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Check It Out!
  
10/16/15
  
The UMRC is here to help support your church in its various ministries!
Please forward this newsletter to church leaders and Sunday school teachers in your church.
There is no rental fee to borrow these items; the only cost to churches is to mail resources back to me.
 The UMRC is located in the United Methodist Center in Springfield.
If you're here for a meeting during the week, come in and look around!
        Contact me in advance and I'll have resources ready for you to pick up.
  
The UMRC has a wide variety of materials for teachers of
adult, youth, and children's classes!
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments; my contact information is listed below, near my signature.
 Advent studies for adults
  
  
 
  
Another print study available:
 
Christmas - Good Bad Ugly
Christmas: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- An Advent Study for Adults
#915036
In this four-week, print-only study, author Richard Wilke focuses on people in the story of Christ's birth.  Each lesson includes a reference to a key passage of Scripture, a brief reflection, questions for reflection or discussion, a suggested Christmas carol, and a brief prayer.  Sessions:  1) Let's keep Herod in Christmas;  2) Let's keep the wise men in Christmas;  3) Let's keep Joseph in Christmas;  4) Let's keep the shepherds in Christmas.  Up to 20 copies available.
Unplug the Christmas Machine: Workshop Leader's Guide
#721011
Help Your Group Create a Joyful, Stress-Free Holiday.  Designed for a four-hour workshop, the materials can be adapted for a four-week study for adults.  The kit includes notes for the leader, reproducible participant pages, and an audio CD.
Vintage Christmas: Women's Holiday Event Kit
Vintage Christmas #722007
Plans for a one-session event in which women share Christmas traditions and memories and are challenged to keep Christ at the center of everything they do during the busy holiday season.  Kit includes a CD-ROM (printable items for decoration and promotion), a leader's guide (planning tips, simple decorating ideas, menu helps, and a Bible-based devotion), and ten copies of the participant memory booklet (copies for your participants to keep must be purchased from Group).
Reel Meaning for Christmas: Finding Yourself in the Classic Christmas Films
#815169
 Designed as a non-threatening means of introducing women to the possibility of a relationship with their Creator, the author looks at the personalities of a variety of female Christmas movie characters and discusses how their positive traits reflect the character of God.  Characters include:  Violet Bick and Mary Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life), Doris Walker (Miracle on 34th Street), Elizabeth Lane (Christmas in Connecticut), Betty and Judy Haines (White Christmas), Julia Brougham (The Bishop's Wife), and Julia Biggs (The Preacher's Wife).  Can be used as the basis for a women's Christmas event or for personal devotion.
Mark Your Calendar
  
 Calendar
  
The United Media Resource Center will be closed the following dates:

 

Wednesday, November 11
Thursday-Friday, Nov. 26-27
December 19 - January 3
If you have questions or wish to request resources, please contact me at 217-529-2744 (phone), 217-529-4155 (fax), or [email protected] (e-mail).

 

Sincerely,
Jill D. Stone signature  
Jill D. Stone, Director
United Media Resource Center