Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

 1 You have searched me, LORD,
   and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
   you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
   you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
   you, LORD, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
   and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
   too lofty for me to attain.

 7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
   Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
   if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
   if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
   your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
   and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
   the night will shine like the day,
   for darkness is as light to you.

 13 For you created my inmost being;
   you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
   your works are wonderful,
   I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
   when I was made in the secret place,
   when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
   all the days ordained for me were written in your book
   before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
   How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
   they would outnumber the grains of sand—
   when I awake, I am still with you.

 19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
   Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
   your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD,
   and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
   I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart;
   test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
   and lead me in the way everlasting.

ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL

Due to my being gone on vacation next Sunday and others involved with a M&O meeting, there will be NO Adult Sunday School class. If you know of someone who does not look at the computer and they need to know about the class cancellation, would you please inform them for me? I'm thinking of Peggy Jennings and not sure about Lezlie Lingerfeld. If any of you have her number or contact information, I'd appreciate you letting Lezlie know along with Peggy.

Thanks! See you all on the 12th!

Bob

GOOD NEWS!

Just wanted to let you all know that we finally heard from our friends in Joplin, Missouri and they are all ok!!! They just got their power back on this evening and their cell phones back up and running today! They said their houses are fine, just a few broken windows and some fencing that was knocked down. Just one block from their houses everything was completely destroyed! I have prayed heavily for them and feel like God knew about that before this storm ever hit, so His Hand was upon them. Praise God!

Greetings!

It was good to be with everyone today as we celebrated Memorial Day together at Hinkle. Such a sweet spirit there and so glad for all of the newcomers! If you weren't there, you were certainly missed!

Just wanted to let everyone know that we begin our vacation tomorrow (May 30th) and will be leaving one day this week to head to Missouri. If you have an emergency or need to contact someone for ministry needs, please call one of the members of Ministry & Oversight and they will contact me if it warrants my immediate attention. Those members are Will Bussell, Bev Stewart, Kelly Haemmerle, Edie Keesee, Trish Butcher, and Jacob Isaacs. We are looking forward to a time away and to ourselves to be refreshed so we can continue to minister to all of you. We will see you a week from next Sunday (June 12th). Remember that we are dedicating Hinkle after all of the work on Sunday, June 26th with a carry-in meal following the services. Make sure you let everyone know about this special Sunday together! You all take care and we love you!

Bob & Paulette

Another Central Indiana Pastor with Joplin, Missouri ties

 WHITESTOWN - Hoosiers from Traders Point Christian Church have strong ties to Joplin, Missouri. Their relatives were there when the deadly tornado hit Sunday night.

Senior Pastor Aaron Brockett and his wife are both from Joplin, and they have many family members and friends there. They made contact with their relatives and everyone they know is safe. But their thoughts are with those who didn't survive, and also with hundreds of homeless Joplin residents.
"The tornado came through there and ripped through the street, so most of it's gone and I grew up there," Brockett said.
He says his grandfather just barely escaped the tornado's path.
"He pulled the car over and knocked on the door of a stranger and huddled on the floor until the storm passed," Brockett said.
Brockett says despite all the video of the devastation, the enormity of the damage still hasn't sunk in.
"I just was watching some of the aerial footage of the helicopter flying over, and I don't even recognize much of what I see," said Brockett. "I see bits and pieces, but the Sonic restaurant that my wife and I went to on our first date, it's gone. So it's stuff like that that kind of hits you pretty hard when you look at it and realize that's where you grew up, and some of those places were places where you hung out, and some of those people were the people that influenced you. It's pretty devastating."
He calls a picture of a park where he played as a child, now destroyed by the storm, is "haunting."
Brockett went to Ozark Christian College in Joplin, and says some students from central Indiana are attending class there. However, the college was not damaged and is now being used as a shelter.
He has heard from dozens of people via Twitter and Facebook, some offering prayers and others offering or looking for help.
"There are people I grew up with who live in different parts of the country asking if I'd heard from someone we know," Brockett said.
Seeing his hometown destroyed has definitely shaken Brockett, but he says it hasn't tested his faith.
"It's a big mistake to try and offer explanations, instead of coming along and loving those people. This gives us an opportunity. It's amazing to see strangers helping each other and having connections," he said.
Brockett and his wife plan to travel to Joplin this week to bring supplies donated to the church. They are still in the process of organizing that

Open House at the Haemmerle's in South Harbour

Please Pray

Paulette and I are just devastated by the news of the horrible tornado in Joplin, Missouri. This is near the area where we lived and where we shopped while living in Oklahoma. Our daughter Kaneesha was born in Joplin and the hospital that was destroyed is where I was when they found out I had hepatitis. We have many friends in the area and are very concerned about their safety. So, we would appreciate you joining us in prayer for these special people and all they are going through. The pictures we are seeing are all familiar places to us and has just broken our hearts.

