Monthly Newsletter of Scott Memorial United Methodist Church

God’s Precious Gifts

“...Where is the One who has been born

King of the Jews? We saw His star in the

east and have come to worship

Him.” (Matthew 2:2)

One of my favorite activities during December is to

drive around and look at the Christmas lights. Who

doesn’t enjoy the festive colors, the brightness,

the hope they represent in the middle of winter? In

such lights, we are emulating the “Light of the

world,” whose birth we celebrate, Jesus Christ.

Pastor Charles Mallory created an acronym using

this imagery and the idea of light and how we can

emulate Christ in our lives. The first letter:

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Sunday School - 9:30 am

Worship-10:45 am

Bible Study-Wed. @ 6 pm

Choir practice-Wed.@ 7:30p

SWAT-Thursdays @ 7:00 pm

Community Choir Festival

12/7 @ 7 pm Presb. Church

(No Sun night service in Dec)

Noisy Offering-12/21

Christmas Eve Service-6 pm

Kids Night Out-12/29 6-8pm

Church Calendar

December 2014

Promiseland Preschool Notes

The preschool has been very busy in November. We have learned about the meaning of Thanksgiving and talked about pilgrims and Indians. We made Indian hats and turkeys. Our letters for the month were Ii and Tt and we learned the numbers 4 and 5. We also held parent teacher conferences during the week of 17th –21st. Parents were able to take home their child’s portfolio, look at the assessments that have been done on the children and see their progress. We also worked together with the parents to set educational goals for their children for the next few months. The preschools last day for Thanksgiving break will be Tuesday, November 25th and they will return on Tuesday, December 2nd. The preschool collected canned goods for the Cadiz Food Pantry during November and will present it to Betty and Edna Morris at the children's Thanksgiving feast on November 24th. In December the children will learn the meaning of Christmas. We will learn the letters J and R and the numbers 6 and 7. We will make a nativity scene and other Christmas crafts. Santa Claus will come and visit the children on the 18th and 19th when we have our Christmas parties. Our last day of school for Christmas break is December 19th and we return on January 5th, 2015. The children will be singing in church on December 14th during the morning worship. They have been working very hard learning their songs and are excited to sing for the church. The preschool will also be in the Cadiz Christmas Parade on December 6th at 6:00pm. Be sure to look for us and wave to all the children.

Merry Christmas

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

L = represents loving your neighbor as yourself. This is a command from the Lord, not a suggestion. I = represents imitating Christ. The Greek word for imitate means “to duplicate,” or “to follow”. We many be the only Jesus some ever see. We owe it to Him to be an accurate representative. G = represents getting to know others. How desperately the world needs those who reach out to others in friendship. We are told to invest in others. It is an investment that will pay eternal dividends. H = represents hospitality. In the ancient world, it was a duty to welcome strangers and provide them with anything they need. Are you a welcoming person? T = represents telling other of Jesus. So many family and friends invested in me and told me about Jesus. I probable would not be a pastor today; I likely would not be a Christian today, if others had not told me about Jesus. This December, emulating the “Bright and Morning Star”, let your light shine before all people. Merry Christmas!

Pastoral Thought cont.

Scott Women In Missions news:

The board would like to thank everyone for all

their support in the past year.

Thank you to all those that have submitted

recipes. We want to remind everyone that we

will be accepting them through the end of

December.

The ladies voted to give love gifts to the

Salvation Army, Coats for Kids (through Ryan

McCann and the Police Department) and the

Cadiz Food Pantry for hats, socks and mittens

for the tree.

Wishing everyone a blessed Christmas!

Scott Women In Mission

Isaiah 9: 6-7

Save your greeting cards: The Green Valley 4-H club is collecting all types

of greeting cards to repurpose into tray favors for

the Veteran’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. They use

birthday, wedding, get well, Easter, Christmas,

etc. to make a veteran’s day special. Please

remember to take off the back of the card with the

name. If you have envelopes or calendars, they

would appreciate those as well. There is a bin on

the table in the narthex for all donations. This

will be an ongoing project for our church, so save

those cards all year long.

