DON’T FORGET OUR MEMBERS WITH LIMITED
MOBILITY
Please remember to keep in your prayers a few of
our members who are not able to get to church as often as
they would like because of medical challenges. We have
included their addresses here in case you would also like to
send a card/words of encouragement:
Marv and Gen Bailey, 14804 S. Van Dyke Drive, #2245, Plainfield,
Illinois 60544
Vi
Schobel, Westbury Care, Room 104, 1800 Robin
Lane, Lisle, Illinois 60532
Joan Kettell, phone calls preferred but please limit the
length of the conversation
Juan Marianyi, 21422 W. Douglas Lane, Plainfield, IL 60544
Will Grosch, 1261 Cobblestone Court, Naperville, IL 60564
(email grosch1@wowway.com)
NO YOGA THIS THURSDAY
There
will be no class December 27th through January 10th.
Yoga will start back up again on January 17th. Any
questions, please contact Carrie Santucci at 630-532-7741 or funkylarry@yahoo.com.
Inquiring
Minds Want to Know
Let's begin
the year off in the right way!!! Starting in January we
will start a new series in our Wednesday night Bible study
class and on Sunday mornings based on the book by Adam
Hamilton entitled CREED,
What Christians Believe and Why.
We will be offering this as an option for persons who are
interested in becoming members of the church as well as
everyone else who wants to learn more about what we believe
as United Methodists.
JUST
HAVE QUESTIONS: We will try to answer
them as best we can.
INTERESTED
IN MEMBERSHIP: Here is your opportunity
in a non-threatening way.
WANT
TO KNOW WHAT UNITED METHODISTS BELIEVE:
We will try to share that information as well.
A sign-up sheet is available in the narthex. Beginning
January 9th, join us on Wednesday nights at 7:00 p.m. (dinner
with the youth starts around 6:30) and on Sunday mornings in
January.
The
Bible for Curious People - a Tuesday Morning Study
Where do we
come from…spiritually speaking?
How should we read the scriptures Jesus read?
Why do we Christians call it “The Old Testament?”
How do we deal with the violence in those scriptures?
These are a few of the questions we’ll wrestle with in our
bible study on Tuesday mornings beginning January 15th. When
it comes to the the Hebrew Scriptures, many of us find
ourselves somewhere between wanting to know more than our old
Sunday School flannel graphs told us and so frustrated by it
we’re tempted to chuck the whole thing away. This study is a
place to ask all your questions of the “Old Testament.”
There is no cost for this study, but there will be readings
assigned each week — some from the bible and some from other
sources to help us better understand what we read in the
bible. Materials will be available soon.
Beautiful, confounding, life-giving, scary, profane,
inspired…are some of the words we can use to describe that
big section at the front of the bible. Why? Let’s find out
together on Tuesday mornings from 10:30am-12:00noon, starting
January 15, 2019. Sign-up sheet is in the Narthex.
Let's
Look at the Future Together
You are welcome
to join us on
Saturday, January 12, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00
a.m. to talk about the future of our
church.........how we should be organized; what do we
anticipate happening after the Special General Conference in
February and what's at stake; what should we plan for;
etc.. Our vision for the future of our church is
critical and we would like to have you at the table!!!!
Please plan to join us.
State
of the Village
The 2019
State of the Village of Woodridge will take place on
Wednesday, February
6, 2019 starting at 7:30 a.m. with
networking. Register online at Chamber630.
Reaching
Out Beyond the Walls of the Church
The Aurora
district is holding an outreach training event titled
“Reaching Out Beyond the Walls of the Church” on morning of
Saturday, January 26th at 9:30 am at Bethany
of Fox Valley UMC. Registration costs $5. See the
bulletin board in the Narthex for details.
Mission
U - Winter Event
Mission U is
an opportunity to study current issues impacting society
based on current mission study topics with particular
attention to the responsibilities of women in fulfilling the
mission work of the church. Possible study options are Lembracing
Wholeness,Missionary Conferences of the United States and
What About Our Money?. Conference events are open to members
and non-members of United Methodist Women. The Winter
mission U event runs from January 18-20th (Pastor Danita is a
speaker). See the bulletin board in the narthex for
more details.
Martin
Luther King Celebration 2019
There will be
a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Sunday, January
20th at 4 pm at Faith UMC of Orland Park with
a reception to follow. The features speaker will be Dr.
Timothy Tyson, senior research scholar at the Center of
Documentary Studies at Duke University.
WOMEN'S
FIESTA
Mark your
calendar now!!! WOMEN'S FIESTA - A day apart for
women of all ages!!! SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019
form 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.. Invite a friend to hold the date
as well.. Details to come...................
THE
MITTEN TREE IS CALLING FOR YOUR DONATIONS
The mitten tree is available in the Narthex to
accept your donations of children’s mittens, gloves, warm
hats and scarves. The donations are going to Woodridge School
District 68. They give them out to children who don’t have
appropriate gear for the winter weather. We’ll be harvesting
the tree a couple of times. Please donate as you can.
PADS
Gratitude
“Alone we can
do so little.
TOGETHER WE CAN DO SO MUCH!” - Helen Keller
On December 18 and 19, 2018, Woodridge United Methodist
Church (WUMC) served over 60 homeless guests at the Downers
Grove Methodist Church. Through food donations and
volunteers who staffed the shelter, it took about the same
number of faithful people from our congregation to accomplish
this. There were some “bumps in the road”, but we
brought Christ to the homeless guests, and in our
midst, Christ was there! THANK YOU! YOU’RE
WELCOME!
PLEASE SAVE THE FEBRUARY DATES: FEBRUARY 19 AND
20, 2019. A NEW SIGN UP SHEET WILL BE PLACED IN THE
NARTHEX BY THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY.
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Looking Ahead
February 2nd - Youth Pizza Sale
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