Reveille Welcomes Co-Champions for

Friends of the Homeless Bag Lunch Ministry

Friends of the Homeless is an organization that has been serving the Richmond area since 1986 with leadership from Shawnee Hansen. I encourage you to visit the Friends of the Homeless website to read about Shawnee's inspiring story. Reveille UMC has been involved in serving with both the bag lunch ministry and the hot meal ministry with Friends of the Homeless for many years. Kay Craven, Joanna Tilley and Mary Jane Walls serve as our champions for the hot meals ministry. As many of you know, the Outreach committee put out a plea for champions for the bag lunch ministry over the last several months as well as support for this ministry. Thank you to everyone who has expressed an interest in helping with this outreach through donating items, donating time, or donating money. We appreciate your support. Randy Bishop and Connie Wright have stepped up to be our new co-champions of The Friends of the Homeless Bag Lunch Ministry. Please join me in welcoming them! They will be heading up this outreach ministry beginning this month on Sunday, March 24. The packing times will remain from 10:30 - 11:00 am in the welcome center. If you are interested in helping provide any of the items needed on a monthly basis please contact Randy Bishop or Connie Wright. This ministry is now an intergenerational outreach that will involve our entire congregation.

Come Hear Guest Preachers at

the Lenten Worship Service

Woodlake United Methodist Lead Pastor, Rev. Peter Moon continued the Lenten worship service on February 27. After reading the story of Peter walking on water towards Jesus, he challenged the congregation to focus their attention on Christ during Lent and not get distracted by the wind and the waves in the world around us. He gave worship, prayer and other spiritual disciplines as ways to help us focus our passion on Christ. Throughout Lent, guest preachers from the Richmond District will continue to share a Lenten message during the Wednesday Lent worship services held in the chapel following the Wonderful Wednesday dinner. The service will start at 7:00 pm.

Following is the remaining schedule for the Wednesday Lenten Worship Services:

March 6 - Reverend Rachel May

March 13 - Reverend Lee Sheaffer

March 20 - Reverend Beth Givens

Children are invited to Journey to Jerusalem

on Wednesdays

Throughout Lent, children Pre-K through grade 5 are invited to journey towards Jerusalem and walk in Jesus' footsteps. Come join us on Wednesday nights during Lent. We will meet in the fellowship hall beginning at 6:45 pm and go until 7:30 pm. To participate, please email  Lori Epps, Director of Children's Ministries, or call her at 359-6041, ext. 117.

Wonderful Wednesday Dinner

March 13

Before the Lenten Service at 7:00 pm, join us for our fellowship meal at 6:00 pm in the fellowship hall. Check your Sunday bulletin for the menu. 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, ext. 115 by 3:00 pm on Monday.

Youth News

As the old saying goes, "You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your relatives." For most people, whether by birth or adoption, we came into our families by no choice of our own. Yet these are the people we spend the most time with, the ones who are always in the bathroom when we are running late in the mornings; the ones who are always hogging the computer or the television or choosing our least favorite food for dinner. Yet love starts at home, with those we see most often. This Sunday night at youth group, we will continue our Lenten study to learn how the "outflow" of God's love touches our friends and family.

The schedule for the evening is as follows:

     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

Small Groups: Reveille's youth have an opportunity this spring to gather during the week for study and reflection. Plans are underway to develop small groups for middle school girls, middle school boys, high school girls and high school boys. Times and locations are in the planning stages, but if you are interested in participating in a small group experience, contact Dwayne.  

Leisure Club

Tuesday, March 19, 11:00 am

Fellowship Hall

Covered Dish Luncheon; main dish and drinks provided.

Please bring your favorite side dish or dessert.

Program: Denise Bennett, chaplain at the Hermitage, will entertain us with her harp and stories.

Easter Egg Hunt & Mission

Join us on Saturday, March 23 from 10:30 am - 12 noon (rain or shine) for our annual Easter Egg Hunt for children up through fifth grade. This year we will have several hands-on mission activities that your family can participate in as well. We will meet in the fellowship hall to begin our time together. Don't forget to bring your Easter egg basket for the hunt.

