Walkersville

Walkersville United Methodist Church

A Community of Faith that is
Christ Centered … Bible Based … People Focused

Announcements...

WUMC PRAYER LIST

Please advise Pastor Steve if you know of anyone who needs to be added to or deleted from the Prayer List.

Our prayers go out to Amber Younkin (Cancer); Bonnie Connolly (Cancer); Pat & Bob Nicodemus; Anna Heflin (Cancer); Ruth Brechbiel (Hospital); Denise Rankin (cancer), John Stepp (cancer), Bobby Howard (cancer), Penny Cline (cancer), Gail Diamond (cancer), Mick Bush, Loretta & Ron Ryan, Gail Abbott, Bob Morton, and George Morrison.

NURSING CENTERS OR HOMEBOUND
Remember our members who are homebound or who reside in nursing and rehabilitation centers.

Golden Living

Sunrise
Johannah Zimmerman

Glade Valley

Homewood
Magaret Dezes
Una Elmore
Raymond Trude
Dorothy Dudrow

Information to be
inserted into the May 2009 Saddlebag needs
to be in the Church
office NLT May 22.
The information can be
e-mailed to sheila.gould@comcast.net, faxed to 301-845-9863, or dropped off in hard copy. Thanks.

omebound
Ruth Barber
Bob Robinett
Helen Eaves

Montevue
Marian Green Repp

Bob Campbell
Kenneth McGrew

Heartfields
Betty Jane Crum
Anna Pierce

NMS Health Care of Hagerstown
Jane Thomas

MILITARY PERSONNEL
Send your prayers and support to our military members, and their families, who are serving their country.

Deployed to Iraq or Afganistan: Darell White; Devin White; Dave Berry; Steve Morris; Christopher Ramsburg; Kerry Wertz; Jon Wertz.

Phone: 301-845-9860 Fax: 301-845-9863

22 Main Street

Walkersville, MD 21793

Monday - Friday

9:00 am - 2:00 pm

In an emergency, contact

Pastor Humphrey,
cell phone 240-422-2179

2009 UPCOMING EVENT DATES

October 2: Knitting Group @ 7 p.m. in L
October 2: Set up for Clothing Consignment GH
October 3: Clothing Consignment @ 8:30 a.m. GH
October 3: Community Fall Festival @ 10:00
October 4: World Communion Sunday
October 9&10: Annual Oyster Dinner @ GH
October 17: Charge Conference @ 11 am in Calvary UMC
October 22: Walkersvill HS Homecoming Parade
October 23: Articles due for SADDLEBAG
October 23: Walkersville HS Homecoming Game @ 7 pm
October 24: Walkersville HS Homecoming Dance @ 8 pm
October 25: Trunk or Treat at 5 pm Church parking lot
October 25: All Hallows’ Eve Service @ 7 pm
October 29: Seminar for Teens on Sex, Dating, Love & Relationships @ 7 p.m.

November 6: Knitting Group @ 7 p.m. in L
November 7: Old Rag Mtn. Hike w/Pastor Steve
November 12: Blood Drive @ 2 p.m. in GH
November 13: Articles due for SADDLEBAG
November 15: Bible Sunday
November 20: SADDLEBAG Mailed
November 20-22:ALIVE in Ocean City, MD
November 27: Church Office closed
November 29: United Methodist Student Sunday

December 4: Knitting Group @ 7 p.m. in L
December 5: Breakfast with Santa @ 8:00 am
December 11: Articles due for SADDLEBAG
December 18: SADDLEBAG Mailed
December 18: Parent’s Night Out @ 5 pm
December 21: Blue Christmas Service @ 7 pm
December 24: Christmas Eve Services @ 7, 9, 11 pm
December 28-Jan. 4 Church Office closed

CRAFTERS NEEDED: Calling all WUMC crafters. Here is an opportunity to use your special talents to help raise funds for the Church. The craft table at the Fall Oyster Dinner on October 9-10 is in desperate need of donated handmade craft items to sell. If you would like to donate item(s), please contact Peg Bourland on 301-845-6692. Your assistance in this endeavor is greatly appreciated.

The annual CHARGE CONFERENCE is scheduled for Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 11 am at Frederick Calvary UMC.

SEX, DATING, LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS: Beginning October 29, 2009 from 3:30-5:30 pm, Kathleen will be holding a class on teenage sex, dating, love & relationships for high school students only. (Some parents have asked about this so here it is.) If you would like your child to participate, please fill out the parental form which is located in the breezeway and bring it to the first meeting on Thursday, October 29. This is an 8-week class and it is to inform, share, and lift up, not to judge. Come with open hearts and minds. EVERYTHING shared in these meetings is strictly confidential.

NOVEMBER SADDLEBAG: Information to be inserted for the November 2009 SADDLEBAG needs to be in the Church office NLT Friday, October 23. Information can be e-mailed to sheila.gould@comcast.net, faxed to 301-845-9863, or dropped off at the Church office in hard copy.

NOTE DATE CHANGE: Pastor Steve’s annual OLD RAG MOUNTAIN HIKE is scheduled for Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 8 a.m.

BIBLE SUNDAY this year is on November 15. Come and see the third grade class get their bibles at the 11:00 service.

CHURCH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT: We are looking for at least two or more new Church School Superintendents to take over my position as of June 2010. If anyone is interested, please contact Helene Klemanski at 301-845-2572 or helene.klemanski@uspto.gov.

THANK YOU: To our friends and church family: We would like to thank you for your prayers and all that you have done to support and sustain us surrounding the passing of our mother, Florence Folk. Once again, the pastoral care Reverend Steve provided to our family was of great solace and continuing reassurance. Thoughtful and reliably attentive, nothing ever asked of Reverend Steve is too great and no detail is ever too small to take into account.

Nancy Mullins once again provided wonderfully uplifting music in the form of the hymns our mother loved to play herself and to sing. This was despite receiving late notice and while being asked to play away from our home church.

A special thanks to Betty George, Nancy Smith, and to the members of and many contributors to the fruits and labors of the funeral hospitality committee. They, as they always do, provided an inviting place for our family to gather and a general respite through their devoted care, great coffee, and consoling food. Members of our clergy, lay leaders, and members steadfastly rise to the occasion to support others in our church family, and it is always a welcome wonder and reassurance of collective faith. May God keep and bless you all. The Jett-Folk and Turley Families

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: SUNDAY MORNING FELLOWSHIP HOUR. Volunteers are needed to assist with set up and/or clean up for our fellowship time in GH each Sunday. Coffee and cookies will be available from 10 to 11am. Set up needs to be before the 9am service and clean up will be at 11:00. You may sign up for one or both duties. Thanks so much! Phil and Sharon Rohrer

The BELIEVER’S CLUB, a community integration club for children with special needs and their parents, is planning their triennial trip to Disney World this spring. They, again, are selling the Enjoy the City coupon books that contain over $2000 in coupons at a cost of $20 per book. This is the same club that sold them in the church social hall last year. If you are interested in purchasing a book this year to support this worthy cause, please either let Bobbie Denn, (301) 898-5154 know or call Jeannine Milyard at 301-84-6735. You may leave a message on her phone and she'll gladly return your call.

CONDOLENCES go out to Bob & Belinda Morton and family on the loss of Belinda’s father, Gil Sansbury, on September 15 at 11:30pm. Services will be held in Rehoboth, DE on Monday, September 21, 2009. Mr. Sansbury left behind two children, seven grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren.