First United Methodist Church of Eufaula

02/11/2024

Ash Wednesday is a time for reflecting on our humanity, sins and mortality. Learn more about this holy day of repentance.

11/02/2023

07/19/2023

The church has a new Facebook account. Click on this link to find our new page, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100094634961236

Please send a friend request and I will accept you.

The page will be in the setting up stages this week as we will be adding all additional information and administrators.

We have had to make changes with our page in order to continue live streaming our worship services.

07/16/2023

We are sorry that we were unable toget the video to work for the worship service today. We are working on getting it for next week.

07/10/2023

from: "The Godbearing Life"
by: Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster
Thinking that all is lost following the crucifixion, some of the disciples go fishing in the Sea of Tiberius - a dismal, depressing fishing expedition. Hot, naked, and exhausted, the disciples try valiantly to return to the way things were before they met Jesus. Suddenly a voice from the shore (big rock thrown here): "Catchin' anything?" "Nan," they shouted back, more depressed than ever. "Try the other side of the boat!" the voice yells again. Peter stands up to see who this wise guy is. Wait - no, it can't be - but, yes, it is: the Lord! Suddenly Peter can't move fast enough. He leaps into the water, and swims to shore, leaving the others to haul in the miraculous catch. His faith grows three sizes in a matter of minutes.. The boundaries of what he thinks God can do explode, and his love and gratitude for what God is doing in Jesus Christ, the Lord of Life, is simply too large to fit in the boat any more.

07/06/2023

from: “My Life for the Poor”
by: Mother Teresa
The president of Mexico sent for me. I told him that he had to become holy as the president; not a Missionary of Charity; but as a president.
He looked at me a bit surprised, but it is like that: we have to become holy, each of us, in the place where God has put us.

06/25/2023

We are having internet issues this morning and are not able to livestream our service. It will be recorded and posted at a later date. We apologize for this inconvenience!

06/19/2023

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was famished. 3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written,
‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ (Matthew 4:1-4)

Unfortunately we are often more aware of our physical hunger than our spiritual hunger. Feed both.

06/18/2023

It was a stormy night, but we have electricity at the church. Come join us for Sunday School and Worship.

06/12/2023

from: Bread For The Journey
by: Henri J. M. Nouwen
Community is not possible without the willingness to forgive one another “seventy-seven times” (see Matt. 18:22). Forgiveness is the cement of community life. Forgiveness holds us together through good times and bad times, and it allows us to grow in mutual love.
To forgive another person from the heart is an act of liberation. We set that person free from the negative bonds that exist between us. We say, “I no longer hold your offence against you.” But there is more. We also free ourselves from the burden of being the “offended one.” As long as we do not forgive those who have wounded us, we carry them with us or, worse, pull them as a heavy load. The great temptation is to cling in anger to our enemies and then define ourselves as being offended and wounded by them. Forgiveness, therefore, liberates not only the other but also ourselves. It is the way to the freedom of the children of God.