If you are willing to help with this ministry, please email Lori Epps, Director of Children's Ministries, or call her at 359-6041, ext. 117.

American Youth Harp Ensemble

2013 Lent and Easter Offering

Our 2013 Lent and Easter offering will purchase Easter lilies to adorn all of our worship spaces on Easter Sunday, as well as benefit the One Great Hour of Sharing offering. A sufficient number of lilies needed to decorate for all of our Easter worship services will be purchased and the remaining money will be directed to One Great Hour of Sharing.

The One Great Hour of Sharing offering provides for the administrative costs of United Methodist Committee On Relief (UMCOR) so that 100% of the donations you give to the special offerings for disaster relief will be used for relief efforts and not for administrative costs.

Donations to this offering may be in any amount and may be made in honor of or in memory of someone, if you wish. To have your donation acknowledged in the Easter (March 31) printout of these gifts, be sure to return your completed lavender order form with your check or cash no later than Sunday, March 24. The form and donation should be put in the offering plate or basket or sent to the church office. The form may be printed here or picked up in the narthex, welcome center, fellowship hall or church office.

Reveille's UMW Palm Sunday Bake Sale

Sunday, March 24

9:00 am - 12:00 noon

Fellowship Hall, Main Hall to Sanctuary and Welcome Center

The popular UMW Palm Sunday Bake Sale is right around the corner. We need much support to make this a successful fundraiser for the UMW. Items may be dropped off on Friday, March 22 in the fellowship hall kitchen between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm or brought with you to church on the Sunday, March 24. Please label all items dropped off early "Reveille UMW Bake Sale." Pretty wrapping makes all the difference! For more information email Laura Holdych.   

Reflection on Connecting with God and Neighbor

Anne Stratton, Administrative Manager retiring at the end of March, reflects on the ways she has connected with God and Neighbor during her time here at Reveille UMC.

Over the past 10 years, I have been a Stephen Minister in the Reveille Stephen Ministry program. I have learned so many aspects of connecting with people who need a caregiver, of being a listener, of praying with others and of trying to help them bring peace in their lives. I can reflect on the love and faith that my care-receivers have felt from God as they have traveled through their situations. I believe we have a responsibility to look back on where we have been in life with happy and trying experiences and then pass on to others what we have learned so they can have a little easier road in times of trouble and in times of great happiness.

In my journey, I have found that it is so important to laugh and to find something positive in situations. When my parents were in situations that none of us ever want to be in, and in facilities that we hope we will never be in, I would laugh at small things that happened. I had to laugh in order to keep myself together. The nurses (neighbors) would always enjoy a good laugh also and it would brighten up their day.

God has taught me how to listen and pay attention when he taps me on the shoulder. He has made me more aware of my surroundings and so much of that has come from my time at Reveille. I feel so blessed to have spent so much time here, with you and with God as my teacher.

Anne Stratton, Administrative Manager   

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Have you taken the 2013 Lenten Challenge to "Connect with God" through spiritual disciples and "Connect with Neighbor" through time and prayers? What was your experience? What impact has it had on your faith? Reveille staff will be sharing their experiences through The Window over the next few months and they invite you to join them. Submit your reflection to  Katie B. Anthony. For more information on the 2013 Lenten Challenge, see the purple "Path to Serve" brochure found in the welcome center or narthex. 

Joys and Concerns

NEW LIFE

The cradle cross on the sanctuary altar is in honor of Mary Charlotte Noland, daughter of Amy and Josh Noland, who was born March 3, 2013. Mary has older siblings, Tommy and Hannah.

Issues and Deadlines for The Reveille Window

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

Glynis Holcomb, Financial Manager

Cheryl Arrington, Pastoral and Congregational Care Secretary
 Thomas Goodall, Custodian

Darius Stokes, Custodian

Elaine Kastelberg, Director of Weekday School