Electric Heights UMC News

A meeting of the Electric Heights corporation is scheduled for the end of service on January 8th. The corporation must meet once a year and the meeting must be announced ahead of time. If you have any business that you feel needs to be brought before the corporation then please be present on the 8th to bring it up.

Karen Burns, a member of the Port Vue UMC who was with me on the mission trip to Uganda, recently shared this story. It touched my heart and thought it might be interesting to all of you:

This past summer I had the opportunity to be at the Elizabeth UMC to help them with Bible School, which their theme was “Missions Around the World.” And of course, what an opportunity to be a part of. I had four evenings and approximately 20 minutes with each age group. Each day I showed some slides -dwelling on mostly Humble Place - Food, clothing, sleeping arrangements, hospital surroundings ,etc etc. What an experience, to be with these children and watching their faces and answering the questions they had . But there was one little boy , I would say he is around 6 or 7 years old that God was and is still working in his heart regarding the childrens situation at Humble Place. This little boy started a lemonade stand and raised a few hundred dollars during the rest of the summer to donate to Humble Place, and just recently he had gone before his church and requested this Christmas that the church would get together and buy shoes for the children. I am so amazed of what God is doing. I was given a check for almost $900 from the heart of this child and the children from the ELizabeth UMC, to be donated to Humble Place, and I must say my heart is still overwhelmed. Blessings still continue and God is still at work in all situations. And may God continue to use and Bless this little boy.

We will be hosting a Christmas concert on Friday, December 9th at 7:30pm to benefit the Cheryl Nelis Scholarship Fund. The concert will feature the inspirational piano stylings of our associate pastor, Janet Lord. It will be held in the main sanctuary.

All are welcome to attend. There is no admission fee but there will be a voluntary donation taken to benefit the Cheryl Nelis Scholarship Fund. The fund will be used to provide scholarships to local high school seniors whose lives have been affected by cancer.

If you would like more information about the scholarship fund, the concert, or our church please contact us at this address or call 412-824-3303 (our secretary and pastors’ office hours are limited so please leave a message if no one answers).

For planning purposes, if you would like to attend the concert please R.S.V.P. at this address or call 412-824-3303 to let us know how many will be attending.

Thank you in advance for your interest.

Fall of 2005 has been a very busy time. If you gauge our activity by this website it might look like we’ve fallen away but I want to apologize for the lack of updates. There’s been a lot going on and I haven’t been able to put aside the time to work on maintaining the site.

This year, we are pleased to report that we beat our mark from last year for donations to Operation Christmas Child. We hope that each shoebox that was prepared brings a smile to the face of a child somewhere.

Please check back for updates and more information about things going on at Electric Heights this Christmas season. We will work on updating the site to provide as much information as possible.

Thanks.