CALLED TO MAKE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD

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1 Warwick Weekly Ken Bradley led the Children s Time last week during the Lampstand service talking to them about a real mess and how to solve it. 3/12/17 2nd Sunday in Lent CALLED TO MAKE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD Lenten Worship Series Continues - Last week we started our Lenten Series called Restored: Finding Redemption in Our Mess. The point of Jesus resurrection is our restoration. During this series, we will explore the ways of God s love to clean up the messes we have in our lives. If we are honest, we all know that we has messes to deal with in our lives. Truthfully, as much as we try, we can t handle it alone. The love of God through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is our only hope. Join us each Sunday of Lent to explore the offer of grace and restoration that makes cleaning up this mess possible. Dear Congregation, Pastors and Staff of Warwick Memorial UMC, On behalf of the York River District, I deeply appreciate your support for the Bishop s Chat and Chew on March 5, Your hospitality was unmatchable. May the LORD God be honored and praised as you continue to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world! In Christ Jesus, Rev. Seonyoung Kim Today in Worship: Today s Ripple Moment is brought to us by Kerry Blazek of the 2017 Red Bird Mission Team. A group of 40 people will attend the Work Camp located near Beverly, Kentucky from Sunday, August 6, 2016 through Saturday, August 12th for the purpose of repairing homes in the local Appalachia area and the Red Bird Mission facilities. The team will be focusing on various fundraisers between now and August 1st to help raise funds to defer the costs of the trip. These include selling coffee, fundraising at Dino s, Family Fun Day and more. If you are interested in participating in the mission trip or want to help the team to raise funds, please contact Kerry Blazek at or kerryblazek@gmail.com. If you are interested in being a vendor for the Family Fun Day, let Kerry know Red Bird Mission Team. Charge Conference: There will be a special Charge Conference which has been called by our District Superintendant on March 23rd at 7pm in the Sanctuary. The sole purpose of this called Charge Conference is to finalize our 2017 budget. Warwick Memorial members are welcome to attend Lenten Study Begins Today and Wednesday! Our pastors are excited about our Lenten study, Restored: Finding Redemption in our Mess. The study will parallel our worship series. This class is for the beginner in the faith or the seasoned follower of Jesus to help reflect on the gift of the cross and grow in appreciation of Easter. Often we make a mess of our lives and wonder if there is any redemption. In this book, Rev. Berlin helps us see our mess through the eyes of Christ to find redemption and restoration. Using Scripture, devotional tools, and the writings of Ignatius of Loyola, John of the Cross, St. Augustine, John Wesley, Evelyn Underhill, and others, Berlin encourages reflection and meditation through our own brokenness. We hope you will join in this journey of faith. For small group study, we will have two options: * Pastors Bert & Gina will co-lead a Sunday evening study from 5:45 to 7:30pm beginning Today, March 12th. * Pastor Peggy will lead a day-time study beginning on Wednesday, morning study from 10 to noon beginning March 15th. Please come tonight or sign-up at the Facebook event link for Wednesday s class. Books will be available for purchase with the class ($13). Please ask a pastor if you have any questions. Childcare will be available during the Sunday evening class.

