Cullowhee United Methodist Church A Christ-Centered Community -- Growing together David Reeves, Minister Julia Trantham Jay Hinton, Director of Campus Ministry 828-293-9215 828-293-9215 828-368-4234 Church website: www.cullowheeumc.org Email:[email protected]2014/2015 Paper Bag Christmas 2014 Please join us Wednesday, December 3 for Paper Bag Christmas. The Cullowhee Kids Preschool will serve a homemade soup Fundraiser dinner at 5:15 pm. The Christmas program be in the Sanctuary, 6:00 p.m. 2014 . Christmas Tree Sale Fundraiser The Senior High Youth will be selling Christmas Trees the week after Thanksgiving as a fundraiser. The trees will range in cost from $45-$50. Please support our youth. Everyone is welcome! Please join us for a meaningful and brief service.
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Cullowhee
United Methodist Church A Christ-Centered Community -- Growing together David Reeves, Minister Julia Trantham Jay Hinton, Director of Campus Ministry 828-293-9215 828-293-9215 828-368-4234 Church website: www.cullowheeumc.org Email:[email protected]
2014/2015
Paper Bag Christmas 2014 Please join us Wednesday, December 3 for Paper Bag Christmas. The Cullowhee Kids Preschool will serve a homemade soup Fundraiser dinner at 5:15 pm. The Christmas program be in the Sanctuary, 6:00 p.m.
2014
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Christmas Tree Sale Fundraiser
The Senior High Youth will be selling Christmas Trees the week after Thanksgiving as a fundraiser. The trees will range in cost from $45-$50. Please support our youth.
Everyone is welcome!
Please join us for a meaningful and
brief service.
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Holiday Giving Opportunities
Christmas Connection
The Jackson County Christmas Store has changed to Christmas Connection, but will continue to serve local families who need assistance with Christmas gifts for their children. Please call Marilyn Chamberlin, 293-7133 at night if you would like to sponsor a child or help with this project in any manner, or the Family Resource Center (586-2845) during office hours of 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Mon.- Fri.; Please mail checks to Christmas Connection, PO Box 250, Webster, NC 28788. Volunteers are needed to shop, help and organize, or donate. The store will officially open November 10 to receive donated items in the office across from the Eastgate Pharmany, which is above the hospital. Families will pick up the gifts December 8-20. The store will be open November 10th – December 6th in the evening hours. Starting December 8, the store will be open 10 am to 9 pm.
Donations to United Christian Ministries During the Christmas season we invite you to make a donation to United Christian Ministries. Please make checks out to the church designated for UCM. Donations may be made in honor or in memory of a loved one and will be listed in the Dec. 15 bulletin and put on the church website. In memory of:_______________________________________________________________ In honor of:_________________________________________________________________ Your name:________________________________________________________________
UMW Christmas Party All the women of the church are invited to the annual Women’s Christmas Party, Tuesday, December 16, 6:00-7:30 p.m., at Gail Maye’s home. Please bring a finger food and a gag/white elephant gift (a gift you do not want anymore) and be prepared for a jolly good time. To car pool, please meet at the church at 5:30 p.m. to ride the warmed-up bus to Gail’s house.
Christmas Cookie Exchange: December 6
Join us for a Cookie Exchange at Cullowhee UMC, Saturday, December 6, from 10:00 a.m. until noon. Adults will have light refreshments, enjoy some Christmas readings shared by Gail Maye, and exchange cookies in the large Fellowship Hall. A nursery for infants/toddlers will be provided if there are requests. This gathering is sponsored by Cullowhee United Methodist Women, and we invite everyone to celebrate the season with us.
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Middle School Youth Group Sun., Dec. 7 We will be packing UCM Christmas boxes, helping hungry people in our community have food this holiday season! Sun., Dec.14 5:00-7:30 pm: Progressive Dinner and White Elephant Christmas gift exchange. Please bring a wrapped gift (either gag or serious) that is around $5. Parents, if you'd like to host our youth for appetizers, the entree, or dessert, please let Julia know!
Youth will resume Sunday, January 18th!
Whee Wednesday Small Groups
5:15 pm – Food and Fellowship Dinner • A delicious and healthy meal will be provided each week • $6 per person, $3 per child 11 & under, $20 max per family, & free for WCU students
• RSVP required – please sign up on the pew cards, email the church at [email protected] or call the office at 293-9215.
December Menu
• Dec. 3 Preschool Soup Night & Christmas Play! Adult and Children classes will not meet.
Whee Wed will resume Jan 14 6:00 pm-7:00 pm – Small Groups
• Infant and Toddler Childcare – room 125 with Nina Webb.
