Support the Swansboro Fall Festival on November 3

The Swansboro PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) is putting on a community fall festival Saturday, November 3 from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm. Gather your friends and family and attend the  festivities. Reveille groups are supporting the event by hosting a cakewalk and bake sale and staffing a popcorn machine. If you love to bake, we are in need of more cakes and many homemade goodies. Also, we need people (including older children!) to staff the various booths we are sponsoring. Please prayerfully consider how you or your small group can get involved and contact Laura Holdych, Swansboro Champion, here. Swansboro Elementary School is located at 3160 Midlothian Turnpike.

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Your Discipleship Impacts Our Youth

This week we continue with our third installment of the youth ministry milestones for the congregation, lifting up ways the entire congregation can support and nurture discipleship in our youth.

Last week's milestone was to make Reveille a 5:1 church, a church where every youth has at least 5 adults who know and care about him or her. Yet it can be awkward to meet a teenager for the first time, particularly on a hectic Sunday morning. You can get involved in the lives of our teens in many ways. Here are just a few:

1)    Volunteer to serve in the youth ministry. Most people believe the ideal youth volunteer is 25 years old, plays guitar and understands youth because their ages are closer. For Reveille though, the ideal volunteer is one who is grounded in his or her faith in Christ and who cares about teenagers. It is vital that youth know adults of all ages, with diverse backgrounds and life experiences. Yes, regardless of your age, you can be a confirmation mentor for an eighth grader, a youth small group leader, a retreat or mission trip chaperone, even a Sunday night youth counselor or Sunday school teacher.    

2)    Include youth in your activities and events. Consider ways that your UMW circle, Sunday school class or small group can involve youth. Invite teens to join your program as a full participant.

3)    Take opportunities to serve alongside youth. Work with a youth at Rebuilding Together or Stop Hunger Now. Sign up to work on the Habitat home in Swansboro next summer. Invite youth to participate in the next outreach project your small group sponsors. Nothing removes the awkwardness of a first meeting better than a project. You get to know each other while working for a common cause.

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Youth News

Sacrifice is the core of Christian belief. In October, our entire congregation is focused on ways in which God calls Christians to be good stewards of the resources we have. That stewardship often requires that we sacrifice our own wants and desires in favor of God's call. At youth group on Sunday, October 21, we will look at the call to be good stewards of our many blessings and the ways in which sacrifice can produce abundance. Our schedule is normal:

   4:30 pm - Middle school youth group/high school choir

   5:30 pm - Dinner ($3)

   6:00 pm - High school youth group/middle school choir

Our annual youth group trip to Ashland Berry Farm is October 28, 5:30-9:00 pm. Please confirm with Dwayne that you are planning to attend. The cost is $22 for all three available haunts. Simply bring your payment on October 28.

Parents: Support youth missions when you buy your groceries! Reveille is now participating in "Kroger Cares." For $5, you purchase a reloadable $5 Kroger gift card. Every time you use your card, Reveille's youth mission fund receives 5% of your total purchase. To purchase a card, please see or contact Dwayne in the church office.

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Make Stone Soup at Wonderful Wednesday

Our program on October 24 will be making Stone Soup for Richmond Friends of the Homeless. For more information, please see the related article below.

Before our program, please join us in the fellowship hall at 6:00 pm for our weekly fellowship meal. The menu is Chicken Piccatta, wild rice, green beans with baby carrots, tossed salad, rolls, and chocolate cake. The cost for the meal is $5 for adults and teens, $3 for children ages 4 to 12 and free for anyone under 4. Please make a reservation for dinner here, sign up on the friendship pad during Sunday worship or call the church office at 359-6041 by 3:00 pm on Monday. Click here for upcoming menus and programs for Wednesday night meals.

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Bring Vegetables and Fruit  

to Help Feed the Homeless

On Thursday, October 25, Reveille members will be serving homemade Stone Soup, cornbread, fruit and dessert to some of Richmond's homeless population through Richmond Friends of the Homeless. Following are ways you can help:

• Bring vegetables to cut up to add to the soup that will be prepared as the program for Wonderful Wednesday on October 24. Also needed are whole bananas and apples that will be given out at the Thursday meal.


• Serve the meal at Greater Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. Meet at Reveille at 11:00 am and carpool or come directly to Greater Mt. Moriah. If child care is needed while serving the meal, please contact Lori Epps here or at 359-6041, ext. 117, no later than Tuesday, October 23.


