SUMC Announcements

We will hold our March meeting on Sunday, the 14th following the regular worship service. A light lunch will be served. We plan to have a service project assembling kits for UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief). Look for details in the Sunday bulletins prior to our meeting.

Now that the Turkey dinner is over, rummage sale items may be placed in the potato room in the church basement. The Rummage Sale will be May 7 & 8.

The Pittsburgh District UMW will hold a Mission Study Day on Saturday, March 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at First Bethel United Methodist Church in Bethel Park. The study leader is Linda Kurtz Beher who is the author of the 2009-2010 mission study book, “The Beauty and Courage of Sudan: Why a Dream of Peace is Possible.” The cost is $8.00 which includes lunch and the deadline for reservations is March 15. Contact Gerry Czado at 412-901-9798 for further information.

As of this time, we have only two college grads (Brianna Wilkinson & Thomas O’Donnell) and two High School grads (Amanda Yant & Brianna Pflugh). If your student is part of the Class of 2010 please tell the church office or a member of the library committee. Thank You.

Please mark your calendars for the Annual Church Picnic on June 6th. We’ll be updating the picnic plan in the next few issues of the church’s newsletter.

Thank you to the Scouts and Scouters who participated in the Candle Ceremony at the February 14th Worship Service. The Boy Scout program is all about each boy who enters the program that grows up to be a good citizen, a good neighbor and a responsible individual that we can depend upon at any time.

We thank the adults who came forward for the ceremony, they are the leaders that helped the boys to grow. It was once said, “It takes a community to raise a child” this has been true in the Scouts for the last 100 years.

Our Scout Oath and Scout Law have survived the test of time and still are the guidelines of every Scout.

The Scout Oath instills the ideals of duty to God and country, duty to other people and duty to oneself.

A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. This law has been my guide from my youth throughout my adult life and has never let me down.

We thank God for the Boy Scouts of America, so we can continue to build good men and women for our future.

Submitted by,
Warren R. Kinneer

The UMW meeting will be held on Sunday, February 28 at 4 p.m. We are meeting prior to the Lenten dinner that we are preparing. Members are asked to bring desserts (cookies, brownies, cake or pie) for the dinner.

In January we held our pledge service, “What Gift Shall I Bring”. If you were not able to attend, please see Pat Grossarth, treasurer, for a pledge card. Our unit’s budget for 2010 is $4,405. Of that amount, $2,500 is our Pledge to Mission.

You are part of a one million member organization that raises 25 million dollars a year to support mission projects for women, children and youth around the world. This year the Pittsburgh District has pledged $54,000 and the Western PA conference has pledged $250,000.

The United Methodist Women will meet on Sunday, January 17 in the Simpson Room after the 10:45 a.m. worship service. We will have a light lunch followed by a business meeting and the Pledge Service.

Thanks to donations received since the November meeting, we were able to pay all of the 2009 budget items in the Western PA conference agency category as well as the Community Needs category and still have $275 remaining. At our December meeting, we voted to send additional monies to the Ruth M. Smith Center and Bethany House. Our total budget for 2010 is $4,405.

Our congratulations to Pat Leiphart who was elected Coordinator for Spiritual Growth for the Western PA conference UMW.

Back by popular demand, we will be selling tomato knives and vegetable peelers from Rada cutlery. Look for them at the December 3 luncheon or contact Pat Grossarth at 412-741-6208. They make excellent gifts. We will also be selling Christmas items at our table on Dec. 3. Please check your basement or attic for possible donations.

We made $464 at our November rummage sale. Thanks to all who donated items and volunteered the two days of the sale. However, we still need additional funds before December 10 in order to pay all of the missions that we support. If you still owe on your pledge, please get the money to Pat Grossarth.

Our Christmas dinner will be at Pam Wright’s home on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 6 p.m. Please call Pam at 412-741- 9747 by Dec. 1 to make a reservation ($5.00 donation).

“The Yada Yada Prayer Group” series is available in the church library. The author, Neta Jackson, writes these stories with such realism that you feel like you’re sitting in on their discussions and their various life situations. They do some wild and crazy things like Polar Bear swimming on the first day of January in Lake Michigan. The book is written as a fiction story but the life experiences are easily related to our everyday living. Of course as I read this book sitting on the beach in 85 degree temperatures, the snow and cold winter of Chicago seemed to just melt away. This book is an easy read and very enjoyable. Check out these books and many others in our church library.

Hello SUMC friends,

This Sunday, November 1, is your last chance to place an order for your Christmas Wreath or make your payment if you have already ordered a wreath. Checks should be made out to SUMC (’wreath’ in the notes section). If you have any questions, please call Sandra Lane at 412-741-6724.

Blessings,
Sandra

All the children in the church and their friends are invited to go trick-or-treating for UNICEF on Halloween, October 31st. Come in costume and meet in the Simpson Room at 1:30pm. We will finish by 3pm. Parents are welcome to accompany their children. If you are coming, please contact the church office or Barbara Bower (e-mail: blb@sgkpc.com) so that we can get an accurate headcount.

All of the funds collected by the children will go to UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) to support their programs to provide food, clean water, medicine and education to children throughout the world.