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Opportunities/Events
Confirmation Returns This Fall
If you, a family member, or a friend are in 7th,
8th, or 9th grade for school year 2021-22, Confirmation is
for you.
Working title for this year: “Confirmation:
Questioning Faith.” Confirmation at Woodridge UMC is not an
attempt at indoctrination, but rather an exploration of the
questions participants bring regarding life, faith, God, the
church, and more. Big questions such as:
What even is faith?
Where is God in the midst of suffering?
What does it mean to be a person of faith in the
real world of 2021?
Classes begin Sunday, September 19th at 11:00am
in the Youth Room. Please contact Pastor Dave (pastordave@woodridgeumc.org) to register and/or for more information.
Communion
On the 1st Sunday of
September and the 1st Sunday in October we
will have in-person
communion outside under the tent
following the morning worship service. We will then resume communion
on ZOOM for the remaining Sundays
in September and October.
Sunday
School Returns!!
On Sunday, September
12th Sunday School returns to
Woodridge UMC! Come join us for our all new curriculum
and improved classroom space! Class will occur
after Children’s Time until the end of worship service.
Students and teachers will remain masked and socially
distanced. Please contact the church office if you are
interested or if you have any questions.
Back
to School Spectacular
September
12th after worship service is our Back to School Spectacular! We are
celebrating everyone (students, teachers, administrators,
etc.) going back to school — including back to Sunday
School! Spectacular features include: Water Balloon
Toss and other silly, fun games! Doggie Diner hot dogs and
fries, plus veggies, fruit, and dessert! Come join the party
and start the school year out with a spectacular splash!
Nursery
Care
Nursery care
will also return this September. We are looking for one
or two experienced people to help fill in the volunteer
rotation. Please contact Karen Miller if you are
interested. Background checks will be performed for all those
that volunteer with our children.
Youth
Ministry 2021-2022
Youth Ministries at WUMC in September &
beyond:
All students and families are invited to
participate in the all-church
Back to School Spectacular on Sunday, September 12th, right
after the worship service. Featuring: water
balloons and other silly, fun games! Doggie Diner hot dogs
and fries, plus veggies, fruit, and dessert! We will also
gather students for another check-in on revamping the Youth
Room. Don’t miss it!
Then, the following week, Sunday, September
19th at 11:00am: the Return of the
Confirmands! If
you or a family member or a friend are in 7th, 8th, or 9th
grade for school year 2021-22, Confirmation is for you.
Working title for this year: “Confirmation:
Questioning Faith.” Confirmation at Woodridge UMC is not an
attempt at indoctrination, but rather an exploration of the
questions participants bring regarding life, faith, God, the
church, and more. Big questions such as:
What even is faith?
Where is God in the midst of suffering?
What does it mean to be a person of faith in the
real world of 2021?
Please contact Pastor Dave (pastordave@woodridgeumc.org) to register and/or for more information.
Also returning Sunday, September 19th at 11:00am:
High School Youth Group! Faith exploration
geared for 15-18 year olds. No question is out of bounds.
Outreach
Opportunities
Offering of Letters
One form of our response to our “Jesus Said What?!”
sermon series is to embody our faith in an Offering of
Letters to Congress advocating for policies that will help
end hunger locally and globally.
As our partner, Bread for the World, reports,
“Expanding the Child Tax Credit (CTC) will do more to reduce
hunger and poverty among our nation’s children than any
single policy has in decades. Most children stand to benefit
from the CTC expansion, but children from groups that have
disproportionately high hunger rates will benefit most.”
And expanding the CTC makes fiscal sense.
“Poverty among children in the United States costs the
economy between $800 billion and $1.1 trillion in lower
productivity, higher healthcare costs, and the need to spend
more on public safety, services for homeless people,
incarceration, and care for survivors of child abuse.” [source]
This Sunday, August 29th, we continue to offer
space, time, and materials for those wanting to hand-write
their letters either after the worship service or at home.
There is also on online option: Click here to email Congress.
