WORTHINGTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH614-885-5365
Worthington United Methodist Church
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
600 N. High Street, Worthington, OH 43085 -- 614-885-5365
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
WUMC Weekly Update: June 14, 2010
Back by popular demand!
Enjoy a Concert on the Front Lawn this Sunday! Bring your blanket or lawn chair to the Front Lawn of WUMC, on Sunday, June 20, at 6:00 PM, and enjoy a free Summer Concert, featuring the music of Tim Berridge. Free popcorn and lemonade will be available. The concert is a nice prelude to the concert on the Village Green at 7:00. It’s good for the whole family. Bring a friend!
Overnight housing is
needed to host 45 youth
and 5 adults of The
Cardinal Chorale, part of
All-Ohio Youth Choir, for
the evening of Tuesday,
June 29. Some host
families have stepped forward already but
many more are needed! You only need to
provide a bed for the night, after their
concert here, and breakfast the next
morning. Please contact Linda Nolan at
lindanolan@hotmail.com or 614-551-4355
if you can house a youth or a few! Thank
you!!!
New Worship Schedule Begins August 1
Our new, year-round schedule will be:
Our new, year-round schedule will be:
9:30 am
Traditional Worship (& Children's Church)
10:30-11:30 am
Fellowship Time
10:40-11:25 am
Sunday School for all ages
11:30 am
Emerge Worship (& Children's Church)
We will begin this new schedule on August 1, the first Sunday of August. This schedule will allow us to return to an earlier morning Chapel Service during the summer, so in August we will have service in the Chapel at 8:30 am.
Helpers Needed for Broadmeadows
Summer Lunch Program
Please join us as WUMC members serve prepared lunches to school-aged children at the small park located at the end of Broadmeadows Blvd., June 28-July 2. Help is needed from noon to approximately 2:00 pm each weekday; Broadmeadows Blvd. is located off High Street only one mile south of our church. To volunteer or for more information, please contact Cathy Taylor at dtaylo9@columbus.rr.com or 614-889- 5030.
More…
- Join WUMC Members in praying for our church and for our fundraising efforts. Several concerned church members are meeting on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, at 6:15 am, in the Church Library, for about 15 minutes of prayer time, during the month of June. Please join us if you feel moved to do so.
- Inclusiveness Conversation Wednesday, June 30 at 7:00 pm: In our Visioning Process we agreed we want to be radically hospitable to all, becoming an open and diverse community of committed Christian servants. Groups within Worthington UMC have been discussing various forms of inclusiveness. We want to invite all to this conversation on June 30th and then move forward to find ways to welcome all God's children. Hope you can join in the conversation!
- Cardinal Chorale in Concert June 29: Come and hear the Cardinal Chorale, the Ohio State Fair's All-Ohio Youth Choir's traveling contingent, perform on TUESDAY, June 29, at 7:30 pm.
- Thank you, Marvin Gifford!!!!! As you are aware from the letter of May 26 with our budget adjustments, the position that Marvin has held will no longer be funded as of July 1st, 2010. We invite you to send cards or letters of appreciation and gratitude to Marvin. You may drop them off in the church office or send them to him at the Church and we will be certain he gets them.
- Volunteers are needed to do the work of our new Carpenter's Helping Hands Ministry and administrative support. To help, contact Jerry Knorr at 614-436-4866 or jerryknorr@gmail.com.
- The Emerge team is in need of a couple of volunteers to help run the visual projection system at the 11:00 service. Please contact Tom Strous, at tstrous@insight.rr.com, for more information.
- During this time of economic downturns, unemployment and uncertainty, if you need a confidential, caring, non-judgmental, Christian listener, please remember Stephen Ministry is there for you. Contact Judy Mayhew at 614-895-1337 or judimay59@insight.rr.com.
- Keep us in the loop! Please contact mary@worthingtonumc.org for any pastoral concerns.
- Email your prayer concern to Martha Sprout at msprout@columbus.rr.com for the prayer chain.
- Worship with us, Sundays at 9:00 & 11:00 am! Read a Daily Devotional. Church Office Summer hours are 8:00 am-5:00 pm, Monday through Thursday, 8:00 am-3:00 pm on Fridays and 8:30 am-noon on Sundays.
- Find us at 600 High Street, Worthington, OH, 43085? Visit our directions page for more information.
This Week's Committee Meetings and Happenings:
- Today the CPC Board meets at 7:00 PM, and the Staff Parish Relations Committee meets at 7:15 pm.
- On Tuesday, June 15, the Finance Committee will meet at 6:30 pm.
- On Thursday, June 17, the Fine Arts Committee meets at 10:00 am.
- On Friday, June 18, the WUMC Singles Group Movie Night is at 7:00 pm, at the Ohio Theatre.
- On Sunday, June 20, the Sunday Concert on the Lawn is at 6:00 pm. \
Parish Concerns:
- Don Justice's mother, Anna Justice-Docie, passed away on June 12. Please keep the Justice and Cuthbert families in your prayers.
- Emily Puckett and Joshua Snyder were married on June 12, in our Sanctuary. Best Wishes!
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