BCUMC MISSIONS & FELLOWSHIP NEED WOMEN TO HELP WOMEN in a program designed to help women get back on their feet.

We have been asked to prepare dinner on Friday nights for 10 women living at Lake Washington UMC while participating in the six-month program. Additionally, they will need a cold breakfast Saturday mornings (bagels, cream cheese, yogurt) and sack lunches that do not require refrigeration. If you can prepare and deliver meals, please sign up for one of the dates below. If you can prepare the meals but need someone else to deliver it, that will be arranged.

For more information, please contact Chris Aakre (425.8839260) or Connie Gagnon (425.402.4797).

We have selected the following dates. More weekends are available if we have more volunteers.

• Friday, Jan. 30
• Friday, Feb. 20
• Friday, Mar. 20
• Friday, May 29
• Friday, June 26

Honduras Team Member Meeting. Our first Honduras team meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 5. This meeting is for all team members and potential team members. We will give an overview of the trip; soup and sandwiches will be provided. Marge Kuykendall will begin team-building activities, and we will disperse lots of detailed information about the trip as well as hand out the team member packages. The trip is from August 15-22, 2009. Total cost is $1,591.30 (airfare and in-country fee) with a few incidentals fees. Please RSVP to Marcia Gordon (425.485.3647) or Marge Kuykendall (425.883.0248) if you can attend the meeting so we can have an approximate head count for sandwiches, but please come anyway if you are interested and didn’t RSVP.

Community Emergency Response Team Training. C.E.R.T. training will begin on Wednesday, January 7, from 6:00-9:00 at the church. This seven-week course is provided free of charge by the Woodinville Fire & Life Safety districts. Daycare is provided with registration. Contact the church office or sign up online.

Financial Peace University. A 13-week program will be offered beginning January 7 at 6:30-8:00 p.m. which will help equip families to communicate about money, beat debt and build wealth God’s way. Free preview class Sunday, January 4, at 10:45 a.m. Child care is available with registration.

This is the perfect time to join the CELEBRATION CHOIR! We are putting together a wonderful cantata by Bill and Gloria Gaither called “Then Came Morning,” which we will present to the congregation on Easter! We’ll all be learning from scratch, and we’d love to have you join us! Choir rehearsals are Thursday nights from 7:45 - 8:45 p.m. We laugh together, pray together, and of course singtogether! Choir rehearsals resume on January 8. Come join us!! For further information, please contact Debbie Brown at debbie.jean.brown@gmail.com.

Church and Society Committee. The Church and Society Committeeis looking for new members. This year we will be working on such projects as the church recycling program, Cover the Uninsured Week, Pride Day in Seattle, and hosting some movie nights with social justice themes such as “Hotel Rwanda.” We’ll be taking our turn in the kitchen for a Wednesday program, and we plan on cooking a very delicious vegetarian meal! If these issues, or any other social justice issues are of interest to you, we would love to have you join our committee! We meet about every other month. For further information, please contact Debbie Brown at debbie.jean.brown@gmail.com.

Craft Group. Our new craft group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. (no December meeting). You may bring your own project (prayer shawls?) or we’ll provide one for you. For more info, contact Joan Pierce at 360.668. 9691 or jpierce622@aol.com.

Bell Ringing Ceremony. Ronald UMC in Shoreline invites you to its Centennial Celebration Bell Ringing Ceremony on Saturday, January 3, at 11:00 a.m. 17839 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline 425.787.0856

Keeping Up with Wesley

Join us for a new adult course offering on Sunday mornings after worship. We will begin on January 4! January is a traditional time in our culture to focus anew on the things that make us better.
John Wesley, as the founder of Methodism was way ahead of his time. He adopted General Rules which profoundly and simply state the basis of Christian living. His rules are; “do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God”. Further, Wesley anticipated how difficult it might be to do this alone. He challenged people to participate in small groups and be accountable to one another .

The process is simple…..

Folks gather together on a regular basis to be present for one another through attentiveness and prayer as each person contemplates how they were close to Christ in the past week, what challenges they faced, and what is his/her plan for learning about God and “doing good” in the week to come.

We offer it all to God and in so doing we will find other believers who are also on this journey. This giving and receiving builds us individually and collectively as The Body.

For now, let’s call it ” Keeping up with John Wesley’s Rules and Being All the Better For It.” I look forward to spending time with you as we listen and pray together on Sundays right after worship.

Agape, Susan Jackson