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

WFUMC INFO

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, May 9. Hope you can join us!

GIVING STATEMENTS

May 17 is this year’s extended Tax Filing Deadline. For those of you preparing your Income Tax Returns and looking for your Church Giving Statement,  please  note that Bob Enck emailed them out on January 29 and 30, 2021. This is how you will be receiving them from now on. Please contact Gracie 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.  From 11 to 12 on the 4th Friday of each month, we will host food drop-offs in the North (gravel) parking lot across from the church.The next drop-offwill be Friday, May 21. You can still bring food donations to the Education Building at any time during the month. Sy Berdux, the point person for this program, will transport donations to Rising Hope Mission Church in Alexandria. Please volunteer to help Sy collect. You may email any questions to Scharn Robinson, the Outreach Chair, at: outreach@washingtonfarmumc.org.

United Methodist Women   (UMW)

*The Larry Dawes Driveway Plant sale will be on Saturday, May 15th 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 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, May 11 at 10 AM, behind the Education building.  Bring your mask and your chair, and please do not forget to complete your Health Acknowledgement Form.

*We anticipate receiving a major indoor and outdoor worship update soon from the Alexandria District. At present, it is permissible for us to resume Small Group meetings with no more than 10 attendees inside. If the positivity rate goes back over 15%, we will 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

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 AMcontact 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.

*Spiritual Growth Opportunity!

Please Join Pastor James for BIBLE STUDY every Wednesday evening at 7 PM.

The meeting address is:
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

GIVING –

Our Washington Farm family is wonderfully generous and faithful. Through  your giving, you make the important work of Christ happen within 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  Bob Enck: 571-329-5940 or email  enckfamily2010@yahoo.com

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