Today’s Announcements – September 5, 2010:

1. Please join us in the gym after the 11a.m. worship for fellowship and refreshments.
2. The worship leader for today is Mark Wakefield.

            8:30 a.m. – Informal Worship Service

            9:30 a.m. – Adult Sunday School

            11 a.m. – Traditional Worship Service

            Office closed for the holiday.

            7 p.m. – Lay Leadership Meeting (parlor)

            7:30 p.m. – Choir Rehearsal

Please mark your calendars for Welcome Sunday on Sept. 12! We will, once again, join together for a picnic on the church lawn following the 11:00 a.m. service. Ermon Vandy and Emily Berkowitz will be coordinating the efforts that day, but there are several ways you can help:

·         Volunteer to help in the kitchen before the picnic. Some of this will occur during the worship service.

·         Come early and help put up chairs and tables

·         Assist in the kitchen as the picnic is closing down.

·         Donate desserts!

If you can help, with any of the above, please contact Kim Capps with the specific way you would like to be involved: kim.capps@gmail.com

·         Would you like to work with your hands?

·         Can you work independently with little outside support?

·         Would you like to be Christ’s presence to people following a disaster?

An Early Response Team (ERT) is a small self-sufficient group of volunteers who go into a disaster area after the First Responders have secured the area and help begin the process of helping survivors put their lives back together. ERTs typically travel on short notice to disaster areas either in the BWC or in nearby Methodist Conferences at their invitation. All ERTs are trained through the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and are ready to stabilize an area in preparation for Volunteer In Missions (VIM) teams. The BWC is in the process of recruiting and training ERT volunteers so we are ready to respond when a disaster strikes. An information session will be held on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. at Providence-Fort Washington United Methodist Church, 10610 Old Fort Road, Fort Washington, Maryland.

UUMC to Begin New Group Email – Deadline September 30th

We've started a new emailing list with Google Groups.  To sign up, simply send an email to uumcp+subscribe@googlegroups.com, with nothing in the subject or body.  You do not need to create a Google account to do this.  Once the email is sent, you will start to receive weekly announcements via email, from uumcp@googlegroups.com.  You can unsubscribe at any time by sending an email to uumcp+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. You may receive duplicate announcements emails during the transition period. 

This fall we will be embarking upon a study based on the book Everything Must Change: When The World's Biggest Problems and Jesus' Good News Collide by Brian McLaren. Please join us Sundays at 9:30 am in the Robinson Room. Pick up a copy of the book now from Karen Nazareth.

Please check the sign up sheet located on the bulletin board next to the kitchen outside the gym or contact Karen Nazareth uumc.dce@verizon.net, 301 422-1400 x13. Donations of cookies or monies to buy refreshments would also be appreciated. Consider signing up to bring a sheet cake to celebrate a birthday or anniversary!

The University United Methodist Church is looking for anyone with supplies that they would be willing to lend or donate to the church to help with football parking. The list of items that could be a HUGE help includes: a wheelbarrow and/or large garden cart, trash bags, gloves, trashcans or recycling bins (even small ones). If you’re willing and able to contribute, please get in touch with Rev. Perry L. Williams (443-536-3577 or uumc.pastor@verizon.net) or Kenny Theodos (ktheodos@umd.edu). Thank you!!

UUMC’s Visual Arts Guild is searching for a new Art Curator and Guild Grand Pooh-Bah. Duties include discovering hidden artists, building and encouraging the UUMC Visual Arts Guild as your creative community, finding exhibitors, placing and taking down exhibits, writing encouraging, illuminating and enticing blurbs about the exhibits and bulletin boards and other duties at your own discretion. You need imagination, a certain pushiness, and an enjoyment of power (since the decision of the Art Curator on the suitability of exhibit materials is FINAL!).

Our exhibit walls are like the baseball diamond in Field of Dreams. We’ve built it and the artists will come with just a tiny bit of encouragement. This job could open a new career avenue. The rewards are plentiful, but not monetary. The 14-member UUMC Visual Arts Guild will be your partners, friends, inspiration and fellow struggling artists. This is the best job in the church – and it could be yours! Contact: Michelle Marcotte (marcotteconsulting@comcast.net 301-262-9866)

Help-by-Phone serves more than 55,000 people every year. Your support during the recent months and years is most appreciated and we are very grateful to those of you who made contributions. Please help us keep our pantries stocked from this list. Peanut butter and jelly are especially useful. We welcome donations of grits, pancake mix and syrup, baby foods, rice, pudding, jello, dry milk, coffee, tea, cocoa, beef stew, peanut butter and jelly, red, green and yellow vegetables, tuna, macaroni and cheese, pork and beans, pasta, pasta sauce, oatmeal, cold cereals, soups, fruit. All foods must be canned or dried and in sealed containers to meet health department requirements. Please place your donations in the wooden box in the sanctuary gathering area. Thank you!