Last Sunday in March

Lighting the way

Sunrise

Amber & the children

This morning Sunrise (comprised of Carole Koval, Bill Lyon, & Julie Weindel) shared three selections. Pastor Charles' sermon was based on Luke 12:29-34. 

Our fellowship time was a tasty affair as we enjoyed our Fifth Sunday potluck!

Thanks today to: Katie Rose & Ollie (Acolytes), Fifth Sunday potluck (Fellowship), Julie & Dave McGarvey (Flowers), Don & Mary Nelson (Greeters/ushers), Amber Mcclay-Schulte (Holy Moly), Bev Schneider (Liturgist), Sunrise (Carole Koval, Bill Lyon, & Julie Weindel), Lynda Fisher (Nursery), Bob Edgar (Pianist), Dave Lockman (Praise music), Cammie Edgar (Power point), and Lisa Nicholls (Video).

UMCOR Sunday

“Es genial!” exclaims Ada Villanueva Cadelaria, gazing at her brightly painted home in Hatillo, Puerto Rico. Chickens dart across her feet as she gropes for the words—“It’s great!”

Cadelaria and her two children had lived with her mother since Hurricane Maria severely damaged their home in September 2017. Thanks to a South Carolina Annual Conference mission team who traveled to Hatillo five months later, the family’s small house has a new metal roof and fresh paint and wood trim.

The team tore down a rotted, leaky roof and replaced it with a new metal one. “We painted the house inside and out,” said volunteer Jessica Brodie, “made her a new ladder and gave her a ton of metal from the house which she can use for her chickens.”

Immediately after hurricanes Irma and Maria, which hit the Caribbean island two weeks apart, the UMCOR provided survivors with food, clean water, temporary shelter, hygiene supplies and basic items. UMCOR also awarded a $110,000 emergency grant to the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico. In early 2018, the MCPR began moving into the next phases of recovery, requesting emergency-response and rebuild teams.

When United Methodists give generously on UMCOR Sunday, they support the operating activities of our worldwide relief and development agency. The offering ensures that 100 percent of every designated gift to UMCOR for disaster response and other critical needs goes directly to address those needs.

Some give money—and more. The South Carolina team, who repaired four houses in Puerto Rico, was an example of sharing time and talents. “We had an awesome week,” said Matt Brodie. 

YOUR GIFT TODAY MATTERS
Your contribution ensures UMCOR’s response in times of crisis. The UMCOR Sunday offering restores and rebuilds lives. Thank you for your generous gift!

Read more stories about the impact you are making with your gifts.

To give by mail:

Send checks to: GCFA
P.O. Box 340029
Nashville, TN 37203
Please put name of Sunday in note section.

This day in Methodist history

The New Room - Bristol

280 years ago today, John Wesley arrived in Bristol for the first time! He wrote: 

“In the evening I reached Bristol and met Mr Whitefield there. I could scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church. In the evening (Mr Whitefield being gone) I began expounding [to the society that met in Nicholas Street on] our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, one pretty remarkable precedent of field preaching.”

Prayer Chair - Fourth Sunday in Lent

O Jesus my hope,
For me offer'd up,
Who with clamour pursu'd thee to Calvary’s top:
The blood thou hast shed,
For me let it plead,
And declare thou hast dy'd in thy murderer’s stead.

Now, now let me know
Its virtue below;
Let it wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let it hallow my heart,
And toroughly convert,
And make me, O Lord, in the world as thou art.

Each moment apply'd,
My weakness to hide,
Thy blood be upon me, and always abide:
My advocate prove
With the Father above,
And speak me at last to the throne of thy love.

The Methodist Pocket Hymn-Book. 45th ed., Abraham Paul, 1818. Page 29, No. 23

District Gathering

Diana Butler Bass speaks via live streaming

An attentive group

Twenty were present from the Missoula Circuit at First UMC - Missoula for the District Gathering. Pastor Charles, Belinda Alkula, and Marcia Prather were present to represent Stevi UMC.

The morning session was a presentation by Diana Butler Bass who spoke via live streaming on the theme of gratitude. 

In the afternoon we shared district business and discussed the response to the special session of General Conference.

UMCOR Sunday (formerly One Great Hour of Sharing) is coming

 "Each of you must make up your own mind about how much to give. But don't feel sorry that you must give and don't feel that you are forced to give. God loves people who love to give." 2 Corinthians 9:7 (Contemporary English Version)

When disaster strikes around the globe—Haiti’s 2010 earthquake or Typhoon Haiyan in 2013—so many watching the drama unfold on our living room televisions feel entirely helpless. How could any one person make a difference in the wake of such widespread devastation? As responders around the globe scramble to help survivors, the United Methodist Committee on Relief, UMCOR, is prepared to act.

So don’t be fooled by the word committee.

Since 1940, when UMCOR’s forerunner was established to meet the needs of those suffering overseas at the onset of World War II, we’ve continued to respond to those in desperate need—today throughout more than eighty countries around the world.

The response of UMCOR isn’t something “they” do, it’s something “we” do.

Fifth Sunday Potluck

Come and share the fellowship that is the Fifth Sunday Potluck this coming Sunday (following worship)! Bring something simple, or bring something extravagant, or just bring yourself!