CUC Newsletter – October 12, 2019
“The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.”
Matthew 16.1
Who Are These People?
Sally Dowland is our CUC teacher Sunday. She has decided to do a lesson she calls “Who Are These People?” We will take a look at the groups who are so prominent in the New Testament- scribes, Pharisees, Sadducee’s, Samaritans, etc.) and not even given a mention in the Old Testament. This should be a very interesting lesson from a very good teacher.
CUC Refreshments
We are thankful for our CUC refreshments each week. This Sunday they will be provided by Sharon & Bob Schnakenberg and Sister & Gannett Backus
CUC Attendance
October 6
85 members + 2 visitors = 87 total
CUC Collection
October 6
$106
New CUC Member
Please welcome our newest member Jim Taylor ( Claudia Phelps’ brother)
CUC Fall Retreat
The CUC Retreat this past week at Amicolola Lodge was a really great experience for those 48 CUC members who were able to attend, thanks especially to the fine interesting and inspiring program led by Dr. Joe McKechnie on the theme of “Under Construction”. Thanks also goes to the organizers Tom Knight and George Waite and their spouses, and also to Joe Coelho who provided all the sound and video productions and equipment and the design and printing of the programs. Thanks also to Doug Tatom who provided his technical expertise and has recorded the sessions so that those CUC’ers who did not attend may be able to hear some of the most interesting and inspiring lessons which Dr. Joe presented. Thanks also to every one of the participants who joined actively in the discussion groups and in various other ways to make this retreat very special.
CUC Neighborhood Care Groups
Sandy Griffin and Kris Taylor have organized our large class into groups by geographical locations so that if someone needs a helping hand, transportation, or whatever, we will be aware of who lives near us who can come assist when and if help of some sort is needed. Here are the coordinators for our Neighborhood Care Groups:
- Maureen Osborn – Marietta NCG
- Charlotte Burroughs – Alpharetta NCG
- Sandy Griffin – Woodstock NCG
- Margie Avery – Roswell 30076 NCG
- Martha Jane Mason and Sharon Erdman – Roswell 30075 NCG
Christmas is coming!
The annual CUC Christmas Party will be Tuesday, December 3, 6-10 PM at the Metropolitan Club. This is the biggest and best CUC party of the year. Be sure you have marked your calendars! The cost will be $40 per person and the reservations will need to be in by November 17th. Be sure to pick up your bag for the white elephant gift exchange. The sign-up sheet will be passed this Sunday. Contact MariAnna Brown with any questions.
Operation Christmas Child
Yes, Christmas is coming! Start collecting your goodies to put in the boxes for Operation Christmas Child which will be distributed and then collected by Lynn Roberts on November 18th and 25th.
The Paint Lick Pickers – A Bluegrass Celebration
On this Sunday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. in the RUMC Chapel there is a Sounds of the Spirit Concert not to be missed! The Paint Lick Pickers is a bluegrass band composed of members of the music ministry at Alpharetta UMC. The band members have a variety of musical experiences and specialties, but the one thing they share is a love of bluegrass music. You will hear familiar hymns, popular tunes, and some true bluegrass classics. And it is free to the public.
RUMC Wednesday Night Out Dinner
Serving hours: 4:45 – 6:30 pm, take out available until 6:45 pm
WNO Menu for October 16:
- Cheese Tortellini with Garlic and Herb Alfredo
- Parmesan Roasted Broccoli and Cauliflower, Garlic Bread Sticks
- Tomato Basil Soup, Featured Salad Bar
- Triple Chocolate Cake
Gibbs Gardens Senior Trip
Jeff Ross is setting up a trip for the Seniors for Friday Oct. 25th to Gibbs Garden. The plan is to meet at the church at 9am and return by 3pm.
Reminder
Be sure to get your Shingles shots and your flu shots!
Box Tops and Flip Tops, etc.
Before the Box Top plan is completely discontinued and changed to an online system, please keep on bringing in those accumulated Box Tops for Education for Red Bird Missions.