Sunday

Just wanted to let you all know that we will be recognizing our High School Graduate, Travis Browning this Sunday! Come and congratulate him! Also, Stephanie Gaither is graduating and we would include her, but they are having a special service for the graduates at White River Christian Church, so Mike and Kelly will be attending there this Sunday for Stephanie. If you see this Stephanie - we send our best wishes to you on your graduation and pray for a very bright future for you!

Mark Your Calendars!

Just wanted to let you all know in advance that we will have a special service on June 26th to re-dedicate our newly refurbished building. For those who know him, Rusty Robertson and his family will be here that Sunday and thought that would be a great time to do this. Hopefully we will be completely done with the odds and ends that need finishing up. I have also invited Doug Shoemaker to come that Sunday. We will have a carry-in fellowship meal following the services. So, please mark your calendars and let's have a good turnout as we dedicate this beautiful Building to continue to serve the Lord and be a beacon of Light on our community!

BIBLE STUDY AND TID BITS

Good morning!

Will is unable to come to Bible Study tonight, so I will be leading the study this evening. We will be studying Matthew, Chapter 5 which is a study on the Beatitudes. Interesting study. Paulette is bring taco soup and I believe there was ham leftover from the conference, so we may be able to make sandwiches as well. As always, we have purchased iced tea and I'll make decaf coffee for all of us coffee drinkers!

Wanted to let you all know that our home phone is out of order, so if you need to call us, you will have to call my cell number. They promise to have it fixed by tomorrow evening.

Hope you can all come tonight!

What a Weekend at Hinkle Creek Friends!

Wow, I am so in awe of how faithful God is. I thank God for bringing Heidi McClane into our lives several years ago. I have attended several conferences with Heidi over the years. It is always so refreshing to be around her because she allows Christ to live in her and it is so obvious and you can not help but be uplifted. She is a living example of the heights we can all reach in our walk with the Lord if we choose to forgive, believe have faith and truly allow Christ to live in us. "Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. " James 4:8
God will not force himself on us, but he will get as close as we let him get.

sanctuary before remodel, after ceiling fell

Wedding at Hinkle before remodel

Women's Conference and Luncheon feat:Heidi McLaine

Dear Lord, I thank You for this day, I thank You for my being able to see
and to hear this morning! I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and
an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me.
Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you.

I ask now for Your forgiveness. Please keep me safe from all danger and harm.
Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.
Please broaden my mind that I can accept all things. Let me not whine and whimper
over things I have no control over. And give me the best response when I'm pushed beyond my limits.

I know that when I can't pray, You listen to my heart. Continue to use me to do Your will. Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others. Keep me strong that I may help the weak... Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others. I pray for those that are lost and can't find their way. I pray for those that are misjudged and misunderstood.

I pray for those who don't know You intimately. I pray for those that don't believe.
But I thank You that I believe that God changes people and God changes things.
I pray for all my sisters and brothers. For each and every family member in their households. I pray for peace, love and joy in their homes; that they are out of debt and all their needs are met. I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than God. Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.

I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees it
in Jesus' name. Amen!

Song You Lord You by Mike Haemmerle

AWESOME!!!

Wow! What an awesome service we had today with special speaker Heidi McKlane! You could certainly feel the presence of the Holy Spirit at Hinkle today! It was such a wonderful Women's Conference (I played a woman and was there too!) then the follow-up today was just really nice. I needed to be fed too and it felt so good. I saw many with tears in their eyes today and a two new people came and said they felt the Holy Spirit too. I'm always humbled when that happens and to see how God brings people into the doors of Hinkle in miraculous ways. One of our visitors came because of all of the detours and was so blessed. Now I'm looking at the detours in a whole different light! Thanks to everyone who helped with the Conference yesterday and made it such a success. I believe we will be having Heidi back again and this time it will be for everyone to enjoy! Love you all!!!!

Women's Conference

Just wanted to remind all of you ladies about the Women's Conference tomorrow starting at 9:30 a.m. with lunch served, then a short afternoon session. Men are welcome to come too! I'll be there to run the sound system and play the piano. If you don't have a ticket, you can still buy one at the door! Only $10.00 for conference and lunch - good deal!!!