• Provide gallon-size plastic bags, plastic Tupperware-like containers (used containers are fine) and/or 55-gallon trash bags. If you would like to donate any of these items, a collection area is located by the elevator (on the red carpet).

If you have questions, please contact Kay Craven here or call the church office at 359-6041, ext. 114.

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Transportation Help to "Get Out The Vote"

The Presidential election is quickly approaching. Virginia is a swing state, so every vote will count. A group of Reveille volunteers will transport anyone who needs a ride to his or her own precinct to vote. If you would like to exercise your right to vote but need a ride to the polls, please call the church office at 359-6041, ext. 114.

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Christmas Music will Fill the Air

Are you ready to sing Christmas music? Reveille's choirs are! Whether child, youth or adult, it is not too late to join us for this special season of music rehearsal, which will include the following:

• The children's choirs will present "Camel-lot," a Christmas musical, on December 12 at 6:30 pm in the sanctuary.


• Youth choirs will lead the Candlelight Lessons and Carols service on Christmas Eve, at 5:30 pm, with a variety of Christmas anthems and carols.

The rehearsal schedule for children's and youth choirs' is available here.

• Chancel Choir will offer two Christmas concerts, one at Shady Grove United Methodist Church - Mechanicsville on December 14 at 7:30 pm, and the Open House Christmas Concert at Reveille on December 16 at 5:30 pm.

The featured choral work, Christus Natus Est, by British composer, Cecilia McDowell (a contemporary of John Rutter), is based on medieval carols, including "Personent Hodie and Gaudete." This work will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra. You are welcome to join us at 8:00 pm on Thursdays for Christmas music rehearsal.

For more information, contact Cathy Armistead, Director of Music Ministries here or call 359-6041, ext. 123.

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"Purse"-onality with a Purpose!

Wednesday, November 7, 6:30-7:30 pm and

Thursday, November 8, 9:00 - 10:00 am

Ladies: Save the date for the evening of Wednesday, November 7 and start your girls' night out with a "new" bag. Come to Reveille's new welcome center to choose from a great selection of gently-used handbags donated by some of your most stylish friends.  Take one home that night or drop by on Thursday morning for the very best deals.

Gently-used bags are needed for this auction, which will benefit the YWCA's Domestic Violence Program. Purses, diaper bags, evening bags, beach totes and little girls' purses may be dropped off during the Reveille Weekday School morning and afternoon carpool during the week of October 29 - November 2, or please contact one of these coordinators:  

Laura Holdych, Susanna Wesley Circle member

Kimberly Hicks, Susanna Wesley Circle YWCA Liaison

This event is a collaboration between Reveille Weekday School and the United Methodist Women's Susanna Wesley Circle to benefit the YWCA's Domestic Violence Program.

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Reveille's United Methodist Women

Fall Bake Sale

Sunday, November 18

9:00 am- 12:00 noon

Pumpkin pies, cakes, pies, breads, cookies, chocolates and more will be on sale in the fellowship hall and in the main hallway of the education building on Sunday, November 18, the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

If you are a United Methodist Women member and wish to donate a homemade goodie, you may deliver items to the fellowship hall kitchen on Friday, November 16 between until 4:00 pm or bring your donations with you to church on Sunday, November 18. Be sure to label your baked goods Reveille UMW Bake Sale. Wrap your items appropriately and label each with its name (i.e.: coconut cake, chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin pie, etc.). Please note clearly if the item contains nuts. Pretty wrapping is a plus! If you have questions, please email Walker Fonville here or call the church office, 359-6041, ext. 117.

Proceeds from the fall bake sale will benefit our United Methodist Women's mission projects.

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Reveille Basketball Registration is Ongoing

Reveille's church-league basketball team is forming for the 2012-13 season. The team participates in one of the competitive Henrico County recreational leagues.

The 14-game regular season begins the week of November 5 and concludes with a playoff tournament in early March. Weekly games are played on Tuesday and Thursday nights at Byrd Middle School.

Players must be 18 or older and cannot be listed on a current high school or college team roster. Non-Henrico residents pay a $15 fee.

To register, or to obtain more information, please contact Steve Knockemus here.

