This Week @ FUMC (Page 33)

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,…

The Adult Discipleship Ministry is offering a Zoom workshop about the Attributes of Christ as a follow-up to the current worship series “The Way of Christ.”  Hosted on April 18, 1:30-3:30 p.m., this workshop will provide more information about the 11 Attributes which comprise the ways in which we focus on “Becoming More Like Jesus.”  Included will be: a self-assessment of the Attributes (taken prior to the workshop), a review of the attributes, tips and techniques of how to “live…

Spring Break Support for Franconia Elementary School Our NOW Ministry is partnering with Franconia Elementary School again this year in providing food support for targeted families over Spring Break (March 29-April 5).  The school expressed a need for grocery store gift cards as a supplement for families, with the need for more food items with students learning virtually from home and rising grocery costs. nia Elementary School has requested $25 gift cards from Giant Food and Safeway for parents to…

Pick up ashes for the Ash Wednesday service (set for Feb. 17, 7 p.m.) at this website, on Facebook or YouTube (prerecorded). Ashes will be available Feb. 16, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. by appointment only. Please contact gro.cmuainocnarf@eciffohcruhc for more information.

Ashes for Ash Wednesday — We will have an “Ashes for Ash Wednesday” drive through distribution at church on Saturday, February 13, from 10 a.m. to noon. Ashes may also be available for pick up February 16, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. by appointment only.  Please contact gro.cmuainocnarf@eciffohcruhc for more information.

Join Bishop Lewis, the Virginia Conference Cabinet, and the Connectional Ministries office staff in a time of prayer for our nation and our leaders on January 20, 2021, as President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are inaugurated.