2 WARWICK WEEKLY WMUMC.ORG Page 2 March and April Activities You probably read the book. You may have loved it or hated it. Lots of folks are seeing the movie and commenting about its value to the Christian faith. Due to the the conversation and need to process it --- Your pastors invite you to see the movie with them on Wednesday, March 15 at 4:20pm at Regal Kiln Creek Stadium 20 Cinema. We will meet in the lobby a few minutes before the start time or join us inside. If you cannot make this showing, see it sometime soon and the pastors will follow-up with on-line conversation and dialogue, to be announced next week. Remember that the movie is PG-13 and has some mature themes. Please view a trailer and information before taking youth. ONE GUEST - this Easter We Love New Peeps! Jesus loves people. We need you to carry his mission this Easter! Begin now to pray about and work on who you will invite for Easter services, one of the easiest times to get someone to come to church with you. Our pastors are being led to push you to reach others for Jesus. This One Guest Campaign is part of it. You are called to make other disciples. Let s do some of that work together this Easter season! Isn t sharing Easter joy what the faith is about? Enjoy some the blessing of new peeps, as we encounter the joy of Resurrection Restoration in Easter 2017! Easter service information is located on page 6. Red Bird Mission Fundraiser: Today you will have the opportunity to buy coffee to help support our Red Bird Mission team and help reduce costs for team members. Youth team members will be taking orders this Sunday after the services and during Sunday School. They will also have information for you to share with friends, co-workers, neighbors and family to help sell more. Orders will be in-house on March 26th. An assortment of different coffee flavors will be available per the 12oz bag or K-cups. Visit our Facebook page to learn more about this or contact Kerry Blazek at kerryblazek@gmail.com. Friday Yoga Classes: Yoga classes continue through May on Friday evenings at 6pm in the Celebration Center. All are welcome, no pre-registration required. The cost is $10 per class or $60 for 10 classes. New 10-class session starting soon. If you have any questions, you may call Karen Minetree at Cookie Walk and Bazaar Prep: Did you know it takes all year to prepare for our annual Cookie Walk and Craft Bazaar? Every 3rd Tuesday of the month until September (September they begin meeting weekly until the event), the craft ladies meet in the Fellowship Hall beginning at 9:30am to work on the craft items for the bazaar in December. All are invited to help, no craft skills are required, and there is a job for everyone. Bring a dish to share when we break for lunch. Supplies needed: sea glass, pickle forks, buttons, magnolia pods, small artificial birds. Feel free to contact Sharon Blake at vtblake@cox.net or Marsha Six at msixva@aol.com or with any questions or if you have craft donations they may be able to use. Next craft day is Tuesday, March 21st Lenten Offering: We rise by lifting others. (Robert Ingersoll) Join us in this work as a church family this Lenten season. Our Lenten/Easter Offering Focus this year is Rise Against Hunger (formerly Stop Hunger Now). Rise Against Hunger is the international hunger relief organization founded from United Methodism that we have previously supported in our meal packaging events, like the one we just hosted in January For merely 29 cents per nutritious serving, food can be provided to those in greatest need of nutrition on our planet. Did you know that million people in the world don t get the food they need to live a healthy life? (2016 FAO Stats) Let s make a difference in this number together as we continue faithful ministry to those needing basic food. Our Serve Team hopes to package meals at least once more in Your donations during Lent and Easter will help us feed the hungry in Jesus name. Thanks for those who have already given. To learn more about Rise Against Hunger go to: To learn about our meal packing ministry, speak to one of the pastors, or our serve team leader, Steve Elder at: eldersteve@msn.com. Let s rise this season in Jesus name! Amount Donated As Of 3/6/17 $877.11

3 WARWICK WEEKLY WMUMC.ORG Page 3 Children and Youth Activites... Children & Youth Fellowship Groups.... Note to parents: JAM time, M&M s and Youth meet from 5:45pm to 7:30pm. There are occasional exceptions and those will be posted in the Warwick Weekly. Parents drop children to the specified room location and pick up there, too. The JAM (Jesus And Me) Time Kids (pre-k) will meet in room 28. Contact Christi Girvin at or Bonnie Turner at for more information. The M&Ms (Magnanimous and Mindful) (children 1st to 5th grade) will gather in the Fellowship Hall. Contact Sharon Ellis at for more information. The M&Ms are learning about the Lord s Prayer this year. The Youth gather in the Youth Room. We welcome all youth grades 6 through grade 12. Contact John Evans at youthweb@wmumc.org or cell/text. Pick up brochures on the welcome stands in the Narthex and Gathering Area to learn more about these programs. A snack supper is provided free of charge for all age groups. Parents can assist with meal preparations, so please see a leader for more information on how to help. Easter Egg Hunt - Fun for All! The day before Easter, Saturday, April 15, 10am noon. For all children, toddlers to 5th grade (and the youth are welcome to volunteer). There will be crafts, decorating cookies and hunting for hidden eggs. Parents can enjoy coffee and refreshments while waiting for their children. Mark your calendar now. Fun for Kids in Sunday School: All kids Pre-K to Grade 5 are invited to our Celebration Center on Sunday mornings at 10:10am for Sunday School opening. Kids gather there for music and video fun, and then go to their age level classrooms with their own teacher. Each month the kids are studying a new Bible verse. Children also collect Bible Bucks for different assignments, tasks and positive behavior each Sunday. Every third Sunday is Sunday Funday. Please encourage your child to invite friends. Feel free to speak to any Sunday School leader if you have any questions. Hero Central 2017 Vacation Bible School is planned for June 25 (Kick-Off event) thru June 29. Registration will be available soon for kids K through 5th grade. Youth are invited to volunteer. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Bonnie ( ) or Sharon ( ). New faces are always welcome. Easter Photo Booth Come to the Warwick Memorial Photo Spot and strike a serious pose or use some available props for some fun pictures! Who: Everyone welcome...bring a friend! Where: In the Celebration Center hallway When: Any time on Easter Sunday morning, April 16th No charge for precious memories from Easter 2017! Our infant and toddler nurseries (Room 25 and 26) are open during worship, Sunday School, and many scheduled events. We offer professionally trained staff for children birth through age 4. Please ask a greeter, usher or pastor for directions to the nursery. Please do not use the nursery if your child is sick or running a fever, in consideration of the other children and families. Childcare is provided as part of our ministry and there is no fee.

