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THE GLORY OF THE LORD
Are you ready for Christmas Eve worship services? We are hoping to welcome you home along with many other persons on December 24th as we...

Pastor Paul Harris
Dec 22, 20223 min read


THE EVERLASTING LIGHT
Anticipating the Joy of Christmas in this season of Advent for our family includes decorations of light on trees. These three photos show...

Pastor Paul Harris
Dec 16, 20223 min read


A Note From Pastor Paul & Family
Greetings Church Family, Our family wishes to thank you all for your prayers and kind thoughts during a season of COVID19 in our...

Pastor Paul Harris
Dec 8, 20221 min read


United Methodist Men's Clothing Drive
The United Methodist Men are collecting men’s clothing for the Clothes Closet. The Clothes Closet serves men experiencing homelessness....
Emmett Thomason
Dec 2, 20221 min read


The Season of Advent
Welcome to the season of Advent! Come, O Come Emmanuel. Be in us the light of the world so that our lives and the lives of those we...

Pastor Paul Harris
Dec 2, 20221 min read


Happy Thanksgiving
When our family gathers for Thanksgiving, you can be sure there will be a feast! For years, Laura and I along with Ben would go to...

Pastor Paul Harris
Nov 21, 20222 min read


Christ the King/Reign of Christ Sunday
Greetings friends, This Sunday we worship God and recognize a special day in the Christian calendar: The Reign of Christ or Christ the...

Pastor Paul Harris
Nov 18, 20222 min read


Structure of the United Methodist Church
Today the United Methodist Church is a worldwide connection of more than 12 million members in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United...

Kim Carroll
Nov 18, 20223 min read


Our Theological Task: The Wesleyan Quadrilateral
Did you know that it was John Wesley who first penned the phrase “Agree to Disagree”? In a eulogy for his friend, and sometimes...

Kim Carroll
Nov 11, 20223 min read


AMAZING THINGS CAN HAPPEN AT THE DEER LEASE
Hi friends Earlier this week with my Zoom small group Along the Way with Pastor Paul, we studied the miracle of Jesus and the Feeding of...

Pastor Paul Harris
Nov 11, 20222 min read


Means of Grace
United Methodists see faith as inseparable from good works “as love of God is always linked with love of neighbor, a passion for justice,...

Kim Carroll
Nov 4, 20223 min read


Wesleyan Emphasis on Grace
Methodism did not break from the Church of England over theological or doctrinal differences. Our distinctiveness as United Methodists...

Kim Carroll
Oct 28, 20223 min read


Methodism Comes to America
Members of Methodist societies from England and Ireland traveled to America and formed new Methodist groups in Maryland, New York and...

Kim Carroll
Oct 18, 20223 min read


Methodism and Social Reform in England
Soon after the Aldersgate experience, where John Wesley’s heart was strangely warmed, he began preaching in the fields to those who did...

Kim Carroll
Oct 13, 20222 min read


Our Methodist Roots
The founder of the Methodist Movement, John Wesley, was born in 1703 to Samuel and Susanna Wesley, in Epworth, where his father was...

Kim Carroll
Oct 7, 20223 min read


ON OUR BETTER DAYS
... we live into our faithfulness and God provides the fruitfulness... in our lives, in our relationships, in our ministries, in all that...

Pastor Paul Harris
Sep 30, 20222 min read


A Change of Seasons, Please!
I like to follow the Facebook Group called Maine Fall Foliage. Recent photos shared in that social media group indicate that the leaf...

Pastor Paul Harris
Sep 22, 20222 min read


EVERLASTING
A few years ago, one of my friends in a congregation captured some of the words of one of my sermons and wrote them down in this graphic....

Pastor Paul Harris
Sep 15, 20221 min read


STABILITY
For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth II provided the British Commonwealth with what it needed most - stability. With the longest tenure as...

Pastor Paul Harris
Sep 8, 20221 min read


Coffee With Pastor
Hi friends, Sunday mornings at Manchaca UMC during the month of September, Pastor Paul will be at the Coffee Cafe area ready to Welcome...

Pastor Paul Harris
Sep 2, 20221 min read
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