Our Faith In Action

From the UMW

We got a lot of work accomplished in the parsonage and church yards Saturday July 19th. We also tackled the parking lot across the street.  Everything looks so much better with the lawns cut, lots of weeds pulled and at least 4 yellow bags of trash that we picked up. It was a beautiful day.  Thank you, Barry, Janice, Bob, Linda, Andrew, Ursula and myself.  We certainly left the grounds looking much better.  We had a light lunch of sandwiches to finish off the day. Thank you Jan for taking a total of 9-yard waste bags to yard waste in Worcester.

Tuesday July 19th, Andrea and I feed the Dismas House.  We made chicken shish kabobs, pasta salad, slightly scorched grilled vegetables, toss salad and ice cream sandwiches for dessert.  Andrea enjoyed helping me for the first time.  She is anxious to help again. Priscilla and Joe are going to do August and Bob and Linda are planning on doing September.  This is a great mission project for our church.  I think that we have been doing this for almost 10 years.  It was fun to talk to the men and find out where they all came from.  If anyone wants to take a month, just let me know. It is a great feeling to do this.  There is also money available if you want to help and you don't have money to purchase the supplies needed.

The church fair is coming up fast.  November 8th is the date.  Times will be announced as we get closer. We are planning on a bake sale, canned goods, and maybe some fresh produce. The Liberian ladies are planning an "African Food Sale,", and we will have the usual hot dog lunch. We will also be trying something new this year, a silent auction.  We are looking for donations and some great ideas for running it. We also need people to help the day of the fair, so everything goes smoothly.  The fair is the biggest fundraiser we have and the money we make from this helps with the end-of-year expenses.

We will also be doing Operation Christmas Child Boxes again this year.  It's time to start shopping while there are a lot of school supplies on sale and summer clothing sales too.  We will be having a meeting the beginning of November to put the boxes together.  As the time gets closer, I will let everyone know the date.  This is a fun night!!!!  I printed out the suggestions that are good to pack in boxes along with what they don't accept.  I'll post them in fellowship hall.

ON A FINANCIAL NOTE: Things are going to be a little tighter this year.  One of the churches that we rented from is no longer going to be meeting here.  This is a big financial loss for us.  This means that we are going to have to step up a little more to make it through the year.  Working and contributing to the fair, giving a little extra during Food and Fellowship.  The groups that do this spend a lot of their own money giving you great food.

Sunday September 14th, Robin and I have Food and Fellowship. We are planning a dinner.  I'll be making large turkey pies (Robin will do something).  I'll be asking the ladies to make dessert, probably the usual striped delight in assorted flavors.  I will be donating all the food for this dinner, and there is not going to be a specific charge.  I am asking you to donate what you are able for your family's meals, keeping in mind that all monies collected will go to the church bills. 

Thanks, Gail Ilvonen   

Are you running short on any canned goods you purchased at the last Fair? Guess what? We still have Gail’s relish, strawberry rhubarb jam, sugar-free blueberry jam and applesauce for sale.

   The strawberry rhubarb jam and relish are $6.00 ea.

The blueberry jam and the applesauce are $5.00 ea.

See Gail or Robin if interested. Why wouldn’t you be? They are all so good!

Dates to remember:

September and October will start to get busy again and before  you know it you will be asked to light the advent candles. 

September 7th: Children’s day program during regular worship service. We need all children of the church to make this really successful. If your child sings, dances, plays an instrument or likes to read please let Barbara, Robin or Cheryl know as soon as possible. 

September 14th: Gail and Robin’s  Food and Fellowship dinner  following worship service. See UMW note.

Later on the 14th at 5:30 p.m. the Outreach Committee will be holding a concert with light refreshments to follow. The concert will be free. A collection will be taken for the flood victims of Texas directed by UMCOR.

Keep watching your net newsletter or weekly bulletins for October dates!

August 17th:  Worship meeting at 1:00 p.m.

UMM has successfully purchased and are now taping our worship services  onto YouTube each Sunday. Thank you to all the men and especially Michael Gidi for all his tech support.

Simply go to YouTube.com and search qumc.worcesterr, or just search @qumcworcester  on YouTube.

Because of Facebook challenges, we have not been able to stream the service in our Facebook group. As of last Sunday, Gail began taping the service on her phone and posting to Facebook as she use to. We apologize for the lapse is viewing. Gail will continue to  record and post here this way until we can figure the other issues out. 

We hop that you will join us for worship service each Sunday at 11:00 a.m.

Liturgist/Counter schedule

August 3rd:     Marron Segran     Marie Stewart and Becky Ploof

August 10th:    Faith Forndia       Bob Johnson, Kwame Aning, and         Barnabas Forndia Jr.

August 17th:    Cheryl Mulbah     Marie Stewart, Becky Ploof, and 

                    Cheryl Mulbah

August 24th:     Tyrone Gidi         Marie Stewart, Kwame Aning, and                     Barnabas Forndia Jr. 

August 31st:      Darwin Kollie      Bob Johnson, Becky Ploof, and

Cheryl Mulbah

Food and Fellowship

August 3rd:  Annie Forndia and Balleh Segran

August 10th:  Leona Morweh, Jenna Sambola, Chris Judd

August 17th:  The Casey family

August 24th:  Barbara Hunt and Priscilla Chesna

August 31st:  Th Johnson family-Pot Luck, Everyone please bring a dish to share. If you don’t cook, store-bought food is perfectly acceptable, or donate paper plates, cups, juice, water, coffee, half and half. All donations are greatly appreciated. Let us share this ministry of feeding our family after worship.

 DONATIONS 

Donations are being accepted for the St. Thomas School and Medical Clinic: 

Thomas’ bins are in the fellowship hall.

School items might include crayons, pens, pencils, paper or notebooks, pencil sharpeners, erasers, chalk and blackboard erasers, paper clips, clip boards and such….

For the medical clinic items might include first-aid kits, Band-aids, Tylenol, Advil, cold medicine, cotton balls, gauze, etc.……

Cash donations are welcome for both the school and medical supplies. Just send a check and note in the memo where you wish it to be used. 

Thank you in advance,  The Outreach Committee