Marviners of Marvin United Methodist Church

03/04/2023

Congratulations to Chloe and Leyton!

01/17/2023

Overflow 2023 is In the books. We learned about doubt and how to use it to grow our faith. We fellowshipped together, worshipped together, and played games together.

07/01/2022

Day 2
We made it to Lake Junaluska!
First worship service, D group, and small group!

Matthew 7:24-25—building your firm foundation.

My prayers are that they grow in Christ and grow as a group!

06/30/2022

Day 1 continued—-June 2022

06/30/2022

We had a great first day on our trip! The house here in Chattanooga is quiet!

Tennessee Aquarium
Rock City
Pizza for supper!

01/18/2022

Lip Sync Battle way to go Isabella. This takes courage!

01/18/2022

So we got to experience the winter storm of 2022 ( thus far).

The snow was beautiful! Everyone had fun building snow men and having a snowball fight!

01/18/2022

Worship, free time, meals, small group, hike to the lake.

01/18/2022

So I had a wonderful time chaperoning the youth with Desi and Tyler this weekend. I didn’t do a great job of posting daily updates but prepare for a picture flood. As always kids where great and I am so proud of Desi and Tyler but that deserves its on post.

Below is a summary of our worship services and the theme for the weekend!

Overflow 2022

Cultivate
Worship 1
Cultivate Faith
God wants us to cultivate Faith within us.
Scripture—Matthew 13: 1-8
Soil, birds, rocks, thorns
How is it with your “soil”/soul?

Worship 2
Cultivate Spirituality
Scripture Psalm 23
Tending the soil
What restores your soul?
To engage in your inner life you have to dig in the dirt a little bit maybe even a lot.
How do you connect with God?

Worship 3
Cultivate Calling
Scripture Exodus 3: 1-15
Growing the roots
Occupation vs. Vocation
Listen to your gifedness.
Deepens our roots. Nurtures our Faith.

Worship 4
Cultivate Community
Scripture Acts 2: 43-47
Nurturing the plant
We need each other to survive.
Big Church vs little church
What is important in church? How can we be more like the early church?
There comes a point in life where you have to take ownership for growing your faith! Are you doing the work.

Worship 5
Cultivate Mission
Harvesting the fruit
Scripture Matthew 28: 16-20
The Great comMISSION.
The work of God in you and through you cultivates good fruit.
We are planters, gardeners, it is our turn to go in Mission with God, and reflect the good fruit of God. —-Joy, love, peace, patience,kindness,goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Live so that others see him in me!

07/31/2021

BOOKBAG BLESSING TIME...See details below!!!

Please join us on Sunday, August 1st, for our annual Backpack Blessing service. We will meet in the sanctuary at 6:00pm, with a light meal to follow. Let’s start our students and teachers off on the right foot in the new school year!