SUMC delivered 60 grab and go meals to the COVID and ICU units’ nurses at Heritage Valley Sewickley Hospital on January 15th, 19th, and 21st. Those 180 meals would not have been possible without funding from Miracle Sunday and community partners.
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SUMC is teaming up with the American Cancer Society to raise funds through daffodil and tulip sales.
The United Methodist Church Union invites individuals and congregations to join in a journey of active love and support for the Warren United Methodist Church Faith Community.
For January, some nice hot pancakes sound yummy. Of course, most folks like syrup with those. Perhaps, you are a hot oatmeal kind of person? For our 4th Sunday collection on January 24th, let’s fill our grocery carts with pancake mixes, syrups, and hot cereals. The grocery carts are in the hallway outside of the Simpson Room for your convenience.
Our outreach ministry to the nurses treating COVID patients at the Sewickley Valley Hospital moves into phase 2.
Human Relations Day is a powerful avenue to extend help and service to our local communities. It is about getting out of our comfortable social circles and offering love and care to those who need help in our neighborhoods and cities. It’s about walking with those who feel like everything in life is stacked against them.
The church has received many messages of thanks due to our efforts to nurture our congregation and reach out to our community.
The SUMC congregation, with help from some community members, provided 78 coats, along with some cold weather accessories, for the City of Pittsburgh Police distribution in Northview Heights Housing. Additionally, gifts were purchased for 20 residents of The Bradley Center. Lastly, SUMC, along with community partners, provided bagged meals on December 21st and 23rd to the nurses of the Heritage Valley Sewickley COVID and ICU units.
For December’s 4th Sunday Collection, the suggested items are pasta sauces and pasta (or canned items like ravioli). The grocery carts are in the hallway so that you can conveniently drop off your donations when the church is open.
During Christmas Week, on 2 separate days, as a small token of appreciation, SUMC will be providing meals for the nursing staff treating COVID patients at Sewickley Valley Hospital, which like many hospitals is overwhelmed with COVID patients. THIS IS HOW YOU CAN HELP!!
UMCOR and its partners are responding to disasters both in the United States and around the world. Please join in prayer for the areas affected and consider a gift to UMCOR Disaster Response (which you may do with your regular offering or via EasyTithe, marking “UMCOR” – if you wish to specify “domestic” or “international”, please do so).
This special offering will be divided between Doors to Hope and Red Stockings.
What no one person can do, we’re doing together. Together, we’re raising up gifted Christian leaders. When you support United Methodist Student Day, you make it possible for more students like Ricky to serve the world God loves.
Help keep children warm this winter! SUMC and Church Union are cooperating to collect new winter coats, jackets, hats, scarves, mittens, and gloves for needy children (toddlers through teens) in the Pittsburgh area.
The Bradley Center is a residential mental health treatment facility located in Robinson Township; church member Sarah Boward is a mental health therapist at the facility, which treats children ages 6 to 21. We are looking to provide gifts for 20 residents.
As families are not being accepted into the program until at least March 2020, Family Promise would like to ready the Crafton location, which the families use during the day. Rooms need to be thoroughly cleaned, painted, decorated, etc. Areas need to be organized.
Annually, there are over 2,000 students, including a number from WPA, who receive millions of dollars in financial assistance through the UMC Office of Scholarships and Loans! Congregations and individuals provide a portion of the funding through gifts in recognition of United Methodist Student Day, World Communion Sunday, and Native American Ministries Sunday.
The YSF has assisted many youth programs in our Conference, our Nation, and our World. Two-thirds of the offerings received remain in WPA for distribution by the Conference Youth Ministry. Through the UMC's global YSF, UM teens raise money for other teens doing ministry in their churches and communities impacting poverty, illiteracy, absenteeism, and social justice.
To help patrons of the food pantry prepare Thanksgiving dinner, Outreach is asking that you fill a grocery bag with the non-perishable items that are traditionally used at Thanksgiving. Please take a bag with “grocery list” attached (see display table in sanctuary) – some are for small families, some for larger families. Purchase the items listed and return the filled bag to church.
Our church is very active, both in our own community, and in the world through connectional ministries. The letters of thanks we receive are a testament to our good works.