For three Wednesday evenings, November 20, December 4 and December 11, Pastor Stephen Bazan will lead a Bible Study in Wesley Hall entitled When Heaven Comes To Earth – A Study on Advent. Youth and Adults are welcome to attend at 6:15 p.m. each evening as we learn about the meaning of Advent using Scripture and John Wesley’s Sermon The Way to the Kingdom and a few Hymns as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus this Christmas.

Please sign up at the Welcome Center or outside the Sanctuary by Noon on Monday, November 18, or call the church office.  The menu includes Baked Spaghetti, Mixed Green Salad, Garlic Bread, and Dessert, Tea and/or Water for Wednesday, November 20, at 5:30 p.m.  The cost is $8.00 for adults and $4.00 for children under 12.  Our program will be presented by Pastor Stephen Bazan as listed below.  You are reminded of the Mini Fall Fling BBQ Chicken Dinner and Fall Market on November 22.  Be sure to get your tickets!  Also, there will be no meal on November 27 in observance of Thanksgiving Week.

 

FMCW and the Salvation Army are partnering to make Christmas wishes come true for children in our community.  Please select an Angel from the tree outside Wesley Hall or outside the Sanctuary.  Purchase gifts from the child’s wish list, place the items in a plastic bag marked with the child’s number and place them under the tree or deliver them to the Salvation Army on East 7th Street.  Please do not wrap the gifts.  The deadline for delivery is Monday, December 2.  What a great Christmas project for your family to do together!  Contact:  Shirley Stone, 252-481-2420.

 

Fall Market

Friday, November 22, 2024

Starts at 5:00 p.m. in Wesley Hall!

Any group in our church is welcome to participate. 

Each group will keep their money! 

For more details and to sign up to be included, please call Shirley Stone at 252-481-8480!

 

So far at the Fall Market, we will be selling the following items:

Circle of Kind Blessings—Variety of Homemade Freshly Baked Sour Dough Bread
(loaves and rolls) and quarts of a variety of soups

Agape Circle—First Methodist Church Note Cards; Frozen Casseroles (all kinds)

Circle of Mary & Martha—Baked Goods (cakes, pies, cookies, etc.)

Circle of Joy—Seasonal Items (all kinds)

Matthew 25—Children’s Bibles

  

The Fall Fling Committee decided we would take a break this year from having the Big Bake Sale and Silent / Live Auctions due to the Capital Reserve Campaign which is ongoing!  Thanks for being understanding!

 Anyone that would still like to donate to Fall Fling can send a check to the office and specify on the memo line (Fall Fling)!  We will also have a box for donations at the Fall Market!

 Come and shop, eat, and enjoy the fellowship this year at Fall Fling!

 

Fall Fling Committee

And Co-Chairs,

 

Paige Davis and Kaye Buckman

 

Mini Fall Fling—November 22, Friday, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Wesley Hall  BBQ Chicken Dinner and Fall Market.  Ticket Costs:  $12.00 (1 plate); $100.00  (1 plate and name goes in the drawing for John Deere Lawn Mower, Flat Screen TV, $250.00 Gas Card.)  Call Paige Davis at 252-945-3462 if you are interested in donating the mower, TV, or gas card!  Purchase ticket(s) from Alma Friedman at 252-947-8076, Kaye Buckman at 252-946-9591, Sarah Purvis at 252-945-0288, Paula Willey at 252-947-0334.  The Fall Market will begin at 5:00 p.m. in Wesley Hall where the circles will sell a variety of goods.  Circle of Kind Blessings—Variety of Homemade Freshly-Baked Sour Dough Bread (loaves & rolls) and quarts of a variety of soups; Agape Circle—FMC Note Cards and Frozen Casseroles; Circle of Mary & Martha—Baked Goods (Cakes, Pies, Cookies, etc.); Circle of Joy—All Kinds of Seasonal Items; Matthew 25—Children’s Bibles.  The Fall Fling Committee decided we would take a break this year from having the Big Bake Sale and Silent/Live Auctions due to the Capital Reserve Campaign which is ongoing!  Anyone that would still like to donate to Fall Fling can send a check to the office and specify on the memo line (Fall Fling)!  We will also have a box for donations at the Fall Market!

 

It’s Operation Christmas shoebox time again!  It’s another opportunity for FMCW to share the love of God with children and their families.  Just pick up a brochure from the display table outside Wesley Hall or outside the Sanctuary and follow the packing instructions for your box.  Your small gifts of school supplies, toys, and personal items will be a tangible sharing of love—but the best gift is that each child will hear about Jesus.  Questions?  Contact Jean Ash at 252-945-9129.

 

Church Council approved contracting with the Washington Police Department to provide security for our members and guests each Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

 

We will collect new blankets for Western N.C.  All church members are invited and encouraged to participate.  Boxes for these new blankets are located outside the Sanctuary, in the Fellowship Hall, and outside Wesley Hall.  Thanks for your help with this mission!

 

You may find extra pledge cards at the Welcome Center outside Wesley Hall and on the table outside the Sanctuary.

 

Please join in a time of prayer for our children and youth and the search for our new position, “Leader, Children and Youth Ministries” by stopping by Cowell Chapel on Thursdays at noon.