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~ "The love of God is the backbone of my religion, and all that doesn't go with that, I discarded long ago." -- Ethel Dell.

tonight!

Dan's Fish Fry Thursday night at Noblesville Church

The Times Emmanuel United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Cumberland Road and Greenfield Avenue in Noblesville, will host a fish and chicken supper featuring Dan's Fish Fry Service from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday. The dinner will feature all the breaded fish and/or chicken you can eat, plus side dishes, dessert, bread and drink. Cost is $9 for ages 13 and older, $5 for children ages 6 to 12 and no charge for kids under the age of 5. Carry outs are available.

QUAKER STUDY

I met with Doug Shoemaker (Indiana Yearly Meeting Superintendent) for lunch and had a great discussion about our journey into Indiana Yearly Meeting. He would like to hold a lecture series for Hinkle about Quakerism and Indiana Yearly Meeting and will be starting this series on Sunday evening, June 5th at 5:30 p.m.. The series will continue each Sunday evening until the curriculum is completed. The goal is to have us educated prior to the Indiana Yearly Meeting Sessions where we will be brought before the body to be recommended to go back to full Monthly Meeting Status. It is very important for as many as possible to attend these sessions so we can be informed about our relationship with Indiana Yearly Meeting. This is quite a sacrifice of time for this busy man to clear his calendar to accomodate us. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this special session. I'd love it if the whole congregation could attend. If you are a relative new member or contemplating membership at Hinkle, I urge you to attend so you can fully understand what the Quaker Faith is all about.

• Proverbs 30:5 (coloring page) Every word of God proves true.
• Matthew 6:24 – No one can serve two masters.
• Deuteronomy 6:5 – You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
• Matthew 22:39 – You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
• 1 Corinthians 10:31 – Whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
• Psalm 19:1 – The heavens declare the glory of God.
• Genesis 1:1 (coloring page) In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
• Psalm 139:14 – I praise you God, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
• Isaiah 43:5 (coloring page) Do not be afraid for I am with you.
• Psalm 1:6 – The LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Ministry & Oversight

meeting tonight at 6:30

BLESSINGS

http://youtu.be/1CSVqHcdhXQ

FUM Triennial, July 27-31. Register now! The Registration Price Goes up May 15th! It will be held in Wilmington, OH at Wilmington College. If you do not wish to register online, call the FUM office at: (765) 962-7573, or e-mail: info@fum.org.

Iglesia Amigos, the new Hispanic church plant in Indianapolis, is looking for a good sound system and several musical instruments including a drum set and an electronic keyboard. If your meeting would like to assist, good used and donated equipment would be welcome as would designated financial contributions. Contact Doug Shoemaker at 800-292-5238 if you can help. 

Where Love Grows Video, Made by Casey Meers for Hinkle

Video Casey made for her Mom, Nancy on Mothers Day

My Faith: A reluctant churchgoer 'gets the Holy Ghost' By John Blake, CNN

The author (foreground, age 7), his late aunt, Sylvia Blake (left) and other family members outside their Baltimore church

