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Easter Egg Hunt Mark your calendars for Central’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, March 20th at 3:00p! Bring your family for an afternoon of fun and treats as we enter into Holy Week.

Call the Church Office for directions if you plan to attend.

Holy Week Schedule As we continue through this season we look forward to the culmination of our Lenten

journey in Easter. Here is our planned schedule for Holy Week and Easter Sunday:

� Maundy Thursday Service, March 24 at 7:00p �

� Good Friday Service, March 25 at 7:00p �

� Easter Sunrise Service, March 27 at 7:00a (Breakfast to follow) �

(We will continue our regularly scheduled services on Easter Sunday following breakfast)

Mark your Calendar

March 9 3:30p Wonderful Wednesday

March 10 6:15p Lenten Bible Study

March 13 4:30p F5 4:30p Confirmation Class 6:00p U-Nite

March 14 6:00p Holy Yoga 6:30p Education Committee Mtg 7:00p Evangelism Team Meeting

March 15 7:00p Building Committee Meeting

March 16 3:30p Wonderful Wednesday

March 17 12:00p WEOs 1:30p Grief Group 6:15p Lenten Bible Study

March 18 Newsletter Articles Due 6:00p Knitted Together

March 20 7:30a UMM Breakfast 3:00p Easter Egg Hunt 4:30p Confirmation Class

Central United Methodist Church

Central News

March 8, 2016

From My Perspective

I stood in the parsonage driveway, surveying just how much snow there was to be shoveled. It looked like a task I could never finish, but shovel by shovel, I began to make a path from the driveway to the road. I actually enjoyed the physical activity of clearing the snow away, but after a couple of hours of shoveling, I began to like it less. The next morning when I got out of bed, I really wasn’t enjoying it. My back, hips, shoulders, and knees were all sending messages to the brain that I had overdone it.

On Sunday morning, I rolled out of bed early, confident that I could either drive or walk to church. What I hadn’t planned on were the snowdrifts now blocking access to the road. Between the wind and the snow plows, the piles of snow now cut me off from getting my car out of the driveway. It also seemed a bit too cold to walk to church, so I had no choice but to go get the shovel and start shoveling.

It was then that I noticed that my neighbor was coming my direction with a snow blower. I had heard of one of those things, but having grown up in East Tennessee, I had never seen one. In fact, ask a man from Tennessee if he owns a snow blower, he’ll tell you that he doesn’t need a snow blower; he married one!

In less than ten minutes, my car was freed from the snowdrift by the snow blower, and I was able to drive to church, instead of walking. I actually had someone volunteer to come drive me, but I really wanted to be able to get out in my own car.

I just needed a little help. One of the hardest things for me to do is to admit that I need help. I think I should be able to do everything on my own. I’m not sure where that independent streak comes from, but my psychologist friends tell me that it’s either my Mother or Father’s fault.

On that day, I accepted help. It was especially gratifying for me to look out across my congregation that Sunday morning to see the guy who rescued me, plus the guy who was standing by to help if I needed him. We need to acknowledge the obvious: we need each other.

Any questions?

What we do here matters.

WEOs Join WEOs for a potluck and Bingo on Thursday, March 17th at 12:00p. Bring a dish to pass, a dollar prize for Bingo, and dress in green for St. Patrick’s day. Prizes will be awarded for Best Dressed!

UMM All men are invited to breakfast on Sunday, March 20th at 7:30a.

March Meetings If you’re on the following teams, please make a note of the upcoming meetings this month:

- Education Committee, Monday, March 14th at 6:30p - Evangelism Team, Monday, March 14th at 7:00p

- Building Committee, Tuesday, March 15th at 7:00p - Care Shepherds, Sunday, March 20th at 12:15p

- Missions Team, Tuesday, March 22nd at 7:00p

F5/U-Nite and Dinner Join us this Sunday, March 13th for F5 and U-Nite! Students K-5th grade are invited to F5 beginning at 4:30p. Dinner for the whole family begins at 5:30p. We’ll have a variety of soups and chili prepared. Have a favorite soup you’d like to bring and share? Please do! After dinner we’ll enjoy a Youth led worship service at 6:00p, before ending our evening with an ice cream social. This monthly event is a great time for fellowship and encouraging our young people in the growth of their faith and leadership in the church. Please join us!

