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

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1 Warwick Weekly Upward season is quickly approaching, see page 3 for information on registration and page 5 on how to volunteer. 10/2/16 CALLED TO MAKE DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD Children s Sabbath - One Combined Service Next Week: You are invited to a wonderful time as our church gathers for a unified worship service of Children s Sabbath Sunday, October 9th at 11:15am in our Celebration Center. (There will be no 8:30am or 9am services.) Sunday School will be at 10:10am as usual. This is a service you do not want to miss! It is also a great time to invite a friend to be a part of this service with you! What s unique about this service? * Our children will be the key voices of God s message for the day as we celebrate and join in Jesus way of welcoming and bringing the little ones to the center and hearing our cherub and junior choirs sing! * Our District Superintendant, Rev. Seonyoung Kim, will be preaching. * Our Samaritan s Purse shoebox program will kick-off. Following the service, we will have a Soup and Sandwich luncheon in the Fellowship Hall sponsored by our Children s Fellowship M&M s with proceeds going to benefit Relay for Life s effort to end cancer. Plan to stay for a time of fellowship. This is a great Sunday to invite a friend. Sound different? Sound interesting? It will be! Our children are always a blessing. Come support them and those that lead then next Sunday at 11:15am. First Time for Rev. Kim to Preach at WMUMC - Next Sunday: We are excited to welcome our DS next week as our preacher for Children s Sabbath, Rev. Seonyoung Kim. Kim is a native of South Korea and graduated from Sookmyung Women s University in Seoul, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Physics. She came to the United States in 1987 to study Computer Science at the University Rev. Seonyoung Kim of Iowa. During her study toward a Ph.D., she was called into Christian ministry and moved to Washington, D.C. for seminary education at Wesley Theological Seminary, where she received a Master of Divinity. She was ordained Deacon in 1999 and Elder in Rev. Kim was the first Korean-American woman ordained in the Virginia Conference and VA s first Korean-American female district superintendent. Today is World Communion Sunday: One of six churchwide Special Sundays with offerings of The United Methodist Church, World Communion Sunday calls the church to reach out to all people and model diversity among God s children. The special offering provides World Communion Scholarships, the Ethnic Scholarship Program and the Ethnic In-Service Training Program. When you give generously on World Communion Sunday, you equip gifted, qualified students from around the globe to become the world changers God created them to be. Inside your Warwick Weekly you will find an offering envelope Ripple Effect Today Announces A Call to Prayer: Today you are being given a magnet to post somewhere prominently to remind you to pray about the ways you are being called to financially support God s work through our church in the upcoming 2017 year. God does exciting and transforming things through our church daily. Through your generosity, God s Word is shared, holy worship blesses hungry hearts, those living on the margins are welcomed and nourished, and those in poverty are offered hope and so much more. Also, today you will receive an from our church stewardship team asking for feedback as our fall pledge/ stewardship campaign resources are being developed. Please look for that message and respond to the survey, so that we can do our best to provide an excellent time of stewardship emphasis this fall. (Paper copies will also be available after today in the church office.) We are excited about those who started our new Bible-based studies last week. If you are still interested in getting into one of the classes, please talk to a pastor or contact the church office.

