SEPTEMBER 2024 WORSHIP HOURS 10:00am 11:00 a.m.: Fellowship Go paperless!! Now you can give online!! Click the link below or scan the QR code Online WebPay ♦♦♦♦♦ E-mail ADDRESS: uccwhitman@gmail.com Church Office # 781-447-5557 Margaret Mannke – Secretary Office phone: 781-447-5557 Music Director/Organist: Heather Peel Reverend Rick Giragosian will be preaching this year. ♦♦♦♦♦ AMERICAN RED CROSS: SOUND THE ALARM Campaign is offering to Whitman residents FREE smoke detector w/installation. Schedule an appointment by texting your name and contact phone number to ARC Volunteer, Anne Williams at 508-345-8988 ♦♦♦♦♦ SUNDAY’S SERMON for December 13th, 2020 Click here to view Sunday's sermon ♦♦♦♦♦ Home Communion and visitation now available- please call the church at (781) 447-5557 to arrange. Mask restriction lifted (if fully vaccinated)! As of Sunday, June 6^th,2021, anyone fully vaccinated is not required to wear a mask. Social distancing guidelines will remain for another week until June13th service. ♦♦♦♦♦ Church and Fellowship hall are available for your event Please contact the church office for available times and costs Baby showers- Wedding Showers- Collations Weddings and Special Events The fellowship Hall underwent a beautiful face lift. Check us out when planning that special event. ♦♦♦♦♦ All Ages Welcome Volunteers needed – signup sheets in sanctuary. Church Openings Interested in joining a committee or be a representative on the board? Openings are available for all church members young and not so young. Learn more at fellowship or by asking a current committee or board member Or How about greeting, usher or counting collection? Sign up on the clipboard in the back of the sanctuary. Thank you for considering taking a more active role in your church as a much-needed volunteer! Any time you can give, is sincerely appreciated. "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. " Henry Ford ♦♦♦♦♦ Sandwiches for MainSpring 3^rd Sunday of every month This wondrous mission program sends 100 lunches each month Meet in the kitchen just after service – many hands make light the load ♦♦♦♦♦ Wednesday Wonderings will be the resource for updates on worship services and prayer requests. Please email Gail at iamgjc@icloud.com with joys and concerns to share. A live Facebook broadcast (available also as a link on this website) will be available each Sunday until further notice. God Cares. Yesterday today and tomorrow All over the world folks are doing what they can to support and give comfort in this time of uncertainty. Everything has changed but God is our constant. God will comfort the grieving and give strength to those who are in need There is hope found through prayer and our continued faith that God will be there for all of us. Our church family is amazing when called upon to help. Some ideas..... Fill the plastic container outside the parking lot door with food for the food pantry Drop off cards in the office mail box to be mailed to area nursing homes or our shut-ins. Put a sign with a word or picture of encouragement in a window or in your yard Every day at 3PM let's all take a moment to connect spiritually with prayer. A moment in time each day to pray for those who need God’s comfort and care. Your deacons are available via email or phone. We are committed to help however we can. Russ Greene: 781-447-5047 Wayne Brundige: 781-447-1021 Frank Kawa: 781-308-5511 The Lord hears when I call to him. There are many who say, “O that we might see some good!” Lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, O Lord In peace I will both lie down and sleep. For thou alone. O Lord, makest me dwell in safety. ♦♦♦♦♦

Wednesday Wonderings – September 11^th Today is the anniversary of September 11th . We honor the individuals who died in this act of terror with words of strength from scripture. “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” Psalm 18:2 Rally Day Open House September 15, 2024------11:30AM to 2:30PM Volunteers needed for this community event Donations needed of: Hot Dogs Buns Individual bags of chips Water (small bottle size) Sign Up Sheet in Fellowship Hall or call Gail to pick up (617-838-2842) X Rally Day Open House Free Community Event September 15, 2024 11:30AM to 2:30PM Bouncy House and Bouncy Slides Hot Dogs- Chips and Beverage Corn Hole and Music Tours of the church available Fun for all ages! V COMMUNITY CARING  · Men’s Breakfast - Saturday, September 14^th at Mo's in Hanson · Mainspring Sandwiches - Sunday, September 15th Pumpkin Patch – truck arrives September 28^th at ~3pm Kelly Lopes – Head Pumpkin Please come to help unload the pumpkins from the delivery truck.  Come one, come all, no hands are too big or too small. Continue or start a family tradition, gain community service hours, or just have fun. We’d love to have you join us! Please meet at the church. Snacks and drinks will be provided. For more information, contact Kelly via phone: 781-570-6995 or email: pappatuggo@aol.com Volunteers are also needed to help with sales. Details and shifts TBA shortly. Blessing of The Animals- After Service on October 13^th Russ Greene- contact person Thanksgiving Service – 5 Kernels of Corn · Pie Mission Project - Date TBD · Advent Workshop - Kelly Lopes & Casey Barefoot Christmas Service- Mission Project Donations needed! Visit Ron’s Christmas Tree in Fellowship Hall for more information. Selling for Shipping Table has great items available for a donation Roberta Spencer, Frank Kawa and I attended the Operation Christmas Child workshop on September 7th. The videos of children around the world opening  their SHOEBOXES - touched our hearts! Their smiles, excitement, and pure joy was on the faces of each child. Waving their stuffed animals, dolls, soccer balls, a new shirt,etc. in the air was quite a beautiful sight to see ! And each box that we will thoughtfully fill and pray over, will show that child that they are loved by Jesus and each of us.  Thank you for the many donations that continue to come in. School supplies and some hygiene items (excluding bars of soap) are still needed. We are going to put together SEWING KITS this year. The following items are necessary to make up the kits: small spools of thread (all colors), packages of both sewing needles and common pins, and buttons! This might be a perfect opportunity to get out your tins /boxes of buttons!  Of course you can buy buttons too. We already have tape measures and safety pins. Pieces of fabric are appreciated too.  Thank you all so very much for your active participation in this very meaningful Mission Project. Barbara McLaughlin Roberta Spencer and Barbara McLaughlin co-chairs Call for details to attend Roberta- (781) 447-2600 Barbara - (781) 447-0496 ♦♦♦♦♦ ALL SAINT'S THRIFT SHOP: All Saints Church in Whitman Thrift Shop is open Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10-2 and the first Friday of every month from 4-7 p.m.  Answered Prayer! Baby Hadley- home from the hospital, as she is now gaining weight!  Please Pray for the Following: Hattie M Janice L Pastor Dave, Pastor Rick’s friend Ashley Ed C Dan B Our church, as it strives to grow in mission and community outreach