September 7, 2022

Welcome Grow Serve Celebrate

"I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink"
Matthew 25:35b

We invite you to bring bottled or gallon jug water with you to church throughout the month of September as you are able. We are working with the MS Annual Conference on distribution sites as well as some long range planning. Our communion offering for the month of September will go toward meeting needs as the water crisis continues.

Wednesday Night 10 Week Re:Treat Begins Tonight!

A few reminders as we gather. We want everyone to continue to stay safe and keep the germ spread to a minimum. We will have servers to prepare plates for our children and adults and we ask that you sanitize your hands as you enter and as you leave. To-go plates will be made at 6:30 after everyone has been served.

We hope this is a time of fellowship and hospitality for all so look around for new faces, learn a name, and lend a hand to one another. We will require an RSVP by the Sunday before so that we may be good stewards of our resources. You may RSVP via the bulletin on Sunday, by calling the church office, or via the newsletter each week (remember the newsletter RSVP will be a week ahead, not the day of). To RSVP for Wednesday, September 14, click here.

Wednesday Nights in September:

Meal at 5:45; Activities 6:20-7:15

Bunkbed Ministry will resume meeting each week following our Wednesday evening meals!

Sept 7: Intergenerational “Table Talk” following the meal

Sept 14: Children’s Ministry Art Night, Bridge/Youth: Bunkbeds, Adults will stay in the worship center to discuss what they would like on Wednesday nights.

Sept 21: Children’s Ministry Mission Night, Bridge to Liberty Park following the meal for Popsicles, Youth study night in the youth room. Adults TBA

Sept 28: Children’s Ministry Cooking Night, Bridge in the Youth room, Youth night out following the meal for frozen yogurt and conversation, Adults will gather to discuss “Disciple Like Jesus.”

Do you love music? Do you sing in the car or in the shower? Then come join the choir! We would love to have you join us. The choir will begin meeting at a new time this Sunday, September 11 and soon we will begin practice for the upcoming Christmas season. We hope to see you in the choir room at 5:30 pm each Sunday evening. Got questions, email our choir director David White.

PHUMC Youth

Engage is back this week after the holiday, 5:30-7:30pm.

Registration is now open for our Fall Retreat to Roosevelt State Park, Oct 9-10. The cost is $55 and you can get signed up here.

Next Wednesday, 9/14, we'll be helping with the Bunk Bed Ministry; wear clothes that can get dirty and closed-toed shoes.

Get caught up on this and all other youth news in our September newsletter.

Big House Books doesn’t judge a book by its cover. We believe in literacy for all – including those in our correctional facilities. That’s why we’ve set out to provide books to Mississippians in prisons and juvenile detention centers. Every person has the right to educate themselves, and it’s our goal to make that a reality.

Women's Ministry Service Opportunity:
When: Saturday, September 17; 10-12
Where: 133 Millsaps Ave, Jackson
What: Big House Books, a non-profit, volunteer organization that sends free books by request to prisoners in MS correctional facilities in order to promote literacy and be a vehicle of change for prison reform.
Contact Amanda Hamilton to sign up to help. See www.bighousebooksms.org for complete list of books. Some current needs are: updated computer/tech books, books by or about rappers; calendars/planners, dictionaries; fiction such as Stephen King, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Sherilyn Kenyon; Game of Thrones books; Women's study Bibles; astrology/horoscopes; books about cartels; updated law books; CDL and Drivers License handbooks; books on skills/trades. *** PAPERBACKS ONLY

Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste will be the guest lecturer at 6:30 p.m, Thursday, September 8, at Galloway United Methodist Church, Jackson. Presented as part of the Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Series, the lecture is free, but registration is required. Visit msmuseumart.org/rsvp/. Be advised that the water crisis may affect the lecture date.

You may remember, we used the book Caste at one of our PHUMC book studies.

PHUMC Confirmation Classes take place on Sunday at 5:30 pm.

Meeting This Week:

No Handbells this week.

Men's Morning Group meets every Thursday morning at 7:30 am.
Join them at PHUMC in The Garden Multipurpose Room,
or via Zoom.
**New Meeting ID: 823 5246 2635
New Password: 142295

Parkway Hills Women meet via Zoom every Saturday morning at 10 am.
Meeting ID: 848 7196 9988 (note new meeting id number)
Password: PHUMCLADY
Women of ALL ages are always welcome!

Choir Practice this Sunday, September 11 at 5:30 (note new time).

Confirmation Classes this Sunday evening 5:30-7:30

Prayer Quilt Ministry Monday, Noon to 3:00

RECORD OF OUR FAITHFULNESS

Year to Date, August 2022

Income: $384,989.02

Expenses: $451,402.45

Stewardship Goal: "Debt-Free in '23"

Mortgage Principal Balance as of September 5: $47,056.00

(Only 3 remaining payments!)

September Communion Offering for
Jackson Water Crisis: $547.00

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