Many Christians around the world annually celebrate Epiphany on January 6. It is a public holiday in many countries and marks two events in Jesus Christ’s life. The first event was when the wise men, or kings, visited the infant Jesus. The second event was when St John the Baptist baptized Jesus. Today, we celebrate the arrival of the wise men and next Sunday we will celebrate Baptism of the Lord Sunday. Next Sunday is also the beginning of our new Worship Series “Greater Gifts - Discovering and Activating our Gifts.” Please join us and don’t forget to invite a friend.

Children’s Sabbath Combined Worship Service Sunday, January 20th @ 9am

Join us Sunday, January 20th at 9:00am in our Celebration Center for our annual “Children’s Sabbath.”

This service will focus on children, be led by children and will feature our Lampstand Band. However, everyone is sure to be blessed no matter your age. So, come and bring a friend or neighbor. Also, come to support our kids and the work they do in our church.

There will be no 8:30am service on January 20th, but the 11:15am service will be as scheduled.

January 6 - Today 8:30am Worship Sanctuary 9:00am Worship Celebration Center 10:10am Sunday School Classes 11:15am Worship Sanctuary 1:30pm SPRC (library) 5pm Children’s Pageant (CC) 5:45pm Fellowship Dinner (FH) 5:30pm AA (Rm 20) 5:45pm Youth Fellowship (youth room) 6pm Canine Connection (parking lot) 8pm AA (Rm 20)

Monday, January 7 Meals on Wheels (pick up location) 8:30am AARP (FH) 9am Senior Breakfast (Vancosta’s) 10am PAA (Rm. 27) 5:30pm Evangelism (Library) 6pm Upward Practice 6:30pm Scouts 7pm Praise Choir Rehearsal 7pm Mary Freeman Circle (Rm 20)

Tuesday, January 8 Meals on Wheels (pick up location) 8:30am AARP (FH) 10am PAA (Rm 27) 6pm Upward Practice 6pm Sunday School Dinner (Mingee’s)

Wednesday, January 9 Meals on Wheels (pick up location) 8:30am AARP (FH) 5:30pm Lampstand Band Rehearsal (CC) 6pm Lampstand Planning Team 7pm Serve Team (Rm 27) 7pm Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Thursday, January 10 Meals on Wheels (pick up location) 8:30am AARP (FH) 10am PAA (Rm 27) 6:30pm Yoga (Rm 22) 7pm Connect Team (Rm 27) 7pm Trustee Team (Rm 20) Friday, January 11 Meals on Wheels (pick up location) 12pm AARP (FH)

Saturday, January 12 9am Special Olympics Basketball (CC) 11am Upwards Games 3pm Elks Hoop Shoot (CC) 5pm Covenant Party (FH) 6pm Drama Rehearsal (CC) 6pm AA English Speaking (Rm 20)

Contact Jim King at facility@wmumc.org for all event/room reservations.

This Week At A Glance . .

Welcome to Worship Today

Warwick Weekly January 6, 2019

Children’s Christmas Pageant Tonight

Our M&M’s will share the blessing of the Christmas story tonight through the telling of “Christmas in Genesis? How Could This Be?” This is a reschedule event from December 2nd (due to the snowstorm). So, join us tonight at 5pm in the Celebration Center followed by a Potluck Dinner in the Fellowship Hall.

2019 Offering Envelopes

You can pick up your box of 2019 offering envelopes on the table in the Narthex or in the Gathering Area (if they are not in one place, they may be in the other.) Even if you have not made a pledge but wish to support your church with its daily operations and ministries, during the year, we can provide a box of envelopes for you. If you do give on-line/through the app and do not need your box of envelopes, please return it to the office with a note so we can recycle for new members. The “Initial Offering” envelope is to help us with the cost of the envelopes. A small offering, if possible, would be appreciated. If you have any questions, please contact the church office at 877-2270.

Senior Fellowship Breakfast Group

The Senior Breakfast Group meets the first

Monday of the month. Join them tomorrow,

January 7th, at Vancosta’s at 9am. Call Ginny

Spangler 869-7613 for reservations.