• Children’s Small Group –in room 212.
• Middle School Small Group – the middle schoolers will be doing lessons with Hannah Van Hooser in the Middle School Youth Room,
• Wesley Small Group – the college students will gather in the Wesley Foundation for Hot Topics, Destination Unknowns, and other
activities.
• Adult Studies will be announced in early January
• Adult Study: Where Mom’s Connect with Larissa Miller and Carmen Huffman, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays, in the Gathering Room.
• Meditative Flow Yoga – led by Chad Hallyburton in the Small Fellowship Hall, room 111.
• 7:00pm – Chancel choir rehearsal will be led by Damon Sink in the Choir Room.
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Sunday School Classes
• The Serendipity Sunday School Class will meet in room 117 from 10:00-10:45 for a Bible study. For more information, contact Sheri Turk at [email protected].
• The Contemporary Issues Sunday School Class in room 207 from 10:00-10:45 for an intellectual book study. For more
information, contact Ed Taylor.
• The Faith and Family Sunday School Class will meet in the Wesley fellowship hall on Sundays from 10:05-10:45 for a group
study focused on parenting and families. For more information, contact Carmen Huffman at [email protected].
• The Young Adults will meet in the Gathering Room outside of the sanctuary from 10:00-10:45 for a time of food, fellowship,
and prayer. For more information, contact Camille Hooper at [email protected].
• The College Students will meet in Wesley Foundation’s Blue Room from 10:00-10:45. They will be studying Rob Bell’s
NOOMA with Meredith Willis. For more information, contact Meredith at [email protected].
• The High School youth will have informal discussions about faith and life. 9th-12th graders are invited to join Rachel Cox from
10:00-10:45 in room 206. For more information, contact Rachel at [email protected].
• The Middle School youth will study Uncommon Bible stories in the Old Testament. 6th-8th graders are invited to join this class led by Julie Barnes from 10:00-10:45 in room 208. For more information, contact Julie at [email protected].
• The children will meet at 10:00am and use the Grow, Proclaim, Serve! Curriculum, which unlocks the Bible and helps them
grow their faith in Christ. For more information, contact Larissa Miller at [email protected].
o Infants and Toddlers: Nina Webb & Wendy Howell, room 125. o Pre-K – Kindergarten: Bonnie Stephens, room 127. o 1st – 3rd Grade: Julie Ogletree & Eleanor Macaulay, room 212. o 4th – 5th Grade: Dean & Danielle Haney, room 213.
Children’s Sunday School News Our sweet Miss Christin Wilson is graduating from WCU on December 13th! She has been the leader of our Super Sunday for a LONG time at CUMC, and we wish her all the very best! We will have our Super Sunday on December 14th from 10-10:45 a.m. in the small fellowship hall where we will be getting ready for Christmas! Please join us if you are in Pre-K through 5th grade! Thank you to everyone who helped pack shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. We packed 38 boxes to send to children across the globe!
Thank you so much for all your hard work, prayers and support as we sought to be in ministry with the people of Venezuela. We had a wonderful experience and It would not have been possible without your help. Thank you for allowing us to share in the work of Christ in such a special and meaningful way.
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From WCU Recreational Therapy Association
Thank you, as always, for supporting the Recreational Therapy Association this fall. RTA has been very active this fall (the
Executive Council has kept me hopping!). Some highlights were:
• RTA donated $400 to the Karen Styles Scholarship Fund. Over half of this money came from an additional fundraiser at
Zaxby’s in October, but the students contributed $155 of monies they had earned from church suppers here to make the total
donation. (If you are interested in making a donation to this fund, please contact me or Brenda Holcombe at
• 22 RT students were given a small amount of financial support to attend the North Carolina Recreational Therapy
Association conference in Raleigh, NC. These students included two of the four Past President’s Scholars chosen from
across the state. The money for this came directly through the Whee Wednesday dinners that we did at CUMC.
• 25 students volunteered to help with the Starlight Night fundraiser for Full Spectrum Farms. They provided children’s
activities and supervision for young people on the Autism spectrum and their siblings, as well as for other families in
attendance.
• 15 students volunteered for a respite weekend during fall break at Camp Royall in Moncure, NC . Camp Royall is the largest
and oldest camp for children and adults on the Autism spectrum in North Carolina.
While the list could continue, know that your support of our students helps them to learn and grow in ways that faculty cannot
accomplish in the classroom. They are an active bunch, inviting speakers to campus every semester, and getting out to learn about
RT in their local and professional communities every month. Again, we appreciate the opportunity to have this church family be a
part of their endeavors.
