THIS WEEK AT NEWTOWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday, February 28 Second Sunday in Lent
8:30 A.M. Worship Service
9:15 A.M. Fellowship Time
9:45 A.M. Sunday School
10:00 A.M. Worship Service
11:15 A.M. Confirmation Class
7:00 P.M. Youth Group
Monday, March 1
6:30 P.M. Outreach Meeting
7:30 P.M. “Job” Seminar with Pastor Cramp
Tuesday, March 2
9:00 A.M. Crafts
Wednesday, March 3
9:30 A.M. Prayer Group
7:00 P.M. Web Committee Meeting
Thursday, March 4
7:30 P.M. Choir
Friday, March 5
7:00 P.M. UMW World Day of Prayer at Newtown Presbyterian
Saturday, March 6
8:30 A.M. Youth Group – Snow Tubing
Sunday, March 7
8:30 A.M. Worship Service
9:15 A.M. Fellowship Time
9:45 A.M. Sunday School
10:00 A.M. Worship Service
11:15 A.M. Confirmation Class will meet today
11:15 A.M. Usher Training
11:15 A.M. UMW Luncheon in Wesley Hall
ANNOUNCEMENTS February 28, 2010
ALTAR FLOWERS: Given By: Jim & Doris Mershon
In Loving Memory of Loved Ones
USHERS: (8:30 A.M.) Lee Marvel & Mark Woodward
(10:00 A.M.) Cliff Hixson, Ethel Jackson,
Paul Mathias, Jr. & Kevin Sweeney
ACOLYTES: Andrew Worth & Matthew Worth
GREETERS: (8:30 A.M.) Lee & Sue Marvel
(10:00 A.M.) Joe & Judi Swerk
FINANCE STEWARDS: John Fisher & Bill & Ethel Jackson
RITUAL OF FRIENDSHIP: Anthony Rolli
LAY READER: (8:30 A.M.) Pat King
(10:00 A.M.) Erinn Demskis
FELLOWSHIP TIME: Servers: The Rabbermans
Baked Items: The Rabbermans
Prayerfully Remember:
Laura & Lee McManus, Sybille Otterstein & family (Family Friends of Erinn & Doug Demskis), Charlie Fox, Jeff Gillard (Friends of Nancy Daney), Benny Sizemore, John Mac Donald, Friends of the Chreiman’s), Dawn Hoopes, Jeff &Lori Rabberman (Son & Daughter-in-Law of Bob & Anna Rabberman), Carol DeSanctis (Friend of Pat King), Jim Pappas (Father of Elise Flexon) and Stacy Taylor & Charles Schulz, Suzy Delin, Kelly Witt, Tara Tolzien, Anna Person (Friends/Relatives of Donna Williams), Jack Callender & Joanne Countiss (Friends of Helene Mershon), Edward Glover (Relative of Alice Mae & Richard Glover), Diane Coslop (Niece of Cathy & Jim Dove), Tommie & Jodie Ludwig (Rhonda Alves’ Parents), Jack Knowles (Brother of Cheryl Mocknick), Marilee Ostman (Friend of Sig & Peg Boysen), Jessy (Friend of the Paytons), Ken Emswiller (Friend of Jennie & Mer Claar) and Janice Yorks (Friend of Gerry Hixson.
Please call the office or give your prayer requests
to the pastor in writing. You may also email your requests to
numc1@verizon.net
Youth Group
7:00 P.M.
The UMW’s World Day of Prayer will be held on Friday, March 5th at the Newtown
Presbyterian Church at 7:00 P.M. Members of our congregation will be participating. Please plan to attend. The focus country will be Cameroon, Africa.
All United Methodist Women (UMW) are invited to attend – On Sunday, March 7th (please note date change) following the second service at 11:00 A.M. a soup and dessert luncheon. The program will be “Shaloca Ministries International Inc.” – Liberian Methodist Mission. Please join us for a time of fellowship. If you haven’t been able to attend our evening meetings, here’s a wonderful opportunity to meet other women in our church. Any questions, please call Chris Bethman or Ruthellen Pannapacker.
Communion Set Up Team - We are looking for volunteers to assist us in our
communion set up. Please sign up in the gallery or see Nancy Matthews.
Altar Flowers Listing for 2010 is in the gallery. A donation of $30 is required. Dates still available are May 23rd, June 13th, August 29th, October 31st and December 26th.
The Adult Fellowship Trip to Winchester, VA – April 17th -18th – Perkiomen has extended our sign-up date to February 28th. They have extended our deposit date to February 28th also . Please see or call Dottie Detwiler. See sheets in the gallery.
