First United Methodist Church Ottawa IL

First United Methodist Church Ottawa IL We are a group of people committed to Christian living! We try our best to live to love like God's best example of love who is Jesus.

ALL ARE INVITED TO WORSHIP!
9 am every Sunday! Call the church for Youth Group details!

Today, we celebrate Native American Awareness Sunday and welcome Gerald Savage as our guest speaker. Gerald is the grand...
04/24/2022

Today, we celebrate Native American Awareness Sunday and welcome Gerald Savage as our guest speaker. Gerald is the grandson of Chief Walks with the Wind of Starved Rock, Chief White Winnebago. Gerald was born and raised in the HoChunk ways in the Illinois Valley. Gerald gives us a Native American's perspective of Earth Day. Here's the link:

https://youtu.be/rXgx9O4HIt8

Peace & Love, Pastor Cheri

04/11/2022

So, you will soon be receiving an invite to join our new page, First United Methodist Church Ottawa IL
Hope you'll connect!

04/11/2022

Facebook friends of Ottawa First UMC we want you to remain our friend! Tomorrow Facebook is shutting down this page! We are working to keep you as our friend but in the happenstance that our friends are lost...look for us and look for a new friend request!

What is Jesus' Palm Sunday message to us this Palm Sunday 2022? Today's is a rather atypical Palm Sunday message. We're...
04/10/2022

What is Jesus' Palm Sunday message to us this Palm Sunday 2022? Today's is a rather atypical Palm Sunday message. We're focusing on our interdependence and not our independence. We're joining the multitudes who praise God for such an extravagant, radical love! Let's enter this Holy Week with Jesus and continue on our journey to the cross and beyond...
Here's the link:
"Ottawa First UMC Service April 10, 2022": https://youtu.be/p77P9b6aXVE

Palm Sunday Blessings, Pastor Cheri

Today we’ll hear how the Prodigal Son lives high on the hog until famine strikes in the land of his dream vacation. So t...
04/03/2022

Today we’ll hear how the Prodigal Son lives high on the hog until famine strikes in the land of his dream vacation. So the prodigal son heads home, tail between his legs, expecting he’s lost it all. To his surprise, his epic failure is met with extravagant love and grace. We can be pretty hard on ourselves especially when things don’t go as planned. Guilt, shame, and our fear of being seen as a failure can leave us wallowing in our own pig pens of regret. Our delusions of a perfectible life can keep us disappointed in ourselves. And, into all of those life circumstances, God speaks love and grace.
Here's the link for "Ottawa First UMC Service April 3, 2022" is:

We're continuing in our "Good Enough" worship series! Today, we're looking at what it means to let go of our expectation...
03/27/2022

We're continuing in our "Good Enough" worship series! Today, we're
looking at what it means to let go of our expectations of a perfect life and faith. Today has us taking a look at another harmful idea, the harmful idea that working harder, trying harder is the only prescription to remedy our feelings of unworthiness and our fear of failure. You're invited to worship our Divinely Patient God!
Here's the video link for "Ottawa First UMC Service March 27, 2022" is: https://youtu.be/BJwxB6RkjGw

God Bless Your Worship! Pastor Cheri

Here's the link to Friday's you tube service for Rev. Orrell Ruth:
03/24/2022

Here's the link to Friday's you tube service for Rev. Orrell Ruth:

03/21/2022

Please pray for Jennifer and Rajeev and Orrell's entire family. Former Pastor Orrell died this afternoon from cancer. He's been reunited with his wife and daughter in heaven, a place of eternal peace and love! As Jennifer said, "His life was dedicated to spreading the Christian message of love. I hope you all will keep sharing the love. Peace be with you all!" Peace be with the Ruth family! ❤🙏

TODAY'S SCRIPTURES*Be happy in your hope, stand your ground when you’re in trouble, and devote yourselves to prayer. Rom...
03/20/2022

TODAY'S SCRIPTURES
*Be happy in your hope, stand your ground when you’re in trouble, and devote yourselves to prayer. Romans 12: 12

*“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.” - Galatians 5:22-23

*“Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” - Psalm 37:7

*“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” - I Corinthians 13:4

*“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” - Galatians 6:9

PRAYER
Lord today we thank You for any patience we might muster. So much these days, Lord, tests our patience. Patience is definitely not something that comes naturally to us. Patience is a blessing, a gift from Your Loving Spirit. Thank You for equipping us with any patience we might show for challenging people and circumstances in our life. Many times, things do not happen the way we plan or in the timing we'd like. But, now Lord God, we surrender our desire to control the people and happenings in our life to You. Help us have Your patience, Your peace and Your contentment even when our circumstances do not change, even when our circumstances are painfully hard. Waiting on You is just so hard. We're not so good at waiting, either, Lord. But, ultimately we know so much of life is out of our control and yet, You walk with us through it all. Give us the ability to see life through Your perspective, a sacrificial and loving perspective, an eternal perspective. We only want to love others as You love us, with a love that is so patient and so kind and so perfect, it casts out our every fear. Lord, we know we can't be so patient, kind and loving on our own, with our own strength. We need Your strength to patiently love so unconditionally. We love You Lord. Help us love like you. Even when we are waiting on You and do not see an end to the suffering, we trust You with every detail of our life. We trust because of Jesus, your best example of patient love. Amen
Peace & Love, Pastor Cheri

03/19/2022

Just a reminder, there will be no worship service this Sunday, March 20th due to Covid exposures! See everyone next Sunday, March 27th!

03/15/2022

**ANNOUNCEMENT**
The Health Team has met and decided to cancel worship service this coming Sunday, March 20th due to confirmed Covid cases and potential exposures! This decision was made with everyone's SAFETY as the utmost priority.

The office will be closed for the rest this week and will re-open Monday, March 21st. If there is an emergency, please call Pastor's cell.

Pastor is following current CDC guidelines and wearing a mask. And, as long as she is symptom free, she will be testing every day for the next 5 days out of extreme precaution.

Please let Pastor know if you have any questions! Please let those you know who dont have email or Facebook know!!!!
And, pray for those with Covid and for those exposed!

Peace, Love and Blessings, Pastor Cheri

03/14/2022

FACEBOOK friends! We've been notified our "old" Facebook account is being shut down April 12th. Just letting you know that we're going to TRY to move all the information from this account to our "new" account. That said, we're hoping for success BUT we're skeptical that ALL WILL NOT BE LOST! Is it appropriate to ask for prayers for our Facebook account transition? All this to say, please continue to follow this page for updates on the transition process...And, all I really wanted to do today was set up a Spaghetti Lunch & Supper event! Such is social media life! Carrying on yesterday's message, it's OUT of MY CONTROL!

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100 W Jefferson Street
Ottawa, IL
61350

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Tuesday 9am - 1pm
Wednesday 9am - 1pm
Thursday 9am - 1pm
Friday 9am - 1pm
Sunday 8am - 12pm

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