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Category: A Message from Our Pastor

A note from Pastor Travis 3/6/25

By admin Posted on March 6, 2025 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor Tagged with First United Methodist Church Melrose MA, FUMC Melrose, Note from the Pastor

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. We gathered as a church and heard the invitation to experience a holy Lent through practicing the spiritual disciplines of worship, prayer, self-denial, and service to your neighbor. It is a wonderful journey, and one that …

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A note from Pastor Travis 2/20/25

By admin Posted on February 20, 2025 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor

Good News! The weather forecast for Sunday is clear! This means that we will be holding in-person worship this Sunday. I am grateful for our online ministry and that we were able to worship on ZOOM when we had to cancel in-person worship …

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A Note from Pastor Travis 2/13/25

By admin Posted on February 14, 2025 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor

As I write this, I am looking out my window. It is a little after 5:00 and the sun is just starting to set. Every day the sun sets just a little bit later and the day is just a …

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A note from Pastor Travis 2-6-25

By admin Posted on February 7, 2025 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor

One of the things that I love about the Gospels is the picture they give us of the disciples. Peter, John, James and the rest, don’t have it all together. On the contrary, they seem to get it wrong more than they …

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A note from Pastor Travis 1/30/25

By admin Posted on January 30, 2025 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor

Over the last few weeks, I have been rereading and reflecting on some of the words of Rev. Dr. Willam Sloane Coffin, one of the most courageous voices of 20th-century American Christianity. In his book Credo, which is a compilation …

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A note from Pastor Travis 1/3/24

By admin Posted on January 3, 2025 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor Tagged with First United Methodist Church Melrose MA, FUMC Melrose, Methodist, Note from the Pastor

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2025!  I pray that this will be a blessed year for you and for our church. If the rest of the year is as eventful as January will be, then our church will have a banner …

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A note from Pastor Travis

By admin Posted on December 16, 2024 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor

Several years ago, our family went to a restaurant to celebrate a family event and the service was slow. It took forever for our food to arrive and I didn’t think they were ever going to bring us the check. …

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A note from Pastor Travis 11-21-24

By admin Posted on November 22, 2024 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor Tagged with A Note from our Pastor, First United Methodist Church Melrose MA, FUMC Melrose

This Sunday is a very important day in the life of our church. We will be holding two important events. The first of these is Pledge Sunday. It is hard to overemphasize how important our pledges are for the church. …

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A note from Pastor Travis 11-15-24

By admin Posted on November 15, 2024 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor Tagged with First United Methodist Church Melrose MA, FUMC Melrose, Note from the Pastor

Can you believe that 2024 is almost over? Soon we will be saying goodbye to this year and welcoming 2025. Yet, before we do that, there are a lot of great things in store at our church. We will be …

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A note from Pastor Travis 11-7-24

By admin Posted on November 7, 2024 Posted in A Message from Our Pastor Tagged with First United Methodist Church Melrose MA, FUMC Melrose, Note from the Pastor

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.” Philippians 4:4. “Rejoicing always” is a tall order. To be honest, there are times when I do not feel much like rejoicing. Why would Paul write this? He wasn’t naive. …

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