February 9-10, 2019
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Sunday School & Small Groups Children's Sunday School 9:45 AM All children begin in Preschool Commons and then are picked up: Preschool: room 51; Kindergarten: room 54; 1st Grade: room 53; 2nd Grade: Room 214; 3rd Grade: 215; 4th Grade: 216; 5th Grade: 220 Youth Sunday School 9:45 AM Middle School: Room 207 and 219; High School: Youth Room (downstairs)
Adult Sunday School 9:45 AM Adventurers - Room 201 Faith & Fellowship - Room 202 Girlfriends - Room 208 Wesley Forum - Room 209 Christian Living - Room 210 Wayfarers - Fellowship Hall (lower level) Christianity & Current Events— Room 102 Adult Sunday School 11:00 AM Contemporaries - Room 210
Prayer Needs weekly prayer list may be found at www.fumcva.org/worship/prayer/ HOSPITALIZED: Matt Bolick CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY to: Beckie Resio on the death of her brother-in-law, Wayne Jackson; Tim and Denise Gates on the death of his aunt, June Anderson; Valerie and Vincent White on the death of his father.
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Gather Round the Cross and Flame! Sunday, February 24th, is Youth Sunday. This is also the Sunday of General Conference. You are invited to join us in prayer circles at the Cross and Flame by the bench outside the Charlotte Street entrance 15 minutes before each worship service to pray for our youth and the General Conference delegation. Please see Pastor Josh for more information. Coffee, Tea and Treats with the Pastors will be next Sunday, February 17th at 9:45 am. All visitors and guests are invited to come have a drink and treat with Pastor Josh in the Chapel upstairs. If you are a Scouting family visiting today that does not have a church home, we would love for you to join us as well! Our Food pantry distributed over 36,000 pounds of food in 2018. The pantry is now being lead by Rob Belcher and Trish Vaughan and a troop of 22 volunteers, that allow us to be open Monday thru Friday - unlike any other downtown pantry. We need another refrigerator so we can stock milk and fruit. If you have a spare refrigerator in good working condition contact Trish. We need canned meat (chicken, ham, roast beef, spam) and reusable grocery bags. Please deposit in Mission Control.
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The Monday Morning Bible Study group will meet on February 11 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. in Room 210. We will continue our study of Magnificent Grace; on February 11 we will study Chapter 10 ("Grateful Grace"). 2019 Bazaar Workshops will occur from 9:30 - 11:30 on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month, downstairs in the Fellowship Hall. Our first workshop will be on February 11th. Contact Sharon Bradshaw (540-3738245) with any questions. Wednesday night dinner menu is Beef Chili. Please make a reservation online at www.fumcva.org/Wednesday-night-dinner or by emailing Don Becker at
[email protected]. If you signed up last week, please do so again so we can confirm you are still coming. Better Health class on Wednesday nights in room 236 at 6:30 for a variety of speakers on some aspect of health. February 13 health topic is “What is Reiki?“ by Suzy Woollam. Calling all Women interested in a small group with a mission focus! The UMW ACTS circle is meeting this Wednesday (2/13) at 6:30 in Kobler Hall. They will be assembling Birthday/Treat bags to be delivered for use to the Hope House. Contact Denise Gates (
[email protected]) for more information. Untold Stories 2019, Friends of Wilderness Battlefield (FoWB) is February 22. Register at http://www.fowb.org/index.php/untold-stories-2019/. Tour times are every 20 minutes between 6:00 and 8:00 pm.
Relationship Status Healthy Connections in 2019 Parents, Children and Extended Family 1 Peter 4:7-11
February 9-10, 2019
Boy Scout Sunday Welcome to Fredericksburg United Methodist Church. We are glad you are here. Please let us know that you were here by filling out the perforated edge of this worship program and place it in the offering basket.
Today we reflect upon our close family connections, the bonds between parents and children and outward into our extended family. “You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.” These are wise words from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. How do we truly live this out though? In a society where family dysfunction makes for entertainment in onscreen drama and reality TV, how can we seek to see our family relationships (all of them) as “gift?” The section of 1 Peter 4 that Pastor Gina is preaching on focuses us toward being good stewards of God’s grace. As part of today’s sermon processing, think deeply and honestly about your family. How is grace apparent in your family? Is it a family value at all? Does your role in family reflect grace, serve in grace, and speak grace? In places where you do not see grace reflected back to you, how are you still seeking to steward and share grace? These are hard questions, particularly when there is woundedness within our family systems. Today, ask God to guide you in grace, to bring healing and amazing grace to your family. Our pastors are very willing to schedule time to talk about specific situations and to pray with you about family matters, so do not hesitate to reach out to one of them for support or to our congregational care coordinator, Mary McGhee Pasternak for supportive resources.
February is often the month when we reflect upon our love relationships. This February we are taking the opportunity to explore our relationships in light of God’s word. This series will be grounded in the “real” of life. This week we will be focusing on Parents, Children and Extended Family relationships with Pastor Gina Anderson-Cloud. Scout Sunday offers an excellent opportunity for our local congregation to recognize the Scouting program, the Scouts, and their leaders as an integral and intentional part of the Church's ministry. This Sunday, along with other United Methodists, we celebrate all who are and have been Scouts, and we thank the many volunteers who make this ministry possible. We welcome Justin Sweeney, Donna and Tony Marino, and Jacqueline Rogers who have joined our church family in February.
