Oakland Iowa United Methodist Church Calendar

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OCTOBER LIST OF EVENTS

Sun, Oct 21st 9:00 a.m. Choir Practice/Sunday School
10:00 a.m. Worship/Mission Sunday
Ushers: Mitch & Penny Anderson, ReAnn, Barb
Candle lighters: Meg & Mattie
Nursery: Donna
 11:00 a.m. Koinonia: Mischa

Wed, Oct 24th 6:30 p.m. Youth Groups

Sun, Oct 28th 9:00 a.m. Choir Practice/Sunday School
10:00 a.m. Worship
Ushers: Mark & Mischa Martens, Alan & Connie
Gardner
Candle lighters: Eric & Maverrick
Nursery: Sheila
 11:00 a.m. Koinonia: Barb

Wed, Oct 31st 8:30 a.m. Kitchen Krew meeting

Sun, Oct 21st

Wed, Oct 24th

Sun, Oct 28th

Wed, Oct 31st

9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.

6:30 p.m.

9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

6:30 p.m.

Choir Practice/Sunday School Worship/Mission Sunday Koinonia: Mischa	Ushers: Mitch & Penny Anderson, ReAnn, Barb Candle lighters: Meg & Mattie Nursery: Donna
Youth Groups
Choir Practice/Sunday School Worship Koinonia: Barb	Ushers: Mark & Mischa Martens, Alan & Connie Gardner Candle lighters: Meg & Mattie Nursery: Donna
Youth Groups

Sun, Oct 21st

Wed, Oct 24th

Sun, Oct 28th

Wed, Oct 31st

9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

6:30 p.m.

9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.
2:30 p.m.
- 5:30 p.m.

8:30 a.m.

Choir Practice/Sunday School
Worship/Mission Sunday
Ushers: Mitch & Penny Anderson, ReAnn, Barb
Candle lighters: Meg & Mattie
Nursery: Donna
Koinonia: Mischa

Youth Groups

Choir Practice/Sunday School
Worship
Ushers: Mark & Mischa Martens, Alan & Connie Gardner
Candle lighters: Eric & Maverrick
Nursery: Sheila
Koinonia: Barb
Charge Conference at Carson UMC

Kitchen Krew meeting

Sun, Nov 4th

Wed, Nov 7th

Sat, Nov 10th

Sun, Nov 11th

Wed, Nov 14th

Thur, Nov 15th

Sun, Nov 18th

Thur, Nov 22nd

Sun, Nov 25th

Wed, Nov 28th

9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

6:30 p.m.

7:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

6:30 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.
5:00 p.m.

9:00 a.m.
10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

8:30 a.m.
6:30 p.m.

Choir Practice/Sunday School
Worship/Communion/Aid & Assistance/All Saints Sunday
Ushers: Terry & Amy Gleaves, Dana & Tami Palmer
Candle lighters: Kyler & Eric
Nursery: ______
Koinonia: ______

Youth Groups

Men's Prayer Breakfast

Sunday School/Choir Practice
Worship/Veterans Day
Ushers: Joan & Richard Shanno, Scott & Sue Duhachek
Candle lighters: Will & Maverrick
Nursery: Carrie
Koinonia

Poinsettia Orders Due

Youth Groups

Administrative Board Meeting

Choir Practice/Sunday School
Worship/Mission Sunday - Shoebox Angels
Ushers: Gerald & Carol Wilson, Mike & Kristy Bane
Candle lighters: Kort & Keaten
Nursery: Pam
Koinonia
RCA Thanksgiving Service & Meal

Thanksgiving - Church Office will be closed

Choir Practice/Sunday School
Worship/United Methodist Student Day
Ushers: Bernie & Norma Bolton, Bud & Marsha Beedle
Candle lighters: Meg & Mattie
Nursery: Lindsey
Hanging of the Greens

Kitchen Krew Meeting
Youth Groups

If you want to feel rich,
just count all the things money can’t buy.

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening
when you would have preferred to talk.

Some people have the right aim in life,
but they never pull the trigger!

Whatever the journey is,
it’s not only the destination that matters,
but the person with whom you travel.
Who do you travel through life with?

Don’t let your mind become so busy
that your heart can’t respond.

If I cannot do great things, I can do
small things in a great way.
---Katherine Brown, Fredericktown, Ohio

Instead of putting others in their place,
we should put ourselves in their place.

The purpose of life is to matter ...
to have it make a difference that you live at all…
by using whatever talents you may have to the very fullest.

Success is more attitude than aptitude!

Man doesn’t live by bread alone.
He needs buttering up once in a while

A family on vacation doesn’t truly travel—it explores itself.

“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.”
– Benjamin Franklin

The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.

Under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are dull and all are different colors,
but they have to live in the same box.

The one thing you never have to apologize for is being kind.

To have faith is to believe the task ahead of us is never as great
as the power behind us.

There are three things you can count on—death, taxes and change.
Everything changes

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks that others throw at him.

