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Welcome to our PHUMC family! Betty Snuggs, Diane Dinkins, Thelma Carpenter, and Linda Letson joined our congregation on Sunday. They are all former members of the late Briarwood UMC. You can reach them by text or phone (in our Instant Church Directory phone app) to send them a warm welcome.
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Living into our commitment to share our story and be a presence in our community, Parkway Hills will have a hot chocolate table at the Madison Christmas Parade this Saturday, December 2 (weather permitting) and we need some lovely, smiling faces to be present.
If you can aid with this, please click here and meet us at the Caboose at 8:30 am Saturday, December 2. Wear your Parkway Hills t-shirt!
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Sunday we began the season of Advent. Four weeks to reflect upon the truth that Christ has come, Christ will come again. Advent is a season where we name dual realities, the work of God in Christ here, now and the not yet of what still has yet to be done. We celebrate Emmanuel, God with us, and we also cry, “How long Lord? Come, Lord Jesus, Come.” We reflect upon the Incarnation and we wait, wait for the reconciliation and renewal begun in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus to be made fully complete, on earth as it is in heaven.
Over the next weeks in worship as we walk through Advent together, lighting a candle each week as we go, we will use our time in worship to think about the doctrine at the heart of the Christian faith, the Doctrine of the Incarnation. Bishop Will Willimon in his work Incarnation: The Surprising Overlap of Heaven and Earth reminds us that the “Almighty God the same being who hung the heavens and flung the stars in their courses, became a man who lived in Nazareth.”
I hope to see you each Sunday in Advent as we move toward the Christmas season. We have some special services planned including a children’s worship December 10 and “The Light of Christmas” musical celebration by our choir and handbells December 17.
--Dawn
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| PHUMC Women's Ministry has chosen MadCAAP's Holiday Adopt-A-Child as their winter project. We are currently getting some more angels for the tree in the back of the Worship Center, where you can pick an angel to choose a child to sponsor for Christmas. The information is on the angel for the child's name and gift wishes. Have your gifts wrapped and labeled with the child's name placed beside the tree by the end of Worship service on Sunday, December 17. Gifts will be delivered to MadCAAP on Monday, December 18.
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| The children's Sunday School classes will have an all-age Sunday School class in the Garden starting this coming Sunday at 9:30. We need volunteers to assist with the lesson and activities. Please click this link to volunteer.
This Sunday, Dec. 3: Pre K3 - 1st Grade will sing in Worship.
Sunday, Dec. 10: Wisdom of the Christmas Story, led by our PHUMC Kids. Please be on time for Sunday School. We will meet in the Garden at 9:30 for costume changes and travel over to the Worship Center to practice run through the entire service.
Sunday, Dec. 10: 5-7 pm Children will have their Gingerbread Games Christmas Party in the Garden. All ages through 4th grade are welcome to attend. Dinner and fun games in store. Parents must stay for the party.
--Haven
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-Our last regular Engage of the semester is this Sunday, 5:30-7:30!
-Adults: we have a few more events to end the year, and we need you! To help with our last regular Engage of the year, sign up here. To volunteer with other fall semester events like the Prince of Egypt showing or December homework night, sign up here.
--Geoff
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Meeting This Week:
Thursday: Men's Group at 7:30 am in Garden
Handbell practice at 9:00 am
Saturday:
PHUMC Hot Chocolate Table at the Caboose, Madison Christmas Parade 8:30 am
Sunday:
-Sunday School at 9:30 am.
-Fellowship time in Worship Center 10:30 am. Worship at 10:45 am.
-Choir Practice at 5:30 pm.
-Engage 5:30-7:30
Monday:
-Quilters meet for lunch at Anjou at 11:00 am.
Next Wednesday:
Grace Place Homeless Ministry meet at PHUMC at 7:00 am.
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New Look for Our Electronic Giving PageVanco, our eGiving provider, has updated their online giving platform to make it easier than ever to make one-time gifts or set up recurring donations to our church. Click here to see our changes. Nothing about our online giving has changed except the look of the website, and the app has not changed. If you have a recurring payment or previous login account, all that info has been carried over and you don't have to do anything new.
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RECORD OF OUR FAITHFULNESS
Year to Date, October 2023
Income: $430,543.85
Expenses: $440,376.34
*Year to date PHUMC has paid 23% of District ($1,400.00) and 41% of Conference Apportioned Mission Shares ($28,788.85) coming from individual designated gifts, August communion offering, and designated funds we received from the Employee Retention Tax Credit.
November Communion Offering, $1,113.00 to date, supports MadCAAP Thanksgiving Boxes. We collected 324 cans of cranberry sauce. You may continue to give monetarily for this fund throughout November, and it will support the Thanksgiving Boxes, fulfilling our commitment to MadCAAP of 1,400 cans of cranberry sauce to put in their 700 boxes.
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