Included in this issue (this week):

• November Mission of the Month: CSSH Code Blue - Give
• New Member Half-Day Retreat reminder, Sat., November 7, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
• CSSH Code Blue Volunteer training, Saturday, November 7, 9:30 am
• Laity Sunday, Sunday, November 8
• Children's Bible Presentations, Sunday, November 8, 9:00 & 11:11 am
• Caring for Friends, Wednesday, November 11, 12:45 pm
• Documentary Film Screening & Community Forum, Wed., Nov. 11, 6:00 pm
• CHURCH CONFERENCE, Saturday, November 14, 9:30 - 10:30 am
• Harvest Home Sunday, Sunday, November 15
• DONATIONS NEEDED - Youth Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser, Sun., Nov. 15, 5 - 7:30 pm
• CSSH Quizzo Trivia Night (flyer, tickets), Thursday, November 19, 7:00 pm
• Thanksgiving Interfaith Service, Thursday, Nov. 19, 7:30 pm @ Temple Judea
• Community Karaoke Night sign up, Sat., November 21, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
• Required Minimum Distribution, Sunday, November 22, All 3 services
• Youth Thanksgiving Dinner, Sunday, November 22, 5:00 - 6:30 pm
• Advent candle lighters sign up, November 29, December 6, 13, 20, 24
• Thanks-Giving gift card collection, due Sunday, November 29
• Parents' Night Out (flyer, registration), Friday, December 4, 5:00 - 8:30 pm
• A Woman's Place holiday party donations, due Friday, December 4
• DUMC Kids' Giving Tree, due Sunday, December 6
• Nourish, 1 Monday per month, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
• Preschool: November calendar, Preschool openings, Gift collection
• Christmas Cookie Walk - organizer needed
• Pocono Plateau collecting broken crayons
• DUMC Church Directory is online

9:00 am

Uplifting Worship

Wesley Class

Nursery

Sunday School

Fusion

Confirmation - January 2027

  10:10 am

Liturgical Worship*

Nursery

11:11 am

Word & Worship*

Nursery

Kids' Word (1st & 3rd Sundays)

*Live broadcast

For links:

DoylestownUMC.com

CHURCH CONFERENCE

Saturday, November 14

9:30 - 10:30 am

Worship Center

Agenda: How we are doing ministerially and financially.

NURSERY CARE

Nursery care available for children 0-5 years old on Sundays from 8:50 am - 12:15 pm.

*Nursery staff and servants are “Safe Sanctuary” certified; this policy includes all required state and federal background checks.

PRESENTATION OF BIBLES

Sunday, November 8

9:00 and 11:11 am

Children 3 years old or currently in 3rd grade will be presented with a personalized Bible at the 9:00 and 11:11 am services on Sunday, November 8.

Community Karaoke Night at DUMC

Saturday, November 21, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Worship Center, SIGN UP HERE

Bring your family and friends for a fun night with your favorite songs! Free snacks and drinks. Wear a costume from your favorite movie or decade. Go to the DUMC Facebook page and comment on the karaoke post to tell us what you want to sing. Click here for a list of songs to inspire you.

Required Minimum Distribution Meeting

Sunday, November 22, all services

Do you expect to receive a distribution from your IRA or 401K plan this year?

Have you inherited an IRA or 401K plan?

Are you concerned about the tax effect of a required distribution?

For these and other questions, please join us. For more details, contact Bob Sanville at (215) 803-7882.

Advent Candle Lighters Needed

Families or groups of friends are invited to participate at each service between Sunday, November 29 and Thursday, December 24. This opportunity includes lighting the candle(s) and reading the Advent liturgy.

Please sign up on the clipboard in the lobby, call the church office (215-348-5224), or CLICK HERE to volunteer.

