Sunday Worship Schedule

9:00 AM Worship and Kids’ Time
10:00 AM Fellowship Time
10:30 AM Worship and FaithWalk
5:00 PM The Well

Sunday Bulletin Deadline:

12:00 Noon on Wednesdays

Welcome to Lauren Wendt

We welcome Lauren Wendt as our new Director of Outreach Ministries here at Centennial. She will work 5 hours a week, working with Outreach Ministry Team chairperson Karen Rudd.  Our Outreach Ministry Team is comprised of four committees: Church and Society, Missions, Evangelism, and Christian Unity and Interfaith Concerns.

Lauren is a student seeking a masters degree in urban ministries at Luther Seminary, has coordinated and led group volunteer opportunities in New York City, worked in refugee resettlement in Baltimore, and worked in human rights, inner-city ministry, and many other areas. 

Centennial Serves

Our congregation-wide Day of Service, will be held Saturday, October 6. We are currently seeking Site Leaders. Please sign up at the Welcome Center if you would like to volunteer to lead one of the Centennial Serve Sites. If you know of a site that you are interested in leading, please note that on the sign-up sheet. Contact Lauren Wendt, Director of Outreach Ministries by calling the church office and leaving her a message or email lwendt@centennialumc.org.

FaithWalk Update

FaithWalk is off to a great start! Hopefully by now you have seen the new FaithWalk logo and had an opportunity to tour the newly transformed classrooms. There are still a few unfinished projects but completion is in sight. If you have a few hours and can help with painting, installing theater seats or a couple of miscellaneous carpentry tasks please let Donna Draeger know. We have had an amazing group of volunteers working day and night throughout the summer to get everything ready – thank you!

Centennial is seeking a fulltime Communication Specialist

Position is approximately 35 hours per week. Responsibilities include: Update and maintain church web site daily; set, print and distribute weekly worship bulletins; prepare all special worship bulletins; seasonal brochures, all aspects involved with bi-monthly issuing of The Centinel, develop/print posters, flyers and mailings as needed; keep bulletin boards current; prepare bulk mailings. Candidate should be proficient in Internet website design and maintenance; familiarity with Dreamweaver considered a plus; be familiar with Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe products (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator). Please send resume and salary requirements to Jane Gilbert, Chair SPRC, Centennial United Methodist Church, 1524 County Road C2 West, Roseville MN  55113 or email to jlg61152@hotmail.com.

Centennial is seeking a Youth Praise Band Director

Purpose: To provide musical leadership and direction to junior and senior high youth and help them to develop an ability to lead musical worship.  Position is paid and requires approx. 2-4 hours per week plus one monthly Sunday evening service and one monthly Wednesday evening service.  Looking to fill the position quickly to be on board for fall programs. Please fax or email resume to Jane Gilbert, Chair Staff Parish Relations, at (fax) 651.633.2715 or jlg61152@hotmail.com. See www.youthspecialties.com/jobs/openings for additional details. 

Centennial Men’s Club Dinner Program

Monday, September 17
6:30 PM Dinner
7:15 PM Program

“Combat Stress of Returning Veterans”

presented by Lt. Colonel Susan Whiteaker, Stress Control Office, MN Army Reserve Combat Operations with comments by Centennial member and Iraq veteran Major Todd Lewis. Tickets: $8.50. Sign up at the Welcome Center by September 14. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Pastors' Keyboard

What a summer! We’ve always worked hard in the summers here at Centennial (in addition to taking some well-deserved time away), but this summer we added some major initiatives. We are switching over to the workshop rotation model for our FaithWalk classes grades 1-6, and so we’re ramping up for this, including painting many of our FaithWalk rooms and converting Asbury 3 into a movie theater room, complete with risers and theater seats! And in order to reach new people of all ages, especially young adults and youth, we are adding The Well, our brand-new Sunday evening worship service starting Sunday, September 9 at 5:00 PM with FaithWalk offered at 6:00 PM. Many committees, lay people and staff have been working many hours this summer to get ready for this exciting venture of faith!

