Open Hearts. Open Minds. Open Doors.
Welcome to Edmonds United Methodist Church!
Sunday, November 29: The First of the Herald Angels Appears!
Pastor Paul preaching.
Texts: Jeremiah 33:14-16, Luke 1:5-25
EUMC ART HALL - Angels for Advent
Angel art needed to fill the hall to over-flowing for Advent! Lots and lots of Angels please! Create some, get the kids busy, send what you already have! Contact
Dana McMechan or 425-744-0248 to participate or to ask the question: "What kind of Angel?"
Sunday, November 29 - Toy Shop Collection: Food for the Food Bank
Sunday, November 29 - Hanging of the Greens: 12:00 noon - 3:00 p.m. - Come and help decorate the church for the holidays. Make it a family event! Soup will be served to begin this fun, intergenerational family event. Meet in the Fellowship Hall at noon.
Sunday, November 29 - Advent Spiral Service:
7:00 p.m., Aldersgate Room - Walk the evergreen "spiral of lights" to find the Christ within. A magical service of music and symbolic action.
Wednesday, December 2 - Annual UMW Holiday Luncheon:
11:30 a.m., Fellowship Hall - In addition to a great lunch, the Sound Singers of Edmonds will perform. Tickets are $9 and need to be purchased before the event during Sunday morning Coffee Hour through November 29.
Saturday & Sunday, December 5 & 6 - "Through the Eyes of Angels," EUMC's Annual Christmas Concerts featuring Celebrated Tenor Kenneth Gayle. For more information click
here.
Saturday, December 12 - All Church Christmas Toy Shop - Join with us to reach out to the children and families in our community in need. For more information click
here.
Saturday, December 12 - Northwest Chorale Concert at EUMC: 7:30 p.m., Sanctuary - The Northwest Chorale presents Handel's Messiah. A free-will offering will be taken. All proceeds go to Northwest Harvest. Sponsored by the Music and Arts Ministries.
Sunday, December 13 - "Bows of Holly" Children's Musical:
3:00 p.m., Sanctuary - This story will parallel the story of God's gift to us...so perfect and undeserved. Presented by the children from our Sunday School, ages preschool through 6th grade.
Sunday, December 20 - Longest Night Service:
5:00 p.m., Chapel - For many, Christmas can be a bittersweet time of the year, remembering persons and events which have been a part of our lives in the past, but are now changed or gone. During this season of long nights we will offer a quiet, meditative service for remembering, sharing our hurting places with God, and preparing our hearts for the coming of Christ. Please join us for this special prayer service.
Thursday, December 24 - Christmas Eve Services - The Christmas angels announce the Holy Birth.
- Family Service: 5:00 p.m. - Join us is a joyful, family-friendly service.
- Traditional Services: 7:00 & 9:00 p.m. - Celebrate the Holy Child in these services of scripture, carols, sermon, bells, candlelight, special musicians and choir.
- Candlelight Communion: 11:00 p.m. - "Midnight" service with music, candlelight, the "tolling in" of Christmas Day, and communion for all.
The Organ Task Force is very excited to announce a fabulous benefit concert series to raise money for modifications and installation of EUMC's new organ.
Click here for the brochure, and to order tickets,
click here.
The first concert was held September 20 at 3 p.m. in the sanctuary. Performers included George Fiore (piano), Stephen Marshall-Ward and Wanda Griffiths on duo pianos, The New World Trio (strings and piano), the Cascade Symphony String Ensemble, trumpet soloist George Steward, and the Cascade Percussion Ensemble.
December 5 and 6 will bring our traditional Christmas Concert (see above), presented by the choirs of EUMC and featuring guest soloist (and EUMC favorite) Kenneth Gayle, and accompanied by organ and strings.
The dedication concert for the new organ will be February 7, and will feature a virtual "who's who" of the Seattle organ community: J. Melvin Butler, Carole Terry, Douglas Cleveland, Joseph Adam, and of course Stephen Marshall-Ward and Wanda Griffiths! We are also fortunate to welcome the Camerata of the Seattle Children's Chorus, directed by John Hendrix.
On April 25, the concert series will close with a community choral concert, featuring the choirs from EUMC and Trinity Lutheran Church, as well as others from the area. Accompanied by organ and strings, this concert will include works by Vaughn Williams and Haydn.
Come celebrate with us in this extraordinary year of sacred music!