Save and bring in those flip tops for Ronald McDonald Houses!
And remember to set up accounts and use your purchases at Publix and Amazon Smile to support Murphy Harpst.
Prayer Requests
- Dick Anthony – Still hospitalized at Northside Hospital Cumming for recovery from pneumonia, multiple myeloma, and further diagnostic tests. He would like to see anyone that wants to come. Friendly faces might help him to get back to himself.
- Julian Belote – For relief of pain and rapid recovery following right hip fracture last Monday
- Tom Cantrell – as he determines treatment for stage 1 bladder cancer
- Barbara Davis – hospitalized twice recently with blood clots in her legs and lungs
- Johnny Johnson and Donna as they determine course of therapy for his pancreatic cancer and return to their old home in Roswell
- George Martin and Sandy as George recovers at home from major surgery and determines further treatment. He appreciates the cards, emails, and texts, but is not quite ready for visitors.
- Betty Smith for good recovery following back surgery as she recuperates.
Continuing prayers:
- Pat (Mrs.) Cooney and (Mr.) Pat as she continues to battle multiple myeloma.
- Betty and Don Gay at home with assistance
Please pray for needs expressed and unexpressed for CUC members, and for friends and relatives of CUC class members who are facing illnesses, loss of loved ones, and important decisions to be made.
(Please help to keep this list up to date by notifying the editor (at suewaite@bellsouth.net) of any CUC members who need to be added, updated, or removed from the list)
Birthdays
- –none–
Anniversaries
- Babs and Shaw Skillings – October 22, 1966 – 53 years!
Calendar Reminders
- Oct. 13 – Paint Lick Pickers Bluegrass Concert
- Oct. 25 – RUMC Gibbs Garden Senior Trip
- Oct. 29 – Homestretch Golf Tournament
- Dec. 3 – CUC Christmas Party at Metropolitan Club
- Dec. 5, 6, 7 – RUMC Christmas Gift Show
CUC Newsletter – November 25, 2018
I am trusting you O Lord, you are my God! My future is in your hands.
Psalm 31:14-15
Bible Verse
This week’s Bible verse is a favorite of Bonnie White.
The Epic of Eden
Tom Knight will be presenting the lesson this Sunday. Tom’s subject is “The Epic of Eden” based on a book by the same name written by Sandra Richter. This lesson will focus on helping us better understand the story of God’s plan for mankind.
CUC Refreshments
We are thankful for our CUC refreshments each week. This Sunday they will be provided by Charlotte Boroughs, Bob Morisey, Babs & Shaw Skillings, and Diane Stephens
CUC Attendance
Sunday, November 18
93 members +1 visitor+ 1 guest teacher = 95
CUC Offering
Sunday, November 18
$78
Welcome Our New Member
We extend a warm welcome to Margie Avery who is our newest CUC member.
CUC Christmas Party
The CUC Christmas Party is just a little more than a week away! The Social Committee is thrilled so many of you (110 at last count!)will be joining us on December 3 at The Metropolitan Club!
- Each person will be exchanging a “White Elephant” gift so bring something you want to pass on to someone else to enjoy or not!!!!
- Red gift bags will be available at CUC again this Sunday. If you have been unable to get one they will also be available as you enter the party on December 3.
The deadline for sign up and payment is this Sunday, November 25.
Please contact MariAnna Brown if you signed up and can no longer attend or if you need to give your payment and won’t be at CUC this Sunday.
Thank you and see you at the party prepared to socialize with our classmates!
Christmas for Murphy Harpst Children
The CUC Mission Outreach Committee thanks all class members who responded to the opportunity to make Christmas merry for residents at Murphy-Harpst Children’s Center next month.
This is the last of the four Sundays in November a Christmas basket will circulate during class to accept cash and checks. Approximately 130 young people will benefit from our generosity. CUC is following a suggestion from Murphy Harpst that “CUC could provide a smaller denomination of cash or gift card for every child ($10-$20).”
