Weekly Tidings – The United Methodist Church

November 20, 2021

Beautiful Beloveds,

Tomorrow, we celebrate Thanksgiving Sunday. In this season of reflection, as the year draws to a close, what are you grateful for? I’m grateful for my family, my home, vaccines and booster shots. I’m grateful for you and the missions and ministries of our church. I’m grateful for ordinary everyday things like hot, dark roast coffee and fuzzy socks and movie nights. I’m grateful for the full moon and changing seasons.

Author Anne Lamott describes fall like this: “The colors are broccoli and flame and fox fur. The tang is apples, death, and wood smoke. The rot smells faintly of grapes, of fermentation, of one element being changed alchemically into another, and the air is moist, and you sleep under two down comforters in a cold room. The trails are not dusty anymore, and you get to wear your favorite sweaters.”

What blessings large and small, mundane and marvelous can you notice as you look around, within, and back? Tomorrow, let us gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing, and offer our thanks and praise for abundance all around us.

We remain Together in Christ…Committed to Serve.

Peace,

Heather

Mark Your Calendars

Sunday, November 21: Thanksgiving Sunday

8:30 am: Drive in Worship

Sit on the lawn around around the flagpole, or stay in your warm car and tune in to 91.5.

10:30 am: Worship in our sanctuary (masks required). Please register here

10:30 am: Livestream available on our YouTube channel

Silent Auction items are on display in the Solarium until November 28

11am – 1 pm: Pick up your apple pies

7:00 pm: Youth Group via Zoom

Monday, November 22:

9:00 am Lend-a-Hand

12:00 pm: Deadline for “A Word on Wednesday,” AND Saturday Tidings

Please submit items early. Our office will be closed Thursday and Friday.

7:00 pm: Men’s Study Group (via Zoom)

Tuesday, November 23:

9:00 am: Yoga

7:00 pm Trustees Meeting

Wednesday, November 24:

10:00 am Bright Promises Yoga

10:30 am – 3:00 pm Rainbow’s End Open (Donations accepted 11 am-2pm)

Thursday, November 25:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Friday, November 26:

10:00 am: Al-anon Meeting

Saturday, November 27:

9:00 am: Yoga

Sunday, November 28: First Sunday of Advent

8:30 am: Outdoor and Drive In Worship Please register here

10:30 am: Worship in our sanctuary Please register here

10:30 am: Livestream available on our YouTube channel

Last day of bidding on Silent Auction Items

7:00 pm: Youth Group

Together in Christ—We Tend the Spirit

Advent Begins November 28 Advent Family Fun! Our youth will be leading a 30-minute activity for children up to 5^th grade November 28, December 5, 12, and 19. Each Sunday they’ll offer a brief Bible Study followed by a craft, game or other fun activity. Please sign up here to participate and/or help make it a success!

Sunday Singers make the season bright! If you’re interested in singing during our 10:30 Sunday worship please fill out this form. Pastor Heather will use this to schedules duos and trios for Sunday worship, Christmas Eve, and January worship.

Weekly Bible Study via Zoom, Tuesdays at 10am We’ll open with sharing our prayer concerns and praying together. Then, we’ll study one of four different telling of the Christmas story, a different gospel each week. Then we’ll close with prayer and end by 11am.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship, December 24, 5pm We will gather in our sanctuary, at 5pm, as well as transmitting to your radio, if you prefer to stay in your car, and livestreaming for those who wish to join us from off campus or off cape. The recording will also be available so you can also watch it later at your convenience.

Worship with Us Outside, Inside, and Online: For the health and safety of us all, please follow our safety guidelines, listed at the end of this email. This may be subject to change as our leadership team reviews this every week. If you are feeling unwell, tested positive for COVID-19 or been exposed to someone with COVID-19 in the last 14 days, please stay home and join us online.

Please submit prayer requests here or call MaryAnne Farley (774) 487-0719 or Pastor Heather, (774) 994-3645.

Youth Group—Fall 2021

We gather at 7pm, weather permitting at the church and via Zoom when it’s raining. We welcome all youth entering 6-12th grades in the fall. Please fill out this one-time registration for July 2021-June 2022. Please fill out separate registrations for each youth.

Together in Christ—Our United Methodist Connection

Our church is one of 84 United Methodist Churches in the Seacoast District, which includes Western Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Cape Cod. The Seacoast District is led by our District Superintendent, David Calhoun. Our District is one of seven districts (574 churches), spread over 6 states making up the New England Conference. Our Conference is led by our Bishop, Sudarshana Devadhar.

Please pray for all United Methodist Churches who are working through the legal implications of the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy after suits related to abuse. Please pray for all survivors of this abuse and all who have been harmed.

Committed to Serve—We Give to Bless Others

November Collection for Food Pantry ~ For our food challenged neighbors we are continuing to collect Thanksgiving Foods including stuffing mix, rice, nuts, instant potatoes, bread mixes; plus canned: corn, cranberry sauce, pumpkin, olives, and gravy. Please place items in the black trashcan outside the main door.

HOLIDAY SILENT AUCTION

Sunday, November 14—Sunday, November 28

United Methodist Church

Solarium

57 Pond St, Osterville, MA

Many exciting items!

Bids accepted until 12:00 noon November 28.

Bids can be made in person at church Monday thru Thursday 9:00 am till 1:00 pm, by phone 508-428-2811 or by email office@umcchurches.org.

The pies will be ready for pick up on Saturday, November 20 from 11:00 am until 3:00 pm and on Sunday, November 21 after the 10:30 service until 1:00 pm.

Annual Holiday Church Auction – All Auction items will be on display on Sunday and the bidding will continue. You also may come in Monday through Thursday from 9:00 am till 1:00 pm to bid or call Jane 508-428-2811 or email her office@umcchurches.org. The Curent High Bids are as follows:

ITEM VALUE HIGH BID

#1 Windw Boees $75.00 $50.00

#2 Isaiah Thomas Books $100.00 $25.00

#3 Jonquil’s Catering $275.00 $100.00

#4 Vermont Trip $800.00 $850.00

#5 Home Sketch $100.00 $40.00

#6 Home Check/Dog Walk $125.00 $40.00

#7 Italian Gourment Basket $100.00 $200.00

#8 Wreath $60.00 $20.00

#9 Handemade Quilt Priceless $125.00

#10 Albertos Gift Cert. $100.00 $50.00

#11 Christmas Tree $50.00 $25.00

#12 Nantucket Trip $180.00 $80.00

#13 Barton & Gray Trip $1500.00 $350.00

#14 Stool $100.00 no bid

#15 Cotuit Center for the Arts $100.00 $60.00

2022 Calendars are on Sale this Sunday. Order blanks are available or you can call in your order (508-428-2811) or send us an email office@umcchurches.org. They come in small ($8.95) Large ($12.95) Small Frame ($5.00) Large Frame ($9.00.)

Apple Pies will be ready for pick up today between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm and tomorrow from 11:00 am till 1:00 pm.

Rainbow’s End, our church thrift boutique, is open Wednesday and Thursday, 10:30-3pm. Stop by to shop and/or donate goods, particularly, Fall and Winter Clothes. Bring them in on Wednesday and Thursday between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. Thanks so much.

To volunteer, donate or consign items, or find out other ways to support our store, please call shop manager, Pamela Turner, at 508-548-2245.

Give online. Visit our online giving portal, to set up your pledge, make a one time gift for a special project, support the Pastor’s Discretionary Fund, make memorial contributions, and more. You can use your credit card, bank card, or set up an electronic funds transfer.

We’re here to help. Give Jane Gray, financial secretary, a call 508.428.2811 if you need help navigating the online giving portal.

Worship with Us

Outside, inside, or online

If you are feeling unwell, tested positive for COVID-19 or been exposed to someone with COVID-19 in the last 14 days, please stay home.

Please register here for November Worship

If you prefer to not to register online,

please leave a message at the church 508.428.2811

or text Pastor Heather, 774.994.3645.

8:30 am Gather On the Green (Outdoor Worship):

We are now inviting congregational singing outdoors.
If you register, you will receive an order of worship for the day, including links to scripture, hymn lyrics,our online-giving portal and a music playlist to compliment the day’s themes. Registering also helps us with contact tracing if that becomes necessary.
Please stay home if you are feeling unwell, tested positive for COVID-19 or been exposed to someone with COVID-19 in the last 14 days.
Masks are optional.Please honor the choices that others have made to mask or not.
Please continue to practice risk-reducing distancing, staying about 6 feet apart.
If, after worshiping with us, you test positive for COVID-19 or have been exposed, it is important to the health of our congregation that you let us know so we can notify others who may have been exposed.This will be treated carefully and confidentially, so that we can care for another. Please call Pastor Heather directly, 774.994.3645.
Worship will feature pre-recorded music, and we encourage you to stay in your cars when it is wet and/or col

10:30 am In Our Sanctuary

If you register, you will receive an order of worship for the day, including links to scripture, hymn lyrics,our online-giving portal and a music playlist to compliment the day’s themes. Registering also helps us with contact tracing if that becomes necessary.
Please stay home if you are feeling unwell, tested positive for COVID-19 or been exposed to someone with COVID-19 in the last 14 days.
Please wear a mask.If you forget, we’ll have plenty available.
Sanctuary Shepherds will be there to greet and guide you, as you enter and exit our building
Please enter through the main sanctuary doors, where you will be “checked-in,” and invited to use hand sanitizer.Communion Elements, in pre-packaged containers will be available. You can also grab a mask if you need one, and pick up a Bible if you choose. At this time we will not be using hymnals or paper bulletins.
After you are “checked in” you will be led to a seat by a sanctuary shepherd.We will be seating individuals and families six feet apart from one another from the front of the sanctuary to the back. Please sit as close to the colorful dot as possible.
We will have one or two singers, but not congregational singing at this time.
The ionizers will be on, and at least one window will have a fan running, and other windows will be open.Additionally, all doors will be open. Please dress warmly and feel free to bring a lap blanket.
Please exit through our solarium as directed by our shepherds.
An offering plate will be available as you enter, as we will not be “passing the plate.”Don’t worry if you forget, or are moved to give more, there will be another place to give on your way out.
We will be livestreaming our sanctuary worship, so you catch it on YouTube, or if we need more seating at the church, in Fred Curtis Hall.
If, after worshiping with us, you test positive for COVID-19 or have been exposed, it is important to the health of our congregation that you let us know so we can notify others who may have been exposed.This will be treated carefully and confidentially, so that we can care for another. Please call Pastor Heather directly, 774.994.3645.

**Our COVID-19 Leadership Task Force is watching the rates of COVID-19 on Cape Cod. We will gather in our sanctuary on Sunday and will decide week by week if we will continue to do so. If a change is needed we will communicate quickly, clearly, and in a variety of media.

Zoom Links

Youth Group

Sundays, 7pm

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89016033879?pwd=bnpjYUVqc1Rkc0RRRWtjeG0yTXV2Zz09

Meeting ID: 890 1603 3879

Passcode: 312727

One tap mobile

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Tuesday Morning Bible Study, 10am

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82427947759?pwd=aTBXM3pWblJRN2U5OWxzSFNtdUxZZz09

Meeting ID: 824 2794 7759

Passcode: 755424