St. Andrew's UMC

Category: Church Notes

  • Food Pantry Needs

    The food pantry is in need of the following items: Canned peas Canned fruit (no glass jars please) Chili with or without beans Hamburger Helper These are your items for June. If you can bring one of each, that would be wonderful and greatly appreciated by the food pantry.

  • June Calendar

    There are actual items on the June calendar! There aren’t many of them, but it is the start of returning to church in the actual building. Here are people celebrating in June: Birthdays 6th-Isaiah Haynes 13th-Austin Kingsland 16th-Angela Keys 17th-Wanda Dillingham 20th-Jerry Greenstreet 21st-Stan Fauth 24th-Bailyn Schellert 25th-Marcia Wetzel 27th-Larry Bay 29th-Amy Smith Anniversaries 1st-Burt…

  • Many Thanks

    For your support of the DeSoto Ministerial Alliance. With your funds, we are able to help those in need. May the Lord Bless You! In Christ,Gene Moses

  • Food Pantry Needs

    Since the church has limited hours, the number of donations of canned potatoes and baked beans has not been great. However, in conversations with the food pantry, that is true all over DeSoto. Donations are hard to get to the pantry right now since they are practicing social distancing. In addition to that, many people…

  • Making Space

    If you’re organizing your garage, basement, shed, and car during this time at home, you have probably come up with many items that are ready for the church rummage sale. That’s right! The rummage sale is being planned for a later date, but that date hasn’t yet been selected. You can bring donated items to…

  • Staying Connected

    Thanks goes out to all who are taking extra steps in keeping connected at this time of sheltering during the pandemic. Additionally, six special ladies – Merlin Weber, Terry Neckermann, Marietta Martin, Jan Stichling, Barb Hoelzel, and Laura Souders – have agreed to serve our congregation in making 5-10 calls each week, systematically checking in…

  • Graduates

    Although graduations have been postponed, there are still many students completing portions of their education. These are the milestones to celebrate: Morgan Fauth is finishing her Master’s degree, and Grant is finishing his Bachelor’s degree. Krista Richardson is completing her Bachelor’s degree from Central Methodist University. Terri Deaton, is completing her Bachelor’s degree from Maryville…

  • Things You Can Do!

    The stay-at-home order is making everyone reconsider: what is church? how do we church? daily church? stay-at-home church? It is bound to look different in the times of a pandemic, and it certainly has so far. Ministry looks different too. There are pastors that like to say, “the church is 90% what happens outside the…

  • Noisy Offerings

    Each year, offerings are taken during the Missouri Annual Conference. We normally collect money for these three offerings in the months leading up to the conference. In previous years, this has been done through a noisy offering, and we intended to do this again this year. The offerings were scheduled for March 22nd, April 19th,…

  • April Calendar Notes

    Celebrating Anniversaries in April! 4th-Jerry and Marsha Greenstreet 15th-JP and Leah Parkin 23rd-Stoke and Rosemary Wischmeier 29th-Lonnie and Angela Keys Look who’s having a birthday! 4th-Betsy Weber 6th-Mary DeClue 13th-Marietta Martin and Bella Guertzgen 16th-Charlie Hoelzel 17th-Bob Alexander and Landon Bell 18th-Chuck Bigelow 22nd-Steve Richardson 27th-Danielle Moskop 29th-Tara Schellert For information about other events and…