Birthdays: 1st Mike Kelley 5th Kelly Butler 7th Dale DeLong 12th Nan Mattern 14th Kris Miller 18th John Gilmore 21st Gary Daugherty 23rd Chuck Howell 24th Matt Puskarich 26th Allen Carter 30th Donna Bethel, Jessica Norris 31st Maverick Norris

Anniversaries:

12th Glenn & Carol Gray 22nd Jim & Midge Talbott 24th Bill & Kay Mann 31st George & Peggy Poole We would like to update our birthday/anniversary list. If you would like to be included, please give the information to the church office or email us: scottmemorialumc@hotmail.com _____________________________

Poinsettia’s If you are placing a poinsettia on the altar during the holiday season, please make sure the office has the information. All names will be printed in the

January 2015 newsletter.

BIRTHDAYS &

ANNIVERSARIES

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

NO Sunday

Evening ser-

vice this

month due to

Community

Choir Festi-

val-see 12/7

1 Preschool

meeting

6:30pm

2 No Trustees

meeting

this month.

3 Bible Study

6pm

Choir prac-

tice 7:30pm

4

SWAT

7pm

5 Gideon’s

6:30am

Prayer

group 10am

6

Christmas

parade 6pm

Preschool

participating

7 SS 9:30am

Worship

10:45 am

Comm. Choir

festival 7:00p (Presbyterian

church)

8 9 No Finance

or

Admin. Bd.

this month.

10

Bible Study

6pm

Choir prac-

tice 7:30pm

11

SWAT

7pm

12

Gideon’s

6:30am

Prayer

group 10am

13

14 SS 9:30a

Worship

10:45am

Preschool

sings during

AM service

15 No Betha-

ny Circle

this

month.

16 17 Bible Study

6pm

Choir prac-

tice 7:30pm

18

SWAT

7 pm

19Gideon’s

6:30am

Prayer

group 10am

Preschool

program

7pm

20

21SS 9:30a

Worship

10:45am

Noisy offer-

ing

22 No

school for

preschool.

Classes re-

sume 1/5/15

23 24 Christmas

Eve candle-

light service

6:00 pm

25 Merry

Christmas

Celebrate

the birth of

Christ

26 Gideon’s

6:30am

No prayer

group today

27

28

SS 9:30 am

Worship

10:45am

29

No Kids

Night Out

this

month,

30 31 New Years

Eve

Happy

New

Year

2015

December 2014

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Jesus took

sin and sick-

ness on the

cross. Praise

His Name

2

Praise God

we are saved

by grace.

3Luke 12:2

There is

nothing cov-

ered that

will not be

revealed, nor

hidden.

4

Pray for

Hope White

and the work

in Guatema-

la.

5 Lord, Je-

sus we pray

for Pastor

Richard &

Janice Has-

ley Phil 4:7

6 Psalm

107:20 He

sent HIS

word and

healed them.

Thank you

Lord

7 Pray for

Mission Door

- Aaron, Re-

nay & Norm

Burger

8 Father,

we pray for

Pastor Mark,

Christina

Smith & boys

Roman 15:13

9Mark 11:25

When you

stand pray-

ing, forgive,

if you have

unfor-

giveness.

10Pray for

Marc & An-

drea Smith,

as they res-

cue children

in Thailand.

11Inspired

by Psalm

118:24 It’s a

good news

day. Lift up

your voice

and rejoice.

12 Lord, pray

we show

compassion

to others.

13 Pray for

SWAT and

each child

attending.

God is Good

14

Pray for the

peace of Je-

rusalem

15 Lord Je-

sus, pray for

our Presi-

dent, and

world lead-

ers. James

1:5

16 Pray

God’s wis-

dom for Ben-

jamin Netan-

yahu and Is-

rael.

