PO Box 36 Mount Vernon, VA 22121 admin@washingtonfarmumc.org 703.780.4696

WFUMC INFO

WFUMC INFO April 22, 2021

Please check for * before the new items below.

Reminder to all:

Reverend James A. Lewis

*Email: pastor@washingtonfarmumc.org; pastorjamesumc@gmail.com

Cell: 706-832-5345

Please keep Pastor Christina and her family in your thoughts and prayers as she and her doctors work together to cure her migraine headaches.

Live streaming links: For regular 10 AM Sunday Services

www.washingtonfarmumc.org

https://www.facebook.com/washingtonfarmumc/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLMF5qohLaRnaGpdiDU1uQ

Our regular 10 AM On-Line Service will be this Sunday, April 25. Hope you can join us!

This is my next to last issue of writing our BLAST. My last day as church secretary is April 30. I am finally retiring! Jeff and I are moving to Washington, NC to be closer to his brother and sister-in-law. Our mailing address will be 202 Cowan Street, Washington, NC 27889. My cell phone, 571-215-4990 and email, nlichtenfels@yahoo.com will remain the same. Thank you for helping me serve our Little Green Church on the Corner! We have made such wonderful friends within our congregation, as well as within our community. I love everyone of you and will miss you and this church so very much! Nancy L

GIVING STATEMENTS

For those doing their Income Tax and looking for their Giving Statement from the church, Bob Enck emailed them out on January 29 and 30, 2021. This is how you will be receiving them from now on. Please contact Nancy in the church office if you did need it re-sent.

OUTREACH

*Outreach is initiating a new program in association with the monthly Rising Hope Food Collection. We will be hosting drop-offs in the North (gravel) parking lot across from the church on the 4th Friday of the month, from 11 am to 12 pm.  That will Be Friday, April 23rd. You can still drop food donations off at the Education Building at any time during the month. Sy Berdux, the point person for this program, will get it to Rising Hope.  I would like members of the congregation who are able to help collect to come and volunteer to help Sy collect – at least 2 people at each drop.  The Outreach Chair is Scharn Robinson.  Please email to her any questions at outreach@washingtonfarmumc.org.

UMW

United Methodist Women  

The Larry Dawes Driveway Plant sale is tentatively scheduled for June 5 from 10 am to 3 pm.  If your garden is overcrowded, please consider separating your plants, putting them in pots and bringing them to Larry’s Garden Center (aka his backyard) to be included in the June plant sale.  Be sure to label the pots so he knows what he’s selling. 

UMW 2021 COMMUNITY SERVICE UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION: Deadline Saturday, May 22.

Requirements: Will be a full-time student in the Fall (preference given to H.S. seniors); active participant at WFUMC; min. 3.0 grade point average; commitment to church, school and/or community within past two years.

Renewals: Full-time student; active WFUMC participant; 3.0 grade point average; continued church, school and/or community commitment within past year.

Apply at: https://forms.gle/XSaFm3DxDLL8H9Cw8

Questions?  Contact Church Office, admin@washingtonfarmumc.org; 703-780-4694

*The next UMW Womens Outdoor Gathering will be held Tuesday, April 27 at 10 AM, behind the Education building.  Bring your mask and your chair, and please don’t forget to complete your Health Acknowledgement Form.

At this time, it is permissible to resume Small Group meetings with no more than 10 attendees inside. If the positivity rate goes back over 15%, we’ll have to return to meeting outside.

Children & Youth Sunday School

K-5th grade is led by Mel Hinton and Eileen Fraedrich

6th-8th grade is led by Hannah Perkins and Shirley Watson

9th & 10th grade is led by Pam Wolski and Bryan Bourne

11th & 12th grade is led by Drew Barnes and Bob Enck

At this time, it is permissible to resume Small Group meetings with no more than 10 attendees inside. If the positivity rate goes back over 15%, we’ll have to return to meeting outside.

Children & Youth

K-5th grade is led by Mel Hinton and Eileen Fraedrich

6th-8th grade is led by Hannah Perkins and Shirley Watson

9th & 10th grade is led by Pam Wolski and Bryan Bourne

11th & 12th grade is led by Drew Barnes and Bob Enck

If you wish to enroll your child in Sunday School Zoom Classes Sunday at 11 AM, or if you would like to join the adult Sunday School class that also meets at 11 AM,contact education@washingtonfarmumc.org to register and for class zoom links.

ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL:  Please join Donna Julian and Steve Brown Sundays at 11 a.m. on-line to journey inside the pages of scripture to meet a personal God who enters individual lives and begins a creative work from the inside out.  We are currently studying the Gospel of John, with the assistance of a study guide by N.T. Wright.

*Bible Study every Wednesday evening at 7 PM. Join Zoom Bible Study Meeting: Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/92946232196?pwd=WjFsS1h1WTlXN1pqUDFYVVZpMHZIdz09

Meeting ID: 929 4623 2196
Passcode: tQPN87

Please contact Sam Barnes for your Zoom link or for more information!

education@washingtonfarmumc.org

*Financials and Attendance for February are attached.

GIVING – Our Washington Farm family is wonderfully generous and faithful. You make the important work of Christ happen in our community. To make a contribution, you can mail donations to WFUMC, PO Box 36, Mt. Vernon, VA, 22121-0036, or give online. If you have any questions about online giving, please call or email Bob Enck: 571-329-5940, enckfamily2010@yahoo.com

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