I had my first brush with the “Holy Ghost” when I was 9 years old.  I’m still trying to digest what it meant more than 30 years later. The day began as a typical Sunday. Aunt Sylvia herded me and my brother into her 1972 baby blue Chevy Impala and drove us to church for a service that would often last five hours.
Sunday worship at a black Baptist church wasn’t just long. It was scary. Elderly women who “got the Holy Ghost” during worship would thrash so violently in the pews that their wigs flew off. People shouted, wept and fainted.
This Sunday service started off no differently. But as the frenzy of the worship intensified, an invisible switch seemed to click on. A wave of heat rippled through the congregation as people beside me threw up their arms and shouted.
Suddenly, something seemed to slip inside of me. A tingling raced up my spine. I stood up to clap, scream - I didn’t know what I was about to do.
Is this, I wondered, the Holy Ghost that Aunt Sylvia sang about?
Singing gospel to keep muggers away
Easter Sunday is supposed to be about resurrection. For me, it’s also about remembering. When I see women herding boys in crisp new suits into the pews during Easter service, I sometimes think about the woman and the church that gave me my first lessons about faith.
I also think about an eerie encounter that I kept to myself for years because I knew it would sound so bizarre.
I didn’t join the church. I was drafted. My aunt forced me and my younger brother, Patrick, to go to worship service every Sunday.
We grew up in Baltimore, in an impoverished neighborhood so dangerous that my aunt would sing gospel hymns aloud as she walked us home from the mall at night. She thought church music warded off muggers.
My aunt wasn’t just my protector; she was my anchor. My mother was gone. My father, a rough merchant seaman, spent most of his time carousing overseas. I spent much of my childhood in foster homes with my brother.
Aunt Sylvia gave us a sense of family. She was a short, round woman who wore black wigs and wide, colorful hats with feathers to church. She would watch us on the weekends and buy presents for us when Christmas and our birthdays rolled around.
She never married; never had children. I told my elementary school teachers that she was my mother.
She was my biggest fan. She would collect my report cards, take me to museums and shower me with books that she nabbed from her job as a high school secretary.
I craved her approval even more than her scrumptious coconut cake. Whenever I made her particularly proud, she would give me the same peculiar look. She’d tilt her head to the left, stare at me in silence, and then her dark face would light up with a warm smile.
She was the only adult I knew wouldn’t abandon me.
Shunning church
My aunt’s smile, though, would turn into an icy glare whenever she saw me nodding off in Union Temple Baptist Church.
I thought my church was full of buffoons. I didn’t like the screaming and shouting, and I couldn’t stand the pulpit theatrics.
My childhood pastor, Rev. Churn, would sweat and yell during his sermons while taunting the congregation with lines like, “You don’t know what I’m talking about?”
He was right. I didn’t know what he was talking about; he shouted too much. When I was a kid, I thought that Rev. Churn was literally angry at the congregation because he yelled at them so much.
Once, during a fiery sermon, I thought about standing up and pleading with the congregation: “Just do what he says, and he won’t shout anymore.”
Despite my disdain for church, there was one part of service that I liked: “Testimony time.”
Testimony came at late-night services, as dusk approached and street traffic quieted outside. The services were less heated and more intimate, and during testimony, church members stood up at random to share a struggle and ask for prayer.
People often revealed the most personal details of their lives. But no one seemed to judge. Instead, people in the pews nodded and smiled, or chanted “weeeeell,” to encourage them.
Even as a fidgety kid, I was entranced. I can still remember how people visibly gathered strength when testifying, as if invisible arms from the congregation were encircling them.
Getting the ‘Holy Ghost’
Still, I wasn’t ready for any personal displays of vulnerability when my Holy Ghost moment came at 9.
When I felt that tingling race up my spine, I became afraid. I didn’t want to lose control. So when I involuntarily stood up in the pew during the service, I caught myself. Then I quickly left the church and took a walk in the cold night air until I calmed down.
As time went on, I resisted church even more. After entering high school, I mustered the courage to tell Aunt Sylvia I didn’t want to go anymore.
She was furious. She prayed aloud to Jesus. She tried to spank me. Then she retreated into silence as she drove me to church one last time with tears in her eyes. I never saw her so sad.
Soon, though, my time for tears would come.
In my sophomore year of college, I found my way back to church. A series of remarkable coincidences took place in my life. I made new friends and joined an interracial church full of people my age. And I shared it all with my brother, who quickly followed my example.
I also gained more respect for the black church. I attended college when there was a national debate about making the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday. The debate prompted me to start reading about King and the civil rights movement.
The more I learned about the movement, the more I realized how crucial the black church was to its success. It gave the movement its spiritual fuel and many of its most courageous activists.
But my intellectual awakening didn’t quell my emotional insecurities. I had inoculated myself so much against organized religion as a kid that I began to think it just wasn’t for me. I didn’t think I was good enough.
One night, it all came to a head. I decided I was going to quit. How, I thought, would I tell people? What would my aunt say? I went to bed in despair.
Then, something strange happened.
I bolted awake, tears streaming down my face. I was on my back, right arm over my closed eyes, but I squinted anyway because I felt as if I were looking directly into the sun.
I felt a presence within that light. I was crying because I had never felt so exposed. This light seemed to bore through me, revealing my most sordid deeds, my inadequacies and my fears. I felt like an insect.
Despite that feeling of shame, I felt something even more powerful: love. It seemed as though this presence, something as immense as the universe, was telling me that I was accepted.
What do you do with such an experience? Was it a dream, a breakdown, youthful foolishness? I don’t know. But that moment changed me. I couldn’t quit. I had encountered something else besides my aunt that wouldn’t abandon me.
One last smile
As I think about that nighttime experience now, it takes on another meaning as well.
If my aunt was my childhood anchor, the black church was her source of strength. How could I reject the institution that nurtured her?
I thought all of the shouting in my childhood church was for show. I didn’t know the history behind the shout: slavery, segregation, people who “got happy” because life was so grim.
Faith, without emotion, is dead - that’s the lesson I absorbed from the black church, and from my aunt.
I never saw my aunt “get happy.”  But I can’t imagine she would have sacrificed so much for me and my brother if she wasn’t driven by a powerful emotion - love.
And I would have given up on my faith if I had not been overwhelmed by the emotion I experienced during my night of tears.
I never shared my nighttime experience with my aunt. It was too embarrassing to share with anyone. Yet she saw me and my brother return to church.
Three years after I graduated from college, though, I had to say goodbye to her.
She was 60, and dying from liver failure. I took a week off to visit her in Baltimore, but I didn’t go to the hospital to see her for several days because I kept making excuses. I didn’t want to accept that I was losing her.
I finally went to the hospital with my brother to see her one sunny afternoon. She was in a hospital bed, her once stout body shrunken, her dark complexion yellowed. She was unconscious.
I didn’t know what to do. I felt guilty for taking so long to see her. So I started to babble. I don’t know if I told her I loved her, or if I even thanked her.  But I do remember this: Though I went there to comfort her, she ended up comforting me, much like she did when I was a boy.
As I looked down at her, trying not cry, she opened her eyes.
She was too weak to talk. But she gave me that peculiar look - the tilt of her head to the left and the long stare - and then she smiled.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/24/my-faith-a-reluctant-churchgoer-gets-the-holy-ghost/

