Fairlington United Methodist Church welcomes all to a nurturing faith community that

serves God by serving others. We’re Glad You’re Here! We invite all worshipers to sign the red Friendship Pad that is at the end of each pew and pass it down your row. Prayer requests may be listed on the yellow pew cards. Pass them to the inside aisle for collection during the first hymn.

Is This Your First Visit with Us? We have gifts for first-time worshipers on the Welcome Table in the Narthex (foyer). Ushers can provide large print hymnals and hearing devices. Ask them for a Kid’s Pack and Children’s Bulletin as well as directions to the Nursery, or to our Family Room in the balcony.

We want to learn your name. Please use a sticky nametag that you will find in the red books and in the pews. You can request a clip-on nametag by filling out a pink form located along the wall in the Narthex. You may also email the office, office@fairlingtonumc.org, and we’ll make one for you!

CORRECTION: Last Week’s Flowers on the Altar were in honor of Beth and Floyd Baker’s 31st wedding anniversary. Please congratulate them!

August 25, 2019

This Week’s Calendar

August 25 to September 1

Sunday, August 25th 10:00am Worship -Sanctuary 11:00am Ice Cream in the Breezeway 2:00pm Ethiopian Church - Chapel Tuesday, August 27th 8:30am ALIVE! Gardeners - Playground 5:30pm AA - Room 111 Wednesday, August 28th 7:30pm OA - Room 110 Thursday, August 29th 2:00pm Lazarus Ministries - various 7:00pm OA - Room 110 Friday, August 30th 12:30pm Muslim Prayers -FH 7:00pm Overeaters Anonymous Room 114 7:30pm Ethiopian Church - Chapel Saturday, August 31st 7:30am ALIVE! Last Saturday 9:00am FUMW at National Book Festival 9:30am FUMW – Crafts at Cora Kelly Sunday, September 1 FINAL 10AM WORSHiP 10:00am Worship -Sanctuary 11:00am Ice Cream in the Breezeway 2:00pm Ethiopian Church - Chapel

Worship Attendance August 18: 174 Fairlington United Methodist Church

3900 King Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22302 Office Hours: Monday thru Friday 10am to 4pm (703) 671-8557

info@fairlingtonumc.org ~ www.fairlingtonumc.org www.facebook.com/FairlingtonUMC

Public WiFi: “FUMC-Access” (password: open3900) Donate: bit.ly/Donate2FUMC

Text your donations to (703) 454-8702

Remember with Prayers Each week in worship and in our church staff meetings we lift up the prayer requests that are submitted. You may also contact the church office with your prayer requests.

David undergoing open heart surgery, Catrina’s sister in law, Kathy, Claudia, Kristy, Jenni, Judith, Mike, Bethany, Nicolas, Elizabeth, Patricia, Charles, Steve fighting cancer, Robin, Keith and Ann, Chadd and Laura, Doris, Iva, Stan, Carly’s aunt, John, Kathy, Judy, Laura and JZ, Smriti, Leslie, Lynn, Billy and Ruth, Nancy, Patti, Corey, Connie, the Fantz family, Lynn, Veronica, Victims, Mary, Anne, Lisa, Roberta, Dorothy, Ed, Bill and Willa, Russ, Tommy, Bev, Buck, Beth, Mary Ann, Martha, Guido, Bill and the Briggs family, Kevin and Karl, Ellen, David, Myrta, Pat, Betsy, Tim, Myrta and family, the Washingtons, Marion, Polly, Nancy, Bev, Kim, Keith, Gordon, Adam, Andrew and the Conway family, Sam, Alyssa, Vincent, the Beall family, John, Lise, Billy, Donna, Marcia, Julee, for new beginnings, for old friends, for renewed patience.

