Grapeland First Methodist Church

05/28/2026

🔥 NEW SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS BEGINS THIS WEEK! 🔥

What would it look like to truly live as an everyday apprentice of Jesus?

Join us for a brand-new 8-week Sunday School journey:
“All the Things: Everyday Ministry in the Power of the Holy Spirit”

This course is a practical primer for learning how to:
• Hear God’s voice
• Follow the leading of the Holy Spirit
• Pray for the people around you
• Partner with Jesus in seeing lives transformed
• Live out your faith beyond Sunday mornings

Alongside the class, we’ll also be following the Wake Up Call podcast together throughout the week! Episodes began Monday, May 26 and release daily on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

📍 First Class: This Sunday
🕙 10:00am
📚 Church Library

Books with daily reflections and journal prompts are available upon request. A $20 donation is appreciated to help cover costs, but absolutely not required.

Whether you’ve walked with Jesus for decades or are just beginning to explore a Spirit-led life, this class is for you.

Come hungry. Come curious. Come expectant.

Grapeland First Methodist Church
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05/26/2026

Missed Sunday? Our latest worship service and sermon video is now available!

🔥 Breath, Wind, Fire: The Spirit Then and Now 🔥

What if many of us are living as though we’re still waiting for God to show up… while Pentecost declares that He already has?

This Pentecost message follows the story of God’s Spirit through Scripture—from creation, to the Psalms, to Jesus, and finally to the outpouring at Pentecost. Discover how the Holy Spirit is not just power for special moments, but God’s gift of life, restoration, holiness, and daily fellowship with Him.

This service also includes a time of honoring and remembering those who gave their lives in service to our nation as we approach Memorial Day.

Watch, rewatch, reflect, and share with someone who may need encouragement today.

🎥 Like, subscribe, and share to help others connect with God’s Word.

Grapeland First Methodist Church
A First Loves Church: Love God. Love People.
“We love because He first loved us.”

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05/21/2026

🎥 MISSED SUNDAY? LAST WEEK'S SERMON IS NOW ON YOUTUBE!

What are you chasing? What are you clinging to? What have you built your life around because you believe it will finally give you purpose, joy, fulfillment, and peace?

Last Sunday during our Graduation Sunday service, we looked at Paul's testimony in Philippians 3 and David's cry in Psalm 63 and discovered a powerful truth:

Jesus is Life.

Success, achievements, careers, possessions, and recognition can never satisfy the deepest longing of the human heart. Paul had everything his world valued and celebrated, yet declared it all a loss compared to “the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus.”

If you missed the message, want to reflect on it again, or know someone who needs encouragement, take some time and give it a watch!

🎓 "Press On! Chasing and Clinging to Christ!"

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05/20/2026

Join us for a new, short-term Sunday School class starting May 31!
"All the Things: Everyday Ministry in the Power of the Holy Spirit"

This 8-week course is a practical primer for becoming an everyday apprentice of Jesus—hearing God’s voice, following the Spirit, praying for those around us, and partnering with Jesus in seeing lives transformed.

If you've found yourself wondering "what's the next step in my faith?" or "how do I start living into God's mission and purpose for my life and His church?" then this class is for you!

There is a daily work-book (beginning May 25) that accompanies the course and you can use it on your own or follow along with the "Wake-Up Call" podcast (available on Apple Podcasts or Spotify). Every Sunday, we'll come together as a group to watch a short video and discuss that weeks focus/topic.

The class will be hosted and led by Judy Mask and Pastor Jeremy.
Sundays at 10:00am

A handful of books will be available at the church this week and more can be ordered if needed.
Please sign-up in the foyer this Sunday and let us know if you plan to participate!!

**note: this short-term class is not to replace any existing classes, nor will it be an ongoing class. It will meet for the 8-weeks of the study only, and then participants are encouraged to return to or begin attending one of our other Sunday School classes or mid-week small groups.

All the Things launches on the Wake-Up Call on May 25th! You can purchase your copy of the book here.

05/18/2026

Join us tonight (Monday) in the family life center at 6:00pm to meet Dr Tim Turner and learn about their missionary call to Tanzania!

God is on the move in the Global Methodist Church and around the world! Let’s partner in what God is doing!

Light refreshments offered!

05/17/2026

🎓 Join Us This Sunday at Grapeland First Methodist Church 🎓

This Sunday at 11:00am, we’ll be honoring and celebrating our graduates during worship with the presentation of Bibles and a special commissioning prayer as they prepare to step into the next season of life.

Following the service, stay and join us for a church-wide potluck meal and fellowship together around the table!

📍 Grapeland First Methodist Church
🕚 Sunday Worship – 11:00am
🍽 Potluck Meal to Follow

Come celebrate, encourage, and pray over these graduates as we send them out with love and blessing.

A First Loves Church: Love God. Love People.

05/15/2026

Join us and Dr Tim Turner this Monday at 6:00pm as we learn about the work God is doing in Tanzania through the Global Methodist Church.

Tim, Katie, Sybil, and Emmy Turner are an approved Global Methodist missionary family preparing to move full-time to Tanzania as official Trinity Conference GMC missionaries. God has called Tim into the work of equipping pastors and economically empowering local churches for sustainable ministry. The long-term vision involves launching a seminary in East Africa that trains pastors with models of formation suitable to the extreme rural conditions and limited resources of East Africa.

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05/15/2026

This Sunday is Graduation Sunday!!

Bring your cards, gifts, and notes of encouragement as we bless and commission our graduates to celebrate the end of one season and embark on a new one, in God’s power for God’s glory!

Congrats Alaythia, Benjamin, Katie, and Case!!

05/14/2026

🎶 Latest Sermon Now Streaming on YouTube 🎶

“Psalms: Ancient Songs for Modern Souls”
Week 1: An Intro to God’s Prayer Book

Why do the Psalms still resonate so deeply with us thousands of years later?

Because the human heart still:

grieves,
fears,
longs,
suffers,
wanders,
and hopes.

In this message we explore how the Psalms give voice to the cries of the modern soul through worship, suffering, repentance, spiritual exhaustion, and hope in God.

These are not just ancient songs…

They are living prayers for pilgrims still walking with God today.

If this message encouraged or challenged you, consider sharing it with someone who may need hope, comfort, or renewed perspective this week.

Be sure to like and subscribe on YouTube so you don’t miss future sermons and content from Grapeland First Methodist Church!

Diving into the Psalms

05/10/2026

Join us tomorrow at Grapeland First Methodist Church as we begin a brand new 3-week sermon series:

Psalms: Ancient Songs for Modern Souls
Week 1: An Intro to God’s Prayer Book

The Psalms are more than ancient poetry.
They are prayers for real people walking through a real broken world with the real God.

They give voice to:

worship and wonder,
grief and suffering,
repentance and hope,
fear and faith,
spiritual exhaustion and renewed trust in God.

Tomorrow we’ll explore how these ancient songs still speak powerfully to the deepest realities of our lives today.

If you’ve ever:

struggled in suffering,
wrestled with fear or doubt,
longed for hope,
or wondered how to pray in difficult seasons…

the Psalms meet us there.

We would love to worship with you!

📍 Grapeland First Methodist Church

⏰ Sunday School (All Ages) – 10:00am
⏰ Family Worship – 11:00am

👶 Nursery Available (Ages 0–5)

“A First Loves Church: Love God. Love People.”

“We love because He first loved us.”