4 WARWICK WEEKLY WMUMC.ORG Page 4 Growth Opportunities & Resources... United Methodist Men: UMM will have their dinner and meeting on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, at 6:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Brothers of Christ men are invited to join for dinner and the program. Michael Langrehr will do a presentation on Prison Ministry. If you plan to attend, call Gene Osborne at (H) or (C) so we can have plenty of food prepared. Senior Fellowship Book Club: Join us Thursday, March 16th - 12:30 at TRAVINIA for lunch (next to Paragon Theater in City Center), to discuss "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly... This is the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. These four women participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. This book will open our eyes to a part of history that most do not realize existed. Where: TRAVINIA When: March 16 at 12:30pm PLEASE call Ginny Spangler to register The Vine Worship Service will meet on Wednesday, March 22nd, beginning at 5:30pm in the sanctuary for our third gathering the year. This month s meal is sponsored by the Family Faith Sunday School class. We will begin with our worship service, then move into the Fellowship Hall for dinner and fellowship. Around 7pm we will break for small group gatherings and this month we will focus on the current sermon series Restored - Finding Redemption in Our Mess which explores the ways of God s love to clean up the messes we have in our lives. All are welcome. Please remember to sign up on our website ( org) via The Vine banner link or in your Sunday School class so we can get an accurate headcount for meal planning. See you there. LAST WEEK S NUMBERS... Attendance 3/5/17 8:30am :00am :15am - 79 Total Worship Attendance: 261 Sunday School Attendance: 140 Wednesday Morning Prayers Now Online with Pastor Bert at 7am: Our Wednesday morning prayer group is now on-line and reaches an average of more than 300 viewers each week. You can participate by going to our Facebook page on Wednesday mornings, or you can watch later. Pastor Bert leads a devotional time of prayer and resourcing in the spiritual life. The live function allows you to interact with others in real time. If you cannot join live at 7am, you can view the recorded version at via our Facebook page at your convenience. If you have questions about viewing this resource, please contact the church office. Lay Servant Academy and On-Line Training: There are various on-line Lay Servant training options that begin this month and continue through the year. For information on classes and schedule visit Lay Servant Academy is scheduled for March 31st through April 2. To learn more about Lay Servant Academy and to register visit by the March 14 deadline. For carpooling, contact Carlos Liceaga at carlosliceaga@cox.net or Bishop s Convocation on Prayer: Saturday, April 1, 2017 at Trinity UMC in Richmond. The plenary speaker will be Rev. Juanita Rasmus who is a pastor, Spiritual Director and a contemplative with a passion for outreach to our world s most impoverished citizens. Juanita co-pastors St. John s UMC located in downtown Houston, Texas, with her husband, Rudy. Beginning with 9 existing members in 1992, over 9,000 people are now a part of the St. John s family, making it one of the most culturally diverse congregations in the country. Juanita will be the plenary speaker during the convocation on Prayer and there will be also be small group learning opportunities in the areas of prayer and Wesleyan spiritual disciplines. Juanita will also present a workshop on God, How Would You Have us to Pray? Spanish translation will also be provided for the plenary session and there will be a workshop called The Power of Prayer in Spanish. Both Laity and Clergy are invited to attend, cost is just $10 and includes lunch. Deadline to register is March 27th, contact MarcBrown@vaumc.org Look at that Mess in the Sanctuary: For the Season of Lent, our worship focus is based on Tom Berlin s book Restored: Finding Redemption in Our Mess. As part of this, the sanctuary Altar display for the season will focus on the powerful work of God s cleaning up our messes. The display includes items offered by folks to represent their personal messes. Please also notice the placement of the cross in the middle of it all. Over the season of Lent, take time to notice the transformation that will happen.

5 WARWICK WEEKLY WMUMC.ORG Page 5 Mission and Serve Opportunities... Ushers Needed for 11:15am Services: We have a need for additional ushers for our 11:15am usher team. Please contact Gene Osborne at if you are interested or would like to learn more. Hands Across the City Upcoming Events: Join us on Saturday, April 8th beginning at 10am to visit Courthouse Green to canvass the community for our work day on June 3rd. We will meet at the Celebration Center to be given supplies and maps of the area. We will work the community until aproximately 12 noon. This is something everyone can do, so please visit our website and sign up to volunteer today. More details on the work day, June 3rd, will be available soon, but you can still sign up. To learn more about our Hands Across the City mission project at Courthouse Green, please contact Cheryl Morales at cherylmorales2015@gmail. com Fieldstone UMC program Project SPY (Summer Project Youth) is seeking interns for summer 2017: There are several positions available including worship and programming, food service and construction. Project SPY takes place at Fieldstone UMC in Christiansburg, VA. Summer staff members are expected to live at Fieldstone for the summer. Each intern is paid each week for a total of $3,000 for the summer. For more information or to submit an application, contact Erin Johnson at fieldstoneumc@gmail.com or Mentors needed for 2017 summer All God s Children camps: There are three opportunities this year to serve: June at Camp Chanco on the James, June at Camp Overlook and July 30-Aug. 4 at Occohannock on the Bay. Visit All God s Children page on the conference website ( for more information including a mentor and camper flyer. Lori Smith, camp director, at lttlelori@gmail.com with any questions. Churchwide Clean-up/Workday When: Saturday, April 1-9am - 2pm (lunch provided) Where: At the Church, of course! All members of WMUMC are invited to join together to help fix-up, clean up, and beautify our church. Work that needs to be done will be on checklists and supplies will be furnished, so everyone is encouraged to lend a hand! We have a very large building, with lots of little jobs Inside and Outside we need your help! Please let us know we can count on you even if you can only help for a little while! There are sign-ups in the adult Sunday School Classes and in the hallways near the Sanctuary and Celebration Center. Please put a check after your name if you will have lunch with us. Thank you for your gift of time and effort for your church! Hotdogs and Homework Mission Continues at Courthouse Green: You can sign up now to volunteer to help our neighborhood kids at Courthouse Green. This only requires the ability to read and a warm heart. You get the blessing of being involved as a caring adult in kids lives just by volunteering a couple hours a week. You are invited to sign up for any Mondays that work with your schedule (visit the website to see the Mondays we meet, no school Mondays we do not meet). We meet from 3:45pm at the Courthouse Green HOA office and are finished by 5:30pm. We need at least two people each week to ensure we are compliant with our child protection policy. The kids do not always have homework so we use skills building worksheets and have several younger kids who enjoy having someone sit with them and help them do the worksheets that s something anyone can do. Visit our website/facebook to learn more and sign up for once, or once a month, to help change the life of a child right here in Denbigh. For more information, contact Pastor Peggy at pastorpeggy@wmumc.org. Easter Cards & Gifts to Active & Deployed Military: Easter is around the corner, so let s not forget our military families. Please donate stationary, wipes, beef jerky, trailmix, sunflower mix, etc. No chocolate please! Collection ends April 2nd. Look for the Easter box and please sign the Easter cards in the hallway by the Fellowship Hall. Thank you. Contact Sandra Allen at or the church office at warwick.memorial@wmumc.org and information will be given to Sandra. Thank You to all the volunteers that offered love and hospitality to our recent PORT guests and to Jim King for his dedicated leadership in this ministry.