Serving This Morning Acolyte Maddie Yee Children’s Church Clarke Ansel, Kristen Gilley Nursery Sabina Pandey, Anne Hancock Reader Jim Brown Ushers Sarah Laryea, Heather Viehl-Yee, Steve Davis,

David Gray, Laurie Willshire Sound Tech Kevin Wagner

Clergy and Staff Lead Pastor: Rev. Dr. Janine Howard, janine@fairlingtonumc.org Associate Pastor: Rev. Devon Earle, devon@fairlingtonumc.org

Minister of Congregational Family Life: Rev. Christian White christian@fairlingtonumc.org

Director of Music: Dr. Louise Wilson, (703) 671-4057 louise@fairlingtonumc.org Youth Programs: Jessai Canaday, youth@fairlingtonumc.org Office Manager: Michelle Tello, michelle@fairlingtonumc.org

Calendar/Building Use: office@fairlingtonumc.org Administrative Assistant for Publications: Eileen Joyner, eileen@fairlingtonumc.org

Preschool Director: Carol Keller, (703) 671-3939 preschool@fairlingtonumc.org Custodians: Rufina Muñoz and Yosias Hagos

District Superintendent: Rev. Jeffrey Mickle; Bishop: Rev. Sharma Lewis Interim Bishop: Rev. Peter Weaver

Thank You to Our Sunday Ice Cream Servers Denise Taylor and Alex Holder

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Throughout August plus September 1, we celebrate one combined worship service each Sunday at 10:00am followed by ice cream in the breezeway. We encourage casual attire and have some exciting plans for intergenerational worship.

“Current Reality and God's Preferred Future: Messages of Hope from the Prophets"

Today - Jeremiah1:4-10 (Pastor Janine) September 1 - Jeremiah 2:4-13 (Pastor Janine)

All donations left at the Communion Rail next Sunday will go to the

Through your gifts to the church the FUMC Rent Security Deposit Assistance Program (RSDAP) is able to offer grants of up to $300 to help homeless and low-income persons

move to housing that they can afford in Alexandria and Arlington. We have invited Carolyn Devilbiss to brief us on this important mission of our church.

Blunt scissors (round tip only; no plastic)

Boxes of 24 crayons Spiral Notebooks

Composition Notebooks** for TC Williams

1 & 1 ½ inch Binder ** for TC Williams

Loose Leaf paper (up to 200 sheets)

Hand held pencil sharpener (1” or longer)

12” Ruler Unsharpened Pencils

Eraser (at least 2”) 2gallon re-sealable plastic bags

Fairlington Youth invites all parents and youth in grades 6 through 12 to our beginning of the year dinner and program Sunday, September 8 from 6:00-8:00pm. RSVP to Rev. Christian White, christian@fairlingtonumc.org.

Pastor Janine will be on duty at the Alexandria Pastry Shop (3690 King Street in Bradlee Center) this Thursday, from 9-11am. This week drop by, grab a chair and join us for coffee, or pastry and a chat. There is no agenda, just a time to check in, connect, or talk about anything that has been on your mind. Questions? Contact Pastor Janine at janine@fairlingtonumc.org.

Why make it when you can buy it hot off the grill?

The chicken BBQ meals will be served starting around 11:00am and will run through the afternoon.

Delectable desserts starting at 9am - Alexandria Hospital Board of Lady Managers is selling their famous goodies.

Parking lot/yard sale starting at 9am. For $10 you can have a 10 ft. X 10 ft. space to sell your treasures!

to help with set-up, kitchen duties, grilling,

serving, and clean up. Volunteer hours are between 6am and 5pm. We'd appreciate your help for a few hours or for the whole day. For more info, or to sign-up contact Fred Geisler at fredlgeisler@comcast.net or (703)578-1731.

