Join the fun this summer at First Methodist when VBS marks its return beginning on Sunday, July 24 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. The activities continue during the week with supper daily from 5:30 to 6:00 and crafts, games and learning activities from 6:00 to 8:00 nightly, Monday through Thursday. Double the fun and bring …
During Sunday’s worship service, the Rev. Ken Timmerman, speaking for the first time from the pulpit and accompanied by his wife Sara Dee and son Cooper, commissioned the local volunteers who will be departing Cheraw on Saturday for a week’s work in the Pendleton area of the upstate making repairs to the homes of underprivileged …
I am always thrilled to share in confirmation on Pentecost! We remember how numbers of believers were added to the church on the day of Pentecost as God’s Spirit was present in the wind and spread throughout people as the flame of a fire. Traditionally, it is a day and time when we received into …
In her book Gospel Medicine, the Reverend Barbara Brown Taylor writes the following: “When I was little, I used to like standing on my head. I was shorter then. Just about everything in the world was taller than I was, taller and boring, but by standing on my head, I could liven things up a …
Glenn Ludwig has written the following words: Paradigms are a way of envisioning, ways of understanding things. History is full of examples of people and organizations who have gotten stuck in one paradigm, one model of understanding, so that they failed to grasp the significance of the new. There are several pointed examples: 1. Western …
Seven local graduates recently received First Methodist Scholarships funded by endowments from church members. The seven awarded this year went to (pictured left to right): Jake Crouse graduating from Furman University, attending Columbia University this fall and pursuing a Master’s degree in Journalism and receiving the F Garland Streete Scholarship; Sullivan Chapman, Cheraw High, Charleston …
The Bishop’s recent appointment of Rev. Kenneth B. Timmerman to serve First United Methodist of Cheraw was made public this week. Ken is a native South Carolinian, born in Graniteville and receiving his undergraduate degree from USC-Aiken, earning a divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia and since 1984 serving several churches in …
I remember many facets of Easter as I grew from being a child to an adult. As Easter approaches, I have been thinking about the many things I have learned: 1. I remember waking on Easter morning to get an Easter basket and being taught that the eggs were symbols of the resurrection. 2. I …
One of the things I have learned on my journey to the cross is that “storms of life” are real. Life rarely “works out” the way we desire and we spend time with anguish in our spirits and souls over life issues: 1. The death of a friend or loved one. 2. Family crisis and …
We recently changed to Daylight Savings Time and it has set my mind to thinking about time. Time is a precious item and as we yearn for more time and try to manage time and strive to master time through schedules…maybe we do not stop long enough to understand the value of time. 1. To …