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The Reveille Habitat Home in Swansboro

During 2013 the entire congregation will be challenged to support building a Habitat Home in the Swansboro community. A donor provided the land to Habitat for Humanity in the spring of 2012, just after Reveille began inquiring about the process of sponsoring a home in Swansboro. Reveille's community, including adult small groups, Sunday school classes, youth groups, choirs, and whole families will team together to build a home for a single mom and her four children.

Over the next 12 months we will ask every member of our community to help by offering their prayers, volunteering at the construction site, packing lunches, participating in the Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar, supporting summer camps at Swansboro Elementary and writing cards to the family and the community. But for now, we ask that you support the Habitat project with your financial gifts. Instead of raising funds for this project, we hope to commit to the project by including it in our 2013 budget. The stewardship pledge results will determine if we anticipate adequate funding to support that budget including this project. Prayerfully consider your financial commitment to all Reveille ministries in 2013, including the Habitat home. On October 28, Consecration Sunday, bring your pledge card forward and help this ministry come to life!

For a pledge card or information about Electronic Fund Transfer look for information in  your mailbox or contact Glynis Holcomb in the church office at 359-6041, ext. 118.

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Reveille Golf Foursome Takes Second Place

What is perhaps Reveille's first sponsored golf foursome took second place in the Jeremiah Project fundraising golf tournament in Williamsburg on October 10. Of course, only three foursomes played.  

The day was beautiful as four of Reveille's members stepped up to represent our church in the rescheduled tournament that was postponed due to rain on the original date. After their day on the course, Blair Bolton, Gene Brooks, Rick Neurohr and Brant Smith enjoyed an opportunity to learn more about the Jeremiah Project and its mission.

The Jeremiah Project is a middle-school home-repair mission camp. Over the past four years, Reveille has sent as many as 47 individuals to the camp in a given summer, with nearly 200 youth and adults having attended since our first time in 2008. The tournament was a fundraiser for the organization and despite the low turn-out, it will net around $4,000 because of corporate sponsorships. In future tournaments perhaps Reveille can have stronger representation, so this is a callout to all golfers: Dust off your clubs now to prepare for the fall 2013 tournament!

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Joys and Concerns

June 6, 2012

SYMPATHY

The Reveille family extends Christian love and sympathy to Shanna Miles and family on the passing of her father, James Albert Walton; to Ed Bailey and family on the passing of his sister, Juanita Bailey Wages, of Columbia South Carolina, on October 12; and to Fred Jarratt and family and Helen Sue Agee and family on the passing of their sister/aunt, Katherine Jarratt, in Chesterfield on October 12.

NEW MEMBERS

Please welcome the following new members, who united with Reveille on October 14, 2012:

Carrie Bergh

Ken and Dale Krause

Marsha Little

Jennifer Loux

Shawn and Whitney Shelton

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Notes of Appreciation

Dear Friends,

As I packed up my office I often paused and thought of events or times I have shared with you as I came across pictures, notes and emails. This has certainly been a time of remembering. I thank you for your kind notes, words and gifts. September 30 was a wonderful day to say farewell and begin to think of the future and how God will use my gifts in perhaps new ways. Thank you for fourteen good years of journeying with you and growing together as Jesus' disciples. I look forward to seeing you around town and catching up with you and your families and hearing of all the good things happening at Reveille.

Love, Carol [Uzzle]

P.S.: You can email me here.

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Special Gifts

Congregational Care Fund

In memory of Katie Blaylock

Ann Jones

General Memorial Fund

In memory of Richard Donaldson and in honor of Jean Donaldson

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Calendar of Opportunities

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Staff

Jim Noland, Senior Pastor

Katie B. Anthony, Associate Pastor

Stephen Coleman, Associate Pastor

Cathy Armistead, Director of Music Ministries

Tamara Nicely, Assistant Director of Music Ministries

Lori Epps, Director of Children's Ministries

Jennifer McCluskey, Director of Adult Ministries

Dwayne Stinson, Director of Youth Ministries

Kaarina Jobe, Worship and Music Leader for The Point

Anne Stratton, Administrative Manager

Cheryl Arrington, Pastoral and Congregational Care Secretary

Bill Wright, Facilities Manager

Glynis Holcomb, Financial Manager

Thomas Goodall, Custodian

Elaine Kastelberg, Director of Weekday School

Beverley Tilley, Weekday School Administrative Assistant

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