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Food for Thought By Senior Pastor Bill Jones

In the early days of the Methodist movement in England, John Wesley recognized the need for communication and accountability. He developed what he called the connexion: an interlocking system of classes, societies, and annual conferences. Today we continue this tradition, but our structure is different. The annual conference is the basic body in the church. All who become members of a local congregation of The United Methodist Church also become full members of our denomination as well, and therefore are part of the “connection” through the annual conference.

A congregation is not autonomous. It’s part of the United Methodist family. Local congregations are grouped together into districts (usually 40 to 80 congregations per district). A district is a division of the annual confer-

ence that serves as a link between the congregation and the conference. The district is led by a superinten-dent, an ordained elder appointed by the bishop of the annual conference. The Virginia Annual Conference is divided into 16 districts. We use the term annual conference in three ways: It’s an organizational structure, a geographical area, and a periodic meeting of representatives, clergy and laity from every church or charge (two or more churches served by one pastor) in the annual conference. In the United States of America, The United Methodist Church is divided into five areas known as jurisdictions. It is the responsibility of the juris-dictions to elect new bishops who preside over the annual conferences. The Virginia Annual Conference is in the Southeastern Jurisdiction. Outside the U.S., our denomination is organized according to central confer-ences – in Africa, Europe, and the Philippines – which have their own bishops and delegates to General Con-ference.

The General Conference, made up of an equal number of clergy and lay delegates elected by annual con-ferences, meets every your years. It’s our legislative body, the only organization with authority to speak for The United Methodist Church. It sets our governing procedures (published in the Book of Discipline), estab-lishes program emphases, and sets a four-year budget for the church’s general work. The connectional structure of The United Methodist Church enables our churches to work together to carry out the mission of the church to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.

What we give to our local congregation through our tithes and offerings enables us to reach beyond our church walls to assist a variety of mission projects, community ministries and charities that helps change lives in the name of Jesus Christ both locally and globally. The cost of our Christ-centered global ministry is signif-icant, but it is only a small portion of our local church budget. Of every $1 given in the offering: 85 cents stays in the local church for its ministry and mission, 7 cents goes to jurisdictions, annual conferences and districts, 6 cents goes to Benevolent Gifts (Second Mile Giving) and 2 cents goes to general apportionments. This connection through giving is our way of affirming the unity we share in ministry and mission. Our con-nectional giving is vital to the ministry and mission of our denomination because together we are able to ac-complish something bigger than ourselves.

The General Conference establishes budgets for the denomination’s general funds. These are divided among annual conferences, based on a specific formula. Each an-nual conference, using its own approved formula, divides these fund requests, along with conference administrative and benevolence fund requests, among local churches. In addition, individuals, local churches, districts and annual conferences may make monetary gifts to the designated funds, of which 100 percent goes directly to a specific project or ministry. Together, apportioned and designated funds represent our connec-tional giving. Next month I will share how the apportionment formula is derived and how we as a local church participate in connectional giving. When every church no matter the size of the congregation gives their fair share, we can effect change around the world. As a connectional church, we can do big things, far more than we could ever do as an individual congregation, all in the name of Jesus Christ. That’s food for thought.

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Intentional Compassion

Do you have an article for the Newsletter?

If you would like to submit an article for publi-cation in the Messenger, the deadline for submit-tals is the 15th of the month. Articles submitted should be typed or neatly printed, limited to a 1/2 page in length and are subject to editing for gram-mar, spelling and content. Please submit by e-mail to Lianne Koch at [email protected].

Questions? Please e-mail Lianne or call (229-1771).

Messy Church Update Our next Messy Church will be on Tuesday, August

11 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., and the theme is “Forgiveness.” With the warmer weather, we have been enjoying many outside activities including water games and cook outs! Make plans to attend with your

family and friends or come as a volun-teer. We are continuing to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ through hospitality, creativity, and celebration! For ad-ditional information, con-

tact Cindy Banek, [email protected].

One of the things that is so compelling about the ministry of Jesus is his compassion. He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and blessed the poor. Jesus was never afraid to get close during his ministry. When lepers needed to be healed, he touched them when no one else would. When sinners were in need of spiritual healing, he ate with them, talked with them, and didn’t fear the social repercussions.

How hard it is to follow in his footsteps.

We live in a world where it is all too easy for us to ignore the needs of the least in our world. We drive by where others struggle to walk; we enter into homes, shops, and building that shut out the needs of others. When the tragedy of the wants of the world impress themselves upon us, we can simply turn off the radio or change the channel. Out of sight and out of mind. We even have a phrase to describe how we feel when we just don’t want to listen to the needs any more — compassion fatigue.

Yet there is something in our hearts that draws us to care for one another. It compels us to do the unexpected and go out of our way to help someone in need. Even as our society is

increasingly isolated individually, the Spirit of God is reminding us that we are all created good, related and interconnected. We come to church in part to remind ourselves of this truth, and to grow in our ability to act on it.

Williamsburg United Methodist Church is ac-tively reaching out and changing lives. If you feel God’s call to help others, there are so many ways to get involved. Visit shut-ins with Shep-herd’s Fold, help with funeral feasts with the CARE committee, collect food for FISH or buy Christmas angel gifts, send a “love you” card to a Sunday School friend. The possibilities are endless.

We all need to care for our own spirits, our own selves. Yet the example of Jesus reminds us that health and wholeness is a means to an end. It is from there that we can love, care and serve. When our hands get busy with God, our hearts become full of God’s grace. As Christians, as human beings, we are at our best when we live out the gift of compassion.

Blessings,

Pastor Kay



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During the three collection days we have had so far, we have re-ceived many exciting and interest-ing items that will be available for the shopping pleasure of our church family, friends, and the community at our Bazaar on Saturday, November 7, from 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Our next collection day is August 14, with sub-sequent days on September 11, September 25, Oc-tober 9, and October 23. Bring items to Room 303 on the second floor in the education wing from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Please do not bring items to the church on days other than the specified collection days.

We will not be accepting linens, computer equipment, VHS

movies, electronic equipment, encyclopedias, or luggage. Furniture may be accepted at a later date.

Items we are accepting are those we can sell in our booths, such as kitchen and din-

ing room accessories, jewelry, purses, scarves, books, CD’s, Christmas decor, furniture, lamps, pic-tures, unused candles, centerpieces, just to name a few.

Please be sure the items you bring are in good, clean condition to be resold.

Proceeds from the Ba-zaar will go to both local and global missions.

Questions? Contact Bonnie Knizatko (253-0992).

We all need a concerned or caring friend at difficult times in our lives. A Stephen Minister can listen and care for you or someone you know who is going through a tough time.

UMW Book Club

The summer is flying by and, before we know it, September will be here with a full schedule of activi-ties starting up. August is a great time to catch up on all that summer reading you’ve been wanting to do. The church library has wonderful books that are a part of the UMW’s Reading Program — hidden gems you might say. Go check them out. There are some new books from the 2015 list now in the library, so if you haven’t had a chance to go explore these new additions, I urge you to do so soon. Don’t forget that there are also great books in the Youth and Children’s categories. They aren’t re-served exclusively for youth and children!

Stop by the church library, also, to pick up the 2015 form to submit for the books you have read since last September. Please submit your list to me by August 31, either by emailing [email protected] or by completing a form and sending it to me at 207 Old Cart Rd., Wil-liamsburg, 23188. If you have any questions, please call me at 258-0617.

Save the Date!! The UMW Book Club will resume meeting on Monday, September 14, at the home of Linda Upshaw, 101 Mathew’s Grant, Kingsmill, at 7:00 p.m. Please read a book of your choice from the 2011-2015 reading lists and come prepared to share with the group about the book(s) that you’ve read. We’ll be choosing the books for the remainder of the fall at that meeting. All are

welcome, and September is a great time to join the book

club!

Happy reading!

Carol Brinkley

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Williamsburg United Methodist Women

UMW Circle Meetings

August 2015

Sisters in Faith Circle Tuesday, August 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the home of

Madelyn Larkin, 293 Mill Stream Way for a Pot Luck Supper (salad/dessert). Fun, laughter and fellow-ship will be had by all.

Important Dates to Remember

Bazaar Collection Day Friday, August 14 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. in

Room 303.

WUMW Local Board Meeting Monday, August 24 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 309.

