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KEEFERS KORNER
I am not sure if other school districts do this, but at the end of the year, the
North Tama Elementary School has what they call a field day. All the students
from K-6 gather at the football field for races of varying length, softball
throwing, and tug-of-war. It is a hoot to watch the kids as they compete. I had
the joy of attending this year and watch our 1st grader granddaughter, Josie,
get in on the action. The longest of the races is one lap around the field. The
kids can sign up for whatever races they feel most confident about. Our Josie
prefers the shorter races, but regardless of who is in the races, the crowd
cheers for every competitor. As we were watching the kids run that full lap (400
yards) you can easily see which kids have exceptional running ability, and
which ones have exceptional heart. Regardless of the order of finish, the
crowds cheer. There were a couple of instances that had me thinking
ourselves as Christians. You know, the apostle Paul had a great interest in
sporting activities and he often compared our lives as Christians with athletic
competition. As I watched those kids run, more than my joy of cheering with all
the other families in the stands, I really enjoyed watching all these young
students holler and root for their classmates. The first kid would cross the finish
line and delight in finishing first, but then would turn and yell encouragement to
the others, especially for the ones that were coming in last. And they would all
hug and high five. It almost made a guy cry.
As exhilarating as watching those kids cheer, more so was what happened in
one race, the 400. One young fellow was leading with quite a lead on the kid in
second and beyond. But with only a short distance to the finish line, he fell in
exhaustion. He was clutching his chest and seemed to be in some pain. The
boy who was in second stopped to help his friend up. The other kids kept
running and passed them both. Finally, the fallen boy got up and finished the
course. He came in second to last. The boy who had helped finished last. By
stopping to help his friend, the boy who would have won came in last. I got to
thinking who really won that race?
Weve been watching the television series A.D.-The Bible Continues. It
follows the events that took place after the crucifixion of Christ. Often times,
both the Romans and the Jewish leaders make comment about this messiah
of theirs being dead. Story over. Threat over. Order restored. Why then, they
wonder, are these follows of the dead messiah still organized and ecstatic in
spreading their good news? Even willing to suffer brutal treatment and death?
The Romans and Sanhedrin had thought they won the race. But the winner
was The One who came to earth and stooped to help the fallen, depressed,
and down-trodden to finish their course, even if it meant He came in last. At
least, last in the eyes of the world. Their belief was that, since He was dead
and they were still alive, they had won the game. With apologies to the French
and George Carlin, au contraire, mon frere. No, it wasnt The One who
stooped to help those who had fallen, who was the loser. It was the ones who
turned their backs on Christ, and continued running past The Truth, who lost. It
is Christ who has taught that death is not the ending, but the beginning. It is
Christ who taught, among other blessings, that those who show mercy will be
shown mercy. Read all those blessings in Matthew 5, The Beatitudes. Do you
ever feel like you are losing the race you are running? Ever feel like there is
just too much pain to continue the race? Hear the Good News Jesus
stopped along His course of eternity to minister to the poor inspirit, that they
may find the strength and encouragement to finish their race on earth, and be
with Him in eternity. Pretty cool, when you think about it. May God richly bless
you in your day. See you in church. Pastor Mark
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This is a reminder that there WILL be regular Sunday School and church at
Chapel on June 14. There will not be a Bible School program. Everyone is
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to come from 3-3:30 pm each day for the Celebration time.
Baby Jacob
Congratulations to Rusty Brown and Kristen Rhodes on the birth of a son, Jacob Elijah
Brown. He was born April 18, 2015, at 6:59 pm, weighed 8 lbs and his height was 20
inches. Welcoming him home is big brother, Jordan. Other great news to share is that
Rusty proposed on Mothers Day to Kristen! No date set yet. Many congratulations to
your family! Their address is 1560 200th St, Gladbrook, IA 50635;
Kmiller_1986@yahoo.com.
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Wanted: Jr Sunday School Teachers
Heidi Langenbau, Junior Sunday School superintendent, would like to finalize
preschool through high school Sunday School teachers for Sept, 2015-May, 2016 very
soon. The more teachers we have, the less work it is for everyone. The material is
very easy to use, especially with Barbara Burt putting each weeks lesson in an
individual folder and Ann Jackson for making sure each classroom has the needed
supplies. Please contact Heidi ASAP at 641-499-2541 or langenbauheidi@gmail.com
if you are willing to help. Thank you.
