First United Methodist Church, Mocksville

06/17/2026

Thanks to Crenshaw Painting for their willingness to climb high and paint at the church. Great job.

06/15/2026

Women of the church, we need your help! The First UMC Youth Group needs one female volunteer to come with us on our trip to Mission Camp July 13th-17th! Safe Sanctuaries requires that we have both male and female volunteers, and so we need YOU! There is no cost to volunteer, but there is a reward beyond measure in the joy you'll bring to our youth and the good you'll help us do in mission! If interested, contact Pastor Stephen!

06/15/2026

Community Park Update. Thank you to all who have commented or visited the Community Park beside the Family Life Center. A tree split and a limb fell this weekend. Lane and Bob are sawing and removing the limb today.
Another work day is planned for July 18 beginning at 7:30 a.m. to beat the hotter part of the day. We will lay down gravel for the trail and work up beds to plant flowers when cooler weather arrives. If time and space allows we may also begin laying out the labyrinth.
Everyone is welcome at the park or to stop by on our workday. We look forward to meeting people at the Community Park.

06/14/2026

06/10/2026

Did you know the youth are going on a Mission Trip?! The week of July 13th-17th, the FUMC Youth Group will be headed to Mission Camp at Blue Lake United Methodist Camp in Andalusia, Alabama!

To ensure all of our kids can go for free (and that they can bring some friends) we'll be having a Wednesday Night Dinner fundraiser on June 24th at 5:30pm in the Family Life Center! The youth will serve and all donations will go to the Youth Missions fund!

We hope that you'll join us for a fantastic meal, and pray for our kids as they travel to the deep south to learn about and practice our call to missional work!

06/03/2026

Hi. The WNCC highlighted the park at First UMC Mocksville. Let’s keep the momentum going.

🌱 What if a vacant lot became a place for prayer, peace, and community?

That’s exactly what First UMC Mocksville is creating: a welcoming space with walking paths, prayer journals, picnic tables, and room for neighbors to gather. 💚⛪✨

Read more here
https://www.wnccumc.org/newsdetail/creating-a-community-garden-a-gathering-place-for-community-and-church-family-19812684

05/30/2026

Hi. Three folks attended this event this morning. We enjoyed the tea and the conversation.

05/25/2026

Yesterday, on Aldersgate Day we talked about John Wesley and his strangely warmed heart. Below is his journal entry for the following day.
May we have Jesus, Master in our heart and the good word of the gospel in our mouths.

What happened the day AFTER Aldersgate?

Thursday, 25.—The moment I awakened, “Jesus, Master,” was in my heart and in my mouth; and I found all my strength lay in keeping my eye fixed upon Him and my soul waiting on Him continually. Being again at St. Paul’s in the afternoon, I could taste the good word of God in the anthem which began, “My song shall be always of the loving-kindness of the Lord: with my mouth will I ever be showing forth thy truth from one generation to another.” Yet the enemy injected a fear, “If thou dost believe, why is there not a more sensible change? I answered (yet not I), “That I know not. But, this I know, I have ‘now peace with God.’ And I sin not today, and Jesus my Master has forbidden me to take thought for the morrow.” ~ John Wesley (journal entry May 25, 1738 -- the day after Aldersgate)

How is it that I never noticed that wonderful sentence about tasting the good word of God in the anthem he heard at St. Paul's ?