Worship Times
This Month’s
CIRCUIT RIDER
Music at First: We say thank you to all the soloists and small groups who gave of their time and talents to provide awesome worship music throughout the summer! God was glorified, and his people at 1st UMC were blessed by your gifts of music!
Our Chancel Choir and Hi-Lo Ringers bell choir were able to make a return at the end of the spring to finish out their usual choir season, and we look forward to them again being a part of worship this fall. First UMC has been blessed by wonderful music ministry for a very long time, and we give God thanks for that!
To keep our music ministries going strong, we need your help! All of our music groups need a steady influx of new people to keep going, and we have always been fortunate to have that as our experience. Help us get the word out to keep that going. If someone you know (or, hey, even YOU!) enjoys singing, or plays an instrument, or just really likes music, invite them (or YOU!) to come be a part of Music at First.
People in music ministry have a good time, they grow in their faith, they enjoy awesome fellowship with one another, and they experience the power of God’s presence when they make music in God’s name. God gives us talent, and God gives us time. It’s so important to use a portion of those things in celebration of the God who gives them! Prayerfully consider it!
Chancel Choir practices on Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. upstairs in the music room, beginning Sept. 9th.
Hi-Lo Ringers bell choir practices on Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. upstairs in the music room, beginning Sept. 23rd.
Our praise band is always open by audition to new singers or new instrumentalists. Practices happen intermittently around the schedules of the participants. We also are always willing to schedule people for gathering music or solos/ensembles as we can.
Contact Clarence McCoy at clarencemccoy@love-first.org or 740-653-3330, ext. 1003 with questions or to express your willingness to be a part of the Music at First.
The Higher Education Outreach Committee is collecting items for care packages to send to our college students as they pursue their studies. We will collect items in the parlor. Lists of items needed are in the Parlor, please consider donating some of the items to remind our college students that their church family is thinking of them even as they are away. All items must fit in a small box for mailing.
Note cards or personal notes of inspiration are encouraged to be included with the packages. We will need your donations by Sunday, Oct. 3. The packages will be made up at Second Saturday, Oct. 9th.
Please let us know if your college student has a new address or is studying from home so we can be sure to have the right address for college care packages:
