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12/14/2019

A wonderful gathering of United Methodist Women! Merry Christmas
to all

11/27/2019

Christmas Eve Worship
December 24, 2019
5:00 pm
Sanctuary

10/18/2019

We are grateful to Jane Armstrong for our United Methodist Women’s program! So many wonderful things she has made and continues to make, all of it to bring the love of Christ to bless others. Inspiring!

09/30/2019

First day of Cub Scouts!!
Community Partners are awesome, and we are so grateful they chose us.

08/28/2019

Kenneth Carlyle ‘Casey’ Day lived a life of faithfulness and integrity. What a humbling honor to participate in sharing the celebration of his life, surrounded by his family and friends. With permission from Beth, Andy and Mary, I am posting some photographs because we know there were many who wanted to be present and just couldn’t be. The first photo is Casey’s 11 grandchildren.
Well done thou good and faithful servant !

07/23/2019

What a wonderful blessing to have Scouts as community partners.

05/16/2019

REVIVAL

A sermon series on United Methodist faith :

How we got where we are &

what might happen next

Since the convening of The Commission on a Way Forward and the called General Conference in February of this year, we have realized that many who are faithful disciples in our United Methodist congregations have not had the opportunity to learn about Methodist theology and what it means to be Methodist.

We have always been a ‘broad tent’ theologically, and yet there are tenets of Methodism, present from the beginning of John Wesley’s ministry, which have been watered down, lost and even rejected.

In 2013, Rev. Adam Hamilton, pastor of The Church of the Resurrection, produced a series of sermons and small group lessons titled : Revival : Faith as Wesley Lived it. We will be drawing from some of his ideas, along with numerous additional resources, as we prepare ourselves individually and as the Body of Christ for the future.



May 19 Revival : Restoring Life and Strength

May 26 Total Devotion to God : Longing for Holiness

June 2 A Crisis of Faith

June 9 In Pursuit of Grace

June 16 Perfected in Love : Sanctification

04/01/2019

Please join Jack and me in praying for our colleague, Rev. Sally Queen. She is pastor of Myers Memorial in Gastonia, has 3 small children and will be undergoing surgery for cancer tomorrow.

03/29/2019

Sunday, March 31st
9:30 am
As part of our offertory collection this Sunday, we will also be collecting for UMCOR.


UMC // EMC - Blog Article for UMCOR (1)
God’s Mission, Our Mission
God’s Holy Spirit calls the Church into being for mission. The Church experiences and engages in God’s mission as it pours itself out for others, ready to cross every boundary to call for true human dignity among all peoples.1 As Jesus said: ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’ (Matthew 25:40)
UMCOR, The United Methodist Committee on Relief, takes this call to heart. As the humanitarian relief and development arm of The United Methodist Church, UMCOR is the hands and feet of Jesus whenever and wherever disaster strikes.
In 1940, Bishop Herbert Welch, representing the Methodist Committee for China Relief, proposed the creation of the “Methodist Committee for Overseas Relief (MCOR),” in response to displaced and vulnerable populations in the wake of World War II. Welch commented that MCOR would serve as a “voice of conscience among Methodists to act in the relief of human suffering without distinction of race, color or creed.” This mandate remains true to this day.
MCOR grew from providing necessities to refugees and displaced populations, to getting involved in reconstruction, rehabilitation and repatriation of refugees and prisoners of war, restoration of churches and civil operations, and reconciliation – an effort to restore peace and goodwill.
When the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Methodist Church united into The United Methodist Church in 1968, MCOR became UMCOR. – The United Methodist Committee on Overseas Relief.
Later, UMCOR expanded its scope to include agricultural and community development projects, as well as medical relief and development, and disaster risk reduction programs.
No one in 1940 could have foreseen the depths and breath of what UMCOR is today.2
UMCOR’s stated mission is: “Compelled by Christ to be a voice of conscience on behalf of the people called United Methodist, UMCOR works globally to alleviate human suffering and advance hope and healing.”
This transformative work is categorized into three areas:
• Humanitarian Relief/Disaster Response
• Sustainable Development
• Global Health
1 Theology of Mission, Global Ministries, https://www.umcmission.org/Learn-About-Us/About-Global- Ministries/Theology-of-Mission
2 New World Outlook, 75 years of UMCOR. Christie House, editor.

People around the world now know the transformative power of Christ through the action of first responders and volunteers of UMCOR. Their vision is to come together to strengthen and transform people and communities.
Today, many serve and donate to UMCOR so that we may become even more involved in God’s mission, our mission. We pray constantly for God’s grace to be made known through us as we provide sustainable, practical and purposeful relief to those in need around the globe.