Sunday, September 27, 2026

CALENDAR

Sunday, September 27 - Join Joey Shelton for worship at 9am & 11am.

Wednesday, September 30 - Join us for meatloaf, mashed potatoes, vegetables, and salad. (5:30-6:30).

Saturday, October 24 - Horne's Vendor Fair Booth with games, 10am-5pm.

Wednesday, October 28 - Horne's Annual Trunk or Treat w/ a hotdog dinner 5:30pm-7pm.

Friday, October 30 - BBQ Plates, 11am-6pm.

News!

Fellowship Dinner this week!

Join us this week for Fellowship Dinner on Wednesday night 5:30pm-6:30pm in the Fellowship Hall. No reservation is required. A generous love offering is appreciated to cover expenses but is not required.

This week the Brocks will serve meatloaf (100% US grown and processed beef), mashed potatoes, vegetables, salad, and cookies.

Take A Sack And Bring It Back!

The Daily Bread Food Pantry invites you to provide food for families over Thanksgiving. With your help, we delivered 103 boxes of food to four local Elementary Schools over summer break.

Drop off your sack filled with some of the listed food items by October 20. Leave filled sacks in the Daily Bread boxes on the back porch of the Lassiter House.

You may make monetary donations online or make checks payable to HMUMC w/ Daily Bread in the memo and mail or place in the offering plate during worship. You may access the list online below.

Contact Jean Lomax, 678-983-3563 or

Bill Brock, 984-372-6268 with questions.

Daily Bread List

Some related thoughts to meditate upon following our sermon on
God's abundance in a culture of scarcity.

On Generosity

by Walter Brueggemann

Columbia Theological Seminary chapel service/September 26, 2002

On our own, we conclude:

that there is not enough to go around

we are going to run short

of money

of love

of grades

of publications

of sex

of beer

of members

of years

of life

we should seize the day

seize the goods

seize our neighbor's goods

because there is not enough to go around.

And in the midst of our perceived deficit:

You come

You come giving bread in the wilderness

You come giving children at the 11th hour

You come giving homes to exiles

You come giving futures to the shut-down

You come giving Easter joy to the dead

You come - fleshed in Jesus.

And we watch while

the blind receive their sight

the lame walk

the lepers are cleansed

the deaf hear

the dead are raised

the poor dance and sing.

We watch

and we take food we did not grow and

life we did not invent

future that is gift and gift and gift and

families and neighbors who sustain us

when we do not deserve it.

It dawns on us - late rather than soon - that "you give food in due season

you open your hand

and satisfy the desire of every living thing."

By your giving, break our cycles of imagined scarcity override our presumed deficits

quiet our anxieties of lack

transform our perceptual field to see

the abundance...mercy upon mercy

blessing upon blessing.

Sink your generosity deep into our lives that your muchness may expose our false lack

that endlessly receiving, we may endlessly give,

so that the world may be made Easter new,

without greedy lack, but only wonder

without coercive need, but only love

without destructive greed, but only praise

without aggression and invasiveness...

all things Easter new...

all around us, toward us and

by us

all things Easter new.

Finish your creation...in wonder, love, and praise. Amen.

College Connect Ministry

Parents and students, please fill out the information below so we may stay connected with our college students. Contact Jackie Bizzell with questions.

Our mission is to help our college students maintain their connection to God and a faith community. We want to encourage our young adults to grow in their relationship with God as well as to succeed in college.

STUDENT REGISTRATION

Pray for The Grove UMC

Great News! We are invited to pray with and for a new United Methodist “church start” in Leland, NC! For the last 14 months, a launch team has been working, and a launch prayer team has been praying for the work to establish The Grove UMC.

Please pray for these specific things this week for our new church start!

Our team- that we will continue to feel energized and encouraged
Valerie- our wonderful TCMS Custodian, who will be with us every Sunday morning
For everyone whom God will bring through the doors and into worship today!

Women's 2027 Spring Retreat

Registration is Open!

Molded by Grace – Spirit of the Living God, Fall afresh on Us

Join us for the 2027 Horne Memorial UMC Women’s Retreat as we explore how God, our Potter continues to shape, mold and remake us through every season of life. Just as broken pottery can be restored into something even more beautiful, we will discover that our own cracks are not flaws to hide—they are part of our masterpiece.