In early December the church will send a check for the total amount collected saying that the donation is from the CUC Class for young people celebrating Christmas at Murphy-Harpst. Checks should be made out to RUMC with CUC Murphy-Harpst Christmas on the notation line. Teenagers receiving gift cards will be able to shop for themselves! Thank you, class, for your generosity. Questions? Contact Betty or Larry Hunt.
Operation Christmas Child
Thanks from Lynn Roberts and the many children who will receive Christmas boxes from Samaritan’s Purse because of the CUC members who prepared 81 shoeboxes. And thanks to the others who contributed to boxes on line which brought the CUC box total to over our goal of 100.
Open House at Wright’s
December 14, 6:00-11 PM is the annual open house at the Nancy & Johnie Wright’s. Please bring finger type appetizer or dessert to share. Carpool if possible and park on sidewalk side of street only.
Sunday Brunch
A Sunday brunch will be served on Sunday, Nov. 25, at noon in the Dining Room. Enjoy a full, hot brunch menu: $6 for adults.
Advent Study
You are invited to join Rev. Melissa Mobley in a four-week look at The Gift of the Nutcracker. This study by Matthew Rawle takes a look at the Christmas classic The Nutcracker in a new way—through the lens of faith. Join us Sunday mornings beginning Dec. 2 at 9:30 a.m. in the Parlor, Chapel building. Registration: rumc.com/nutcracker
Service of Remembrance
All are invited to gather on Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the Service of Remembrance to remember those we miss. Gather in the Chapel at 6:30 p.m., the service begins at 7 p.m.
Birthdays
- Bob Moore – Nov 26
- Martha Thompson – Nov 26
- Charlotte Dodson – Nov 29
- Doug Tatom – Nov 30
Anniversaries
- Pat & Patrick Cooney – November 26, 1960 – 58 years!
- Martha & Bill Thompson – Nov 28, 1958 – 60 years!!
- Nancy & Johnie Wright – Nov 28, 1987 – 29 years
- Jim Adcock for return to good health. He is in Northside Hospital having diagnostic tests and being treated for congestive heart failure and anemia
- Vince Grosse for a quick recovery following surgery
- Malone Dodson for success with his cochlear implant.
Thanksgivings
- Don McNew – recovering from fractured ribs and back to CUC
Continuing prayers:
Pat (Mrs.) Cooney as she has chemo for multiple myeloma. Keep her and her husband Pat in your prayers.
Please pray for needs expressed and unexpressed for friends and relatives of CUC class members who are facing illnesses, loss of loved ones, and important decisions to be made.
- Nov 29 – Dec 1 – RUMC 1st Annual Christmas Gift and Craft Show
- Dec. 1 – Christmas tree and wreath pickup
- Dec 2- 3 PM – MOS Christmas Joy Concert
- Dec 3 – CUC Christmas Party at the Metropolitan Club
- Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m., Dec. 9, 3 p.m. – Christmas Festival Concerts
- Dec. 14 – Wright’s Open House
- Dec. 11 – 6:30 pm – Service of Remembrance
- Dec. 16 – 3 PM – 13th Annual MOS Messiah Sing-a-long
CUC Newsletter – June 17, 2018
Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. For there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 2; 23-29
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Come Build a Church!
Friend of the CUC Class Scott Dickson has our lesson Sunday. His topic is, “Come Build a Church”. Don’t miss Scott this Sunday, his lessons are always interesting and informative!
CUC Refreshments
We are thankful for our CUC refreshments each week. This Sunday they will be provided by Sue & Hugh Gardner and Dee & Bill Scott
CUC Attendance
Sunday, June 10
80 members, 1 teacher = 82
CUC Offering
Sunday, June 10
$98
CUC’s Wednesday Night Out
WNO for June 20 is at Olive Garden, 905 Holcomb Bridge Rd, Roswell.
The clipboard will be passed on Sunday to sign up.
If you want to come and don’t sign up, please call Ann or Larry Douglas (770.363.3568) by noon Tuesday, June 12, so we can provide the restaurant with an accurate count.