Christmas Cookie Walk - Organizer NEEDED for

Sunday, December 13

1:00 - 4:00 pm

We are thankful for Shelly's time and dedication for the past 3 years! We are now looking to fill the organizer role for the annual Cookie Walk moving forward. Please contact the office or Shelly Mooney if you're interested. Training and details provided.

Code Blue Shelter Volunteer Training

Coalition to Shelter & Support the Homeless (CSSH)

Become a Code Blue Shelter volunteer this winter. Help transport and shelter adults in Central Bucks on cold winter nights. TRAINING IS REQUIRED and available online, or in person on Sat., 11/7 at 9:30am and Sat., 11/21 at 9:30am; SIGN-UP HERE. Additional Information can be found on the FLYER (also located in the Lobby). Questions? Email Rhelda Richards.

Quizzo Trivia Night for CSSH

Wednesday, November 20, 6:15 pm

QUIZZO trivia night to support CSSH - click flyer for more details or get tickets here.

Next Caring for Friends meal assembly:

Wednesday, November 11 at 12:45 pm

in the DUMC kitchen. CLICK HERE for more details. Instructional guide for preparing meals at home.

Documentary Film Screening & Community Forum

Wednesday, November 11, 6:00 pm

Upper Dublin Lutheran Church

411 Susquehanna Rd, Ambler, PA 19002

"Jesus Was A Migrant"



Click HERE for flyer and sign up. Watch trailer here.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Randy Hume.

Harvest Home Sunday 2026

Sunday, November 15

Harvest Home services and charitable collections have been an important celebratory tradition in Pennsylvania churches for centuries. Written accounts from Lutheran and Reformed congregations describe harvest services as early as the 1830's (Forrest Moyer, 2019). As an expression of thanksgiving and gratitude to God for the harvest season, we collect food donations to give to local food banks to support families and individuals in need.

We will celebrate Harvest Home Sunday on November 15 this year. Your generous food donations will be split between 3 local food banks: Jesus Focus Ministry Food Pantry at Bethanna, Bucks County Housing Group Doylestown, and New Britain Food Pantry.

Suggested food donations include:

-Fresh Produce: Apples, carrots, celery, cranberries, onions, potatoes, squash, and sweet potatoes.

-Nonperishables: Boxed cornbread mix, boxed pie crust mix, cake mix/frosting, canned corn, canned green beans, canned pumpkin, canned pumpkin pie filling, canned broth, canned yams, canned cranberry sauce, gravy, boxed potato flakes, and boxed stuffing mix.

Kindly leave your food offerings on the table in the lobby.

Many thanks from the Missions Committee

DUMC Community Dinner

Wednesday, November 25, 6:00 pm

 (last Wednesday of every month)

"THANKSGIVING FEAST"

Sign up here for November's Community Dinner (2026 meal calendar). There is also a sign-up sheet in the lobby. If you would like to participate with a monetary donation, you can do so with cash, check (please note "Community Dinner" on the memo line), SUBSPLASH, or VENMO.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Cindy Biehl.

Thanks-Giving

Gift card donations

Help others have a

blessed Christmas by purchasing

$25 gift cards to

Target * Walmart * Giant * ACME * Amazon

benefiting

Bucks County Housing Group &

Lenape Valley Foundation

Watch for the Thanks-Giving sign in the lobby and place gift cards in the box. Donations appreciated by Sunday, November 29.

A Woman's Place Holiday Party

Donations Needed!

As in previous years, DUMC will be collecting for clients of A Woman's Place (AWP) Holiday Party. Click the link below to learn more details. Donations appreciated by Friday, December 4.

AWP has provided the community free, private, confidential, and comprehensive shelter, service, support, advocacy, outreach, training, and education for victims of domestic violence and their children for 50 years.

Read more....

Pocono Plateau Broken Crayon Collection

Pocono Plateau is collecting broken crayons to recycle them for children's hospitals.

Instead of letting old, broken crayons end up in landfills—where the petroleum-based paraffin wax takes decades to break down—we gather them to be melted down and remanufactured into brand new crayons.