If you chose this option, please let Pastor Dave
(pastordave@woodridgeumc.org) know after you’ve sent your emails.
To learn more about an Offering of Letters, click here.
To learn more about our partner organization in
this effort, Bread for the World, click here.
As we begin to gather together for worship and
slowly open our building, there are some ongoing
opportunities that we want to "revive". We
will get more details from our Outreach Committee at a later
time about these and other opportunities.
Suits for Success
There are donation boxes in the hallway by the
coat rack just outside the narthex for both men and women's
clothing. The clothes are picked up, dry cleaned and
then taken to area men and women's prisons for people being
released. NO belts, shoes, underwear or ties.
"Goin'
Green" Shoes & Clothes Recycling Box
Located in the northeast corner of our parking lot,
this receptacle is a convenient place to recycle any shoes
and your clothes that are at or near the end of their
usefulness.
Did you know discarded clothes account for more
total landfill space than any other waste item? The “Goin’
Green” Box helps us reduce our waste.
How is this different from our “Suits for
Success” ministry?
The big difference is that “Suits for Success”
cannot accept shoes of any kind, nor can they accept belts,
ties, or underwear. “Goin’ Green” accepts all shoes and
clothes.
In summary: Keep bringing your gently used clothing
donations to the “Suits for Success” collection boxes in the
hallway.
For all shoes and any other clothes, instead of
throwing them in the trash, put them in the “Goin’ Green”
receptacle in the northeast corner of the parking lot.
West Suburban Food Pantry
We have a basket that we "inherited"
from the Faith, Lisle church that is waiting for
donations. It sits in the narthex, usually near the
sanctuary doors. They did not stop operating during the
pandemic and there is pending legislation in our state and nation
that might cut their corporate donations in large
amounts. Let's replenish our basket!!!
Used Eyeglasses
There is a
basket also in the narthex for collecting used
eyeglasses. Jorie would see that her sister, Kendra,
got the eyeglasses and that they are recycled to the Lions
Club and Gift of Sight groups. Kendra is continuing
this important mission. (Prescription eyeglasses only).
August Outreach Offering
Nkemba and
Mbwizu Ndjungu
The Rev. Nkemba
Ndjungu and his wife Mbwizu Ndjungu are missionaries with the
Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church
serving with The United Methodist Church of Cameroon.
They oversee church development and construction, Christian
education, health, youth and prison ministries and VIM teams.
They also facilitate an intensive pastor’s training program
as part of the ordination process.
Born in Malonga, Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C), Rev.
Nkemba’s previous appointments have been as a pastor in
Kazembe and Lubumbashi and as a District Superintendent in
Sandoa, all in the D.R.C. From 1998-2007 he served in Dakar,
Senegal, where he was involved in evangelism, church-planting
and theological education.
Born in Kasaji, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.),
Mbwizu previously served as a midwife in Kazembe and Sandoa,
D.R.C., and as coordinator of an "Alphabet Center for
Women" in Lubumbashi, D.R.C. Mbwizu and her husband
served in Dakar, Senegal, from 1998-2007.
Birthdays
September Birthdays
2
Dee Dee Siver
6 Jaimie Morton
9 Tim Waynick
11 Bob Bonaguro
12 Keaton O'Leary
Patricia DelRosso
13 Janice Nitchals
Martine Nelson
19 Jeff Lietz
20 Brandon Byczynski
Ellie Cash
22 Brittany Grosch
23 Sherrill Hultgen
24 Patti Cash
Esther Buerstetta
25 Ryan Aquino
27 Jacqueline Buerstetta
29 Joni Supataraporn
30 Anna Aquino
Jill Ermitage
Paige Ford
Northern Illinois Conference
NEW
Prairie Central District
The new names
of the districts, which go into effect July 2021, are Lake North, Lake
South, Prairie Central, Prairie North, and Prairie South. We
will be in the Prairie Central district. Click here to read the list of churches in each district. Find the new
district webpage here.
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Ways to Connect
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