CENTENNIEL. (The church office will be closed on Monday, December 25, Have a Merry Christmas!

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1 B ERMUDA HUNDRED UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 2025 FLORENCE AVENUE, CHESTER, VA R EV. MIKE DETTMER, PASTOR WWW. BERMUDAHUNDREDUMC.COM BHUMCHURCH@COMCAST. NET CENTENNIEL Newsletter (The church office will be closed on Monday, December 25, Have a Merry Christmas! If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter please call (804) or us at bhumchurch@comcast.net to have your name removed. Thank you!

2 Welcome New Church Members We welcomed Marci, Wesley, Harrison and McDaniel Duke to our church on November 19. Pictured above are the Duke and Harrison families. You are invited to join us for fun, food and fellowship! The Keenagers meet at a different restaurant for lunch on the first Wednesday of each month. If you have a local restaurant that you would like to suggest for the Keenagers, contact Christine in the church office at or bhumchurch@comcast.net

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4 The Prayer Shawl Ministry will not meet until January Craft Show: A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the Crafty Ladies craft show such a success. As of this date, we have made $4,589 and money is still coming in. If there was something that you forgot to purchase, let one of the Crafty Ladies know, we do have some items left and will be happy to help you with your holiday shopping. There was extremely good support from the church and community and we are very grateful for each of you who baked, made items and purchased items. This money will be used for mission work for the church and community. Church Post Office: Again this year the church will have our Christmas card post office open for business beginning Sunday, December 3 rd through the end of December. If you have cards that you would like to send to church members, just drop them in the post office and we will make certain they get delivered. Please don't put any cards in the post office that would need a postage stamp - this is a hand delivery post office. Merry Christmas!

5 As we come to the end of 2017 I want to thank everyone who made a contribution to the various mission projects throughout the year! Without your financial and physical support this undertaking would not be possible. The Backpack program is doing very well. We help supply food for eleven children from three local elementary schools. The Crafty Ladies provide Christmas gifts for children from the three elementary schools as well. Thanks for supporting the Craft Show. The children are going to have a very merry Christmas! The CCHASM Thanksgiving Meal Program was given $1, by our church so that families had a delicious Thanksgiving meal. Thank you for your generous support. Thanks to Frank and Doris Linkous for always being generous with their time helping out at the Chesterfield Fairgrounds sorting and packing the Thanksgiving meals and their time distributing the meal kits to the families. If you are able to bring in a couple of canned goods for the St. Ann s Our Daily Bread food pantry this Christmas season it would be most appreciated! Merry Christmas, Ann McNinch Missions Don't forget our Mitten Trees! They are up and ready for decorating until December 10 th as we gather hats, scarves, socks and undies for our local schools. (Please note that there is a need for more mittens, socks, and undies!) Be sure to add these items to your shopping list. There is a Mitten Tree outside of the church office and a smaller Mitten Tree in the Fellowship Hall.

6 We finished up with our Operation Christmas Child shoebox collection on November 19, with 119 boxes delivered to the drop-off center! Three members of the youth group also volunteered at the drop-off center for a two-hour shift, helping to collect and sort shoeboxes brought to the center. On November 12, the youth participated in a shoebox packing party where they packed 70 shoeboxes. This year I was able to use the "Follow-Your-Box" labels for 74 of our shoeboxes and I can tell you that our boxes are already on their way to Swaziland (southern Africa), the Philippines, Grenada and a "hard to reach" area--this means that there is unrest or conflict in the country where those boxes are going, so they do not release the name of the country. Thanks to everyone who participated in any way with Operation Christmas Child, 119 children will receive a shoebox gift and learn that Jesus loves them! -Jessica Mathis Operation Christmas Child