We partner with a nonprofit organization called The Crayon Initiative.

The newly remanufactured crayons are packaged and donated entirely for free to pediatric wards and children's hospitals across the country. The melted wax is poured into custom molds to create triangular-shaped crayons. These are easier for children with fine-motor challenges to grip, and they won't roll off hospital trays or lap desks while kids are coloring in bed.

If you have old crayons taking up space at home, you can drop them off at the church office to support the initiative!

GIVING TREE

Drop gifts by Sunday, December 6

The Giving Tree has sprouted in the lobby for our annual collection of children’s gifts for Methodist Services. Help us trim the tree by taking a tag and purchasing a gift appropriate for the child’s age indicated on the tag. Gifts should be returned unwrapped by Sunday, December 6. *Donations of wrapping paper and gift bags are also encouraged.

DONATIONS NEEDED

Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser

Sunday, November 15, 5:00 - 7:30 pm

As most of you know, each year our students host a Spaghetti Dinner to raise funds for their mission trips. Next year, we have two mission trips planned—Philly Blitz Weekend through the Philadelphia Project and a high school mission trip to Imperial, PA, through Group Missions.

To make this fundraiser as successful as possible, we are asking for donations of all of the ingredients and supplies that we will need. This is where you come in…if you’d like to help us out, please feel free to purchase and donate items we have listed on our SignUpGenius.

Youth Thanksgiving Dinner

Sunday, November 22

5:00 - 6:30 pm, Worship Center

Join us for food, fellowship, games, and a time of thankfulness. Email Pastor Paul to sign up.

NOURISH

1 Monday per Month

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Worship & Youth Center

December date TBD

"Join us as we discuss Jesus’ Beatitudes and how we can live "the good life!"

There will be a SignUpGenius to bring a dish of your choice. Everyone is welcome (childcare provided)! Email Pastor Paul for more information.

Praying for our Congregation,

Community, and World

Praise & Thanks: Safe and fun Halloween, love Maddie, my cousin‘s resilience and answered prayer, God working through fellowship and hospitality at Community Dinners, relief of burden, autumn colors, Linda Kirk’s message, Wendy Rosanova‘s retirement, girlfriends of 35 years, Ron’s birthday, CB West football win

Health & Healing: Those with a disability who thrive, Erin, Karen, Sangrella family, Tom, Michael, Lynn, Lauren, Wendy, Erling, Sally, Patricia, Anne, Joe, John, Mack, Bill, Ray, Julie, Amy, Carol, Marshall & Karen, Piccillo family, Charlie, Annabelle, Trevor, Diane, Zach, Pam, Joyce, Ron, Dianne, Katherine, Nancy, Colin, Noelle, June, Maggie, Nathan, Annette

Guidance: Tyler & CB East cross country team, Richard, a friend, post election peace, our country, Maeve, Macaulay, those being bullied, Aaron, Coalition to Shelter & Support the Homeless, new youth minister, our church, Angela, Frank & Donna, marriage healing, Cheryl & Steve, shut-ins, our sons, famine around the world, those serving abroad, DUMC service personnel stateside: John Vavala & Matthew Creighton

Hospice: Cliff

Grief: Janet, Jake & Allie, Jane; family, friends, & former students of Kitty Semisch

“In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my request before you and wait expectantly.“ — Psalm 5:3

{Disclaimer: These prayer requests reflect the prayer cards submitted and not the opinions of the prayer team.}

-Laurie Lewis and the Congregational Care Team

Preschool at DUMC

Annual Gift Collection

Wednesday, December 9

The Preschool at DUMC is collecting gifts for Christ's Home and Methodist Services from Monday, November 9 - Wednesday, December 9. Students/parents can choose tags from the tree in the church lobby and then bring gifts to place under the tree on weekdays. Please CLICK HERE to read more or contact the Preschool office with any questions at (215) 345-9775.