Warwick Weekly. Weekly Newsletter - May 24, 2015

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1 Warwick Weekly Weekly Newsletter - May 24, 2015 Summer Ministry Program.. WMUMC is embarking on a new summer ministry program and we need your help. Please join us on Thursday, May 28th at 10:30am in the Fellowship Hall to learn more about the children s summer lunch program that we will be participating in during the summer beginning June 22nd. We will be providing space for the free/discount lunch children in our community to come and get a free lunch through this government subsidized program. We will need volunteers to help every day, 5 days a week, to serve the food to the children and clean up afterwards and volunteers to help with daily activities, which will include reading, story telling, crafts and gym time. If you would like to learn more, please come to this meeting or call the church office at To sign up to volunteer, please visit the website wmumc.org and click on the link. This Week... Bishop Young Jin Cho has called for all Virginia Conference United Methodists to observe a conference-wide Day of Prayer today along with our observance of Pentecost and Memorial Day. As part of this, our worship services will invite all to a special prayer practice, and we will introduce our new daily Cycle of Prayer. Paul wrote, Follow my example, just like I follow Christ s. (1 Cor. 11:1) Last week we began a new series based on people from the Bible and how they can help us understand and live into a good relationship with God. To make the list, we surveyed you (thanks to all who participated) and we came up with the following: 5/24 Martha and Mary 5/31 Esther 6/7 David 6/14 John the Baptist Help Needed for Local Mission this Saturday! Hands Across the City - Courthouse Green Blitz Day is Saturday, May 30th. All ages can help. You can join us for part or all of the day. Please sign-up today in Sunday School classes or online via Facebook or our event link on our church website wmumc.org. See Page #2 for all the specifics or contact Pastor Gina at: pastorgina@wumumc.org. Upcoming Events: Red Bird Mission Dino s - See Page 4 Habitat for Humanity - See Page 2 Health Kits for Conference - See Page 3 Vacation Bible School - See Page 4 and 5 Volunteer Needs - See Page 5 HeaRT Health Survey - See Page 5 Flames and James - See Page 5

2 Hands Across the City Courthouse Green Blitz Day Next Saturday, May 30th! Based on the information we are receiving through our successful canvassing of the Courthouse Green community (many thanks to all who helped!), we are gearing up for a local mission, our first Hands Across the City Blitz Clean-Up Day, on May 30th, 7:30am to 4:30pm, doing external work to improve the homes of people in need. We will meet for instructions at 7:30am in the Celebration Center Gathering area. Please dress appropriate for outdoor work, bring work gloves and sunscreen/hats. Lunch will be coordinated and provided, however please bring needed personal snacks and personal water/drinks as needed. Coolers will be available on-site, too. If you are coming later in the morning or day, please contact Pastor Gina so that she can direct you to a site location in Courthouse Green. Our work will include: * trash pick-up * raking * mulching & general yard work * exterior painting * cleaning gutters * minor home repair to the exterior of homes You can come for part of the day or all of the day and we will have lunch for you in the community. Children and youth are welcome to participate with parent or grandparent supervision and will be assigned to sites that are appropriate for their ages. We are still in need of: site leaders, workers of all ages, a lunch crew, tools and some pick-up trucks for mulch (tools include: rakes, power washers, paint brushes, paint scrapers, etc.). The rain date for this event is Saturday, June 6. Please Pastor Gina (pastorgina@wmumc.org) to sign-up to volunteer by May 30th, or visit the website to register. Courthouse Green is a home community located near our church in our neighborhood of Denbigh, behind the area where the K-Mart was located. This is a diverse community that is noted as at-risk due to the percentage of aging and low- income residents, as well as the growing influence of crime in that area. So, pray for our neighbors and come out to help make a difference. Habitat for Humanity.. Another Way to Be God s Hands Across Our City The Newport News City Manager s Office has offered us the opportunity to fix the exterior, (except for the roof), of one or more homes that are owned by seniors, disabled, or low-income on Saturday June 27 from 8 am until 3:30 pm. The only requirement is that you be 16 years old by that date. We need more volunteers! We already have two experienced site leaders from our church who will plan the work, train and guide the volunteers. The materials and lunch will be provided by Habitat for Humanity. Take this opportunity to invite others from outside the church! There are sign up sheets in the following locations: the Serve Team bulletin board just outside of the choir room, the bulletin board by the Sunday School (SS) office, the bulletin board by the Celebration Center, and in the Sunday School classes. For questions contact Carlos Liceaga at carlosliceaga@cox.net or Page 2

