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Last Saturday was the Letter Carriers' Food Drive! This is the largest one-day food drive in America! Here are some of Catalina volunteers!
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TUNA AND BEANS!
Each year all the United Methodist Churches in the Desert Southwest Conference meet during the 3rd week of June in Glendale, Arizona. Catalina will be represented there, led by Pastor Matt and the lay leaders of the church. In conjunction with this annual event the conference invites each congregation to
participate in a service event that will benefit the community they represent.
This year the project is the collection of food items, specifically, tuna fish and beans (dry or canned). these items will be donated to our local food pantry as we attempt to feed those in need. Starting Sunday, you will have the opportunity to bring your donation of tuna and beans to the church and place them in the boxes marked “Annual Conference Project, Feeding the Hungry.†Boxes are located at the entrance to the sanctuary and in Fellowship Hall. Donations will be collected through June 28.
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COMING EVENTS
CPR and FIRST-AID TRAINING will be offered on Sunday, May 17 here at Catalina. Contact Kristin for more information.
Vacation Bible School Join us June 1-5 for an Out West Adventure! Contact Kristin for more information or to volunteer.
Pine Canyon Camp is gearing up for the summer! Info can be found here.
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"[These] ancients taught that prayer was participation in God's love, the activity that takes us out of ourselves, away from the familiar, and conforms us to the path of Christ."
-Diana Butler Bass
Father Richard Rohr has written an interesting article called "Practical Prayer" . He quotes Diana Butler Bass:
"[Jesus' invitation to] 'Come follow me' was intimately bound up with the practice of prayer. For prayer connects us with God and others, 'part of this enterprise of learning to love.' Prayer is much more than a technique, and early Christians left us no definitive how-to manual on prayer. Rather, the desert fathers and mothers believed that prayer was a disposition of wholeness, so that 'prayer and our life must be all of a piece.'
How does prayer fit with life? Read the whole article here.
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Online Giving
Did you know that giving to support God's work through Catalina UMC is as simple as clicking here? It is!
There is MUCH MORE!
There is a good online devotional here.
Read about everything going on at Catalina in the Catalina News!
By the way, church news and church event photos are always welcome!
Send submissions to richard@catalinamethodist.org by Tuesday noon. We intentionally keep this email brief (so we cannot include everything) and we intentionally keep it about Catalina (so, please, no requests to announce outside events). If you are submitting a photo, send it to richard.lee.jones@gmail.com (Gmail works better with large attachments like photos).
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We are experimenting with a smartphone app for our church.
Would you be willing to check it out and let us know what you think?
Here is how you find it:
ANDROID
1-Search the Play Store for "My Church App" [by Custom Church Apps] and install the app.
2-Open My Church App
3-Tap "Find My Church".
4-In the box the says "Enter church, pastor, or location", type in "Catalina".
5-When Catalina United Methodist Church is returned as the result of your search, tap Catalina United Methodist Church.
6-When the dialog box asks if you want to set Catalina as your default church, choose yes.
7-Now, whenever you open My Church App, it will open the Catalina app.
IPHONE/IPAD
1-Search the App Store for "My Church App" [by Custom Church Apps] and install the app.
2-Open My Church App.
3-Tap "Find My Church".
4-In the box the says "Enter church, pastor, or location", type in "Catalina".
5-When Catalina United Methodist Church is returned as the result of your search, tap Catalina United Methodist Church.
6-When the dialog box asks if you want to set Catalina as your default church, choose yes.
7-Now, whenever you open My Church App, it will open the Catalina app.
Check it out, play around with it, and if you have any comments, email Richard. Thanks for your time!
One other experiment...
We are trying out a digital bulletin [currently in The Refuge] as an alternative to the paper bulletin. In other words, the bulletin would come to you on your smartphone, and you would not need the paper copy. Here is how you access it: Text `catalina` to 404.620.6209 to subscribe to your digital bulletin.
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