Spaghetti luncheon to benefit Missions Team
The Missions Team will host a spaghetti lunch after worship on Sunday, May 26. Please make plans to attend and enjoy the great food and fellowship. Donations will be accepted.
Events
New pastor announced to congregation Sunday
During Sunday’s worship service, Staff-Parish Relations Chair Lib Norton revealed the name of the pastor appointed to serve Cheraw’s First United beginning in late June. Norton noted that the Rev Dr Kurt McPherson is presently serving Mt Zion United Methodist Church in Central SC. Dr. McPherson, his wife Lilly, son PJ (11) and daughter Sophie …
Fundraisers help support Salkehatchie crews’ summer mission work
Saturday, May 18 provides a great opportunity to support our Salkehatchie participants as they prepare for this summer’s mission trip to the upstate. Start the day off with a delicious pancake breakfast at Fatz from 8-10 am and then drive on over to the Advance Auto parking lot and get your car washed. All proceeds …
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Epworth…it’s our ministry
Where do children go when DSS has taken them from their families because of abuse or neglect? What about when a mother is struggling with addiction and is neglecting her children? Last year more than 152 of these children found a home through the ministry we share as United Methodists in SC. Epworth Children’s Home …
Goodwin To Address Educational Issues
Chesterfield County School District Superintendent, and FUMC member, Dr. Harrison Goodwin will be the featured speaker at the May 8 Wednesday-At-The-First gathering in the fellowship hall. Goodwin will review the varied challenges now facing education in our county some of the school board’s strategies in confronting these. He will also address the resolution of …
Merciless Methodists to again represent FUMC in county Relay For Life
The 2013 edition of Relay For Life of Chesterfield County will take place this Friday, May 3, at the Chesterfield High School stadium with a goal of raising $175,000 to fight cancer. You can help by coming out and participating that night or by 1) dropping off bottled water or soft drinks marked RELAY at …
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A nation of Christians…with too little time?
A recent poll commissioned by the American Bible Society revealed some seemingly conflicting behaviors among Americans. Although 90% professed a belief in God, 88% said they owned a Bible and 80% thought it to be a sacred book, only 26% reported reading the Bible on a regular basis. The Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest …
UM Social Principles…a provocative and stimulating study
Some subjects are difficult to talk about…anywhere with anybody. Try starting a genuine and respectful discussion on gun control, on abortion, on capital punishment or on prayer in the schools. It isn’t easy! Tempers can flare. The ties of friendship can become frayed and torn. But without high quality discussion, our minds can be closed …
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Paul and Kay, movin’ on…
At the close of the worship service this Sunday, Lib Norton, chair of the Staff-Parish Relations Committee, announced to the congregation that pastor Paul Wood had received an appointment to another charge for the year beginning in late June. Paul briefly commented that the news had been received with very mixed feelings given the long …