Please join us this Sunday, July 18, 2021, for New Church of Montgomery’s Zoom church service led by Pete Toot. The title of the service is “What’s the Use?”
Sunday School begins at 9:45 am, Fellowship at 10:30 am, and Worship at 11:00 am.
Members and their contacts will receive an email with the zoom login later in the week.
How will you be of service today? Tomorrow is today. Love your enemies. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”-Rev. Dr. MLK, Jr.
Read this article about usefulness and happiness with a quote from Emerson. Then, check out the attached document for different volunteer opportunities you can do during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We’re chasing money and possessions. Not service, not purpose. If we have a purpose at all, it’s to make ourselves happy. But if there’s one thing I know, it’s this: You’re happiest — as well as most beneficial to society — when you’re doing things to help others.” -Esther Wojcicki
Read the whole article here.
Just a reminder, y’all…take care of our home–the Earth!
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. -Galatians 6:9
Do you have a problem that you need help with? Something you need to work out? Bring it to church on Sunday. Let’s pray, brainstorm, receive influx, work together, network, and solve some simple or complex problems!
Consider it a time to make a difference in someone else’s life. Put on your thinking cap and let Divine Love and Wisdom do its work through you.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
845 Congress Avenue, Glendale, OH
10:30 am Hospitality
11:00 am Practical Prayer Service
Photographed at the Louvre, Abu Dhabi by Marguerite Panyko
What is our responsibility to the Earth? What if you spent your career working on solutions to save coral reefs and suddenly as you’re ready to retire, you providentially find the answer you’re looking for. A coral stuck to the bottom of a tank breaks off and shows it’s ability to regenerate much faster than previously thought! Do you retire, or do you go on being useful, helping to see this discovery’s implementation through? Emanuel Swedenborg said, ““Whatever love brings forth it calls useful” (Divine Love and Wisdom #336) This scientist decided to continue to show his love for saving coral reefs by postponing his retirement, and helping coral reefs bring forth their use: joy and beauty for snorkelers, buffering shorelines from storms and erosion, and a home for creatures of the seas.
Today from 9-5, you can be of service at the Glendale New Church. 845 Congress Avenue, Glendale. A delicious soup will be provided for lunch. Here is a sampling of things with which you can lend a hand:
Outside:
Plant the bulbs donated at Easter
Pick up sticks – great job for kids!
Pull the climbing ivy off of the walls (maybe dig up the ivy?)
Leaf blowing and weed-wacking
Get the lawn mower fired up and ready for spring
Clean and store the snow blower
Check out the grill – clean and make sure it works
Prune the rose bush etc
Create a small garden around the phone pole
And there’s always unlimited weeding opportunities!
Kitchen:
Clean out the frig
Tidy up – put stuff into storage boxes
Downstairs:
Move a cabinet to hide the rummage sale stuff – to do this we’ll have to empty the cabinets, sort the stuff and organize it before putting it back
Replace heating elements in the hot water heater (x2)
Install remaining floor tiles
Repair / paint ceiling tiles
Organize things better in the mechanical room
Upstairs Community Room:
Prepare the chairs for cleaning. We will have Teasdale Fenton come in next week to clean them. Need to remove the white netting, count them, and try to straighten any bent legs.
Replace any burned out light bulbs.
Church:
Replace any burned out light bulbs.
Move the boxes in the office to the bookcases and the loft
Clean the filters in all 3 furnaces
Install weather-stripping where needed The old office door is leaking badly
Tidy up the office area – put stuff into storage boxes
Cellar:
Haul junk out of the cellar
Install plastic sheeting over cleared areas – reduces moisture, chance of mold, and cost of dehumidifying, etc.
We are losing young people to gun violence at an alarming rate. Being useful is one of the main tenets of our church. If you feel compelled to advance the development of the human race, be useful; do something.
New Church of Montgomery, in Glendale 