The 19th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival arrives next Saturday, August 31, at the Washington Convention Center. This wonderful event is free. More than 100 best-selling authors for both adult and children, illustrators, historians and poets will be there from 9:30am - 8pm. Let’s Carpool! Contact Barbara Glomb (703) 772-1934 or

barbaraglomb@comcast.net. This trip is organized by Fairlington United Methodist

Women, but all are welcome! Come join us! For the lineup of authors and events go to https://www.loc.gov/events/2019-national-book-festival/schedule/

This is the first part of an effort by the Trustees and the Building Committee to significantly improve the welcoming feel of our Church building in anticipation of our 75th Anniversary. The room now has a cleaner, less cluttered look allowing easier movement. Name tag holders to replace the fishnet are being ordered. More improvements are planned.

We ask that you not donate items during this time. We are continuing to make deliveries from our existing stock throughout this "break" time. If you would like to volunteer to make houseware deliveries, or to assemble starter kits for people newly placed in rental housing, please contact Al Ross (703) 819-0269. We appreciate your support of ALIVE Housewares.

Fairlington UMC is a Reconciling Congregation with open hearts, open minds, and open doors. We proclaim and welcome every person as a beloved child of God regardless of age, race, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation,

gender identity, family structure, faith history, or life experience.

(Hymn 314)

Stop by the ALIVE! garden anytime to pick ripe produce, pull a few weeds, water the plants and be reminded that God's presence is everywhere. The office can lend you a key. There’s a gardener meeting every Tuesday morn-ing between 8:30 and 10:30am and you are invited to join. Contact Anne Wilson wilsanne@gmail.com.

All women of the church are invited to discuss The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood over a pot luck lunch, Sunday, September 1 at noon. Hosted by Roma Sexson. RSVP to Carol Weldon cweldon2@verizon.net by August 29. And, yes, you can attend even if you haven’t finished the book.

Members and Non-members of Fairlington UMC who have a desire to build a “grandparent” relationship with a student at FUMC. Grandparents are models, mentors and memory-makers! In society today our Grandparents are not always close by, so this is an opportunity to have a unique connection to a student and to share your gifts,

talents, pearls of wisdom and in return gain so much more! Students enter-ing 6th grade will be given the opportunity to connect with a Foster Grand-parent. Christian White will help with making the connections so that we have something in common. If you would like to hear more about the Foster Grandparent program, please join us on September 8 from 5-7pm for an info meeting and dinner. Questions? Contact Vicki Stones, vstones@ebenezerumc.org.

Fairlington United Methodist Women are taking ad-vantage of the back to school sales to collect items for International Academy at TC Williams and the 2020 UMCOR mission. We will be collecting items thru Sep-tember 8. There will be a container outside of the Parlor for you to drop off your donations. For more info on UMCOR see Marcy Lewis, JEKmom3@gmail.com. For TC Williams, Kathy Richards, karichards1@gmail.com.

Plus, we resume our many different Sunday School Classes for young adults, single adults, parents, married couples--just about any life stage you might be experiencing. Classes are open for you to join at any time. We also have groups for every age child and teenager. We meet on Sun-day mornings at 9:30am every week. To join a group or for more infor-mation contact Rev. Christian White: (703) 671-8557 x106 or christian@fairlingtonumc.org.

Our Sunday School for children has numerous opportunities available for you to participate. There are lots of different ways and time frames that you can serve. All of them are fun and give you the chance to spend time with all our children.

Weekly volunteer opportunity. Currently we

have 2 slots available- 2nd Grade, and a 4th/5th Grade combined class. No teaching or preparatory work needed. Just show up and love the kids!

These teachers prepare a lesson and pre-

sent it three weeks in a row to a different age group each week. These teachers do not teach every week but sign up for slots that fit their sched-ule. Training is available!

We always need individuals who can chip in when the regular teacher is out. Sometimes these requests are last minute, but often teachers know in advance when they are travelling.

We always need a steady stream of individuals will-

ing to be with our infants and toddlers. We have a paid staff worker present each week, and then a volunteer ready to chip in to help-out. You sign up on dates that work for you! Training and support available! Contact Christian at christian@fairlingtonumc.org .

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