Senior Fellowship Bookclub

This month’s book: “Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate - Twelve year old Rill and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi riverboat. Then tragedy strikes ------The author’s riveting, wrenching and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.

Join us for lunch and a lively book discussion!! PLEASE call Ginny Spangler at 757-869-7613 to reserve your place. When: JANUARY 17 @ 12:30PM Where: RICK AND

LIBBY’S

located 11006 Warwick

Boulevard (in the shopping

center.)

Time to Take Down the Greens You are invited to join us on Saturday, January 12th at 10:00 in the Sanctuary to help take down the Christmas decorations. It won't take long. Why does it all come down faster than going up anyway? Thanks, Linda and Margaret

All God’s Children Summer Camp Volunteers Hey Friends! I'm so excited to let you know that All God's Children Camp is in full swing and gearing up for the summer! We still need plenty of mentors to come join us at Camp Chanco on the James, near the Richmond area. Please consider giving a week this summer to mentor a child who is waiting for you! Contact Lori Smith at 571-245-9591 or lttlelori@gmail.com and let's make 2019 the best yet! Camp dates are: June 16-21 and August 11-16. To learn more about the camp, please contact Jim Rogers who has been very active with this program for many years.

Children & Youth Fellowship Groups

Notes to parents: During normal meeting times, please walk your children into the building to the specified room location and pick up there, too. The M&Ms (Magnanimous and Mindful) (children K to 5th grade) will meet in the Fellowship Hall. Contact Sharon Ellis at cutygrgal@cox.net or 872-8495 for more information. This year, the M&Ms are learning from “Kids’ Travel Guide to the Parables.” (no regular meeting tonight because of the pageant.) The Youth gather in the Youth Room. We welcome all youth grades 6 through grade 12. Contact John Evans at youth@wmumc.org or 708-4929 cell/text. (Regular meetings resume tonight at 5:45pm) Pick up brochures on the welcome stands in the Narthex and Gathering Area to learn more about these programs. A snack supper is provided for all age groups (unless otherwise noted from week to week). Parents can assist with meal preparations, so please see Sharon Ellis or John Evans for more information on how to help.

Professional Nursery Childcare Available

Our infant and toddler nurseries (Room 25 and 26) are open during worship, Sunday School, and many scheduled events.

We offer professionally trained staff for children newborn to pre-schoolers. Please ask a greeter, usher or pastor for directions to the nursery.

In consideration of other children and families, we do ask that you do not leave your child if he/she is sick or running a fever.

Childcare is provided as part of our ministry and there is no fee.

Fun for Kids in Sunday School

All kids Pre-K to Grade 5 are invited to our Celebration Center at 10:10am for a video welcome and then will be escorted to their grade appropriate Sunday School classroom with their teachers. Remember, friends are always welcome to church and Sunday School.

Each month the kids study a new Bible verse and Children can collect Bible Bucks for different assignments, tasks, and positive behavior each Sunday. Every third Sunday is “Sunday Funday.” Please encourage your child to invite friends. Feel free to speak to any Sunday School leader if you have any questions.

Sunday School Classes (educational wing): 3, 4 and 5 year olds meet in Room 29 1st and 2nd grade meet in Room 18 3rd, 4th and 5th grade meet in Room 14 6th and 7th grade meet in Room 16

We also have Youth Sunday School available each week. Grades 8 and up meet in the Youth Room (room 22).

Carpenters Class For those who have children with special needs, please visit us in the Carpenter’s Class, Room 30, in the Sunday School hall (across from the toddler nursery) from 10:10am to 11:10am on Sunday mornings. This includes people of any age from six through young adults. The class teachers are Kathie Watkins and Marilyn Gardner.

Elks Hoop Shoot: January 12th

Basketball Free Throw Contest open to all children, boys and girls, ages 8 to 13. Children do not have to be part of Upward to participate in this event.

Contestants’ age-groups are determined by their age as of April 1, 2019.

Registration begins at 2pm. There is no charge. Hoop Shoot starts at approximately 3pm following the last Upward game.

Prizes are awarded in each age group category.

This is not sponsored by Upward basketball. It is funded by the Elks National Foundation, and is open to all children ages 8 to 13 - so bring a friend and have some fun.

