Sunday Announcements 9/1/24

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Below are the announcements given on 9/1/2024.  Please refer to your directory for contact information.

We have many opportunities for Christian faith, fellowship, service and social justice
here this fall at Fairwood Community United Methodist Church. Get your Fall Kickoff
handout and see where you’ll build community with us.
September
Hispanic Heritage Month
9/3 First day of School Joyful Hearts Preschool
9/6 Saints & Sinners 3rd Mondays 7PM ( zoom)
9/8 First day of 3 Sunday School Classes (BH2 – Prek – 4th, BH5:5&6th BH3 7th-12th(Illuminate))
9/8 Kick off BBQ for Youth Group ( grades 6-12) 4pm – Benedict Hall
9/8 Chancel Choir
9/21 SPROWT 9-noon Benedict Hall
9/26 Book Club 7pm Zoom/In person
9/27-9/28 Youth Group Lock in

October
10/13 Blessings of the Animals – after service
10/16 – International Pronouns Day
10/19 SPROWT 9-noon Benedict Hall
10/26 Trunk or Treat!
10/21 Saints and Sinners 7pm Zoom

November
Transgender Awareness Month/National Native American Heritage Month
11/18 Saints and Sinners 7pm
11/20 Transgender Day of Remberance
11/29 Native American Heritage Day

Thank you! This congregation never ceases to amaze us with its generosity. Every
school age child in our Asylum Seekers Mission project received a new backpack
and all the school supplies needed for each grade level.
Additionally, seven backpacks full of supplies were given to a group of Somali
refugee children in Kent. Even more backpacks and seven large bags of school
supplies were donated to Community in Schools.
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We are so grateful to welcome new members into our faith community on Sunday,
September 8th! We will be blessed by their prayers, presence, gifts, service and
witness in our community here at Fairwood Community United Methodist Church.
Come get to know them!

Bishop Cedrick Bridgeforth will be preaching at our worship service on
Sunday, September 15th. Come get to know our bishop! He is the resident
bishop of the Greater Northwest Episcopal Area of The United Methodist
Church (Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska).

The Chancel Choir is gearing up for another season after our summer break.
If you have sung and/or played an instrument in a musical group, you will have no
trouble learning our anthems. The ability to read music or to sing by ear is also
very helpful. (We are especially in need of tenor and bass voices.)
Rehearsals are every Wednesday evening from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. and we sing on
the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month, September through June. Our first
rehearsal will be Wednesday, August 28th, so this is a perfect time to give the choir
a try. Alternate practice sessions will be available, after Sunday services, for those
unable to come on Wednesdays.
Contact Rae at (425) 208-6032 or raeborne@comcast.net

Youth group on Sunday evenings starts off with a kickoff barbecue on September
8th. Youth group meets 4:00 – 6:00pm. Youth group will still be for 6th through 12th
graders (even though morning Sunday School classes have a different age
grouping).
We are looking for volunteers to provide food and help with set-up (at 2:30) and
clean-up for the BBQ. Reach out to Kristin or Jenny if you would like to help!

• New Sunday School classes start on September 8th.
  Children who are Pre-Kindergarten through 4th grade will meet in BH-2 (on left
  side of hallway) with Kristin T. and Jenny B.
• 5th and 6th graders will meet in BH-5 (on right side of hallway) with Kartha H.
• Youth 7th through 12 graders will attend illumin8 classes in BH-3 (at end of
  hallway) with LJ and Brian Martin.

If you’re online with us today and wish to participate in Holy Communion, have
some sort of bread and juice ready for later in the worship service. All are welcome
to the table.