Trifles and Treasures sale

Saturday, Oct. 27, starting at 9 a.m. is the Faith UMW Trifles and Treasures sale. The ladies have been setting up, pricing and moving items for days, and now things are coming together wonderfully. Here are a few items to preview:

UMW Sunday Highlights

On Sept. 9,  Faith United Methodist Women provided the service.

Evelyn Cooper spoke on "Love is the Answer, " giving examples from her own experience and talking about her more than 60 years of marriage to her husband, Bob.

Members participated in various offices, and President Margaret Rieger managed to keep the whole morning running smoothly.

Saturday, October 27, is Trifles and Treasures, the group's annual (?) fundraiser. We will be selling many, many items (though no clothing) and will raise funds to help the needy locally, in the Dakotas, and throughout the world. You may bring donated items beginning now. For more information, call Margaret Rieger at 725-9246 or Donna Seaton at 225-3192.

Unbake Sale

There is still time to not bake something for the UMW unbake sale. Donations (replacing both baking and buying baked goods) may still be given. Please see Donna Seaton if you have a donation.

Meeting today!

Kathy Erickson is giving the program and also serving as hostess today. We'll look forward to hearing about Focus Day from those who attended.

Next month, Donna Seaton gives the program and Bertha Brenner is hostess. That will be 10 a.m. June 2.

Meeting this morning

This morning at 10, UMW will discuss ways to connect with women in International ministry.

World Day of Prayer today!

Faith United Methodist Church (503 S. Jay St., a block west of Alexander Mitchell Library) hosts the Aberdeen, SD, area World Day of Prayer at 7 p.m.

Rebecca Reierson of Aberdeen, a first-grade teacher at C.C. Lee school, and a missionary to West Africa and Singapore, will address the group. For more on World Day of Prayer worldwide, click here.

Call Margaret Rieger for more information: 725-9246.

World Day of Prayer March 2

World Day of Prayer is a worldwide ecumenical movement of Christian women who come together to observe a day of prayer each year on the first Friday in March.  World Day of Prayer was founded on the idea that prayer and action are inseparable in the service of God’s kingdom.

 Services begin at sunrise in the Pacific and follow the sun across the globe on the day of celebration.

 Each year a different country’s committee serves as the writers of the World Day of Prayer worship service. The women of Malaysia, who have written this year’s program, have chosen the theme “Let justice prevail.” The women name fair and just governance as the basis for peace. It takes courage, compassion and active engagement for justice to prevail.

 Women, men and children in more than 170 countries and regions will celebrate World Day of Prayer on Friday, March 2, 2012.

 This year’s service in Aberdeen will be held 7 p.m. March 2 at Faith United Methodist Church, 503 South Jay Street. The church is handicapped accessible.

Rebecca Reierson, a missionary who served near Malaysia, will be the speaker. She and her family served as educational missionaries in Cote De Ivoire, West Africa and Singapore. Rebecca will share some of her personal experiences with the Malay people while she served in Singapore.

Meeting next Sunday

The Faith UMW meets next Sunday after church in the basement. This month is a call to Prayer and Self-denial.

From the United Methodist Women site linked above: A Time for Change: The Call to Prayer and Self-Denial offering in 2012 will enable national mission institutions and international institutions to help the marginalized and the poor, the physically challenged and others, especially women children and youth, who don’t have access to information technology that will improve their quality of life. Projects such as computer literacy, information technology training, English as a second language classes, and career enhancement and job-seeking skills will be supported.