August Communion Offering

             The August Communion Offering will go towards West Kentucky Family Services. This is a local foster care and adoption agency. You gift help to provide ministries in health and mental health cost in children ranging in ages from birth to 21. Please be generous in you giving.

Chancel Choir

            We are please to welcome back the Chancel Choir. Practice will resume August 6:00 with a Fall Kick Off Pot Luck. All choir members and their families are invited to attend. Choir rehearsal will begin at 6:00 p.m. with the meal to follow. Meat and Drinks provided. If you have any questions you may call Beth at 444-9486.

          We also want to thank all those that provided the congregation with Special Music while the Chancel Choir was on break. We are truly blessed to have such a talented congregation.

UMCOR

          During the month of August our mission emphasis will be the United Methodist Committee On Relief. Instead of putting together flood buckets here and shipping them we are asking for donations to send directly to Sager Brown bypassing the cost of shipping. It is estimated to cost approximately $45. to purchase items for one flood bucket. On the back of the Newsletter you will fine kit information. Items may be dropped off at the church during August.

Sunday School Roundup

       We will conclude our annual Sunday School Round-Up Food Drive for PCM on August 3. We want to thank everyone for their continued support. Following is a note from PCM:

          “Trying to do more with less”

“Who isn’t these days? More and more folks are struggling. PCM continues to see from 35-50 brand new clients requesting assistance each month. Then there are the folks who we haven’t seen in ages...they come in angry and disappointed to be back in the position of asking for assistance. Our hearts are torn by the stories we are hearing everyday.

Our Emergency Shelter grant request returned to us with the lowest funding we’ve received in a few years. Our friends in Frankfort are also trying to do more with less, it seems.

While we have no plans to reduce services, we may be assigning our member congregations something other than a food item from time to time, to be able to provide for basic shelter needs. All cleaning supplies, paper products and personal hygiene items donated to PCM save us from purchasing them and allow us to direct funds to big ticket things like rent and utilities.

Financial donations are down, and we are trying not to worry! We are so grateful to our faithful supporters who never forget us. Remember, every gift is meaningful and important to us and to the people we are helping!”

Health Kit

Place these items inside a sealed one-gallon plastic bag.1 hand towel (15" x 25" up to 17" x 27", No kitchen towels)

1 washcloth

1 comb (large and sturdy, not pocket-sized)

1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)

1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz. and up)

1 toothbrush (single brushes only in original wrapper, No child-size brushes)

6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages

$1.00 to purchase toothpaste
(NOTE: UMCOR Sager Brown is now purchasing toothpaste in bulk to be added to health kits before shipping to ensure that the product does not expire before they are sent.)

Layette Kit Items
6 cloth diapers

2 shirts or 2 one-piece body suits

2 baby washcloths

2 gowns or sleepers

2 diaper pins

1 sweater open in the front

2 receiving blankets

Bundle the items inside one of the receiving blankets and secure with the diaper pins.

School Kit

1 pair blunt scissors (rounded tip)

3 pads (or loose leaf) of 8 1/2" x 11" ruled paper

1 30-centimeter ruler

1 hand held pencil sharpener

 6 unsharpened pencils with erasers

1 eraser, 2 ½"

1 box of 24 crayons (only 24)

Sewing Kit

3 yards of cotton or cotton-blend, solid color or print fabric (must be 3 yards of uncut fabric)

1 pair sewing scissors

1 package of needles

1 spool of thread

5-8 matching buttons

Wrap sewing notions in the fabric and place in a sealed one-gallon plastic bag.

UMCOR

In addition to making the Kits we are also shipping bulk items. According to Sager Brown it is easier and less expensive to send items in bulk rather than individual kits. Concord UMC is willing to serve as a collection/shipping point for the following items.

receiving blankets

diaper pins

cloth diapers

baby shirts and one piece body suits

blunt scissors (round tip only)

81/2" x 11" ruled notebook paper

30-centimeter plastic ruler

hand held pencil sharpener

unsharpened pencils with erasers

eraser (2 ½ inches)

box of 24 crayons (only 24 size)

wash clothes

hand towels (no kitchen towels)

combs (large and sturdy, not pocket-sized)

1 nail file/fingernail clippers (no emery boards ot toenail clippers)

3 oz. Bars of soap

single toothbrushes in original wrappers (no child-sized brushes)

large tubes of toothpaste (expiration date must be 6 months in advance of shipping date)

band-aids (regular size)

Free will donations for shipping from Concord to Sager Brown

Calendar Events

August 06 - Chance Choir Resumes @ 6:00

August 10 - UMW Meeting Following Worship

August 17 - Leadership Meeting Following Worship

August 19 - Wesleyan Circle 10:00 a.m.

August 19 - Homemakers Brunch

August 24 - UMYF Resumes 5:00p.m.

We are anticipating resuming our Wednesday Evening Fellowship Dinners sometime soon!! Be sure to watch you Sunday Bulletin for the start date!

Memorials

Kathleen King

by

 Ann Boss

Vera Marlowe

(Laura Megibow’s Mother)

by

Ann Boss

Honorariums

Casey Smithson

by

Pat and Nancy Smithson