That brings me to the reason for the two new staff positions you have seen posted in our Centennial publications this summer—a director of outreach for 5 hours a week and a director of junior high/confirmation ministries for 13 hours a week. In order to start a huge new initiative like the Sunday evening service, we have to have staffing for it. We have added these two new positions so that Melanie Homan and Kelly Swanson can do the massive creative work needed in setting up teams and logistics for the new service--otherwise their work schedules would be extremely untenable. (I believe that we here at Centennial are greatly blessed by their many gifts for ministry and their ability to take this new venture on!) This model of hiring part-time persons—in our case, 5 hours a week in outreach and 13 hours a week in confirmation—who have specific gifts for particular ministries is one that many churches have used for years as they have seen a vision for new ministries. It’s a method we successfully employed while building new ministries in the previous church I served for 11 years on Lake Minnetonka. (By the way, please note that both Donna Draeger and I will continue to work closely with the confirmation students as well!)

I believe that God has called us to reach new people—and to reach people that we have already been successful in reaching. While these changes will touch each of our lives in some way, I am truly thankful that our Church Council and our members are willing to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in doing these new things. I am committed as your lead pastor to seeing that we continue to honor both the traditional ways and non-traditional ways of being church—both of which can help us reach people with the love of God in Jesus Christ.

Peace and grace to you,
Brian

Children's FaithWalk

Beginning September 16 all 10:30 AM FaithWalk children’s classes will start out in the sanctuary. Children will worship with their families through the Time with Children and then be excused from the sanctuary to go to class. Preschool and Pre K-Kindergarten teachers will meet their students in the south hallway by the Library. Students in grades 1-6 will meet their class leaders in the narthex and/or hallway. All children and teachers need to stop at the FaithWalk Nametag Table and pick up their new color-coded nametag before going in to worship each week. FaithWalk classes for children (and youth) will run until 11:45 AM each week.

Why are our children starting out in the sanctuary each week? There are many good reasons:

• Children learn to worship by worshipping—so this will provide an introduction.
• Visitors need to see children, parents, and those who teach so they come away with an accurate picture of who Centennial is. This doesn’t happen when the children and younger adults who are often their teachers are absent form the sanctuary!
• Our Centennial adults need to see our children and their parents and get to know them.
• Parents will have 10-15 “child-free” minutes following worship to greet visitors and friends, read bulletin boards, check the welcome center, etc.

Adult FaithWalk-Connectivity

Does it sometimes seem like Jesus has been kidnapped by the Christian Right or Secular Left? Join the adult Connectivity class on Sunday mornings at 10:30 AM in Asbury 1 as they begin Saving Jesus. Featuring leading religious voices of our day such as Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, Matthew Fox, Amy-Jill Levine, James Forbes, and others this 12 session study is sure to generate lively discussion. Each week’s DVD segment will feature a different theologian. Handouts with background material will be available for class participants. Come as often as your schedule permits!

Raising Awareness of Israel-Palestine Issues

United Methodist Women will meet October 4 at 7:00 PM in Fellowship Hall. Rev. Ken Ehrman, husband of Bishop Sally Dick, will speak to us about Israel and Palestine. Rev. Ehrman taught the class on Israel and Palestine at the School of Christian Mission and has recently traveled in those areas. Dessert will follow the program.

All Centennial members and guests are invited to attend to hear this presentation on this vital topic of our time.

Young Adults

Young Adult Bible Study is moving to Sunday evenings after The Well. Join with other small groups at Centennial to share about our faith journey as we grow with the Transformation Journal. Please consider joining a Young Adult group or another small group at the church on Sundays at 6:00 PM.

Young Adult Fellowship will begin on Wed., Sept. 12. Come to our open house from 7:00-9:00 PM each week in the newly remodeled Young Adult Lounge. We will host game nights, coffee houses, a place to study, meet great friends and rest from your busy week. Please stop by!

Mark your Calendars Young Adults! Our great gathering to kick off this exciting new year of life at Centennial will be held on Sat., September 15. Watch for more information on Rally Sunday and in emails to come. 

