Welcome to the WUMC Family Ministry Blog

Welcome to the new WUMC Family Ministry web page/blog. The Family Ministry is a group of families with generally younger kids (elementary age and younger) who get together about once a month for some sort of fellowship and social activity with the kids. Some of our past events have included free family movie nights, a Fall Harvest Festival, Gingerbread decorating parties. We also try to get the Mom’s and Dad’s together for some adult fellowship as well. During the school year we have a Sunday School class that can but does not always pertain to parenting issues.

My hope is that you will be able to stop by here any time and get an up-to-date look at what we will be doing and what we have been doing with the Family Ministry. And hopefully you will like something that you see so that you will be willing to stop by one of our events and check us out!! We would love to have you!!!

If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. I am ALWAYS looking for ideas to make things better, fresher and more exciting. Just tell me your idea.

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully we will

SEE YOU SOON!!

Our Calendar of Family Events!

If you have any questions or want to help plan any activities, please contact Lisa Bowman at Jon_and_Lisa@verizon.net

Have a great day and we can’t wait to see you!





Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Cloth Sizes for Neighbors in Need

Hi! Just a quick note on the cloth sizes for the Neighbors in Need Girls. Haley wears a Ladies/Misses Large (shirt, coat or pajamas), size 12 pants, size 7 shoe, and size 9 sock.

Zowie wears a Youth Large (shirt, coat or pajamas), size 12 pant, size 3 shoe and Youth size 3 sock.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Neighbors in Need Family

Please look at the list below and then leave a comment telling us what you will be able to purchase for the family. The gift needs to be wrapped and it needs a gift tag on it stating who the gift is to. Tonia said that they were interested in coming to our Gingerbread House Party so if you can, please bring it with you to the party. If you are not able to make it to the party please let us know and you can just drop if off at our house anytime. Tonia and Ralph’s Christmas will really be much nicer with your gifts for their girls.

Haley (almost 15):
• Old Navy or Marshalls gift cards
• Black, High Top Converse shoes size 7
• Any (or all) of the Harry Potter books and movies (she hasn't read any of them or seen any of the movies, but would like to have them all)

Zowie (9):
• Fur Real Friends Panda Bear
• Otherwise, clothing and toy wise she will be happy with ANYTHING

Ralph (Dad):
• a Cordless Power Drill

The family shops at Walmart a lot and does grocery shopping at SuperFresh so gift cards for these places are great ideas too.

Christmas Cookie Exchange

Let us know if you are planning on participating in our Christmas Cookie Exchange.  We will be meeting in the Youth Sunday School rooms on Sunday, December 13th at 11:00 am.  Please tell us what kind of cookies you are planning on bringing.  You will need to bring a dozen for each participant plus an extra dozen for tasting.  Please include a copy of the recipe.

Gingerbread House Party

Saturday, December 12th, 10:00 a.m. New Life in Christ room OR Jubilee Hall

Please leave an RSVP for the Gingerbread House Party. We need to get an idea of how many are coming because we are trying to determine if we need to move to Jubilee Hall for this event. Each family that is coming needs to bring a box of graham crackers, a tube or tub of icing and candy decorations to share. We need to find someone that is able to provide milk cartons from school. Usually a teacher is able to do this pretty easily. Please let me know if you can do that. We also need a donation of hot cups for hot chocolate and of course Hot Chocolate! When you RSVP just let us know if you will be bringing something with you.