Come one, come all! Join us for the UMW Fall Bazaar this Sunday, November 13th from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. (In the crossroads hallway). You will be able to purchase lovely hand-made gifts, bid on silent auction items and treat yourself to some yummy baked goodies!
We need helpers to setup on Saturday, November 12th from 10am-12pm. We also needs lots of baked items for the bake sale. Please bring your baked goods on Sunday morning.
New Sermon Series: Pursuing the Promises
Everyone's life holds great promise! Claiming and living into that promise through faith is a great challenge. This new series will focus on living more fully into the inherent potential present in our relationships with God, through worship, with our community, through mission, with our families, through children and youth ministries, and with our "self" through discipleship ministry.
We hope you'll join us Sunday at 11 am for services!
Youth Movie Night - Studio Movie Grill
13933 N US 75-Central Expy 1000
Dallas, TX 75243
7th-12th Grade – Join us for Movie Night! We will be seeing Back to the Future in our own private theater.
There will be costume contest for BEST 80’s Costume!!!
Prize—Trophy and Studio Movie Grill Gift Card
Tickets: $15 includes drink & popcorn
Location: Studio Movie Grill
13933 N US 75-Central Expy 1000, Dallas, TX 75243
***Drop off and pick at Studio Movie Grill
A free event for the whole family! The MusicFest program this year will feature John Tarver, organist for Spring Valley United Methodist Church, presenting a fun, slightly spooky concert on the church's spectacular pipe organ. He will be joined by the "ghost of Spring Valley" in making it sound like a whole orchestra! This free, short (around 25 minutes) concert will be performed in the sanctuary of SVUMC.
Following the program, everyone can enjoy trunk-or-treating and free hot dogs on the parking lot, where decorated car trunks will be filled with candy.
So, wear your costumes (not too scary)! Let's all have a fun afternoon at -
Spring Valley United Methodist Church
7700 Spring Valley Road
Dallas TX between Hillcrest and Coit
October 30, 2022
concert at 5:30 pm, trunk-or-treat follows.
Everyone is welcome - there will be FUN for all ages!
Youth Night Out! – Sunday, August 21st 5-8 PM
7th-12th Grade – Kick off the school year with us at Group Dynamix.
This will be a night of community building with our Youth Group. Get ready for High Ropes Course Challenge, Gaga Ball, Jumping Pillow and more!
Bring yourself and a friend! Please remember to wear sneakers.
Parent MUST complete Online Wavier https://groupdynamix.com/waiver/
7th-12th Grade – Come grab some ice cream and bring your friends!
Location: TBA
Contact Shea Harrington for more information.
All are invited to attend the Wednesday Morning Bible study which will resume meeting on September 14.
We will be using the Immersion Bible Studies series on Paul’s letter to the church in Rome.
Immersion, inspired by a fresh translation--the Common English Bible--stands firmly on Scripture and helps readers explore the emotional, spiritual, and intellectual needs of their personal faith by discovering God’s revelation through readings and reflections.
Cost for book: $11.00
Day and time: Wednesdays @ 9:30 a.m.
Study facilitator: Pat Christley: 214-498-5806 or pchristl@flash.net.
Please contact Pat Christley to order your book.
Acolyte Day – Sunday, August 28th
Join us to celebrate our graduating acolytes. During the 11 AM Traditional Service we will be recognizing the graduating acolytes.
Right after the service there will be an Acolyte Training for new and returning acolytes.
Then after their training the acolytes will have a Pizza and Pool Party.
For more information please contact Shea Harrington.
Parent Meeting – Sunday, August 21st 10 am
Parents please join us for a brief parent meeting to go over the Children’s, Club 26 (this is their confirmation year), and Youth calendar.
We are looking forward to all the upcoming events, and a fun filled school year!
Location: Community Class Room
Blessing of the Backpacks – Sunday, August 14th
Kick off back to school with us for the Blessing of the Backpacks.
Students please bring your backpacks to the 11 AM Services (Traditional and Common Ground) to be blessed. The students will receive a backpack tag to be a reminder of their blessing, and that their church family will be praying for them to have a safe and successful school year.
It’s our joy to receive Rev. Rosedanny Ortiz as our Associate Pastor at Spring Valley and welcome her family as part of our church family. On Sunday, July 17 immediately following 11:00 worship you’ll have opportunity to meet and greet Rosedanny, Luis, Sophia and Adrianna at a Welcome Reception in Wesley Hall.
You’re encouraged to come and extend your own personal and warm welcome to Rosedanny and her family as they enter into their ministry with us at Spring Valley.
Just Mercy, the award-winning novel by Bryan Stevenson, has been chosen by the Discipleship/Adult Education Ministry for the 2022 Spring Valley Reads.
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
The Books are sold out. Please check with your local library, order from Amazon, or download on your reading device.
The book discussion will be held on September 18, following the 11 o’clock church service. Please make reservation with Pat Christley: 214-498-5806 or pchristl@flash.net.
July 17, 24 and 31, from 9:45-10:45 am, Anna will be presenting to Aldersgate, Beacons and Seekers a study of Psalms in the Beacons classroom (Asbury Hall).
Anna was our Associate Pastor between 2004 and 2008. After 23 years in the ministry at 4 churches, she retired in 2017. In returement, she has consulted and is doing advocacy work on behalf of women in areas of poverty and access to health care.
A good question is powerful! A good question opens, explores, reveals what often lies unexamined. A good question helps us to look at important parts of our lives that are significant. A good question doesn’t have an easy answer, but instead is often a “living question”, shaping how we live our lives. Such are the questions of Jesus.
