Last Sunday on a balmy fall afternoon, the youth of FUMC presented the First Annual Fall Festival. The event served as a fund raiser for the youth program and provided several hours of fun and excitement for church members and other local residents. A face painting booth, numerous games of skill with prizes, a dunking booth …
On September 8, Habitat for Humanity held a ground-breaking for its first home in the town of Cheraw. The house is being constructed just a block from the parsonage at the corner of Huger Street and West Greene Street. This is a great opportunity for volunteers to lend a hand. With the leadership of a …
On Thursday evening well over a hundred church members and friends of FUMC PreSchool gathered at the Fellowship Hall to enjoy shrimp creole as prepared by Anthony Harris and to bid on fifty-eight interesting and often unique items donated in support of the Methodist PreSchool. Items offered at the auction included piano lessons, topsoil, antique vases, original oil, …
Ready your taste buds and your wallet. The First United Methodist Pre-School Board of Directors will be hosting a dinner and silent auction in the Fellowship Hall on Thursday evening, September 13th to benefit this worthy mission of our church. Head chef Anthony Harris will be preparing shrimp creole. Church members and friends are invited to …
For two days in July, Kay and I were observers at the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference held at Lake Junaluska, NC. Four hundred and forty clergy and lay persons from around the Southeast gathered there with the main business item being the election of five new bishops. Kay and I felt we were unelected, self-appointed representatives …
New Eagle Scouts (l to r) Joseph Harsey, Michael Wagnon, Jake Crouse and Jensen Tomberlin Sunday afternoon four members of Troop 655 in Cheraw were awarded scouting’s highest honor at a special Eagle Court of Honor held in First United Methodist’s sanctuary on the one hundred year anniversary of the first Eagle rank ever awarded …
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Wednesday evening about twenty youth gathered in the fellowship hall for dessert and discussion with friends, family and supporters of their recent efforts at two Salkehatchie Summer Service sites. The event was billed as a “shareholder meeting” to permit the participants to share their experiences and thoughts about their service projects with those who had …
Friends, I appreciate your continued support of the Pastor’s Discretionary Fund. With it I am able to provide much-needed assistance to Cheraw-area residents. Usually, they ask for help because their power is about to be cut off. I counsel with these persons and make referrals to agencies such as McArn Community Ministry. You may know …
The Annual FUMC Preschool Yard Sale is scheduled for Saturday, June 16. Following closely behind the daycare’s recent graduation ceremonies in which twelve youngsters graduated from our program, the yard sale, to be held in the Fellowship Hall from 7am to noon will help raise funds for the support of this mission of the church. …
By the time you read this the organ console will have been transported to Atlanta, Georgia where it will be rebuilt and fitted with an organ control system that will increase the versatility of the instrument. The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) capability being installed provides a keyboardist with multiple, simultaneous instrumental sounds from which to choose. In addition …
