The office will be open for a half-day on Wednesday, November 24th and closed for Thanksgiving on November 25th and 26th. We will be open again for normal business hours on Monday, November 29th.
From all of us on staff at Lakewood UMC, we wish you and yours a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
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Come Worship With Us!
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Sundays at 11:00 AM
In-Person and Online
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The ministries at Lakewood could not be sustained without the generosity of our congregation. We believe that the giving of tithes and offerings is an act of worship. Through your faithful giving, we are able to better serve Christ in the world and across the street. Our church and community are blessed by your giving! |
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November 24th
The Well Canceled
November 25th
Thanksgiving Day (office closed)
November 26th
Day after Thanksgiving (office closed)
November 28th
First day of Advent
Churchwide meal
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December 5th
FCC Carhop
December 12th
Christmas Cantata
Churchwide Meal
December 15th
Last Fall Well + Movie Night
December 19th
March to the Manger
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Join Lakewood's Children's and Preschool Ministry for the Family Christmas Celebration Carhop from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM on December 5th! A spaghetti dinner will be served at the church starting at 5:00 PM and will be available for the duration of the event. Members of our community will have individual activities, themes, and Christmas goodies at their homes.
A list of families and their addresses will be available on campus. We hope to see you there!
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The annual Christmas Cantata is coming up on Sunday, December 12th. Featuring special musical arrangements from the Handbells, Hosanna, Chancel Choir, Children's Choir, Aglow! Youth Choir, and more. These groups will lead us through the events leading up to the birth of Christ through story and song.
Come join us for the Cantata in the Sanctuary at 11:00 AM!
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March to the Manger will be on Sunday, December 19th during worship. This is an opportunity to bring a final, year-end gift to the Church to support our various missional ministries or any of the other funds that make up Lakewood's budget.
We believe that the giving of tithes and offerings is an act of worship. Through your faithful giving, we are able to better serve Christ in the world and across the street. Our church and community are blessed by your giving!
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Women of the Word will be meeting on
December 2nd from 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM
Topic: Waiting with great anticipation
Lunch will follow our Bible study in December
"And let us not neglect our meeting together, but encourage one another,
and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
Hebrews 10:25
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21 STRONG
Join us on Thursdays at 6:30 for 21 STRONG. Ages 18-98 are welcome to attend. Bring water and a mat or towel and meet in the Fellowship Hall. We'll start with word and prayer, move into stretching and warm-up, then review and perform your individual workout with the group while inspired by song. The weekly 21 STRONG sessions are geared toward building your physical strength in order to better serve others. All levels of experience and fitness are welcome.
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Lakewood's Youth Group meets on Sunday nights from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM.
Join us for dinner, games, worship, small groups and more! We are currently going through a video curriculum called Alpha. The series offers compelling stories, images, questions, and discussion topics well spread throughout each episode to better engage youth, helping them think about how these issues relate to their lives as they discuss with their friends and leaders.
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As Advent approaches, we've selected our annual text for reading as a community. To order a copy, please contact Tamra at the church office.
About the book:
Advent is about beginning with the end: preparing for the final stage of God’s new mission that resulted from our mission failure.
For many of us, Advent is the launching pad to Christmas morning; a twenty-four-day countdown to stockings and presents. We don’t think about Advent as first being about the second coming. After all, it’s been two millennia since Christ was born, crucified, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sent the Holy Spirit. And for two thousand years, we’ve been living somewhere between forgetting about or fretting over his return.
John 3:16-17 gives us Christ’s mission: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it” (1996 NLT).
Jesus’ silent-night arrival in the manger is the first part of that mission. His trumpet-blasting arrival in the clouds is the last part. Taking the two seasons together, Omar Rikabi shows how preparing for this kind of Advent before we celebrate Christmas is how we get in on God’s rescue mission.
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Wednesdays at the Well
Fall Series
September 15th - November 17th
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Adults:
"The Absolute Basics of Christian Faith"
led by Pastor Don
6:30 PM in the Fellowship Hall
"Invitation"
led by Pastor Eric
6:30 PM in the CAC dining room
"Feasting in the Word"
led by Ree Unterspan
Wednesday afternoons at 4:00 PM on Zoom
for more information.
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Youth and Children:
Youth group (7th - 12th grade)
Meets in the youth room at 6:30 PM
For more details see Cami Foster
Children's Ministry:
WOW (Worship on Wednesdays):
PreK - 4th Grade
Club 56:
5th - 6th grade
Meets in the Children’s wing
(Upstairs in the Education Building) at 6:30 PM
For more details see Bethany Coleman
(Parents need to pickup by 7:30 PM)
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Recovery Alive is a new 12-step program that Lakewood has adopted. Meetings are held every Friday from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall.
If you have any questions, please contact Bill Shuck for more information.
Additional resources:
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Helping Our Community's Homeless COVID-19 Victims |
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Where do you go for help if you and your family are homeless? Family Promise of Jacksonville and its partners, like Lakewood UMC, work with other social agencies in Jacksonville to provide shelter and hope for the homeless. But what happens when a homeless person tests positive for COVID-19? Where can he or she rest safely in isolation while recovering from COVID?
In Jacksonville, a network of isolation hotels was created during the pandemic to provide safe housing and support to homeless COVID sufferers. With the current escalation of COVID cases in our area, the need for isolation care is greater every day. All of our city’s homeless shelters and social agencies are working together to provide for this need.
Mark Landschoot of Family Promise of Jacksonville has reached out to our Lakewood family and to the other 16 churches who support this important ministry with a request for supplies needed to serve those housed in isolation hotels in our city.
Supplies needed at this time include:
-Underwear in all sizes, for males and females
-Bottled Water
-Individual bags of chips
-Brown paper lunch bags
-Medical gloves (Sizes small, medium and large)
-N95 face masks
-Paper Towels
You may bring your donated supplies to the church office and they will be delivered to the Family Promise office or you can order supplies on-line and have them delivered directly to Family Promise of Jacksonville, 431 University Blvd. N., Jacksonville, FL 32211. You may also make a directed donation to Family Promise of Jacksonville. Be sure to indicate that your donation is intended for isolation hotel supplies.
If you have any questions about the isolation hotels, requested supplies, or Family Promise, please contact Mark Landschoot at Family Promise (904-859-1326).
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Office Hours:
9:00 am - 4:00 pm (Mon-Thurs)
9:00 am - Noon (Fri)
Phone:
(904) 733-8477
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