3 Other Ways You Make a Difference... Kits for Conference: You are invited to be part of a 75 year tradition in providing relief supply kits to vulnerable people across the globe. Every year our church helps UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) by sending kits to our annual Virginia Conference. Cleaning buckets and bedding, sewing, birthing, health, school and layette kits are then sent to the UMCOR warehouse in Louisiana, the primary distribution point for these much needed life-sustaining items. UMCOR has asked the local churches this year to help replenish their supply of school and health kits. The WMUMC Women and the Children's Fellowship ministry have already prepared a number of health, school and layette kits. Now we need YOUR help. Last year the monetary value of the kits provided by everyone in the church was $2,174. The kits we have prepared so far have a value of $1,800. With 100 more health kits, we could provide $4,000 worth of kits! Please consider adding to our church s efforts to support this very important and effective ministry. One Health Kit includes the following items: 1 regular hand towel (15 x25 up to 17 x27 ) kitchen, cleaning and microfiber towels NOT acceptable; 1 washcloth; 1 comb - no longer than 6 (no pocket combs or picks), rattail combs and combs without handles are acceptable with a minimum of 6 of teeth; 1 metal nail file or clipper; 1 bath-size soap -3oz or larger (no Ivory or Jergens); 1 adult size toothbrush; 6 adhesive bandages - 3/4 to 1 size; 1 one-gallon size plastic sealable bag; $1 to purchase toothpaste. Donations of any of these items will be put towards packaging the kits. All items must be new and in original packages. Any questions, contact Carol Beran at c_beran@yahoo.com or Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.. Luke 10:42 UMCOR Nepal Response - How You Can Help: United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), the disasterrelief arm of the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, is responding to the devastating earthquakes that have rocked Nepal killing and injuring thousands of people. Search and rescue operations continue. Countless people are homeless. UMCOR approved a grant of $90,000 for international partner GlobalMedic to bring sorely needed clean water to survivors through provision of household and public waterfiltration units. UMCOR also is in conversation with United Mission to Nepal (UMN), a partner in community-based health and education projects in Nepal for more than 60 years. Give to UMCOR International Disaster Response, Advance # Your gifts to UMCOR International Disaster Response make it possible for UMCOR to respond quickly to emergency situations through local and international partners. You can place your donation in the offering plate with Advance # in the memo line. Summer Mission Camp: If you are looking for some hands-on mission this summer, look no further. All God's Children Camp is a perfect opportunity to become a mentor to a child whose parent is incarcerated. This is a week long camp where the campers get to experience all the joys of summer camp such as archery, swimming, horseback riding, hiking, camp fires, s'mores and much more. Most of the campers will be experiencing these things for the first time and it is such an awesome thing to witness the joy on their faces as they zip line, participate in a high ropes course and sing silly camp songs. What makes this camp so special and unique is the one-on-one mentoring relationship for the campers and teaching conflict resolution and self esteem building to better equip them as they return to their daily routine. Camps at the week of August 2nd to the 7th and 9th to the 14th. Please contact Lori Smith, Director, All God's Children Camp at lttlelori@gmail.com or Page 3

4 Coming Up... Dino s Night for Red Bird: Join us at Dino s Pizza Restaurant (corner of Denbigh and Warwick) this Tuesday night, May 26th between 4pm and 9pm. A portion of the proceeds of dine-in and carry out will go towards the Red Bird Mission trip this August. Night at the Ballgame: York River District United Methodist Men s Night at the Ballgame, Monday, June 15th. You are invited to enjoy an American tradition at War Memorial Stadium with the Peninsula Pilots baseball team. This will be a night to bring together our brothers, sisters, friends and family for an evening of old fashion good times. Gates open at 5:30pm and the game begins at 7pm. Tickets are only $1.00. Please contact Gene Osborne for tickets Looking For Something Fun For Your Children To Do This Summer? Then Register Them For Vacation Bible School: Register today on our website wmumc.org. Free fun for the week of June 22nd to June 26th for children pre-k to 5th grade. Begins each day at 9am until 12:15pm. Includes learning fun music, mind challenging activities, fun and games outside, snacks, crafts and more. Helping Hands Event: The 2015 Helping Hands Virginia Conference event