2 WARWICK WEEKLY WMUMC.ORG Page 2 Growth Opportunities... The Wesleyan Class begins studying 12 lessons from Max Lucado s book titled, James starting today. This study of the Bible will tell us that it is not works that save a Christian, but that works are the mark of a Christian. In James book of logic, it only makes sense that we who have been given much should give much. We invite and welcome anyone who is interested in learning about the life of a Christian from the point of view in the Book of James. It will broaden their understanding of the New Testament. Please join us Sunday mornings in room 21 at 10:10 a.m. Election Night Communion Service: Join us on November 8th at 7:30pm in the Sanctuary for a communion service with time for prayer for our country and its future. Nursery will be availalbe. United Methodist Women Circles: The UMW Circle groups meet September to May: * Mary Freeman Circle meets first Monday of the month (will meet in Room 20 * Dana Tyson/Ardelle Lett Circle meets 1st Tuesday of the month (will meet 10:30am in Room 10) * Miriam Gruber Circle meets 1st Wednesday of the month (will meet 10/5 at 7pm in a members home) *Barbara Liddick Circle mets 1st Thursday of the month (will meet 7:30pm in the Fellowship Hall) To learn more about the UMW Circles, contact Marisol Liceaga at mpliceaga@gmail.com or United Methodist Men and Brothers of Christ Combined Meeting: The UMM and Brothers of Christ are doing a combined meeting on Tuesday, Oct 11th. We will eat at 6pm while listening to a presentation on Prison Ministry by Michael Langrehr. We will enjoy an evening together which will also include a Bible study titled Do You See Anything? Please invite all men to join us in the Fellowship Hall. Questions, call Gerry at and RSVP to Gene at to be sure there will be plenty of food. Please Pray for Our 2016 Confirmation Class Our annual Confirmation Class is underway with 13 young people engaging what it means to be a follower of Jesus, as well as learning about United Methodism. The confirmands have been matched with adult mentors to help support their journey and are spending time with our three pastors each week in study. Last evening, they made the annual visit to St. Jerome s Catholic Church to spark conversation about the difference between Protestantism and the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Please join in prayer for this group and their leaders. Confirmation Sunday is planned for October 23rd. LAST WEEK S NUMBERS... Attendance 9/25/16 8:30am :00am :15am - 92 Total Worship Attendance: 245 Sunday School Attendance: 144 The Vine - Next Gathering will be October 12 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in Me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:5 The Vine is a new worship and fellowship opportunity which will be offered once each month to connect us more closely to each other and to God. We gather at 5:30pm to worship in the Sanctuary with Holy Communion. Afterwards, everyone is invited to enjoy a meal together and a time of fellowship at 6:15pm-ish. Then all may join small groups led by the pastors for adults, youth and children from 7pm to 8pm. Come and join us for The Vine s second gathering beginning at 5:30pm in the Sanctuary. This month s theme focuses on Maintaining a Healthy Body with the scripture reference of Romans 12:1-2. Visit our webiste to learn more. Please sign up on the website, bulletin boards in gathering area or Narthex or in your Sunday School class (just sign up once) so we know how much food to prepare. Join Us for Mid-Week Morning Prayer: Regular prayer is vitally important to your soul and joining with others makes it even better. Be a part of this life-shaping practice on Wednesday mornings at 7 am in our library. It won t be too long, and you should be done with plenty of time to make it to work. Mark your calendar to join us Wednesday mornings. Photo Opportunity for Upcoming New Church Directory as well as friends and family: You will have the opportunity to invite friends and family to one of five scheduled portrait session dates with Life Touch. Everyone will be able to receive 1 free 8x10 portrait and the ability to purchase additional images. We have times scheduled on November 10th, 11th and 12th and November 21st and 22nd. Visit our website to sign up, call the church office, or you can sign up on a sign up sheet next Sunday before and after the Children s Sabbath service. Look for Trish Ployd or Marsha Six in the Gathering Area. New directories will be avaialable early next year.

