Electric Heights UMC News

When our pastor, Janet Lord, visited Uganda and Kenya on a mission trip, one of the things that she helped put in motion was a sewing project. Some of the women who have taken part in the project sent along a picture to share with us. We are glad to hear from them and thrilled that the project is going well. We share the picture here with you:

Janet passed along this news and asked if it could be posted on our website. It is good to hear that efforts to help others are being successful.

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From: [pastorjosamkariuki@]
To: [Rev. Lord]
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:03:34 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: hallo
Hallo Rev Jane,
Greetings from your brothers and sisters in Kenya.
Its long since we communicated. The Lord has take us thro all along. The Nakuru church is fine. Many times the women and youths have been asking me about you.
Through the sewing machines you bought for us, todate we have been able to train 82 women and youths. Glory be to God. Many have got jobs and today their families are not the same again. The training have given them an income genetaring. Joe and several people in their church are planning to come back in Kenya next year. Have you talked to him of late? He has been of great help to us. Soon we will be opening an Orphanage through their support. He is a wonderful brother with his church. I look forward seeing you in Kenya soon.
I will be happy to hear how you are doing and the ministry, Rev Josam.

Come join us at our regular service this Sunday while we celebrate Christmas in June.

We all know that things get hectic in November and December so why not pause to reflect on Christmas in June? Is there any wrong time to celebrate the birth of Christ? Relax and enjoy a warm weather reminder of why we come together in worship.

As an added bonus there’s no need to rush out to the mall after service for those last minute gifts.

Karen Burns, a member of the Port Vue UMC who was with me on the mission trip to Uganda, recently shared this story. It touched my heart and thought it might be interesting to all of you:

This past summer I had the opportunity to be at the Elizabeth UMC to help them with Bible School, which their theme was “Missions Around the World.” And of course, what an opportunity to be a part of. I had four evenings and approximately 20 minutes with each age group. Each day I showed some slides -dwelling on mostly Humble Place - Food, clothing, sleeping arrangements, hospital surroundings ,etc etc. What an experience, to be with these children and watching their faces and answering the questions they had . But there was one little boy , I would say he is around 6 or 7 years old that God was and is still working in his heart regarding the childrens situation at Humble Place. This little boy started a lemonade stand and raised a few hundred dollars during the rest of the summer to donate to Humble Place, and just recently he had gone before his church and requested this Christmas that the church would get together and buy shoes for the children. I am so amazed of what God is doing. I was given a check for almost $900 from the heart of this child and the children from the ELizabeth UMC, to be donated to Humble Place, and I must say my heart is still overwhelmed. Blessings still continue and God is still at work in all situations. And may God continue to use and Bless this little boy.

We will be hosting a Christmas concert on Friday, December 9th at 7:30pm to benefit the Cheryl Nelis Scholarship Fund. The concert will feature the inspirational piano stylings of our associate pastor, Janet Lord. It will be held in the main sanctuary.

All are welcome to attend. There is no admission fee but there will be a voluntary donation taken to benefit the Cheryl Nelis Scholarship Fund. The fund will be used to provide scholarships to local high school seniors whose lives have been affected by cancer.

If you would like more information about the scholarship fund, the concert, or our church please contact us at this address or call 412-824-3303 (our secretary and pastors’ office hours are limited so please leave a message if no one answers).

For planning purposes, if you would like to attend the concert please R.S.V.P. at this address or call 412-824-3303 to let us know how many will be attending.

Thank you in advance for your interest.

Friends,

We have been praying for Rev. Paul Milliken through our printed prayer list in the bulletin. Paul is the pastor at Trinity Tower UMC in Penn Hills and serves as a chaplain with the Air Force reserves. He has been deployed on active duty for the last several months and has kept a blog on the Trinity Tower website that you might find fascinating, as I did. The link is http://ttumc.blogspot.com/. Especially this weekend as we honor our veterans, this is a good time to life Paul up in prayer as he fulfills both his call to serve his country and his call to serve God in such a unique way.

