Announcements
Sunday, December 21, 2025
Bulletin
The poinsettias on the Altar are given to the Glory of God and in honor or memory of special people in our lives. See page 8 for the dedications. The dedications will remain in the bulletin through Advent.
Monthly Mission Focus: For the month of December our Mission Focus is Hands of Hope Medical Clinic. You can make a check payable to YUMC, with a memo “HOH” or an online donation by choosing the “other” category and type “HOH” in the note section. See page 7 for more information.
Yadkin Christian Ministries. YCM is in need of shelf staple items. Rice, pasta, oats, beans (dry and canned), can vegetables, soups, tuna, oil, honey, sugar, peanut butter, crackers, flour, etc. Baskets are in the Commons for your contributions. (YCM Food pick up for Sunday, December 28, 2025 is Jim & Marcia Downey.)
Nursery. If you would like to serve in the nursery, contact Sidney Matthews-Gunnell (336) 416-9160.
Sharing Pantry. Have you checked the Sharing Pantry today? It provides food, toiletries, and other supplies for our friends and neighbors. If you’d like to contribute food and/or supplies feel free to do it anytime!
Leadership Team. The Leadership Team meets every third Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm in the John Classroom. Our regular monthly meetings are open to all members of the church. Because your voice matters, there is a designated time for YOU, our church membership, to ask questions, to communicate with the Leadership Team, or to just see what is happening with the church management. Our next meeting will be announced. If you would like to read the minutes of our meetings, see the budget, or YUMC’s Guiding Principles, visit www.yadkinvilleumc.org/members (password: YadkinvilleMember). Your 2025 Leadership Team is: Janet Culpepper (Chair), Lori McCann, Maureen Silvernale, Nick Gunnell, Oz Prim, Jim McGrath, Sandy Steele, George Bissette, and Myron Williams.
NETworX Yadkin. Join us on Monday evenings beginning at 5:30 pm for NETworX programming. We would love to have you join us as we explore what it means to live a holistically well life. We will garden, can, cook, and discuss deeper issues such as healthy relationships, how trauma affects our lives, what divides us as people, and strive to connect on a meaningful level. We are still searching for meal sponsors so if your group would be willing to donate a meal, please contact Crystal.
Share your stories of Yadkinville UMC: We want to collect stories of Yadkinville UMC and you have them! If you have a personal story or memory that you are willing to share please let Pastor Jonathan know. You don't have to write it down you just have to tell it! If you have any pictures of YUMC over the years we would love those too, we will scan them and give the original back. We are especially looking for stories of: The Hobsons & other influential members, experiences of worshiping in the Old Sanctuary, Times the church faced difficult decisions, meaningful Holidays, times the church served well, what it was like when the old sanctuary/ education building/ sanctuary was built, and times you have encountered God through Yadkinville United Methodist Church. Let Pastor Jonathan know if you would be willing to share your story.
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ReNew with Connect Clothing Closet.
The clothing is open every 1st and 3rd Tuesday from 2:30pm to 4:30pm. If you would like to sign up to volunteer, you can call the office or use the QR code (QR code can be found on the home tab.)
What are the needs of the Clothing Closet? We are in need of t-shirts, men’s jeans, and children’s clothes. We also need financial donations to purchase another clothing rack for sorting clothes.
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Book Study. Eyes of the Heart: Photography as a Christian Contemplative Practice. You are invited to slow down this December and January with a contemplative study that will help us see the world in new ways through prayer. We started the book study on Thursday, December 11th. We will continue to meet on Thursdays at noon. There is still time to join us. If you would like to purchase a book through church ($17), please let Bobbi or Pastor Jonathan know.
This study considers how a camera can help us open “the eyes of the heart.” More than a book on photographic technique, Eyes of the Heart is about cultivating photography as a spiritual practice through visio divina (sacred seeing). Each week we will enter into a photographic journey in which the reader does not simply take images, but receives images and learns to see with “the eyes of the heart” (Eph 1:18).
