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THE

CIRCUIT WRITER

Wilmot United Methodist Church

November 2019

November Community Senior Fellowship November 6th

10:00 AM

All seniors living in the area are welcome to attend Community Senior Fellowship on Wednesday,

November 6th at 10:00 AM. Our program will be on “The Cow That Ate at the White House” by Marylln

Zirbel.

We will follow with free bingo and prizes. Don’t forget the delicious baked goods and coffee. See

you there in the Fellowship Hall at Wilmot United Methodist Church, 11425 Fox River Road, Wilmot.

Co-sponsored with Living Waters Ministries.

ABC PROJECT (ANGEL’S BLANKETS FOR

CHILDREN)

We have started the Blanket Bees back up.

Following is the tentative schedule: These dates are subject to change.

EVENING BEES: 1st Monday of Month 7 PM

November 4th

MORNING BEES: 3rd Wednesday of Month 10 AM

November 20th

If you have any questions, contact Glenna Kisner.

We will have Dedication of the Blankets on Sunday, November 17th.

Thanksgiving Service and Football Party! Sunday, November 24th 2:30 PM Bristol United Methodist Church

8014 199th Ave. Bristol (enter from Hwy 45)

Join us for a service of Thanksgiving followed by a time of fellowship and food as we watch the Packers take on the 49ers!

Words of Wang; Tip for Going Green

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Operation Christmas Child; Holiday Cookie Fundraiser; Hanging the Greens; Charge Conference

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Stewardship; Calvary UCC Dinner; Snow Shoveling; Thank You; Ad Council

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Joys & Concerns; Sounds of the Season

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Church Photo Bulletin; Shalom to Home

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Birthdays & Anniversaries; Turn Clock Back; Treasurer’s Report; Raising Funds

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November God’s Helpers 8

November Calendar 9

Inside this issue:

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Words from Wang

Once upon a time, in the mid to late 1800’s the community of Wilmot developed and

some years later, a Methodist society formed. Those early settlers met in homes and were

served by circuit riders and local preachers who worked other jobs during the week.

By 1870, people began to talk about building a church building, and land was acquired. It took

6 more years, however, before the construction actually began in June of 1876. In November

of that year, the building was completed and dedicated.

90 years later, in 1966, the building addition housing classroom and office space was

completed and dedicated.

We are here today because of the faith, hard work, and dedication of many who have

gone before us. On November 3, All Saints Sunday, we remember and lift up some of the

names of those who have gone before us in the faith. We celebrate our communion with all of

the saints. We give thanks for their lives and their faith and their dedication to the church.

As we remember and celebrate the past, we need to think about the future. How will we

continue the legacy of those who have gone before us? In a very different age, how will we live

out Christ’s call to make disciples? How will we express our faith? How will we dream God’s

dream and let God’s vision shape our ministry?

As we move toward the season of Advent – a season of anticipation and expectation, we

also move toward a time of anticipating and visioning what the next year will look like in our

congregation. We plan budgets and ministries and worship opportunities, and we ask you to

think about how you will be involved in that; how you will help us to live out God’s call and our

faith in this place and time. How will you participate as we continue the legacy of faith our

ancestors left to us?

Please prayerfully consider how you will give of yourself, your resources, and your time in the

weeks and months ahead. Together we can make a difference in this community and beyond.

Peace,

Pastor Judy

TIP FOR GOING GREEN:

Going out to eat? “No straw please.”

(Come on, you know how to drink from a cup!)

LOVE OF CREATION Portion sizes too much? Bring your own container to take home leftovers. I keep one in my car at all times. (That’s why we carry giant purses, ladies!) No more single use Styrofoam/Plastic/Cardboard. Set an example for others to see!

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PRAY FOR THE HARVEST (Matthew 9:37-38)

Operation Christmas Child

We will be packing the boxes with a pizza lunch after on Sunday, November 10th about 11:15 AM at Calvary UCC. We will dedicate the boxes on Sunday, November 17th (the week after we pack the OCC boxes).

We hope you will join us in this ministry!! If you want to check out Operation Christmas Child, here is the website: www.samaritanspurse.org/ what-we-do/operation-christmas-child. If you have any questions, contact Doris Carnahan or Paul McKibben.

ANNUAL HOLIDAY COOKIE SALE:

BAKERS NEEDED

We are busy getting the cookies and fudge made for our Annual Holiday Cookie

Sale. We want to thank everyone who has signed up to bake but we are looking for

people to help on November 2nd; if you are interested in helping please contact,

Barbara Sherman at 262-877-2380. We would like each group to make 125 dozen cookies. If you need

assistance in purchasing the ingredients, please let us know. We will be baking a few cookies at

Wheatland Center School (on Co. Hwy O) on Saturday, November 2nd starting at 7:00 AM, we

hope you will join us.

