Epworth UMC - April 2007 Newsletter  Apportionments   Birthdays    Calendar   Who's Ushering    Epworth's Health Talent Camp       Jail Is No Place to Be         Helping Holly, Colorado Epworth  Pays  Apportionments  The Rocky Mountain Conference closed their books for February 2007 and discovered several churches had paid some or all of their apportionments for 2007. Epworth UMC, an inner city church in Denver, has paid 100% of their apportionments early in the year since at least 2002, according to Associate Conference Treasure Pat Moore. When King Harris, pastor of Epworth, was asked about this, he said that when he first arrived as their new pastor, he said the one condition in order for him to serve them was that they act connected; he didn’t want to serve a church that didn’t want to be connected with other United Methodists. He says, “you model what it is that God’s calling you to: paying apportionments is part of modeling being a Methodist. How can we call ourselves connectional Methodists when we refuse to be connected? How does the work we do all over the world happen if we don’t pay apportionments?” Pastor King believes that “If you prepare the way, God will pour you out a blessing so that you’ll not have enough room to receive it! If you feed the hungry, preach, love, don’t condemn, God will do what he’s promised.”     Epworth’s Birthdays ·         Ruderial (Rudy) Robinson – 04/01 ·         Adria Carr – 04/05 ·         Charles Goodman – 04/08 ·         Damian (Sharky) Williams – 04/09 ·         Shanie Henderson – 04/15 ·         John Knight – 04/16 ·         Bruce Jones Jr. – 04/18 If your birthday is not listed for the month of April, please tell Clarence Williams. ++++++++++++++++Return to the top  ++++++++     Return to Epworth Home Page  Epworth’s Calendar ·         Open Prayer – M – F starting at 6 a.m. Sunday starting at 8 a.m. ·         Adult Sunday school – Brother Ron is the teacher. Class starts at 9:45 a.m. ·         Adult Bible Study and meal – Wed at 6 p.m. (Currently studying Mathew 5). Activities ends at 7:30 p.m. ·         Epworth’s Hispanic Worship Service every Sat. at 6 p.m. Services conducted by Assistant Pastor Marvin Lazo. ·         Sonrise UMC is coordinating an Alaskan Cruise, May 27th – June 3rd, 2007. For more information please call Les & Bev Sonksen at 719-583-2042. ·         The Family-to-Family Program is offering “ESL” (English Second Language) classes every Tuesday and Thursday. From 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Classes will end April 20, 2007. ·         The Family-to-Family Program is offering “Parenting Classes in Spanish” starting February 20, 2007. These classes will continue for 10 weeks. Classes are from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday evening. ·         The Family-to-Family Program is offering “NEWSED” training every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. Training is from 5 to 8 p.m. This training is for first time home buyers and for those who need help establishing good credit. ++++++++++++++++Return to the top  ++++++++     Return to Epworth Home Page Who’s  Ushering  In  April  ·         April 1, 2007 – Sister Evelyn Davis and Sister Grace Stiles ·         April 8, 2007 – Sister Sharon Davis-Brown and Sister Rudy Robinson ·         April 15, 2007 – Sister Myrtle Davis and Sister Tonya Sharp ·         April 22, 2007 – Sister Roseann Robinson and Brother Clarence Williams ·         April 29, 2007 – Youth Sunday.   ++++++++++++++++Return to the top  ++++++++     Return to Epworth Home Page   Epworth’s  Health… “Oh  Lord  Hear  Our  Prayer” ·         Health – Bishop Brown of the Rocky Mountain Conference. ·         Health – Sister Tonya Sharp ·         Health – Sister Ada Busby who is recovering from knee replacement surgery. ·         Health – Brother Chris Davis ·         Traveling Mercies – Brother Leeodis Davis. ·         Health – Sister Sabrina Wilhite.   ++++++++++++++++Return to the top Talent  Camp Epworth received the blessing of 70 or more children daily at our talent camp in March during their Spring break. This week long camp was filled with a number of fun activities such as art classes, playing basketball, playing drums and having fun and learning a little bit about who God is. The children were fed breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack each day. Call Epworth and find out when the next talent camp is scheduled.     ++++++++++++++++Return to the top  ++++++++     Return to Epworth Home Page Jail  Is  No  Place Epworth’s Family-to-Family is co-sponsoring with NAACP Youth Council, & East High School Black Student Alliance, “Jail is No Place to Be Somebody” on April 14, 2007 starting at 9 a.m. Call 303-296-6287 for more info. Helping  Holly  Colorado A note from Jayne Adams in Bishop Brown’s office says, that if any of you want to help physically in Holly, please call her (303-733-0083). She is compiling a list of names and special skills of those folks. “Right now, the town is not a good place to go with only ‘first responders’ there, like the Red Cross, CERT, Police and Fire, and the people that have been affected. From our training with UMCOR, we are taught that we are not first responders. If people want to give money to help, they should give the money to their local church and designate it for Holly/church and parsonage OR Holly/Community. The church can then remit it to RMCUMC with their regular remittances, WITH division between those two designations noted. Bishop Brown asks your prayers for the people in Holly, CO. Pastor Dave Moorman and his wife are fine, but the parsonage is severely damaged.   ++++++Return to the top  ++++++     Return to Epworth Home Page