Monthly Prevue Newsletter

Family Promise of Greater Lafayette

Helping Family Promise of Greater Lafayette

Dear Lafayette Faith Community, I am currently serving as the president of the board for Family Promise of Greater Lafayette.  If you are not familiar with Family Promise, we are the only homeless shelter that serves families while keeping them together as a family unit.  There is a large house behind the Northend Community Center.  It is our shelter, but it looks like a house… purposefully.  While there the families receive case management services.  During COVID, Read more…

By First Church, ago

Guest Sermon: Creating Change and Love through the Environment

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad,the desert shall rejoice and blossom;like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing.Isaiah 35:1-2 Rebecca Eyrick is part of the family ministry team at First United Methodist Church. A senior at Purdue University studying Environmental Public Health, Rebecca has a passion for ecological restoration and community education. She delivered a sermon based on Isaiah 35:1-10 on December 11, 2022 at First Church. Read more…

By First Church, ago
FUMCWL a star to light our way

A Star to Light Our Way

Happy New Year. The turning of the yearly calendar falls right about at the center of the Christmastide season—halfway between Christmas on December 25th and Epiphany on January 6th. There’s something that feels right about the symmetry of this changeover. I feel like the ending of 2022 is filled with hope and joy. I look around every Sunday and my heart is buoyed by an optimism that is radiated out from all of you. There has Read more…

By First Church, ago
Adult Education

Adult Education: Living Faithfully, Thinking Critically

Sundays 9:45 am – 10:45 amRoom 211 Beginning Sunday, January 15 and led by various members, this class will start the new year with Amy Jill (A.J.) Levine’s Signs and Wonders: A Beginner’s Guide to the Miracles of Jesus. Levine’s work has been very well received by classes in the past, and best of all, she will cause you to think!  The Rev. Dr. Richard Simpson of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts says this of her presentation on the miracles: Read more…

By First Church, ago
Adult Education

Adult Education: Devotions, Fellowship, Connections

Sundays 9:45 am – 10:45 am Room 209 This beloved class is returns this January! If you have been wishing for a fellowship class that provides time to connect with one another, make new friends, and includes meaningful devotional time, this is the place for you. We will begin with a four-part video series: Common Ground by Amberly Neese (no book required). One reviewer says this about Neese: “[She] is a speaker, humorist, and encourager with a Read more…

By First Church, ago
Messy Church

Messy Church — Is there any other kind?

Last month at our Charge Conference, First Church joined with other congregations at St. Andrews UMC to explore a taste of Messy Church. We enjoyed a light meal and then we played with various hands-on activities—arts, crafts games, all connected to a biblical verse and theme. It was really fun! I first encountered the Messy Church concept several years ago when serving at Robert Park United Methodist Church in Indianapolis. Rev. Dr. Andrew Scanlan Holmes, Read more…

By First Church, ago
pastors and staff gift

Pastors & Staff Christmas Gift

Join the Staff Parish Relations Committee in a FUMC Christmas tradition of giving a Christmas gift to our pastors and staff as a way of showing our appreciation from throughout the year and say Merry Christmas. There are several ways to give:  1. Mail your check to the office payable to First United Methodist Church with the note “Staff Christmas Gift.”  2. Leave an envelope and donation in the offering with the note “Staff Christmas Read more…

By First Church, ago
Adult Education

Advent Education Series

Rediscover the gift of Advent that comes without packages, ribbons and bows. This Advent season we will look at a familiar holiday classic through the lens of faith and see how Christ speaks to us through our culture. Our discussions and Advent lessons will be based upon the Christmas classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas using the book The Heart That Grew Three Sizes: Finding Faith in the Story of the Grinch* by Matt Rawle, Read more…

By First Church, ago
Church News

Special Offering: United Methodist Student Day — November 27

Students are the future of The United Methodist Church In the 18th Century, our Wesleyan roots were formed around the importance of education and its role in spiritual formation. In fact, the original Special Sunday was created to help advance education for children – and today we call it United Methodist Student Day. By investing in our students, the Church supports potential in students who will one day pay the investment forward to society. Together, we Read more…

By First Church, ago