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Save June 20 for Ice Cream Social
Hello Chapel Friends! Here is a link to this year's Ice Cream Social Work Schedule!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1lTqKiCYbB8h2pTGRD3e74aQ8aRjtwC9XBaFiRTGJXcI/edit?usp=sharing
Our numbers are down,so we had to be creative with where we placed people.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read the schedule carefully and if you can not be here to
fulfill your duties, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO FIND YOUR OWN
REPLACEMENT!! You might be on the list more than once,maybe even more than
twice, so PLEASE look closely!!
Also, in years past there has been a surplus of ice cream left over. This year, we are
trying to eliminate that problem. BEFORE THE SOCIAL. CHAPEL MEMBERS CAN
PRE-ORDER 6 QUARTS OF ICE CREAM. There will be a sign-up sheet in the
narthex. Our guests who purchase a meal the night of the social will be able to
purchase an UNLIMITED NUMBER OF QUARTS.
After we are done cleaning up, CHAPEL MEMBERS CAN THEN PURCHASE AN
UNLIMITED QUANTITY OFICE CREAM. THERE WILL BE NO ICE CREAM SOLD
ON SUNDAY, JUNE 21 (the day after the social) as it is Father's Day. Please make
your plans accordingly. If you have any questions, please speak to an ICS member.
Thank you in advance for all your help!
We would like everyone to wear their purple Chapel Ice Cream Social t-shirts again this
year. It lets people know who to ask if they have a question. Please signup on the
bulletin board by June 1 or contact Amy Bland. Cost is $9.50.
The Ice Cream Social Committee - Matt & Ann Jackson Dale & Heidi Langenbau
Rusty Brown & Kristen Rhodes
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Bible School
Plans for Vacation Bible School are underway. The big event will
be Mon-Fri, June 8-12, at Chapel Church from 1:00-3:30 pm. All
children going into kindergarten and through sixth grade are welcome. As in
previous years, we are joining together with the churches in Garwin. Unlike
previous years, there will not be a Bible School program this year.
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12:30 pm; Green mountain leave 12:45, VBS out at 3:30; Green Mountain
arrive 3:45 pm; Garwin School 4 pm.
Yours in Christ,
Claire Handorf, Your Weird Animals VBS Director
When registering include your childs name and grade going into next year.
Registration forms are on the back bulletin board. Give to Claire Handorf or
bring on first day of VBS.
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Newsletter Help
Thank you to Vaugn and Carolyn Kloster, Shirley Svendsen and Sue Koster who
label, stamp, tab, and mail the monthly newsletters each month. If you would like to
join in the fun, please contact Sue Koster, or just come to the Fellowship Hall the
Monday after the last Sunday of each month. If you would like to stop getting a hard
newsletter copy, please email Sue Koster, swkost@iowatelecom.net. We would be
glad to send an email copy to you. If interested, please send any monetary
donations for printing, stamps, labels, etc. to Vaugn Kloster, PO 369, Gladbrook, IA
50635.
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Chapel Showers
Congratulations to Brent Havelka and Alyssa Briggs on their upcoming August 15
wedding. We area having a green shower for them so be looking for the envelope
on the back bulletin board. Also, congratulations to Siera Richter and Matthew
Schwartz on their December 31 wedding. Dee Burt has volunteered to help
organize Sieras shower, possibly sometime in October. Stay tuned!
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Parenting Class
The Parenting Class is on hold for right now. If you would like to activate it again,
please contact Dee Burt or Sue Koster. Thanks!
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Summer Jr Sunday School
Junior Sunday School children, ages 3 through sixth grade, will meet together at
9:30 am in the Fellowship Hall starting June 7 and ending August 30. A different
teacher will lead the multi-age class each Sunday of the summer. Teachers, feel
free to ask others to help you and to trade Sundays. Some multi-age books are on
the bottom shelf of the bookcase by the copier. Please copy the lesson you will use,
write the date in the table of contents, and replace the books for the next teacher.
Thank you.
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Church Camp
Have you heard about the 2015 Iowa United Methodist Camping opportunities?
There are catalogs, brochures, DVDs and a lot more to check out at http://
www.iaumc.org. The three camp locations are Okoboji, Pictured Rocks at Monticello
or Wesley Woods at Indianola. We hope Chapel boys and girls and even families
will attend a camp this summer. If interested in financial help, please contact Lori
Somers, Administrative Council chair, 641-751-5063.
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Mission Opportunity
Everyone is invited for lunch and a mission experience after church June 7 as we
hear about the Orphans of Teso in Uganda, Africa. Dylan DeBruin, with Childrens
Hope Chest, will be sharing his experience in the Teso region of Uganda, setting up
three care points for orphans and vulnerable children. Plan to stay after church to
hear about this mission opportunity for our community of faith. Chapel Mission
Committee
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2015 Graduates
Congratulations to our high school and college graduates! They were recognized
during the May 10 worship service and presented with gifts by our Nurturing
Ministries representatives, Bill Backoff and Tammy Burt. Below are the graduates
that were present. Gods blessings on all of you!
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April 26: 90
May 3: 66
May 10:102
May 17: 94
May 24: 62
(l-r): Michael Svendsen, Iowa State; Michael Burt, Iowa State; boys who graduated
from GMG: Noah Winters, Noah Thurston, Tyson Strayer, Bryce Newcomb, and Jeff
Hughes. Absent were Sonya Beichley-Rouser, North Central; Sierra Winters, MCC;
and GMG graduate, Matthew Carlon
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Jr SS Teachers
Jr & Sr High~June : Marla Hlas
Multi-Age Teachers and Openings (material in bookcase by copier)
June 7: Sue Koster (note change)
June 14: Lynn & Claire Handorf (note change; no VBS program)
June 21: Ann Jackson
June 28: Chris & Marci Krull
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Participating in the Memorial Day service were these veterans (l-r): Stan Koster,
Lynn Handorf, Pete Hoing, Dan Steen & Don Carlon. Helping with the program were
Bill Backoff and Chris & Marci Krull.
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Sarah Beane
1940-2015
Sarah Janet Squires Beane, 75, died on April 22, 2015. She was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on February 2,
1940, the second child of Richard and Janet Harris Squires. Until her teenage years her family lived in Gladwyn,
Pennsylvania, then in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where her father took a teaching position, and finally in Ames, Iowa.
Sarah attended Haverford Friends Elementary School, the French high school in Addis Ababa, graduated from
Westtown School in West Chester, Pennsylvania, attended Oberlin College and obtained her degree in Physical
Therapy from Washington University in St Louis in 1963.
Sarah worked as a physical therapist at several hospitals in the Minneapolis area before joining the American Friends
Service Committee rehabilitation team in Vietnam in 1967 to work with civilian amputees during the war there. Later
she opened new physical therapy departments in Ames and Manchester, Iowa. During these years her hobbies were
singing and skiing.
Sarah married Daniel Beane on April 5, 1969. Their first two years of married life were spent in Manchester, Iowa
where she established a physical therapy department. Then they returned to Dans family farm where she was active
in the management and work of the farm.
Sarahs service to the larger community included serving on the regional board of the American Friends Service
Committee, volunteering for Head Start, serving as 4-H club leader for the Marion Merry Maids and the Marshall
County Mounties, being a spokesman for the American Soybean Association, leading as an officer for the Marshall
County Porkettes, serving on the executive committees of the local and state boards of the American Association of
University Women, helping as a regular volunteer at the Green Mountain School, being an officer of the OWO
womens club and participating in the Marshall County Farm Bureau Womens organization. She was hostess to
foreign exchange students and international visitors from many continents. Along with her husband, she shared in the
leadership of several youth mission teams to Tanzania, Kenya, Bolivia and Belize. They also spent several winters
serving at the Friends Theological College in Kenya and later at the Cayo Deaf Institute in Belize.
Sarah was a lifelong member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and was an active participant in the
fellowship of the Gladbrook Chapel United Methodist Church where she was a Sunday School pianist and teacher and
was active in the Volunteers womens group. For many years she participated in the international Bible Study
Fellowship.
She and her husband, Dan, established the Beane-Squires Scholarship for graduating seniors of the Green MountainGarwin school to recognize and encourage high moral standards among the students.
Sarah is survived by her husband, Dan, her daughter, Heidi (Brett) Koopman of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota and their
two children Elijah and Gabriella, and her son Douglas (Heather) Beane of Sydney, Nova Scotia and their 4 children
Hannah, Abigail, Saralyn and Christopher. She is also survived by her brother E. Chadwick Squires and her sister
Barbara French. She was preceded in death by her parents Richard and Janet Squires.
A memorial service will be held in the manner of Friends at 3:00 PM on Sunday, April 26 at the Chapel United
Methodist Church at 1597 Abbott Avenue, rural Gladbrook, IA.
Memorials may be directed to the Cayo Deaf Institute in Belize (with a notation on checks made out to Chapel
Church) or the Friends Theological College of Kenya (with a notation on checks made out to Friends United Meeting).
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UMW
The Chapel UMW met Thursday, May 7, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. at the church. Karen Collins and Marcia Wiese presented the
lesson on mothers around the world who are safe today because of our giving. As evidenced in the Biblical story of Mary and
Elizabeth, we were encouraged to build friendships and support between older women and younger women.
Susan Beichley, president, called the meeting to order. Nine members answered the roll call by describing something their
parents did for fun. The secretarys minutes from the December meeting and March Spring Breakfast were read and approved.
Correspondence was read from Dan Beane, Leon & Carol Lamer, GMG Elementary School, JoAnn Neven, Judy Oswood, and
Sue Koster. Shirley Svendsen gave the treasurers report. It was approved, and bills were presented.
Education and Interpretation chair, Karen Collins, reminded us that mothers often do the impossible! She also gave this
thought: Life is made up of two dates and one dashMake the most of the dash.
Eight cards have been sent. Shirley Svendsen purchased a rose bowl for Dain and Tonia McBride.
For New Business, the monthly project was discussed. Kathryn Burt moved and Cindy Ormston seconded that we give a
donation to the Storks Nest, which is a resource for young women. Motion passed.
Kathryn Burt was thanked for donating two drip catchers to use with coffee and cold drink containers for large gatherings.
Mission U will be July 19-22 and also October 16-18 at Iowa Valley Conference Center in Marshalltown. If anyone would like to
attend, our unit will pay the registration fee. Janice mentioned that today was National Day of Prayer, and we needed to unite
together to pray for our country.
The next meeting will be June 4 at 7:00 pm. Kathryn Burt and Carolyn Kloster will have the program; Karen Collins will give the
Education & Interpretation report; and the hostesses will be Claire Handorf and Sue Koster.
Prayer requests were given. Carolyn Kloster and Connie Buchman served a delicious rhubarb dessert on tables decorated
with flowers.
Secretary Pro-Tem,
Sue Koster
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Chapel Ladies Cemetery Aid
The Chapel Ladies Cemetery Aid met for lunch on May 13, 2015, at 12:30 pm at the Ox Yoke Inn in Amana. We enjoyed a
delicious meal and then visited the small shops near the restaurant. We returned to the Ox Yoke Inn for dessert and held our
meeting.
President Connie Appelgate opened the meeting with a poem. Roll call was answered by five members. The minutes of our
April meeting were read and approved. Correspondence was read from the Marshall County Food Box and Dan Beane. The
treasurers report was presented and placed on file. There were no bills presented,
Old Business: New flags have been purchased to replace several that are in bad shape, which need to be destroyed.
Vivian LeVier is working on a map of the graves.
Kathryn Burt mentioned she will rework the map handed out when placing flowers on Veterans graves on Memorial Sunday.
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New Business: We will put the flags up at the cemetery on Thursday, May 21 , time to be determined.
Committee Reports:
Hiring-Smiths have received their first payment for mowing.
Cards-Four cards have been sent.
Our next meeting is June 10 at Dysart where we will tour two gardens, eat lunch, and shop.
Connie Appelgate thanked Karen Handorf for driving us to Amana today.
President Connie Appelgate closed with a prayer.
Respectfully submitted,
Carolyn Kloster, secretary
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growing in faith...sharing Gods love
A monthly publication of
Chapel United Methodist Church
1597Abbott Avenue
Gladbrook, Iowa 50635
Ushers
June
Musicians
Marla Hlas
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Claire Handorf
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Dan Beane
Susan Beichley
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Pastor Mark
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Sunday School
Jr/Sr: Marla Hlas
M&M: Ross Iverson
Adult: Kathryn Burt
Multi-Age: Sue Koster
Multi-Age: Lynn & Claire Handorf
Multi-Age: Ann Jackson
Multi-Age: Chris & Marci Krull
Jr/Sr: Randy & Susan Beichley
M&M: Lynn Handorf
Adult: Kathyrn Burt
Marla Hlas
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Claire Handorf
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Pastor Mark