December 1, 2018 Weekly Event Calendar 2 Prayer Lists 2 Pastor’s Note 3 Events 4 Giving 5 Youth Ministry 6 Children’s Ministry 7 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Bryan Patrick Senior Pastor Visit Our Website! www.woodwayfumc.org The Woodway Word HEWLETT-PACKARD We are a church family dedicated to making and nurturing disciples by sharing the love of Jesus Christ! SALE ENDS Dec. 9 If you purchased Poinsettias You are invited to take them with you after the Christmas Eve Service you attend. Advent The Cantata, “a costumed bib- lical drama with Advent and Christmas music presented by our sanctuary choir. Based on events in Luke 2:25-38, “Simeon’s Dream” relates the momentous day when a devout man’s lifelong dream to see the Messiah comes true, al- lowing him to see the baby Jesus with his own eyes. The drama will be presented at the 10:30 a.m. service.
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December 1, 2018
Weekly Event Calendar 2
Prayer Lists 2
Pastor’s Note 3
Events 4
Giving 5
Youth Ministry 6
Children’s Ministry 7
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Bryan Patrick Senior Pastor
Visit Our Website! www.woodwayfumc.org
The Woodway Word
HEWLETT-PACKARD
We are a church family dedicated to making and nurturing disciples by sharing the love of Jesus Christ!
SALE ENDS Dec. 9 If you purchased
Poinsettias You are invited to take them with you after the Christmas Eve Service
Please continue to collect hotel/travel size toiletry items for the Family Abuse Cen-ter. Collection basket is in the office. Thank You for donating!
Travis Bigham
Faith Fortenberry
Sylvia Blankenship
Blake Hyland
Barbara Scott
Marlene Springer
Carolyn McDonald
Melissa Lynn
The prayer ministry of our congrega-tion is a large network of ministers, staff and laity partnering together in response to specific prayer re-quests. Requests may be made by completing a prayer card located in the pew rack, calling the church of-fice or sending information to our e-mail prayer group. Information is
transmitted via e-mail and later compiled weekly for the Monday Morning Prayer Group.
If you have loved ones serving in the military, please contact the church office so they can be add-ed to this list. SSgt. Scott Welstead - Buckley Field USMC; Aurora, CO (Vickie Welstead’s grandson)
Sgt. Charlie Rockwood - Special Forces Eden Farmer - P03 U.S. Navy Maj. Chad Cassady - Australia William Cassidy Johnson - Saudi Arabia Preston Prinzler Tyler Vann
Bill Fox
Jerry Wasson
Chuck Isbel
Janet Pick
Jay McNeill
Nicole Youel
Tom Edmondson
TUESDAY MORNING
BIBLE STUDY
9:30 am Our Study is over the Great Characters of the Bible
by Alan Stringfellow
Wednesdays 10:00 am - in the Library 6:00 pm - Fellowship Hall
AM Class Will Not Meet
December 12
Pastor’s Bible Study The book of
December 16 - 12:00 pm
Blood Pressure Check DECEMBER 2
FAITH HEALTH MINISTRIES
Our church has joined a pilot program
with Faith Health Waco, starting in
January. The goal is to bridge the gap between the
church and healthcare. Faith Health Waco is facilitating
a partnership between churches/faith communities and
hospitals, clinics and the health district to provide a
network of support to improve the health of the Waco
community. Trish Zawacki, Faith Health Liaison
Woodway United Methodist
Women
Saturday, December 8th
9:00 AM - Contemporary Circle Meets
10:00 AM - All UMW Circles
Christmas Fellowship & Installation of
Officers
Monday, December 10th
Waco Center for Youth Christmas Party
Holiday Office Hours
Closes at Noon
December
24th, 26th, 27th, 31st
Closed
Dec. 25th & Jan. 1st
December 30th
Only One Worship Service
10:30 am
Committee December 2
6:30 pm
NO Sunday School
If you have some extra religious Christ-mas cards please bring them to church on Sunday. We can use all those ran-dom cards left over from Christmas past. There will be a box in the Wel-come center for the cards. Thanks for any help you can give!
The
next
Woodway Word Newsletter will be published on JANUARY 8, 2019.
Items may be sent anytime to [email protected] or left in the office.
will hear the story of Jesus and God’s love for them because of you! Thank you so much for your boxes, monetary contributions, packing parties and prayerful support for Operation Christmas Child.
———Thank You Notes——— Woodway FUMC,
Thank you for everything. From your calls, visits and cards to the love you extended to our family; you have blessed my family. You anticipat-ed our needs and exceeded them. The love extended during the funeral and at the meal was more than I ever expected. For everything you’ve done...for being the special people that you are...thank you so very much.
Vickie Damon
Dear Church Family,
On behalf of Jack, Grady, Gracie and myself, we want to say a very special Thank You for all the support and prayers during Jack’s Kidney Cancer diagnosis, surgery, and recovery. We are so beyond blessed to have those who shared their love by volunteering to bring our family delicious meals from the meal train. We can’t wait to grow our faith with the entire WFUMC family. I want to send a special THANK YOU to Pastor Bryan for spending the afternoon of Jacks surgery sitting by my side. Pastor Bryan, you were a rock when I needed one the most. My heart is forever thankful. God Bless, and sending all our love..