We are taking orders up to 100 trays only, so get your orders in early. We have two options for our trays:

one includes 10 dozen different cookies and a pound of fudge for $40 each and the other is 10 dozen

different cookies and no fudge for $35 each.

This is our biggest fundraiser and the more hands we have to help will make it a success.

Mark the calendar:

Saturday, November 2nd baking at Wheatland Center School at 7:00 AM

Saturday, December 14th at 9:00 AM for the assembling of the trays at Wilmot UMC

Hanging of the Greens

Sunday, November 24th After worship we will be decorating the sanctuary for the Advent season. Hope you will join us.

Circuit 14 Charge Conference

Tuesday, December 17th

6:30 PM Salem UMC 25130 85th St., Salem

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AD COUNCIL MEETING

Ad Council met on Sunday, October 13th. Pastor Judy had an one-on-one meeting with the

District Superintendent recently. We will have Charge Conference on December 17th. The Thanksgiving

Service will be November 24th with a Green Bay Packer watch party after the service. We discussed

updating the photo directory board and will ask people if they have new pictures for it. Pastor will be out

of town after worship on October 20th until October 22nd. We have over 300 blankets and will work

getting them to the groups. We will put the Operation Christmas Child (OCC) boxes together on

November 10th with pizza afterwards at Calvary UCC. We will dedicate the OCC boxes and blankets on

November 17th. We will bake Holiday cookies at Wheatland School on November 2nd. We will keep the

prices the same for the cookie trays. Trustees reported on fixing leaks on the flat roof and over the

kitchen. They will look at redoing the driveway next spring. The neighbor on the east side of the church

would like to use our parking lot to trim a tree on his property, which we were okay with. Doris Carnahan

will contact an organ repair company to let us know how to reattach some keys that have come off the

organ.

We will have Christmas Eve Service at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, December 24th. We will do Hanging

of the Greens on November 24th after worship. We discussed renewing the line of credit and decided not

to renew it. We will do our Stewardship in November. We reviewed the August and September

treasurer’s reports. We are $1,200 behind in our apportionments through September. Living Waters will

meet on October 14th. Laura and Lisa Carnahan will have their piano concert on December 14th. Our

next meeting will be Sunday, December 1st at 1:00 PM.

We would like to thank Pastor

Pamela Garside Meyers for giving the

message on Sunday, October 6th while

Pastor Judy attended her son’s recital.

Thank you to Laura Carnahan

for playing piano on October 6th when

Doris Carnahan was out of town.

Thank you to Bob Davenport and Fred

Rausch for patching up the leaks around the church.

We appreciate it.

SNOW

SHOVELING!! If anyone is interested in helping the church during the winter

months to shovel snow around the church, we still have a few weeks left on the sign up sheet. You shovel a week at a time from Monday through Sunday and if it snows you are

responsible to shovel the walkways around the church. Call the church office at 262-862-6366 to see what weeks are available.

STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN

Watch your mailbox in the next week for

the financial pledge card as we kick off our

Stewardship Campaign. If you don’t receive

anything by the middle of November, please

contact the church office. We hope to have

everything in by Sunday, November 17th.

CALVARY UCC ITALIAN DINNER

Saturday, November 9th

4:30 PM—7:00 PM

Calvary United Church of Christ

1511 Wilmot Ave., Twin Lakes WI

Tickets: Adults $10; Children 6-10 $7;

Children under 6 Free

Veterans eat free

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Joys & Concerns Concerns:

Paul McKibben’s mother-in-law O’Halleran’s daughter-in-law, Rachael

Alice Johnson’s brother-in-law, Bob Newcomb Alice Johnson

6 year old boy’s grandparents Peter Poli’s mother, Elvira

Kathy Severt Paul & Kristen Valdez’s son, Levi

California Wildfires & blackouts Sandy & Mark Kerkman’s daughter, Holly

Abbey Severt

Joys:

Roger Wolf’s 80th Birthday

Salem Grade School 8th Grade trip to Springfield, IL

Tim McGrath’s military reunion

Gina & Bryan Potter’s daughter, Audrey

Keep the following families who lost loved ones during the last month in your prayers.

Ann Newcomb; Bob Newcomb’s sister, Pam; Antioch School District 6 year old boy; Betz’s friend,

Duane VanWie; Terry Colby’s cousin’s husband, Duane; Bob Weber’s friend, Lois

Continue to keep the following in your daily prayers!!

(If you have someone who needs continuing prayers please let the church office know !)