April 17-19, 2027 at Trinity Center in Pine Knoll Shores, NC

Cost is $325 for double occupancy and $385 for single occupancy.

All meals are included.

$50 nonrefundable deposit is due at time of registration.

Check drop-off: United Women in Faith mailbox outside the office

RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE

Horne's Vendor Fair Booth

We hope you will join us for this year’s Clayton Harvest Festival and Horne Memorial’s Vendor Booth on Saturday, October 24 from 10am-5pm.

Horne's Fall BBQ Plates

Join us for our fall Pork BBQ plates on Friday, October 30, 11am-6pm.

$12/plate which includes these items:

Chopped Eastern NC BBQ
Slaw
Potatoes
Roll
Dessert

Buy plates in advance online with the button below or from any UMM member.

Delivery is available for orders of 10 or more plates. Please order by 10/28/26: Leave your location, the desired time for delivery, and contact phone number/email. We will do our best to accommodate.

Proceeds support local Horne UMM and Church Missions and Outreach.

Please use the 2nd button (VOLUNTEER) below to help with the BBQ.

Purchase Plates Here

Volunteer Here

Join us on Wednesday Nights
for Fellowship Dinner

and Adult Classes

Welcome to Fellowship Dinners!

Join us for delicious mid‑week fellowship dinners on Wednesdays from 5:30–6:30pm in the Fellowship Hall. All are invited to enjoy a meal, connect with one another, and settle in before our evening programming begins. No registration is needed; simply come as you are. A love offering is appreciated to help cover expenses, and we look forward to sharing this time of food and fellowship with you.

Welcome Mid-Week Methodism Classes!

We invite you to join us for our Mid‑Week Methodism Class, led by Joey Shelton, on Wednesdays. To fit your schedule, we offer two class times—3:30pm and 6:30pm—both held in Room 213. No registration is required, and everyone is welcome to learn, grow, and enjoy this mid‑week time of fellowship and study together.

Finance News

1. IN-PERSON: Make a donation during worship or drop it in the lockbox by the office.

2. BY MAIL: Send your contribution to HMUMC at PO Box 475, Clayton, NC 27528.

3. ONLINE GIVING NOW: GivePlus.

JOIN US IN MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

SEPTEMBER OPERATIONS NEED $93,464

SEPTEMBER RECEIVED TO DATE $39,969

GIVE NOW

Download the GivePlus App, and select Horne Memorial, now available in iPhone and Android App stores.

Children's Ministry

Registration for Children's Ministry Programs

Children’s Ministries serves children through 5th grade in our nursery, Sunday School, Kingdom Kids, and GLOW programs. Visit www.horneumc.net/children for more information and to register your child.

GLOW (Wednesday Nights)

Wednesday night GLOW's drop-off and pickup will take place in the sanctuary. We’ll begin together as a large group, break into small groups, and then come back together in the sanctuary to close our evening as a large group.

We’re still looking for shepherds to help lead small groups of children. If you’d like to help guide and encourage our kids on Wednesday nights, please contact Jessica.

Youth News

Youth Webpage

Wednesday nights are where it’s happening: Games, friends, real talk, and a place you can actually be yourself. All youth are invited — come recharge, laugh, and belong. Show up. Bring someone.
See you Wednesdays at Horne! Contact John Lopp for more information.
Visit the Youth Page and register your youth for Youth Group. Even if they are already in the youth group, please re-register for the new season 2026-2027..

Youth Group Wednesday Nights 6:30-8pm

Contact John Lopp for more information.

Youth Sunday School

Grades: 6th -12th - Room 217, 2nd floor

Adult Studies

Bible Study Details

Learn & Grow - Participate in a Class!

Adult Sunday School Classes 10 AM

Adult Sunday School classes meet all year. No registration is needed. Just come and join the discussion! Contact the church office for more information.

Genesis (Room 214)

Journey Through the Bible (Room 216)

Open 4 Discussion (Room 213)

Mission Team in Motion

Please go to our website for information on our many mission projects. Join our community of hands and feet required to fulfill those chosen ministries.

Missions at Horne

Where do I drop off donations?

Donations should be taken to the back porch of the Lassiter House, the white house at the corner of Church/Horne Streets. Pull into the driveway behind the house to unload.