Tidings Emory United Methodist Church

Pastor Peggy Click 1600 Emory Road, Upperco, MD 21155, 410-429-6008

Church Office E-Mail: churchoffice@emoryunitedmethodist.org Pastor’s E-Mail: staretal@gmail.com

Pastor’s Phone: (C) 443-253-0943 www.emoryunitedmethodist.org

______________________________________________________December, 2017

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

Dear Emory,

This is the most exciting time of the year for Christians. We get to prepare

once again for the coming of Baby Jesus. We get to relive the joy of his birth and

remember the danger of his surroundings. It is the season when God sends his

greatest gift to us and in response, we give to others with gratitude.

The struggle between the spiritual and the commercial also grows to its

greatest strength. There have been decorations in stores even before Halloween.

Some stores are open on Thanksgiving and even on Christmas! It’s a battle that

comes into our homes as neighbors battle to have the best decorations, the finest

parties and the best gifts under the tree. All this has its place, but Jesus is still the

reason for the season. And the church is the place where that is most apparent.

There are a lot of opportunities to be involved in the celebration of Christ’s

birth beginning with the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Please bring in your nativity

set for a special blessing of the symbol of the Christmas miracle happening. If yours

is oversized, just bring one or two pieces to represent the set. Bring them forward

when called for the blessing. This is one part of a very special Sunday.

There is a schedule of Advent plans in this newsletter that you can post on

your fridge to keep the info handy. As a gift to others, please invite your friends and

family to one or more service or activity. In doing so, you share God’s gift with

others. Be sure to bring food and other items for our adopted families.

Our collection of food and other household items continues until Sunday December 17 when baskets will be packed after worship. Money is welcome too. Please see Nancy Chilcoat to be a part of the team. She needs a certain number of helpers

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and will happily take you on a first come basis. Besides food and household

items, each family receives toys for the children, a gift certificate to a local store,

and simple gifts for the adults.

That list also includes the information for Christmas Eve and the three

services on the Sunday, which is also the fourth Sunday of Advent.

The last Sunday of December will be an early watch night service as we

prepare for the new year and God’s leading us into it.

May you be blest by all the ways to come closer to the miracle of Christmas.

Blessings,

Pastor Peggy

Inclement Weather Policy: As winter is almost upon us, now is a good time to review our Inclement Weather Policy: All evening events at the church will be cancelled on weekdays if Carroll County schools close or dismiss early. If the worship service or other events to be held on the weekend are cancelled due to

inclement weather, a message will be on the church answering machine and emails will be sent out. It should be posted on the major television channels as well.

HAPPY DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS

12/1 Ryder Wineke 12/21 Cliff Moore 12/9 Rob Lyons 12/30 Robin Freeman 12/11 Sam Evans 12/31 Leslie Hall 12/15 Laura Fertitta We would like all the new members or members of Emory who

may have inadvertently been missed, to let the church office know when your birthday takes place. If you would like your name to be placed on our birthday list just email to the office churchoffice@emoryunitedmethodist.org. your name and birthday (month/day).

PRAYER CONCERNS: Our devotion to prayer is one of the greatest ministries we

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have at Emory. Please remember these requests for prayer in your daily devotions. If you know of anyone who needs prayer, or have names to update on our prayer list, please contact the Church Office. Amy (relative of Bonnie Johnson), Joyce Applefeld, Mike Bitzel, Charlotte Bond, Jeff Cole, Ruth Crisler, Jeff Davis (son of Chuck Davis), Ruby Fair, Regina Glassman, Shirley Gordon, Diane & Janice Hidey (sisters of Rev. Barry Hidey), Anne Hakes (sister of Chuck Davis), Tracey Marcum (friend of Linda Fair) Helen Moore, Corina Myers, Dee Patton and family for Grayson, Janice Raver, Liz Tardif (Patty Kelly’s sister), Bob Wheeler, Bill Williams (brother of Linda Fair).

