Middletown United Methodist

Church service at Middletown United Methodist. 18Nov2018

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Middletown United Methodist Church

Church service at Middletown United Methodist. 18Nov2018

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Nov. 4, 2018 Grace Luther Church service. All Saints Sunday

Nov. 4, 2018 Grace Luther Church service. All Saints Sunday

Pastor Kevin Clementson begins Sunday services at Grace Lutheran Church

Pastor Kevin Clementson begins Sunday services at Grace Lutheran Church in Westminster. There are many activities this week revolving around the 500th anniversary of the Reformation 22Oct2017

This year’s celebration of Juneteenth in Carroll Co. featured a documentary on the black churches in the area

This year’s celebration of Juneteenth in Carroll Co.
featured a documentary on the black churches in the area

In the last several meetings of the Carroll County NAACP, we
have discussed Juneteenth.

June 30^th, 2017 by Kevin E. Dayhoff

Westminster Md. - This year the Juneteenth celebration in
Carroll County, June 19th, 2017 at the Carroll Arts Center, featured a special
premiere screening of “The Rock of
our Ancestors,” a Community Media Center (CMC) produced documentary about
the origins, history, and impact of Carroll County’s small, African-American
Churches. For more information go here: http://www.carrollmediacenter.org/the-rock-of-our-ancestors/

According to the April 27, 2017 minutes of the Carroll
County NAACP: “It was mentioned that the Community Media Center http://www.carrollmediacenter.org/
and the CC NAACP will partner in an upcoming event involving a movie that has
been made about the history of the Black churches in Carroll County.

The event will take place this year on June 19th, 2017 at
the Carroll Arts Center http://www.carrollcountyartscouncil.org/index.asp.

For those not familiar with Juneteenth, it is a celebration
of the news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaching Galveston Texas and being
publicly announced by Major General Gordon Granger on June 19th, 1865 - two and
a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had been
signed on January 1, 1863.

To watch
a short trailer of the documentary
film on the black churches in Carroll County go here: https://youtu.be/ozGHZczQt1k

According to Sherry Taylor with the Carroll Community Media
center, “Throughout our history, the
church has been the cornerstone around which people have gathered to build
their communities. It is the rock of faith that sustains us in times of
uncertainty, the foundation that supports us as we grow, and a touchstone to guide
us day-by-day.

“But, some of our
small churches are finding themselves on shifting sand, facing an uncertain
future. Shrinking congregations, competing interests, and financial pressures
create significant challenges in their survival.

“Carroll County’s
houses of worship not only serve as a source of strength and comfort, but also
have been vessels of history; some tracing their roots back over 100 years.

“For these
parishioners, the loss of the church, is the loss of their legacy. Today, it’s
not just the building or the congregation that is at risk, it is the very
heritage of their ancestors and the identity of an entire community that is at
stake.”

I recently wrote an article on Juneteenth that appeared in
the Carroll County Times - “Time
Flies: June 19 is Juneteenth Independence Day,” by Kevin Dayhoff June 16,
2017:

“June 19, is "Juneteenth," a relatively
little-known holiday in approximately 45 of the 50 states, and the District of
Columbia. In June 2011, when I first wrote about the importance of Juneteenth
and advocated that Maryland recognize 'Juneteenth Independence Day,' only 38
states observed the holiday. Today, according to some recent research, Hawaii,
Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota and South Dakota still do not recognize
the ‘19th of June.’ …”

Find the article here: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/columnists/features/ph-cc-dayhoff-061817-20170613-column.html

This year’s celebration of Juneteenth in Carroll Co.
featured a documentary on the black churches in the area https://patch.com/maryland/westminster/year-s-celebration-juneteenth-carroll-co-featured-documentary-black-churches

This year’s celebration of Juneteenth in Carroll Co.
featured a documentary on the black churches in the area

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“Pastor’s Study” Grace Lutheran Church by Kevin E. Dayhoff September 20, 2015

“Pastor’s Study” Grace Lutheran Church by Kevin E. Dayhoff September 20, 2015

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Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church

