Calendar and Announcements for March 1

Events on the Charge
Monday, March 2
• 12:00 Lunch Bunch at Pink Apple, in Tunkhannock.
• 7:30 Three Simple Rules class at Center Moreland.
Tuesday March 3
• Confirmation at Center Moreland-Prayer 2.
Wednesday, March 4
• 7:30 Lenten Midweek worship at Lake Winola UMC.
Thursday March 5
• 6:30 Center Moreland Trustees.
• 7:30 Center Moreland Admin. Council.
Sunday March 8
Center Moreland Praise Band in 11:00 worship.
Monday March 9
• 7:30 Three Simple Rules at Center Moreland.
Tuesday March 10
• 7:00 Confirmation at Center Moreland-Prayer 3.
Wednesday March 11
• Pastor Drew way to training seminar until Saturday March 14.
• 7:30 Lenten Shared worship at Falls UMCWorship
Saturday March 14
• 8:00 AM Green Eggs and Ham benefit breakfast, sponsored by Soldiers of Christ


Center Moreland Youth Group: Soldiers for Christ
http://www.geocities.com/wearesoldiersofchrist/
FRIDAY Mar 6 5:30P SOC-it youth meeting @ CUMC
FRIDAY Mar 6 6:00P March Mystery Weekend @ UMC of WEST PITTSTON
SATURDAY Mar 14 8:00A Green Eggs n Ham Benefit Breakfast @ CUMC

Operation Worship Bibles: If you have taken a Bible to inscribe to a soldier, please return it soon, so they may be sent! There are still a few left to inscribe, as well.

Roast Beef Dinner, Wednesday, March 18, 5 - 7 p.m. at the Northmoreland Twp.
Fire Hall. Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for kids 12 and under. You can contact any firefighter for tickets.

Ink Cartridge Collection: If you have old ink cartridges of any kind you don’t know how to dispose of, bring them down to Center Moreland UMC, the youth are collecting them as a service project. For more information, call or see Christopher Howell.

Free to Good Home, speaking of ink cartridges: Pastor Drew has recently changed printers, and has no need any longer for black, magenta or yellow cartridges, still sealed, for an Epson C88 printer.

Crayon Can Project: We are collecting old and broken crayons. Rather than be thrown away and take decades to biodegrade, they will be melted and reformed into fun shapes, and given to special needs or sick children. For more information, please go to www.crayoncan.com, or contact Melinda Smith.

Lent Services: Dates are set for the Wednesdays of Lent, all starting at 7:30.
• March 4th, at Lake Winola UMC
• March 11th at Falls UMC
• March 18 at Center Moreland UMC
• March 25 at Eatonville UMC
• April 1 at Evans Falls UMC
The theme will be the Old Testament passages from the lectionary, and the offering for the services will be taken for Mission Central, the UMCOR warehouse in Harrisburg. Weather Note: If Tunkhannock School district has closed the day of the service, the service is cancelled.

Special Class for Lent: This Lent, Pastor Drew will focusing on the book Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living, by Rueben P. Job. John Wesley’s words and thought can give us good guidance for how to live as Christians today by following three simple rules; Do no Harm, Do Good, and Stay in Love with God. Bishop Job’s basic text will be available at the beginning of Lent, and books for the class, for both youth and adults, which will be offered on Monday nights at 7:30, will be available as well.

Praise Band Worship Leadership: The schedule for the spring is as follows:
March 8, April 19, May 17, June 14.

Wyoming Conference Local Pastor Licensing School: will be held at Sky Lake from March 29 - April 3 and then again from April 26 - May 1. The cost is $900. For further information, please contact the District Office, 696-1349 or wbdistrict@frontiernet.net.