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Epworth UMC:

July 6, 2008 to

July 13, 2008
 
 This Week's Calendar 
June Calendar
 
Youth & Adult Fellowships
 
 
Music & Choir News
 
Food Ministry
 
Church Office Hours - The church office is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday - Fridays.  

Worship Thought:    - Read Romans 7:15-25a and consider the habits you would like to change.  Why do you think they are so difficult to change?  Make a plan to slowly make changes in your habits.  - Alive Now, July/August

Endowment Note:   You can accomplish something really wonderful by helping your church help other people by doing Christ’s work in the world.  Use your last gift by making it count for Christ.  Think about it – you can make a difference. For more information, please call Tom Scholl

Upper Room Daily Devotional Booklets for July/August are available on the table in the Narthex.  A donation of $1.25 per copy is requested to help defray the cost.

Thank you to Bryan and Laurel Martin for hosting today’s Coffee Hour.  Use the sign-up sheet in the Lounge or contact Elizabeth Austin-Benard and let her know which Sunday would be best for you!  Coffee Hour Hosts are needed for August 3 and 10.

The next game of Epworth’s softball team is scheduled for July 15 at 6:30 p.m. against Ascension Episcopal Church at Johnsons Park.  We lost last week’s doubleheader. A rain makeup game will be played on July 8 against Fairhaven at Darnstown Park.  For more formation, please contact Jerry McCowin

Our Hispanic Tutoring program will have a Vacation Bible School from July 15-17 in Fellowship Hall.  It’s a Beach Party – Surfin’ Through the Scriptures!  To register your child or to volunteer to help, please contact Ana Brito, Director.

UNICEF will be featured on CNN tonight at 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. with the program “The Survival Project – One Child at a Time.”  Find out why nearly 10 million children die every year from preventable causes…and how to save them.

As of July 1, Epworth UMC is now in the Central Maryland District, Washington Region, of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.

The Contemporary Praise and Worship Service will resume in the Fall.

Paper grocery bags are needed for the Thrift Shop.           

Old-Fashioned Hymn Sing:  Come and join us for Worship at 10:00 a.m. on July 27 and plan to sing your favorite hymn!  Enjoy a Sundae on Sunday!  Following the Old-Fashioned Hymn Sing on July 27, please come to the Ice Cream Social in Fellowship Hall during the Coffee Hour – sponsored by the Worship Committee.
                        

Summer Sunday School – Adult Sunday School will continue to meet at 9:00 a.m. in Room 201 during the summer. Children’s and Youth Sunday School schedule is as follows:

  - Today  to August 24:  “Around the World” Sunday School Camp for Pre-K through 5th grade
       > Older students can assist
       > Wear comfortable clothes and come ready to tour the world as you learn about God! 
  - August 31:  Nursery & Pre-K only; Other children & youth attend worship service

NOTE: Children should continue to attend the beginning of the worship service; they will be dismissed after the Children’s Sermon.

Nursery & Pre-K available year-round – Summer is a great time to volunteer with the Nursery & Pre-K. Sunday School teachers get a break in the summer… but Nursery & Pre-K are staffed 52 Sundays a year! We can use your help!

 

Food Lion Gift Cards - Epworth still has Food Lion (and Giant) gift cards available for purchase each Sunday after service.  The Food Lion cards are accepted at the new Bottom Dollar Foods and Bloom stores as these are owned by Food Lion.  Epworth receives 5% from each Food Lion card sold.  Giant gives 4%.  For information, please contact Cheryl White  or Laurel Martin. 

Keep Saving Those Campbell’sSoup Labels!  Thank you to all of the Epworth members who take the time to save Campbell’s Soup labels for the Preschool!  

Those labels really do add up and we are able to acquire materials and equipment with the credits that we earn.  Campbell’s has changed their submission
 requirement for the labels – now we have to turn in the UPC bar code on the label to receive proper credit.  So when you are cutting the labels,
be sure to  include the UPC code.  If you have any questions, please contact Malinda Smith in the Preschool Office at 301-977-3421 or 
at epworth.preschool@eumc-md.org.   
Are you looking for a way to put a jingle in your Monday nights?  Join the Epworth Ringers!  We meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary


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Youth & Adult Fellowships
 

Graphic bullet Youth Fellowships - Middle School and Sr. High School students meet with their own age groups for fun and fellowship on Sunday evenings at 6:00 p.m.

The Calendar of current events and other information about the Senior High UMYF can be seen at http://www.geocities.com/srhighumyf.

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Sunday School and Christian Education News

 

The Adult Sunday School Class meets Sunday mornings at 9:00 am in room 201.

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Music and Choir News

Graphic bullet Singing and Ringing Chancel choir rehearses on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 pm under the baton of David Kirven, Director of Music.   Chancel Choir rehearsals will begin on September 19.

  • Epworth Teen Choir (ETC) will meet in Room 205 Sundays, 11:30 a.m. rehearsals
  • Chimers will meet in Room 204 Sundays, 11:30 a.m. rehearsals
  • Children's Choir will meet in the Chapel Sundays, 11:30 a.m. rehearsals

Handbell choir(s),

  • Epworth Ringers rehearse on Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary.

Come join us!

 

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Making a Difference in the Community
 

Graphic bullet Communion Sunday Food For Gaithersburg HELP Communion is celebrated the first SundayFood Needed of each month. We will collect the following items for the Gaithersburg HELP food pantry: