News and Events
There's always something going on at Wilson United Methodist Church! Here's info on some up-coming events.
Fellowship Opprtunity for Families with Children
Family Feast is like supper club (dinner date) but with your family and is a great opportunity to socialize with other parents and allow the children to build friendships that will carry them into youth group. If you are interested in participating, please sign up in the Taos Room. For information contact Rhonda Sobecki or Leah Niedringhaus.
Health Kits for UMCOR
Wilson UMC will be making Health Kits for UMCOR (United Methodist Committee On Relief) to provide relief supplies for Haiti. 100% of gifts through UMCOR go directly to relief.
Supplies needed for Health Kits - Please note that items must be new & exactly as stated below:
- Hand towels - 15" x 25" up to 17" x 27" - No kitchen towels
- Washcloths
- Combs - large & sturdy, not pocket sized
- Nail files or fingernail clippers - no emery boards or toenail clippers
- Bath size bar of soap - 3 oz and larger
- Toothbrushes = single brushes only in original wrapper. No child-size brushes
- Adhesive Plastic Strip Sterile Bandages
UMCOR will accept large quantities in bulk. Volunteers there will then assemble the kits. Let the Missions Team know if you’d like to volunteer in Salt Lake City! Contact Rick Roberts.
Ed Dellow has volunteered to deliver the items to the Salt Lake City UMCOR Depot. Please let him know if you can help.
Holy Week
The Holy Week services include:
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Palm Sunday - March 28 |
Regular Sunday service times |
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Maundy Thursday - April 1 |
6:30 pm, including communion |
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Good Friday - April 2 |
6:30 pm |
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Easter |
6:30 am Sunrise + regular Sunday worship times |
All services will be held in the Wilson Worship Center except for Easter Sunrise which will be outside in the church's yard.
Lenton Study - Wednesday evenings at 6:30 pm through March 31st and Sunday mornings at 9:30 am through March 28th. Choose the time that fits your schedule and join us!
on Wednesday Evenings - visit Wonderful Wednesday at Wilson
Easter Egg Hunt - Mar 27
The annual Easter Egg Hunt will take place on Saturday, March 27, 10:00 a.m. at the church. It will be a great time together of hearing the Easter story, hunting for Easter eggs, games and fun. Invite your friends and neighbors to come with you. All are invited and welcome!
Candy Donations Needed - For the Easter Egg Hunt, we are in need of small individually wrapped pieces of candy for the Easter eggs. Donations may be brought to Nani’s office, the church office or to the basket located in the Taos Room by March 21.
Easter Flower Orders - Envelopes for the Easter Flower Offering will be in the chair backs on March 14, 21, and 28 for donations in memory of or in honor of family or friends. The flowers orders are $10 each.
Grocery Gift Cards - A Gift that Keeps on Giving!
$100 Safeway and King Soopers gift cards can be purchased and 5% is returned to the church! It is a simple way to give to the church without spending extra! Also, if someone wants to purchase other stores’ gift cards, many can be purchased at Safeway and King Soopers using one of their own gift cards. For example, I use my Safeway gift card to purchase BB&B, Starbucks, and Target gift cards, and there are many more stores that have gift cards! - Susi Braun
To purchase gift cards, see Susi or contact the church office.
EBay
Wilson UMC is now a certified non-profit organization on Ebay. All proceeds and fees associated with selling donated items through our Wilson EBay account will remain with us. EBay makes nothing! WE KEEP IT ALL!! Become a part of the Wilson EBay Team -- donate, Donate, DONATE!! Contact Diane Witherspoon if you have questons.
To view Ebay items Wilson UMC currently offers for sale, visit Ebay Items Offered By wilson6460w.
Nursery Pagers
The nursery is now equipped with a pager system. Parents will receive a pager when signing in their child(ren). If you are needed, your pager will vibrate. Please return the pager when picking up child(ren). If you need additional information, please talk with the nursery staff upon signing in. Many thanks to the Trustees for funding this very important equipment.
Stewardship
Our stewardship goals take on many different forms, in addition to our fiscal responsibility for our church. We continue to seek willing Wilson workers to help do various maintenance tasks around our church. Jim Butts has a list that he updates almost daily of things that need to be done around Wilson. We also seek to increase our support of Westside CARES as the needs of others less fortunate continue to grow.
