Sunday, March 26: FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
8:30 am: Early Worship in the Sanctuary
Live stream available on Facebook
10:00 am: Worship in the Sanctuary and Sunday School
Live stream available on our YouTube
3:30 Esprit
5:00 pm: Confirmation Class
6:00 pm: Youth Group
Monday, March 27:
9:00 am: Lend-a-Hand
7:00 pm: Men’s Study Group via Zoom
Tuesday, March 28:
9:00 am Yoga
12:00 pm: Deadline for Saturday Tidings
10:00 am: “The Chosen” Study Group
11:00 am: Book Group
12:00 pm: Prayer Group
Wednesday, March 29:
10:30 am: Rainbow’s End is open.
6:00 pm: Esprit
Thursday, March 30:
10:30 am: Rainbow’s End is open
10:00 am: Bible Study
2:00 pm: Chair Yoga
5:00 pm: Big Book Step Group
5:30 pm: “The Chosen” Discussion Group
Friday, March 31:
Office Closed
10:00 am: Al-Anon
10:30 am Rainbow’s End is Open!
Saturday, April 1:
9:00 am: Yoga
10:30 am Rainbow’s End is Open!
Sunday, April 2: PALM SUNDAY
8:30 am: Early Worship in the Sanctuary
Live stream available on Facebook
9:30 am: Prayer Shawl Ministry
10:00 am: Worship in the Sanctuary and Sunday School
Live stream available on our YouTube channel
5:00 pm: Confirmation Class
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.
Sermon: Called Forth To Live!
Submit Prayer Requests: Mary Anne Farley will be away until April 10, 2023. Please submit prayer requests to Pastor John or Jane Gray while she is away. You may reach her on her cell phone 508-273-6447 of at the office 508-428-2811.
Pot Luck Supper: There will be pot luck supper held before our worship on Maundy Thursday at 5:30 pm. Please sign up on the sheet hanging in the Solarium or let the office know 508-428-2811 or office@umcchurches.org
Easter Flowers: if you would like to order tulips or daffodils for Easter Sunday, there are sign-up sheets in the Solarium on the table next to the entrance.
An Easter Egg Hunt is scheduled for after the 10 am service on Easter Sunday. We need dozens of plastic Easter eggs for our youth group to fill with candy for the hunt. Donations of wrapped candy to put inside the eggs are welcome too. If you know of any families who would like to attend our 10 am Easter Sunday worship service and stay afterwards for the Hunt, please invite them to come. We will need the eggs and candy by 6 pm on April 2. There will be a container outside of Heather’s office to collect them.
“The Chosen Study Group” is meeting both on Tuesday mornings at 10 am and Thursday at 5:30 pm.
A 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.
Interested in joining the Choir? If you are interested in singing in our choir group, please call Daniel Shinabarger at 857-919-0238.
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 April 2nd, Sunday May 7th and Sunday June 4th.
A 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.
The Church Book Group will meet on the fourth Tuesday of every month. You are invited, bring a book to share, and enjoy some books by Black authors, men or women. The next meeting will be on March 22. Everyone is invited to come.
The Memorial Service for Rev. D. S. Dharmapalan “Dharma” will be held on Saturday March 25 at 11:00 am at South Yarmouth United Methodist Church 318 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA
Coming in April There will be a presentation by Gary Melville, Director of the United Methodist Foundation of New England, on April 5, 2023, at 6:00 pm. If you are interested in attending let the office know. 508-428-2811 or office@umcchurches.org.
Bright Promises Preschool is now accepting registration for the Fall 2023. Children must be 2 years 9 mpnths old to attend. If you are interested, please call the school office @508-428-5010 or email brightpromises@gmail.com.
United Women in Faith With President Donna Kahelin leading the Women in Faith Board at UMC Osterville, we met last Sunday to organize mission & ministry for the whole church community. Watch for the dates after Easter when everyone will be invited to the Enhanced Coffee Hour mission moments in Fred Curtis Hall. United Methodist Women are now named internationally UNITED WOMEN in FAITH.
Committed to Serve—You are Making a Difference
Outreach March Collection This month we are collecting eco-friendly cleaning products. Some ideas: Baking Soda, vinegar, Bon Ami, sponges, Mrs. Meyers products, whisk brooms, Dawn dish soap, empty spray bottles, rubber gloves, liquid laundry detergent, buckets and brooms.
A Food Packaging Event will be held on March 25 at the K. C. Combs School on Old Barnstable Road in Mashpee. If you are interested in helping, please let Pastor John know. 508-451-5858 or pastorjohn3333@gmail.com
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.
Holiday Fair is having a short meeting this Sunday after the 10 am service. We are accepting jewelry donations of jewelry to be sold in our jewelry room. There is a box on the kiosk in the solarium for you to leave any jewelry that you don’t wear anymore.
Donate to Hiefer Project International: Our Sunday school children are collecting enough money to purchase a sheep for Hiefer Project International as a Lenten project. Everyone making a donation will receive a specially made sheep done by our Sunday school students. Please see the table in the solarium to make your donation.
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If you can help, donate plants, let the office know 508-428-2811 office@umcchurches.org.If you have plants that need to be dug up and you need help, we can come to your home and take care of that for you. Just give Dave Eaton a call 508-680-6779.
SIGN UP FOR THE CRAFT FAIR AT
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 857-919-023
Rainbow’s End is back on schedule! All Winter Clothing is #1.00 per piece! We need Volunteers. Call the office 508-428-2811 if you can help. Open Wednesday through Saturday 10:30 am till 3:00 pm. Help customers find items, price clothing and items for sale, and get first pick of all the beautiful and unique things that are donated for sale. Speak to Heather Wolfe if you are interested or send an email to Jane in our church office.
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.
To continue with our pledge theme, “I Can Make a Difference” you will notice on the MAKING A DIFFERENCE bulletin board in the solarium, a list of projects that need to be done in our church.
This list was put together by Dave Eaton, our Lend-a-Hand leader. By helping with one of these projects you will be making a difference in our church.
If you have any questions on any of these projects or how you can help, please contact either Dave Eaton or Heather Wolfe.
Remember our pledge campaign bible scripture from Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me, as you pray fully consider ways you can continue to help our church.
Thank you in advance for making a difference! – The Stewardship Team
Lend-a-Hand Tasks Completed in January 2023
- Determined safest way to remove stained glass window from wall in sanctuary. Tried several lighting applications before settling with 4′ 36″ LED tubes. Installation completed.
Lend-a-Hand Tasks Completed in February 2023
- Replaced mercury vapor bulbs from 2 wall sconces at the rear of the sanctuary with four low-wattage bulbs.
- Continued vacuuming high traffic areas in the sanctuary and choir loft.
- Completed Integrated Pest Management (IPM) documents, including Compliance.
- Checklist for the Children’s and Families’ Protection Act for Bright Promises preschool.
- Cleaned out clutter in narthex, including items stored under stairs to balcony. Replaced light in desk display. Organized closet in west corridor adjacent to choir room door.
- In anticipation of replacing Lend a Hand shed, cleaned all garden tools scheduled to move to new wooden shed. Wooden shed scheduled for construction in March.
- Continued removing recyclables from church on a weekly basis.
- The burned-out light at the outside entrance to the choir room was replaced.
- Completed taking down all holiday decorations and storing them in the north basement.
- Removed seven soiled communion kneeling pad covers and washed them.
- Conducted a walkthrough of the Annex every Monday to inspect temperature setting, condition of the furnace and the temperature alarm and basement water alarms.
- 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.