Finally Green!

Eastertide Appreciation

Easter stretches forward from Easter Sunday for The Great 50 Days. Our worship and meals together during Holy Week and on Easter Sunday were enriched by those who attended services and meals, set and re-set our worship space, contributed food, gardened, mowed, and cleaned up winter debris, provided special music, served as liturgists and lay readers, filled the sanctuary with flowers, built the Easter fire, added to our banner, and prepared bulletins. Thank you is extended in a variety of directions to all of you.

Looking Ahead to May

The Bookcase Project presentation of books is open to the public at Faranda’s in DeKalb on Saturday afternoon, May 4, 3:00 pm. The 300 books we donated this year will be going home with different children as they begin their at home libraries. And tucked inside each child’s books will be a bookmark made with care by our children at Mayfield. Hopefully, several of us will be able to attend this joyful afternoon.

Sunday, May 5, we will have our next Intergenerational Confirmation Labyrinth Walk at 9:00 am. Come and walk with us on this weekend when people around the world are participating in International Labyrinth Day. Thank you to Roger and Becky who have re-taped our labyrinth after the spring pancake breakfast.

Under the direction of Becky and Theresa, our children will be preparing delicious refreshments for the congregation on Mother’s Day, May 12. Don’t miss their yummy gift to all of us.

Mother’s Day Offering 2019 – Foundation A. Jean Brugger (FAJB)

Attached to this memo you will find the sheet for our annual Mother’s Day offering. This year’s offering will be sent to the Foundation A. Jean Brugger in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. Jean is a long-time friend of Martha and her family – Amanda and Carmelo, and Molly. Over the years since Jean moved to Nicaragua, they have visited Jean and seen her work in person.  Jean is a UCC person who relocated to Nicaragua after she retired in the late 1990’s from her position as the Parish Nurse Coordinator in Saint Louis at Deaconess Hospital. In 2000 she established her foundation and was able to build on her experience of programs for health and wellbeing based in congregations and communities. Her foundation’s mission is “to create and promote educational and community development programs in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua and surrounding areas.” Everyone from young children through elders benefit from participation in the foundation’s activities and programs. Currently FAJB is building a new building in San Juan del Sur to improve the delivery of their programs, to locate themselves in the heart of San Juan del Sur, to create a meeting space to grow their programming and offer new opportunities for their local partners and to develop an income stream from rentals to contribute to the foundation’s long term sustainability. Please return your Mother’s Day sheet and contributions remembering and honoring special women in your life by Wednesday, May 8.

Remember, we are saving plastic caps for the Granville UCC.  Bring them to church in coming weeks. Becky will deliver them on our behalf to the Granville church.

Mark Your Calendars

After tomorrow’s retreat, the next scheduled Mayfield Fellowship meeting will be on Thursday, June 13 at noon at the DeKalb County History Center, 1730 N. Main Street, in Sycamore.  $20 will cover the museum tour and box lunch.  Included in the tour will be a special Smithsonian Museum traveling exhibit, “Crossroads: Change in Rural America.”