3 WARWICK WEEKLY WMUMC.ORG Page 3 Upward Basketball and Cheerleading Registration: WMUMC sponsors this Christian basketball league for children K to 5th grade and cheerleading for children K to 8th grade. This is a wonderful opportunity for children and adults in the community. Each player will grow spiritually, physically, mentally, and socially as they develop character, an understanding of sportsmanship and respect for authority that will help them on and off the court. Upcoming Registrations Dates and Times Are: 11/11 at 5pm-6:45pm 10/15 at 12pm-2pm. All registrations are in the Celebration Center. See Page 5 for volunteer opportunities. 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. Encourage your child to invite friends. Feel free to speak to any Sunday School leader if you have any questions. Children and Youth Fellowship Groups Have Resumed for Fall! Pre-K, Children s and Youth Fellowship group meetings begin at 5:45pm. 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&M s (Magnanimous and Mindful) (children 1st to 5th grade) will gather in the Fellowship Hall. Contact Sharon Ellis at for more information. The M&M s will be learning about the Lord s Prayer this year. The Youth gather in the Youth Room. We welcome all youth grades 6 through grade 12. Activities planned so far include a middle school retreat trip in November and a high school retreat trip in December. Please support your Youth group! 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. Coloring page for your kids to enjoy. 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 Things of Interest and Community Events... Sanctuary Organ Dedication & Recital: Join us November 6th beginning at 3:30pm in the Sanctuary for a dedication service and recital on our new organ. An Italian dessert reception will follow in the Fellowship Hall. More detail to come. Red Cross Blood Drive: Just a reminder, our church is going to be hosting another Blood Drive through the American Red Cross in January More details to follow. Drama Performance: Our very own Living Word Drama Ministry will be presenting Arsenic and Old Lace written by Joseph Kesselring, October 28th at 7:30pm and October 29th at 7:30pm with a finale on October30th at 2pm. Stay tuned for more details. Mark Your Calendars: What: Health Fair and Fall Festival When: November 5th Health Fair begins at 3pm and Fall Festival begins at 4pm Where: Celebration Center, Parking Lot and Fellowship Hall Are You Interested in Yoga? We have the opportunity to provide Christian Yoga Classes here at WMUMC! It will run for 10 week sessions and we are looking at Friday evenings from 6-7 pm. The cost will be $60 for all ten weeks or $10 per class if you pay for one class at a time. If you are interested, please sign up on the HeaRT bulletin board (located outside the Fellowship Hall). Location to be determined and more definite details to follow. If you have any questions, you may call Karen Minetree at His Glory CD s Available for Sale for a cost of $15. The cds will be available from Lynn Stockberger on Sundays and during the week, you can pick one up in the church office. Make checks payable to Warwick Memorial UMC with a note in the memo line 4 His Glory. Picture books are also available starting at $20 - see Carol Lett for more details. The HeaRT Ministry is hosting the third annual Health Fair from 3pm to 5pm in the Fellowship Hall. Activities will include: Blood pressure checks Senior Citizen health and resources NN Police Dept., Fire Dept., & Sheriff s Office Walgreens will be offering flu shots with insurance card (otherwise a small charge), and other health information will be available Health education information Medication information Hearing checks Eye exams, glasses adjustments & repairs Posture & balance assessment Door prizes, and Much Much More.... But Wait... There s More... Craft Workshops Every Tuesday! The crafters will meet every Tuesday from now until the Cookie Walk and Bazaar. All are welcome to join us - we begin in the Fellowship Hall at 9:30 and finish up about 2:30, with lunch at noon (bring a dish to share). We are looking for strings of 35 Christmas lights and would appreciate donations of any homemade jams, jellies, pickles, etc. All Saints Sunday: On All Saints Sunday, November 6th, we will acknowledge our loved ones who have passed away this past year. If you have lost a loved one in the past year, please contact the office with their name and date of passing so we can recognize them during our worship services. Our annual Fall Festival begins at 4pm with games and projects for the children, photo booth, our famous Cake Walk and Chili Cook-off. Following dinner, we will have our first ever talent night. Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks. Beginning next week, please sign up at the table outside the Fellowship Hall to participate in the Cake Walk and Chili Cook-off competition (everyone votes for their favorite chili and there are prizes for the winners), bake a cake or to help with the games (we need adult assistants so the kids can have fun!) Come join us for these informative and fun events and bring a friend or two or three!