Coats for Kids of Jackson County On Saturday, November 22, the 6th Annual "Coats for Kids of Jackson County," a local mission project, had its second distribution day for 2014 at First Presbyterian Church of Sylva. At this event, 138 children and 50 adults were blessed with warm clothing items. On the first distribution day, October 4, the project helped 200 children and 65 adults, making the grand total of 453 people served by this mission project in 2014. This project would not have been made possible without the generous outpouring of support from our community; to everyone who helped from donating items, volunteering time, providing food for volunteers, donating monetarily; also to area churches and businesses who participated, and to those who said prayers and kind words of support for the mission project, a 'WARM' THANK YOU!!! The Lord willing "Coats for Kids of Jackson County" will continue to help local children and families in 2015.
Kid-Sitting Service December 1st!
(During the Chancellor’s Open House) The Wesley Foundation will provide “Kids-Sitting Service” for children of all ages. This service will coincide with the open house at the
Chancellor’s residence on December 1st. We hope this will help those with children have the opportunity to attend the open house. This will give
your kids a safe and fun place to be on campus and help us pay for our service trip to Guatemala over Spring Break.
• What: Age Appropriate Snack, Fun, Games and a Kids Movie!
• When: Monday, December 1st
from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
• Who: Children of all ages will be entertained in developmentally and age appropriate groups and kept safe by college students who are members of
the Wesley Foundation Campus Ministry. Older children will have the opportunity to be a helper if they choose.
• How Much: This is a fundraiser so - Generous Donations Are Accepted (that’s at least what you’d pay a sitter at your home ☺)
• R.S.V.P. REQUIRED – Please R.S.V.P. no later than November 28th to Ashley Lewis at [email protected] or Jay Hinton at
Space is limited. Reserve your spot today! ** We are first aid and CPR certified**
**This event is not sponsored by or presented by the Chancellor’s Office**
January Kids Night Out The Wesley Foundation will provide another “Kids Night Out” for children of all ages. This event will help raise money for the Spring Mission Trip.
• What: Age Appropriate Fun and Games! (Macaroni and cheese, apple slices, juice or milk, and a snack will be provided. You may drop your child off with supper/snacks if you don’t want them to have the provided options).
• When you drop off your child(ren) you will be asked to fill out a short form with dietary and other important information. • When: Friday, January 23, 5:00pm – 10:00pm • Where: The Wesley Foundation (Upstairs from Cullowhee Kids) in Cullowhee UMC • Who: Children of all ages will be entertained in developmentally and age appropriate groups and kept safe by college students who are
members of the Wesley Foundation Campus Ministry. Older children will have the opportunity to be a helper if they choose.
• How Much: This is a fundraiser so - Generous Donations Are Accepted (that’s at least what you’d pay a sitter at your home or
more☺) R.S.V.P. REQUIRED – Please R.S.V.P. to Jay Hinton, [email protected] or 828-5087026 no later than January 22. It’s ok to leave your R.S.V.P. on the voicemail too! ☺
Space is limited. Reserve your spot today! ** We are first aid and CPR certified**
Remember, this event is a fundraiser. Please consider a generous donation at the end of the night.
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Great Christmas Gift suggestion!
The Wesley Foundation United Methodist Campus Ministry at WCU invites you to help them raise needed funds for FREE by doing something you already do, shop for groceries at Ingles.
The Wesley Foundation has Ingles Gift Cards available in $25, $50 and $100 denominations. The cards can also be used at SAV-MOR. All you have to do is purchase cards at face value using cash or check made out to the Wesley Foundation, and then use them when you shop at Ingles. The Wesley Foundation will earn 2.5% on the cards. Cards can be purchased in the church office. And Sheri Turk and Donna Cox will be selling the Ingles cards on the first and third Sunday mornings of each month. This is an easy way to help the Wesley Foundation. We hope you will take advantage of this on a monthly basis.