Homeless Shelter - We go the second Saturday of every month to prepare and serve breakfast. We leave at 6:30 a.m. and return by 9:15 a.m. Our next date
is Saturday, March 13th. A sign-up sheet is in the gallery.
The Advance for February is Nothing But Nets. A $10.00 mosquito net might save the life of a child. So please, give a child the opportunity to live a life of health and happiness by placing your donations in the Advance envelopes found in the pews.
Girl Scout Sunday, March 14th - Present and former Girl Scouts are invited to participate in the 10:00 a.m. service to celebrate the 98th anniversary of Girl Scouting. Please call Gerry Hixson at 215-321-4315 to help with this.
Goods & Services Silent Auction
This is the largest fundraiser we do all year!!!
Our Goods & Services Silent Auction and Dinner will be
Sunday, March 21st.
All monies raised that day go to our 2010 Mission Team Trip.
This year our team will be going back to
Kentucky in July.
Please make a contribution to this wonderful auction and
join us for dinner at 4:00 on the 21st.
Please place your contribution in Kay’s office or outside her door.
Thanks, Kathy and Kay
– Here are some of the items we have received: a framed signed photo of Eagle’s Reggie Brown, wide receiver, 2 tickets to Longwood Gardens, 6 people – 2 hours of bowling, shoe rental and a pitcher of coke at The Brunswick Zone, 4 tickets to the Brandywine River Museum, 2 tickets to the Bristol Riverside Theatre and 4 tickets to the County Theater in Doylestown. Our Goods & Services Congregational Dinner will be Sunday, March 21st at 4:00 P.M. There is a sign-up sheet in the gallery.
Gardeners needed – Please see sign-up sheet in lobby or contact Janice Cramp . “Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken human, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.” A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
The Fellowship Listing for March and April is now in the gallery. Please take a Sunday.
Crochet and Knitting Group Meeting- Sunday, March 14th at 11:00 A.M.
We will meet in the Craft Room (downstairs). Please feel free to invite interested friends, and assure them that they need no previous experience. We would be more than willing to teach or refresh forgotten skills. As always, you do not need to attend the meetings to participate in the making of lapghans and baby blankets. There
THIS WEEK AT NEWTOWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday, February 28 Second Sunday in Lent
8:30 A.M. Worship Service
9:15 A.M. Fellowship Time
9:45 A.M. Sunday School
10:00 A.M. Worship Service
11:15 A.M. Confirmation Class
7:00 P.M. Youth Group
Monday, March 1
6:30 P.M. Outreach Meeting
7:30 P.M. “Job” Seminar with Pastor Cramp
Tuesday, March 2
9:00 A.M. Crafts
Wednesday, March 3
9:30 A.M. Prayer Group
7:00 P.M. Web Committee Meeting
Thursday, March 4
7:30 P.M. Choir
Friday, March 5
7:00 P.M. UMW World Day of Prayer at Newtown Presbyterian
Saturday, March 6
8:30 A.M. Youth Group – Snow Tubing
Sunday, March 7
8:30 A.M. Worship Service
9:15 A.M. Fellowship Time
9:45 A.M. Sunday School
10:00 A.M. Worship Service
11:15 A.M. Confirmation Class will meet today
11:15 A.M. Usher Training
11:15 A.M. UMW Luncheon in Wesley Hall
ANNOUNCEMENTS February 28, 2010
ALTAR FLOWERS: Given By: Jim & Doris Mershon
In Loving Memory of Loved Ones
USHERS: (8:30 A.M.) Lee Marvel & Mark Woodward
(10:00 A.M.) Cliff Hixson, Ethel Jackson,
Paul Mathias, Jr. & Kevin Sweeney
ACOLYTES: Andrew Worth & Matthew Worth
GREETERS: (8:30 A.M.) Lee & Sue Marvel
(10:00 A.M.) Joe & Judi Swerk
FINANCE STEWARDS: John Fisher & Bill & Ethel Jackson
RITUAL OF FRIENDSHIP: Anthony Rolli
LAY READER: (8:30 A.M.) Pat King
(10:00 A.M.) Erinn Demskis
FELLOWSHIP TIME: Servers: The Rabbermans
Baked Items: The Rabbermans
Prayerfully Remember:
Laura & Lee McManus, Sybille Otterstein & family (Family Friends of Erinn & Doug Demskis), Charlie Fox, Jeff Gillard (Friends of Nancy Daney), Benny Sizemore, John Mac Donald, Friends of the Chreiman’s), Dawn Hoopes, Jeff &Lori Rabberman (Son & Daughter-in-Law of Bob & Anna Rabberman), Carol DeSanctis (Friend of Pat King), Jim Pappas (Father of Elise Flexon) and Stacy Taylor & Charles Schulz, Suzy Delin, Kelly Witt, Tara Tolzien, Anna Person (Friends/Relatives of Donna Williams), Jack Callender & Joanne Countiss (Friends of Helene Mershon), Edward Glover (Relative of Alice Mae & Richard Glover), Diane Coslop (Niece of Cathy & Jim Dove), Tommie & Jodie Ludwig (Rhonda Alves’ Parents), Jack Knowles (Brother of Cheryl Mocknick), Marilee Ostman (Friend of Sig & Peg Boysen), Jessy (Friend of the Paytons), Ken Emswiller (Friend of Jennie & Mer Claar) and Janice Yorks (Friend of Gerry Hixson.
