advent luncheon monday, december 11 at noon -...

Stewardship for the week of December 3

Operating 13,462.00

Poinsettia Child 372.00

Poinsettias 214.00

CAP 386.00

Christmas Project 331.00

Haiti 353.04

Capital Campaign 2014 1,297.00

Capital Campaign 2018 35,879.00

Total 52,294.04

Sunday School 139

Worship 231

Advent Luncheon 131

Wonderful Wednesday 133

Help4Kids Items

Vienna Sausages 24

Bags of Clothes 7

CAP Items 27

Christmas Through The Eyes of Joseph

The story of Joseph provide us a great example

of humbly obeying God even when we don’t

understand and faithfully moving forward in the

strength that God provides.

Faithful Sundays@9:30 a.m. in FLC Senior Room

Questions? Contact Rev. Kyle Kyle. Randle@fumcconway.org

CAP (Churches Assisting People) is collecting, Dry Beans (lima beans), Rice, Pork and Beans, Soups (chicken noodle or tomato), Please leave donations in the Mission Corner of the Commons.

Help4Kids: Vienna Sausages, Peanut/Cheese Crackers, Juice Boxes. Please leave donations in the Mission Corner of the Commons.

The Angel Tree in the Commons has a few angels

with needs for the Waccamaw Youth Center left.

All the angels with the boys have been taken. Gifts

for the boys are to be wrapped/gift bagged. The other

items for the WYC do NOT need to be wrapped. All

items are to be returned by Dec. 17. Thank you for

your generosity.

Christmas Project 2017

Let us celebrate the joy of living and giving this season by

remembering and reclaiming the missional meaning of Jesus’

birth! Our gifts this year will be used to help support the boys at

the Waccamaw Youth Center and Help4Kids.

Each year your gifts help provide food for Christmas dinners for

the families of Help4Kids and various needs for the boys at the

Waccamaw Youth Center.

Additionally, there will be an Angel Tree in the Commons that

will allow your family to become more involved in the support of

the Waccamaw Youth Center this Christmas by either purchasing

gifts for one of the boys at the WYC or helping supply daily

needs for the center.

Monetary and Angel Tree gifts need to be received

by December 17! Please mark your monetary gifts

“Christmas Project”. You may also give online as

www.fumcconway.org or

text to give at 73256 and follow the prompts.

Advent Luncheon Monday, December 11 at Noon Host: First Baptist Church Speaker: Rev. Jason Collins

Parsonage Open House 709 Elm Street

Sunday, December 17

2:00-4:00 p.m.

Candlelight Christmas Eve

Communion Service

5:00 p.m.

Offering Envelopes for 2018 are ready for pick-up

beginning Sunday, December 10 in the Commons Area.

There is alphabetical listing of all the envelopes that have

been assigned. If your name is not on the listing and you

would like offering envelopes, please write your name on

the available lines and check back for your envelopes.

Christmas Eve Services 9:30 a.m. / Sunday School

10:30 a.m. / Morning Worship 5:00 p.m. / Chr istmas Eve Communion

Service

First View

This is a publication of First United Methodist Church 1001 Fifth Avenue, Conway, SC 29526

Serving Next Sunday, December 17

Altar Guild: Libby McCutcheon, Paula Mytko, Lil Sher ry, Sylvia Richardson Acolytes and Crucifer: Jacob Johnson, Cooper Thomas, Ben Chanaca Counting Committee: Sallie Goldfinch, Sarah Staub Trustee Duty: Tyler Thomas, Br ian Stewart Bus Duty: Mark Brooks Children’s Church: Joy Tietje Sound Technicians: Lee Hickman, Char les Hucks Ushers: J immy Hammond (Chairman), Kelly Cooper , Zack Dusenbury, Garvin Huggins, Hunter Jenkins, Morgan Martin, Charles Myers, William Nelson, Tyler Thomas.

FUMC Staff

Reverend Kyle Randle, Pastor kyle.randle@fumcconway.org

Billy Fallaw, MM, Dir. of Music & Organist billy.fallaw@fumcconway.org

Josh Tietje, BS, Dir. of Christian Ed. & Mission josh.tietje@fumcconway.org

Danny Clonts, Accountant danny.clonts@fumcconway.org

Cathy Estridge, Ministry Assistant office@fumcconway.org

Gayle Fanshaw, Nursery Attendant. polywog_2815@yahoo.com

James Graham, Sexton jgraham1506@gmail.com

Barbra Logan, Nursery Attendant

Chrissy Merolle, Nursery Attendant

Birthdays This Week

December 10: Neal Hendr ick

December 11: Joanne Rabon, Ann Collins,

Sue Howle, John Case

December 13: Jessica Goldfinch, Cole Thompson

December 14: Doug Roof, Mattie Hucks

December 15: John Steen

December 16: Allison Zeigler

Jimmy Hammond’s Ham Bog, String Beans Salad Bar, Rolls and Dessert!

$5 per person or $15 per family Serving begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall

A virgin birth. God’s son…a helpless baby. Fleeing

certain death. Nothing about the Christmas story is

ordinary. Mike Slaughter says it’s enough to

confound the mind and make the heart contrite. In his

book, Down to Earth, Slaughter presents a four-week

Advent study that opens up God’s Christmas surprise

to us and examines how it changed everything.

Down to Earth Wednesdays @ 6:15 p.m. in Room 217

Questions? Contact Josh! Josh.Tietje@fumcconway.org

Candlelight Advent Concerts With

Members of the Long Bay Symphony

Sundays, December 10, and 17 4:00 p.m. in Hut Chapel

A peaceful worship service for those who struggle with finding the joy of the Christmas season because of a recent change or loss due to death, divorce, sickness, stress or unfortunate and tragic circumstances.

The Blue Christmas is an attempt to minister to these needs while still recognizing that part of the reason for Jesus coming was to bring hope and comfort.

First United Methodist, Kingston Presbyterian, and

St. Anne’s Episcopal Ecumenical

Blue Christmas Service

Thursday, December 21 6:00 p.m. at

Kingston Presbyterian

Prayer Concerns

Assisted Living/Rehab Facilities: Anderson Oaks: Mary T.

Foxworth; Brookdale: Bobbie Davis, Harriet Edwards; Agape: Mary

Hucks, Mt. Prospect, IL: Faye Perrault; Martinez, GA: Helen Wakefield

At Home: George Kyzer , Savannah Seremet, Lois Vaught, Nancy

Stiltner, Beccy Ward, JoAnn Wiegand, Lois Sechriest, David

Reimschussel, Julia Land, Myron and Maxine Dunn, Eugenia Benton,

Rebecca Howell, Betty Folks, Gwen Mishoe, Billy Joe Calhoun, Ruth

Thomas, Ted Boyd.

Christian sympathy is given to the family and fr iends of Irby Lee Koon. Mr. Koon passed away on Friday, December 1. Please keep his family in your prayers.