21 Carroll Street

Westminster, MD 21158

(410) 848-7020

The Reverend Kevin Clementson, Senior Pastor

The Reverend Martha Clementson, Senior Pastor

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The Relentless Fight June 2014 Update

Monthly update from The Relentless Fight. June 2014 Update Below is a summary of posts from the last month. Just click the graphic to view the post. Share with folks that need to be encouraged! Enjoy! The Relentless Fight 3 Steps in Ministering to Others We live in a hurting world. We have pain inside us, pain around us, and sin seems to soak everything. Everywhere we turn, others are struggling in their own ways with sin and suffering. For those who are in Christ, we are called as ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:20) to incarnate Christ into this world and minister God's grace to hurting people. How do we do this? The Battlefield You know your fight. But do you know your battlefield? Consider and analyze these six questions to create your own custom battle plan. Don't be caught unaware!  Follow on social media:

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Deep and Wide Book Review / / Wil Ramsey

Deep and Wide Book Review / / Wil Ramsey:


Andy Stanley’s Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend  is part memoir and part instruction manual on how to create churches for those outside the church. Deep and Wide is divided into five sections, “My Story” is Stanley’s personal background, “Our Story,” is the story of the planting of North Point Community Church in 1995, “Going Deep,” covers North Points’ spiritual formation technique “Going Wide,” is about how North Point structures its programming for outreaching and “Becoming Deep and Wide,” is about helping churches to transition to the type of church Stanley advocates. My thoughts on what Deep and Wide gets right and what it gets wrong are detailed below... http://www.wilramsey.com/deep-and-wide-book-review/

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Don’t Let Worries Kill You, Let the church help.

Don’t Let Worries Kill You

 Don’t Let Worries Kill You, Let the church help.

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This quiz can help you find the right denomination

This quiz can help you find the right denomination

January 7, 2011

Churchmouse Campanologist

Ringing the bells for Christian traditions and getting our story out there. If we don’t, who will?

Many of us wonder why we’re dissatisfied with the church we attend.  For some, this might be because the clergy displace biblical teachings in favour of more worldly, including political, ones.  However, others might be attending church in a denomination which might not suit their theological beliefs.

So, how do we know what denomination might be correct for us?  Here’s a 24-question multiple-choice quiz that can help clarify which church might be best for you, the Christian Denomination Selector.  It’s free and you don’t need to register or leave an email address in order to discover the results.

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OMG. My results indicate that I am 100 % Episcopal/Anglican Church and 72 % Evangelical Lutheran Church and Methodist Wesleyan. I guess this makes sense since my family are historically royalists - and I was raised in the United Methodist Church. Do not tell my family or my pastors, LOL. Does this mean I can’t be on the church council – or does it mean I get extra committee assignments? God Save the Queen.

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The 9 am praise service in Grace Hall at Grace Lutheran Church on 3Feb2014

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Crossing the Creek, A Practical Guide to the Dying Process

“Crossing the Creek” is written by Michael Homes

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I received “Crossing the Creek, A Practical Guide to the Dying Process” on the last day, November 13, 2013, of Bereavement Skills Training at Carroll Hospice. 

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I recently took a 15-hour class in Bereavement Skills Training at Carroll Hospice, http://www.carrollhospice.org/Bereavement-Skills-Training taught by Kathleen A. Bare, M.S. Bereavement Counselor, Carroll Hospice, 292 Stoner Ave., Westminster, MD 21157.

The topics included an introduction to Carroll Hospice and the services and functions hospice can provide when family members, loved-ones, friends and colleagues are “Crossing the Creek.”

The class touched-upon the medical aspects of the dying experience and advice for caregivers. Class segments included ‘normal grief,’ natural grief responses, children and grief. Complicated grief, suicides, communication skills, rituals, support groups and resources.

On the last day of class, a member of the class distributed a photocopy of the publication, “Crossing the Creek, A Practical Guide to the Dying Process,” which the author, Michael Homes, RN, identifies as “A nurse’s perspective on the medical aspects of the dying experience and advice for caregivers.” My copy of “Crossing the Creek” is branded with a ‘print date’ of September 4, 2000.

