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A Message from Centenary
Save the Date for our Annual Church Picnic on Sunday, September 8,
when we will close Grace Street and have a picnic in front of the church after the 11:00 a.m. worship service!
Please bring a dessert or side dish to share. The church will provide drinks and hot dogs! We hope to see you there!
Our bell tower historian, Ryland Bailey, Jr., will be giving tours to see the Centenary bells!
(Pictured here is a group from St. Gertrude High School on a tour of Centenary's historic bell tower.)
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Sunday, September 1, 2019
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
8:40 a.m. Early Service
10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Traditional Worship
Rev. Drew Willson will be preaching this Sunday and his sermon is entitled "Behaving at the Table
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Did you miss a service? Would you like to listen to a sermon again or share it with a friend? You can now listen to the sermon or the entire 11 a.m. service. The services are posted on our church website,
(Click on this link to go to the church website.). Each sermon
is normally available Sunday or Monday afternoon and remains available for later listening. Please tell anyone who might enjoy listening.
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the destination of the Rise Against Hunger meals you helped package on 5/18/2019. A shipping container, holding 285,120 meals, has been sent to Nicaragua for our partner ORPHANetwork. If you happen to receive more than one of these announcements, your meals have gone to impact multiple partners.
ORPHANetwork is an organization that nourishes lives through food assistance and other services in Nicaragua. To learn more, please visit our partner/country spotlight on the Impact Stories tab and click and drag on our World Aid Map at
https://www.riseagainsthunger.org/world-aid/.
Ending hunger is only possible if we continue to grow the movement. We encourage you to share the news about this shipment. Since 2005, volunteers like you have helped us distribute over 455 million meals worldwide. We can end hunger by 2030, but we can't do it without you.
Please visit our website
www.riseagainsthunger.org and continue your involvement. Consider making a donation, planning another meal packaging event (at your place of worship, school, company, civic club, etc), joining our advocacy efforts, or even inviting us to speak to a group.
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Announcements
LIVE THEATRE:
Theatre on the Mount returns with live theatre coming to Centenary i
n October . . . with a Halloween twist! If you are interested in trying your hand at acting or stagecraft, the first meeting will be on
Thursday, September 12, at 7:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. No previous acting experience necessary! If you are interested, contact Benjamin Toro or Carri Platt at
thetorofamily@yahoo.com
and we would be more than happy to tell you all about joining us. Come experience the joy of the theatre first hand and share your God given talents and abilities with the Centenary community!
Pecans:
FALL IS COMING!...AND SO ARE OUR PECANS!
Please sign up on the form across from the kitchen for PECANS! Again this year, we will ONLY be purchasing PECANS based on pre-orders! Prices are the same as last year @ $12/bag: 16-oz bags of Halves, Large Pieces & Medium Pieces; 12-oz. foil gift bags: Cinnamon Glazed, Dark Chocolate & Milk Chocolate. Please order by Sept. 20 and the PECANS should be here by early November! Any questions please call Sharon Steele 912-2549. Thanks for your support of our UMW PECAN Project!
"History of Pecans." U.S. Pecans, uspecans.org/history-of-pecans/.
Celebrating Centenary's 10th Anniversary as a Reconciling Congregation:
Our Reconciling Task Force is working hard to develop some ideas to help us observe the 10
th
Anniversary of Centenary becoming a Reconciling Congregation. We have recently hosted a gathering of the Reconciling Congregations and Communities from the Virginia Conference. We are planning a series of events through the Fall of this year and Spring of 2020 that will help us consider how to continue to live fully into the many different dimensions of our Reconciling statement. As you know, we seek to be a church that welcomes
all
people, and there's always growing to do as we seek to live out that bold vision. Two people from Centenary will be attending a conference September 25-27 at the Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City, Missouri where they will hear about various plans for the future of the United Methodist Church. Jim Hill and Rev. Kathy Talley are attending on our behalf and will come back with important information to share with us, and with some tools to lead us in processing what is to come as our denomination seeks its way forward. We have a budget of about $5,000.00 to cover expenses for all these anticipated events and want to give members of our congregation the opportunity to support these efforts financially. If you would like to contribute to these important efforts, you may do so by marking a check or envelope simply "Reconciling." Thank you in advance!
Open Sanctuary Opportunities!:
Do you like to talk to people? Do you like to be outside? Do you enjoy new adventures? Then Open Sanctuary is the place for you!
We are looking for Open Sanctuary hosts for 2020-2021. You would host with a partner for approximately six to seven Tuesdays per year. The times are 11:30-1:00 p.m. After hosting, going to lunch downtown is something to consider.
As a host, you either stand outside of the church, sit on the steps, or sit in chairs on the landing (totally up to you and also depends on the weather). You smile and greet people as they go by, and you welcome people if they want to come in for prayer and meditation or just to visit our beautiful sanctuary.
It's a great way to meet people in the community and people who are visiting our city. There are many stories of the way Centenary has an effect on it's visitors. Recently, a pastor from Connecticut and his friend, a church organist, stopped by to visit and ended up taking pictures and meeting Pastor Matt and Pastor Pat.
