PANCAKE BREAKFAST

 

On Saturday, Dec 18th  Annointed Community held their Annual Pancake Breakfast and Christmas celebration. Dallis at First UMC, Clermont prepared the egg sand bacon. Sue, Evelyn ,Marguerite,  and Noelene helped  serve the pancakes, egg and bacon. 

DECEMBER UNIT MEETING

Our Unit had a December program with installation of officers on Saturday morning. Last year we met on zoom. It was good gathering together in person this year.

It is nice to see and get to know woman from other circles. 

We had a nice brunch before the meeting.

About 20 woman were in attendance.

My sister, Lynda came as a guest.
 

The tables were decorated with nativity scenes.

Patricia gave out the certificates for those who have been reading the books from the reading program.

Ann gave the treasurer's report and in missions this year we gave a grand total of $27,963.96 !!

Karen was one of the Rainbow Giver this year. 

Her Mission Recognition Pin was given to Susan for all the work she does at the church.

Linda announce our unit achieved being a Gold Today unit. When she had to send in her report there was only one thing she could not check that we had accomplished. We are a very active and hard working unit.

Pastor Dawn and Nancy had the installation of officers program.

Celeste had a hoop and each officer tied a ribbon on to it to show how we are woven together. Celeste is the unit president and Carolyn is vice-president.

Andrea has resigned from being secretary after many faithful years of service and Kim is taking the position.

Ann is the treasurer.

Evelyn stood in for Betty who is the Mission Selection Team.

Patricia is coordinator of Program Resources.

Pat  is coordinator of Spiritual Growth.

Karen has resigned as Social Actions Coordinator and Marguerite will be taking the position but was unable to make the meeting.

Linda is coordinator of Education and Interpretation for our unit and the East Central District.

Dorann stood in for Jan who is the Coordinator of Membership, Nurture and Outreach.

Diane is the chair of the Committee of Nominations.

Dottie is the Communication coordinator on the end. These are the officers for the year. Thank them for their willingness to serve, support them in their work and keep them in your prayers. 

CHECK PRESENTATIONS

The following organizations were able to receive funding because of money that was raised from the Holiday bazaar. 

Diane and Noelene presented Ms Lee the check to  Annointed communities. Ms Lee is Linda Cowls assistant and with her is Nathan a student helper.

Betty delivered a check to Well of Hope to help fund their food pantry.  On Betty's left are Sandy, Janet and Bill  faithful volunteers. Pastor Chris and Pastor Michael on Betty's right were presented the check.   

Barb and Diane delivered a check to Linda Krupski and Nancy Davis. They started LovEx 20 years ago. 
 

STOCKING FOR SOUTH LAKE

 Once again, United Methodist Women can accomplish more together than individually. The Clermont unit produced 80 Christmas stockings and hats for the newborns at South Lake Hospital.  Many women were involved in the various steps in the process such as cutting, sewing knitting, assembling and delivering the finished product. Thanks to these 80 new parents will know that their family is loved by our Lord and the United Methodist Women. 

SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE

Saturday, November 13, Sleep In Heavenly Peace unloaded all the lumber and equipment in the Wesley Parking lot to make beds for children. These beds are for children in our area that live in homes but they do not have a bed to sleep in. Celebrate Recovery  teamed up with the West Orlando chapter of Sleep In Heavenly Peace with a goal of making 20 beds. A bed cost $250, that includes the bed, mattress, pillow and blanket.  So for twenty beds $5,000 needed to be raised. By  Saturday $11,000 had been raised and 42 beds were built!!!

Bill heard about Sleep In Heavenly Peace and formed the West Orlando Chapter. He explained to all the volunteers what we would be doing. There were 120 volunteer - children, youth, men and women.

 At 9 o'clock we started to build beds. Denise measured the boards and marked where they needed to be cut.

The board then was cut and ready to be sanded.

There was lots of sanding to be done. Glad there were electric sanders to use. There must have been about 50 sanders. Pastor Dawn teaching Jacob how to it.

 

Sanding,

and more sanding.  Yvonne sanding the edges, The edges all had to be rounded so the beds would be safe for the children. 

The wood had to be marked where it was to be drilled.  Brandy worked with this boy. She held the wood in place while he hit the metal plate that marked it.

Then the holes were drilled.

Larry drilled holes at the end of the long sections for the side of the bed where it will be bolted together.

The boards were screwed together for the head board.

And the foot of the bed.

The headboard was branded with  sHp  and then dyed.

The long side boards also had to be dyed. These two boys put the board in the trough and made sure it was covered.

Once the boards were dry they were stacked and wrapped for transport. Kathy went around and around with the plastic wrap.

They were then loaded into the truck. All the equipment was cleaned up, taken apart, stored and packed into the truck by 11:30. You can volunteer to go with a team to deliver a bed to a child and help assemble it.  They have a waiting list of over 100 children in our area waiting for beds.

Some of the youth sitting on a finished bunk bed, that is what they look like when the bed is assembled in the home.

Dottie standing by the bed earlier in the morning.

Thanks to Sherry who made a delicious barbeque pork and chicken lunch for all the volunteers. 

GIFT CARD TREE WINNER

Jody, a member of Daughters of Lydia, was the winner of the Gift Card tree from the Holiday Bazaar.