CUC CLASS OFFICERS FOR 2018-19
It’s time to beginning thinking about class officers for 2018-19 with responsibilities beginning in August. Sara Beecham, current Vice President, will move into the President position but many other jobs will likely be available.
Current committees have all done a great job and keeping some experienced persons on their current assignments is advisable. However, it is equally important to get new people involved.
A nominating committee will begin working on this in the next few weeks. Information on current class committees is available on the class web site (CUC Class Officers) and will also be available as a handout on Sunday. If you’re interested in serving on any committee or would like to change your current assignment, please let me know asap. My goal is to have everything tied down by mid-July.
Many thanks, Tom Knight
Must Ministries Lunch Program
We will be collecting bags of apples in CUC for the MUST Summer Lunch program. Every Sunday through the months of June and July please bring bags of apples as you are able and they will be placed with the lunch crews for distribution with the bag lunches.
Last year we made 2400 lunches and plan to do that again this year. Our next date is June 26, Tuesday, 9:00 am, in the Fellowship Hall. We have enough volunteers signed up for that date but may need more some later on.
The CUC MUST Lunch Committee consists of Sandy and Bill Griffin, Martha Jane Mason, Jeff and Lesleigh Coelho, Jim Boswell, Claudia Phelps
From the Fellowship Committee:
There will be a CUC Patriotic Potluck Picnic in the DOD on Wednesday, June 27th! Save the date! Signup sheets will be passed in class. Plan to bring potluck dishes The Fellowship Committee is providing barbecue, buns, and iced tea. The Treble Makers will be singing for us.
2018 CUC RETREAT – OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 2
By unanimous vote at our last retreat, we are returning to Chick-fil-A’s Winshape facility at Berry College for 2018. The facility, the staff, and the amenities are outstanding.
From a cost standpoint we are estimating the following rates: (subject to slight change)
- Married couple – $465
- Single – sharing a room $280
- Single – not sharing a room $350
- These rates include all meals, coffee breaks, ice cream breaks, etc.
We are not ready to announce our program at this time but feel the class will be well pleased and blessed by being there.
Please be prayerfully considering your participation in this annual event. More information will be coming, but we want to get an initial indication concerning your attendance and we want you to get it on your calendar to avoid conflicts.
We had a great response to the retreat sign up last week – 58 are signed up to attend. We will continue to “Pass the clipboard” this week. Deposits will be due in late June. The program is shaping up very well and will be announced soon! Questions? Ask Roger Davis.
DON’T MISS THIS SPECIAL EVENT!!
Little Things Mean a Lot!
Apples to CUC for MUST lunches!
Box Tops should be clipped when you see them on boxes, cans, bags you have brought home from stores and brought for CUC Red Bird Ministry basket
Flip tops from cans for Ronald McDonald Houses – keep collecting them and bring to Sunday School.
- Granddaughter of Linda & Jim Boswell as she leads a mission team in Cambodia
- Sharon Schnakenberg Friend’s daughter – Stephanie Owen – for good outcome with her kidney surgery
- Johnny Johnson – prayers for successful outcome of upcoming Hip surgery
- Prayers for President Trump and North Korea negotiations
- Beth Hamilition prayers for Mike Sammons and his family, who is in the final stages of pancreatic cancers
- Nancy VanHorn – prayers for Bill & Deanna and the babies. The babies are improving but they need our prayers
- Edna Smith – prayers for her second operation – hernia surgery on June 20
Ongoing Prayer Requests
- Mary Serafina asked that we continue to pray for her daughter Pam Pruit as she battles cancer. She is going to MD Anderson in Houston for further evaluation.
- Pastor Andrew Brunson, wrongly imprisoned in Turkey, his wife and family, and for Terry and Wanda Taylor’s son Kent who is Andrew’s partner in ministry in Turkey. Andrew’s trial has been postponed to July 18th.
Please pray for needs expressed and unexpressed for friends and relatives of CUC class members who are facing illnesses, loss of loved ones, and important decisions to be made.( Please send updates on any of our ill or recovering classmates so the editor can keep information current)
Birthdays
- No Birthdays
Anniversaries
- Beth and Bob Hamilton – June 17, 1961 – 57 Years!
