Yesterday Pastor Charlie showed us how Pauls' message to the Corinthian church is still important today. If you missed the service, you can watch the whole thing HERE or just the sermon HERE.

If you missed our digital worship this week, then you missed our weekly Scripture lesson being read from a famous location thousands of miles away! Check out the vide sent in my Chris Twiggs HERE.

Just Three Things:

Ways to Live Your Calling Through Memorial!

Did you hear about our church-wide Advent study? It begins November 30th! Find out all about that and next week's Hands on Mission and the Greening of the Church all in this week's Just Three Things. Find out about it all here! HERE.

Join us at Memorial this Thursday for the Community Thanksgiving Service!

Be sure to RSVP to Justin for the Hands-On Mission THIS SATURDAY! If you don't want to build, volunteer to help make lunch for the crew! (Just let Jutin know you want to help!)

Childcare will be available (only kids over 16 can help with Habitat.)

Need childcare, email children@mumconline.com to sign up!

Only a few more weeks to collect

Gift Cards for the Children's Home!

*** If the gift card does not have an amount already printed on it, please make sure to note on an envelope or enclosed note what the value of the cards are. This will be needed when we send the cards to the Children's Home. Thank you!!



A Way a Month: With Sarah Flint

Hints on how we can live out our calling to creation care from our

North East District Representative to the FLUMC Creation Care Task Team

I know I run the risk of coming off like the Grinch, but as we enter the Christmas season, I can’t help but consider the irony.

Since the reinvention of the celebrations in the early 19th century, we mark the holiday in ways that are more consumer-driven, harder on the environment, and less focused on Jesus. It’s like we forget whose birthday we’re celebrating!

In addition to the flurry of buying more than our share, according to the University of Florida Office of Sustainability, U.S. respondents of a survey found that Americans produce approximately 43% more waste during the festive season (about 29 pounds of trash per week) due to wrapping paper, gift bags, and added food waste. This extra waste adds up to a million tons generated between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. That's an extra 100 million bags!

For festive celebrations that have less negative impact on God’s creation, I would love to provide tips on entertaining, decorating, and gifting to anyone who is interested!

“All creation is the Lord’s, and we are responsible for the ways in which we use and abuse it. Water, air, soil, minerals, energy resources, plants, animal life, and space are to be valued and conserved because they are God’s creation and not solely because they are useful to human beings.”

• — United Methodist Social Principles, ¶160

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