We are still in need of about 10 more Christmas trees to use as “forest” decorations for VBS next week. If you would be willing to lend us one (or more) for next week, you can drop it off at church this week and leave it in the youth room downstairs, marked with your name. You could also drop it off on Saturday, between 10 am and 2 pm, when FOTC hosts their car wash, or bring it to church on Sunday. We will need them by Sunday, at the latest, because we will begin decorating right after church. They can be picked up the following Sunday, 8/12.
FOTC launched its 2018 shoe box campaign in May and has selected “wow” gifts—toys, stuffed animals, balls, jewelry—as our target contribution for July. In August, we will target school supplies.
The pre-kindergarten through high school Sunday school classes will re-visit tradition by planting flowers on the church grounds next Sunday, May 20, the final day of our 2017-18 school year.
The Fellowship of the Cross will begin their 8th Operation Christmas Child campaign on Mother’s Day.
On Thursday, May 3rd, the Fellowship of the Cross is encouraging our SUMC church family to join us in a prayer initiative asking Jesus to lead us toward unity and peace in our nation.
The Fellowship of the Cross needs children and youth to help film a video that will be included in the Mother’s Day services on May 13. We will meet in the Simpson Room at 11 am, this Sunday, April 8. Outdoor scenes, and possibly some indoor scenes, will be filmed at 11, and additional scenes will be filmed in the sanctuary at the conclusion of the 11 am service. The young actors will likely be involved from 11 am until 1 pm. They should come dressed for the outdoors. See Bill Utterback or any member of the FOTC team for more information.
If you wanted to make any donations to the gift bags the FOTC kids will deliver to the shut-ins this coming Sunday, December 17, please be sure to bring them to the church no later than Sunday morning.
Sunday School children are invited to join the FOTC team to offer free cups of hot chocolate on the front lawn during Light Up Night on December 1.
If you think your time for Christmas shopping may be two sizes too small, we may have a way for you to get to the mall.
The Fellowship of the Cross youth will lead this year’s Sunday school flower-planting event this Sunday, May 21, the last morning of the Sunday school year. Everyone is invited to join our children and youth classes as we plant flowers around the church property during the Sunday school hour.