Alyssa Poli; Retta & Jim Michalek; Colby’s friend, Kathy Lowrey; Rachel Hewitt’s co-worker, Barb;

Michelle Walter’s cousin, Karen; Terry Colby’s co-worker, Rose; Terry Colby’s co-worker’s 10 year

old niece & family; Bob Davenport’s brother, Mike; Shirley Schultz; Bill Hiort’s daughter, Starr;

Doris Carnahan’s friend, Debbie; Ann Newcomb’s daughter, Kelly; Doris Carnahan’s brother’s

granddaughter, Crystal; Betty Hunt Wolf’s mother, Marilyn; Donn Matthews; Barb Hiort; Kathy

Severt; Barb Hiort’s friend, Matt; Kathy Severt’s co-worker, Kathy Powell; Ginny Oost’s friend,

Dave; Marge McGrath’s co-worker, Tom; Alice Johnson’s brother-in-law, Bob Newcomb; Peter

Poli’s mother, Elvria; Sandy & Mark Kerkman’s daughter, Holly

You are invited to attend a free Christmas Piano Concert

Sounds of the Season Pianists: Lisa and Laura Carnahan

Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Location: Calvary UCC 1511 Wilmot Ave., Twin Lakes, WI

Enjoy Christmas selections on the keyboard – solos and duets – and a short sing-along.

Join us for refreshments and fellowship after the concert.

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SHALOM TO HOME UPDATE – OCTOBER 2019

It has been exactly one year since the 6 Methodist churches joined together in

offering their support to the Shalom to Home program. We are proud of the

accomplishments of that brief period. In total, we have assembled and donated 138

bath, kitchen, and cleaning kits. This means that 46, previously homeless, families

have felt our love and concern as they leave the Center and begin their lives anew.

With an expected annual requirement of 60 sets (180 kits), the job is not done, it has

just begun. Because of this continuing need, and the generosity demonstrated by our

various churches, we have committed to meeting this entire annual need. It is our hope that you will con-

tinue your selfless support. In doing so, not only will you feel the joy of helping the less fortunate, you will

know that you are truly doing God’s will.

Program Coordinators - Jim Lura and Ann Bradshaw

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Wilmot UMC will be trying to put together each of the kits in the next few months. A sign up sheet will be

sent around late November. Here is the list of what is in the other kits:

Bathroom Starter kit—Bath towels (6 for family/ 2 for single) / pack of washcloths / bathroom rug/ hand

soap/ box of facial tissues/ shower curtain and hooks/ waste basket/ toilet brush/ plunger

Cleaning Supplies—pack of rags/ cleaning bucket; scrub brush/ all-purpose cleaner/ bleach/ Comet/

Container of cleaning wipes/ broom/ dust pan/ duster wand/ spray window cleaner/ paper towel rolls/ laun-

dry soap/ dryer sheets/ laundry basket

Kitchen starter kit—silverware (8 to 12 for family/ 2 to 4 for single) / dishes (setting of 6 for family/ 2 or 3

for single) / 8 drinking glasses & 8 mugs (2 –4 for a single)/ cooking utensils—slotted spoon, spatula,

wooden spoon, large spoon, can opener, tongs, whisk, vegetable peeler, ladle, paring knife, serrated

knife/ food storage containers / pots and pans—frying pan, sauce pan, stock pot, casserole dish & baking

sheet; measuring cups & spoons / strainers / grater / oven mitt & hot pads/ cutting board/ dishwashing

soap/ sponges & an abrasive scrubber/ dish towels/ trash can & bags (Perks—toaster, dish drying rack,

coffee maker, small microwave)

If interested in helping, please contact the church office or Doris Carnahan.

UPDATING OUR CHURCH FAMILY

BULLETIN BOARD

We’d like to update the church family bulletin board that is in fellowship

hall. Please take this opportunity to share a recent picture of yourself/

your family, Give your favorite photo to Audrey Davenport or Barbara

Sherman and it will be posted on the bulletin board.

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WAYS YOU CAN HELP US RAISE FUNDS:

1. Ask for a “Funds for Friends” sticker for your receipt at Richter’s Marketplace in Twin Lakes. Turn

in the receipt within the year and the church will receive 1% in return. Containers are found in the

church’s entryways.

2. Purchase gift cards in denominations of $50 or $100 for Woodman’s Market which is part of Living

Waters Scrip program. Living Water will receive 5% profit from the cars and will pay 2 1/2% to the local

church. Please contact Doris Carnahan (262-877-9876) at least a week in advance due to expiration

dates and make checks out to “Living Waters”.

3. UMCMarket.org where you can shop at thousands of retailers you

know and love, and earn cash back for your church. No Fees to your

church or you. We pay out commissions from retailers to your church each

month. Please sign in or sign up, select your church location, and then

click through to retailers.

