Join us on Saturday, October 29, between 11:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. in Clayton Hall (Door 14) for an excellent lunch and fellowship. If you know someone who might need a meal or would like to volunteer, visit ‘Next Steps’ at pumc.org.

Plainfield UMC’s men, young men, and guests gather at the church on the third Saturday of the month at 8:30 a.m. for food and fellowship.

We meet in Clayton Hall/Worship Annex. Bring an empty stomach, a friend, and your Bible! Be ready to be nourished through delicious food and the word of God! Hope to see you there!
Check our pumc.org for more information.

Plainfield United Methodist Church (PUMC) members are welcome to attend this church’s annual business meeting on Saturday, October 22, 2022,10:00 a.m., at Greenwood UMC. We will conduct the necessary business of the church, make appropriate reports to the District, and celebrate our ministry and life together.
Contact the church office for more information.

We invite you to come in and pick up a carry-out meal between 11:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on October 8, 2022. Please enter through door 14 and go to the kitchen; someone will be there to get your meal. If you know of someone who might need a meal, visit pumc.org/ministries.

Inflation and increases in fixed costs present a challenge in preparing the 2023 Basic Ministry (operating) Budget.
Your Plainfield United Methodist Church (PUMC) leaders want you to have a complete understanding of the financial needs of PUMC as we prepare to bring our commitment cards to the altar to be consecrated on October 30. So, come on Wednesday, October 19, at 6:00 p.m. for dinner, fellowship, and a discussion.
Dinner will be in the Worship Annex at 6:00 p.m. The PUMC men’s group will cook some hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill, and the rest of us will bring a dish to share. At 7:00 p.m., we will move to the Sanctuary to discuss the 2023 basic ministry budget. Let’s come and share together! Childcare can be provided if requested by October 17.

One valuable resource that is needed for PUMC’s Angel Tree Ministry every year is coffee cans. We decorate these cans for use in delivering home-baked Christmas Cookies to the Angel Tree children. Ideally, we would like to have metal coffee cans, but we realize they are hard to come by. Viable alternatives are round 240 and 270-cup plastic coffee cans. (We cannot use square or 210-cup plastic coffee cans.) Please drop off clean, empty coffee cans at the Donation Depot near Door 1 to help with this vital part of the Christmas Angel Tree Ministry.
If you have any questions, contact Rev. Ken Loudenback at kloudenback@pumc.org.

The composer of today’s postlude, Charles Wesley (1757–1834), was the eldest son of Charles Wesley, the leader of the Methodist movement. Charles the younger’s musical talent was inherited from both parents. He was organist in London of Surrey Chapel before 1794, then of South Street Chapel, Welbeck Chapel, and Chelsea Hospital, and finally of Marylebone Parish Church.

The Kairos Prison Ministry will have a table in Main Lobby on September 25 and October 2. We want to surround this ministry with prayers throughout the weekend at the Plainfield Correctional Facility, October 6 – 9. This will be the first weekend at the facility in three years. Along with wrapping the ministry in prayers, meal tickets will be available for purchase to support the ministry during this weekend.

Inflation and increases in fixed costs present a challenge in preparing the 2023 PUMC Basic Ministry (operating) Budget. If giving does not increase, we will change what we experience—staff, missions funding, etc. We want you to have the best information possible so that you can pray and consider carefully what percentage of your income God is calling you to give. If you want your experience at PUMC to remain as it is, this is what it will take; if not, then there are some things that will have to change. There is more information involved than we can share on a Sunday morning, so we invite you to a special information meeting on Wednesday, October 19, at 7:00 p.m. in the sanctuary. Refreshments will be provided.

Winter will soon be upon us, which means cold weather and time to “Bundle Up.”
Each year the Plainfield Church federation collects coats, scarves, gloves, and other cold weather gear to help families in need.
We need everyone’s help in this task, so please, if you have any of these items that are no longer needed, bring them to the church. Barrels marked with coat drive markings will be available throughout the church.
The drive this year ends on October 15. The new or slightly used coats will be distributed on October 22 from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds Expo Hall.