The Moore’s
Dear Woodway FUMC,
I, my daughter and son would like to express our sincere thanks to the people that came to my aid when I fell at Church last Sunday. I am not sure who all helped, you know who you are, and we thank you. Special thanks to Debbie Young and her husband for taking me to Express Care and to my dear long time friends Kathy, Jim and Donnie Naylor, who took me to providence ER after Express Care said they couldn’t treat me and for staying with me until my family could arrive from Dallas. Again, thank all so very much, I’m so grateful for each and every one of you.
Viola Shivers & Family
E-prayer is the way we get prayer requests to the church membership quickly. It also ensures that the request is sent to everyone with the same correct infor-mation. There are over 140 members on the e-prayer list. We ask that those on the list remember that all prayer requests are confidential unless otherwise stated. If you are interested in being on the e-prayer please call the office at 751-0411. If you have a prayer request send it to [email protected] or [email protected].
CHRISTMAS PARTY with The FRIENDSHIP CLASS Friday, December 7th @ 11:30 AM
9600 Yellow Stone in Hewitt. RSVP is encouraged or you may not have a chair!
(call Ros 254-666-8001) We would love to see you there for food and fellowship.
DECEMBER 4th @ 9:30 AM
9600 Yellow Stone (Ros, 254-666-8001)
Older * Wiser * Livelier * Seniors
THANK YOU FOR SERVING
Our GREETERS
Date 8:30 am 9:15/10:30 am
December 2 - Lynn & Jan Roberson The Connections Class Waitay Bodu David & Heidi Dossey December 9 - Jim & Pam McKethan Kris Ford Sean Brace Glenn & Kay Furman Bob & Shirley Landon December 16 - Dan & Jean Cochran Vickie Reilly Linda Fedro Joaquin Lugo Mildred Montgomery December 23 - Mike & Suzzane Viola Shivers Cindy McGettigan Jim & Kathy Naylor December 30 - Lynn & Jan Roberson Ros Milnes Kathy Pruett Steve & Gloria Patrick January 6 - Jim & Pam McKethan Rebecca Isbel Ryan & Kristen Landon
Our USHERS
Month 8:30 am 10:30 am
DECEMBER Mike Reaves Paul Flynn David Wilson Gaylan McDonald Reece Pellegrino David Miller Ivan Pruett Tommy Tompkins 2 Volunteers Needed! JANUARY Mike Reaves Minta McCauley Terry Hurst Jesse Moffett
Donnie Naylor Jim Naylor
David Wilson 3 Volunteers Needed!
Please contact Terry Hurst or the church office at
751-0511 if you would like to be added to the rotation.
Last Night for Wed. Activities is Dec. 12 - Resume Jan. 9th
At Doug & Ruth Smiths home for Dinner and a short meeting. <No meetings on Dec. 23rd>
Celebrating Our Ministry Together Through Your Faithful Generosity
OPERATING BUDGET 2018
January 1 — November 26
Year-to-Date Income:
$ 688,485.92
Year-to-date Expenses:
$ 716,230.49
Year-to-date Budget Needs
$ 798,268.68
Contact Ken Bass, our fi-nancial secretary: Phone: 751-0411 or
Email: [email protected] if you have any questions or difficulty signing in or creating your account. Give online at: http://woodwayfumc.org/egive
End-of-the-Year Giving
MUST BE received by
10 am On
Monday, December 31st
to get credit for 2018
DECEMBER 19 - 7:00 pm Travelers Service DECEMBER 24 - 5:00 pm Family Service DECEMBER 24 - 8:00 pm Traditional Service
Thank You
Light in the Gap is a ministry to women be-
ing released from prison. Women are met at the bus station and given a bag of supplies to help them on their way. The bag contains: water, snacks, cookies, comb, hand cream, information containing state contacts in case of emergency. We help with these supplies. The women are also asked for prayer requests and those are what we send out to our e-prayer group. We are doing this in conjunction to Woodway Baptist which is doing most of the work.
BOOK SIGNING ON SUNDAY!
Faith in Rhyme By J.D. Baskin,
author and church member.
All proceeds will be
given to the church.
Thank you for your support!
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Meeting Weekly(unless otherwise notified)
BUS INESS NAME
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Newsletter Date
Youth Choir Practice (4:30pm)
12/2
Meal & Small Groups
12/5
Youth Choir Practice (4:00pm)
Youth Christmas Party!
12/9
Meal & Small Groups
12/12
Youth Choir Singing in both services
12/16
D-Now SHINE Retreat
Weekend
Jan 18-20
DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
Every Wednesday Night
5:30-7:30pm
Fellowship dinner followed by in-depth, small group discussions
of how the Bible applies to our lives today.
Every Sunday Night
5:30-7:30pm
Light snacks followed by life
application studies, games,
projects & other crazy activities.
Mission Trip 2019
July 6-14, 2019 Crownpoint, New Mexico
$100 Deposit Due by Dec. 16
No evening Youth Activities from
December 23—December 30
We will resume
Wednesday, January 2
2018 Youth Regressive Christmas Party
Sunday, December 9
(5:00pm-8:30pm)
Don’t miss out as we enjoy a night of Christmas Fellowship BACKWARDS!
Our Regressive Dinner begins with dessert first and the appetizer last!
Bring a wrapped gift under $10 for our wacky exchange game.
OH…..
And don’t forget to wear your “ugly” Christ-mas Sweater. Prize will be given to the bravest