will be held at Woodlake UMC (Midlothian, VA) on July This event gives rising 4 th -6 th graders the opportunity to do hands-on missions in the Richmond area. For more information or to register your child, please contact Sharon Ellis at or cutygrgal@cox.net We are social. Look us up: Attention High School and College Grads: Are you graduating from High School or college this year and would like recognition on Graduation Sunday in June? Please let the church office know your name and school/college you are graduating from by calling or warwick.memorial@wmumc.org. We will have a special gift for graduates on Sunday on June 7th. Kings Dominion offers discount prices to United Methodists - As part of a special arrangement with the Virginia Conference, KD is offering United Methodists discounted prices on tickets during United Methodist Days at the park. Cost is $34 per person for ages 3 and older for discount tickets valid June 25-29, July 1-6, and July Children ages 2 and under will be admitted free. During the discount days, two Christian music events will be held on the park grounds. KingsFest (three full days of Christian music) will be June JoyFest (one of the country's largest gospel festivals) will be Saturday, July 18. KingsFest and JoyFest tickets are sold separately. To purchase tickets online, go to and enter promo code KDUMC04 in the top right corner under "my cart." The Virginia Conference will receive $1 for each ticket purchased online for United Methodist Days. And Our Pastors Are... It is with excitement and happiness that the SPRC announces that our co-pastors, Rev. Gina Anderson-Cloud and Rev. Bert Cloud, have been appointed back to Warwick for another year to continue their spiritual leadership of Warwick. The past two years under their leadership of our church has made us grow in so many areas and we look forward to the future, under their continued leadership. We are excited to see how Warwick will continue to be God s servant in the community and world. Thank you Pastor Bert, Pastor Gina, and family for being willing to lead us for another year. Flames and James - Men's Summer Bible Study: It's time to fire up the grills and spend some time with other men staying in God's word this summer. Our second year (remember Grill and Phil last summer?) backyard weekly meetings will start Tuesday, June 16 th at 6pm and continue every Tuesday through the summer. Host home will provide meat and drinks and others are invited to bring a side. The first week we will meet at Gerry Mingee's at 6 Canter Court, NN, and we will start discussing the book of James. We will be looking for volunteers to share their backyards by hosting. If you have questions contact Gerry at or ggmingee@verizon.net. Hope to see you this summer! Car Wash, Car Wash: Join us on Saturday, June 6th at the Exxon Station located at the intersection of Oyster Point Road and Warwick Blvd. Between 10am and 4pm come and get your car washed and proceeds will go to benefit the Red Bird Mission team. If you would like to sign up to volunteer to help wash cars, please contact Gloria Mingee or Gerry Mingee. Page 4

5 Volunteers Needed Volunteers Needed for Vacation Bible School G-FORCE : June 22-26, We are still in need of Pathfinders (to travel from room to room with the children) and someone to organize and coordinate the decorating team. We also need someone to work with Checkers (the puppet) during opening and closing sessions. Watch the bulletin board in the hall near the Fellowship Hall for snack donations. If you would like to join the team or help with this event coordination, please contact Bonnie Turner or Sharon Ellis Please register your children today on the link on our website at wmumc.org. There will be a child protection policy training for new volunteers and those that have not had training in the last year. Date and time will be posted next week. We Need Volunteers: How about helping with counting the offerings taken in on Sunday morning? There is a need for help on the 8:30/9:00 counting team and on the 11:15 counting team. Only one member of the team needs to feel comfortable working on a computer. You will be asked to work one Sunday a month. Training will be provided by Joe Young. If you are willing to help, please call Joe at or him at jwkyoung@cox.net 8 is Enough Groups Forming Now - Are you new to the church and want a fun and easy way to meet members? Have you been going to church here for a long time but would like to get to know other members better? If so, then being in an 8 is Enough Group may be for you. It's only a 4 month commitment. At the end of the 4 months, the members of the groups will rotate to form new groups. At that time, you can choose not to continue in the program, if you wish. New Groups will be formed soon for June, July, August, and September. Once a month each group goes to a local restaurant of their choice for dinner/lunch -- the date and time is decided by members of each group. It's a fun and informal way to meet other members of the church. If you would like to be added to a group or if you would like your name removed from the list, please call Cathy