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Trinity United Methodist Church December, 2014
Trinity United Methodist Church
200 N. Summit St. Bowling Green, OH 43402
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Christmas Eve Service Please join us for our
Christmas Eve Service, December 24th.
Pre-service music begins at 7:15pm and the Candlelight Service begins at 7:30pm.
Merry Christmas
Advent Unplugged A sermon series for
Advent – November 30 through December 21. Join us for a reflective advent season as we prepare our hearts to celebrate Jesus’ birth.
Job Jar If you see something around the church that needs to be fixed, cleaned or maintained in some way, fill out a Job Jar form and put it in the Job Jar. Both can be found on the bulletin table. Help the trustees keep Trinity clean and in good repair. Thank you.
Men’s Group The next meeting is
Saturday, December 13th, at 9am at the Big Boy on Wooster. Please join us!
CHRISTMAS BASKETS The Mission Team will be packing the 65 Christmas baskets for those in need on Wednesday, December 17 at 6:30pm.
They will need volunteers to help carry the baskets to people’s cars on Thursday, December 18 starting at 9am.
The last day to bring donation items is Sunday, December 14, so please continue to bring in your items to help us provide a
joyous Christmas to 65 families! Paper products (TP, tissues) Blankets Pasta & pasta sauces Canned fruits Cleaning supplies (not bleach) Canned vegetables Peanut butter/jellies Canned meats/soups Boxed Meals Cereal Baking supplies (ex: flour & sugar)
Personal items (deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste)
Deck the Halls Sale
Trinity UMC will be holding its annual Deck the Halls
Christmas Sale on Thursday, December 4th, Friday,
December 5th from 9am-4pm and Saturday, December
6th from 9am-noon. A soup, salad and sandwich lunch
will be provided on Thursday and Friday only from
11am-2pm. There will be new and gently used Christmas
items for sale. Anyone that would like to help in the
kitchen on these days would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you! Thank you for your
donations to Operation Christmas Child. We
packed 25 boxes full of gifts that will provide
joy to children this Christmas.
1.
Sunday School in December We will have a special schedule for the Pre-K through
youth classes in December. The 7th and 14th will remain our
normal schedule. On the 21st, we will have a special
Christmas celebration in the Fellowship Hall, so we hope
the children and youth will come have some extra fun that
day. On the 28th, we will take a holiday break, so there will
be no classes that day. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
19 Sandy & Tony Aspacher
20 Marge & Al Wilder
Nancy & Dick Otley
Lesley & George Riker
The Nutcracker Ballet-
All Jazzed Up! Julie’s Dance Studio is
presenting their 8th Annual
production on Saturday,
December 20th at 2pm and 7pm
and Sunday, December 21st at
2pm at Kobacker Hall, BGSU.
The George family will be well
represented with Saralynn as a
Heavenly Angel, a Candy Cane
and many other roles and Stan as
Uncle Drosselmeyer again. There
will be many styles of dance
within the show such as Tap,
Jazz, Can-Can, Acrobatic, Ballet,
Arabian and Pointe. There will
also be a “Meet & Greet” after
each show to meet the cast.
Tickets may be purchased at
nutcrackerjazzedup.com. Ticket
prices range from $15.50-$20. If
you have any questions about the
show, please contact Stan or
Konnie at 419-276-0142, email
us at sgeorge@dacor.net or see us
at church. Hope to see you at one
of the shows!
5 Elena Kramer
7 Sandy Alspacher
8 Mary Ann Bellard,
Chris Rutter
9 Pat Robinson, Helen Dukes,
Christiania Nietz
11 John Hart
13 Ben Fox, Marlyn Bender
17 Fred Fether
18 Jerry Milnor, Sandy Engle
19 Ellen Farison, Carroll Allison,
Phyllis Pickering
20 Sandy Stoots, James Collins
23 Doug Stoots
27 Stuart Sockrider
28 Melissa Hart,
Buzz Benschoter
30 Carol Fox
December Worship Volunteers
Ushers Maroe Decker Bev Robie Andy Drumm Laura Drumm Gary Manning Joan Manning Chris Sabo Sandy Stoots
Liturgists
12/7 Betty Jones 12/14 Pat Brenneman 12/21 Greg Hernandez
12/24 Bob Miner 12/28 Helen Dukes
Greeters 12/7 Tom & Claudia Ehmke 12/14 Don & Phyl Pickering
12/21 Becky & Herb Dettmer 12/24 Need Volunteers
12/28 Don & Phyl Pickering
Acolytes 12/7 Allie Parish &
Savannah Janes 12/14 Mathias & Mitchell
Drumm 12/21 Brady & Brynna Gaines
12/24 Aliyah Flores & Saralynn George
12/28 Katelyn Geiman & Jeannette Fretter
Communion Helpers 12/7 Stan & Konnie George
Helen Dukes Rose & Connor Wilson
Katelyn Geiman
Coffee Hour 12/7 Tim & Amanda Parish
12/14 June VanVorhis 12/21 Joy Pothoff & Kathy
Wittman 12/28 Sheryl Sabo
Thank you for your service !
