Fall Sunday Schedule
- 9:30-10:30 Worship
- 10:30-10:50 Coffee/Fellowship
- 10:50-11:50 Adult Sunday School
- 10:50-11:05 Youth Music Combo
(Grades 6-12) NEW!! - 11:05-11:50 Youth Sunday School
(Grades 6-12) - 10:50-11:35 Young Disciples Sunday School
(Pre-K – Grade 5) - 11:35-11:50 Young Disciples Choir
(Pre-K–Grade 5)
Sunday Worship Schedule
Please join us for Sunday worship and feel free to invite a friend, neighbor, colleague, or family member!
- 9:30-10:30 am Worship Service – In-person and live-streamed (see above).
- 10:30 am Fellowship Time
- 10:50 am Adult Sunday School
Holy Communion is typically celebrated on the first Sunday of each month and everyone is welcome to participate.
Children in Worship – Our service includes a separate Children’s Sermon time for kids ages 4 years through Grade 5. You’ll also find children’s worship bulletins and “activity bags” (for ages 3-8) hanging on the tree just outside the sanctuary door.
Child Care – Child care is available for infants through age 3 during Worship. Child care is also offered during the Sunday School hour for infants through age 2. Each child will need to be signed in and signed out by a parent or guardian.
Announcements
- Hanging of the Greens 12/7 9am
- Harmony Ringers 12/7
- Gingerbread House Decorating Party 12/14
- Two Adult Spiritual Formation Opportunities 12/1 & 1/9
- Key of Hope Choir returns 12/21
- OPEN M Christmas Baskets! Deadline 12/1
- FEED MY SHEEP
- HUDSON FOOD PANTRY
- OPEN M Lunches and Mt of Food
- The November GIFT Newsletter
Enjoy George’s donuts and Christmas music while decorating HUMC for the season.
Sounds of the Season Concert 12/7 at 3:00 pm
Harmony Ringers return!
Beginning 12/1 – Considering the Message Class Sundays, 10:50 to 11:50 am.
A NEW ongoing Sunday school discussion class designed to process the morning’s message together with friends, through guided discussion. A time for sharing insights, asking questions, and exploring deeper. Led alternately by Rev. Bruce Hartley and Elizabeth Goodin. Begins on December 1st with our Advent series, and continues throughout the new year! DROP-INS WELCOME
Beginning 1/9 Spiritual Discernment Class, 4 Sessions Thursdays, 2:00 to 3:30 pm
Living attuned to the guidance of the Spirit in all things is a practice that can be fostered and developed. Jane Kenneweg-Welch is a spiritual director who has long studied this topic and has agreed to facilitate a group study, co-led by Elizabeth Goodin. If you are interested in learning more about this “way of life,” join Elizabeth and Jane in a small group, meeting together for four Thursday afternoon sessions. FRIENDS WELCOME Jane has newly chosen the book Decision Making & Spiritual Discernment: The Sacred Art of Finding Your Way by Nancy L. Bieber as our class resource.
Key of Hope–a 30-voice choir from South Africa–will be returning to HUMC on the afternoon of Saturday, December 21st. The concert will be at 2:00 pm, preceded by a lunch for the choir at noon. We hope to have a reception directly following the concert, as the choir loves to interact with congregations after they perform. (And we love it too!) If you were able to attend last time, then you know what a blessing it is to hear these kids sing, and to be in their joyful presence. If you weren’t able to be there last time, I hope you will come! You won’t regret it. : )
We are collecting 200 cans of Sloppy Joe Sauce this year! Please donate to help feed OPEN M families this year. Leave your cans of Sloppy Joe near the kitchen.
Feed My Sheep is a church-based hot lunch program on Fridays from 11:30a to 12:30p at Redeemer UMC (265 Cuyahoga Falls Ave.) in Akron’s North Hill neighborhood. A clothing room with household items is open on Fridays.
Once a month HUMC offers a choice of socks, briefs or T-shirt, a toiletry item(s) and travel-size toiletries. HUMC also supplies toilet paper, and a roll is offered everyweek with 130+ carry-out lunches. Blue collection bins are located in the narthex closet, near the hand bell cabinet.
Hudson UMC supports the Hudson Food Pantry by supplying paper towels every month for 35+ families. Staple food items requested at this time: Canned chicken, canned fruit, canned pasta (pasta sauce, rice sides, SpaghettiOs, Chef Boyardee, shampoo, and conditioner. Donations may be dropped off at the church in the gathering area. Distributions May 20.
Food Pantry Collections – 200 cans of Tuna each month. Please put your donations in the tub near the kitchen door.
Lunches – Grab & Go Lunch provides fresh, healthy meals to the community. HUMC makes 50 sack lunches and drops them off at OPEN M.
October 28
Mountain of Food – A Direct Distribution program of the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank hosted by OPEN M. HUMC helps by filling orders and loading groceries into cars but there are non-lifting jobs as well. We usually leave around 7:45 am and return around 11:30.
November 15, December 20
The November edition of the church newsletter is now available online