Save the Dates Sun. Nov. 30 First Sunday in Advent Mon. Dec. 1 Items for Jackson County Dept. On Aging Christmas Boxes due. Wed. Dec. 3 6 pm Paper Bag Christmas for children of all ages Fri. Dec. 5 6 pm Senior Adult Christmas Party, Small Fellowship Hall Sat. Dec. 6 10-noon UMW Cookie Exchange Sun. Dec. 7 11 am worship service Chancel Choir Christmas Cantata Sun. Dec. 7 225, 1 lb. boxes of dry spaghetti due in office Tues. Dec. 16 6 pm Women’s Christmas Party at Gail Maye’s Wed. Dec. 24 6 pm Christmas Eve Service Dec. 2-20 Jackson County Christmas Connection
Cullowhee United Methodist Family Responsibilities for December 2014
Children’s Church for January 7 Open 14 Sandy Railsback 21 Open 28 Sandy Railsback
Altar Flowers January
7 Open 14 Open 21 Open 28 Open
Greeters for January 7 Rosie Reeser 14 Lisa Bacon 21 Barbara Starnes 28 Sue Heckert Head Ushers January 7 Ruebel/Winter family 14 Sue Heckert 21 Carol Martin-Vegue 28 Robbie Pittman
Hospitality Team for January 7 Ruebel/Winter 14 Sue Heckert, Meredith Willis, Elaine White 21 Mayes, Christin Wilson and Mae Claxton 28 Dawn Gilchrist, Bill Manware, Blacks and Turk Food for “Come and See” worship service 7 Melissa Johnson 14 Bonnie Stephens 21 Lisa Briggs 28 Betty Farmer
December Birthdays 2 David Claxton, John Patterson 3 Thomas Batchelor 4 Andrew Tye 6 Ellen Weekley, Stella Cole 7 Barbara Hardesty, Danny Williamson 8 Mary Derks Dellinger, Lisa Macon Harrison Jonathan Schrader, Meagan Schrader, Aileen Tye 9 Jim Rowell 10 Sandy Railsback, Pam Myers 12 Nancy Kolenbrander 13 Alexa Teague, Kenny Cook 15 Quinn Manning, Rena Rowell 16 Jay Ruebel 18 Shawn Phillips, Gracie Ruebel 19 Tiffani Phillips, Greg Bauguess, Hilary Lindler 20 Ted Madill, Bob Ray, Mason Forbis 21 Katy McRae, Linda Haney, Emma Lu Rowe
Shawn Kosnik
22 Mildred Black 24 Savannah Crites 25 Carol Martin-Vegue 26 Samantha Teague, Lisa Briggs 29 Carmen Huffman 30 Barbara Macon
December Anniversaries 10 Jay & Miki Scifers 12 Robert & Misti Webb 27 Carlton & Lin Bostic 28 David & Della Reeves 29 Robbie & Pam Pittman 31 Craig & Angie Cloud
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Cullowhee United Methodist Family Responsibilities for January 2015
Children’s Church for January 4 Open 11 Sandy Railsback 18 Open 25 Sandy Railsback
Altar Flowers January
4 Open 11 Open 18 Open 25 Open
Greeters for January 4 Gail Debnam 11 Beckie Barber 18 Gloria Wallace 25 Sue Heckert
Hospitality Team for January 4 Borchelts 11 Sue Heckert, Meredith Willis, Elaine White 18 Mayes, Christin Wilson and Mae Claxton 25 Dawn Gilchrist, Bill Manware, Blacks and Turk Food for “Come and See” worship service 4 Sue Heckert 11 Carol Martin-Vegue 18 Carly Borchelt 25 Pam Buskey
Head Ushers January 4 Ruebel/Winter family 11 Sue Heckert 18 Carol Martin Vegue 25 Robbie Pittman
The 2015 altar flower schedule is posted on the wall downstairs in the hallway near the small kitchen. If you would like to provide flowers on a Sunday please sign up. Also, let us know if the flowers are in memory or in honor of a loved one.
Bingo Prizes Needed
Bingo prizes are needed for our friends at Jackson Village. Item ideas: toiletries, stationary, games, everyday
practical items, etc. Prizes may be left in the church office.
January Birthdays 2 Heather Pittillo 3 Benjamin Rowe 4 Vallyn Anderson, Ronnie Mau, Jennifer Hinton 5 Nicole Webb 6 Paul Flynn, Lloyd Phillips, Lucy McRae 7 Ashley Phillips, Toby Miller 8 Rusty Owens, Mara Buskey 11 Julia Trantham 15 Richard Hotaling, Lacey Stafford 16 Eric Ridenour, Carly Hester, Emily Virtue 17 Thomas Yates, Kerri Davis
19 Amy Medlin Sutton, Sarah Ogletree 20 Michael Pittman, Nancy Fulmer Wike, Yasi Dehdashty, Kate Macaulay, Rebekah Rhodes Malcolm Claxton Jons 21 Madison Hardie 22 Donna Deitz Watson, Anna Carter 23 Frank Watson 24 Joseph Lee, David Reeves 25 June Benson, Gwen Madill 27 Travis Debnam 29 Richard Renfro 30 Stephanie Londo, Jennifer Rowell Roger Turk, K. McJunkin-Brown
