Announcements (Page 32)

Due to the improved Covid-19 outlook and updated requirements from the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church, the Healthy Church Team has made the decision to move our in-person worship service to the Sanctuary.  Those plans have now been approved by the District Superintendent.  Beginning June 13th at 10 AM, we invite you to come and praise God as we gather in our sanctuary together for the first time in fifteen months. Thank you for your patience, understanding, and…

Register your child/ren for Franconia UMC’s Vacation Bible School! Click here, registration is open to sixty children only; after that there will be a wait list. FIND OUT MORE.

RISE AGAINST HUNGER Franconia UMC is raising money to help prepare 20,000 meals for Rise Against Hunger in October 2021. We are about half-way to meeting our $7,000 goal. How can you help?

Need help finding a gift for a special woman in your life?  The NOW Committee is selling a special gift basket to help you let the women in your life know how much they mean to you.  The gift basket costs $35 and includes the following items:

The Franconia Children’s Ministry is seeking volunteers to help with this year’s Rocky Railway VBS, June 21-25. There are both in-person and virtual positions available. The activities will be on Zoom from 9:30 a.m. to noon.

Registration for Franconia UMC kids has begun for our Rocky Railway VBS. This exciting, train-themed VBS will combine virtual and in-person events. It will include an in-person Meet and Greet event on Saturday, June 19 to pick up supplies.

Pocket Prayer Quilts That Mean a Lot Imagine our young soldiers, many of them freshly out of basic training and never before having traveled very far from home — and then learning their first duty assignment is Kuwait, Baghdad, or Afghanistan. Or imagine being assigned hours of patrol, working in absolute silence in the dark, alone.

Franconia United Methodist Church is committed to providing safe and meaningful worship experience. The Worship Committee is exploring service options for when the Healthy Church Team discerns that we can offer safe and meaningful in-person worship opportunities (this will be June at the earliest).

Reminder that our Palm Sunday cantata will be presented with this week’s worship opportunity, available beginning at 10 a.m. here on our website, our FaceBook page or our YouTube channel. Directed by Franconia UMC’s Director of Music Ministry, the cantata, No Other Lamb, No Other Name with Choral Music by Jay Althouse, will feature soloists and these Franconia UMC ensembles: The Chancel Choir and The Bells of Praise.  

“Egg-ing for Easter” – Registration extended to Monday, March 22nd! Please share with local friends and neighbors. To all our Franconia-Springfield-Kingstowne neighbors, Franconia UMC would love to “egg” your house for Easter! To help children celebrate the glory of Jesus’ resurrection, we would like to come to your house and hide one dozen Easter eggs in your front yard for your children to find. *And because the tomb was empty on Easter morning, so is one egg! Space is limited,…