PRAYER CONCERNS

If you or a loved one would like to be added to the prayer list, please contact Lorna McCullough at 336-259-5814. If you put a name on the list, please keep in touch to let us know how that person is doing, as names are removed after three weeks. During the coming week, please pray for:
All Military Personnel
Our UM Missionaries
Rick Schartiger
Bob Templeman
Tracy Brinkley
Dallas Hutchens
Ann Worsham
Chris Eddinger
Faye Kanoy
Steve Whitten
Allen G. Ervin
Sue Branson
Joe Don Branson
Chris Caudill
Mickey Efird
Jennifer Prickett

OUR CHURCH FINANCE FIGURES FOR OCTOBER

Total Expenses as of October 31, 2018                         $759,006.27
Total Income as of October 31, 2018                             $677,595.23
Net Deficit as of October 31, 2018                                 ($81,411.04)

Qualified Charitable Contributions from IRAs and New Tax Laws for 2018

If you are 70½ or over and take Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) from your Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), or if you want to make other distributions from your IRA, you can take advantage of a law (for 2016 and later years) allowing you to designate part or all of your Required Minimum Distribution or other distributions (up to $100,000) each year to a qualified charity. Rather than receive a distribution check made out in your name, you would ask the administrator of your IRA to make a check out to a qualified charity. The designation to a charity reduces the income that you would normally have to report. You cannot claim the amount as a charitable donation; however, if you normally claim a standard deduction rather than itemizing deductions, you could find this to your tax advantage—especially since the standard deductions for 2018 and later years have generally been almost doubled.  Also, you may have a number of other circumstances where reducing your income would be to your tax advantage. Contact your tax advisor for further information.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT FELLOWSHIP SUPPERS & PROGRAMS

WEDNESDAYS
5:30 PM  DOORS OPEN
5:45 PM  SUPPER BEGINS
6:10 PM  PROGRAMS / STUDIES

If you arrive early, please feel free come on in and find a seat and spend some time meeting some new folks or catching up with some old friends! At 5:30 PM we will begin ANNOUNCEMENTS and BLESSING for the food.  Food will be served at 5:45 PM in order to accommodate those who want to join us, but need a little extra time to get to church after work. Programs and Studies begin at 6:10 PM. Invite a friend and bring a neighbor!

If you do not want to make a reservation with the above form, please feel free to use these methods as well:
STOP BY: 101 Randolph Street (let our Receptionist know about your reservation)
CALL: (336) 472-7718
EMAIL: sfrye@mumctville.org

COST

$8 for Adults/Youth (12 yrs. & up)
Free for Children (6-11 yrs.) **dining with an adult**
$20 max per family

UPCOMING PROGRAMS:

Ben Devoid & Peggy Finch invite the congregation to a weekly study on the Gospel of Matthew.  Study with us through daily readings and weekly group lessons. Sunday

preaching also will be based on the Matthew study theme for each week.

Study Sessions are Wednesdays at 6:10, following Fellowship Dinner.

 NOTE: Dr. Mickey Efird will not be with us on Wednesday Dec. 12 as planned. He fell and has fractured his pelvic bone in several places. He would appreciate our prayers and hopes to catch up with us in the new year. We will continue with the study going back and picking up Session 1, the background and context of Matthew’s Gospel. This will be our last Wednesday night meal and class until we meet again on January 9, 2019, Please join us as we learn and study together.

Study Materials: The Efird Bible Study Series (provided as handouts) and Daily Journal

(provided week-to-week in the Sunday bulletin and online).

WEDNESDAY NIGHT OPPORTUNITIES

6:00 PM  Children’s Choir (3rd Floor, Main building) For more Info contact Lynda Hepler
6:10 PM  UMW Wednesday Circle

6:30 PM  Children’s Bible Study (3rd Floor, Main Building)  (For more Info contact Lynda Hepler.)
6:00 PM Middle School Small Group (2nd floor, CEC)  (For more Info contact Rodney Denton.)
6:00 PM High School Small Group (2nd floor, CEC)  (For more Info contact Rodney Denton.)

WEDNESDAY NIGHT MUSIC OPPORTUNITIES Please join us!

6:15 PM  MUMC Handbell Ringers Rehearsal (For more Info contact Norris Norwood.)
7:15 PM  Chancel Choir Rehearsal (For more Info contact Danny Frye.)

