Christmas Angels
All Christmas Gift Angels for Byrd Elementary students have been claimed! Thank you for all who picked an Angel! We will definitely get more Angels next Christmas !
~Carol McKay
Reminder — St. John Seniors December Meeting
St. John Senior will meet Tuesday, December 12th @ 12 noon in the BP Building
Our meal will be catered by Shealy’s at the cost of $15.00 per person.
Menu: Country Fried Steak, Rice and Gravy, Fried Chicken, Green Beans, Corn, Cucumber Salad and Dessert.
Come join us for good food and Christian Fellowship
United Methodist Men
The UMMen will not meet in December. The next meeting will be on January 22, 2024 in the BPW Building @ 6:30pm
The United Methodist Men in 2023 gave donations to Bobby Scott’s ministry of annual free Thanksgiving meals at the GVW Fire Station. Over 400 meals were handed out.
Also, a donation of $1,000.00 was given toward the renovations of our BPW Building.
Thank you to all who have made this possible.
Children’s Christmas Program
Our Children’s Christmas Program will be held Sunday – December 17th as part of worship.
Bring a finger food to share afterwards in the BPW Building
Attention: Please let Esther know if you will be bringing any children so she can prepare. We will be expecting a special guest to join us!
A Year that Whispers Jesus
For author Nancy Tichy, a small holiday gift once sparked big-picture thoughts about Christian living. One December she received a kitchen towel with the message “I want a Christmas that whispers JESUS.” That prompted thoughts of what it’s like to have an entire year that whispers Jesus.
For starters, that involves daily quiet time, devotion and prayer. “Sometimes I wake with the thought of a person on my mind,” writes Tichy. “I’m quiet with this impression, interceding for the family member or friend until it has lifted. Could this be a whisper from our Savior?”
Many other daily occurrences are “worthy of [Jesus’] whispered response of love,” Tichy points out. That’s true whether we’re distracted by tasks and troubling thoughts or buoyed by encounters with contentment and joy. “For me,” she writes, “whispering is part of intimacy, and that is what I want to make a hallmark of the coming year. I want closeness with our Savior that enables me to hear from him, even when he whispers.”