17Isaiah

45:22 Look to

ME and be

saved all

ends of the

earth. I am

God.

18 Pray for

national se-

curity. Pray

for our mili-

tary.

19Ephesian

s 1:7 In HIM

we have re-

demption

trough HIS

blood, for-

giveness of

20 No mat-

ter how old I

live to be,

you want us

to bear fruit.

Psalm 92:14

21Pray for

Scott

Church, may

we have a

loving atti-

tude toward

everyone.

22Gracious

Father, we

pray for

Promiseland,

kids & teach-

ers. Jesus

loves them.

23 Pray for

World Chal-

lenge, as

they minis-

ter around

the world.

24 Lord, we

give thanks

to the Lord

with all our

heart.

25 Christ-

mas, I be-

lieve Jesus

Christ is the

son of God.

Praise His

Name

26 Father,

we pray for

children

world wide.

Keep them

safe in Jesus’

arms

27Lord, we

pray for

peace in the

land, make

me and in-

strument of

thy peace.

28 The Lord

bless you

and keep you

and give you

peace

29The Bible

says “Now”

is the time of

salvation, to

get one’s live

right with

God

30 The

greatest love

ever mani-

fested in this

world was

the love of

God.

31 Praise

your name

Lord. Thank

you for an-

swered pray-

ers.

December 2014

Announcements

The Community Choir Festival will be held on

Sunday, December 7 at 7:00 pm. The festival will

be at the Presbyterian Church. Our choir will be

participating. Due to the choir festival, our

monthly Sunday evening worship service will be

cancelled for the month of December.

Save you change….the noisy offering will be on

December 21 during the morning worship.

It’s A Parade!

Promiseland Preschool will once again

participate in the Cadiz Christmas Parade. It will

be held on Saturday, December 6 @ 6:00 pm.

Hat, Mitten, Scarf & Sock Tree We are collecting hats, mittens, scarves and

socks as well as hygiene products during the

holiday season. Please bring all donations to the

church before December 22. All donations

greatly appreciated.

Sunday, Dec. 7 @ 7:00pm Community Choir Festival

at the Presbyterian Church

Sunday, Dec 14 Promiseland Preschool

sings during the morning worship

Friday, Dec. 19 @ 7:00pm Promiseland Preschool

Christmas program

Wednesday, Dec. 24 @ 6:00pm

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Advent schedule:

11/30

Josh & Kristen Willis

and family

12/7

Blake & Romshak

families

12/14

Brent & Kristin Volan

and family

12/21

Tim, Amie & Bristol

Moore

HOLIDAY

CALENDAR

EVENTS

S.W.A.T. NEWS Hello church family and God’s many blessings to you. Again, I can start this letter by reporting amazing things happening with the youth of the church. We are well over 50 soldiers in the group now and continuing to move. God is blessings us in more ways than I can write you in this short letter. Just know that your continued prayers are appreciated. The kids and I are doing several activities in December. With the addition to our SWAT nights on Thursday we’ll be having a Christmas Party and an all night lock-in. We’ll also be going to a concert in Pittsburgh on January 31. With the addition of so many soldiers in SWAT now I’m always looking for new and excited sponsors to help me. Help me with what you ask? Helping me train them up in the Lord is obviously most important. I also need help in transporting them places, and just assisting me with events. Given the number of people in our congregation this shouldn’t be much of a challenge. If you’re interested please come and see me whenever is good for you.

Christmas Greetings On behalf of myself and the

youth of the church we would like to wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy

New Year. As I think about the gift God has given in our Lord Jesus Christ my heart is overwhelmed with

thanks. Always keep Christ first not just at Christmas time, but

the whole year long. Now may the Lord bless and

keep you and make His face to shine upon you and give you His

peace. May you discover this Christmas that Jesus is all the

gift you’ll ever need.

Scott Memorial United Methodist

Church

Box 155

Cadiz, Ohio 43907