Saint Matthew United Methodist Church

  • Back to School Bash

    Jason Hardy
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    Get ready to kick off the new school year with a fantastic celebration, as we gather together as a community to support and uplift our students, teachers, and families. 

    What to Expect

    • Engaging Games & Activities
    • Delicious Food & Refreshments
    • Special Prayers for a Successful School Year
    • Back-to-School Blessing for Students 
    • Movie Screening: Title: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    This event is open to everyone, so feel free to invite your friends, neighbors, and classmates. Let’s come together at Saint Matthew United Methodist Church to strengthen our community bonds and encourage one another as we embark on this new academic journey.

    Don’t forget to bring your back-to-school enthusiasm and positive energy! 

    Mark your calendars and spread the word! We can’t wait to see you at the “Back to School Bash” on August 4th at 6:00 PM. It’s going to be a fantastic evening of fun and friendship!

    #BackToSchoolBash #CommunityLove #EducationMatters #TogetherWeThrive 

  • 2332 – “God Wants Us Here”

    Jason Hardy
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    Acts 17:26-28 New International Version

    26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

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  • Friday’s Word

    Max Brennan

    An e-mail:

    Rev. Max—We may at times get direction from God, but I am leery of the kind of ‘encounters with God’ you speak of. They may come from other sources, our imaginations, psychosis, even from the adversary himself.

    Tom

    Tom, Paul’s Road-to-Damascus experience was not a psychotic event, nor did it come from the Devil.

    His NDE described in II Cor. 12 was not imagined.

    Peter’s vision in Acts 10:9-16 did not reflect a deranged mind.

    Conservative Christians are scared of religious experiences. They know people of all faiths can have them.

    And the God we meet in experience is one who loves all people equally and unconditionally.

    In other words, we meet in experience the God we know in Jesus Christ. We do not meet the angry and vengeful God of right-wing Christianity.

    Why?

    Because that God does not exist.

    But let’s not let liberal Christianity off the hook. Liberal Christians often propose a useless God who does absolutely nothing.

    That God does not exist either.

    The God I know through both Jesus Christ and experience is one who is invested personally in our lives.

    “In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28.) And this God is available to us and accessible to us through experience.

    So, as a Christian, I am not liberal nor am I conservative. What am I?

    I am a person committed to the evidence.

    I don’t just believe.

    I know.

    And you can, too.+++

    The July concert was a triumph. Don’t miss the one in August.

  • Max’s Corner

    Max Brennan

    IT WAS A TRIUMPH

    The Blake and Shannon concert of Broadway numbers was shockingly good. You seldom hear music done more beautifully or more professionally. There are no stars on TV or silver screen who could have done it better. (I am serious about that.)

    We need to set a predictable time for our concerts. Let’s call them our “Second Saturday Concerts.” This would put the August concert on August 12. (That date may or may not work). The September concert would be on the 9th. We are not yet certain about the August concert, but on Sept 9th I will do a one-man show: “God, Grace and Gooseberry—The Musical.” I may offer this concert to other churches as a fundraiser for St. Matthew. I will be singing some of my favorite songs and telling some favorite stories.

    ONE MORE ME AND THEN MARY

    I have a few more sermons in this series—which is really about who we are and why we are here in the world. I’ll preach the third sermon this Sunday then Mary will be up for a couple of weeks. After that I will take up where I left off.

    I feel that things are getting exciting around St. Matthew. I do. I feel it.

    Get in on it. See you Sunday.

    GOD BLESS—-MB

  • Mary’s Corner

    Mary Teague

    Hello everyone,

    I continue to spend a considerable amount of time humming Broadway tunes from our Saturday concert or just grinning and remembering the joy that filled my heart during the performance. I know many of you were also as moved as I was, I could see it in your smiles and tears. We are so very, very blessed that God sent Shannon and Blake to our congregation. I am looking forward to many more concerts at St. Matthew. Thanks to everyone who brought food and a HUGE thank you to those of you who stayed to help clean up. 

    Our next concert is scheduled for August, date and details to follow. Our BACK-to-SCHOOL bash is August 4th. Hot Dogs and Movie Night are on the agenda. I still need volunteers to help set up and clean up that evening. We also need a room full of school-age kids! Thank you to those folks who gave me money on Sunday morning for the gift cards we will be giving away that evening. I received 3 donations. Only 27 more to go!!

    I will be away this weekend celebrating my nephew’s wedding. I will join you online for worship. Blessings to all! Mary