BUMC - Event Information


Hello Friends of Bellbrook United Methodist Church mailto:office@bellbrookumc.org Please take a moment to review these brief important announcements. Visit the church website for last minute schedule changes, and links to important information: www.bellbrookumc.org. Pastor Heck is doing a Lenten sermon series on “Our God is Extravagant”. The text for the series is Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32. This Sunday At Church – What is Lostness? (Luke 15:25-28) The Psalm Psalm 63:1-8 Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. This Sunday’s Worship Team (March 7, 2010) Preacher Terry Heck Liturgist Damon Martin Greeter(s) Peg Sprauer and Whitney McCarthy Music Director Kathy deGruchy Accompanist Elizabeth Timmons Nursery Vickie Carter Children’s Church Rhonda DeNezza Media Technician Gary Sargent Head Usher Mary Frantz Ushers Mary Ann Stone and Pat Campbell Finance Team Hershell O’Dell/ Gary Sargent Office Volunteer Jean Neely (3/12) Meeting Reminders Sunday, March 7, Lunch and VBS planning, after church Monday, March 8, Companions in Christ, 2:00 Tuesday, March 9, Tutoring, 5:00, (Terry Heck, Donna Yeager) Tuesday, March 9, Music rehearsals Wednesday, March 10, Common Cup Dinner at Faith Community in Xenia, 5-6:30 Thursday, March 11, Griefshare group, 7:00 *Thank you* Marie and Max Davis express their appreciation for all the prayers, cards, and concerns during the recent illness and death of Opal Yowell. Thank you very much for your church support. Immigration Reform The United Methodist Church supports immigration reform in the United States regarding keeping families together. You can read more about what our denomination is doing in this regard and the biblical position regarding immigration. http://www.umc-gbcs.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=frLJK2PKLqF&b=3631781&ct=3957095 The following link is an opportunity to be part of a national event in Washington, DC on March 21. If you are interested, you can register on-line for the bus trip to DC to support immigration reform. http://reformimmigrationforamerica.org/blog/march-index/ Haiti Relief As of February 17, the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church reports 31,924 emergency health kits have been identified as being collected for Haiti through our United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) -- Over 500 were collected at Bellbrook United Methodist Church As of February 17, $561,445 has been collected by West Ohio Conference churches and channeled through UMCOR for Haiti relief -- $3245 has been collected at Bellbrook United Methodist Church Terry Heck will soon be 60 !!! Terry Heck's 60th birthday is Sunday, March 21. We will have a coffee fellowship with birthday cake following worship that day. No gifts, please. Just come and enjoy the fun! Let us know if you plan to be present. office@bellbrookumc.org On Sunday, March 7, we will host a fellowship meal after worship. Everyone is welcome. The meal will be provided; a love offering to help cover the cost of the food will be received. Additional contributions are designated for the Building Debt Retirement Fund. Let us know if you need a vegetarian meal. Place your reservation at office@bellbrookumc.org VBS is Coming!! Join Nancy Pestian’s table for lunch after church on Sunday and help plan VBS for our children! July 18-21, 2010 evenings We’ll have a BLAST! RISK-TAKING MISSION PROJECT The Risk-Taking Mission and Service group are starting a new project - monthly visits to Greeneview Manor, in Xenia. This is the county-run nursing home, and we are hoping to bring some joy and companionship to the many residents there that do not receive any visitors. We are looking for volunteers, young and old alike. We hope to do it on Saturday afternoons, as this is when they they have a real need for activities, but this is flexible if need be - they will appreciate us whenever we can make it!! We can go as a group, or if you wish to go at a time that is convenient to you, you can go alone. Each resident has a Memory Book (a scrapbook, full of photos, etc) that the staff have made up for them, to enable you to have something to talk to them about initially. We are planning to play cards with the residents, simple games, and offer basic manicures and pedicures also. The options are endless! We are just looking for anybody who would like to bring a smile to the face of somebody who needs it. Please contact Kim Lunay at kim@jclequipment.com, or 602-2939 if you are interested in joining us, or learning more. The chapel at the men’s correction facility in Nelsonville, Ohio needs hymnals for worship. We were able to purchase 80 hymnals with donations from Bellbrook UMC, Common Cup Council and the BUMMs. They will be sent directly from Cokesbury! Thanks for your help! Don’t forget to get your cookies for Kairos into the office by Wednesday, March 10! They will be picked up that day. We are increasing our re-cycling efforts at the church. Remember that you can bring in empty toner cartridges and we will get $3 per cartridge for the church at Staples. Now you can bring in your dead batteries (all household batteries, but not big, car size ones) and put them in the black bucket in the office. Maggie Weisman will be taking them to Batteries Plus for us. I have some HP print cartridges for a printer of mine that died. HP 97 one new HP 94 one new Does anyone at the church need these numbers—or anywhere else for that matter.