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Thursday, December 12, 2024


Dear Shawnee UMC Family,


Please join us this Sunday for Worship


in-person or on Facebook Live at 10:30am.


The choir will be leading


AN ADVENT SERVICE OF LESSONS AND CAROLS.


Come celebrate the season with Scriptures and songs.

The Tuesday Lectionary Group invites you to share some of your favorite scriptures, which we will then share with all members.


Please email them to:

maryann13fenstermacher@gmail.com.


Isaiah 6:5-10 I said, “Mourn for me; I'm ruined! I'm a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips. Yet I've seen the king, the Lord of heavenly forces!” Then one of the winged creatures flew to me, holding a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips. Your guilt has departed, and your sin is removed.” Then I heard the Lord's voice saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” I said, “I'm here; send me.” God said, “Go and say to this people: Listen intently, but don't understand; look carefully, but don't comprehend. Make the minds of this people dull. Make their ears deaf and their eyes blind, so that they can't see with their eyes or hear with their ears, or understand with their minds, and turn, and be healed.”


Psalm 33:18-22 But look here: the Lord's eyes watch all who honor him, all who wait for his faithful love, to deliver their lives from death and keep them alive in a famine. We put our hope in the Lord. He is our help and our shield. Our heart rejoices in God because we trust his holy name. Lord, let your faithful love surround us because we wait for you.


Luke 20:34-40 Jesus said to them, “People of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy to participate in that age, that is, in the age of the resurrection from the dead, won't marry nor will they be given in marriage. They can no longer die because they are like angels and are God's children since they share in the resurrection. Even Moses demonstrated that the dead are raised—in the passage about the burning bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He isn't the God of the dead but of the living. To him they are all alive.” Some of the legal experts responded, “Teacher, you have answered well.” No one dared to ask him anything else.


1Thessalonians 4:13-18 Brothers and sisters, we want you to know about people who have died so that you won't mourn like others who don't have any hope. Since we believe that Jesus died and rose, so we also believe that God will bring with him those who have died in Jesus. What we are saying is a message from the Lord: we who are alive and still around at the Lord's coming definitely won't go ahead of those who have died. This is because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with the signal of a shout by the head angel and a blast on God's trumpet. First, those who are dead in Christ will rise. Then, we who are living and still around will be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet with the Lord in the air. That way we will always be with the Lord. So encourage each other with these words.

PRAYER REQUESTS


If you would like the prayer team to pray for you or anyone you have concerns for, please email Julie Italiano at

jbitaliano4@gmail.com. She will send it on to the prayer team.


You may also send prayer requests to Connie Perry in the office at connie@shawneeumc.org, or call the office at (913) 631-2280.


You may also pick up a paper copy of the prayer list at the church.



THANK YOU FROM ANGEL HOUSE, TANZANIA



Dear Shawnee UMC congregation,


It’s another Christmas Miracle! This Advent, as we await the coming of Christ, wonderful things have happened because of you! Thank you for your generous donation towards the children of Angel House in Tanzania! 


The Angel House Primary School is already under construction. Collectively, we have already raised half of the needed funds. Your gift is making a vital difference for the future of many Angel House children and the community of Tarime. 



Thank you for allowing Emmanuel to share his story how Angel House’s support changed his life. Our United Methodist mission support is amazing!


Thank you and Merry Christmas,

Janelle Wilke

Child Sponsor Coordinator

HEIFER CHRISTMAS CARD PROJECT - The Gift That Keeps Giving


We will be selling Heifer Project animals again this year in the Narthex from December 1 through December 22.


For those who don't know how Heifer Project works, animals are given to people in third world countries, but the neat part of the program is that they are required to pass an offspring on to someone else the next year, so the gift continues to give. Heifer Project also teaches people in third world countries better farming techniques, etc.


You can give an animal in the name of a relative or friend. We have cards that you can give or send to the friend or relative telling them of your gift.

LECTIONARY NEWS

Lectionary readings for
December 17, 2024


Micah 5:2-5a

Hebrews 5:5-10

Luke 1:39-45

Luke 1:47-55



Zoom ID 991 9640 5385
password 061620


BOOK CLUB


The Book Club will not meet until January 23. Janis will lead the discussion of THE BERRY PICKERS by Amanda Peters at 1pm in Common Ground.

Come join us. All are welcome.



Connie Mitzner

913-481-9594

SUMC Schedule

(Please contact Connie in the church office to reserve a room.)


THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12

-KCK Community Orchestra-Sanctuary-7:00pm


FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13

-Prayer Gathering-Common Ground-10:00am


SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14

-Bible Study Group-Chapel-1:00pm


SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15

-Equip Sunday School-Room 304-9:00am-Zoom ID 938 0969 0560

-Genesis Sunday School-Room 305-9:00am

-Keystone Sunday School-Chapel -9:00am

-Maranatha Sunday School-Room 307-9:00am

-Children’s Sunday School-Room 300-9:15am

-Worship Service-Sanctuary-10:30am

-Yosakoi Dance-Gym-4:00pm


MONDAY, DECEMBER 16

-Coffee & Chat-Common Ground-10:00am

-Esther Circle-Common Ground-1:00

-Boy Scouts-Fellowship Hall-6:30pm


TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17

-Lectionary-Room 304-10:00am


 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18

-COVID Testing-Narthex-9:00am

-Mid-Week Fellowship-Zoom-6:00pm

-Bible Study-Zoom-7:00pm

-Chancel Choir Rehearsal-Sanctuary-7:15pm

Clergy and Staff

Changsu Kim

Senior Pastor

changsu@shawneeumc.org

(913) 752-7275


Phyllis Stauffer

Associate Pastor

phyllis@shawneeumc.org

(913) 710-8205


Connie Perry

Office Administrator

connie@shawneeumc.org


Christine Phillips

Children's Ministry Coordinator

christine@shawneeumc.org


Avaree Norman

Worship & Music Director

avareem@gmail.com


Mary Gossell

Piano Accompanist


Sue Kim

Digital Media Coordinator

sue@shawneeumc.org


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