WELCOME, VISITORS! Please sign the Attendance Register at the back of the sanctuary if this is your first recent visit. Preschool Care for children is on the lower level throughout the service. Older children depart for churchtime activities on the middle hymn but remain in the sanctuary on Communion Sundays. Ask an usher for activity packets for use by children during the service, audio equipment for the hearing impaired, pew Bibles and the Order of Worship in large print. See our literature display (free).

JUST AHEAD IN SEPTEMBER

19 A Musical Tribute to Rev. Marvin Frey

Membership Anniversary Remembrance

20 Senior Noontime Luncheon

22 Leadership Committee, 7:30 p.m.

FIRST TIME VISITORS, please ask an usher for one of our Welcome packets if you have not already been offered one.

SEPTEMBER’S monthly missions offering, sent to Samaritan’s Purse, helps us ship Christmas shoeboxes in November as a part of “Operation Christmas Child.” Please earmark your gift, using check or pew envelope, “Shoeboxes.” It costs us seven dollars per box. Your gift this month helps pay for boxes purchased and filled by the Missions Committee. The exact number will be determined by this month’s offering.

COPIES of The Upper Room, September/October Issue, are on the literature tables at the back of the sanctuary. Help yourself.

THE RICHARDSONS are expected home this evening.

NOW’S THE TIME for committees and interested individuals to sign up as hosts of one of our fall/winter coffee hours or family night suppers. See the bulletin board in the chapel or use a white card from the pew racks through the offering plate.

OUR FALL SERIES of Senior Luncheons continues tomorrow. Join us for just one hour of lunch, devotions, and fellowship. Meet in the church office at Noon. Transportation is available through Pastor Jack.

JOIN US September 19th for our annual, musical Tribute To Rev. Marvin Frey. The songs and choruses will be of his composition, and the choir’s anthem includes his immortal “Kum Ba Yah.” The service will include September’s Membership Anniversary Remembrance.

PASTOR JACK will lead worship at The Villages on Sunday, the 19th at 2:00 p.m. - a half-hour service. You’re invited to attend, to visit with the residents, or even to take part.

GO TO West Barre Weekend on our email for a very brief, mid-week reminder of our up-coming events, emergency announcements, and a list of participants in worship-related activities for the coming weekend. Notify Secretary Jaime Paratore if you’re not able to find it.

WHEN YOU miss a Sunday you have options: visit our web site or call Jaime at the church office on Mondays, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., to learn what’s happening at WBUMC during the week.

ARE YOU RECEIVING West Barre Witness, our newsletter? Use a white card from a pew rack, through the offering plate or give to an usher, bearing your name, address, and the word, “Witness” to be added to our mailing list.

ARE YOUR birthday and wedding anniversary being recognized in our weekly bulletin and newsletter? Use a white card from the pew rack, through an offering plate or to an usher, with the information we need, and remember to add your name.

WELCOME, VISITORS! Please sign the Attendance Register at the back of the sanctuary if this is your first recent visit. A Nursery for infants and children through age four is on the lower level throughout the service. Older children depart for churchtime activities on the middle hymn but remain in the sanctuary on Communion Sundays. Ask an usher for activity packets for use by children during the service, audio equipment for the hearing impaired, pew Bibles and the Order of Worship in large print. See our literature display (free).

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Help yourself to a copy of The Upper Room.

JUST AHEAD IN SEPTEMBER

12 Fly-In Breakfast and Bake Sale

Sunday School, 9:30 a.m./Worship, 10:30 a.m.

Dedication of Christian Ed staff

Grandparents Day, photos taken

Roberta Call, Minister of the Word

13 Senior Luncheon series begins, Noon

18 Depart for Varysburg Animal Adventure, 11 a.m.

SEPTEMBER’S monthly missions offering, sent to Samaritan’s Purse, helps us ship Christmas shoeboxes in November as a part of “Operation Christmas Child.” Please earmark your gift, using check or Missions pew envelope , “Shoeboxes.” It costs us seven dollars per box. Your gift this month helps pay for boxes purchased and filled by the Missions Committee. The exact number will be determined by this month’s offering.

FIRST TIME VISITORS, please ask an usher for one of our Welcome packets if you have not already been offered one.

NEXT SUNDAY’S SERVICE will include the Installation and dedication of our Christian education staff. Roberta Call’s message to us will be entitled, “Jeremiah was a . . . prophet!”

Grandparents will be photographed with their grandchildren at the close of the service, at the front of the sanctuary.

OUR FALL WORSHIP SCHEDULE begins next week. Sunday School classes will meet at 9:30 a.m. We’ll worship at 10:30 a.m.

THE RICHARDSONS are due back from vacation next Sunday evening, September 12. Reach them by email anytime.

JOIN US September 19th for our annual, musical Tribute To Rev. Marvin Frey. The songs and choruses will be of his composition, and the choir’s anthem includes his immortal “Kum Ba Yah.” The service will include September’s Membership Anniversary Remembrance.

PASTOR JACK will lead worship at The Villages on Sunday, the 19th at 2:00 p.m. - a half-hour service. You’re invited to attend, to visit with the residents, or even to take part.

WHEN YOU miss a Sunday you have options: visit our web site or call Jaime at the church office on Mondays, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., to learn what’s happening at WBUMC during the week. .

CHECK OUT our web site: www.westbarreumc.org.

ARE YOU RECEIVING West Barre Witness, our newsletter? Use a white card from a pew rack, through the offering plate or to an usher, bearing your name, address, and the word, “Witness” to be added to our mailing list.

WELCOME, VISITORS! Please sign the Attendance Register at the back of the sanctuary if this is your first recent visit. A Nursery for infants and children through age four is on the lower level throughout the service. Older children depart for churchtime activities on the middle hymn but remain in the sanctuary on Communion Sundays. Ask an usher for activity packets for use by children during the service, audio equipment for the hearing impaired, pew Bibles and the Order of Worship in large print. See our literature display (free).

COFFEE HOUR immediately follows this service in the adjoining chapel, the Hospitality Team hosting. Please join us.

JUST AHEAD IN SEPTEMBER

5 Communion in the pews

Rev. David Phelps, Guest Minister

6 Labor Day

8 United Methodist Women, 1:00 p.m.

LAST CALL: The monthly missions offering in August, for the second year, supports Nothing But Nets, which provides insecticide-treated bed nets for African children living in malaria infested locales. Nets cost ten dollars each; but your gift of any amount is most welcome. Please earmark your check or offering envelope, “Nets.” Please use a Missions Envelope.

SUNDAY WORSHIP will be at 9:30 a.m. through the Labor Day Weekend. Sunday School is in summer recess. Our choir rehearses at 8:45 a.m. on Sundays.

PASTOR JACK AND WILMA will be away beginning this afternoon and returning on the evening of September 12th. Reach them by cell phone through Tuesday. Jean Peglow can put you in touch with them when they are in Peru. Lay Leader Gary Antinore will help put you in touch with a United Methodist minister, should an emergency arise.

NOW’S THE TIME for committees and interested individuals to sign up as hosts of one of our fall/winter coffee hours or family night suppers. See the bulletin board in the chapel or use a white card from the pew racks through the offering plate.

GO TO West Barre Weekend on your email for a very brief, mid-week reminder of our up-coming events, emergency announcements, and a list of participants in worship-related activities for the coming weekend. Notify Secretary Jaime Paratore if you’re not able to find it.

THE SERVICE on September 5th will include Holy Communion served in the pews. Rev. David Phelps will be our Guest Minister. The Worship Committee will give leadership to the service.

ROBERTA CALL will bring the morning message on September 12th. The service will include the installation and dedication of our Christian education staff for the coming months. Grandparents who attend with their grandchildren will be photographed by the Hospitality Team, in recognition of Grandparents Day.

OUR FALL SERIES of Senior Luncheons is scheduled to begin on Monday, September 13th. Meet in the church office at Noon. Transportation is available through Pastor Jack.

THE HOSPITALITY TEAM invites you to sign up for its next Day Trip, scheduled for Saturday, September 18th. We’ll be off to Hidden Valley in Varysburg for an Animal Adventure Day. See this morning’s bulletin enclosure and hear DeAnn Corke’s announcement. DeAnn is collecting money thru September 9th.

THE VILLAGES OF OC announces a new-to-our-community transitional care service of 5-6 day a week therapy outside of the hospital setting. Posters and flyers are to be found on our bulletin boards. Call 589-3238 to receive your own copy.