profits from the sale of peanut brittle supports Missions and Love Gifts for those in need.
Listening to the Spirit: Congregational Discernment
Back on September 8, Pastor Lynn explained the six-month process of congregational discernment through a PowerPoint presentation. There are handouts of that presentation in the church sanctuary. For those of you who were not present on the 8th or have not received a handout, here is the content of the PowerPoint. Please ask Pastor Lynn if you have any questions or comments!
“Listening to the Spirit: Congregational Discernment”
We have a decision to make: what do we do with our recreation park? Do we improve it? Sell it? Do nothing? And if we improve it, HOW should we improve it?
How should we decide? One way is by analyzing all the facts: the pros and cons of each possible decision. That’s certainly a crucial step in any decision! Another important step is to listen to each other. But where is the voice of the Holy Spirit? A process of congregational discernment is a way to listen intentionally to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
How is congregational discernment different from the programs we have tried before?
Unlike Flight School, it is not top down, and there are no Saturday morning meetings! Unlike New Beginnings, it moves beyond conversations and opinions to focus on a specific question.
Congregational discernment is an integrated program of individual experience, group feedback, and Sunday sermons. Individual experience is guided by weekly questions and meditations that are provided through the church newsletter. The meditation topics will invite you to open your heart to the guidance of the Spirit. Group feedback will be invited through posters that will be displayed in the sanctuary. There will be no extra meetings! Sunday sermons will be coordinated with the
weekly meditations and the monthly topics. This program will last a minimum of six months. At the end of the discernment period, we will be ready to make a decision regarding the recreation park.
What kinds of topics will the congregation be asked to consider? Here are the monthly topics.
September: Where are we now as a congregation? What are our strengths and weaknesses?
October: Where have we been as a congregation? What is our history?
November: Where do we want to go and who do we want to be? What is our vision?
December: What discourages us? What are we afraid of?
January: What encourages us? What keeps us going?
February: What is our plan; and what part does the recreation park play in it?
God wants to guide us! Let’s learn to listen to the Holy Spirit so that God can do just that!
Weekly Christian Study opportunities
- Pastor Lynn’s Sunday school class that begins at 9:30 a.m. every Sunday is now studying the “Bold Believers” of the Bible: those folks who took a stand for God and for God’s people, often at great risk to themselves. You are invited to join the class any time!
- The Tuesday afternoon Bible study is taking a close look at the Ten Commandments and how they communicate God’s love to us. All are welcome to gather in the council room at 4:00 on Tuesdays to share in this investigation! Each session lasts about an hour.
Don’t forget to pick up a shoe box or two and fill it with gifts for a child who lives on the Rosebud Indian Reservation! Empty shoe boxes are located in the east narthex, together with lists of suggested gifts for children of a variety of ages. Filled shoe boxes (unwrapped, please) are due back by late November, and can be dropped off under the table in the east narthex.
Why Do We Do That?
You may have noticed that someone rings the church bell every Sunday as we are beginning our worship. Why do we do that, anyway? The answer is that Nashville has always been a rural church. In the “old days,” church members were called to worship by the ringing of the church bell. When they heard the bell, they knew that they needed to get going, because worship would begin soon! In these days of clocks and standardized time, that’s not important; but we still ring our bell as a signal that worship is about to begin. And that’s why we do that!
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