According to http://crossingthecreek.com/, the publication is no longer available. Furthermore, the publisher, Damone-Rose Publishing is going out of business. A brief search of the internet did not locate a place where the book could be purchased. This information was accessed on November 25, 2013.

That is a shame because it is a valuable and well accepted plain-language and common sense approach to the dying experience and advice to caregivers…

In his introduction to “Crossing the Creek,” Mr. Holmes writes:

“This guide is intended to provide dying people and their caregivers with a general description of what they can expect to encounter. While understanding does not eliminate the impact of experience, it can: certainly reduce some of the consternation and allay that creeping sense of panic•.

“All transitions have similar key elements. Also, every person experiences, a wide variety of transitions during the course of his/her lifetime. In that sense, there is nothing new in dying process. In fact, each of us develops our own, personal style for dealing with transitions. We tend to stick with that style, whatever it might be, when we face the transition we call death.

“If you would like to know how you will handle your own death, look back upon your life and observe how you have handled all your other transitions. Unless you decide to change your approach, that is how you will die.

While all transitions have similar key elements, this guide deals specifically with the transition of dying. Every person does not experience every sign or symptom described herein, or a person may experience a particular sign or symptom in his/her own unique way. There is room for infinite variation in how any given individual may experience the dying process. At the same time, certain general themes are common to all.

“It is well to remember that all transitions entail some disagreeable or uncomfortable aspects. Dying process is no exception. No reasonable person expects that life will contain no discomforts, yet some espouse the notion that somehow, death will. This is not a reasonable expectation. The dying process has its difficult aspects regardless of one's level of enlightenment.

“Modern medicine has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for mitigating or even eliminating many disagreeable aspects of physical death. At the same time, modern medicine cannot relieve people of responsibility for their own lives. We all prepare for our own death by the manner in which we live our lives. Skilled clinicians can be a great help, but we each bear the ultimate burden of responsibility for how we live and how we die…”

For more information on grief, bereavement, death and dying, or coping with death at the holidays and the various programs offered by Carroll Hospice, contact: Kathleen A. Bare, M.S. Bereavement Counselor, Carroll Hospice, 292 Stoner Ave., Westminster, MD 21157, 410-871-7231, KBare@carrollhospitalcenter.org; or go to: http://www.carrollhospice.org/home.

Kevin Dayhoff is a chaplain with the Westminster Volunteer Fire Department and the Maryland Troopers Association Lodge # 20.

In addition he currently serves on the executive board of the Carroll Co. branch of the NAACP and the church council of Grace Lutheran Church.

In the past, he has taken a number of classes in various aspects of the chaplaincy, including non-violence training, emergency incident command and response, Red Cross disaster response training, and a Federation of Fire Chaplains’ class in the Essentials of Fire Chaplaincy…

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A study of the Book by Dr Luke in Sunday school at Grace Lutheran Church

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Caroline’s hands – our dried mangoes.

 Caroline’s hands – our dried mangoes.

August 21, 2013

  

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Long road trips require ample portions of dried mangoes in order to properly maintain the mind, body, spirit and soul to be appropriately prepared for the journey.

Pictured here are the all-important hands that handled the dried mangoes on our recent trip to the 2013 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Churchwide Assembly in Pittsburg during the week of Aug. 12-17 in Pittsburgh.

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This picture was taken on our way up the road to Pittsburgh on August 10, 2013. It captures a moment in which the dried mangoes are in Caroline’s hands as she waxes poetically upon the importance and spirituality of this food of the Gods…

The Assembly took “action on some 80 ‘memorials’ or requests from synods asking for Churchwide Assembly action on significant issues,” according to a thoughtful and comprehensive article written about the assembly by Lutheran magazine writer, Elizabeth Hunter, “Paperless in Pittsburgh.” The article by Ms. Hunter appeared in the August edition of the magazine.

Ms. Hunter noted that voting members faced “Some big decisions … amid daily worship, prayer and Bible studies under the theme "Always Being Made New," based on 2 Corinthians 5:17.”

At the 2013 Lutheran Churchwide Assembly, 952 voting members from the ELCA's 65 synods and 9,638 congregations elected a new presiding bishop and secretary, and deliberated and adopted various budgets, financial campaigns, social statements.

Last week, Caroline Babylon, Evelyn Babylon, Beth Clementson and I volunteered at the 2013 Churchwide Assembly that was hosted by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Synod.

It was the last biennial gathering of the ELCA's highest legislative authority before the assembly transitions to a triennial cycle, according to Ms. Hunter.

“Always being made New” was the theme of The Evangelical Lutheran Church in American 2013 Churchwide Assembly that took place August 12-17, 2013 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

For more articles, news briefs, pictures and information on the 2013 ELCA Assembly, #ELCACWA, go to: http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/search/label/%23ELCACWA.

To learn more about the ELCA or to find an ELCA congregation go to www.elca.org. 

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To learn more about the ELCA or to find an ELCA congregation go to www.elca.org. 

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Melissa Dorrance Disciplemakers Spring 2013 Exciting New Steps

Exciting New Steps! God's work in Spring 2013 It has been a whirlwind year since I first joined staff with DiscipleMakers back in August 2012 and God has been at work in huge ways this year, both in my life and in those of college students!  I am so thrilled and captivated by the vision and mission that I now have before me to “Go and make disciples of all the nations!”  Here are a few recent highlights from this past semester: Focus: DiscipleMakers just held its week-long end of year student conference Focus!  We had a combined 240 students across both weeks.  Not only did several students give their lives to Christ, but also many others were deeply impacted by the Gospel teaching throughout the conference and the heart seeking community.  One student remarked, "The reminder God gave me this week about how I'm called to walk by His grace was really refreshing. I often forget that God gives me grace because HE is good...not because I'm good." Gettysburg Graduation: After 4 years of academics, fun, and friends, it was hard to say goodbye to Gettysburg, but also immensely exciting!  I am very thankful to have graduated on May 19th with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies, and am now excited to begin full-time with DiscipleMakers!  It was bittersweet to say goodbye to all of my close friends from Gettysburg especially the dear brothers and sisters whom I met through DM and who have gotten to know my heart, failures, and joys these past 4 years in a deep way. Baccalaureate: The day before Graduation I had the privilege of delivering the Baccalaureate address to the senior class.  Not only was this a huge testament to how God has been at work in my life building me in influence among the professors and students of the institution, but it was even more exciting, because I got to share the Gospel with my graduating class and was able to exhort them to root their identities in something less temporal than academic success or temporary jobs and relationships.  Here is a link to the brief speech if you are interested in listening! Support-Raising: God is at work in powerful ways!  I began full-time support-raising on May 21st and God has really blessed those efforts by building up a prayer and financial support team.  Currently I am 46% of the way towards achieving my financial goal for my ministry with DiscipleMakers.  Praise God for providing people like yourselves who are eager to pray for or financially support this mission.  I am so blessed to have you all as partners in ministry! Engagement:  There have been even more changes in my life!  Just this past week on June 13th I got engaged to Andy Cimbala!  Andy works for DiscipleMakers and leads the ministry at Shippensburg University.  We couldn’t be more giddy and excited about where the Lord has been leading our relationship and are eager to get married and begin ministering the Gospel together as a team! Andy and I right after engagement!  Here is a link that tells more!

Prayers: Thank you for supporting me with your prayers and finances!  I am deeply awed by how God has worked in all of your hearts and am so encouraged to have you as fellow laborers for the truth! Please pray for my continued support-raising: that God would raise the necessary funds swiftly and that He would refocus me on the true purpose of support raising, to encourage people with the Gospel and with how God is at work in the world.  Please pray for current students as they are home over the summer.  Often students are returning to broken homes and communities where they must experience and wrestle with shame, loneliness, anxiety, or the lure of false “idols.” Please be praying for Andy and I as we plan our wedding and continue to grow in relationship with each other!  Pray we would grow daily in our love for Jesus and that He would remain the foundation of our relationship.  Only Jesus will keep our relationship flourishing and grounded for the years to come!

~Melissa

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