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Your Gifts Make our Youth Ministry Possible
Tonight our youth will provide our last Wednesday evening meal of 2025, and we invite you to join us and give to support our continued youth ministry opportunities. The youth will offer a dinner of taco soup, grilled cheese, and dessert at 5:45. We will leave how much to give up to you! Joe will be at the table tonight to take donations, or you can give anytime online here or via our Vanco mobile app (look for the section entitled "Youth Ministry"). Hope to see you there!
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Sunday we kicked off our “We Give Thanks for Parkway Hills” campaign. Our Lay Leader, Maggie King, shared why she gives thanks for Parkway Hills as well as a reminder that it is our gifts that allow us to be mission and ministry in our community. Take a look at some of what she shared below.
There are so many reasons that I do give thanks for Parkway Hills. It’s a place where faith feels safe. It’s a community that surrounds people with love, encouragement, and prayer. I give thanks for the meals shared amongst friends that feel like family, for those Wednesday nights that while on the surface may just be a respite from dinner planning but at its core, as Barbara Colorosa states, are embodiments of one of the oldest and most profoundly unifying human experiences. I give thanks for the laughter and for the energy of our children, for our students who are growing in their faith and finding their purpose, and for the adults who pour into others through small groups, worship, and service. I give thanks for the way this church reaches beyond its walls showing God’s love in real tangible ways. I’m thankful to be a part of a church that seeks to mend the broken as well as defend the broken.
Our gifts, your gifts, make all of that possible. Every dollar, every prayer, every act of generosity helps Parkway Hills continue to be that light and that beacon of love in our community. So thank you for your faithful giving. If it has been a while since your last gift, I invite you to pray about how your giving today could help us finish 2025 strong and step into 2026 ready for all that God has planned. For the missions we’ll take on, the lives we’ll touch, and the people who will come to know His love through Parkway Hills, may we continue to be the hands and feet of Christ and give thanks for all that God is doing and will continue to do through this amazing church family.
--Maggie King, Lay Leader
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Join your church family in preparing our hearts for Christmas this Advent by participating in a 3 week study using Walter Brueggemann's book, Names for the Messiah. In Isaiah 9:6, a divine utterance is given to us using four royal titles - Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. We will reflect on each title and how the people understood it then, how Jesus did or did not fulfill the title, and how Christians interpret Jesus as representative of that title. We will meet in the Open Doors room, Room 201 upstairs Ed Building, Thursday, December 4, 11, and 18 at 10:00 am.
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Shelby Wilson, a member of our church janitorial staff, sent us the following note regarding the birth of his and Anna's son Phoenix, born November 8:
I just wanted to thank and recognize Parkway Hills United Methodist Church and its congregation that helped ensure Phoenix has what he needs. Anna and I have met a lot of you, but there are so many of you that we’ve never even had the pleasure of meeting. Yet, so many of you bought or donated towards us having the things we needed from Phoenix’s baby registry, purely from a place of love, kindness, and Christ’s consciousness living through you all. It’s a blessing that I don’t take lightly. Thank you all for the prayers for a safe, healthy delivery and for your kind words. So proud to say that our Phoenix has risen. Our Phoenix is healthy. Our Phoenix is perfect. From my heart to all of yours, I love, appreciate, and wish peace upon you all.
--Shelby Wilson
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| Sunday Mornings join our PHUMC kids for Big Faith. Big Faith takes children through Bible stories using hands-on activities, child-friendly themes, and includes at-home connections. Children 4th grade and under meet in the Garden Room at 9:30 am each Sunday before dividing into age-appropriate rooms for a deeper dive into the lesson.
Be sure to pick up your faith-home connection sheet in the foyer of the Worship Center, by the kids' activity bags. This enables the kids to share what they're learning in Sunday School with the whole family.
We always need volunteers to aid with our kids' ministry. For more information about any of our kids' ministry events contact Jennifer.
*All volunteers must submit a background check before volunteering with children and youth.
To stay connected to all KID MIN events, get the Remind app and text @phumcc to 81010.
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| Wednesday, November 12: Youth Soup Dinner Fundraiser. Youth, please arrive by 5:00 if you can to help set up for the fundraiser meal.
Sunday, November 16: United Night at St. Luke UMC with area UMC youth groups. Meet at PHUMC at 5:10 to carpool; return by 7:45. Let Pastor Dawn know if you can attend so we can ensure we have enough drivers.
Sunday, November 23: Thanksgiving Dinner at Church at 5:30
Sunday, November 30: Engage Out (Join us for dinner out. Place TBA.)
(photo) Youth showed off their pumpkin carving skills at a Wednesday night Re:treat.
*All volunteers must submit a background check before volunteering with children and youth.
To stay connected to all youth events, get the Remind app and text @phumcy to 81010.
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Day Trip to the Delta!
PHUMC members enjoyed a visit to McCarty Pottery in Merigold as part of their daylong visit to the magical Mississippi Delta.
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This week the Beds for Kids' Ministry delivered this bed to a grateful little girl in Madison County.
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| This Week
Tonight:
Youth Fundraiser supper at 5:45 pm;
Leadership Board meeting at 6:20 in the Garden Room
Thursday:
Men's Group at 7:30 am. Join them in the Garden Room
or via Zoom
**Meeting ID: 823 5246 2635
Password: 142295
Sunday:
Sunday Morning Small Groups at 9:30 am;
Worship at 10:45 am
Choir practice 5:30 pm
Youth meet at 5:10 pm to carpool to Youth United at St. Luke's UMC
Monday:
Quilters meet noon to 3:00 pm in the Garden Room
Wednesday, Nov. 19:
Grace Place Volunteers carpool from PHUMC at 7:00 am
Handbell Practice at 10:00 am
Thanksgiving office hours: Wednesday, close at noon; closed Thanksgiving Day
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| RECORD OF OUR
FAITHFULNESS
October Year-to-Date
Income: $521,403.70
Expenses: $554,557.91*
*Includes $50,000 unbudgeted expense paid using Parkway Hills’ reserves for tree removal and cleanup.
November Communion supports MadCAAP Thanksgiving Food Boxes. We committed to 500 cans of icing. To date, you have contributed $1,225.00 and 85 cans, providing MadCAAP the means to give around 700 cans of icing for their Thanksgiving boxes as well as stocking their food pantry. Well done!! You can still donate or bring in cans of icing through Sunday, November 16. Any Communion funds collected after this date will go directly to supporting the food pantry at MadCAAP.
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