The UMM meet for breakfast, fellowship and learning on the first Saturday of each month. Be-yond breakfast, we provide Scholarships for stu-dents attending Seminary across the world. We al-so provide support to:

Virginia Chaplain Prison Ministry

WUMC Youth program

Wesley Foundation

Heart Havens Housing Ministry

Peninsula Pastoral Counseling Center

Society of St. Andrew

Boy Scouts of America Troop 103 (that

meets in our Church)

With your participation we will be able to continue to provide this support in the future. We extend an invi-tation to all men to join us at our next regular meeting on September 5.

Silver Saints Luncheon The Silver Saints (Fifty-plus) will meet on Wednesday, September 9 at noon for a pic-

nic at New Quarter Park (Shelter #1)! Please bring a dish to share and $2 to cover the cost of the hamburgers and drinks. Non-perishable food donations will be collected for FISH. All are welcome!!

Please let Loretta & Art Heezen, (565-2518) or [email protected], know if you plan to attend or if you have questions.

“Flower Power” Garden Tea

Party

Sunday, September 20 from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

All women of the church are invited! You don’t have to be a UMW member to join us for this time of fellowship.


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Calm in the storm?

If you ever have a moment, stop by our website to see what’s going on at our church. The address is www.williamsburgumc.org. Find out about all the ministries and other activities that you or your family may be interested in joining!! We have something for everyone!!

If you have any questions about something you see on our website, contact the church office (229-1771).

Have you checked out our Website?

Music News Stay tuned to your bulletin for up-

dates about the starting dates for Chil-dren’s Choirs/Children, Youth, and Adult Bells/Orchestra and Sanctuary Choir!

Please be sure to welcome our new Associate Director of Music for Children and Youth, Anthony Williams, to our staff! Anthony will soon have lots of answers to questions regarding choir dates and times!

Questions? Contact Lou-Anne Smith, 229-1771 ext. 107.

So recently I wrote about the importance of rest. Just in case I needed any reminding, Work Camp came along and hit me between the eyes. Right Now I can’t remember if I wrote about rest in the Newsletter or in my weekly email*, but that doesn’t matter. I’m whacked. Exhausted. Shat-tered. And it’s Monday. I blame the fence posts. Tomorrow is Messy Church. I’m off on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Hope is on the horizon.

We had a great time in Millersville, MD, the 6 of us that travelled, but by eck (yes, that’s an English English ism…) it was hard work! Standing in line for 2 hours for the showers takes it out of you . . . On a serious note though, between us we (among oth-er things) built a fence, a wheel chair ramp and a deck, painted goodness only knows how many feet of walls and visited one of our residents in hospital. It was a joy and privilege to see so much growth in all our participants and hear their stories on the bus ride home last Saturday. And in 11 days I do it all again with our Jeremiah Project team.

So what nourishes me, what keeps me going at times like this? Yes, of course, part of the answer is God; without his Holy Spirit I couldn’t do all this, couldn’t be self-controlled enough to give a reason-able answer when asked the same question for the

third time in 10 minutes on what I now know as Cranky Thursday. But aside from God dwelling in us, how we rest is also key – I have a rare Lego day lined up for this week and shopping for my niece’s birthday on another day. Things that distract me from work, relax me, nourish me as I rest. We all need to switch off, and I need to do these things from time to time. I’ll be doing that for 3 days this week and the best part of a week in August.

I’m writing this at home, I got the idea for the theme as I woke up from a nap. It also reminded me to switch off. So be-fore I go out for the even-ing, I’m writing this and emailing it in so I can for-get about it. And rest.

God bless,

Andy Glascott

PS: Look up Psalm 4 verse 8 – you won’t be surprised it’s one of my favourite verses!

* If you don’t already get my weekly email about youth ministry happenings and would like to, email me [email protected] and I’ll add you to the list.

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Keyboard Classes for Young-at-Heart Adults

Have you always wanted to learn to play the piano but just never got around to it? Did you take piano lessons as a child, but then stopped playing?

ECMS has just the right group piano class for you!

These classes are designed to encourage recreational piano playing in a relaxed setting. If you have ever wanted to play the piano, now is the time! A senior discount is offered.

Giving Talk By Erin Grasse, WUMC Ministry Intern

(presented in Worship on Sunday, July 12)

Adult students enjoying duets

Not sure of your level? Contact Cindy Freeman, 229-1771 ext. 108, for a low-stress assessment.

Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m. Upper Beginners

Tuesdays, 12:15 p.m. Early Advanced Players

Wednesdays, 1:00 p.m. Upper Beginners

Wednesdays, 2:30 p.m. Intermediate Students

Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. Second Year Beginners

Thursdays, 11:15 a.m. True Beginners and Really-Rusty Returnees

I first heard about the Wesley Foundation the summer before my freshman year at William and Mary when I got an invitation to brunch. In the true Methodist fashion, they lured me in with free food and enthusiasm, and I’ve been there ever since.

Wesley is one of the few organizations I’ve come across to date that seems to have its own in-nate charisma, which can be best described as an earnest desire to make sure that everyone who en-ters experiences the love of God totally and uncon-ditionally.

More so than that, Wesley strives to ensure that those who exit its doors are equipped and prepared to share that love with others.

This is accomplished through the traditional methods of Bible and book studies, guest speakers, Sunday Night Programs, and worship services, but encompasses much more than that.

Our biannual exam break operation with the United Methodist Men — complete with cookies, hot

chocolate, and dogs — drew hundreds of students this year. Our semesterly service trips to the United Methodist-sponsored Shalom Farms in Richmond have now become a Campus Ministers United initia-tive.

We have earned the recognition of being one of the most inclusive campus ministries at William and Mary, and have done Sunday Night Programs on topics like “God and Mental Health”, “Race and Faith”, and “Christianity as a Call to Action”.

Wesley students have volunteered throughout the Williamsburg and global community, doing eve-rything from helping with the church’s production of “The Living Last Supper”, leading a Bible study at WindsorMeade, and partnering several times with the Costa Rica Mission Project.

We do all this and more in the hopes of spread-ing love, and we honestly could not do it without you. We’re very grateful for your support, and hope that you will continue to help us grow.

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Each year in May Global Outreach and the UMCOR kit committee ask the congregation to join us in Mission to help replenish the UMCOR ware-house with needed relief supplies and kits. This year, on the 75th Anniversary of UMCOR and a chal-lenge from UMCOR, we set a goal of 1000 health kits to add to the other kits being done by United Methodist Women and other groups and individuals in the church.

The joyful and overwhelming response this year, included about 70 people of all ages who donated a Saturday morning to assemble 802 health kits. This has been a year-long effort including 7 UMW Cir-cles, Sunday School classes, our Youth, the Thanks-giving Day mission effort, Wesley Students, Respite Care, Messy Church, many individuals (and in some cases, their neighbors).

Thank you to everyone who donated completed kits, supplies for kits, sewed school kit bags, assem-

bled kits, donated money for supplies, donated mon-ey for shipping, and gener-ally cheered us on! Thanks to our pastors and Conference representa-tives for transporting the kits to Conference in Roa-noke!

VA Conference

Williamsburg UMC

Total Kits 42,743 1339

Health Kits 23,672 951

School Kits 11,835 261

Baby Layette Kits 1965 27

Birthing Kits 4533 100

Sewing Kits 547 0

Flood Buckets 180 0

Total Value $565,954 $16,298

2015 UMCOR Kits Missions Project

Our goal for June 2015 – 1000 Health Kits

Sent to Conference on 6/18/15 – 1339 total kits (plus $2290 for shipping and toothpaste)

This is the largest number of kits we have sent to UMCOR in at least 7 years!

Breakdown:

PS – School supplies are on sale now – great time to stock up. There is space available at the church for storage of any kits or kit supplies. See Barb Hamson.

Thank you all for your support and participation in this Mission Project.

Global Outreach Team

Introducing . . . Online Giving! Williamsburg United Methodist Church is excited to announce that you can now manage your giving

online! Giving online is easy and allows you to give a one-time gift or set up recurring gifts from anywhere you have access to the internet. These gifts can be made by using a credit card, debit card or transfer from your bank account.

To sign up, simply follow these easy steps:

1. Visit the church web site at www.williamsburgumc.org.

2. Click on “Make Donation Now”.

3. Follow the onscreen instructions to create an online profile and then to make your contribution.

4. Once you have completed your online profile, please email Joe Meadows [email protected] or Jane Hunley [email protected] to let us know that you have establish an online account.

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Join us on October 7, 10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. for an Open House at Respite and see what we are really all about! Enjoy our full art gallery and learn from staff about our other daily afternoon activities for seniors including music enrichment, tai chi exercise, educational programs, and companionship. Stay for the Annual Benefit Luncheon hosted by Carrabba's Italian Grill from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Your entire tick-et price of $18 will remain with Respite Care . . . Carrabba's is donating all food in 2015!!

