This document provides information about upcoming events at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, including a Vacation Bible School, an African community conference, a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the annual conference mission offering, and a study on John Wesley and Methodism. It also announces that guest parking spaces will be installed and that graduates should be recognized by contacting the church administrator.
This document provides information about upcoming events at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, including a Vacation Bible School, an African community conference, a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the annual conference mission offering, and a study on John Wesley and Methodism. It also announces that guest parking spaces will be installed and that graduates should be recognized by contacting the church administrator.
This document provides information about upcoming events at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, including a Vacation Bible School, an African community conference, a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the annual conference mission offering, and a study on John Wesley and Methodism. It also announces that guest parking spaces will be installed and that graduates should be recognized by contacting the church administrator.
This document provides information about upcoming events at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, including a Vacation Bible School, an African community conference, a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the annual conference mission offering, and a study on John Wesley and Methodism. It also announces that guest parking spaces will be installed and that graduates should be recognized by contacting the church administrator.
At Maker Fun Factory VBS, kids will learn theyre created by God and built for a purpose! Join us June 26th - 29th from 5:30 to 8:15 pm. Register your kids now at cvaumc.org/vbs Register to volunteer at cvaumc.org/vbs-volunteer May 21, 2017
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Bringing the African Community Together Aldersgate will be hosting an African Conference the weekend of June 10th and 11th. This event will offer an opportunity for us to bring the African community, both in Charlottesville and across the Conference, together for worship and fellowship. There will be many The local church is the most significant arena through which disciples of ways to help, but the most urgent need is a family, or individual, to host Jesus Christ are made and Jesus disciples reach out into the world to the American missionary, Pauline Burthwick, from Friday night, June 9 th share Gods love. It is in and through the church that Jesus Christ is through Monday morning, June 12th. Please contact Kathy Morse or proclaimed and professed as Lord and Savior. Please contact Pastor Rob Pastor Rob if this is something you can do. We want to show Aldersgate hospitality and are asking that you by telephone at 434-973-5806 or complete the communication card please consider ways you may help by providing fruit, cheese and found in your bulletin and place it in the offering plate when it is passed cracker trays, or other dishes of your choice. A meal is being provided during the service if you wish to explore the meaning of membership in each day for our guests (many of them from out of town) so we will also the life of Aldersgate Church. need funds to purchase African food, or you may purchase it yourself. A signup sheet is available in the Reed Room along with a listing of needs. As always, thank you for your loving and giving spirit! GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS It's time for Spring Cleaning! Our trustees and additional caring adults Summer Show! are giving our Nursery a Spring Clean to continue to make certain that AUMC and The Black Box Players production of A Midsummer Night's we're providing a safe and clean space for our youngest children. This Dream is coming soon! Casting is open to all adults and will be held on process may take a few weeks. All children who are regularly placed in Tuesday 5/23 at 6:30 pm in the Reed Room. Performances are on Thurs. 7/27 thru Sunday 7/30 and Thurs. 8/3 thru Sun. 8/6 the nursery for care during Worship and/or Sunday school may be taken If you would like to be in the show but you cannot make casting on to the Parent Room where they will be looked after. Additionally, 5/23, email maryannthornton@gmail.com families who regularly use the Parent Room during Worship are We also need lots of production help so if volunteering behind the encouraged to continue doing so. Thank you to all who are making this scenes interests you please let me know. We encourage you to join the fun this summer! Spring Clean possible! 2017 Annual Conference Mission Offering John Wesley and the People Called "Methodist': Each year the churches of the Virginia Conference contribute to an Understanding and Claiming our Methodist Roots Annual Conference Mission Offering to benefit various missions. This Tuesdays at 10am and Wednesdays at 7pm year Bishop Lewis has announced the Annual Conference Mission In 1728, John Wesley and a small group of "Methodists" began a Offering goal of $200,000 to focus on the following missional priority renewal movement within the Church of England that has grown to a projects: world-wide movement with more than 80 million members in 80 denominations and more than 130 countries world-wide. In our study, $50,000 Cambodia - For continued support for our partnership with the we will begin with examining church history and the roots of Methodist Mission in Cambodia as they move toward being an Methodism. We will look at England in the time of Wesley. We will autonomous Methodist Church. examine our United Methodist history, including growth and struggles. $25,000 Brazil For our continued long term support of the Shade and We will examine some of John Wesley's writings. We will look at Methodist theology and practice with an eye toward learning if there is Fresh Water ministry with at risk children across several conferences in anything to reclaim from our Methodist roots. See communication card the Methodist Church of Brazil. to sign up. $25,000 Mozambique Our partnership with the United Methodist Church of Mozambique focuses on education by providing lay training Guest Parking Spaces are Coming for 1st Time Guests resources that strengthens their discipleship and witness across both Welcoming and hospitality have been and continue to be notable conferences in Mozambique. characteristics of Aldersgate Church. We take seriously our call to be $50,000 Virginia Long Term Disaster Recovery We are committed to a the body of Christ and to build God's kingdom locally and around the long term response to those whose lives were changed by tornadoes world. Following mystery worshippers attending Aldersgate Church at and hurricane Matthew in 2016. The funding of the recovery will allow the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, the various ministry areas at further teams to answer the call to make a compassionate response. Aldersgate have been reviewing the reports and discerning how we can be an even more welcoming community. To demonstrate more visibly $25,000 Ethnic Minority Missional Ministries Funds for grants to go our welcoming and hospitality, "first-time guest" parking spaces and toward developing ministry outreach in the conference to immigrants signs will soon be installed in the parking lot at the Church entrance and other marginalized groups. near Fashion Sq. Mall. No current handicap spaces will be affected. If $25,000 Virginia Volunteers in Mission To provide funds available to you have any questions or comment, please call or see Board of Trustee members Jim Garman (973-0728), Tom Howard (202-2232) or Pastor small membership faith communities who wish to engage in mission that Rob Robertson (973-5806). may lack resources. You may contribute to this missional offering through Sunday, June Graduates 11th. Make your check out to: "Aldersgate Church", but also be sure to Do you know a special high school, college, military or advanced degree write: "Annual Conference Missional Offering" in the memo of your student who has graduated, or will be graduating, this spring? If so, check or envelope. Aldersgate Church's lay delegate to annual please send his/her name, school, and degree earned to Rachel conference, Susan Painter, will present the offering at a worship service (rachelmiller@cvaumc.org) no later than Monday, May 29th. We will on Saturday, June 17th at the annual conference in Hampton, VA. Thank recognize graduates in the church bulletin in June. you for your support.