SUMC is an active church in our local community and in missions around the world. Here’s what’s going on.
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On a day when many of us will be sharing in the blessings of a Super Bowl gathering, the SUMC youth are asking for your help in sharing some blessings globally. Our teens will have a super, or “Souper,” Bowl in the sanctuary during both services Sunday to collect coins for Heifer International. Paper currency is also welcome. Heifer International is an agency that provides sustainable food and water options to families around the world.
In addition to the opportunities provided through our local church, there are a number of national and international mission trips organized through our Western Pennsylvania Annual Conference.
It’s cold out there! Please consider donating soups, stews, and other cold weather food to the Sewickley Community Food Bank. Pick up an item or two while you shop and help replenish the local food pantry. The cart will be out on February 25th, but your donations are welcome anytime.
Special Offering – February 18th
This special offering helps promote awareness issues and supports Western PA Conference ministries that provide opportunities for fuller inclusion of people with disabilities.
The Olive Branch sells high quality, unusual handcrafts made by cooperatives and community organizations representing artisans and small farmers in some of the poorest nations of the world.
Everyone, middle-school aged and older, is invited to join the “wrapping party” on Sunday, December 10, during the Sunday School hour (10 am), as we wrap the gifts for the Bethany House in the Simpson Room. Please consider bringing your own scissors.
Bring in your donations of new socks, mittens, gloves, and hats to help decorate the tree in the back of the sanctuary no later than December 10. All items will go to the Bethany House kids to help keep them warm this winter.
Thank you to everyone who is sponsoring a child in the Bethany House preschool and after-school program. There are still 7 kids available—please see Pam Honeychurch to claim one. Gifts need to be returned by Sunday, December 10 at 10 am, when we will wrap the gifts. Thank you for helping to make Christmas extra special for these children.
There are 55 children in the preschool and afterschool programs, and 10 children still need to be “adopted” for this Christmas outreach mission.
To help patrons of the food pantry prepare Thanksgiving dinner, Outreach is asking that you fill a grocery bag with the non-perishable items that are traditionally used at Thanksgiving.
More than $7 million in grants for hurricane and other disaster-relief work, and $1.86 million for global health responses. UMCOR already had received some $15 million from donors in recent months to respond to U.S. disasters – 100% of those donations will be used in those disasters’ recovery efforts.
Want to learn what it takes to be a UMC ERT member? Those are the people that are first on the scene, primarily when natural disasters strike, locally and around the country.
Thank you for the generous response to the Bag-a-Breakfast for the Sewickley Community Food Pantry. Thank you for your donations to the Girl Empowerment Project (GEP).
On Saturday, December 16th, The Olive Branch, a fair trade shop, run in part by Salem UMC, will bring a pop-up store to Sewickley UMC.
Right now, there are UMC young people—who might not have had the resources to attend a school of their choice, or, for some, any school at all—who’ve been sent by you into the world God loves because of your giving to United Methodist Student Day.
Through the UMC's global YSF, UM teens raise money for other teens doing ministry in their churches and communities impacting poverty, illiteracy, absenteeism and social justice.
To help patrons of the food pantry prepare Thanksgiving dinner, Outreach is asking that you fill a grocery bag with the non-perishable items that are traditionally used at Thanksgiving.
Esmirna Matos and Alisa Lenhardt intend to travel to Puerto Rico next Sunday, October 8, to first check on Esmirna’s mother and other family, then to seek out ways in which they might help with the immediate needs in other areas.
Our Pumpkin Patch, which is a major fundraiser for our church, as well as for the Navajo Nation that grows the pumpkins, is open every day until October 31 and is run by many wonderful volunteers.
The Pumpkin Patch is open every day until the end of October, and volunteers are needed to man it each day.
