Our September book will be “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stephenson. Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One…
Open Hearts. Open Minds. Open Doors.
We will be having Drive-In church on August 23, September 6 and, weather permitting, October 4. The service will start at 10:00AM. Information below… Hey Everyone! This Sunday at 10:00 am, we will have Drive-In Worship! The radio station we will be using is 101.9 FM. You can also follow along over Wi-Fi, but there…
Nina Simone sings, “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me and I’m feeling good.” If I can take a little creative license here, I’d like to say, “it’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for (us) and (we) are feeling good.” It is…
Scriptures: Matthew 10:40-42 and Psalm 89:1-4,15-18 Some thoughts towards worship on Sunday, June 28, 2020: There is a lot of welcoming and receiving going on in Jesus’ words at the end of Matthew 10. If I am not careful, I fall into a legal mindset and begin to ask, “What is Jesus asking us to…
Dismantling Racism: Pressing on to Freedom A Service of LamentWednesday, June 24 1 pm EDT | 12 noon CDT | 11 am MDT | 10 am PDT United Methodists around the world will gather here and on Facebook to pray and lament for the racism in our midst. Hear God’s call to join in the work…
Sermon Text: Matthew 10: 24-39 Think About It: One of the commentators I read this week highlighted the word “soul” (psyche in Greek) in v 28 of our text today. Whereas Greek thought, heavily influenced by Platonic dualism, might see the “soul” as being able to separate from the “body”—this did not represent Jewish thought. …
1. If you would like to give electronically you can simply go to your bank online and set up a bill pay and have it sent to: Stanwood United Methodist Church, PO Box 296, Stanwood, WA 98292. 2. If you would like to give a gift of stocks or bonds please contact the church office…
We are changing our “LIVE” start time on Sunday’s for our Sunday Worship, starting this Sunday: Date: May 3 Start Time: 9:00AM as we continue our series: “The Heart of the Matter” Easter Season Series for Online Worship
For the past several months I have been walking you through the process of Pastor Dan’s retirement, and Pastor Justin White’s appointment to our church. May is the last full month that Pastor Dan will be with us, since he will be at conference mid-June and taking his remaining vacation time the second half of…
Please take some time today to pray for the elderly. They are the most vulnerable right now and could truly use our prayers…