Warwick Memorial UnitedMethodist Church

Rev. James Canody, Senior Pastor pastorjim@wmumc.org

757-872-4376 (h) (703)861-2023 (c)

Rev. Peggy Langille, Associate Pastor pastorpeggy@wmumc.org

757-897-6151

Rev. Josh Dalton, Associate Pastor pastorjosh@wmumc.org

434-444-4901

38 Hoopes Road | Newport News, VA 23602 WMUMC.org | 757.877.2270

Care Line: 757-509-7611

Sick? Going to Hospital?

If you are hospitalized, planning surgery, or have become ill, please contact the church office at 877-2270 or by emailing warwick.memorial@wmumc.org. If you have an urgent situation, please call or text our care line at (757) 509-7611 or the church office at 877-2270 (9am to 5pm). If you are going to the hospital, please let us know the date, time, and hospital where you will be receiving care. Due to HIPAA regulations, the hospital will not automatically inform the church of your hospitalization.

Prayer List

Please pray for those at home, in the hospital or care facility: Fran Shaffer (York Convalescent Center), Jane Guthrie (York Convalescent), Harry Fisher (The Newport), Caroline Blume (St. Francis), Bill Brady (York Convalescent Center), Jane Goetz, Beverly Mayeaux, Marguerite Proffitt, Lynn Davenport, Pat Kennedy (Donna Cox’s mom), Connie Moran, Jean Shaffer, Ruth Ritenour (Mennowood), Nancy Setty, Laurie Lasher, Marvin Hill (Barbara Amaker’s brother), Norma Coleman, Carol Hollingsworth, Anne Corliss, Shirley Crittenden, Carlton Purgold, Frank Nowak (Pat Inge’s brother-in-law), Pat Inge, Millie Shelor, Mildred Burnett, Judy Claus, Ann Barley, Linda Henderson, Lee Skaggs, Cindy Skaggs, Betsy Raper, Nancy Cooper (Jennifer Neville’s mother), Robert Wood (Janice Canody’s brother), Elizabeth Hamilton, Trevor Carrithers, Sarah Newcomb, Larry Bevins, Buck Parker (Joy Robinon’s dad) and those who are grieving or sick.

Deployed Armed Forces:

CWO3 Michael Kreider, Josh Evans

Last Week’s Attendance Numbers

12/30/18

8:30am - 40 | 9:00am - 98 | 11:15am - 47

Total Worship: 185

Sunday School Attendance: 120

“The Trip to Bountiful”

Carrie Watts dreams of one last visit “home” to Bountiful, Texas, where she was raised. She eventually runs away from her controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son and, while traveling by bus, befriends a young woman, sharing secrets and memories. What starts as an ordinary trip soon becomes an inspiring and life-changing journey of discovery.

Join our very own Living Word Drama Ministry Team for one of the following three performances

Friday, March 1st - 7:30pm Saturday, March 2nd - 7:30pm

Sunday, March 3rd - 2pm Tickets are $10 in advance from a drama team

member or at the door

Please share available flier with friends, neighbors, co-workers and invite them to attend.

Volunteering BY WM Members The Virginia Annual Conference asks each church to keep a record of community volunteering in mission and ministry performed by its members. If you volunteer regularly, i.e., once a week, once a month, etc., by visiting shut ins or those in the hospital or with an agency outside WM like THRIVE, Habitat for Humanity, a hospital, Lackey Clinic, Boys and Girls Club, AARP TaxAide program, a school like Epes Elementary, 5 Loaves Ministry, etc. we would like to know about it. Please send your information (where volunteering and number of times a week or month) to Henry Bennett at jhbenn3940@gmail.com or leave him a message at 877-2258.

United Methodist Men Meeting The United Methodist Men will have their monthly dinner and meeting on Tuesday, January 8th at 6pm in the Fellowship Hall. If you plan to attend, please contact Daniel Serda at 272-6674.

Thank You Barry and I want to thank our Church Family for your love and prayers, throughout my situation both in and out of the hospital.

You are all very special to us, and you bless us daily!

Love and prayers, Ann and Barry Barley