Prayer Chain: We need volunteers that can text message and ones that do not but are willing to phone call. If you would like to inform one other person of a request for prayer, please notify Karon or the church of your willingness to participate. This is the way it will work. Any person requesting prayers of the church will be asked personally to contact the Prayer Chain Leader. The Leader will contact several people by text or phone and each of these people will be assigned another person to call. It’s that easy! Karon’s contact number is 443-992-2314. karonmoore819@yahoo.com. Church phone number is 410-429-6008. AMAZON SMILE SMILES ON EMORY! If you shop on Amazon you can now select Emory United Methodist Church as your charitable organization and Amazon will donate 0.5% of the dollar amount of your purchases to Emory. To do this go to smile.amazon.com and log in to your Amazon account as usual. There will be an Amazon smile at the top of the page and a place to select the charitable organization of your choice. Note that there are several Emory churches so make sure you check the address. Select Emory United Methodist Church, 1600 Emory Rd., Upperco, MD 21155. Then just shop and Emory will receive a quarterly donation as long as you go to smile.amazon.com to log on to your account each time. LITURGISTS The liturgists for December are as follows:

12/3 Elaine Dodd 12/17 None Needed 12/10 Ruth Bradford 12/24 Karon Moore (10:00) Sherry Wineke (7:00) 12/31 Alex Obriecht If you discover that you can’t keep the date, please let Ruth Bradford

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FLOWER CHART AND LITURGIST LIST – When the new Liturgist list and flower chart go up for 2018, please don’t hesitate to sign up. Our Circle Friend for the month of December is: Charlotte Bond 4449 Meandering Way Parry Center, Room 301 Tallahassee, FL 32308

No OTLB in December or January. It will resume on Tuesday, February 27, 2018.

Now On To Christmas Giving: We have received the names of the families that we will adopt this year for the holidays. Your generosity will make the difference between them having a blessed holiday or not. The food that is really needed is mashed potatoes, gravy, jelly, peanut butter, stuffing mix, syrup, some cereal and pancake mix. Nancy does not need vegetables or soup. If you would rather donate money she will use them for their gift cards. The Christmas board will be set up soon, with all of the items that our families need. Please pick out on or two items from the board. When you have purchased them, wrap them and put the paper with the item name on the package outside of the wrapped item and one of Nancy’s helpers will put a sticker on the front with that persons’ name. There are many opportunities for you to participate – look for donation sites throughout the church campus. Talk with Nancy Chilcoat if you have any questions.

UMW Christmas Party is scheduled for Dec. 1 @ 6:00pm. at Dee’s house. Don’t forget your gift for exchange. Parking will be provided.

AN EMORY OUTREACH The shelter was more than grateful for the socks donated by Emory UMC. In addition for future donations they asked that we consider underwear for men and women. Since it is nearing the time to set up The Paula Davis Giving Tree,

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any donations of socks and underwear can be placed under the tree with everything else donated. Paula was a member of our church who was always collecting outerwear & socks for the homeless shelter. In her memory we have the Paula Davis Giving Tree.

Advent The first four Sundays in December are the four Sundays of Advent. Each week we will light the Advent candles as we prepare for the birth of Christ and the coming of the light into the world. Please note that the fourth Sunday is also Christmas Eve. In the morning service, we are still be awaiting the Christ. By the first evening service at 7pm the child is come. Communion and candlelight will welcome the gift in an infant body at 11pm. Each Sunday brings us closer to welcoming the Christ Child once again into the world.

Wonderful Wednesday will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 6 & 13th the Emory Bake Shoppe fundraiser will be held. There will be no Wonderful Wed. on Dec. 20 or 27th.

CALENDAR

December 1 UMW Christmas Party- Time and Place, 6pm, Dee’s house 3 First Sunday in Advent, 10:00 am. worship. Theme: Awake and

Watch. Communion 4 Project Linus

5 Sight and Sound Theater Trip, 8am. – 6pm., Miracle of Christmas 6 Wednesday’s are Wonderful, 5:45pm

10 Second Sunday in Advent, 10:00 am .Worship. Theme: Make Straight a Highway

Christmas party/brunch after church 13 Last Wednesday dinner of 2017. Emory Bake Shoppe Fundraiser. 17 Third Sunday in Advent- 10:00 am. worship.

Christmas Cantata during worship Caroling to Shut-Ins & party at Wineke’s, 2:00pm

24 Fourth Sunday in Advent. 3 services today: 10:00 am. - Announcing the Coming of a Baby 7:00 pm. – Word and Song Tell the Story, Choir Singing 11:00 pm. – Communion and Candlelight

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25 Christ is born! Merry Christmas to all 31 Happy 2018! Early Watch Night Service

COMING SOON-Electronic Giving Emory United Methodist Church is pleased to announce the introduction of an electronic option for making regular offerings. Contributions can soon be debited automatically from your checking or savings account or processed using your credit or debit card. Our new electronic giving program offers convenience for you and provides much-needed donation consistency for our congregation. If you are currently giving on a weekly basis, you will no longer need to write out 52 checks a year or prepare 52 envelopes.