4. Go to your computer and go to the website: Goodsearch.com (search engine) and Goodshop.com

(online shopping) and the church will receive a percentage of donations when you use these sites.

Please specify the charity: Wilmot United Methodist Church. Share your opinion at Goodsurverys.com

and completing an offer at Goodoffers.com, you’ll automatically earn us donations for free.

RAISING FUNDS

September Treasurer’s Report

2019 Budget 57,324.00

INCOME

Balance 9/1/2019 1,711.15

Income:

Sunday Offering 4,069.00

Expenses:

General Account (4,003.62)

Transfer from other accounts (255.00)

Balance 9/30/2019 1,521.53

Year to Date:

Balance 1/1/2019 5,266.36

Income:

General Account 34,312.30

Expenses:

General Account (38,181.74)

Transfer– Designated / Memorial 124.61

Balance 9/30/2019 1,521.53

Please remember to mail in your offering envelope if you are out of town. We appreciate your support.

Vanguard –Parsonage Sale Investment:

Invested $100,000.00

Balance 9/30/2019 $ 111,258.04

November Birthdays/ Anniversaries

7 Marge McGrath 18 Scott Walter 21 Lois Grossman 28 Roger & Barbara Sherman 30 Marj O’Halleran

CHECK US OUT:

WEBSITE: www.wilmotumc.org

FACEBOOK: Wilmot United Methodist Church

Sunday,

November 3rd

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God’s Helpers

If you are unable to serve on Sunday at your scheduled time, please try to find a substitute. If you cannot find substitute liturgists, ushers, greeters and money counters call Audrey Davenport at (847) 838-5868.

Also, if you did not sign the Time & Talent Sheet, but would like to serve, call the Church Office at (262) 862-6366. Please call the Church office if substitutes are made, for proper identification of participants in the Sunday bulletin. Thank you!!

Fellowship (Third Sunday)

November17th - December 22nd—Potluck Brunch January 19th— (If interested in serving, call church office)

Cleaning the Church Oct 20th—Nov 2nd—Sherman Nov 3rd—16th - Nov 17th—30th—Sherman Dec 1st—14th -

Snow Shoveling Nov 18th—24th— Nov 25th—Dec 1st— Dec 2nd—8th -

Sunday Nov 3 Nov 10 Nov 17 Nov 24 Dec 1

Liturgist Mike Wolf Paul McKibben Bob Davenport Mike Wolf Marge McGrath

Greeters Barb Fiebelkorn Alice Johnson

Glenna Kisner Kathy Severt

Audrey & Bob Davenport

Paul McKibben Fred Rausch

Judy Betz Barb Sherman

Ushers Judy Betz Barb Sherman

Glenna Kisner Marge McGrath

Audrey & Bob Davenport

Paul McKibben Fred Rausch

Judy Betz Barb Sherman

Lift Operator

Bob Weber Fred Rausch Bob Davenport Bob Weber Fred Rausch

Counter Barb Sherman Mike Wolf

Marge McGrath Barb Sherman

Audrey & Bob Davenport

Barb Sherman Mike Wolf

Doris Carnahan Glenna Kisner

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November 2019 Wilmot United Methodist Church

Sunday Worship 8:30 AM

Church: 262-862-6366

Website: www.wilmotumc.org

Email: WilmotUMC@gmail.com

Pastor Judy’s call or text 262-308-4180

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 7:00 AM Cookie Baking at Wheatland School

3 Turn Clocks

Back Communion 8:30 AM Worship 9:30 AM Adult Class

4 7:00 PM Blanket Bees at Calvary UCC

5 6 10:00 AM Senior Community Fellowship

7 8 9 4:30 PM—7:00

PM Italian Dinner

at Calvary UCC

10 8:30 AM Worship 9:30 AM Adult Class 11:15 AM OCC Box Packing at Calvary UCC

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Newsletter

Deadline!!

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17 8:30 AM Worship 9:30 AM Adult Class

18 19 20 10: 00 AM Blanket Bees at Calvary UCC

21 22 23

24 UM Student Day 8:30 AM Worship 9:30 AM Hanging Greens / 2:30 PM Thanksgiving Service at Bristol UMC follow by Packer Party

25 26 27 28 Thanksgiving

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Wilmot United Methodist Church

Rev. Judith Wang Office Phone: 262-862-6366

Sunday Worship

8:30 AM

Adult Class 9:30 AM

THE CIRCUIT WRITER Newsletter Wilmot United Methodist Church

11425 Fox River Road

PO Box 218

Wilmot, WI 53192

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