Celebrate Life, Healing, and Forty Years of Marriage!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16
NOON
CHRISTIAN ENRICHEMENT CENTER

A Christmas Reception to Celebrate Life, Healing, and Forty Years of Marriage.

Dr. Dee and Susan Ellis, cherished members of the Memorial United Methodist Church family, extend an open invitation for a reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres on Sunday December 16, immediately after the 11:00 worship service. Truly, they hope everyone will attend the celebration, which they are offering in gratitude for the congregation’s prayers and loving support though Dee’s battle with and recovery from cancer, and in celebration of Dee & Susan’s renewal of vows on their 40^th wedding anniversary.

The reception will be in the Fellowship Hall. Please plan to attend & celebrate!

CHRISTMAS EVE COMMUNION

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24
5:30 – 7:30 PM
MAIN SANCTUARY

Our Christmas Eve Communion Service will begin at 5:30 PM. We will have a brief service with special readings and blessing of the Communion elements.

Following the service, Communion will be available for anyone to receive in a “come-and-go” format until 7:30 PM. This means that even if your Christmas Eve plans prevent you from being at the church 5:30 PM, please feel free to drop by and receive Holy Communion at anytime between 5:30 and 7:30 PM!  Bring your family and make this a new Christmas Eve tradition!

We hope to see you and celebrate this beautiful sacrament on the Eve of Christ’s birth.

“WELCOME TO MEMORIAL”

WINTER CLASS

SUNDAYS, JANUARY 6 – 27
10 AM
CHRISTIAN ENRICHMENT CENTER

If you’re a visiting Memorial, and would like to know more about the congregation, plan to attend our next Welcome to Memorial Class. The class is scheduled at 10:00 am in the Christian Enrichment Center on four successive Sundays, from January 6 through January 27.  This is your opportunity to learn more about our wide range of ministries and our church governance, meet some of our key church leadership, and get answers to your questions about United Methodism and our basic beliefs.

Pick up a brochure in either the Narthex or in the Jarrett Hall foyer for more detailed information.  If you have particular questions, talk to one of the ministers or call Tim Lyons at 476-1117.

UPCOMING EVENTS

DEC 16   GLOW & MISSION POSSIBLE KIDS
DEC 16   YOUTH: CHRISTMAS PARTY (4-7)
DEC 17   MORNING CIRCLE
DEC 23   YOUTH LUMINARIA PREP, PROGRESSIVE SUPPER (2-7)
DEC 23   LOVE FEAST ADVENT SERVICE (7 PM)
DEC 24   CHRISTMAS EVE HOLY COMMUNION (5:30 PM)

IF YOU HAVE A CHURCH EVENT THAT YOU WOULD LIKE ADDED TO OUR CALENDAR, PLEASE CONTACT SUSAN FRYE.

LOVE FEAST LUMINARIA SALES

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 16
CHURCH SIDEWALKS

HONOR or REMEMBER a loved one this Christmas with a LOVE FEAST LUMINARIA. The Luminarias will be used to light the path to the Love Feast on December 23. ALSO, you and your loved one’s name will appear in this year’s Love Feast bulletin!

You may purchase your Luminaria at the Sales tables following the Sunday morning and Wednesday evening services OR through the church office by filling out the ORDER FORM and return it to the church office.

SALES BEGIN Thursday, November 22 and END Sunday, December 16.
Contact Rodney Denton for more information (472-7718)
Cost is 1 for $2 or 3 for $5.  Sales go to support the Youth Ministry.

Thank you for your support

THE MESSENGER IS IN THE MAIL!

Look for the ADVENT & CHRISTMAS MESSENGER in your mailboxes this week OR DOWNLOAD it from HERE.

POINSETTIAS AND WREATHS

White poinsettias ($12) and door wreaths ($32) can now be ordered through the church financial secretary’s office by completing the form HERE.

ALL REQUESTS MUST BE IN WRITING.

Checks are to be made payable to “Memorial UMC”.

We have 18 wreaths available. Please place your orders as soon as possible. The cut-off date for orders is Sunday December 16.

(REMINDER: Please leave your poinsettia for the Love Feast Service, which will be held December 23 at 7 pm. You may pick them up at the end of the Love Feast Service.)