New World United Methodist Church

06/01/2026

🎓Today is graduation day for 4 of our Seniors from Lamar HS! We celebrate with all of our 2026 graduates and pray blessings on your new life adventures. You are loved! 🎓

05/31/2026

This week

05/31/2026

New World UMC, Arlington, TX, May 31, 2026 Online Worship with Rev. Leslie Byrd preaching.
www.nwumc.org

05/29/2026

✉️Mission Trip Mail
Our youth and adult volunteers are heading to Norman, OK to work with UM Army on June 14th— and they’d love get encouraging notes from home! There are 14 students and 8 adults on this year’s trip.

Here’s how you can participate:
📥 Drop off cards at the main office
📬Visit the Mission Trip Table on Sunday and write a card at church
📧 Send an email to [email protected]

05/28/2026

🏂We need your winter gear to help decorate for Bible Camp! Please bring it to the church on Sunday and it will be returned to you after June 11th.⛷️

❄️We are looking for volunteers to help us decorate for Bible Camp! If you can help next week, meet Kaylyn on Monday-Thursday at 10am. ☃️

05/25/2026

05/24/2026

New World UMC, Arlington, TX, May 24, 2026 Online Worship with Rev. Caitlin Cress preaching.
www.nwumc.org

05/23/2026

As we approach the Day of Pentecost, I have been thinking back to the beginning of Lent. I am struck again by how this arc of time that began with ashes will end with fire, that vivid image and symbol of the Spirit that comes to Jesus’ gathered followers. Pentecost comes to remind us, in part, that ashes do not have the final word, and that fire does not come only to consume. It comes also to bless, to call, to inspire, to give to us what we could never begin to imagine on our own. Here at the threshold of this new season, this blessing is for you, with gratefulness.

WHAT THE FIRE GIVES
A Blessing for Pentecost

You had thought that fire
only consumed,
only devoured,
only took for itself,
leaving merely ash
and memory
of something
you had believed,
if not permanent,
would be long enough,
enduring enough,
to be nearly
eternal.

So when you felt
the scorch on your lips,
the searing in your heart,
you could not
at first believe
that flame could be
so generous,
that when it came to you—
you, in your sackcloth
and sorrow—
it did not come
to consume,
to take still more
than everything.

What surprised you most
were not the syllables
that spilled from
your scalded,
astonished mouth—
though that was miracle
enough,
to have words
burn through
what had been numb,
to find your tongue
aflame with a language
you did not know
you knew—

no, what came
as greatest gift
was to be so heard
in the place
of your deepest
silence,
to be so seen
within the blazing,
to be met
with such completeness
by what the fire gives.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “What the Fire Gives”
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

05/22/2026

Join us in prayer for those affected by the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and South Sudan.

With over 600 cases reported and over 200 suspected deaths so far, this strain of the virus, which has no vaccine, is rapidly spreading across a region already suffering from conflict and lack of healthcare access.

In response, Global Ministries' Global Health Unit is deploying an initial grant of $20,000 to the United Methodist East Congo Health Board to support critical frontline interventions in and around the 10 UMC health facilities in Ituri Province, DRC, including:
-Infection prevention and control, including the distribution of handwashing kits
-Provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) and safe case management training for healthcare workers in the UMC health facilities
-Provision of essential medication to UMC health facilities in the region

What can you do to help?
🛐 Pray for those impacted, especially those who have lost loved ones and the responding medical professionals.
🤝 Give to support United Methodist Global Health efforts: bit.ly/umcgh
📲 Share this post to encourage others to pray and give.