november 27, 2016 announcements€¦ · announcements final weekend kitchens & cabinets drive...
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Ward Home Angels Ward Home Angels have landed on our Narthax Christmas tree . The Angels
are waiting for church goers to pluck them off the tree, purchase a gift card and
fulfill the holiday wish of a Ward Home participant. Ward Home, a long time
partner of the United Methodist Church Union family, works with at-risk teens
and young adults, providing them with safe, nurturing, home environments.
The counselors use the gift cards from the Angel tree to help teach budgeting
and money management skills to the youth.
The gift cards for the youth are for $25, for various stores in the area. Return your
purchased gift card and the angel to the church office.
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November 27, 2016
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FINAL WEEKEND
Kitchens & Cabinets Drive
for West Virginia’s
flood victims in need
The Mission Committee is collecting
gently used cookware and kitchen
items to be delivered to Charleston,
WVA area residents who are still
recovering from the devastating
floods of this summer.
Place items in the Albury alcove
this weekend.
WELCOME ! If you are a visitor or new to Mt. Lebanon
United Methodist Church—we’re glad you’re here. Please sign
the attendance sheet in the pew. Worship at our church is a joyful,
prayerful, music-filled, traditional experience. We worship to
glorify God and build up the community of believers to live in this
world as followers of Jesus Christ.
The 8:30 am service meets in Sanner Chapel, immediately inside
the front entrance of the church, and the 10: 45 am service is in our
beautiful sanctuary. Kids Praise, a special worship service for ages 3 - 3rd grade, takes place during
our 10:45 Sunday service. More information: www.mlumc.org or 412-531-7131.
Advent/Christmas Devotional
Observe Advent with the 2016 Daily
Advent/Christmas Devotional, provided
by the Eastern Germany-Western
Pennsylvania Conferences of the UMC .
The devotional booklet includes a
meditation for each day of the Advent/
Christmas season through January 1, 2017.
The meditations are written by clergy and
laity of both conferences, including
members of MLUMC. The booklet is
linked to the W PA Conference website
and a devotion is included in our bulletin
each week of the season.
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Volunteers are needed to help with lighting candles each Sunday during Advent and to
assist behind the scenes for our Christmas Tableaux. The Tableaux is scheduled for the
10:45 service on Sunday, Dec 18th. Children and adult volunteers must be available for a
rehearsal on Wed. Dec. 14th at 6:30 pm. Contact Kim Rhoton, [email protected].
Advent and Tableaux Help Needed
Pastor Tom’s Advent/Christmas Sermon Series:
Hope is on the Way
This seven-week series for the beginning of Advent
through Epiphany Sunday is based on the Gospel
readings from Year A of the Revised Common
Lectionary, and emphasizes themes of watchfulness,
looking backwards and forwards in time (at the same time), joyful repentance, trust, and
hope.
Advent is a season of anticipation as we spend a lot of time with prophecy from Christ
and John the Baptist, so when it comes to building up the Christmas theme in hymns and
preaching - pace yourself. Remember, Advent is a season of past and future collision in
the present ... A time of already here (as in Christ did come and is here) and not yet
(Christ will come again). If you focus on Christmas too early, you miss the point of the
season.
December 4th “We Work While We Wait” Matthew 3:1-12
We journey backwards to before Jesus’ baptism, to John the Baptist prophesying the
Messiah’s coming – a Messiah already here. Now is the time to get right with God, to
prepare ourselves for the kingdom that is coming, the kingdom already here.
December 11th “Hope in the King” Matthew 11:2-11
December 18th “A Surprise Adoption” Matthew 1:18-25
December 24th “Hope Has Arrived” Luke 2:1-20
December 25th “We Are Family” Hebrews 2:10-18
January 1st “What Gift Did God Bring” John 1:1-18
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Adult Sunday School Classes 9:30—10:30 am
Mixers—Balcony Classroom 11-27—Social hour & decorate the room for Christmas
Kerygma - Balcony Library
November - “Half Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things
the Bible Doesn’t Say,” Adam Hamilton.
Youth Group Events 12-4 Ice Skating @ PPG Place , leave after 10:45 service, return before 4:30 pm;
Youth Choir, 4:30 pm
12-11 3:15 pm, meet in Asbury , travel to St. Bernard’s for Lessons & Carols
12-18 5 pm, MLUMC Caroling
12-25 Merry Christmas, no YG
Young Adult Class 9:30-10:30 am Room 402, Education Bldg.
11-27 thru 12-11 The Lord’s Prayer, no class on 12-4.
From Jeremiah’s Place, to the UMW and
Faith for Today for sharing their story:
We have just passed our 2 1/2 year mark
of being open. Over 400 kids have come in
to Jeremiah’s Place crisis nursery. The
needs of the families range from employment
to child care to medical, but the one need
is clear—a safe place for the child.
Thank you for being a part of this
important work to help children and their
families. We are grateful!
Lynn Williams
Co-founder and board member
From Clark Remington , “Thanks
to the Kerygma class for their
generous cash donations to
purchase eighteen high interest children's
books for our Northside Reading
program.”
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Upcoming Events
Sunday, December 11
Teddy Bear Sunday MLUMC is collecting teddy bears at
both services on Sunday, December 11.
Faith Circle will be distributing the
teddy bears and in the past have been
able to include the following organizations:
Ward Home, Food Pantry, Asbury
Heights, Family Hospice, Angels’ Place,
Power, CVMR, Family Promise, Medical
Rescue, Washington County Children's
Service, North Side Center and Dormont Police. Please help us bring love and joy to
others by bringing in a teddy bear.
A Service of Lessons & Carols with MLUMC’s Chancel Choir & St. Bernard’s Choir
The birth of Christ told through readings and music
Sunday, December 11, 4 pm
St. Bernard’s RC Church
New Member Sunday New members will be received into our church fellowship
during both services on Sunday, December 11.
Tuesday, December 13
Charge Conference A Charge Conference will be held at 7 pm on Tuesday, Dec. 13 in Asbury Center. District
Superintendent Paul Taylor will preside. Church leadership is encouraged to attend; all
members are welcome.
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Volunteer Opportunities at the Allegheny County Jail If you've ever thought about volunteering at the Allegheny County Jail, here are
some excellent volunteer opportunities. Sing Christmas carols with the inmates,
wrap presents and/or donate needed items.
Advent Lessons & Carols Services Thurs. Dec. 1 and/or Wed. Dec. 7 , 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Restrictions: All volunteers must be 21 or older
RSVP: Call Marci at 412-350-2057 or email [email protected]
Packaging & Delivering Christmas Gifts Thurs. Dec. 15, 8 am - 1 pm (packaging) 5:30 - 9 pm (delivering)
Restrictions: All volunteers must be 21 or older
RSVP: Call Marci at 412-350-2057 or email [email protected]
The jail needs volunteers to help pack and deliver inmate Christmas Care packages.
Christmas is an especially rough time for inmates who are separated from their families
and traditional holiday activities. Being remembered by caring volunteers can make a
huge difference.
Donating Needed Items
Restrictions: Donor must sign up on the Approved Donor List
More info: Call Marci at 412-350-2057 or email [email protected]
The Chaplain’s Office provides paperback books, toiletries, calendars, and religious
literature to inmates and sweatsuits to inmates being released. We are always in need of
these items. Call the Chaplain’s Office to become an Approved Donor.
To learn more about volunteering inside the jail,
contact: foundationofhope.org
The services will consist of readings, prayers, and carols sung by volunteers. Volunteers
from multiple churches will sing together from caroling sheets provided by the
Chaplain’s Office. No rehearsal is necessary, just come and sing - at one service or to both.
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Hands and Hearts Hands and Hearts will have their last
meeting for 2016 on Thursday, Dec 1, 9:30 -
11 am. Join us in Epworth Chapel to make a
holiday ornament and share a snack. For
more information contact: Caryl Drabick
at 412-344-5312.
Membership Information Session Considering church membership? Come to
an informative gathering for prospective
new members. on Saturday, December 3 in
Wesley Hall at 10 am. Those who choose
membership will be received into our
church fellowship during both worship ser-
vices on December 11. Please register for
participation at the church office
412-531-7131 or
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, November 29
Advent Lessons & Carols Services Volunteer at the Allegheny County Jail
5:30 pm See details on page 3.
Saturday, December 3
Thursday, December 1
Terrific Tuesday
Resumes Is redemption possible for
Ebenezer Scrooge? Pastor
and author Matt Rawle
believes so as he discovers
the teachings of Jesus in the
words of the Charles
Dickens classic , A Christmas Carol.
Join Pastor Tom for the continuation of
this Advent study. As usual, Terrific
Tuesday begins with dinner at 6 pm, with
the adult study and children events to
follow at 6:45.
Wednesday, December 7
Advent Lessons & Carols Services Volunteer at the Allegheny County Jail
5:30 pm See details on page 3.
Youth Group Babysitting Night, scheduled
for December 3, has been postponed until the
new year. Apologies for any inconvenience this
may cause, but there simply was not enough
help to have the event. Stay tuned for a future
event.
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Christmas Cookie Sale
& British Tea Room
Iced cutout sugar cookies, buttery
shortbread, spicy gingerbread people,
chewy peanut butter cookies, old-
fashioned chocolate chip cookies, nutty
almond crescents, melt-in-your mouth
ginger crinkles, delicate, sugary lady
locks….
These are just a few of the types of
homemade cookies the UMW will be
selling by the pound as part of this year’s
Christmas Cookie Sale & British Tea Room
event. Mark your calendars now:
Saturday, December 10
from 9 AM.– noon at the church.
Please plan to arrive early for a premium
selection of cookies.
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Calling all cookie bakers
Cookie bakers are needed for this year’s
Christmas Cookie Sale sponsored by members
of the United Methodist Women.
1. Bake a batch of your favorite
Christmas cookies.
2. Bring the cookies to the church
kitchen on Thursday, Dec. 8 between
9 a.m. and 8 p.m. or on Friday, Dec. 9
before noon. Please include with your
cookies the name of the cookie and a list of
ingredients as a courtesy for people with
allergies.
For more information, please contact
Sandy Waters at 412.833.3702 or
After you’ve shopped, drop into our
British tearoom for a hot cup of tea and a
buttery scone with jam and cream served
by one of our teens from the Dames In
Action (DIA) circle. Hot soup will also be
available. The DIA girls will also be selling
raffle tickets for gift baskets, which will be
on display.
All proceeds will benefit UMW projects
and missions.
Upcoming Events
Saturday, December 10