Tickets go on sale September 1. If 8-10 tickets are purchased to-gether, a table will be reserved for your group.

For more information, call Carolyn Yowell, 229-1771 ext. 354.

from Local Outreach Team

WJCC children in Head Start and our public schools return to class on September 8. We know from expe-rience that many families struggle just to put food on the table, let alone provide the necessary clothes and school supplies for the new school year. WUMC has a long history of providing assistance to the pre-school Head Start program; the Erase the Need Program; Social Services; the children who live in assisted housing in Highland Park (56 last fall); and several middle and high schools with high concentrations of homeless students.

Our local children and their families need our help to prepare students to arrive at school prepared to learn. It is in our community’s best interest that all children do well in school and prepare for our future’s technology-driven jobs. The month of August will be dedicated to a vigorous collection of school supplies. Items can be placed in the designated collection bin in the closet off the church atrium beginning Sunday, August 2. Here is a list of basic supplies that are always needed:

3 ring binders – 1”, 2”, 3”

5 or 8 tab divider sets

College rule or wide rule filler paper

Ruled index cards

College rule or wide rule composition books

Sticky note pads

Pencil pouches, boxes, or cases

Black dry erase markers

Black or blue ballpoint pens

Colored pencils

Wooden or mechanical pencils

Washable markers

Pink rectangular erasers

Highlighters

Blunt tipped or sharp scissors

Glue sticks or bottles

24/box crayons

Rulers

And especially needed:

Backpacks (no wheels, please)

4 gigabyte flash drives (needed for working

on computers)

Boxes or packs of tissues

A sampling of Respite members' works of art created this Summer! Joy in the creative pro-cess is our goal, but the end product becomes a priceless gift to the family.

Respite Open House and Benefit Luncheon

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While the heat and humidity will be with us for awhile, the lazy days of summer will soon be a thing of the past. There’s still time,

though, before the busy fall season ushers in new, in depth studies to check out some lighter fare from our church library. From Mitch Album to Wm. Paul Young, you’ll find a wide range of works of fiction, including the latest from Jan Karon, SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEONE GOOD, and LOVE AN-THONY, by Lisa Genova, bestselling author of JUST ALICE, who delivers a deeply human story about autism and unconditional love. Additional selections include POPE JOAN, BEADED HOPE, and WONDER.

Biographies are also being featured this month from ones by the known, such as Billy Graham who relates his life story in JUST AS I AM, to the little known, Loung Ung, a daughter of Cambodia who remembers in FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER not just the horrible brutality but the courage and love in the face of it that sustained her and her fam-ily. In addition there’s the recently acquired AMER-ICAN SAINT, by John Wigger, a biography of Eng-lish-born Francis Asbury, one of the most important

Library News

How To Pray When You’re Worried For some people, prayer has become simply worrying out loud. You hear it in their voices when they

pray aloud in a group; you see it in their expressions when they utter their prayer requests.

You know it is time to gain control over the anxiety that has crept into your life and is jeopardizing your relationship with God. You know to do that you need to cast your cares on Jesus, because He cares for you (I Peter 5:7). “Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers” (Philippians 4:6). Ask God for what you need, praise God for who He is, and watch as those constant worries become transformed into peace-producing prayer. Faith in God cancels out worry, but the opposite is also true: worry cancels out faith in God. Don’t allow worry to displace your faith in God - you‘ve come too far to let that happen now.

Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

By Marcia Ford, excerpted from “The Indispensable Guide to Practically everything: Prayer”

religious leaders in American history; and Tom Brokaw’s THE GREATEST GENERATION SPEAKS, letters and reflections which bring to life the hopes and dreams of those whose sacrifices in-sured our future. Our thanks to Holley Walling for her gift of this book and the children’s book, GRANDDAD’S PRAYERS OF THE EARTH in memory of her father Hollis Riggin, and Jimmy Brown, who always reminded her of her father, both members of “The Greatest Generation.” Look for these books and many other biographies and works of fiction on display in the library foyer.

