Weekly Tidings

The Week Ahead 

 

Sunday, January 22:

8:30 am:  Early Worship in the Sanctuary 

Livestream available on Facebook

10:00 am:  Worship in the Sanctuary and Sunday School | Live stream available on our YouTube channel

3:30 pm:  Esprit

6:00 pm:  Youth Group

 

Monday, January 23:

9:00 am:  Lend-a-Hand

7:00 pm:  Men’s Study Group via Zoom

 

Tuesday, January 24:

11:00 am Book Group 

12:00 pm Prayer Group

12:00 pm: Deadline for Saturday Tidings

 

Wednesday, January 25:

10:30 am Rainbow’s End is Open!

6:00 pm:  Esprit

 

Thursday, January 26:

10:30 am Rainbow’s End is Open!

2:00 pm:  Chair Yoga

3:30 pm Staff Meeting 

5:00 pm Big Book Step Group

5:30 pm Book Study Group “The Walk” with Pastor John

 

Friday, January 27:

Office Closed

10:00 am: Al-Anon

10:30 am Rainbow’s End is Open!

 

Saturday, January 28:

10:30 am Rainbow’s End is Open!

 

Sunday, January 29:

8:30 am:  Early Worship in the Sanctuary

Livestream available of Facebook

10:00 am:  Worship in the Sanctuary and Sunday School

Livestream available on our YouTube channel

6:00 pm:  Youth Group

Together in Christ—We Worship

Sunday services are at 8:30 A.M.  & 10:00 A.M. in the Sanctuary.

Worship with Us! Everyone is welcome!

(If you are feeling unwell, tested positive for COVID-19, or have been exposed to someone with COVID-19, please stay home.)

Submit Prayer Requests: Please submit prayer requests here or call Pastor John 508-451-5858 or MaryAnne Farley (774) 487-0719.

Seeking Greeters and Ushers: Anyone interested in speaking, greeting or ushering, please give Mary Ann Farley a call. (774) 487-0719.  If you are interested in singing in our choir group, please call Daniel Shinabarger at 857-919-0238.

A New Book Study Group started on Thursday, January 12 at 5:30pm. Pastor John is leading the group in the study of the book The Walk by Adam Hamilton. The book is available in the church office for $15.00 or you may order it yourself on kindle from Amazon. This study will last approximately 6 weeks.

 

The Church Book Group Will meet TUESDAY, January 24, 10:30 am (new time) in the Solarium or in the Church Parlor. Interested in books?  You are invited!  Bring a book to discuss, share, enjoy good varieties. Celebrate Our 13th Year Together!

Bible Study continues on Thursday mornings at 10am in the solarium. We are studying the scripture that will be read the following Sunday.  Come when you can. Don’t worry about signing up. Don’t worry about having any experience studying the Word. Bring a friend. All are welcome.

Dinner at Amari’s Our Welcoming Committee is organizing an opportunity for our church family to go out to dinner at Amari restaurant in E. Sandwich. Just come at 6PM on Friday, February 17. Amari will arrange for us to be seated together. There is a sign-up sheet in the solarium for this event so that we can tell them how many are coming. There is plenty of parking and there will be separate checks. We used to call these dinners “Cure for the Winter Blues”. It’s fun to get together during the winter when we may be more shut in than usual.  Newcomers are welcome to join us as we get to know one another better.

 

Committed to Serve—You are Making a Difference!

The Prayer Shawl Ministry will be meeting in the parlor the 1st Sunday of each month between services from 9:30 – 10:00. The dates are Sunday February 5th, Sunday March 5th, Sunday April 2nd, Sunday May 7th and Sunday June 4th

Buy BIC cards. BIC cards are gift cards to local supermarkets like Shaws and Stop & Shop, Dunkin Donuts, and many more. When you buy a gift card the company on the card donates a percentage to help people in need of housing assistance. You get a card of full value and someone in needs gets a helping hand through the generosity of the retailers participating. Cards are sold in the solarium every Sunday. We accept checks or cash.

Our Holiday Fair was a great success, and we are already making preparations for the next one. One way you can help is by donating jewelry to be sold in our jewelry room. There will be a box on the kiosk in the solarium every week for you to leave your jewelry that you don’t wear anymore. If you have something of greater value than just ordinary jewelry, please give it to Heather Wolfe or bring it to the church office.

January 2023 Collection for our Pantry is personal items. Individual or Travel size items only, please, as folks have limited storage: Shampoo, conditioner, bar soaps and body washes, shower gel, lotions, hand creams, toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, bandages, antiseptic ointments, pads, tampons, deodorants, Kleenex, cotton balls, Q-tips and handkerchiefs.

 

Lend-a-Hand Tasks Completed in December 2022

1. Major Leaf and branch cleanup was finished on January 2, 2023, using 4 backpack leaf blowers and 6 team members.
2. The Summer Chapel area with winterized.
3. The interior door repair project for the sanctuary, north hallway and choir room was completed saving several $1000. Doors to be checked in the spring.
4. Moved remaining items from the Hembree’s house to the Annex for future Yard sales.
5. Removed dead alberta spruce from the back wall of the parking lot.
6. Covered Air Conditioner at Rainbow’s
7. Major re-lamping of the Sanctuary has been completed. All the lights have been replaced with LED bulbs. Getting this completed by our committee has saved the church a ton of $$$.

We are going to post opportunities to help on the Make a Difference bulletin board in the solarium. David Eaton has compiled a list of things we can do to help the Lend a Hand group. These men and women meet every Monday from 9 to noon at the church to help us keep our buildings and properties in tip top shape. You don’t have to have any special skills to join them. Take a look at the list. If there is something you can do, it doesn’t have to be done on Monday morning if your schedule doesn’t fit that day. Speak to David Eaton or Heather Wolfe about other times the church is open or ways you would like to help.

A MILLION THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS CHURCH FAMILY! The Outreach Committee and our local veteran, homeless, and sheltered neighbors; plus local schools, and Sierra Leone neighbors; are gobsmacked by the radical generosity in 2022 of our church family’s prayers, presence, servant hearts, donations of diapers, food, toiletries, school supplies, sandwiches, salads, desserts, warm clothing, and gifts. Also donations for gift cards at Christmas!  Thousands of dollars were collected for CHAMP Homes, Safe Harbor Women’s Shelter, A Baby Center, Vinfen Men’s Group Home, the Pastor’s Discretionary Fund, and two UMC Missions in Sierra Leone: the Child Reintegration Centre and Mercy Hospital!  To God be the Glory, great things He hath done through UMC of Osterville!

 

Mission Trips to Sierra Leone in 2023: Helping Children Worldwide has announced planned mission trips to Sierra Leone, West Africa for 2023.  The dates of the trips are:

• July 16-30 – Zoom Interest Meeting 2/5/23 @ 3:30 p.m., application deadline 2/12/23.
• OCT 15-29 – Zoom Interest Meeting 5/14/23 @ 1 p.m., application deadline 5/21/23.
• DEC 26-JAN 3/2024 – Zoom Interest Meeting 7/23/23 @ 3:30 p.m., application deadline 7/30/23.

For additional information, please contact Patty Morell at 703-725-2773.

Just a Quick Note: The pledge envelopes are delayed. They will be put out for you as soon as they arrive. In the meantime, use last years or just a plain envelope. So sorry for the delay.