This week at Belmont UMC

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Upcoming worship services

Second Sunday of AdventDecember 5, 2021Paul Purdue preaching 8:00am and 10:30am worship services.8:00am - sanctuary/Facebook live10:30am - sanctuary/Facebook live

Practicing Wonder sermon seriesFullers’ Soap: Spiritual House Cleaning (Malachi 3:1-10)

ALL are welcome here.We believe every person is of sacred worth and created in God’s image. We commit to Jesus’ example of inclusive love, care, and intentional hospitality with persons of every race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital sta-tus, faith story, physical or mental ability, economic status, or politi-cal perspective. We respect our di-versity of opinion and expressions of faith. Therefore, as God loves us, so let us love and serve in the name of Christ.

Belmont United Methodist Church

NEWS forNovember 28, 2021

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 288:00am Worship with Communion, sanctuary/Facebook live9:30am Children’s Sunday school, Faith Finders Hall10:30am Worship service, sanctuary/Facebook live1:30pm Carillon Ringers rehearsal, 2263:30pm Wesley Ringers rehearsal, 2264:30pm Open Door Singers rehearsal, sanctuary5:30pm United Methodist Youth, tent

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 309:00am Regathering Team, Zoom5:30pm Flow yoga, Zoom6:00pm Executive Committee, Zoom

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 110:00am Lectio Divina, Zoom6:00pm Children’s choirs, tent6:00pm Gentle yoga, Zoom6:00pm Youth discussion, Zoom7:00pm Sanctuary Choir, Parker Hall/choir room8:30pm Parent/caregiver hangout, Zoom

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28:00am Women’s Centering Prayer, 223/Zoom10:00am The Poetry of Advent study, 203/Zoom1:00pm Celebration Ringers rehearsal, 226

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 310:00am Parent and Child Music, Zoom

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 58:00am Worship with Communion, sanctuary/Facebook live9:30am Children’s Sunday school, Faith Finders Hall10:30am Worship service, sanctuary/Facebook live1:30pm Carillon Ringers rehearsal, 2263:30pm Wesley Ringers rehearsal, 2264:30pm Open Door Singers rehearsal, sanctuary5:30pm Advent Family Craft Night, Community Center

Practicing Wonder sermon series

Belmont UMC’s Advent Fam-ily Craft Night will take place next Sunday, December 5, at 5:30pm in the Community Center. The youth will serve pizza under the tent. Donations are requested to cover the cost and proceeds will go toward the youth scholarship fund. Family Craft Night is open to any age, so kids, parents, caregivers, and grandparents are all welcome. Make crafts as you snap pictures and store up

warm feelings about Christmas. If you wish to attend, just show up! If you are a crafty per-son and willing to volunteer to host a crafts table. If so, please contact Pastor Kate (kate@belmontumc.org). Also, please note there will not be childcare offered for this event as fami-lies are encouraged to attend to-gether. We also request that ev-eryone attending wears a mask.

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Donors:Trisha & David Ingram

Advent Family Craft Night next Sunday

Sunday mornings in Advent, join us at 8:00am and 10:30am for our Practicing Wonder ser-mon series. You are welcome to join us for worship in person or via Facebook live. This sermon series will ex-plore Jeremiah’s righteous branch, Malachi’s Fuller’s soap, Zephaniah’s redemption songs, Mary as an icon of faith and courage, and the image of

God swaddled in bands of cloth. We invite families to craft their own Chrismon or Christ ornaments to bring to church and display. Let us practice by claiming space for the symbols of Christ’s coming that remind us to worship God, serve neigh-bors, live generously, and build God’s just Kin-dom. Go to belmontumc.org/prac-ticing-wonder to learn more.

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Advent around a fire

On Sunday, December 19, there will be two gatherings of this out-door service at the home of John and Rita Collett: one at 5:00pm and one at 6:15pm. We will gather around a fire and say liturgy and prayers together as we wait and keep watch for the Christ child.

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Christmas Miracle Offering

This year’s recipient of Belmont UMC’s Christmas Miracle offering, Tennessee Justice for Our Neigh-bors (TNJFON), serves a growing need in our community as more

immigrants begin a new life in Nash-ville. TNJFON, a nonprofit organization, provides free or low-cost legal ser-vices to immigrants who are eligible for humanitarian-based immigration relief, advocates for immigrants’ rights, and educates the community about immigration issues. During their legal clinics, TNJFON staff and lawyers provide a free intake screen-ing to determine if there is a form of immigration relief available. TN-JFON also trains lawyers and law students on immigration law and provides a free multi-session educa-tional program to noncitizen parents to help them understand the U.S. im-migration system and how to be more informed participants in their immi-gration case. You can give online at onrealm.org/BelmontUMC/give/Christmas, text “BELMONT CHRISTMAS” to 73256 to give using your mobile device, or by sending a check to the church. Please put “Christmas Mira-cle Offering” in the memo line. JFON will also be the recipient of our December Communion offering.

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Reservations are required; you can sign up at belmontumc.org/advent-around-a-fire. Please bring a chair to sit in.