Welcoming Congregation Award
Congratulations Wilson United Methodist Church!
You have been awarded the "Official Welcoming Congregation" award from the United Methodist Communications. As a part of the Rethink Church campaign, we applied for the award in June and were awarded the designation in July. We are highlighted in red on the Find-a-church.org website as a welcoming congregation! We will continue to participate in the four-year Welcoming Congregation Recognition to help move our congregation toward a permanent welcoming lifestyle. This four-year process will help us develop new programs and enhance our welcoming. As a part of the Rethink Church campaign, we will also be participating in the national UMC Open House month in September. We want our congregation to live the Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors theme by inviting friends, relatives, associates and neighbors. Then, we will need to welcome those who visit. Be ready to share your enthusiasm for Sunday School, Bible study, worship, and all the other ministries that you are involved in. We want our community to know what we have to offer and how they can participate.
What is "RETHINK CHURCH"?
The RETHINK CHURCH campaign is about challenging those outside the church to envision a church that is not a static institution, but a movement of people empowered to take ministry into the world. It is simultaneously about asking the people of The United Methodist Church to see their local church in a much broader way: not tied solely to their worship on Sunday morning but in all the ways, locally and globally, they are making a difference in people’s lives.
What if church were not just a building? Not a noun, but an action verb?
Jesus gave the Great Commission, and told us to "Go into the world" doing the things that he did: teaching, healing, feeding hungry people, speaking out about injustice, and calling the world to more faithful living. Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to empower the disciples to begin a movement. The early Christians did not see themselves as "church." Until Paul and Peter agreed upon a division of labor, one attending to Jewish followers of Jesus and the other taking the gospel to the Gentiles, the followers of Jesus spoke of themselves as the people of "the way." In too many places, we have lost that sense of being a movement and have convinced ourselves it was enough to gather in our buildings and wait for people to come and find us. Jesus sent the disciples, and sends us, out to meet the world. We do that when we encounter the world at its points of greatest need. The term we are using for these touch points is "doors." Jesus consistently used a door as a metaphor to present opportunities to engage and invite his listeners to be part of the building of God’s kingdom here on earth.
We are called to not only "go into the world" and encourage other people: friends, neighbors, coworkers, and any others that we may come into contact with, but to also provide encouragement and support for our brothers and sisters in Christ as they also attempt to impact the world for Christ.
Once In a Decade - Passion Play Trip Details
The German village of Oberammergau survived the Black Plague in the 17th century, and the thankful villagers promised God they would show their gratitude by putting on a Passion Play depicting the events of the last weeks of Christ’s life. And to ensure future generations would always remember, they vowed to present the play every ten years. In 2010, some 370 years later, the Oberammergau Passion Play will be presented daily all summer long.
Keith and Mary Ann Watson are taking advantage of this once in a decade event to partake in what, for them, will be a once in a lifetime opportunity. They don’t know where they will be in another ten years, but in 2010 they will be hosting a travel group for a nine-day European trip sponsored through Educational Opportunities. The tour will include travels in areas of Austria and Germany and will include one day at the day-long Oberammergau passion play. They also will add on another seven-day Switzerland extension. Keith and Mary Ann would love to have others travel with them.
The "Alpine Wonders and Oberammergau Passion Play" trip will leave Denver on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, for nine days. Those who choose to travel with them on the Switzerland extension will lengthen the trip for another seven days. Educational Opportunities arranges the flights, ground transportation, and tickets for the passion play and other tours.
If you are interested in information on this trip, contact the church office.
"Yellow Shelf" Book Exchange
The Education Committee is sponsoring a "Yellow Shelf" book exchange. This is how it works: bring your books that you have read and would like to pass on, place them on the yellow shelf and see if there are any books of interest to you to read. There's no checking out, no card, no cost - just browse and see if there is a book you'd like to read.
Remember this works differently than our regular church library! You are welcome to bring novels, study books, children's books, etc. The Education Committee will maintain this shelf and weed out books as needed. Please do not bring magazines - this is for books only. The "Yellow Shelf" is located at the end of the hallway leading to the new addition. Come check it out! Questions? Contact Nani Arning.