- Katherine and Craig Simons – June 17, 1967 – 51 Years!
- Cecelia and Bob Moore – June 20, 1970 – 48 Years!
- Patsy & Bill Lanham – June 20, 1964 – 54 Years!
- Janet and Allen Buckley – June 22, 1991 – 27 Years!
- Wednesday, June 27– CUC Patriotic Pot Luck Picnic
- Friday, June 29, 7:30 PM, and Sunday, July 1, 3 PM – Patriotic Celebration Concerts
- Jul 26 – 27th – 28th Matinee 1 – 28th Matinee 2 – 29th – Acting Up – “Annie”
- August 2-4 – RUMC Garage Sale Extravaganza
- Oct 8, 10am – 21st Annual Malone Dodson Golf Tournament
- Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 2 – CUC Annual Retreat at Winshape Retreat
“Other” Calendar Events
- Jun 17 – National Eat Your Vegetables Day
- June 18 – NATIONAL GO FISHING DAY
- June 19 – National Garfield the Cat Day
- June 20 – National Vanilla Milkshake Day
- June 21 – 1st Day of “Summer”
CUC Newsletter – June 8, 2018
Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOW GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands”.
Acts 17:22-24.
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Update on RUMC’s Counseling Center
Martha Little Allgood is a psychiatrist who works with our RUMC Counseling Center. She is an active member of RUMC and will be bringing our CUC lesson on Sunday and will update the class on the work of the counseling center.
CUC Refreshments
We are thankful for our CUC refreshments each week. This Sunday they will be provided by Ann & Larry Douglas and Judy & Sieg Hoogstraal
CUC Attendance
Sunday, June 3
91 members, 4 visitors, 1 teacher = 96
CUC Offering
Sunday, June 3
$93
CUC’s Wednesday Night Out
This past week’s Wednesday Night Out Dinner on June 6 at the Thai House, was attended by 34 CUC members.
CUC dinner for June 13 will be at Marlow’s Tavern, 625 Crossville Rd, Roswell (next to Pikes Nursery) at 5:30pm. The clipboard will be passed on Sunday to sign up. If you want to come and don’t sign up, please call Ann or Larry Douglas (770.363.3568) by noon Tuesday, June 12, so we can provide the restaurant with an accurate count.
Newsletter Items
It is always good to get contributions for this newsletter from CUC class members and committee chairs. It wouldn’t be at all interesting or useful to our CUC members and church staff without your input.
Next week from June 8 through June 16 anything that you wish to have sent out to CUC please send to Doug Tatom.
If you have a prayer request or an announcement to be included in the Friday email for Sunday June 17 to the CUC members, please send it to Doug by Thursday evening.
CUC CLASS OFFICERS FOR 2018-19
It’s time to beginning thinking about class officers for 2018-19 with responsibilities beginning in August. Sara Beecham, current Vice President, will move into the President position but many other jobs will likely be available.
Current committees have all done a great job and keeping some experienced persons on their current assignments is advisable. However, it is equally important to get new people involved.
A nominating committee will begin working on this in the next few weeks. Information on current class committees is available on the class web site (CUC Class Officers) and will also be available as a handout on Sunday. If you’re interested in serving on any committee or would like to change your current assignment, please let me know asap. My goal is to have everything tied down by mid-July.
Many thanks, Tom Knight
Must Ministries Lunch Program
We will be collecting bags of apples in CUC for the MUST Summer Lunch program. Every Sunday through the months of June and July please bring bags of apples as you are able and they will be placed with the lunch crews for distribution with the bag lunches.
Last year we made 2400 lunches and plan to do that again this year. Our first date is June 12, Tuesday, 9:00 am, in the Fellowship Hall. We have enough volunteers signed up for that date but may need more some later on.
