Family Ministries
Christian Fellowship DinnersHere is the information you need for everything to go smoothly.
Reservations: Reservations are required! Please make your reservations by Noon on Mondays. You can call the Church Office or follow the link to the reservations document shared in the Weekly Announcements. If you are picking up meals: Meals can be picked up from 5:30-5:50 p.m. in the lane behind the J.O. Smith building. Please enter from Shotwell Street where the sign for handicap parking is. Stop near the covered walkway at the J. O. Smith Building. A volunteer will bring your meals to your car. You can turn in any checks to the volunteer. Please only bring exact change if using cash. Checks are helpful. If you are eating in the J. O. Smith building: Dinner will be served at 6:00 p.m. We will not use the buffet line. Please come in and find a seat with your family. Dinners will be served from the window. Each table will be asked to send one person at a time to collect the items needed for the table. We have arranged the seating where hopefully families can sit together and distanced from others while still interacting. |
See Home Page or Events Page for current menu. Children up through age 3 – no cost Children ages 4-10 - $5.00 Ages 11-64 - $7.00 Ages 65 and over - $5.00 Immediate Family limit - $22.00. Payments can be dropped off to the Church Office, mailed to P.O. Box 541 (39818) or handed in at meal pick-up. Please bring exact change. Payment for CFD can also be made online. Go to the HOME page and click the GIVE button. Make payment to the General Fund and put CFD* or WNS* and the # of meals in the description line. (* CFD = Christian Fellowship Dinner, * WNS = Wednesday Night Supper) |
Making a Home Advent Wreath-Advent 2020
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Saturday, November 21, 2020
1:00 p.m. We hosted a “Make a Home Advent Wreath” activity on Saturday, November 21, at 1:00 pm in the J. O. Smith building. We made Advent Wreaths to decorate your own home this Christmas season. The church suppled the frames, greenery and candles. This was also the Saturday that the children did their recording for their parts of the Hanging of the Greens Service. |
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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and Ash Wednesday Service 2020Tuesday, February 25, 2020
6:00 p.m. Our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper was held on Tuesday, February 25, at 6:00 p.m. Shrove Tuesday or “Fat Tuesday” is celebrated on the day before Ash Wednesday. Originally, the day was an opportunity to rid the home of all fats, sugar, and rich foods before the season of Lenten fasting begins. Pancakes are the perfect food to combine all of those ingredients. If you are willing to help out with the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, contact Elizabeth Simmons or the Church Office. Another part of the Shrove Tuesday celebration is the burning of the palm branches that were carried triumphantly into the sanctuary last Palm Sunday. These palms become the ashes that mark our heads on Ash Wednesday. The Ash Wednesday service was held at 6:45 pm in the sanctuary following our regular Christian Fellowship Dinner. |
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2019
Cornbread and Caroling 2019
Wednesday, December 19, 2019
6:00 p.m.
Our “Cornbread and Caroling” will be Wednesday, December 19. We will gather to eat chili and our signature “Cornbread” beginning at 6:00 p.m. Around 6:30 p.m. we will leave for caroling from the J. O. Smith Building, and we have wagons available for those braving the chill. The van will also be going for those who wish to participate but want to do so in comfort. We will go caroling to those in our church family who have a harder time getting out to enjoy the holiday festivities. Then we will come back to the J. O. Smith Building to enjoy hot chocolate and cookies. Come enjoy this traditional Christmas activity!
6:00 p.m.
Our “Cornbread and Caroling” will be Wednesday, December 19. We will gather to eat chili and our signature “Cornbread” beginning at 6:00 p.m. Around 6:30 p.m. we will leave for caroling from the J. O. Smith Building, and we have wagons available for those braving the chill. The van will also be going for those who wish to participate but want to do so in comfort. We will go caroling to those in our church family who have a harder time getting out to enjoy the holiday festivities. Then we will come back to the J. O. Smith Building to enjoy hot chocolate and cookies. Come enjoy this traditional Christmas activity!
Come to Christmas 2019
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Sunday, December 8, 2019
5:30 p.m. Sunday, December 8, is an opportunity to prepare for the coming of Christ with your church family in a different way. First UMC has been celebrating “Come to Christmas” for more than thirty years. This night is an evening of fun, fellowship, and crafts for all generations together. The activities begin at 5:30 p.m. We will eat soup and sandwiches just after 6:00 p.m. The young and young at heart are invited to take pictures with Santa in the Simmons’ Parlor. The Secret Santa workshop allows children to make gifts to surprise their family. Come for the food. Come for the crafts. Come for the fellowship. Come just to watch the joy of the season in action. Come! Come to Christmas! |
Leighton Moye, Sparkly with the Light of Jesus!
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2018
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Trunk or Treat/Halloween Party-2018
With the cancellation of Trick-or-Treating, we provided our children through 5th grade with a Trick-or-Treat opportunity! Everyone was invited to decorate their car or just bring a lawn chair and pass out candy to our kids on Halloween/October 31. We set up in the Adult Sunday School Building parking lot and the lot outside the J. O. Smith building. The Trick-or-Treating ran from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. with our Christian Fellowship Dinner following at 6:30 p.m. Everyone has a lot of fun!! |
Hurricane Michael Aftermath Clean-Up-2018
A Special Thank You! to all the hard workers who came to the "Church Clean Up Day" on Saturday, October 20. You did a great job! |
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