Cherry Dessert Sale - a Big Success

The UMW Cherry Dessert sale was a big success!!! Thanks to everyone who baked and helped sell, and special thanks to our St. Andrew customers who bought the desserts and contributed to our fund raiser!

Call to Prayer and Self-Denial during Lent

The UMW Call to Prayer and Self-Denial Calendars are available from your circle leaders, the UMW table in the Fellowship Hall, and from Jean McHarge.

The Call to Prayer and Self-Denial offering in 2012 will support international mission institutions to help the marginalized, poor, physically challenged & others especially women, children & youth, who don't have access to information technology that will improve their quality of life. Projects such as computer literacy, information technology training, English as a second language classes and career enhancement/job-seeking skills will be supported. Helping others enter the information age will help them engage in the new reality we take for granted.

Giving Makes a Difference - By your sacrificial giving to A Call to Prayer and Self-Denial, you, United Methodist Women members and predecessor organizations over the years have:

• Built and equipped schools, libraries and clinics
• Trained rural and urban women for specialized ministries
• Provided nutrition and medical assistance for thousands of women, children and youth
• Offered relief to those uprooted by wars and other disasters
• Advocated for public policy changes to benefit women and children
• Produced long-term economic benefits through income-generation and other self-help projects
  

2012 Reading Program

Be sure to check out the new books on the 2012 Reading Program. In our UMW Library in Room 241, you can find a notebook where Donna has compiled all the information on the 2012 Reading Program. The library includes books on the reading program that you can check out and read.

All of the books on the reading program are excellent. You should try them!

The 2012 Reading Program "newspaper" is available here in PDF format:

http://www.missionresourcecenter.org

Recipe - Cherry Cobbler Crunch

Ingredients:
1 pkg. of Yellow Cake Mix
1 can of Cherry Pie Filling, approx 21 oz. (Look for cans labeled “Extra Cherries”**)
1 tsp. lemon juice
1 stick melted butter or margarine

Directions:
1. Mix 1 tsp. lemon juice with pie filling and pour pie filling in a greased or sprayed 8 x 8 pan.

2.In separate bowl, blend cake mix and melted butter together. It will be crumbly.

3. Sprinkle the cake mix and butter mixture over top of cherries.

Bake at 350 for 40 - 50 minutes or until top is golden brown.

Bring to church fresh with a cover on the pan

Cherry Cobbler Sale - Sun., Feb. 12

The annual UMW Cherry Cobbler Dessert Sale will be held Sunday, Feb 12th from 8:30 to 11:45. Cherry Cobblers will be sold for $10 each. Gluten free desserts will also be available.

The money raised will be used toward the St. Andrew UMW's various mission projects which have included United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN), Denver Urban Ministries (DenUM), The Women’s Crisis and Family Outreach Center, InterFaith Community Services (IFCS), Warren Village, and House of Hope.

Volunteers are needed to work shifts at the sales table that Sunday morning. Contact Jean McHarge 303-741-9331 or your circle leader to sign up.

Volunteers are needed to bake Cherry Cobbler Desserts at home and deliver them fresh to the church either Saturday the 11th or early Sunday morning.

If you would rather bake at the church, join the baking party on Saturday the 11th at the church.

For more information contact Linda Lloyd or Leta Olson.

Cherry Cobbler Baking Party - Sat., Feb 11

In support of the annual UMW Cherry Cobbler Dessert sale on Sunday morning, a baking party will be held at the church in the children's kitchen from 8:30 to 1:00. All are welcome to join this fun event. Ingredients will be provided - just come help bake!

Contact Linda Lloyd or Leta Olson for more details.

Feb.4th UMW Brunch - Program on Prison Ministry

Join us for a Potluck Brunch UMW Unit Meeting on Saturday, Feb 4th from 9:00AM to 11:30AM at St. Andrew UMC.

Jim Vandermiller will speak about the St. Andrew Prison ministry.

All are welcome! Feel free to bring a guest - men are welcome.

If you can, bring a dish to share.

Questions - contact Jill Henton