Sunday Announcements 6/9/24

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Below are the announcements given on 6/9/2024.  Please refer to your directory for contact information.

Do you have extra flowers in your garden? Is there a special person in your life
that you’d like to celebrate or memorialize (birthdays, anniversaries, etc.)?
We’d love to have you sign up for providing flowers on our altar table up front.
There’s a large poster on the wall just outside the church office where you can
choose your date. Please, no fragrant flowers.
Thanks for your help! Questions? Contact Roxanne or Cyndee.

Farah Cash, one of our former Joyfull Hearts Preschool(JHP) preschool teachers, is now our Joyful Hearts
Preschool Director. We welcome her in her new role!

If you’d like to volunteer your time or talents to support our Asylum Seekers
mission to help neighbors seeking asylum and sheltering overnight at our church?
Currently, there is a weekly Wednesday morning Zoom gathering for discussion of
needs, issues and celebrations.
For now, donations of a certain number of air mattresses and sheets (queen and
twin) and pillowcases would be greatly appreciated. See the June Epistle for a
link to an Amazon wish list.
Donated items may be gently used and clean, purchased from another store or
purchased at Amazon and shipped directly to the church. Whichever option used,
please mark that the item has been purchased on the Amazon wish list, so we
don’t get more donations than we can use. Donations can also be left in the
donation container in Benedict Hall MPR/gym.
Financial donations on church website GIVE page or via check (Asylum Seekers on
memo line) are also welcome.

Help support the FCUMC youth group’s hygiene kit service project. Kits will benefit
the asylees that we’re supporting and also Mary’s Place.
Leave donations in the green “monster” container in the narthex by the end of
June.
Needed items:
Clear toiletry bags (2.75” x 4.13” x 5.9”)
Travel-sized toiletries –
Bar soap, Hand sanitizer,
Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Toothbrush covers, Floss,
Shampoo, Conditioner, Brushes or combs,
Lip balm, Lotion, Shaving kits
Washcloths/Poofs
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United Women in Faith will meet in the private dining room at Fairwood Golf and
Country Club for food and fellowship on Thursday, June 13th, at 11:30am for a nohost lunch.
The menu will be limited so watch for more information as to choices.
Father’s Day is June 16th and you are invited to bring a photo of your father or
other important male figure in your life to display on a separate table at Fairwood
Golf and Country Club, and to share something about it with us.
We will be collecting $25 gift cards to donate to Vine Maple Place in Maple Valley.
Fred Meyer and Safeway work best for the recipients.
Watch for the sign-up sheet in the Narthex!

The Pacific Northwest Annual Conference session meets this coming week. The
Conference will begin with Opening Worship at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, and
end with a Service for the Ordering of Ministry starting at 10 a.m. on Sunday, June
16.
Please pray for all those participating, including Pastor Ferdie and our two FCUMC
lay members, Stephen and PhilisAnn.
More info, including some livestreams of the conference, can be found at:
https://pnwumc.org/ac2024/

The youth choir will have their final practice this Sunday (June 2), 11:15 – 12:00
noon. We start in the choir room, then move into the sanctuary. We’ll be singing in
the worship service next Sunday, June 9, as we recognize our graduating senior!
Youth in grade 5 through high school are singing with our youth choir.
For more information or questions contact Bill or Lori McEwen at
bill.mcewen@comcast.net.

TRANSFORMING: THE BIBLE & THE LIVES OF TRANSGENDER
CHRISTIANS
Author: Austen Hartke
TUESDAY EVENINGS: 6:30 P.M., START DATE: JUNE 4 (for 6 weeks)
(If needed, we can work around meeting dates, to accommodate participants,
in fact, THIS week, we meet on THURSDAY, June 13.)
Co-Facilitated by Pastor Ferdie and members of Heart for Others
This book will give you a deeper understanding of gender identity and the
transgender experience. The author offers a biblically based, educational, and
affirming resource to shed light and wisdom on this modern landscape.
By introducing transgender issues and language and providing stories of both
biblical characters and real-life narratives from transgender Christians living today,
the author helps readers visualize a more inclusive Christianity.
To order your book copy, go to Amazon.com and search the book title.
To sign up, email: pastorferdie@fairwoodumc.org or sign up in the narthex.