Do you love children? Imagination Station has a few part-time openings. Must have a passion for working with children. If interested please call Allyson Ball, Director of Children’s Ministry, at 317-780-4624.
THANK YOU On behalf of the Homecroft PTA, staff and students, please accept our heartfelt thanks for all of the school supplies you donated to our school. Thanks to your generosity, we were able to provide 270 children with the tools they need to succeed in the upcoming school year. You are wonderful! Greatfully, Dana Lynn Hiller For the Homecroft PTA Dear SUMC Friends, We want to thank you for you support of the Kairos Prison Ministries weekend at Indiana Women’s Prison Aug. 8-11. Twenty-four women from the prison participated in the weekend. They learned that God loves them! What wonderful news! Thanks you for making cookies, praying, giving financial support and attending the closing ceremony. We look forward to the next Kairos weekend at Rockville the end of October. Connie Klipsch & Billie Hunteman
Kairos Prison Ministry offers men many opportunities to serve. The facility closest to home is the Plainfield Correctional Facility. Kairos is going into that facility for a weekend in the fall. Other correctional facilities where men can serve include Pendleton, New Castle, Putnamville and Wabash Valley. To see more information, go to kairosofindiana.org. If any men in our congregation are interested in serving, contact the church office for more information. For those who might have reservations about serving inside a correctional facility, you might want to discuss prison ministry with any of the seven women from SUMC who have served during the last two years. If you would ask any of those involved, you would find a positive response from each one about how meaningful this ministry has been to them. They have served at both the Rockville Correctional Facility and Indiana Women’s Prison.
“It’s less about the task and more about the way that serving draws us closer to Christ.” Let’s begin the new year by choosing to serve in ways that will draw us closer to God and model Jesus’ love for others. First ….if you have not experienced MINISTRY DISCOVERY , let’s begin there. Ministry Discovery determines the ministry role and spiritual gifts you have been blessed with to serve God by serving others. The process involves completing two assessments and after scoring we spend about an hour discussing the results, answering questions, and exploring ministries in which your gifts can be best used. We are an Equipping church that believes when each person becomes a follower of Jesus we are given special gifts to bless others. When we use these gifts our passion and joy for serving is greater and bears more fruit. Not every ministry is for us to take on as a church and we seek God’s will for how we serve and reach others in our community to share His love....