UMCOR US Disaster Response and Recovery

UMCOR responds to natural or civil disasters of such magnitude that they overwhelm a community’s ability to recover on its own. Through UMCOR, United Methodists extend loving care to people within the United States. When disaster strikes, it is local churches that provide the first response to their communities. This basic understanding—that disaster response is local—forms the foundation for UMCOR’s US disaster training and response. When responding to a disaster in the United States, UMCOR provides training, financial assistance, expertise, local community collaboration to churches and partners making them more resilient to disasters.

Help UMCOR help others at this link.

Wednesday with the Wesleys

Whether we think of; or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him. All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his [or her] own choice. Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things. In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is a continual prayer.

~ John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection

URGENT: Relief Kits Needed!

Due to the elevated need for relief supplies after the impacts of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot is depleted of relief kits. UMCOR reports that approximately 5,000 kits have been distributed to affected annual conferences, and we need your help to restock their supply.

We encourage you to gather your Sunday school classes, local church congregations, and other community groups and create relief kits for those impacted by recent U.S. disasters. Thank you to those who have created kits already!

Get involved at this link.

Today in Methodist History

On 14 October 1735, John and Charles Wesley set sail for the colony of Georgia on the Symonds along with several other English passengers and a group of Moravian missionaries. It must have been a grueling journey!

As they passed the Isle of Wight John Wesley wrote:

Here the ragged rocks, with the waves dashing and foaming at the foot of them, and the white side of the island rising to such a height, perpendicular from the beach, gave a strong idea of "Him that spanneth the heavens, and holdeth the waters in the hollow of His hand!"

This week @ St. Paul's UMC

 Monday: Indigenous Peoples Day

9:00 AM, Office Hours

Tuesday: 

9:00 AM, Office Hours 

Wednesday:

9:00 AM, Office Hours

10:00 AM, Circuit Meeting (Pastor)

10:00 AM, Zoom Fellowship

7:30 PM, Choir Practice

    

Thursday:

9:00 AM, Office Hours

Friday:
10:00 AM, Sew What @ Joan Coopers

Saturday:   

6:00 AM, BBKC Prayer Time

Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost 

8:00 AM, Bell practice

8:45 AM, Study class

10:15 AM, Worship 

11:15 AM, Fellowship

12:30 AM, BBKC  

Scripture lessons for October 20

We continue to journey through the month of October with scripture lessons from 

Mark 10:35-45 and Job 38:1-7, 34-41.

Prayer for Indigenous Peoples Day

Oh, Great Spirit,

Whose voice I hear in the winds

and whose breath gives life to all the world.

Hear me! I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes

ever hold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made

and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand

the things you have taught my people.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden

in every leaf and rock.

Help me remain calm and strong in the

face of all that comes towards me.

Help me find compassion without

empathy overwhelming me.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother,

but to fight my greatest enemy: myself.

Make me always ready to come to you

with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset,

my spirit may come to you without shame.

- Translated by Lakota Sioux Chief Yellow Lark in 1887