Posts from 2023 (Page 11)

Keeping our children safe is of utmost importance to us at Franconia UMC. We have created a Child Protection Policy to help with this. One requirement of this policy is that volunteers who work with the children and youth of the church complete a Safe Sanctuary training. We will be offering two sessions this summer, Tuesday, June 20 and Wednesday, June 28. Both will be at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom. This training will cover our church’s Child Protection Policy and…

Amy McCarthy is our new Director of Music Ministry.  Amy has had a long experience with choirs in the area and was most recently at a Methodist church in Arlington. She is also a music teacher with the Prince William County Public Schools.  Amy obtained her Master’s in Music Education from George Mason University.    Abbie Palmer is our new Contemporary Praise and Worship Leader.  Abbie has been a performing musician since 1999.  In addition, she has experience as a…

We will have One service at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 16 to celebrate VBS Sunday. The service will be followed by an ice cream fellowship in the back parking lot.  Come meet our VBS families and show them who we are at Franconia UMC.

Our Virginia Annual Conference is meeting in Roanoke, VA this week (June 14-17).  The theme is based on Acts 1:8b “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”  In addition to Pastor Melissa, Joana Arthur, Kathy Henry and Shea Porter-Miller will also be serving.  We ask you to please keep them and the Conference in…

Honor the dads in all of our lives and provide a love donation for Raise Against Hunger on June 18 with pancakes, eggs, and sausage immediately after the 9:00 a.m. service. The NOW Committee will be cooking and serving.  If you would like to donate your time or food, please sign up here.  Please contact Kate Aikman moc.liamg@etaknamkia ta for any questions.

This Called Church Conference will be for the purpose of approving a resolution to move our church to a modified leadership organizational structure.  This new leadership structure will combine the Church Council, the SPPRC, the Board of Trustees and the Finance Committee into one leadership board.  The resolution before us may be found here.  In a Church Conference, all members of the church are eligible to vote.

We are so excited to honor our recent graduates at our 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. services this Sunday, June 4. Graduates will be invited to the front of the sanctuary where they will be honored and receive a gift.   There will be notecards in the narthex to write a note of congratulations, best wishes, and/or prayers for each of our graduates for those who wish to do so. Email Sarah Chambers gro.cmuainocnarf@htuoy ta for any questions.  

The next Conversations on Race and Faith is Sunday, June 11 at 1:30 p.m. on zoom.  Please note this time change. The next Conversations on Race and Faith will be June 11, 2023 at 1:30PM on zoom.  It is later than our regular starting time.  We will take a deeper dive on our subject that we were not able to get to in the last meeting,  We will look at the control of the narrative on race.  As we do this, let’s consider…

If you have not seen FUMC’s community garden, it is outside the kitchen in between Koinonia and the church. The radishes are growing the most robust so far. We gave the first harvest to Koinonia on Saturday.  

This year’s Franconia UMC t-shirt is now on sale through June 11! The shirts are red for Rise Against Hunger and feature Franconia UMC’s mission statement on the back. The shirts will be ready by the end of June. Franconia UMC is raising money to help prepare 15,000 meals for Rise Against Hunger on October 1, 2023. We still have a long way to go to reach our $6,000 goal. Purchase a t-shirt and help us meet our fundraising goal.…