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Position available for a Church Organist at Christ’s Reformed Church United Church of Christ in Hagerstown, MD. We are looking for someone who has experience in accompanying church music. Must be available for Sunday morning services and Christian holidays and able to work with a small, skilled choir. Compensation is negotiable. Please send resume and cover letter to  reverend.norville@gmail.com no later than November 22, 2024 with a starting date of January 1, 2025. For questions, please call Rev. Norville at (301)733-4144.

Providing a meal at our Circles Washington County, MD Thursday night meetings is fun and rewarding! Please consider sharing and fellowshipping with us! We are currently working with a dozen participants (Circles Leaders) and their children to reach their self-sufficiency goals. To sign up, you can use this link Circles Washington County, MD: Donate a meal! or see the attached flyer.

Thanksgiving Pies and Cheesecake Orders are currently being taken. You may choose apple, pumpkin, cherry, apple-walnut-cranberry, fruits of the forest for $20 and lemony cheesecake and pumpkin cheesecake for $30. Pies may be ordered baked or frozen for baking later. Orders will be available for pickup on Tuesday, November 26 and Wednesday, November 27. These are premium quality pies!!! Deadline to order is Sunday, November 17. You may order after the 10:15 service or by calling Bruce Massey at 240-675-4498 or by emailing Bruce at lbmassey@verizon.net. You may also order and pay on our website: http://www.stjohnshagerstown.org. All proceeds will go to the St. John’s Episcopal Service and Outreach Commission for their many projects. Thank you!

It is with much gratitude and joy that HARC announces a new $50,000 grant for Micah’s Backpack from the Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Foundation.  “The Knott Foundation (TKF) is a Catholic family foundation committed to honoring our founders’ legacy of generosity to strengthen our community.”  Based in Baltimore, the foundation focused on strengthening communities in central and western Maryland, while honoring the Knott legacy of giving. Learn more on their website.

This is the first time HARC has received a grant from the Knott Foundation.  It comes at a time of great need as the number of children in our community in need of Micah’s Backpack has soared.  We are currently serving 1,236 children in 37 schools all over Washington County, and anticipate the number to exceed 1,300 by the end of the school year. The Micah’s Backpack Steering Team is overjoyed to have much-needed funds to support our many sponsoring churches and organizations in their work to provide weekly bags of food to children in our community.

Funds will be used to purchase food for the Micah’s Backpack program through our partner, the Maryland Food Bank, reducing the cost of food for sponsoring churches and organizations.

Children in our community are the true recipients of this important grant funding.  What students say they like about Micah’s Backpack (from spring 2024 surveys):

• Helps thru the weekend.
• It’s free
• What I like about is how it’s not judgmental to people who need food
• The way we get food when mom doesn’t have the money for food every week
• They add food to my house when times get hard. me and my brothers can always look in the bags when we don’t have food at home
• That they give you food on weekends so you don’t go hungry on weekends
• It comes with cereal and it is easy to make for my brother

Thank you to the Knott Foundation for this incredible gift!

Don’t forget to reserve your spot in front of John Wesley United Methodist Church for some of the best seats in town! Call the church office at 301-733-0391 to reserve chairs for you and your family. Seats are only $6 each. Concessions and restroom will be available. Ask about our new VIP seating!
John Wesley United Methodist Church, 129 North Potomac Street, Hagerstown MD