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Opportunities/Events
Back to School Spectacular
Next
Sunday, 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!
Wednesday
Bible Study
This fall, we
will have our Wednesday Bible study (obviously on Wednesday)
from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. beginning on Wednesday,
September 15th. We will meet in person
(those who wish to) as well as via ZOOM (for those not able
to be in person).
Our study guide for this fall is entitled "We Are the
Church....Let's Act Like It" by Linda Tower Pevey.
It is a study on the Book of Acts and will last through the
end of October. The book is available on Amazon with
paperback and kindle editions. Please be sure to have
your copy by our first meeting.
FOR THOSE JOINING IN PERSON: Our class will meet in the
narthex (right outside of the sanctuary). Please
continue to wear your mask while we are inside of the
building. Also, please park and enter at that end of
the building.
FOR THOSE JOINING VIA ZOOM: You will be connected and
able to verbally participate as in a regular ZOOM call.
Contact Pastor Danita or the church office for the link.
LifeLine
Screening
Life Line
Screening will be here at Woodridge United Methodist
Church on Tuesday,
September 14th offering safe, painless,
non-invasive preventive health screenings that are typically
not a part of a routine physical. To be more proactive
about your health and to live longer for yourself, your
family and your community, please register for these
potentially life-saving tests today. Please call
toll-free 1-888-653-6441 or visit http://lifelinescreening.com/communitycircle to register.
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 THIS Sunday,
September 5th 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.
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 next 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 (i.e. sophomores through seniors). No
question is out of bounds.
Outreach
Opportunities
DuPage Pads: Did You Know?
DuPagePads operates a Street Outreach call line
for anyone who observes someone unsheltered or in need
of services. Please notify our Street Outreach team at
630-682-3846, option 2, or email streetoutreach@dupagepads.org with the following information:
Your name and contact information (for
possible follow-up)
- Individual’s/Family’s Name (if
known)
- Location (last seen)
- General Description
Hurricane
Ida Damage Includes UM Churches
Category 4
Hurricane Ida delivering 150mph winds caused widespread
damage in southeast Louisiana, including to several United
Methodist churches and parsonages. Much of Louisiana remains
without power or cellphone service. Read more.
The United
Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) has already awarded a
grant to the Louisiana Conference to support relief efforts
and remains in prayer for the many communities impacted by
this major storm.
How
to Help
To read the rest
of the article from the Northern Illinois Conference click here.
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.
This Sunday, September 5th, we continue to offer
space, time, and materials for those wanting to hand-write
their letters either after the worship service or at home. If you write your letters at home, be sure to
bring them back and put them in the Offering of Letters
Offering Plate!
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]
To learn more about Bread’s 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).
September Outreach Offering
Ministerial
Education Fund
Another one of the 7 General Apportionment Funds
that would have previously been funded through the churches
general apportionments payments, the Ministerial Education
Fund provides funds for recruitment of clergy candidates and
provides financial support for 13 United Methodist seminaries
including Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in
Evanston and Pastor Danita’s alma mater, Gammon Seminary.
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
Prairie
Central District
The new names
of the districts, which went 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
September
3rd, 2021, Volume 12, Edition 36
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