Janet

One of our own pastors, Janet, was selected to give the invocation at a county wide picnic today. She performed admirably and received several thanks and compliments about her message of prayer. Everyone in attendance seemed to enjoy themselves and we were greeted with an exciting celebrity encounter. He turned out to be an extremely friendly and sincere guy. Below is a picture of him with Janet and our SPRC chair, Susie Gatt.

On the Glenn Beck radio program on Thursday, September 22, his friend who is a radio host in Houston shared the words to a hymn that I had known well, but had forgotten until I heard him read it. The hymn is based on the Scripture account found in
Mark 4: 35-41. I hope that these timely words, written long ago, touch your heart as they did mine during these unusual times:

“Master, the Tempest is Raging” (by Mary A. Baker and H.R. Palmer)

Master, the tempest is raging! The billows are tossing high!
The sky is o’ershadowed with blackness, no shelter or help is nigh;
“Carest Thou not that we perish?” How canst Thou lie asleep,
When each moment so madly is threatening a grave in the angry deep?

“The winds and the waves shall obey my will. Peace, be still!”
Whether the wrath of the storm-tossed sea,
Or demons, or men, or whatever it be,
No water can swallow the ship where lies
The Master of ocean and earth and skies;
They all shall sweetly obey My will;
Peace, be still! Peace, be still!
They all shall sweetly obey My will;
Peace, be still!

Master, the terror is over, the elements sweetly rest;
Earth’s sun in the calm lake is mirrored, and heaven’s within my breast.
Linger, O blessed Redeemer, leave me alone no more;
And with joy I shall make the blest harbor, and rest on the blissful shore.

THANK YOU!!!!!!

On Tuesday morning, I sent out an email plea for a rapid response to Hurricane Katrina. A local radio station, 104.7, was asking for donations to fill trucks and one of the collection points was Monroeville Mall on Thursday evening. With very short notice from your very short Deacon, you all responded as I knew you would. Tonight I took the following to the collection truck:

6 pkg diapers
2 baby blankets
10 pkg baby wipes
3 cases water
12 rolls toilet paper
5 notebooks
30 children’s books
6 pkg crayons
6 bottles of shampoo
1 pkg combs
9 pairs of socks
8 tubes of toothpaste
28 toothbrushes
46 bars of soap

All of that in just over 48 hours. I know that many of you have also made personal donations through other avenues and that this was above and beyond. May God bless each of you.

Janet

When Janet went to Uganda and Kenya earlier this year she made many friends. When she went we sent her with some wooden cross necklaces to give to the people she met. They liked them so much that they asked her if it would be possible to send more. We made an additional 100 necklaces and mailed them to Uganda. When they received the crosses Janet was thrilled to receive the following email. (Some minor changes were made to the original email. Sarah’s first language is not English so she may use some phrases differently than we are accustomed to.)

Dear Janet Lord,
Praise God. How is life and the family? Thanks for the ministry you’re holding. I really thank you very much for the wooden crosses you sent us. I recieved them yesterday and they came at a time when I started children ministry at my village and leader of sunday school in church.
I teach the children to know Christ and discipline. When they received the crosses they were happy and they asked me to see the face of the person who loved them so much. They are around thirty two but 22 are orphans. They would love to see you. Please send them a snapshot. We also carry out hospital ministry on Saturday and prison on Sunday evening. We pray for the sick and preach the gospel. We give them some sugar, bread, and cooked food for the prisoners. We thank God that you have become part of our ministry. May God bless you.
We do want your church to become part of this ministry and please, if possible, send us some literature for the children and Bibles and even some children plays.
Greetings from Elijah, Elisha and Steven. They love you so much. Elijah has got his holiday today to you and your family.
Special thanks to you and to all the members of the church who made us the crosses .
May God richly bless them so much.

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Sarah Nakintu
P.O. Box 428 Mukono, Uganda