Haskell at or at jjboys@aol.com. If you would like to be in a group that only meets for lunch instead of dinner (usually on Wednesday), please indicate that in your message. Warwick By The Numbers Attendance 5/17/15: 8: :15-92 Total Worship Attendance: 262 Total Sunday School Attendance: 131 We Need Your Help! Our Health Resource Team, HeaRT, would like to provide our church members and the surrounding community with programs and activities that will address health and wellness issues that reflect our needs and interests. To do this, we need your help! During the month of May, there will be a Congregational Survey available on our website (wmumc.org) as well as in the Narthex and Church Office. This survey is voluntary, but we need everyone s input to best prepare for programs. This information will only be used for planning purposes. Thank You!!! Holy Conversation: At the prompting of Bishop Cho, in preparation for the Virginia Annual Conference 2015 slated June in Roanoke, we are offering a time of Holy Conversation on the issues of human sexuality and the United Methodist Church on Sunday, June 7 th from 2 to 4pm in our church fellowship hall. This is a time to listen to one another in the Spirit of Christ across differing opinions. This is not a time to win an argument or even persuade others to believe as one might. It is a time as our bishop has suggested for listening to God speak in our midst and across strong differences in theology and opinion. If you would like to be a part of planning for this conversation, there will be a planning meeting this Wednesday at 6pm in our church library. All are welcome to be a part of this important conversation before our denomination. Resources for consideration are available from the VA UMC at: vaumc.org/pages/news/2015va-news/2015 vanews_holyconversationresource. Page 5

6 Prayers for May 24, 2015 Please contact the church office with concerns so the Pastors will be notified. Please let us know if you would like for the concern to be on the church prayer list also. We pray for those in the hospital or care facility: Fran Shaffer, Ginny Masters, Jane Guthrie, (St. Francis) Louise Ivey (York Convalescent Center), Ann Woodward (Chambrell), Nolan Reid (Mary Immaculate) We pray for those who are at home: Bob Wrenn, John Mancil, Jane Goetz, Jerry Murray, Chris Ployd, Jewel Stalnaker, Julia Frank, Cindy Stevenson, Kathy Young, Walt Wilkerson, Beverly Mayeaux, Christina Tanner, Cindy Skaggs, Sonny Wood, Elsie Bevins, Doris Comer, Albert Kurtyka, Bob Warthan, Celeste DeVault, Ruth McGhee, Teresa Lotts, Margie Pillow, Carlton Purgold, Jerry Murray, Brad Kiehner, Brianna Hopson, Wanda Conner (Judy Hackett s Mom), Gene Ellis (David Ellis Dad), Linda Major Deaths: Elton Bennett, May 21 All Those Who Are Deployed: Collin Proctor, Steve Parker, Josh Millner, & Joshua Evans. Household Prayers for the Week Morning Gracious God, we thank you for the peace of good sleep and for keeping us safe throughout the night. Let this new day be a time of praise and joy as we go out to meet you in our sisters and brothers. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Evening Merciful Lord, as night comes to this house, we thank you for the challenges and accomplishments of this day. Give our hearts and minds the comfort now to rest in your care, trusting that whatever tomorrow brings, your hand will be ready to catch us if we fall. Amen. Want to make a difference in the lives of others? Then join our Intercessory Prayer Team - you can sign up (prayerchain@wmumc.org) to receive urgent requests by that you can include in your prayer life. You are also welcome to join with us on Tuesday mornings from 7:00am to 7:45am in the church parlor, across from the pastors office, for prayers for our church family, community and the world. Just drop in or you can even pray at home. We hope you will join us! This Week at WMUMC Today 8:30am Sanctuary Service 9am Celebration Center Service 10:10am Sunday School 11:15am Sanctuary Service 5:30pm & 8pm AA (Rm 20) 5:45pm NO Youth Fellowship (Youth Room) 5:45pm NO Pre-K Children s Fellowship (Rm 27) 5:45pm NO Children s Fellowship (FH) 8pm AA (Rm 20) Monday 5.25 Memorial Day, Office Closed 10am NO PAA (CC) 6pm AAU Basketball (CC) 6:30pm NO Scouts 7pm Girl Scouts (Room 28) 7:30pm No Praise Choir Rehearsal Tuesday am Intercessory Prayer Gathering (Parlor) 10am PAA (CC) 6pm AAU Basketball (CC) 7pm Girl Scouts (Rm 28) 7pm Endowment Committee (Rm 10) 8pm Spanish AA (Rm 20) Wednesday am TOPS (Rm 10) 2pm After School Open Gym (CC) 6pm Holy Conversation Planning (Library) 7pm Lampstand Band Rehearsal (CC) 7:00pm Praise Choir Rehearsal 8:00pm Chancel Choir Rehearsal 8pm Spanish AA (Rm 20) Thursday am PAA (CC) 10:30am Lunch Program Meeting (FH) 7pm SPRC Team Mtg (Library) Friday :30pm Cub Scout Committee Mtg (Rm 16) Saturday 5.30 Hands Across the City Day (Courthouse Green) 6pm AA (Rm 20) For complete calendar, including rescheduled meetings due to weather, please visit the website at Contact Jim King at or facility@wmumc.org for room availability and reservations. Deadline for Warwick Weekly submissions is Tuesday at 2pm. Page 6