LOGOS

LOGOS stands for Love Of God, Others and Self and is the mission of our senior high ministry. LOGOS will meet on Sundays at 6:00 PM after The Well. We’ll talk about scripture and how our faith applies to our lives in high school, family, sports, and more. This is a time for 9-12th grade youth to grow closer to one another and to God.

LOGOS Youth Council will meet Oct. 2 to discuss plans for the fall, summer mission trip, and hopes for more cost efficient transportation. Meetings are held the first Tuesday at 7:00 PM and all 9-12th grade youth are invited.

LOGOS Kick-Off! Friday, Sept. 21, 7:00 PM
LOGOS kick off party, yo! We’ll take over the space, show a movie in the Movie Room, play video games projected onto a huge open wall, eat great food, play games, and more. Bring a friend!

Wednesday Night Events
Twice a month our high school group will meet at 7:00 PM on Wednesdays for games, food, and hangin’ out in our Youth Lounge. Bring friends—reconnect with church friends. Once a month we’ll begin with worship led by our youth praise band.

Thank you

I wish to thank the many people of Centennial who so kindly sent me cards and notes wishing me a quick recover and good health during the past months. Your prayers and concerns have done much to raise my spirits and give me hope. The Lord bless you all, Gwen Rysgaard

Thank You for Sharing Your Musical Gifts with Us—A very big thank you is extended to members of the Chancel Choir and “friends”, Motet Ensemble, VBS Singers, Jackie Burlingame who coordinated ensembles, and all who provided vocal/instrumental music through solos, duets or ensembles in our Sunday worship services this past summer. The individuals who participated were: Pati Galligan, Ashley Galligan, Katy Lee, Barb Kinney, Dee Lee, Brianna Galligan, Charlie States, Bobbi Peterson, Sarah Schuler, Rachel Konzem, Mariana Forys, Emily Resch, “Bells of the Pond” (Kate Graber, Anne Jeddeloh, Deb Olsen), Carole White, Katherine White, Dawn Meyer, Mark Meyer, Bill Nara, Mary and Warren Wildes, Jeff Lee, Dave and Wendy Magnuson, Mikyoung Park, Ryan Olsen, Jack Griffin, Dennis Hunt, Glenda Thors.

Searching for addresses—

If you have current address information for the following Centennial members please contact Julie Elholm in the church office, 651.633.7644 or email her at jelholm@centennialumc.org.

Susan Balfanz
Jenny Graner
Peter Gruetzmacher
Sean Maness
Albertine Nebo
Aric Nissen
Tom Tjernlund

Remember in Prayer

Steve Koehn, Todd Lewis and Eric Nevalainen, who are in active military service. Steve is at a base in Korea. Todd and Eric are home from Iraq.

We remember
Don Wilson, who passed away in June of 2007.

We celebrate
The baptism of William Jay Fullen on August 5, 2007. He is the son of Mark and Lesley Fullen.

The baptism of Lila Belén Harvey on August 12, 2007. She is the daughter of Greg and Jenna Harvey.

The baptisms of Sabrina Sieliet Thompson and her son, Jason James Thompson on August 19, 2007.

Praying through our Membership Rolls
Our prayers for each other empower us and create joyful bonds of love!

• Onnolee Spotts
• Derek St. Louis
• Joshua, Liz and
• Avery St. Louis
• Travis St. Louis
• Callie Stark
• Charlie and Jean States
• Anne Stewart
• R. Ben Stiles
• Charles Stine
• Margaret and Dax Stoehr

Membership changes

We welcome these 12 new members to our fellowship and ministry at Centennial, who joined August 26:
Mike and Diana Ash
Joshua Choi and Mikyoung Park
Jeff and Danetta Lavell
Phyllis Lewellyn
Darlyne Magnuson
Alan Pittman
Dan Roe
Viet and Amy Tong
God bless you in this step of faith and discipleship!

