The Fall Festival is right around the corner, and we need your help with the following:

-Volunteers to help with the car show, games, craft and vendors, lunch, bake sale, and general set-up, take-down, and greeting.

- Bake sale items, such as cookies, brownies, cakes and pies

- We need to borrow: pop up tents, Water Coolers, Camp Chairs

Please call the church office if you are interested in helping or need more information.

Also, check out our Donation Board this Sunday for other items for you to donate such as…

- Hotdog Buns          - Canned drinks (Named Brand Please)

- Bottled Water         - Baked beans - Warm or in a crock pot

- Chips                        - And more

Lydia’s Group will meet Tuesday, October 15 @ 6:00 pm at Milano’s.  Call or text Dreama for reservations.

On Sunday, October 20, we will invite our local first responders to be recognized during worship and join us for our monthly potluck lunch following worship.  Please plan to attend both worship and the lunch and bring extra food so we can accommodate our guests.

If you know or interact with any local first responders, please take the opportunity to invite them to this special day.

Make plans now to be a part of this year’s Fall Festival on Saturday, October 26, from 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  There will be a car show from 9 a.m. til 3 p.m., children’s village with games and inflatables, food, music and lots of fellowship!  Plan to be here for all or part of the day as we welcome our community and enjoy each other’s company.

It's that time of year when we reflect on the greatest gift given to us and how we respond. Of course, that gift was Christ.  We can respond by reaching out to children around the world through Operation Christmas Child.  Pick up an empty shoe box and fill it with a "wow" toy, other fun toys, hygiene items and school supplies.  Pray for the boy or girl who will receive this box, enclose a note and picture of yourself and a $9 donation to cover shipping.  Return the filled shoebox by November 10th.  (Sponsored by Hope Group) 

Click below for gift ideas!

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/what-goes-in-my-shoebox-suggestions/

All Saints' Day will be celebrated on Nov. 3rd.  On this day Christians recognize those who have passed since last All Saints' Day. If you have lost a loved one in the last year and would like to have their name included in the service, please contact Jessica Collins.

On November 2, Hopewell will again partner with Rebuild Upstate to help repair and improve an area home. More details are coming soon.

Hopewell will join with several other area churches in a Community Thanksgiving Worship Service on Sunday, November 24, at 6:00 p.m.  This year’s worship service will be held at Pisgah United Methodist Church, 1719 McKelvey Rd, Fountain Inn.  We are also invited to a light meal following the worship service.  Please make plans now to attend.

Please join us Sundays at 9:15 am for one of our book studies:

• *NEW* James W. Moore’s book When All Else Fails, Read the Instructions. Please join us as we explore and learn about the Beatitudes, the Ten Commandments, and the new commandment of Jesus.The class meets in the third room on the left as you enter the doors by the kitchen (the copier room).
• "A Layman Looks at the Lord’s Prayer" by W. Phillip Keller will resume on September 8. Meets in the second classroom on the left as you enter the doors by the kitchen.

Hopewell is holding a Bible study on Tuesdays at 9:30am for persons new to the Bible. We will meet in the kitchen of Hopewell and will read the “stories” of the Bible. There is no reading preparation for the class, and each class is a new story. A Bible is necessary; you can bring your own, or one will be provided. If you have questions, please contact Jessica Collins.

Hopewell is beginning a care package ministry. Please find a form in this week’s bulletin and write down a person you think would be uplifted by receiving a care package from Hopewell. This can be a person of any age or any situation.

Volunteers willing to serve in this ministry are welcomed.

Please call Mary Brown or Jessica Collins with any questions.

The Theology on Tap Bible study meets at Full House Sportzaria (next to Target in Simpsonville) at 7pm on Mondays. Bring your Bible and join your friends for study, discussion, and fellowship.

Our prayer coordinator, Mary Brown, invites all who would like to be included in the weekly prayer list update email to contact her via email at hopewellprayers@gmail.com .

Please click HERE for a list of 2019 leadership at Hopewell UMC.  

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