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   Martha Barnes

Love is patient, love is kind; it does not envy, it does not boast.  It is not proud, it is not rude, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails.  And now these three remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.
Corinthians 1:13 Bible quote

MARTHA BARNES MEMORIAL

I just wanted to remind "Friends" about Martha Barnes Memorial Service which will be held this Friday at 6:00 p.m. at Hinkle. There will be a dinner afterwards for friends and family. Let's support Sharon Griffith as we honor her Mother and a lifelong member of Hinkle Creek Friends.

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Womens Conference & Luncheon

Request for Prayer~
If you are interested in coming to the Women's Conference & Luncheon but haven't purchased your tickets yet there are still a few spots available. If you could please join us in prayer for this special day that would be so very appreciated. Heidi McLane, our guest speaker asked us to please pray that everyone in attendance will benefit from this special time together in Gods house exploring his Word. The date is May 14, 2011 9:30-2:30. Please call me at 317-691-2329 if you have any questions.
Thank you!
~Kelly

HINKLE CREEK Easter 2011

Atlanta Christian Church, Atlanta, Indiana

This is the front door at the Atlanta Christian Church (Indiana) Mike played there last night after their mother, daughter dinner. Michaela and I tagged along and the hospitality was wonderful. We had a delicious meal and Mike did great. Anyway, I just loved this front door. The church was built in the very early 1900's Like 1904 or so. The interior and windows remind me of the Cicero Christian Church, our home away from home. And the lettering on the windows is very similar to ours. And the name on one of the windows is the same as one of our church families as you can see. All of these details really showed me the connection between all of these older country churches.  In the basement they have beautiful pictures hanging up of the congregation throughout the years. A lot of people who live in town were able to walk to church which I thought was so nice.We had such a fun time so I just wanted to share these pictures with everyone!

 We met such nice people there and Mike was just thrilled to be able to share his music. Thank you all for all of the encouragement you have given Mike over the years. I know you would have all been so proud of him.

beautiful!

Guitar

chair...time machine?

Well, this is no great picture, but I liked the juxtposition of the old chair with Mikes little sound system,/equalizer thingy sitting on it.

BIBLE STUDY FOOD

Velma is bringing ham and beans tomorrow night and Paulette will make cornbread. I'll have some iced tea and of course coffee! Anything you would like to bring to go along with that would be great or if you don't like beans (Tim), you might need to bring an alternative.

ANSWERED PRAYER REPORT

As you all recall, Betty McDonald asked us to pray that the Lord would take home her friend Billy in the condition he was in. As we gathered up front in prayer, I felt the Lord's presence and felt in my heart that He was on top of this situation. Betty called me this evening to report that Billy passed away this afternoon and is now at peace with the Lord. Thank you all for your faithfulness today in praying for this situation. What a sweet spirit we all felt in the service today. I came away so uplifted after being in His presence!

SUNDAY SCHOOL TODAY

Good morning Friends!

We've had a problem at the Church with flooding in the basement! Another set back!!! It is still wet in places and we are trying to dry it out, so there will be no classes held in the basement today. I will still have the Adult Class in the Sanctuary at 9:30, so if you wish to attend that in lieu of your normal class, you are most welcome. Everyone will be upstairs today during Worship due to this unfortunate circumstance.