Announcements
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Bulletin
Monthly Mission Focus: For the month of November our Mission Focus is the Giving Tree. You can make a check payable to YUMC, with a memo “Giving Tree” or an online donation by choosing the “other” category and type “Giving Tree” in the note section. See page 9 of this bulletin for more information.
Sharing Pantry. Have you seen the lovely Sharing Pantry that has been hand crafted just for us? It is to provide food, toiletries, and other supplies for our friends and neighbors. We will consecrate the Sharing Pantry today, immediately following worship.
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, November 9, 2025 is Jim & Marcia Downey.)
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.
Nursery. If you would like to serve in the nursery, contact Sidney Matthews-Gunnell (336) 416-9160.
Save these dates!! Coming in Advent. Advent Worship and Lunch here at YUMC on December 3, 10, and 17, 2025. More information to come! (Yes, this is like the Lenten Worship and Lunches. It will be marvelous.)
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 is November 12, 2025 at 7:00 pm. 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, and George Bissette.
CHARGE CONFERENCE. Immediately after the Leadership Team Meeting on November 12, 2025 we will have our Charge Conference.
Friday Night Dinners @ The Parsonage! In 2025, Jonathan and Keri (and the boys by default) are experimenting with hosting weekly dinners at the Parsonage! Each Friday night (that we’re in town) we’re committing to having a small group of folks over for dinner. All of you church folk are formally invited (we’ve also extended the invitation to our local friends and some of the community organizations that we are members of). You can find more information, and sign up to attend here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r_DB5dJqvUhJ901CENfpI-6qbrAz3x7vIBJ1VJDYqeA/edit?usp=sharing) or contact Keri or Jonathan to find a date that works! We’re asking folks to sign up, so we know who to expect and are able to take account of any dietary needs. Feel free to bring your friends and neighbors! Looking forward to another year of community with you all!
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.
Hanging of the Greens. Yes, we just had Halloween and now we are talking about Advent??!!! We will Hang the Greens throughout the church on November 23, 2025 immediately following Worship. Plan now to join us for a great opportunity to fellowship. All help will be appreciated.
Poinsettias. As we start thinking of beautifying the church for Advent, we cannot forget the poinsettias. We will have three poinsettias in the Sanctuary. If you would like to make a donation to purchase the poinsettias, please memo your check poinsettias. If you would like to make a contribution in honor or in memory of someone, fill out the form and drop it in the offering plate.
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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.)
There will be a work Day on Saturday, November 8, 2025 from 9:00 am until noon. We will be switching from Spring/Summer to Fall/Winter clothes.
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. If you are interested please let Pastor Jonathan know. We are currently looking at scheduling the study for Wednesday evenings or Thursday at lunch.
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).
