Fall Virginia Conference Youth Retreats Be Part of
Called 2017
Aldersgate Youth are encouraged to attend the Annual Virginia Conference
Youth Retreat Weekends! Parents, this is a great opportunity to allow our
youth to join with other youth from around the conference for a weekend
of Fun Activities and Music during this 2-nights and 2-day event! This is a
great event to invite a friend that has been joined you at youth group!
Aldersgate wants every youth to be able to attend this weekend retreat! If
money could hinder attending PLEASE chat with Pastor Rob or Carolyn
Robertson. This will remain confidential and we'll make this work!!
Middle School Retreat Details (Grade 6th - 8th ONLY)
Sept. 17 - Oct. 1 - Early Bird - $70 *
Oct. 2 - Oct. 22 - Regular - $80 *
*Deadline for Registration October 22
High School Retreat Details (Grade 9th 12th ONLY)
Sept. 17 - Oct. 29 - Early Bird - $ 70 *
Oct. 30 - Nov. 12 - Regular - $ 80 *
*Deadline for Registration - November 12
*No Refunds available after the Deadline for Registration and Refunds prior
to this date will include a $25 service charge per Virginia Conference Policy
*Total Cost $ 145 with a portion of this retreat underwritten by the church
October 8, 2017
Welcome!
Welcome to Aldersgate Church!
Were glad youve found our church! We hope youll find us to be an
encouraging, friendly group of people. While we dont make any claims
to be perfect, at our church we come together to help make the kingdom
of God a reality on earth by loving God and loving our neighbor.
WE RESPOND TO JESUS' CALL
Make Your Commitment
Praise the Lord! As of last Sunday, more than 40 children, youth, and
adults of the Aldersgate Church community already have responded to
Jesus' call by prayerfully completing a "We Respond to Jesus' Call
Participation Form" and offering it to the Lord as an act of worship on
Sunday morning. The "We Respond to Jesus' Call Workbook" is designed
to offer all ages various opportunities to commit their prayers, presence,
service, and witness in and through Aldersgate Church. If you have not
already made this commitment your next opportunity will be today as you
come forward to receive Holy Communion.
Writing to the Christians in Corinth, Paul tells the Christians then and he
tells us today that we are each "activated by one and the same Spirit, who
allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses (1 Corinthians
12:11). SO...what is allotted to you? We are gifted with grace, time,
talents, compassion, love, and the Holy Spirit that we might serve as
Christ's representatives in the world.
 For Our Youngest Friends
A professionally staffed nursery is available for children birth through
age three during all services and Sunday School on the lower level. An
usher will be happy to direct you. Additionally, a Parent Room is
available in the Parlor adjacent to the Sanctuary, for viewing and
hearing all services. Please ask an usher to show you the way. All
restrooms are equipped with changing tables.
Trunk or Treat 2017
Join us Saturday, October 28th from 3:00 to 6:00 PM in the parking lots
for Trunk or Treat 2017!! This is a FREE community event that will
feature: trunks, candy, food, live music, first responders, train rides,
games, bounce house, crafts and a petting zoo!! We are expecting
between 800 to 1,500 people this year and we will need your help
making this a successful event! It is a great opportunity to serve and
connect with our community!
Please consider hosting a trunk and donating the following items:
hotdogs & buns, chips, water and LOADS OF CANDY!! There are tons of
volunteer opportunities so head over to the Reed Room after service
today to sign-up!! Or check out The City!
Questions? Email Ashley Thornton at webmaster@cvaumc.org
Help Assemble Cleaning Buckets
All youth and adults are invited to help the District assemble/verify
Cleaning Buckets for the flood victims. Where: Woodland UMC, 14280
Woodland Church Road, Culpeper. When: Wednesday, October 18 and
Saturday, October 21. Both days from 10 am 4 pm. Even if you can
spare an hour that would be helpful. If you and your group can help,
please contact Gloria Phillips at gloreyacres@gmail.com or
540.718.3636. Gloria can also answer any questions you might have
concerning this mission project.
Thanksgiving Dinner
Volunteers Needed! AUMC would like to host another Thanksgiving
Dinner this year, but we need volunteers to plan and organize it. If you
are interested, please notify Bill George at glendageor@aol.com or (434)
972-2490.
Stewardship
Youre probably used to hearing people in church talk about giving. But
when was the last time in church that you talked about earning or
saving? Is it unchristian to earn money? Is it wrong to save for
ourselves and our families? John Wesley didnt think so. Wesley, the
Christian evangelist and founder of the Methodist movement, gave a
remarkable sermon called The Use of Money. In it, he said that the
important thing isnt money itself but how we use it. Wesleys
surprising advice still rings true today: earn
all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
During the first four weeks of October,
Aldersgate Church will experience an
exciting new stewardship program, Earn,
Save, Give.: Wesleys Simple Rules for
Money, developed by popular author and
pastor James A. Harnish.
Guitar Player Needed for Youth Praise Band
The Aldersgate Youth Praise Band is looking for a high-school-aged or
middle-school-aged guitar player. The YPB meets on Sundays from 3:15-
4:45 in the Main Sanctuary. If interested, please contact Mike Colley at
434-825-9909 or colley@earthlink.net
Fall Flower Bulb Sale
October 20-22, 10am - 4pm
We have been busy digging up hundreds of bulbs from the church
flower beds. On October 13-14, we'll sort and package these bulbs to
get ready to display them in the Fellowship Hall. If you have excess
bulbs or other plants (hydrangeas bushes, azaleas, etc.) please bring
them to the Fellowship Hall lower entrance so we can get them ready
for sale. Please call your friends and neighbors about this sale. Spread
the Beauty around Town. Merrill Bishop (975-3072 or 996-8886).
Aldersgate Childrens Ministries
Saturday, October 28, 2017 3:00 6:00 pm
Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat
Join us again this year for our fun and EXPANDED Trunk or Treat!
 Adult Supporters Needed!
Adult Volunteers are needed to support our Youth Ministry Program for
2017-2018! Are you willing to be a driver to take us to events? Can you
bring in a meal or furnish a desert? Would you share your time to be
present at youth group as a chaperone? Maybe you are a
homebody ...could you open your home for a movie night or our
Christmas Progressive Dinner Party and Gift Exchange? Are you brave
enough to join our group as a chaperone on a Retreat Weekend?
Whatever your answer is, remember, we need your help, time, and
talents to build a great youth program! See Our Sign Up sheet and listing
of opportunities found in the Reed Room!!!
AUMC FALL SENIOR LUNCHEON, OCTOBER 13TH
Fellowship of Friends will host a Fall Senior Luncheon on Friday October
13th. Come and join friends in the Reed Room from 11:30 a.m.-2:00
p.m. for a Provided Lunch, Special Entertainment, Door Prizes, and
Fellowship. Please RSVP to either Nancy Berman or Anita
Ratliff. Contact info: Nancy at 973-6555 or ndhberman@gmail.com;
Anita at 409-7357 atratliff@gmail.com
FALL SENIOR LUNCHEON FRIDAY,OCTOBER 13TH
11:30-2:00 REED ROOM
FOOD ENTERTAINMENT FELLOWSHIP
HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF
In response to the massive destruction and devastation caused by
Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, the United Methodist
Committee On Relief is asking for monetary donations. This money will
help with the process of rebuilding, bringing in supplies, and any other
resources that the communities may need. The pain and loss that victims
feel will continue long after the water recedes and clean up begins. If you
would like to make a monetary contribution, please make your check to
AUMC with Hurricane Harvey Relief in the memo line. And, please pray for
your brothers and sisters in Christ as they deal with their losses.
Invitation! New Church Management
System Presentation
We invite you to attend a presentation on Monday, October 16 at 7:30
p.m. in the Reed Room. This will be an opportunity to learn about a
proposed Church Management System (ChMS) to replace our current
database (ACS OnDemand), our email communication system (Constant
Contact) and our online community (The City) in order to provide
greater access and more user-friendly functions. The proposed ChMS
will combine all of our current systems into one ChMS. One of the many
features of the proposed ChMS is that it does not require a user account
to sign up for volunteer opportunities. Ashley Thornton, AUMCs
Information Technology (IT) Director will lead the presentation. There
will be time for discussion and questions at the event. Please plan to be
there and encourage members of your team, committee, class, or small
group to attend and be part of the discussion and selection process.
Aldersgate to Host Womens PACEM
Aldersgate UMC will once again host the PACEM (People and
Congregations Engaged in Ministry) Womens Shelter November 11th -
18th. Opportunities to help include greeting our guests as they arrive,
laundering towels, preparing snacks, helping in the kitchen, spending
time with our guests, and staying overnight. Volunteer sign-up sheets
are available in the Reed Room. We will be collecting items for the
shelter through Sunday, November 12th. Donation boxes are in the
Reed Room and the Welcome Center. Personal items: Chapstick, lotion,
ladies socks (athletic and dress). Food: Gum, mints, hard candy, snack
bags of potato chips, pretzels, Cheetos, soft snack bars, tea bags, hot
chocolate mix, lemonade mix, Splenda and sugar. Other: new or gently
used bath towels and current magazines. Monetary contributions will
be accepted to buy food and paper goods, and to help with other
expenses related to hosting the program. Please make your check
payable to AUMC with PACEM listed on the memo line. For more
information, contact Deb Reynolds at 882-3346 or
rynldsdeb@gmailcom; or Nancy Berman at 973-6555 or
ndhberman@gmail.com
 Aldersgate Young Professionals
You are invited to join Aldersgate's Young Professionals Group (ages 18-
35) for food and fellowship! This group seeks to grow in relationship with
one another as we journey through this life and walk with Christ. It does
not matter how long you have been attending Aldersgate or attending
church - you are invited and also encouraged to bring a friend! Dont
hesitate to contact Ashley Oliver at 434-465-8224 or
ashleyo12@comcast.net if you have any questions.
Care Packages for College Students
Are you a parent or friend of an Aldersgate college student? We'd love to
be able to send them care packages during exams and various cards
during the year; but to do that, we need to have a current address! If you
know of a new college student OR if there has been an address change of
a student, please contact Susan Reed at 973-0766 (just leave a message if
you want) or you can email reedr3va@netzero.com. We like to let the
students know that they are in our thoughts and prayers and these things
are a nice pick-me-up to them as well! Thanks for your help.
Mark Your Calendars for
Vacation Bible School 2018
Sunday, June 24th Thursday, June 28th, 2018. Five Days of VBS fun this
year! We will continue each evening with dinner and fun for all. Mark
your calendars to join the fun as a volunteer or participant.
Aldersgate Youth Ministries
The Power of Influence
High School and Middle School Youth Groups are in full swing
Please become a part of AUMCs Youth Group for 2017-18! Join us in
the Youth Room downstairs and invite a friend.
High School: 5:00 - 6:15 pm
Dinner: 6:15 - 6:45 pm
Middle School: 6:45 - 8:00 pm
Christmas Opportunity in October
Even though we have just entered October it is already time to think about
Christmas and the days leading up to it: Advent. For the last several years we
have produced an Advent Devotional Guide written by people within the
church, and we are hoping to do so again. That means we need writers!
1. About the writers: People often say to me, I dont have a story. but
then discover that they DO have a story and they WANT to tell it.
Thats because everyone has a story; whether you have been
Running away from God Praising God Ignoring God Seeking God
Denying God Or running TO God crying Catch me! Im falling
Or doing all of the above
God is there, ever-present. Not just in the really big, life-changing moments,
but in the nitty-gritty everyday moments, and that is what previous writers
have recognized and written about. I hope you will be encouraged to think of
your own story of God working in your life. Everyone has a story: God is here.
2. About the readers: Every year I hear, Ive sat next to so-and-so in
church for so many years and I never knew this. Yet, we are a community of
faith, a community that is joined together in the worship of God as revealed
in Jesus Christ. It is a joy and a privilege to share our God stories with one
another, and to relate to each other on a deeply personal level.
3. For those interested in writing, I will need your devotion by Wed., Nov.
15. When you are finished (the earlier the better!) please send it to me at
pamacnicoll@msn.com or give me a hard copy in church.
4. Devotion Format: from the top of page: Date, scripture, your
devotion/story, your name, closing prayer. The devotion guide is on legal size
paper (8 x14 in.) paper folded in half. So your devotion should take up half
of a legal size paper. Font size is 12. If you have a story you want to tell but do
not want to choose a scripture or write a prayer, Ill be glad to do it for you.
5. Content: The devotions are meant to be personal. They are meant to
tell how you have experienced God in your life or about an experience that
affected your faith in God. Sometimes people tell stories of Christmases past,
even a childhood Christmas, and why that particular Christmas means so
much to them. Sometimes people write about huge life-changing
experiences but more often they tell stories about meeting God in the
everyday routine of life.
If you plan to write a devotion, please let me know in advance so I know how
many to expect. If you have questions please call me at 434-589-5956 or 434-
806-2888(cell) or email me at the above email address. I look forward to
hearing your stories! Pat MacNicoll