July 5, 2024

Apparently, the newsletter took a long holiday weekend.

Here is the newsletter that was supposed to go out on Friday, July 5. We are sorry for any inconvenience.

Sundays at 10:30am

In person and online.

Housing Families First Donations

For the month of July, the Serving team invites you to help Housing Families First. If you came to the mission fair you may have stopped at their table. HFF is located at the Hilliard House on Nine Mile Road. Hilliard House is a short-term shelter for up to 40 children and adults who are on their way to a permanent home but need a safe and supportive stopover. Here, families experiencing homelessness have the chance to work with supportive staff for a month or so while they regroup, regain control over their lives, and plan their path to housing stability.

Collection bins will be located in the hallway leading to the sanctuary. Here is a link to their current needs. For more information contact the church office.

Shalom Farms Events

For more information visit

https://shalomfarms.org/events/openhouse/

AND

Virtual Chats with their Executive Director

Änna Ibrahim

Virginia Annual Conference Offering 2024

Last Sunday, Reverend Bob Blinn shared about the effort he and others are involved with through the Holy Rollers, a cycling group from the Virginia Conference, to raise money for the Virginia Annual Conference Offering. Bob and other clergy and laity will be riding about 160 miles this year to call attention to the Conference Offering. If you have an interest in learning more about this group and how you might be involved in it, you can read more here:  United Methodist Holy Rollers.

This year, the Conference will support two causes.   The first one is supporting the ongoing connectional work with our VAUMC Partnerships of Hope countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cambodia, Haiti, Vietnam, and Native American Ministries. The other half of our offering will be given towards our conference-wide Undue Medical Debt Campaign (formerly RIP Medical Debt) to help eliminate medical debt in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is our hope that through this debt campaign, we are able to raise $390,000 that would help eliminate $39 million of medical debt that continues to hurt the most vulnerable in Virginia. This campaign will start with the Annual Conference offering and continue through the end of the calendar year.  

Here is a link with a short video about the Conference Offering:

2024 Annual Conference Offering (youtube.com)

To give, you can make your contribution to Centenary by check with "Conference Offering" in the memo line or by giving online through Realm here. (Choose Conference Offering in the Fund pull down menu.) Watch for more information about these two causes in weeks to come. 

Online Giving Made Easy

Use the QR code to quickly get to

our online giving page.