Birthday Breakfast for Jesus will take place between services on Sunday, December 17, in the Simpson Room. Serving will begin at 9:50 am. Please bring a breakfast goodie for the buffet. Sign up in the sanctuary.
The Adult Christmas Party is next Saturday, December 16th, at 5:00 pm, at Belinda and Doug Resler’s home (1300 Beaver Road). Bring a goodie for the buffet. Also, bring a white elephant gift for the crazy exchange. Sign up in sanctuary.
This coming Sunday is our “traditional” Christmas sweater Sunday. Please join in with your Christmas sweater for a wonderful time of fellowship and fun. There might even be a sweater contest!
Everyone, middle-school aged and older, is invited to join the “wrapping party” on Sunday, December 10, during the Sunday School hour (10 am), as we wrap the gifts for the Bethany House in the Simpson Room. Please consider bringing your own scissors.
If you placed an order in November, it will be ready for pickup December 7 - 10.
Our monthly Salad Luncheon is this Thursday, December 7, from 11 am to 1 pm.
Bring in your donations of new socks, mittens, gloves, and hats to help decorate the tree in the back of the sanctuary no later than December 10. All items will go to the Bethany House kids to help keep them warm this winter.
Thank you to everyone who is sponsoring a child in the Bethany House preschool and after-school program. There are still 7 kids available—please see Pam Honeychurch to claim one. Gifts need to be returned by Sunday, December 10 at 10 am, when we will wrap the gifts. Thank you for helping to make Christmas extra special for these children.
There are 55 children in the preschool and afterschool programs, and 10 children still need to be “adopted” for this Christmas outreach mission.
Sunday School children are invited to join the FOTC team to offer free cups of hot chocolate on the front lawn during Light Up Night on December 1.
If you think your time for Christmas shopping may be two sizes too small, we may have a way for you to get to the mall.
Putting our offerings of cash or checks in the plate during worship service is a long standing tradition that is still welcomed. However, we recognize that this method does not work well for everyone. Sewickley UMC is now set up to use EasyTithe. This service allows our members, friends, and visitors to give to the church and other ministries using a computer or smart phone.
A poem by Donna
Twas the month before Christmas
And homemade goodies were the talk.
Everyone was planning what they would bake
For the annual Cookie Walk.
Bring on the bars, the drops, the pizzelles,
The chips, the sprinkles, the snowmen in white.
Bring on the buckeyes, the M&M’s, the ladylocks,
All yummy to the very last bite.
Please donate your favorites
Any number will do.
We’ll sell out this year
Thanks to you!
Sign up in the sanctuary or email Donna Sawhill.
This coming Tuesday, November 21, at noon, all ladies of the church are invited to celebrate the birthdays of ladies born in November and December.
To help patrons of the food pantry prepare Thanksgiving dinner, Outreach is asking that you fill a grocery bag with the non-perishable items that are traditionally used at Thanksgiving.
More than $7 million in grants for hurricane and other disaster-relief work, and $1.86 million for global health responses. UMCOR already had received some $15 million from donors in recent months to respond to U.S. disasters – 100% of those donations will be used in those disasters’ recovery efforts.
Want to learn what it takes to be a UMC ERT member? Those are the people that are first on the scene, primarily when natural disasters strike, locally and around the country.
Thank you for the generous response to the Bag-a-Breakfast for the Sewickley Community Food Pantry. Thank you for your donations to the Girl Empowerment Project (GEP).
On Saturday, December 16th, The Olive Branch, a fair trade shop, run in part by Salem UMC, will bring a pop-up store to Sewickley UMC.
Right now, there are UMC young people—who might not have had the resources to attend a school of their choice, or, for some, any school at all—who’ve been sent by you into the world God loves because of your giving to United Methodist Student Day.