The Esther Circle will meet at
the Church on Wednesday,
December 10th at 10am. We will
create colorful greeting cards as
our activity. A potluck lunch will
follow. All ladies are invited to
join this special holiday
gathering. As the possibility of
severe winter weather
approaches, Esther Circle
members are reminded that, if
there are school delays or no
school, our meeting is cancelled.
Winter Weather Now that the winter season is upon us, we urge you to use good judgment when
coming to church for a service or meeting.
We always hope to hold services on Sundays, but if there is a snow emergency, or if the weather is severe, please check Channels 11 and 13 for cancellations.
Bob Evans Fundraiser Monday, December 8 7am-9pm
Please have a meal at Bob Evans on Wooster on Monday, the 8th, to
support our Missions Team. Trinity will receive 15% of sales. You must give them a flyer at the time of purchase. There is a flyer in this newsletter and you can find additional flyers in the bulletin,
church office and in the sanctuary. Thank you for your support!
Angel Tree The annual Angel Tree will be on the table near the sanctuary entrance starting Sunday, November 30.
Please take a card, buy the gift listed on the card and return it to the table by Sunday, December 14. Your gift will make a
child very happy this Christmas. Thank you for your help!
The Messiah by G. F. Handel
Sunday, December 14 during second service The Chancel Choir will present portions of George Frederick Handel’s
“Messiah,” featuring vocal soloists and a string quartet from BGSU’s
College of Musical Arts. Invite friends and family to come celebrate our
Savior through this beautiful music realized by this most talented
composer. All are welcome to participate in singing this
masterpiece. Rehearsals are Thursday nights at 7 PM.
Poinsettia Orders
Remember to order your poinsettias for Christmas.
Money is due at the time of the order and orders are due by
Sunday, December 7th. Order forms are available on the
round table by the sanctuary entrance and in the church office.
Thank you!
Remember to visit our website at www.bgtrinity.com for weekly announcements and information.
Three Little Words… “All is Calm”
. Pastor Dana Ward
Every Christmas Eve, we gather to sing that familiar refrain, “All is calm; All is bright.”
But, if we are honest with ourselves, by the time we come to Christmas Eve, the season
is usually anything but calm. We will have decorated, and cooked, and bought gifts. We
will have stuffed envelopes with cards and photos and mailed them to 15 other states and
3 other countries.
And even on December 24th, we may have last minute wrapping or baking to do. And we
may wonder, what do we have to do to make things less chaotic and more calm?
In 1982, a powerful book was published titled Unplug The Christmas Machine. It suggested
that there are many ways we can put more love and joy into our lives, and thus change our
experience of the Christmas season.
Its pages detailed ways to spend less money and driving time at Christmas, and focus on
friends and family. It invited readers to give up the chase for the perfect gift, and reflect
on the true meaning of the holiday. It has been revised and updated over the past 30 years,
but the central ideas of celebrating the season with simplicity and spirituality still ring true.
This month in our worship, we will explore some of these ideas as we experience Advent
Unplugged. We will look at how the mail, the malls, the music and the menus of the season
can overwhelm us unless we identify what we truly want to get out of the holiday season, and
then find simple and satisfying ways to experience those things.
Please plan to join us as we prepare for the celebration of Christmas, and spend Advent Unplugged,
so we can truly sing and declare that for us “All is calm.”
With a wish of Peace and Joy, Pastor Dana
Financial Report for October, 2014
Sadly, October was not a financially good month for our church. We had receipts of
$18,384.32 (which included $2,000 from the Education Endowment) and expenses of
$19,604.12. Obviously, that creates a problem. The problem is not on the expense
side as the bills paid were not out of the ordinary. The shortfall is on the revenue side
of the ledger. In other words, collections in the offering plate were below what is/was
needed.
As I write this I continue to be hopeful that as the holiday season approaches, everyone
will put the church on their gift lists. Please consider doing just that. The amount we
need to pay our conference apportionments stands at $19,889. That’s a big nut to
crack. Our members and friends have usually been generous to the church around
Christmas and this year, your prayerful and thoughtful gifts will certainly be appreciated
and put to good use. Those gifts are especially needed in our operating funds. It’s from
the current operating money that we pay those apportionments. It’s also important that
we go into the new year with a healthy balance in the operating fund to be able to pay the
end of the year expenses that don’t get billed to us until sometime in January.
And while I’m soliciting, allow me to be bold enough to ask you to consider increasing
your weekly gifts to the church during 2015. Frequently, we tell ourselves that we
just can’t squeeze any more from what we have—especially for something like the church
where we really don’t have to give anything anyway. But just try to do it. I maintain
you’ll surprise yourself if you do increase your giving. Very quickly, you’ll find that
extra money is not even missed. Soon you’ll be pleased and feel good with what you’re
doing as you see the church improving and, I’m confident, God will find a way to
reward you in return. He’s like that.
Happy Holidays—
Tim