Our library is located in the room on right hand side of Stringer Auditorium, when facing front of Stringer and on a mobile library cart.

From the LUMC Library Committee:
     Want to keep up with what’s happening in the United Methodist Church around the country and in the world? Want to know what’s going on in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference? Read the news in the current issues of The United Methodist Reporter and Newspirit in the library. Recent back issues are also available.
     The United Methodist Reporter also carries reviews of recent films as well as excellent guides for viewing and discussion and other features of interest.

To explore what is in our library, please click on resource list.

BOOK REVIEWS

In A World Gone Mad
reviewed byVerna Colliver, library committee

      A new addition to the church library is In a World Gone Mad by Amy Hill Hearth and Norman and Amalie Petranker Salsitz.

     “The end justifies the means” is a cliché that we glibly pronounce without really considering its implications. Perhaps we use the rationale more often than we realize, and we may also recognize the essential flaw in the argument. For the Holocaust survivors in Amy Hill Hearth’s story the “end” is literally their survival under the Nazi persecution of the Jews in World War II. Ask yourself this question:  Would I lie, cheat or steal in order to protect a loved one or myself? Is what is normally considered immoral, unethical or illegal ever justified?

     Norman and Amalie Petranker Salsitz face this question and their response is a compelling story of courage in the midst of fear and suffering. Survival requires the agonizing choice to live a lie. It is also an opportunity for Hearth, the writer, to face the reality not only of the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis but also the complicity of the German people and the rest of the world who might have done more to stop the madness.

     While there have been many books, plays and movies about the Holocaust, the need to tell and retell the story cannot be denied. One of the survivors the author meets in her research for the book worries about what will happen when all the survivors have died?  “Who will tell the story when they are gone?”

     The stories have been told and we need to read them and heed the lesson, “Never again.” Check out In a World Gone Mad from the library.

New Books           

“The Psalms”
“2003 Conference Journal”
In Memory of Ken Schmidt from Men’s Bible Study:
“Come Let Us Adore Him” (music of Christmas)
“Finding God in Unexpected Places”
“Circle of Life”
“Who’s Who in the Bible”-children

Previous additions included:

Books

- General
"Unbelieving Husbands"
"When Parents Disagree"
"E.PA Conference Journal 2002"
"C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy"
"The Body" by Chas. Colson
"Emmanuel"
Children's:
"Beginners Bible"
"Jacob's Gift"

- Books by Bruce Wilkinson
"Secrets of the Vine"
"Prayer of Jabez Bible Study Guide"
"Prayer of Jabez for Women"
"Prayer of Jabez for Teens"

- Children's-2 sets
"When A Pet Dies by Fred Rogers"
"Lily" ages 8-12 young women of faith
"Cow Series" young children- 6 books
"Grandma, What is Prayer?"

- Youth
"Prayer of Jabez for Teens"
"I Kissed Dating Goodbye"

- Adults
"Who's Who – New Testament"
"In the Fullness of Time"
"John Wesley Reader"
"Whisper A Prayer for Moms"
'Book of Discipline – 2000"
"When Parents Disagree"
"John Wesley's Life and Ethics"
"Not By Bread Alone" recipes and reflections
"Let's Roll" by Lisa Beamer
"An Hour Before Daylight" by Jimmy Carter
"Blood of Abraham" by J. Carter
"The Fifth Mountain" by Paulo Coelho
"Visioneering" by Andy Stanley-founder of North Point Community Church, Atlanta
"Gospel Parallels" synoptic gospels
"Women of the Bible"
"Strong's Concordance" large print
"Bible Companion"
"Belief Matters"
"The Other 6 Days"
"Major United Methodist Beliefs" by Stokes (new ed.)
"Methodist Doctrine"
"Jesus, Entrepreneur"
"Leadership in the Wesleyan Spirit"
"The Path" (mission statement)

Videos

- General
"The Climb"
2 Veggie Tales-"Jonah" movie
"Lyle and the Kindly Viking"
2 Penguins videos
"Runaway Pride"
"Cheating Scales"
"The Outsider" (Older children and youth)
"Reinventing your Life" set from Women of Faith
"For Bitter or For Better" (marriage)

- Children's' videos
Set of 8: "Adventures in Odyssey" created by Focus on the Family
For ages 6 and up

CD's
"4 Him and Hyms-Place of Worship"
"Songs-Kids-I Sing Praises"
"Songs-Kids-Awesome God"
"Jump 5"
"CD edition of United Methodist Hymnal"
"Global Praise" (Hymns from all over the world)
"America's Calling You" (Kelly Cook-9/11 Oak Park Elementary School)

Puzzle
Noah's Ark