August 2017 - Community United Methodist Church

Stepping on Cheerios

Adult, Learning & Fellowship book club

Moms’ Book Group

Thursdays – 12:30 – 1:30

September 21 to October 26

In The Cove (just right of the fountain in the courtyard) Join Us!

Being a mother isn’t easy. Sometimes it’s hard to experience a personal connection with God and community when you are caught up in the chaos of just “doing family”.

Independent and self-sufficient, author Betsy Singleton Snyder lived a full and busy life as a pastor, missionary, and wife to a husband who served in the U.S. House of Representatives. She had her first child at age 44, then at 47, she found out she was carrying triplets. Suddenly finding herself overwhelmed is an understatement.

Stepping on Cheerios is a collection of funny, warm, and charming tales from the frontlines of parenthood, written for women who are juggling to accomplish everyday feats of work,

motherhood, marriage, church, and more. It’s a comical story of one woman’s realization that her crazy life is a gift and how she found the grace in it.

We have a few copies of the book in the church office available for $12 .

The book is also available at Amazon in book format or an eBook.

If you have a child in our preschool, you can enroll your child in the Stay & Play for half price, $10 per session.

Please contact Leyla in the Preschool office if you have any question regarding this group.

Foundation Grants

Service & Ministry

The CUMC Foundation is pleased to announce it will recommend to the December 2017 Charge Conference that grants be made available for award no later than January 31, 2017. These grants are funded by earnings on the investment of gifts to the CUMC Foundation. Applications are due in the church office Foundation mailbox no later than close-of-business Monday, October 24th, 2017. The 2018 Grant Application Form is available from the office or by email from Loren Maddy. hblorenmaddy@gmail.com

Music Program for All Ages

Adult, Children, Music, Youth

Community United Methodist Church is blessed with a diverse music program featuring ensembles for all ages including:

The Chancel Choir
Adult and Youth Handbells
Celebration Singers
Joyful Noise Choir
The Cherub Choir

The music ministry offers a wide variety of musical styles from traditional choral classics and hymns to jazz, spirituals, gospel music, and contemporary praise music.

I would like to invite you to consider becoming a part of the music ministry at Community UMC. We have some of the most dedicated, committed, and friendly members you will find anywhere, and we want YOU to be a part of the Music Ministry Team. While you are not required to audition, we hope that prospective members will be able to carry a tune (lol) and have the ability to match pitches with fellow choristers. Highlights of this year’s music feast will include An Inter-denominational Thanksgiving Service, A Festival of Lessons and Carols by Jonathan Willcocks and The Seven Last Words of Christ by Theodore Dubois as well as a children’s Christmas pageant entitled, “The Case of the Reluctant Innkeeper.”

We invite you and/or your children to join any one of these fine ensembles.

For more information check us out on the internet at: cumchb.org or contact Dr. James Calhoun, Director of Music and Worship:

music@cumchb.org
(714) 842-4461 Church Office
(310) 714-3879 Cell

Adult Handbells, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Chancel Choir Rehearsal Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Celebration Singers, Sundays, 11:15 a.m.-12:00 noon
Youth Handbells, Sundays, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Joyful Noise, Sundays, 9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Cherub Choir, Sundays, 9:30 a.n.-10:00 a.m.

Holiday Boutique Coming Soon!

Women

Mark your calendars for November 4!

If you have purchased pickles and/or jams and jellies at previous events and have saved the jars – hurray! Would you please return them to the UMW table so we can fill them up again? Only the jars with 2-part lids are needed.

If you are looking for a way to contribute to Boutique but are not crafty, prayerfully consider making something for the “Goodies” room or for the Coffee Shop that will be run by the youth to raise money for their mission trips.

cookies
candy
jams
jellies, etc.,

If you have treasures you don’t want to keep, but can’t bear to let go for 50 cents at a garage sale, we will be having a “Priceless Treasures” booth for those items. We will begin collecting the first of October.

UMCOR Responds to Harvey

Service & Ministry harvey, umcor

The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is currently working with disaster coordinators and early response teams to provide relief to the many victims of hurricane/tropical storm Harvey.

5 Things You Can Do: 

Please continue to pray for those whose lives have been impacted by hurricane/tropical storm Harvey. Please also pray for the Early Response Teams, disaster coordinators, and many volunteers in The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, Louisiana Conference of The United Methodist Church, Río Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church and Central Texas Conference who are working tirelessly to provide relief after Harvey.
Make relief kits – here are instructions
Give to UMCOR‘s relief and recovery efforts
Please donate only those items requested.
Please wait for an invitation to volunteer.

UMCOR – United Methodist Committee On Relief is grateful for your relentless prayers and support.

To keep relief supplies in stock, give to Material Resources Advance #901440

Source: UMCOR News