When you follow Jesus in his ministry he was always asking questions. Over 100 are documented in the Gospels. This summer we’ll spend seven weeks with seven questions that not only Jesus asks, but Jesus wants us to ask ourselves. It will be a thought provoking and faith expanding journey In Traditional Worship as this week (July 17) we explore what Jesus Wants to Know about the Blind Spots in our lives.
Roughriders Game
Join us Saturday, August 6th at 7:05 pm for the Roughriders Game!
Tickets for $25 per person.
The church has reserved 25 tickets. If needed we can reserve more.
Your ticket will include a $10 voucher for the concession stand. Be sure to stay after the game for fireworks on the field!
Please contact Shea Harrington if you have any questions.
***2 and under do not require a ticket.
Youth Mission Trip - June 21-26
Our current 7th-12th grade students will be headed to Houston, TX to work with the Home Restoration Team. They will be restoring homes that have been damage by recent storms.
Dates/Schedule:
June 20- Packing Day and Meet Your Team: 7:00-8:30 PM
June 21 - Meet at church 8 AM load vans (lunch on the road)
Arrive at Mission Center 2 PM - Then Worksite Orientation
June 22-24 - Full day at the worksites 9 AM - 4 PM
June 25 - Half day at the worksite then Fun Night Out!
June 26 - Worship Service then home around 10 AM (lunch on the road)
Arrive back at Spring Valley UMC around 4 PM
Click here for Registration and Forms
Club 26 Mission Days - June 1-3
Our current 5th and 6th grade students will participate in local mission work that serves the people in the Dallas area.
Dates/Schedule:
June 1 - Children's Hunger Fund: working in their warehouse
9:00-3:00 PM
June 2 – Project TBA
9:00-3:00 PM
June 3 - Fun Night Out! – Pin Stack
6:00-9:00 PM
Dinner Provided
Bake Sale for Youth Missions – Sunday, May 1st
This summer our Club 26 students will be serving their community here in the Dallas during their Mission Days, and our Youth Group students will be serving down in Houston, TX with The Restoration Team on their Mission Trip.
The students will have a Bake Sale to raise money for their upcoming Mission Trips. It will be Sunday, May 1stduring Sunday School and after the 11 AM services.
Your charitable donations will impact the lives of the people they serve and the lives of the students participating.
Your giving will fund these projects and go towards scholarships for students.
Thank you for supporting our student ministries!
For more information and to give online – Youth Missions Fundraiser 2022
Contact – Shea Harrington sharrington@svumc.org
It’s that time of year again! Time to think about summer camps and summer plans! We are thrilled to offer our annual Worship Arts Camp this summer at SVUMC!
Worship Arts Camp is a week-long camp encouraging children to tap into various fine arts as a tool for worship.
WHEN: June 13th - 17th
WHO: Ages: 1-year-old (as of 9-1-21)-entering 7th grade.
WHERE: SVUMC Church
Weekly Schedule for K-6
9:00 am-12:30 pm Mon-Thurs & Fri 10:30-5:30 pm when family and friends are invited to the show at 5:30 pm.
To register a preschool-aged child (a child that has not yet attended kindergarten), contact Suzan Meyer at smeyer@svumc.org.
The schedule for preschool will be slightly different.
Preschool-aged children will participate in a week of activities geared specifically for them. They will have crafts, stories, movement, and music on their level. Parents of 1-2-year-olds will be invited to an Open House at 11 am on Friday to view their artwork and hear them sing. 3-5-year-olds will offer a short presentation before the musical at 5:30 pm and be included in a few scenes of the show.
Elementary-aged children will participate in various worship arts activities such as movement, art, acting, and music. This will culminate in a fully staged 40-minute musical, "Jonah’s Druthers".
Jonah, the prophet of Israel, sends and receives telegraphs to and from the Living God on behalf of the people, and all is fine until the Lord tells him to go to that “dirty, rotten, flea-bitten foreign city called Ninevah” and preach against it! So, wouldn’t ya’ know it, instead of boardin’ the east-bound train to Ninevah, Jonah hops a west-bound stage to Tarshish!
When a big storm comes up on the prairie, threatening to blow the stage over, the driver rolls the dice and up comes Jonah’s number as the one who must be angering “the gods.” Jonah confesses that he is running the opposite direction from what Jehovah instructed him, and he is thrown off the stage and lands in a … well (say it with yer best cowboy twang!). No, not a whale … an old, abandoned well, where he languishes for 3 days and 3 nights. And … you know what happens from there! Once again, like in all Little Big Stuff musicals, it all points to Jesus, and the Good News of the gospel.
Children, 3rd grade and up, will have an opportunity to auditioned ahead of time for lead roles. You will have an opportunity to indicate if your child would like to audition for a lead role. Information, including an audition date and audition materials, will be sent out one month before the camp.
Tuition covers the cost of craft supplies, sets, snacks, t-shirts, dinner for the children on Friday night, staff costs, and rights to the show.
Friday night dinner will only be provided to the children before they perform.
Scholarships are available, we want all to be able to participate in all that God does during this amazing week.
Registration is Limited!!
Join us on Palm Sunday as our Music Ministry presents a powerful morning of worship. Lamb of God is a musical portrayal of the final days of Jesus. Composed and written by Rob Gardner. This work features the Spring Valley chancel choir, professional orchestra, singers from Broadway, and beyond.