Summer fun and biographies are the focus in our children’s section, as well. If baseball’s your sport, you’ll want to check out PLAYING RIGHT FIELD and SILENT STAR: THE STORY OF DEAF MAJOR LEAGUER WILLIAM HOY, a UMW Read-ing Program book you’ll find on display in the foy-er. Or consider taking THE LISTENING WALK, going on A PICNIC WITH THE BARLEYS, discov-ering who has SALT IN HIS SHOES or setting out on THE DO SOMETHING DAY.

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite

book.” — Marcel Proust

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Condolences

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those who have

passed away during the month of July:

Emily Crinklaw, Respite Member

Fred Mayfield

given in memory of Fred Wright Mayfield from

given in memory of Joseph Linington from

Memorial Giving

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Linington

Mr. & Mrs. Philip Magruder

Mr. & Mrs. Jigger Sirois

Mr. & Mrs. Bill Mershon

The Officers & Employees of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Mrs. Jeanne Gale

Mrs. Lucy Ringler

Hospice House & Support Care of Williamsburg

We may not like to talk about it, but all of our lives on this earth have time limits. God’s love, however, has no such limits. Accepting both of these truths can help us live more confidently and joyfully in the present, deal better with life’s limits as they arise, and find the support we need in times of crisis, loss, and grief.

In our community, Hospice House is an invalua-ble resource for families dealing with life-limiting conditions. Over the next few months, the Messen-ger will include brief descriptions of some of the op-portunities and services Hospice House offers, along with more information about hospice in general. The first installment is below. If you have further questions, feel free to contact the Hospice House or Rev. Helen Casey-Rutland (229-1771 ext. 357).

Are you or a loved one struggling with a life-limiting illness? Did you know help is available? Call to find out more about the Support for Treat-ment and Recovery Program (STAR)**.

Because treatment is often very stressful;

Because recovery after treatment is, too;

Because stress affects not only those in

treatment;

But ALSO the people who care about them;

The STAR Program offers:

Trained STAR Volunteer to cheer you on!

Friendly visitors

Companionship

Transportation to Medical Appointments

Rest and Rejuvenation for your Caregiver

For more information, call Debra Maviglia Podish, Director of Patient

& Family Volunteer Services 253-1220 or [email protected]

**The STAR Program is a service provided by Hospice House.

given to WUMC Youth Ministry in memory of Mary Kathryn 'Kay' Nordeman from

Mr. & Mrs. William Wall

Given to Respite Care in memory of The Reverend C. Travis Kendall from

Dr. & Mrs. Richard Soulen

given to Hope Center Latvia in memory of James Lee 'Jim' Brown from

Mr. & Mrs. Gale Wilson

given to The WUMC Memorial Garden in memory of James Lee 'Jim' Brown from

Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Skillman

given to The Hope Center Latvia & The WUMC Memorial Garden in memory of

James Lee 'Jim' Brown from

Dr. & Mrs. Gerre Johnson


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The Messenger

A Monthly Publication of

Williamsburg United Methodist Church

500 Jamestown Rd., Williamsburg, VA 23185

Church Office (757-229-1771)

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WUMC Endowment Fund Report

Randy Casey-Rutland

Judy Craft

Hal Curtis

Wayne Durboraw

Art Grant

Bill Hill

Lynn Howell

Bill Jones

Joe Meadows

Terri Morgan

Ed Overton

Donna Smith

Bob Spencer

George White

The Endowment of Williamsburg United Methodist Church was established to provide members and friends of the church the opportunity to make charitable gifts that become a Permanent Endowment of the church. Income from invest-ments of the Permanent Endowment is to be used for purposes not funded through the annual operating budget of the church to supplement programs and ministries, assist with facility and capital related items, and other special purposes such as the Agape Fund.

As of June 30, 2015 the Permanent Endowment had a total balance of $1,038,638. Year to date in 2015, the Endowment Committee approved re-quests for funding that include the following:

WUMC Trustees: Approved funding of $58,000.00 for renovations to the

Sanctuary.

Global Outreach Committee: Approved funding of $2,500.00 for Little

Hearts Project for Needy Children in Honduras.

Local Outreach Committee: Approved funding of $500.00 to support

the Pre-School Literacy Project.

Staff Parish Relations Committee: Approved funding of $1,500.00 for

the Summer Intern Ministry.

The Endowment Committee strives to make the Endowment a living and inte-gral part of WUMC. Please consider the Endowment in your plans for giving. Direct questions or comments to any member of the Endowment Committee.

Endowment Committee Members:

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