5 WARWICK WEEKLY WMUMC.ORG Page 5 Mission and Serve Opportunities... Care Ministry Offers Opportunity to Serve: Pastor Bert and the WMUMC Care Team has developed a new ministry that will train and guide lay people to spiritually care for people in our church and community. Trained lay volunteers, known as Congregational and Community Care Ministers (C3s), will use their gifts and graces to be a partner in ministry with the clergy and staff. Expanding, but not replacing the Pastors, C3s may do things like make personal visits, telephone persons in need of contact, meet one-on-one with persons in need of a listening ear for prayer and encouragement, and encourage persons in need. C3s are trained to develop active listening skills and theologically appropriate responses, as well as be given Scripture suggestions for various situations. To learn more, come to one of the information sessions: 10/9/16 at 7 and 7:30 pm in room 10 and 11/3/16 at 7:30 pm in room 27. Training will be two Saturdays, one in November and the other in January. Please pray for this ministry and consider how you might be called by God to use your gifts. Please contact Pastor Bert with questions or for more information - pastorbert@wmumc.org. Honduras Medical Mission Team Needs More Members: Five more medical and non-medical folks are needed to complete a Friends of Barnabas Foundation ( member team going to Honduras February 11-19, Prayerfully consider becoming a member of this group, sponsored by Warwick Memorial UMC and The Brandermill Church in Richmond, as it provides medical, dental, and eye care to five mountain villages. God may be calling you to this very mission. The experience is both rewarding and life changing. Youth in High School can go with a parent or guardian. If unable to go, you may help by making a donation towards medical supply costs or a scholarship to enable someone else join the team. Your contributions made out to Warwick Memorial UMC with Honduras on the memo line will be greatly appreciated along with your prayers. For more information or to volunteer, please contact co-leader Carlos Liceaga at or carlosliceaga@cox.net. Hotdogs and Homework - Hands Across the City - Volunteer in Mission! Hotdogs and Homework is being held Mondays from 4:30pm-6pm at the Courthouse Green HOA office (volunteers needed from 4pm to just after 6pm). We serve a light meal (usually hotdogs) and then help the kids with their homework. We have opened the program up to children of all ages who have been active in the summer lunch program. Despite the fact that we are offering homework help at an elementary, middle and high school level, there is no need to be an expert. Please do not be intimidated! If you want to come and just help serve the hotdogs that will be fine, but know that there are a number of younger children who will likely just need help reading. To volunteer, register on our website ( org), call the church office ( ) or Pastor Peggy (pastorpeggy@wmumc.org). Upward Volunteers Needed: Registration Volunteers Needed: Volunteers to help with all the registration dates for evaluations and sizing for basketball players and sizing and orientation for the cheerleaders. Please contact Brenna Watkins at bswusaf@yahoo.com or Help with one registration or help with all, but please help! Volunteer Referree s Needed: Volunteer to referee the games. Games begin in January and we need volunteers to referee. Even if you have no experience, please contact Shaun Kelley to learn more and see how you can help with this wonderful ministry. Contact Shaun at or kelleyshaun@yahoo.com Christmas in September: Our annual Christmas Child campaign will officially begin next Sunday, but it s never too early to start collecting small gifts for our shoeboxes, which will bring happiness to impoverished children around the world. Watch for additional information and materials on upcoming Sundays! Our 2015 Honduras Medical Mission Team The Youth Program Continues to Request Volunteer Support: Over the past 3 years, our youth program has grown from 4 regular youth to sometimes numbers in the 30 s for grades 6 to 12. As many of you know, Dawn Sanderson, who was a huge asset to helping with our middle school youth, was recently deployed with The Air Force. John Evans is doing an excellent job with the help of Steve Crossett and some others. However, helpers are still needed for this year. Please consider where you might help this program that God has grown and is continuing to bless. Invite cards were recently made available from the youth in all Sunday school rooms. Pick up one today or contact John Evans, our youth director, for information or to volunteer at: john_evans@verizon.net. Extra Help Needed for Preschool and Elementary Sunday Programs: What a joy it is to have little ones and elementary children in God s house on Sunday evenings excited and ready to learn and grow in their faith. Our faithful leaders do an excellent job with programming and special events for our children. However, some Sunday evenings, they simply need extra hands for crafts and activities to help in both age groups. If you are interested in helping weekly or just some Sundays, please contact Sharon Ellis, our children s ministry coordinator at: cutygrgal@cox.net. A church with children growing in faith is a treasure. Consider helping cultivate that gift!