Wesley Foundation Benefit Dinner RU’s Methodist Campus ministry is hosting a fundraising event on Saturday, April 9 6:30 pm at 1022 Downey Street. All donations from the meal support the Wesley Foundation’s ministry to College students. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased from Wesley Board Members and at weslyfdn@gmail.com or 540-529-4415. Help support your campus ministry and enjoy an evening of food, music, fun and fellowship! See board members Jerry Krebs, Pastor Dale, Donna Judy or Marcy Harless with questions or to purchase tickets.

Family Movie Night at RHS The Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Radford High is sponsoring the movie Woodlawn on Friday, March 18th at the RHS Auditorium. Doors open at 6:00, the movie is from 7-9. Concessions will be sold. Bring the family, enjoy this special presentation, and support our local FCA.

Camp Dickenson

Summer at Camp Dickenson is just around the corner! There are many weeks available, however, our suggested week is June 19-24 when Danny Nettleton hopes to be the "MiR" (Minister in Residence). When you are ready to register, please call the church office to obtain the church sponsorship code.

Wonderful Wednesday Schedule

There will be no Wonderful Wednesday programming on March 23rd or 30th due to Radford Schools Spring Break. We will resume on April 6 and begin our final three weeks together for this school year.

Children & Youth

Upcoming Events VOLUNTEER SCHEDULE

Nursery, Sunday March 13

Britney Green, Amber Hollins

Sco� & Casey Hamblin

Nursery, Sunday March 20

Abby Dangerfield, Karen Radford,

Keith & Kari Fender

Meet and Greet, Sunday March 13

Choir

Meet and Greet, Sunday March 20

Youth

Van Driver – March

Roger Hollins

PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY

Ryan Haynes – California

Kerry Keys – South Korea

Jeffrey Kincaid – Hawaii

Elizabeth Venegas – North Carolina

Bibles Needed The Gideons are in need of soft cover Study Bibles and soft cover large print bibles for inmates at the New River Valley Regional Jail. If you would like to donate a bible, please leave it at the church office or give to Joe Hester. They will be much appreciated.

Attention Musicians We are looking for someone who would be willing to devote 15 minutes to lead our younger children in music at the beginning of Sunday School. If you are interested, please see Bill Lacy.

Help Our Schools There are many programs that help our local schools resulting in cash donations or supplies. Please consider collecting the following and passing it to any Radford school (or to Suzanne Saunders): Box Tops for Education, Campbell's Soup Labels, Tyson A+ labels, and Coke codes (found on caps and inside boxed sodas). Start tearing these items off and pass them along when you are ready. Thanks for enhancing our education system!

Do you want an electronic newsletter? Did you know you can get the newsletter e-mailed to you? If you’d prefer to get on the e-mail list rather than have a physical copy mailed to you twice a month, you can sign up by visiting our website, cumcradford.org and clicking the “Sign up here!” button on the bottom right. Call the Church Office with questions!

New Women’s Book Study

Our newest Sunday school class, LIFE (Living In Faith Everyday), will be starting a new women's study using the book Letters to my Daughter by Barbara Rainey, on Sunday, April 3rd. Anyone interested in joining the group for this study, please call the Church Office so we can order enough books.

Don’t forget to Spring Forward! Here’s your friendly reminder that Daylight Savings Time begins this Sunday,

March 13th. Set your clocks forward one hour and join your slightly more tired than usual church family for worship Sunday morning!

Notable Notes

April Salvant

Pat Yanhko

Della Pa�erson

Margaret Hammond

Emma Brown

Kathleen Ratcliffe

Helen Shelor

Graham & Jenny

Simmerman

Umberger Family

Bob Thomas

Pat Collins

Marcy Harless

Isey Woods

OPERATING BUDGET

2/28/16 3/6/16

Needed YTD $87,504 $97,227

Received YTD $86,293 $101,142

Building Fund $325 $621

Designated Gifts $465 $805

Received Sunday $9,695 $14,849

ATTENDANCE 2/28/16 3/6/16

Morning Worship 111 118

Sunday School 159 161

Traditional Worship 140 140

Evening Worship 65 -

Total Worship 316 258

PRAYER REQUESTS