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