LECTOR: John Secor
COFFEE HOUR HOSTS: Chuck & Meleisa Holek
CHILDCARE: Joan Chimblo & Isabel Maquilon
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STEWARDSHIP 2024: Our 2024 campaign is underway! Pledge info has been mailed. Additional cards are available in the narthex. Thank you for returning your pledge cards, and keeping your Stewardship Pledges/Donations current by using our website’s Online Giving Feature at www.umcdarien.org. You may also mail or deliver your offering to the church office during the week or on Sunday morning. Together, may we live in confidence that God will do good things through us! Please contact Neil Duncan for further information at: neil.duncan@twiningproperties.com.
OUR TUESDAY STUDY GROUP continues with a Lenten Study at 1 p.m. Please note that we will be meeting at Rowayton UMC for now. Join us for our new study: “The Third Day” by Tom Berlin. Please see Pastor Laura if you need a book.
MFC PRESCHOOL GOOD NEWS! We will welcome our new Director, Danielle Celaj, on March 1st! More information will be in Tower Tidings. Thanks so much to Lauriston Avery for her assistance over the past 5 months and Sonia Smith for partnering with the Search Committee — plus everyone who tirelessly joined in leading us to Danielle. We are all very excited!
MORE MFC PRESCHOOL NEWS: Registration for the 2024-2025 School Year in in progress. And so is Summer Camp (June 3rd-14th)! Link for Summer Registration: https://app.tryplayground.com/listings/898pl7CMnRyn0sd1NEEe. Please contact Interim Director, Lauriston Avery, lauristonavery@gmail.com, or the office at 203-655-7407, for more info about our wonderful Preschool!
THE COFFEE HOUR SIGN UP SHEET for March is in the narthex.
SING IN THE CHOIR! We are growing, but we’re always looking for new members, so please see Jon, if interested in singing this season, and join our fun! Rehearsals are at 9:15 a.m. each Sunday or on some Saturday mornings, when needed.
KNITTING AND CROCHET GROUP will resume after Easter, Wednesdays, 1 p.m., at Rowayton UMC. welcome newcomers!
Please let Pastor Laura know if you are interested.
GOT VACATION PHOTOS TO SHARE?
We’d love to post them in our narthex Memories Board! Just please send them to the church office: umcdarien@umcdarien.org!
FACEBOOK LIVE WORSHIP We are online from our sanctuary, via FaceBook Live, each Sunday (resuming soon)! Just go to our website and click on the icon in upper right corner. Or, go to FaceBook and find UMC Darien. Tell your friends!
CROSSLIT for all Darien H.S. students continues each school Monday, 7-7:25 a.m., in Faith Hall. Come and be strengthened each Monday morning with this faith-based ministry, in partnership with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Grab and go breakfast is provided–serving over 60 students!
PERSONS WITH ONGOING PRAYER NEEDS: Lilo Sanchez, Charlotte Grey, Maidee Kirkeby, Beth Thompson, Carrie, Dick Harter, Sherrill Edwards, Amy Kimmel Joy, Mary Zengo, Susan Halliday, Nancy Laitner, Evelyn Jones, Liz, Sandra Smith, Jim Anderson, Sr., Debra Engel, Vickie Seymour, Carolyn & Mike Mann, Brenda Ruth, David MacGillivray, Mike Garrett, Pankaj Singh, Rev. Charlie Swartz, Susan, Rev. Karen Eiler, the People of the Ukraine, the Family of Ralph Carlson, Carole Dickson, Debbie Maytin, the Archibald/Holt Family, Teresa Gonzales, Marianna & Isabella Giordano, Nancy Zengo, the Family of Stephen Jones, the Holek Family, Kathy Gunn, the Family of Rev. Anne Bracket, Ruth Riedel, Lester, the Family of Joan Lang, the Family of Ted Laitner, the Lynch Family, Katherine Crouse, Nancy Wright, the Schley Family, the Kirkham Family, Mary Yostpille.
FOR PRAYER REQUESTS: please contact the church office, 203-655-1469/ umcdarien@aol.com,or umcdarien@umcdarien.org, with ongoing prayer requests. Please contact the office when you wish to remove a name.
District Superintendent: Rev. Inkoo Chung
DUMC Administrative Assistant: Anna Marie D’Ambrosio
New York Annual Conference: Bishop Thomas Bickerton