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There is a small extremist minority group within Islam, called the Wahabi, that is condemned by the vast majority of Muslims. I want to tell you a little story about…

  Hospitality Beginning July 31, we start preparing ourselves to welcome back college students and others, with a three-week series on Hospitality.   July 31: Prepare (Mark 6:30-44) Jesus put…

August is an important month in the life of our church. We expect to welcome another huge crowd for vacation Bible School on August 8-11. Throughout the month, we welcome…

August 8-11, 5:30-8 p.m. each day. At First United Methodist Church. A shared ministry of First UMC, Lewis Chapel AME Church, and several other congregations. We'll be following the Cave…

I’ve got people. When I have a question about church money, I ask Sally. When I want someone to start a visitation ministry, I mention it to Lois. When there’s…

Hang out with United Methodists long enough, and you'll eventually hear about Annual Conference. Not General Conference--the thing that ended a little while ago in Portland, Oregon--but Annual Conference. You…

The General Conference of the United Methodist Church is over for another four years. It left unresolved the question of what to do about sexuality in the denomination. The conference…

Yesterday's sermon was about the challenges that face families in Albion. Those include mass incarceration of fathers, a changing economic world, generational poverty, and changes in culture, among other things.…

People in Albion have a historical association with Mother's Day--a mother famously stood up to preach when her husband, the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church (that's us in the past)…

We received the news that annexation passed. Albion is now part of the Marshall School District. So far the crowing has been kept to a minimum, at least on my…