Please call the office or give your prayer requests
to the pastor in writing. You may also email your requests to
numc1@verizon.net
Youth Group
7:00 P.M.
The UMW’s World Day of Prayer will be held on Friday, March 5th at the Newtown
Presbyterian Church at 7:00 P.M. Members of our congregation will be participating. Please plan to attend. The focus country will be Cameroon, Africa.
All United Methodist Women (UMW) are invited to attend – On Sunday, March 7th (please note date change) following the second service at 11:00 A.M. a soup and dessert luncheon. The program will be “Shaloca Ministries International Inc.” – Liberian Methodist Mission. Please join us for a time of fellowship. If you haven’t been able to attend our evening meetings, here’s a wonderful opportunity to meet other women in our church. Any questions, please call Chris Bethman or Ruthellen Pannapacker.
Communion Set Up Team - We are looking for volunteers to assist us in our
communion set up. Please sign up in the gallery or see Nancy Matthews.
Altar Flowers Listing for 2010 is in the gallery. A donation of $30 is required. Dates still available are May 23rd, June 13th, August 29th, October 31st and December 26th.
The Adult Fellowship Trip to Winchester, VA – April 17th -18th – Perkiomen has extended our sign-up date to February 28th. They have extended our deposit date to February 28th also . Please see or call Dottie Detwiler. See sheets in the gallery.
Homeless Shelter - We go the second Saturday of every month to prepare and serve breakfast. We leave at 6:30 a.m. and return by 9:15 a.m. Our next date
is Saturday, March 13th. A sign-up sheet is in the gallery.
The Advance for February is Nothing But Nets. A $10.00 mosquito net might save the life of a child. So please, give a child the opportunity to live a life of health and happiness by placing your donations in the Advance envelopes found in the pews.
Girl Scout Sunday, March 14th - Present and former Girl Scouts are invited to participate in the 10:00 a.m. service to celebrate the 98th anniversary of Girl Scouting. Please call Gerry Hixson at 215-321-4315 to help with this.
Goods & Services Silent Auction
This is the largest fundraiser we do all year!!!
Our Goods & Services Silent Auction and Dinner will be
Sunday, March 21st.
All monies raised that day go to our 2010 Mission Team Trip.
This year our team will be going back to
Kentucky in July.
Please make a contribution to this wonderful auction and
join us for dinner at 4:00 on the 21st.
Please place your contribution in Kay’s office or outside her door.
Thanks, Kathy and Kay
– Here are some of the items we have received: a framed signed photo of Eagle’s Reggie Brown, wide receiver, 2 tickets to Longwood Gardens, 6 people – 2 hours of bowling, shoe rental and a pitcher of coke at The Brunswick Zone, 4 tickets to the Brandywine River Museum, 2 tickets to the Bristol Riverside Theatre and 4 tickets to the County Theater in Doylestown. Our Goods & Services Congregational Dinner will be Sunday, March 21st at 4:00 P.M. There is a sign-up sheet in the gallery.
Gardeners needed – Please see sign-up sheet in lobby or contact Janice Cramp . “Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken human, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.” A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
The Fellowship Listing for March and April is now in the gallery. Please take a Sunday.
Crochet and Knitting Group Meeting- Sunday, March 14th at 11:00 A.M.
We will meet in the Craft Room (downstairs). Please feel free to invite interested friends, and assure them that they need no previous experience. We would be more than willing to teach or refresh forgotten skills. As always, you do not need to attend the meetings to participate in the making of lapghans and baby blankets. There