SUMMER CHILDREN’S EVENTS
TO BE LONG REMEMBERED
Camp Rock
We had 14 kids enrolled for a two week music camp who had a great time going on field trips, learning their musical and drama parts, enjoying crafts and hearing Bible stories. They performed the musical drama “Rock Creek Camp” on Sunday evening, June 19. A special thanks to all the adult workers who helped including Erma Dreas, Debbie Shelver, Beth Gibbons, Margaret Batchelor, Carrie Sue Frank, Cindy Suprenant, Ruth Nearons, Trae Ford-Jones, Ruth Bradley and Joanne Kirk. Many of these helped with driving for the field trips. Thanks also to Fred Griffith and Jim Gradington for constructing the low ropes course at the rear of the church property.
“Academy Awards” Program
Friday, July 8, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
This will be our first awards program for a children’s musical drama performance. We will be voting for several categories such as best female actress, best male actor, best male and female vocalist, up and coming actors, etc. The awards program will take place at the Pizza Hut, Nova Road, Port Orange. Awards will be presented following dinner. Kids should be dropped off and picked up at the Pizza Hut by parents.
Cheryl Secunda

Shake It Up Café, A Fun VBS Event
Kids explored the Bible as an exciting cookbook filled with recipes for living out God’s Word last week. Hats off to Executive Chef (Director) Leesa Holloway for planning and execution. Décor, snack meals, science lessons, crafts and recreation were the best! The children also donated food items for HUM as their mission stories focused on the hungry in our country.

MISSIONS
Halifax Urban Ministries
Please take the time this holiday weekend to check your pantry/cupboards or toss a couple of extra canned goods in your grocery cart while shopping. Right now school is closed for summer vacation so the supplemental food the kids get is not available. The need is great.
Judy Hutchinson
Countryside Lakes ALF
New Hope’s next visit to Countryside Lakes is noon Wednesday, July 20. Residents look forward to your visits as evidenced by their thank you notes. Come share in this ministry.
Bill Batchelor

REAL LOVE GROUP BEGINS THIS WEEK
Thursday, July 7, 11:00 AM
Led by Cindy Suprenant, Marriage & Family Therapist

LADIES BIBLE STUDY
After a brief summer break, the Ladies Bible study group will resume meeting July 19. For more information see Jeanne Mathieson.

BOOK EXCHANGE
The following books which were mentioned in recent sermons may be found on our book shelves.
Tracks of a Fellow Struggler, John Claypool
The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen
Heaven is for Real, Todd Burpo & Lynn Vincent

EXTERIOR PAINTING COMPLETE
The painting of the exterior of the New Hope sanctuary and A-frame was completed on June 24. Cash donations and pledges were made for the job cost of $3,175. The original amount of $3,675 was reduced by $500 by Scotty Ford-Jones’ donation of labor.

MUSIC AND WORSHIP
The Season of Trinity
The first Sunday after Pentecost Sunday is Trinity Sunday and this begins the longest season of the church year, the Trinity season. The color of the drape on the cross is green and it will remain green until November 27, the first Sunday in Advent. The color green reminds us that God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit makes the kingdom grow. As St. Paul said, “Who then is Paul, and who then is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.” (1 Corinthians 3:5-6) We rejoice in the impenetrable mystery that God is three-in-one. How the Lord can be one God in three distinct persons is completely beyond the ability of any human to understand. We accept this mystery as a fundamental article of faith. During this season we focus on how we as Christians ought to respond to the love that God has shown us.
Music for Healing
Wednesday, 12:15-12:45, All Saints Lutheran Church
July 6 Musician: Wanda Ross, piano
July 13 Musicians: Marian & Ted Stedman,
piano/clarinet
July 20 Musician: Casey Baker, piano
July 27 Musicians: Rusty Baker & Susie Acree, piano/violin Host: Dennis Bucher
Dennis Bucher

COMMUNITY-MINDED?T
he Port Orange Ministerial Association is sponsoring a September 11 memorial event at the Amphitheater in City Center. This marks the 10-year anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. The service theme is peace, reconciliation, healing and hope. The program will include military presence, participation from Port Orange police and firefighters and a community choir. Donations are needed to cover the $678 event fees. Checks may be sent to All Saints Lutheran Church, 751 Dunlawton Avenue, Port Orange, FL 32127 c/o “9/11 Service.”

WHAT’S COOKING?
Recipes for summer barbeques, picnics or salad meals are welcomed for the August issue of the newsletter.

FILM REVIEW
Super 8
The year is 1979. A group of middle school age children are filming a zombie flick using a Super 8 movie camera to enter into a school film competition. The kids have been friends since childhood. During the filming of a scene at a train station there is a horrific accident in which a train derails and explodes. The kids head for the hills and then begin to unravel a series of disappearances of the townsfolk and why the U.S. military is involved.

The young people playing this group of friends remind me of the kids in director Stephen Spielberg’s “E.T.” and also the “Sandbox”. These kids are realistically funny and shy, touching the heart as they search for meaning in their lives. The two main characters (Joe and Alice) come from single parent families who can’t cope with the loss of their spouses and so emotionally neglect their children. Their respective parents are dysfunctional not because they are single but because they cannot be there for their children. They are too grief stricken and absorbed with their own losses to be there for them.

However, this film would excite and interest young people not only with the realistic pathos of the situations but the special effects and science fiction aspect you would expect from J.J. Abrams, the director of “Lost” and “Clover-field”. These kids form a bond with each other and become a family unto themselves. Each one is completely different but together they form a fully functioning group. They appreciate each other’s strengths and stand by each other through their weaknesses even as some scary and unexplainable situations are happening to them. They totally accept each other. That is how families should be. This is especially true of the family of God within the church.

This film is full of excitement and special effects. It is also full of the wonder of late childhood with first love, curiosity, heroism and the earnest sincerity of youth. One line I thought was important was when the young hero Joe, looking into the face of his terrifying nightmare says, “Bad things happen to everyone but you can keep on living”. My daughter Stephanie and I enjoyed this film together. When we saw it I thought that mostly any pre-teen or teenager would enjoy it with the adult of their choice. I have since heard from several older teenagers and adults who have seen the film that they really enjoyed the story and that it wasn't about the special effects at all. Perhaps I stand corrected.
Sandra Kleinschmidt

KIDS KLUB (AWANA)
New resume date is July 20 for Sparkies and T&T’s only. We will have sports nights up and through August 17. There will be no Klub meeting on August 24. New registration begins August 31.

YOUTH UPDATE
Youth Meeting Cancelled
There will be no youth meeting on Sunday, July 3, due to the holiday weekend.
Camp Rock
Camp Rock was a great help in fundraising for our youth to attend a youth retreat in July. They served as camp workers, supplying much needed supervision over the younger kids ages five years to the fifth grade. They also served dinner for 80 people the night of the Rock Creek Camp musical, raising $200 in proceeds and tips.
Student Life Retreat
July 11-15
Ocean Center, Daytona Beach, Florida
New Hope’s fundraising will enable eight youth and two adult chaperones to attend the Student Life Retreat this month. Lou Giglio will be the conference speaker and Christian music artist, Chris Tomlin, will be the praise and worship leader.
Cheryl Secunda