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The “Got Prayer?” workshop series is an opportunity to explore different forms of prayer. So often knowing how to pray is taken for granted, but many of us struggle to find an authentic way to engage in prayer. Each workshop …
Dear Church Family: During this wonderful season of harvest, our church family will be encouraged to focus on our prayer life, and we will begin with a six week study of Reuben Job’s book, Three Simple Rules, A Wesleyan Way …
Our “Monday Meditations” lecture series for 2013-2014 begins Monday, September 23. This year-long series is focused on Community and Prayer. As a congregation, we recognize that a healthy church needs both a deep sense of community and a strong prayer …
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Dear Church Family: In the lectionary reading from Luke’s gospel assigned to Homecoming Sunday, September 8, 2013, we encounter the warning of Jesus to anyone who is thinking about following him to “count the cost” of discipleship. No one in …
The Staff Parish Relations Committee would like to welcome Andrew Mattfeld to the First United Methodist Church staff as our new Director of Music Ministries. At his recent interview and audition, the SPRC was impressed with Andrew’s performance on both …
Dear Church Family: Welcome to Summer Sabbath! While this is probably an exception to most churches in our New England Conference, here at First UMC Melrose, our congregation now enters into what we often refer to as “Summer Light” – …
Dear Church Family: Pentecost Sunday brought such joy to our congregation as we celebrated the baptism of little Braeden Richard Anderson, an received seven new members into the membership of our church family: Jonathan & Allison Cox, John & Christy …
Dear Church Family, As I write this reflection for The Gleam, we who live in or have ties to the greater metropolitan Boston area find ourselves struggling to make our way back to some semblance of “normalcy” after the terrible …
Dear Church Family: It is that wonderful time again when I have the glorious opportunity to remind our church family that Easter is a movement, not a moment. Easter is not a simple day on our calendar, but an entire …