6 WARWICK WEEKLY WMUMC.ORG Page 6 Expand your Spirit Through Prayer... Morning Prayer: Silent sunrise sanctuary a dome of shelter for the birth of day. Birds and bugs begin an opposite of lullaby proclaiming life anew. We wake in wonder discerning between dream and daylight a mystery ends, another begins. Sunshine scatters shadows a heathery view melting gray morning mist. Never ceasing, never ending God s mercies new each morning. Amen. Evening Prayer: Dusk to dark, to full moon brightness, blue night sky, speckling of stars and planets, white lights forever patterned, read and known but you knew them first and through them allowed yourself to become known. Thank You! Praise You and Goodnight! 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 (Mennowood), Jane Guthrie (St. Francis), Beth Welch, Ginny Masters, Sonny Wood, Bob Warthan, Marguerite Proffitt, Jane Goetz, Chris Ployd, Jewel Stalnaker, Beverly Mayeaux, Kathy Young, Ruth McGhee, Pat Hodges, Eugene Wingo, Jim Beran, Steve Crossett, Kay Packard, Mike Clevenger, Norma Coleman, Carol Lett, Samantha Fries, Lynn Bean, Jane Shaffer, Marti Millner, Christopher Luke, Fred Townsend, Donald Hines, Page Williams, Marisol Liceaga, Dorris Comer Deployed Armed Forces: Mel Hofler (in Korea), Dawn Sanderson (Kuwait) Annual Charge Conference is Planned for Monday, Oct. 24th. We will gather with at Christ United Methodist Church at 7pm to have a joint conference with Christ UMC and Asbury UMC. All members are invited to participate in this time of celebration and looking to our next ministry year. Those elected to our leadership team and our annual conference delegates form the voting body for a charge conference. If you have questions about charge conference, please speak with a member of our leadership team. Your Guide to the Latest at WMUMC.. Today 8:30am Sanctuary Service 9:00am The Lampstand Service (CC) 10:10am Sunday School 10:10am Covenant Bible Study (Rm 20) 11:15am Sanctuary Service 2pm Drama Rehearsal (CC) 2pm Warwick Forest Service 5pm Youth Choir Rehearsals 5:30pm AA (Rm 20) 5:45pm Financial Peace University (Rm 27) 5:45pm Jam Time Kids (Rm 28) 5:45pm M&M s (FH) 5:45pm Youth (Youth Room) 5:45pm Sermon Series Study Group (Rm 10) 8pm AA (Rm 20) Monday am PAA (Rm 27) 4pm Hotdogs and Homework (CHG) 6:30pm Scouts 7pm Mary Freeman Circle (Rm 20) 7:30pm Praise Choir Tuesday am PAA (Rm 27) 9:30 Craft Workshop (FH) 10:30 Dayna Tyson/Ardelle Lett Circle (Rm 10) 12pm Deadline for Warwick Weekly submissions 4pm Confirmation Class (Rm 27) 7pm Drama Rehearsal 7pm Brothers of Christ Bible Study (Rm 27) Wednesday am Morning Prayer (Parlor) 4:15pm Cherub Choir (Children s Sabbath Practice) 4:45pm Junior Choir (Children s Sabbath Practice) 6pm Lampstand Planning Mtg (Rm 27) 7pm Lampstand Band Rehearsal (CC) 7:30pm Chancel Choir 8pm Spanish AA (Rm 20) Thursday am PAA (Rm 27) 7pm Barbara Liddick Circle (FH) 7pm Covenant Descipleship Group Formation (Rm 27) 7pm Drama Rehearsal (CC) 7pm SPRC (library) Friday am Beth Moore Study Group (Rm 27) 2:30pm Bulletin Stuffing (Library) 6pm Youth Officers Mtg (Youth Room) 6:30 Cub Scouts Mtg. (Rm 16) Saturday 10.8 Courthouse Green Blitz Day Confirmation Class Retreat (CHG & FH) 2pm 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 We are social, so keep up to date with us and look us up: