All Sunday worship services at Kenwood are cancelled for Sunday, February 7. Pastor Beth’s sermon on surrender as a mark of maturing Christians can be found here.
All Sunday Worship Cancelled
February 6, 2010 by bethgivensSouper Bowl of Caring Rescheduled Due to Weather
February 5, 2010 by bethgivensKenwood’s Higher Ground Youth have rescheduled the Souper Bowl of Caring scheduled for this Sunday to Sunday, February 21 after 11:00 worship. Please mark your calendar accordingly and plan to join Kenwood’s Higher Ground youth as they prepare and serve a soup lunch for the Souper Bowl of Caring, a national youth hunger awareness day. Your admission will be a can of food or monetary donation for ACES!
All Sunday Services and Activities Cancelled
January 30, 2010 by bethgivensSunday School and worship are canceled January 31 due to the weather conditions. Remember that the Souper Bowl of Caring lunch is scheduled for next Sunday, February 7!
If you are available to shovel, please contact Pastor Beth by e-mail.
Kenwood Kids Write Prayers for Haiti
January 25, 2010 by bethgivensOn January 24 at KidZone, our kids packed over 30 health kits for Haiti, and the older kids wrote these prayers for Haiti. Please use them in your personal prayer and devotional life.
Dear Lord, please help them be OK. Help them find their families. Give them food and water we pray. Find them shelter every day. Amen.
Dear Lord, please let Haiti stay calm and find resources. Amen.
Dear God, help Haitian people find family, stay safe, find food and shelter. Amen.
Helping Haiti Update
January 14, 2010 by bethgivensUMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) and UMNS (United Methodist News Service) reports that the situation in Haiti remains dire. There are three missing UMCOR workers among hundreds of thousands of others that we continue to hold in prayer. In addition to giving through UMCOR and your prayers, you can help by assembling health kits, which will be shipped from UMCOR’s Sagar Brown Depot in Louisiana. Health Kit contents can be found at this link, and health kits should be returned to Kenwood by Sunday, January 24.
Building Committee Selects Firm
January 14, 2010 by bethgivensKenwood’s Building Committee has selected Century Construction, working with Peretz and Young Architects, to begin the design process for the Ministry Center. Property closing on the initial Cobbs Road property is scheduled for next Tuesday, January 19 at a Board of Trustees meeting. The Building Committee will begin meeting with Century and Peretz and Young on January 26, and hopes to have a first phase of design complete this spring to share with the congregation.
Questions about the Building Committee process should be directed to Juliet Hildreth or Tracy Toms
What You Can Do to Help Haiti
January 13, 2010 by bethgivensIn the aftermath of a devastating 7.0 earthquake which struck Haiti Tuesday evening, we can reach out in numerous ways to help the people of what is already one of the poorest countries on record.
- Pray for strength for aid workers, medical professionals, civic and government leaders and others who will be leading rescue and recovery efforts.
- Visit the United Methodist Church website for information about how United Methodists are responding.
- Know that there were already several United Methodist mission teams on the ground in Haiti during the earthquake including teams from Blacksburg, VA and from North Carolina. All have been accounted for at this writing and are involved in rescue and recovery efforts.
- Give to the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) one of the leading international aid agencies.
Leadership Retreat in Two Weeks
January 9, 2010 by bethgivensAll people in the Kenwood community are invited to join us for the 2010 Leadership Retreat January 22-23. The retreat will be Friday night from 6 until 9 (including dinner) and Saturday from 8:30 until 4 (including breakfast and lunch). The event is FREE.
Our retreat will be facilitated by Kevin Bruny, the Chief Learning Officer for Chesterfield County Government. With a wealth of experience in human resources and strategic planning and strong church involvement, Kevin is the perfect person to lead us through our task for the weekend: developing a new 5 year ministry plan for Kenwood.
If you would like to be a part of this pivotal process in the life of Kenwood, as well as share community with your Kenwood family, we encourage you to attend. Please register by next Friday, January 15. Call or e-mail the church office (main@kenwoodumchurch.org) to register.
Christmas Eve Service Parking
December 24, 2009 by bethgivensWe hope you will join us for worship at 7:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve. It is going to be a wonderful service, full of music and scripture and light. We have limited parking due to the snow mountains created by plowing, and want to make a couple of suggestions:
1. If you have a four wheel drive vehicle, there is parking on rapidly melting snow on the gravel area of the lot. If you feel comfortable, please use it.
2. Please consider carpooling with neighbors, family and friends if your car has empty seats in it!
All Sunday Activities Canceled
December 19, 2009 by bethgivensSunday School and worship are canceled December 20 due to the weather conditions. We will see you on Christmas Eve at 7 pm.
Our shoveling party has been rescheduled until 2 pm tomorrow. Come help us clear the walks then!