The CUC MUST Lunch Committee consists of Sandy and Bill Griffin, Martha Jane Mason, Jeff and Lesleigh Coelho, Jim Boswell, Claudia Phelps
From the Fellowship Committee:
There will be a CUC Patriotic Potluck Picnic in the DOD on Wednesday, June 27th! Save the date! Signup sheets will be passed in class. Plan to bring potluck dishes The Fellowship Committee is providing barbecue, buns, and iced tea. The Treble Makers will be singing for us.
2018 CUC RETREAT – OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 2
By unanimous vote at our last retreat, we are returning to Chick-fil-A’s Winshape facility at Berry College for 2018. The facility, the staff, and the amenities are outstanding.
From a cost standpoint we are estimating the following rates: (subject to slight change)
- Married couple – $465
- Single – sharing a room $280
- Single – not sharing a room $350
- These rates include all meals, coffee breaks, ice cream breaks, etc.
We are not ready to announce our program at this time but feel the class will be well pleased and blessed by being there.
Please be prayerfully considering your participation in this annual event. More information will be coming, but we want to get an initial indication concerning your attendance and we want you to get it on your calendar to avoid conflicts.
We had a great response to the retreat sign up last week – 58 are signed up to attend. We will continue to “Pass the clipboard” this week. Deposits will be due in late June. The program is shaping up very well and will be announced soon! Questions? Ask Roger Davis.
DON’T MISS THIS SPECIAL EVENT!!
Bibles to Honduras
Thanks to the generosity of the CUC Class enough bibles will be going with the mission trip to Honduras to provide each family with their own bible.
Little Things Mean a Lot!
Apples to CUC for MUST lunches!
Box Tops should be clipped when you see them on boxes, cans, bags you have brought home from stores and brought for CUC Red Bird Ministry basket
Flip tops from cans for Ronald McDonald Houses – keep collecting them and bring to Sunday School.
- Beverly Tatom – who has been suffering from severe back pain for several weeks.
- Granddaughter of Linda & Jim Boswell as she leads a mission team going to Cambodia
Ongoing Prayer Requests
- Mary Serafina asked that we continue to pray for her daughter Pam Pruit as she battles cancer. She is going to MD Anderson in Houston for further evaluation.
- Pastor Andrew Brunson, wrongly imprisoned in Turkey, his wife and family, and for Terry and Wanda Taylor’s son Kent who is Andrew’s partner in ministry in Turkey. Andrew’s trial has been postponed to July 18th.
Please pray for needs expressed and unexpressed for friends and relatives of CUC class members who are facing illnesses, loss of loved ones, and important decisions to be made.( Please send updates on any of our ill or recovering classmates so the editor can keep information current)
Birthdays
Anniversaries
- Sunday, June 10 – Farewell reception for Eric Lee and Kristin Heiden
- Wednesday, June 27– CUC Patriotic Pot Luck Picnic
- Friday, June 29, 7:30 PM, and Sunday, July 1, 3 PM – Patriotic Celebration Concerts
- Jul 26 – 27th – 28th Matinee 1 – 28th Matinee 2 – 29th – Acting Up – “Annie”
- August 2-4 – RUMC Garage Sale Extravaganza
- Oct 8, 10am – 21st Annual Malone Dodson Golf Tournament
- Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 2 – CUC Annual Retreat at Winshape Retreat
CUC Prayer Presenters
| Sunday Date | CUC Volunteer assigned to lead prayer |
| September 27, 2015 | Dave Roberts |
| October 4, 2015 | Louise Booysen |
| October 11, 2015 | Shaw Skillings |
| October 18, 2015 | Steve Covert |
| October 25, 2015 | Aldona Titus |
| November 1, 2015 | Bob Morisey |
| November 8, 2015 | Fred Brown |
| November 15, 2015 | Kris Taylor |
| November 22 2015 | Larry Douglas |
| November 29, 2015 | Bob Schnakenberg |
| December 6, 2015 | Joanne Ewing |
| December 13, 2015 | Bob Moore |
| December 20, 2015 | Martha Knight |
| December 27, 2015 | Larry Hunt |
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