Don’t stumble over something behind you.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
    ---Isaac Newton

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that
one comes from a strong will; the other from a strong won’t.

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s
right too often to ignore it and wrong too often to rely on it!

The Family is a haven in a heartless world.

You can mold a mannerism, but you must chisel character.

Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of
preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.

“A bicycle can’t stand alone: it is just two-tired.”

“Whether spreading love or jam,
it’s hard not to get some on yourself.”

Home is a place where you grow up wanting to leave
and grow old wanting to get back to.

Don’t depend on a rabbit’s foot for good luck…
It didn’t work for the rabbit!

Those who say it can’t be done
should get out of the way of those who are doing it.

If we could have half our wishes,
chances are we’d double our troubles.

If you lighten the way for others, you’ll never be in the dark yourself.

The biggest step you can take is when you meet others halfway.

“No man ever listened himself out of a job.”
—Calvin Coolidge

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.

Follow the three R’s—respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for your actions

“No” means ask Grandma.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Having somewhere to go is home;
Having someone to love is family; Having both is a blessing.

"What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God,
living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father." --- Henry Blackaby

Before repeating anything a little bird told you,
be sure it wasn’t a cuckoo.

Every day is a new beginning.
Nothing has yet happened to tomorrow.

If something was worth doing, you’ve already been paid.

A child’s greatest period of growth is the month
after you’ve purchased new school clothes.

Faith is the bird that feels the light
and starts to sing when the dawn is still dark.

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime
and too sleepy to worry at night.

After a bad harvest, sow again.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published.
How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t,
and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.” ---Robert Frost

No matter what your lot in life, build on it.

We turn from the LIGHT to see!

The quickest way for a parent to get a kid’s attention…is to sit down and look comfortable.

Esteem is worth more than celebrity, respect is worth more than renown,
and honor is worth more than fame.

“When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life
that we will never take back. Our time is our life!”

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." --W.B. Yeats

Most people miss opportunity
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate a man?
"Hold my purse"

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” --Lady Bird Johnson

It is good to have an end to journey toward,
but it is the journey that matters in the end.

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done,
and farmers could catch up on repairs.

We usually know what we can do,
But temptation shows us who we are.

Everyone wants to live on the mountain,
but all the happiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
-- Rev. Dry. Martin Luther King Jr.

If you want to be good at business, mind your own.

Our work for God is voluntary; it’s just a bonus to get paid for it.

“If you see a young man open a car door for his girlfriend,
either the car is new or the girlfriend is."

Live fully, laugh uncontrollably, love unconditionally.

Only boring people get bored.

Over prepare, then go with the flow.

Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.

Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.

To have faith is to believe the task ahead of us
Is never as great as the power behind us

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
– Lily Tomlin

“He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.”
—Benjamin Franklin

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle.
The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

The worth of a man is not what he has, but what he is.

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running above average.

The best vision is not foresight or hindsight, but insight.

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs—jolted by every pebble in the road
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn’t do at all.

“Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get.”
--Mark Twain

“To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.”
---Lord Byron

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver.
He also accepteth from a grouch.

There is only one problem with saving your dream for someday.
Someday will always remain in the future.

Any time the going seems easy,
better check and see if you’re going downhill.

Striving for success without hard work is like
trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.

The successful man makes hay out of the grass
that grows under the other fellow’s feet.

It’s those small daily happenings that make life spectacular.

Happiness can be thought, sought, caught, but never bought.

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.”
—John Wayne

Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms.

“A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart,
but he’s not very bright.” –Lucille Ball

A house becomes a home when you can write,
“I love you” in the dust on the furniture.

“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not in our hearts.”
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.

When we are wrong, make us willing to change.
And when we are right, make us easy to live with!

“Finding good players is easy.
Getting them to play as a team is another story.”
----Casey Stengel

Gratitude is an attitude!

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
—Vincent Van Gogh

“Everyone wants to be appreciated,
so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.”
--Mary Kay Ash

A student never forgets an encouraging private word,
when it is given with sincere respect and admirations.

God didn’t add another day in your life because you need it,
He gave it because someone out there needs you.

Some folks succeed because they’re destined to,
but most succeed because they’re determined to.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it,
but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

A faith that doesn’t allow room for doubt is not a faith
but a superstition.

No matter the storm, there's always a rainbow waiting.

We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public.

Direction -- High energy without focus
is likely to dissipate in purposeless busyness.
                       --Heike Bruch and Sumantra Bhoshal

Don't stumble over things behind you.

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

People want the front of the bus, the back of the church,
and the center of attention

"Somebody has said there are only two kinds of people in the world.
There are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning, Lord,"
and there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord, it's morning."

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars
and open a jar of it every month.” –Harlan Miller

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better person.” --Benjamin Franklin

When you help someone else up the hill,
you reach the top yourself.

A smart person knows what to say,
a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
----Ralph Waldo Emerson