And, when travel, illness or other circumstance prevent you from attending services, this program will allow your weekly offerings to continue on an uninterrupted basis. An authorization form and further information will soon be available in the church and church office.Our launch date is coming in December, so stay tuned and you will be receiving further details by email. Carol Ward has a new address: Kenny Freeman is home Carol J Ward from the hospital & doing 1003 Scarlett Oak Ct 2D well. He is starting to walk Hampstead, MD 21074 around.

Dear Emory Family, Thank you so much for all the prayers, cards, and phone calls following my hand surgery and our son’s recent stroke. I am convinced that all the prayers helped our son recover. Shirley Armacost

Sue and Carlton Thomas’ grandson and Jeff Thomas’ son, Ben Thomas and Tessa Smith were married on 10/22/17 in Shady Lane, PA. It was a beautiful wedding and beautiful weather. We are very happy for them and wish them a happy life together.

Updating Your Contact Information Please call the office at 410-429-6008 or send an email to churchoffice@emoryunitedmethodist.org if your name, address, phone number or e-mail address has changed. This membership

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information will then be put into Emory’s data base and the congregation will be updated in next newsletter. Feel free to contact me with any other changes you require. Linda Fair

Holiday Food Drive for our families. These are items that would be greatly appreciated: Peanut butter Jelly gravy Stuffing syrup mashed potatoes Pancake mix some cereal

Money can be given to Nancy Chilcoat to purchase items from the store. Check with her to see what is needed the most. The deadline is December 19. Thank you!

Loaves and Fishes are scheduled to prepare and serve lunch at the Church of the Brethren beginning at 10:00 am on Saturday, January 20, 2018. Volunteers are needed to help prepare and serve the meal. Lunch is served at 12:00 pm. and we are usually finished around 1:00 pm. Any monetary donations to purchase food items is appreciated as well. Please see Dale or Evan if

you are interested in helping.

BAPTISMS

We would like to welcome to Christ’s Church on Nov. 12, Cora Mackenzie Satterfield, daughter of John and Martha Satterfield. Grandmother is Linda Harden, great grandmother is Ruby Fair. Baptized by Rev. Mel Fair On Nov. 26, the three granddaughters of George & Joanne Smith were baptized: Kennedy Christiana Smith, born 8/16/14 mother Alexandra Smith Addison Grace Feix-Smith, born 11/18/15 mother Brittnee Feix-Smith and Piper Christiana Cozzi, born 9/2/17 parents Christiana Smith & Nathan Cozzi

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CHRISTMAS EVE On December 24 we will have a total of 3 services – 10 am is 4th Sunday in Advent 10:00am – Announcing the Coming of a Baby 7 & 11 services are Christmas Eve services. 7:00pm – Word and Song Tell the Story 11:00pm – Communion and Candlelight Please plan to attend one or all of the services, you will really be blessed.

A new Bible Study began on Tuesday, November 28 at 10 am. This study will run for 5 weeks covering the four weeks in Advent and a look to the future created by the birth of Christ. Bring your Bible and join Rev. Peggy as we take an in

depth look at the expectant waiting of the season. Not required, but there will be a small donation requested for the cost of materials. Notice: Due to the trip to Sight and Sound we will have Bible Study, on Monday, Dec. 4 at 10.00 am. Dec. 12, 19 & 26 are the remaining dates on Tuesday.

The Emory UMW is selling nuts and candy again this year. Please support this fundraiser. Order forms are available below and in the sanctuary. When completed please give form and money to Donna Rucker. FROM THE WOMEN The Emory Women purchased new padded folding chairs for the church hall, The other chairs are now available to anyone who would like to purchase them for a “A free will offering.” Please see Donna if you are interested. Thank you CHRISTMAS HAPPENINGS On Sunday, December 10 there will a Christmas Party/Brunch. Please call Karon Moore, 410-374-5130 to let her know if you have children, grandchildren, whoever in your family who will be coming and who would appreciate a little gift from you know who. It will be immediately after church, approx. 11:00am On Dec. 17 the choir will be presenting their cantata to sing to all of the

congregation. They have been working on this very hard. The more the merrier to hear them. On the 17th we will also go Christmas caroling to our members who are shut-ins. You

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don’t have to have great singing skills, it’s just always great to see the smiles on their faces and will put a lump in your throat. After the caroling we will go to Randy & Sherry Wineke’s house for refreshments. The only requirement is to have a good time.

IMPORTANT REMINDER-Christmas Show - Tuesday, Dec. 5, 1917. 8:00 am, meet at Kohl’s Westminster upper parking lot & will depart by 8:15am for the Sight and Sound show at 11:00 am. A Smorgasboard lunch following the show, around 2:00pm,, at Hershey Farms. Cost- $22.95 per person, which includes tax and tip. On the return trip back we should arrive at Kohl’s at approx. 5:00 – 5:30pm. Questions?? Contact Sherry Wineke 443-340-4528 or Elaine Dodd, 480-747-8785. Looking forward to a wonderful Time!! The Sight and Sound Theater is located at 300 Hartman Bridge Road in Ronks, PA 17572. New Life For Girls The hope is for every student, child and staff to have a special holiday. More information can be obtained by calling Sharon at 410-848-1360. We are thanking you in advance for helping to make the holidays memorable and sharing the joy of Christmas with Southeast New Life For Girls.

Congratulations to Emory & Anna Myers on the birth of their daughter, Corina (Cora) Maria Myers. Born on 11/11/17.The proud grandfather is Doug Myers. Great grandmother is Corina Myers.

WRAP WORKSHOP – Wellness Recovery Action Plan A workshop for people who experience mental health and/or addiction challenges and for those who care about them, including health care providers, family members, supporters and friends. The classes will be held at Carroll County Health Department, 290 S. Center Street, Westminster. Classes start December14, 2017-February 1, 2018, 8 weeks, Thursday afternoons, 1:30pm – 4:00pm. To register and for more info, please contact Heather Coates 410-876-4449 x 4672 or heather.coates@maryland.gov. Please register by December 11, 2017.

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EMORY UNITED METHODIST WOMEN NUTS AND CANDY SALE 2017

Please contact Donna Rucker (410-429-5251) to place your order. Order early due to limited supplies.

QUANTITY ITEM PRICE QUANTITY ITEM PRICE

Pecans $11.00 Milk Choc. Coated

Almonds

$10.00

Pecan Pieces

$11.00 Milk Choc. Coated Pecans

$11.00

Light Walnut Pcs.

$10.00 Milk Choc. Coated

Cashews

$11.00

Black. Walnut Pcs.

$11.00 Milk Choc. Coated Raisins

$ 7.00

Deluxe Mixed Nuts

$11.00 Milk Choc. Coated Bridge

Mix

$ 8.00

Almonds

$10.00 Chipotle Mixed Nuts

$ 10.00

Cashews

$11.00 Yogurt Raisins $ 7.00

Natural Pistachios

$11.00 Giant Malted Balls

$ 7.00

Fruit & Nut Mix

$ 8.00 Dark Choc. Cranberries

$ 8.00

Sweet & Salty Trail

$ 8.00 Dark Coated Almonds

$11.00

Gummi Bears $ 6.00 Milk Choc. Pecan Clusters

(9 oz.)

$ 8.00

Spicy Party Mix

$ 7.00 Praline Pecans $11.00

Harvest Medley Mix

$11.00

Total ________________________

All nuts are in 1 pound resealable bags – with the exception of Milk Chocolate Pecan Clusters are only

9 oz.)Name___________________________________________________ Phone No.______________________________________

Address___________________________________________________ For payment, see Donna Rucker 410-429-5251 or the Office Secretary 410-429-6008.

Checks are to be made payable to: Emory United Methodist Women.

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January Newsletter items due by December 21.

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2017 DECEMBER Outreach for the month of DECEMBER is Board of Child Care

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 UMW Christmas Party, 6pm at Dee’s.

2 AA &Al-Anon, 7pm

3 1st Advent

Church Service, 10am - Communion

4 Bible Study, 10am

Project Linus canceled until January

5 Sight & Sound Theater Trip, 8-6pm Council of Ministries, 7pm

6 Wonderful Wednesdays, 5:45pm

7 Boy Scouts, 7pm

8 9 AA &Al-Anon, 7pm

10 2nd Advent Church Service, 10am Christmas Party after church

11 12 Bible Study, 10am

13 Last Wonderful Wednesday, this year, 5:45pm Emory Bake Shoppe

14 Boy Scouts, 7pm

15 16 AA &Al-Anon, 7pm

17 3rd Advent –Church Service Choir – Cantata & Christmas Caroling, 2pm

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19 Bible Study, 10am

20 21 Boy Scouts, 7pm

22 23 AA &Al-Anon, 7pm

24 Christmas Eve 4th Advent 10am, 7 pm & & 11 pm Church 31 Happy New Year’s Eve

25 Christmas

26 Bible Study, 10am

27 28 Boy Scouts, 7pm

29 30 AA &Al-Anon, 7pm