by Les Johnson | Apr 30, 2024 | Events
Join us on Saturday May 11, 2024 for our Annual Spring Flea Market. Enjoy browsing, and buying from the many vendors participating during this flea market. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, May 11, 2024. Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM …...
by Les Johnson | Apr 23, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, April 14, 2024 -Fourth Sunday of Easter, Festival of God’s Creation 1 John 3:16-24 316 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. 17 How does God’s love abide in anyone who...
by Les Johnson | Apr 22, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, April 14, 2024 – Third Sunday of Easter, Native American Ministries Sunday Luke 24:36-48 2436While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ 37 They were startled and terrified,...
by Les Johnson | Apr 22, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, April 7, 2024 – Second Sunday of Easter Acts 4:32-35 432 Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common. 33 With...
by Les Johnson | Apr 22, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, March 31, 2024 – Easter Sunday, Resurrection SundayActs 10:34-43 1034 Then Peter began to speak to them: ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, 35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable...
by Les Johnson | Apr 22, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, March 24, 2024 – Palm Sunday, Passion SundayMark 11:1-11 111 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, ‘Go into the village ahead...
by Les Johnson | Apr 18, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Gennifer Brooks, March 17, 2024 – Fifth Sunday in Lent, Saint Patrick’s DayJeremiah 31:31-34 3131 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not...
by Les Johnson | Apr 18, 2024 | Sermons
Lay Speaker Les Johnson, March 10, 2024 – Fourth Sunday in Lent, UMCOR SundayEphesians 2:1-10 21 You were dead through the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit...
by Les Johnson | Apr 18, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, March 3, 2024 – Third Sunday in Lent1 Corinthians 1:18-25 118 For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, ‘I will destroy the...
by Les Johnson | Apr 18, 2024 | Sermons
Lay Speaker Aldith Llewellyn, February 25, 2024 – Second Sunday in LentMark 8: 31-38 831 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after...
by Les Johnson | Apr 17, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, February 18, 2024 – First Sunday in LentMark 1: 9-15 19 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the...
by Les Johnson | Apr 17, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Smart Sears, February 11, 2024 – Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, Transfiguration Sunday2 Corinthians 4: 3-6 43And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds...
by Les Johnson | Feb 7, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, February 4, 2024 – Fifth Sunday after the EpiphanyMark 1: 29-39 129As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. 30 Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately...
by Les Johnson | Feb 7, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. C. Denise Pickett, January 28, 2024 – Fourth Sunday after the EpiphanyMark 1: 21-28 121They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them...
by Les Johnson | Feb 2, 2024 | Sermons
Layspeaker Valerie Badresingh, January 14, 2024 – Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Human Relations SundayPsalm 139: 1-6 1391You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my...
by Les Johnson | Feb 2, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, January 7, 2024 – Baptism of the LordMark 1: 4-11 14And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went...
by Les Johnson | Feb 1, 2024 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, December 31, 2023 – First Sunday After Christmas DayLuke 2: 1-21 21In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius...
by Les Johnson | Dec 22, 2023 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, December 17, 2023 – Third Sunday of Advent1 Thessalonians 5: 16-24 516Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not treat...
by Les Johnson | Dec 22, 2023 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, December 3, 2023 – First Sunday of Advent2 Corinthians 1: 3-9 13Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort...
by Les Johnson | Dec 19, 2023 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, November 26, 2023 – Christ the King / Reign of Christ Sunday, United Methodist Student Day.Ephesians 1: 15-23 115For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, 16 I have not...
by Les Johnson | Dec 19, 2023 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, November 12, 2023 – The Twenty-Fifth Sunday After Pentecost.Deuteronomy 8: 7-18 87For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; 8 a land with...
by Les Johnson | Dec 19, 2023 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, November 12, 2023 – The Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost.Joshua 24: 7a, 14-25 243But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,...
by Les Johnson | Dec 19, 2023 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Denise Pickett, November 5, 2023 – The Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost, All Saints Sunday.Joshua 3: 7-17 37And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you as I was with...
by Les Johnson | Oct 30, 2023 | Sermons
Lay Speaker Valerie Badresingh, October 29, 2023 – The Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost, Reformation Sunday.Matthew 22: 34-46 2234Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him...
by Les Johnson | Oct 30, 2023 | Sermons
Rev. Ian Straker, October 22, 2023 – The Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost.Matthew 22: 15-22 2215Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we...