6 WARWICK WEEKLY WMUMC.ORG Page 6 Expand your Spirit Through Prayer... Morning Prayer: Loving God, you have given me the gift of this new day, and you send me out to live it fully and well. Help me to be attentive to your direction and leading. If you should call me to go in some direction, give me courage to try this new thing. If you present me with a mysterious truth or grace, help me to understand, or to seek understanding, with a sense of wonder and faith. Whatever this day may hold, I trust that you will keep me in all my comings and goings. In your Son s name, I pray. Amen. Evening Prayer: Gracious God, as the evening comes and the light fades, I look for you even in the shadows. Your love and protection stay with me through the night hours, and I rest in your promises. For the day as it has been, I give you thanks. For the gift of rest, I offer a hymn of praise. You love me and the whole world so greatly that you offer us salvation. After a night of rest, bring me into the light of a new day. In gratitude, I pray in Jesus name. Amen. A Note About Congregational Care: If you are hospitalized, planning surgery, or have become ill, please contact the church office at or by ing warwick.memorial@wmumc.org. If you have an urgent situation, please call or text our care line at (757) If you are going to the hospital, please let us know the date, time, and hospital where you will be receiving care. Due to HIPAA regulations, the hospital will not automatically inform the church of your hospitalization. Please pray for those at home, in the hospital or care facility: Fran Shaffer (York Convalescent Center), Jane Guthrie (St. Francis), Harry Fisher (The Newport), Kay Fippinger, Ginny Masters, Anne Greene, Jane Goetz, Chris Ployd, Beverly Mayeaux, Kathy Young, Ruth McGhee, Pat Hodges, Julia Frank, Edryn Long, Mike Clevenger, Sharon Blake, Steve Crossett, Marguerite Proffitt (cards can be sent to 4284 Stevens Drive, Carrsville, VA 23315), Phyllis Arbogast, Lynn Davenport, Barry and Kristen Ferguson, Stephanie Hopson, Ed Haverly, Florence Nealy, Colleen Sweet, Joy Robinson, Debbie Beamer, Cindy Skaggs, Rebekah McAuley, Ruth Ritenour and family, plus those we cannot list at this time, please keep them in your prayers. Deployed Armed Forces: Mel Hofler (in Korea), Dawn Sanderson (Kuwait), Bryan Rose (Kuwait), Brian Budlove (Japan), Nate Jones (Mississippi and then Cuba) Join us for Holy Week: Maundy Thursday, April 14th at 7:30pm in the Sanctuary Good Friday, April 15th at 7:30pm in the Celebration Center, combined performance with our Living Word Drama Team and Praise and Chancel Choirs will present In My Place - Remembering Christ s Sacrifice of Love Easter Egg Hunt, April 16th beginning at 10am See page 3 for details Easter Sunday, April 16th 6:30am Sonrise Service, hosted by our Youth Fellowship on the front lawn of the church. Followed by our Sonrise breakfast. 8:30am Sanctuary Service 9:00am Lampstand Service 11:15am Sanctuary Service Your Guide to the Latest at WMUMC... Today 8:30am Sanctuary Worship 9am Lampstand Worship 10:10am Sunday School 10:10am Covenant Study With Pastor Peggy (Rm 20) 11:15am Sanctuary Service 3pm Pastors Preaching at the Chesapeake 5pm Youth Choir 5:30pm AA (Rm 20) 5:45pm Lenten Study (Rm 10) 5:45pm Financial Peace University (Rm 27) 5:45pm Children s Fellowship 5:45pm JAM Kids 5:45pm Youth Fellowship 8pm AA (Rm 20) Monday am PAA (Rm 28) 3:45pm Hotdogs and Homework 5pm Court of Honor (CC) 6:30pm Scouts 7:30pm Praise Choir Rehearsal Tuesday am PAA (Rm 28) 12pm Deadline for Warwick Weekly submissions 6pm United Methodist Men/Brothers of Christ (FH) 7pm Endowment Committee Mtg (Rm 10) 7:30pm Gloria Dei Ringers Rehearsal Wednesday am Morning Prayer (Facebook Live) 10am Lenten Study (Rm 27) 4:15pm Cherub Choir 4:45pm Junior Choir 7:30pm Chancel Choir Rehearsal 7pm Lampstand Band Rehearsal (CC) 8pm Spanish AA (Rm 20) Thursday am PAA (Rm 28) 7pm SPRC Team Mtg (Rm 27) Friday pm Yoga Class (CC) 6:30pm Pack 6 Mtg (Rm 16) Blue and Gold Banquet Set-up (CC) Saturday pm Blue and Gold Banquet (CC) 6pm AA (Rm 20) For complete calendar please visit the website at wmumc.org and contact Jim King at facility@wmumc.org for room availability and reservations. Deadline for Warwick Weekly submissions is Tuesday at 12 noon Warwick Memorial United Methodist Church Senior Co-Pastors: Rev. Bert Cloud & Rev. Gina Anderson-Cloud Associate Pastor: Rev. Peggy Langille 38 Hoopes Road Newport News, VA WMUMC.org