Withdrawal
Heather Mathews

Fellowship Opportunities

ASSETS (Adult Singles) Lunch at Rudy’s Redeye Grill in Best Western, White Bear Lake on Wed., Sept. 19 at 1:00 PM. Carpool at 12:30 PM. Contact JosMarie Vanderspek, 651.766.6730.

Married Couples Group (20’s, 30’s and 40’s) will meet September 15 at 6:30 PM for fellowship. Contact Dawn and Mark Meyer for more information, 651.486.0757.

Men’s Club Mon., September 17 at 6:30 PM: “Combat Stress of Returning Veterans” presented by Lt. Colonel Susan Whiteaker, with comments by Centennial member and Iraq veteran Major Todd Lewis. Tickets $8.50. Sign up at the Welcome Center.

Piecemakers meet at 9:30 AM each Wednesday at the church for craftwork. Contact Donna Hedblom 651.633.4191.

RARES (Retired, Almost Retired, Energetic Seniors) meet at 12:00 PM Thurs., Oct.. 11, for a catered lunch and program. Susan McFarland Hooper, County Extension Educator for Carver and Scott counties, will talk about teaching financial management to inmates of the Women’s Reformatory and to those in county jail. Sign up at the Welcome Center. Contact Joyce Rosene, 612.781.3500. 

S.O.S. (Slightly Older Singles) Lunch and cruise on the Jonathan Padelford on Monday, Sept. 24. Tickets: $37.30 which includes narration, entertainment, lunch and treat. Contact Shirley Parker, 651.493.9062 or Marilyn Johnson, 651.489.9603.

Women’s Breakfast Fellowship meets Wednesdays at Byerly’s, 7:00-8:00 AM. Contact Thelma Boeder, 651.489.2604.

Women’s Night Out (women in fellowship) Join us for food and fellowship at Ol’ Mexico in Roseville on Monday, October 1, at 6:30 PM. Contact Wendy Lucas, 651.482.8592.

Young Adult Ministry (Ages 18-35, singles & married with no children) Meet for Bible Study after The Well worship at 5:00 PM on Sundays; meet for fellowship at 7:00 PM every Wednesday; save the date: September 15 for our fall kick-off event! Contact Kelly Swanson.

Centennial Staff

Volunteer Staff:

Pastor: Brian C. Hacklander
bhacklander@centennialumc.org
Pastor: Melanie Homan
mhoman@centennialumc.org
Minister of Christian Education: Donna Draeger
ddraeger@centennialumc.org
Director of Music/Organist: Robert Nienaber
rnienaber@centennialumc.org
Youth and Young Adult Ministries: Kelly Swanson
kswanson@centennialumc.org
Director of Red Robin Preschool: Nan Carlson
ncarlson@centennialumc.org
Church Administrator: Lisa Schuler
lschuler@centennialumc.org
Admin. Assistant/Membership Records:
Julie Elholm
jelholm@centennialumc.org
Communications: Tami Worden
tworden@centennialumc.org
Director of Children's Choirs: Deb Olsen
debolsen26@gmail.com
Child Care Supervisor/Coordinator: Jean Moline
hewle002@tc.umn.edu
Junior High Youth and Confirmation Ministries; Youth Praise Band: Jessica Mueller
jmeuller@centennialumc.org
Custodian: Gordon Overbo
Assistant Custodian: Eve Newman
Coordinator of Outreach Ministries:
Lauren Wendt
lwendt@centennialumc.org
Parish Nurse: Julia Nordling
parishnurse@centennialumc.org
Chancel Choir Accompanist: Sharon Follingstad
Wedding Liaison: Deanna Kieffer
Alternate Wedding Liaison: Tracie Ball

Funeral Coordinator: Jean Van Doren
Associate Funeral Coordinator: Marilyn Roberts
Steward of Capital Funds and Planned Giving: Bob Rosene
Pastors Emeriti: Clarence Nicholas, Joyce Rosene

Church office hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday

Centennial United Methodist Church
1524 West County Road C2
Roseville, MN 55113
651.633.7644
cumc@centennialumc.org