What’s Happening

MONDAY DECEMBER 16      

 

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 18  

 

THURSDAY DECEMBER 19       

 

SUNDAY DECEMBER 22      

 

Meeting for Worship-Sharing, 10:00 AM, both in person @ meetinghouse and online via Zoom

 

 

AN OFFERING PLATE to receive contributions for Winchester Friends’ ministries is located on the table at the sanctuary parlor entrance.  Thank you for your faithful support and participation in the Meeting’s work.

 

TODAY IS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY SUNDAY:  Each third Sunday of the month, Friends are invited to donate a staple food item or a dollar or two for helping area residents who struggle to afford adequate nutrition.  Food donations may be left at the church office door, and monetary donations may be dropped into the Quaker Oats tin on the southwest parlor table.  

 

THE BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP is now reading personally selected books about something or somewhere outside the US, or by a non-American author.  The next discussion is set for Monday December 16 at 7:30 PM by Zoom.

 

READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN 2024:  This week’s chapters are I Peter 3-5, II Peter 1-3, I Timothy 1-6, Titus 1-3, II Timothy 1-4, and I John 1-2.  The year’s daily reading schedule is on the parlor table.

 

THE WELCOME CLASS BIBLE STUDY will meet this Wednesday December 18 at 7:00 PM by Zoom to study Lesson 7 in the Illuminate quarterly (“Repentance and Cries for Mercy,” drawn from Psalms 51 and 143).  Speak with Pam Ferguson for the Zoom link or a quarterly.

 

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS OFFERING:  The Missions & Social Concerns Committee invites special donations during December to support four outreach ministries:  Jamaica Yearly Meeting; Mennonite Disaster Service help to hurricane/flood/ tornado victims in the US Southeast; Winchester’s Community Christmas Basket project; and Gideons International‘s Bible placement work.  Donations will be matched with Best Special Projects funds.  You may mark your donation “Christmas Missions” and place it in the offering plate in the parlor, or send it to the church office during December.

 

PERSONAL ADVENT STORIES:    If you would like to tell Friends your personal Advent story — how Christ arrived into your life — during worship this month and put an ornament on the parlor Christmas tree to symbolize what you said, please let Ron Ferguson know so it can be scheduled.

 

WINCHESTER’S ANGEL TREE PROJECT provided gifts for 165 kids from 64 families this year — thank you to all who contributed!

 

PILL BOTTLE COLLECTION:  The Missions & Social Concerns Committee is collecting plastic pill containers for Matthew 25 Ministries, an Ohio agency serving overseas medical missions.  Pick up an information/instruction sheet from the west parlor table, and place donated bottles in the collection basket.

 

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN $10 bills are available to Friends willing to carry them until led by the Spirit to share it with someone needing a bit of help and a reminder of God’s love.  See Ron Ferguson to obtain one.

 

 

 

 Given by                                             In Memory Of

 

 Cleo and Dianna McFarland           Family & Friends
 Doug Simmons                                 Robert Simmons
 Kathy Simmons                                Lester Norman Jr., Alvina Peters 
 Ellen Craig                                        Family & Friends
 Ellene Kritsch                                    Ben Kritsch, Mary Morrison, Maxine & Clarence Kritsch
 Susan Symons                                  Dick Johnson, Steve SterlinG, Bev Manning
 Dave Longnecker                             Judy Longnecker, Randy Longnecker
 Marsha and Tony Kritsch                 Clarence & Maxine Kritsch, Gene & Judy Sickels
 Norman and Karen Peters               Loved Ones
 Terry and Sharon Reynard               Loved Ones
 Jim Wells                                            Stacey Wells
 Melisa and Bryon Thomas                Shari Perry
 Kay and Tony Mendenhall                 Parents
 Doug Baker                                        Sasha (Fidler) Baker
 Rob and Valerie Pearson                 Lowell & Jennie Pearson, Millard Lea and Bob Hogg
 Nate and Rebecca Edmonds           Family & Friends
 Nancy Wolfe                                     Candi Carr
 Pat Engle                                         John Engle & Loved Ones    

Anne Riddle                                        Russell & Bessie Moorman, Linda Guthrie
Ferguson Family                                Grace Ferguson, Steve Ferguson, Mary Curtis
Betty Locke                                         Loved Ones

 

 

Thank you to all who provided poinsettias this year to decorate the sanctuary for Advent and Christmas.  Sincere apologies if we failed to properly acknowledge anyone’s memorial.