7 United Methodist Women At the November meeting our program was dedicated to the World Thank Offering program of the United Methodist Women. November is the time of the year that we reach out to our members to remind them of all they have to be thankful and to encourage them to share that thankfulness throughout the year with those that have less, especially children, youth and families here and around the world. Our members will be collecting their spare change for the next 11 months in their own little "change box" so that we may contribute more next year toward our mission projects sponsored through the UMW worldwide. Our October project of assembling kits for prison inmates was accomplished and delivered to the prison chaplains for distribution. We are planning a much larger project in 2018 since there are 600 inmates that need a little gift at Christmas. As part of our Social Action work, we feel this is a mission calling that we can get more involved. The UMW Annual Advent Retreat is December 2 nd at the Newsoms UMC in Newsoms, Virginia. Our speaker for the day will be Rev. Mary Alice Colwell, our District Superintendent Rob Colwell's wife. There is a group of us planning to attend. It is a wonderful opportunity to get into the spirit of the holidays and the greatest gift of the season, the birth of Jesus Christ. Our group will be celebrating the holiday season and all our accomplishments this year with a Christmas celebration at the Forbes' home on December 18 th, 6:30 pm. If you would like to know more about this celebration, please contact either Doris Morefield or Betty Forbes. The UMW will not be meeting in January or February of 2018 and resume our monthly meetings in March. We have already started our planning for the new year and will be sharing more of these plans with you as the year begins. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy season as you enjoy the holidays with family and friends. There are lots of activities happening at the church in December and we look forward to seeing you there. Doris Morefield, President Betty Forbes was thanked by the Crafty Ladies and Men for all her hard work organizing the Craft Show.

8 United Methodist Men The Bermuda Hundred United Methodist Men met November 21 st at the River's Bend Grill. We always meet the third Tuesday in each month and all men in the church are invited to attend. We continue to work on a number of manual labor projects such as: replacing the wood fencing around the air conditioning units with vinyl fencing and repairing damage to the wall in the men's bathroom in the church. Several projects have been completed. Representatives from the Boy Scouts attended our November meeting to discuss how we can work together on projects such as their need for a larger storage area, cleanup, etc. We look forward to working with them. If you see something that needs to be done in and around the church, please don't hesitate to let a member of the UMM know. Please mark your calendars for February 13, 2018 for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper. We encourage you to invite your friends to attend. It is a great opportunity to introduce new people to our church. Tickets will not be sold but contributions will be accepted. We appreciate your support of the November 4 th pancake supper. We netted over $ to help support our many projects. We would also like to encourage you to let us know if there are needs by some of our church members who aren't feeling well or are not physically able to do manual labor around their homes. The UMM are willing to help with lawn mowing, trimming shrubs, etc. Our next meeting will be December 19 th, 6:30 pm at the River's Bend Grill. All men of the church are invited to attend and participate in our projects. We enjoy a meal together, a devotional and lots of discussion on upcoming and new projects. Without a doubt, you will enjoy the fellowship. We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting. Mark Strickler, President

9 Earn. Save. Give. November 2017 Continued Stewardship Success BHUMC, Stewardship Great progress this year BHUMC we remain 100% of our goal through November. Thank you for giving so generously and consistently. Every one of your contributions; large or small, time, money or talents they all matter! Remember to prayerfully consider your 2018 contributions and commitment. We have had such great participation, commitment and giving over the past years, we hope to keep that going. Please return your commitment cards for 2018 and help us continue giving momentum into next year. Your stewardship committee, Dave Steinbraker, Dorothy Mooney, Ann McNinch and Bill Talley V

10 December Meetings & Small Groups Update! UMYF meets on Sunday, December 10 at 4:30 pm at the church to carpool to the Walk Through Bethlehem at 1st Baptist in Hopewell. UMYF will meet at the Southpark mall movie theater at 6:30 pm on December 17. UMYF meets at 6pm in Grundy Parlor on December 3. UMYF will not meet on December 24 or 31. The Keenagers will meet at noon on Wednesday, December 6 at Cesare s Ristorante. Holiday Grief Workshop with Angie Morris: Thursday, December 7 from 10:30 am to noon in Grundy Parlor Parsonage Open House: Saturday, December 16 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm UMW Christmas Party: Monday, December 18 at 6:30 pm at the Forbes home UMM: Tuesday, December 19 at 6:30 pm at River s Bend Grill Christmas Eve Sunday: 10:00 am Worship Service, 5:00 pm Family Lessons & Carols Service, 11:00 pm Candlelight Christmas Eve Service The church office will be closed on Monday, December 25 for Christmas Day. Have a Merry Christmas! New Year s Eve Sunday: Have a Happy New Year! 10:00 am Food and Faith on the Fifth Sunday, 11:00 am Up Til Noon Potluck. The Prayer Shawl Ministry, Church Council and the Finance Committee will not meet until January. 1 Krisann Mayes 2 Amanda Scruggs Chunn, Zander Jenkins 3 Binford Sloan II, Willard Lundy, Mike Morris, Lynnette Byrd 5 Frederick Mayes, Gabriella Mirabilio 6 Joe Sloan, Will Sloan 7 Betty Forbes, Josephine Thinnes 8 Linda Gutshall 11 Marc Wilts, Paul Morgan 12 Wendy Brown 13 Jason Sage 16 Ola Wyatt, Radiley Anderson 23 Arlene Stanton 29 Chad Ritenour, Fred Proper 31 Jared Caples, Melissa Anderson

11 Sunday Servants SERVANT DECEMBER 3 Communion Sunday DECEMBER 10 DECEMBER 17 DECEMBER 24 Christmas Eve DECEMBER 31 New Year s Eve Food & Faith on the Fifth Sunday 8:30 am Usher/ Greeters Marc & Mindy Wilts TBA Deborah Shelton No 8:30 am service No 8:30 am service 11:00 am Usher/ Greeters Ann & Owens McNinch Glenn & Sidney Harrison Doris & Frank Linkous 10am: Betty & Sandy Forbes 4pm: TBA 11pm: TBA 10am: Youth Acolytes Mathew Coker & Jordan Mathis Mason & Carter Steinbraker Drew Coker & Juli Mathis 10am: Maggie Steinbraker & Savannah Talley 10am: Ethan & Illyssa Snyder 11AM Lay Readers Bill Talley, V Liz McDonough Liz McDonough 10am: Liz McDonough 10am: Helen Collie Children s Church UMYF Meals Sandy & Betty Forbes & Margaret Reynolds Dinner: Ann Coker Volunteer: TBA Sandy & Betty Forbes & Margaret Reynolds UMYF meet at 4:30pm to carpool to the Walk Through Bethlehem) TBA & Kailey Craddock UMYF meet at 6:30pm at the Southpark Mall movie theater 10am: Sandy Forbes & Kailey Craddock No UMYF Christmas Break 10am: Sandy Forbes & Kailey Craddock No UMYF Christmas Break Altar Guild for December: Doris & Frank Linkous, Doris & Stuart Morefield Counting Team for December: Fred Proper, Sherry Strosnider & Leslie Peppers If you cannot serve on your assigned Sunday, please call your contact as soon as possible: 8:30 AM Ushers/Greeters: Mindy Wilts at :00 AM Ushers/Greeters: Sandy Forbes at Acolytes: Meredith Steinbraker at Altar Guild: Nancy Byrd at

12 2017 Advent & Christmas Schedule Sunday Worship in December: Coming Home December 3 Come Down Home December 10 Home Is Where We Meet December 17 Joy Is Our True Home - Christmas Eve, December 24-10AM God Makes This World a Home 11PM A Manger for the World December 31 Going Home Again Parsonage Open House Saturday, December 16 2PM 5PM Christmas Eve Sunday, December 24 Combined Worship Service 10:00 AM Family Lessons & Carols Service 5:00 PM Candlelight Christmas Eve Service 11:00 PM New Year s Eve Sunday, December 31 Food & Faith on the Fifth Sunday 10:00 AM Up Til Noon Meal 11:00 AM