If visiting Centenary touches one person, it's worth the effort of opening the doors on Tuesdays. Please contact Susan Thomas (
srthomas5@verizon.net
) or Bob Almond (
bob.almond@verizon.net
) if you would like to join our team!
Many thanks and appreciation to current team members:
Bob Almond, Marshall Ballance, Steve Gregory, Keith Hinerman, Clint Jones, Barbara Pierson, Suzanne Ray, Pat Shipley, Susan Thomas, Sylvia Whaley, and Vicki Willson.
Pridefest 2019:
We will have a table at PrideFest again this year! PrideFest will be
Saturday, September 28, 2019, on Brown's Island. We can use volunteers to help run our booth and tell people about Centenary! We will have flyers and Centenary buttons for you to hand out. A volunteer sign-up sheet will be on the bulletin board! This should be a fun time for all and a great chance to connect with folks in downtown Richmond!
Bowling League News:
The Centenary Bowling League will embark on its 82nd season this year. Tuesday, September 3, 2019, interested bowlers will meet at Shrader Lanes at 7 p.m. to organize teams, discuss fees, etc. There will also be free practice bowling that evening. The season will begin on Tuesday, September 10, 2019. It is a handicapped league which means you do not have to be a great bowler to be competitive. And, we are really there for the fellowship! If interested or have questions, please contact Mary Dobbs at
mftdobbs@aol.com
or text Les Dobbs at 804-928-8840.
Annual Shoe Drive:
Thank you for your contributions to the Annual Shoe Drive. Donations of shoes and money can be made up through
Sunday, August 25, 2019.
Also, we need a few people to sort the shoes and deliver them on
Sunday, September 1, 2019
, to Third Street Bethel AME Church. If you would be willing to assist in that effort, please contact the church office at
cent.umc@verizon.net
of 804-648-8319.
School Supplies:
Because of your generosity, our youth were able to assemble 48 school supply kits in June! They will assemble more during the year to take to next year's conference. We still have enough of many of the required items but do need:
- One-subject spiral-bound notebooks (each kit requires 3 notebooks)
Annual Golf Tournament:
Join us at the Hollows Golf Course on
Wednesday, September 25,
for the 5th Annual Earl Siddons Open. Registration will begin at 11:00 a.m. with a putting contest at 11:30 a.m., lunch at 11:45 a.m., and a Golf Tee-Off at 1:00 p.m. The cost is $75.00/ person, $15.00 for lunch only (firm reservations needed for catered lunch). The proceeds benefit RISE Against Hunger Now. Hole sponsors are also available at $50.00 per sponsor and $10.00 or more for patrons. Gift certificates can also be donated to be given as prizes. Be sure to mark this date on your calendar and don't forget to practice your swing!
The Centenary Buddy System:
The Centenary Buddy System is looking for individuals who would like to reach out to new members, provide updates for upcoming events, and be a resource to explain the ins-and-outs of the church. Those interested should sign up on the bulletin board by the fellowship hall or talk to Mann Brown/Nathan Grubb.
Lay Visitors Meeting:
There will be a Lay Visitors meeting here at Centenary on
Sunday, September 15,
at 12:15 p.m.
Fellowship Lunch:
The Bob Evans Lunch Group will now be meeting on
Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m.
Hymn Festival 2019: In Memoriam Richard Steele:
Mark your calendars for
Sunday, October 20, 2019, at 4 p.m.
Keith Benniston will return and there
will be a guest choir from the University of Mary Washington under the direction of Chris Ryder.
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R.B. Bennington- at home after a recent fall
Leah Hundley- at home after a urinary tract infection
Bob Hundley
The family of Lila Irby in her recent passing
Tom Shipley, brother of Rev. Pat Shipley who has recently been diagnosed with cancer.
Phyllis Stump
Serena Durst- back problems and much pain
Andrew Rathbone- son of Heidi Kara, currently in the Marine Corps. and is deployed over the Indian Ocean
Carly Smythe
Mary Alice Nesbitt
Lucille Hunt- at Morningside at Bellgrade
Jane Grand- in
Peoria Hospital
in Illinois after a recent fall and stroke.
Riley Davin- niece of Vic and Nancy
Shannon Conway requests prayer for Charles Sherman, Peter Oxborrow, Leon Beale and Family
Jeff Hatch
Nancy Penman- Wendy Smith's mother who has had a stroke and lives in New Jersey
A.J. & Phil Crick- at Morningside at Bellgrade
Justin Laman- nephew of Lucy Hottle, a young father who has cancer
Jenny Bush- friend of Leah Hundley, is diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma
Wendy Tisdale- family friend of Agatha and Christina Kidd, diagnose with staged 4 lung cancer
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Juliana Steele
Lisa Ashe
Carolyn Dinwiddie
Karen Junker
Earl Siddons
James Durst
Rachel Simpson
Bette Dillehay
Daniel Corcoran
Elaine Ryan
Scott Tilghman
Mary Hazelgrove
Ginger Armstrong
Shelley Armstrong
Libby Rhame
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Photo of the Week!
Rev. Drew Willson (Minister to Young Adults) and greeter (Susy Meyer) after service which Rev. Drew Willson conducted this past Sunday, August 25.
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