Hurry! Hurry!  The bag sale is here!  That means Spring is just around the corner!

Friday, March 1st, starts the first day of our bag sale to deplete the Fall/Winter

merchandise.  The bag sale schedule is as follows:

$4.00 Bag - Friday, 3/1; Saturday 3/2, Tuesday, 3/5

$3.00 Bag - Wednesday,3/6, Friday,3/8, Saturday,3/9

$2.00 Bag Monday, 3/11,  Tuesday,  3/12            

Free Day - Wednesday, 3/13 (close at noon )        

The changeover to spring merchandise will take place Wednesday, 3/13 though Friday, 3/15.

The shop will reopen on Saturday, March 3/16 with all new colors of Spring! 

 

News

 

 

We would like to share our 2012 Year End Distributions of the Valparaiso First United Methodist Women's Shop

 

 

 

$   375          Alice's House

$   375          Caring Place

$   150          FUMC office supplies

$   275          Prayer Shawl Ministry

$   275          Good Samaritan Sewers

$     27          Note Writers

$   500          Rays of Hope

$   425          Royal Family Kids Camp

$   375          VNA Christmas for the Elderly

$   400          Hilltop ( Walt's Place)

$   450          Porter Co. Jail Chaplain's Fund

$   300          Day Spring

$ 2000          Men/Women's Shelters

$ 3000          Food Pantry

$   800          Shop Fund

$   400          Emerging Ministries / maybe parlor

$   350          Bashor Home Chaplain's Fund

$   500          Lucille Rains special

$   500          Clara Biswas - mission project

$  1000         Harford Cirls School  Serra Leon

$   500          Ardelle Graner  mission project

$   500          Africa University Student Emergency Fund

$ 1000          Operation Classroom

 

$14477         Total out of budget distribution 

 

 

Thank you for you support of The Shop with your donations, purchases, and volunteer hours.

                                                                         

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                 









The Next UMW book Discussion will be March 7at 6:00 p.m. in the church parlor.  We will be discussing Plain Wisdom By Cindy Woodsmall and Miriam Flaud.  The book has been selected to be a part of the 2013 United Methodist Women’s Reading program. 

 

 

Plain Wisdom: An Invitation into an Amish Home and the Hearts of Two Women    By Cindy Woodsmall, and Miriam Flaud

Two friends from different worlds—one Old Order Amish, one Englischer—share the truths that bring them together.

Best-selling novelist Cindy Woodsmall might seem to have little in common with Miriam Flaud, a woman immersed in the culture of Old Order Amish. But with nine children and almost 60 years of marriage between them, Cindy and Miriam both have found the secrets to facing life with strength and grace. Whether enduring financial setbacks, celebrating new babies and times of prosperity, grieving the crushing losses in the deaths of family and friends, or facing disappointments with their respective communities—through it all they find guidance for each day by looking to God. 

 

Susan Syrcle

Intercept Human Traffickers

This artical is from the Jan. 2013 Response

 

In February thousands will travel to New Orleans, LA, for the National Football League's 2013 Super Bowl, the nation's largest sporting event.  Most bowl revelers will freely travel down Interstate Highways 10, 12, and U.S. Route 90 or Airline Highway to New Orleans.  Some, however, will travel under duress, force to fraud as humans trafficked to the event to serve food at catered parties, clean hotel rooms, tidy local nail salons or offer sexually exploitive " adult services."  The commercial sex industry relies heavily on human trafficking victims.

 

  This Super Bowl Sunday, United Methodist Women can help intercept the traffickers and reverse the momentum.  Learn more about human trafficking, how to recognized it and how to stop it at

www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/act/trafficking. 

Susanna Circle supports our Sager Brown team

Women of  Susanna Circle met to finalize birthing kits for UMCOR

Last Thursday our Susanna Circle gathered to put together our supplies for UMCOR's birthing kits.  The goal for the circle was to have materials to put 32 birthing kits together.  The estimated cost for each kit is about $8.   A tote filled with receiving blankets, bar of soap, single-edge razor blade, 3 - 1ft pieces of string, latex gloves, and a piece of sheeting all placed in a one gallon ziplock bag will go with the mission team to UMCOR Sager Brown UMCOR Distribution Center in Baldwin, Louisiana. This project ties in with our December meeting Mary and Advent. Also at this gathering we were discussing our menu for the dinner that we will be providing to the women shelter.   Susanna Circle is really setting a rapid pace for 2013.    Way to go gals!!!  

If you want to know more about this circle, contact Mary Dambek mfd71@yahoo.com... chief communicator or Deb Wuebbling   debbwueb@aol.com chief organizer.   

The Shop News

 

 

The year end numbers are in and I am pleased to announce that the 2012 Shop sales were up 11.3% over the previous year! 2011 sales totaled $32,543 while 2012 sales totaled $36,212. We are truly blessed and look forward to serving the neighborhood and community with great deals for many years to come! Thanks to all of you for your dedicated and loyal service because without you, we would not exist!

 

        Kathi Thompson

 

Bonnie Albert, our UMW president, is on a mission trip to Sierra Leone. She has visited locations that our missions support.  Check out the her trip on the National/International Mission Blog, it is located at www.valpofumcomissions.blogspot.com