First United Methodist Church, Melrose, MA
Friday, January 27, 2012
As a people called by God, our vision is to be a servant people striving for peace and love in an imperfect world.
 |
 Welcome !
Thank you for visiting our website, we look forward to your visit in person to experience our community here in Melrose, Massachusetts. Please make yourself at home and learn more about our welcoming congregation. Please contact us using the information on our "Contact Us" page for more information or to speak with someone about our congregation. We look forward to meeting you at Service soon !
Our Mission and Vision as a Congregation
Together we are called to be a welcoming Christian congregation that lifts the spirit and compels us to reach out to the community to bear witness to God's presence in our lives. As a people called by God, our vision is to be a servant people striving for peace and love in an imperfect world.
MLK Day of Service 2012
Dear Friends,
I am writing to remind you of the Stop Hunger Now event that is occurring as part of the Martin Luther King Day of Service in Melrose. I have attached the flyer from the city of Melrose. It is FUMC’s largest mission project of the year!
What:
A food packaging event that will create 50,000 meals.
The assembly process combines rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring mix including 21 essential vitamins and minerals into small meal packages. These meal packages are shipped around the world to support school feeding programs and crisis relief. The food stores easily, transports quickly and has a shelf-life of five years.
Where:
First United Methodist Church, 645 Main Street, Melrose
Go thru the front doors and down the long hall to Parish Hall.
When:
9:30am – Noon (NOTE: our most recent bulletin indicated to come at 11:30am – this is a typo! See you at 9:30am!)
(The kick-off rally is starting at 9:00am at the Melrose Middle School or feel free to come right to the church)
Who:
200 volunteers - we need you!
Bring your family, friends, co-workers and neighbors. This is a great service project for the whole family!
There will be jobs for folks of all ages and abilities. - Jobs for everyone! Ages 4 to 100
How can you help?
We are looking forward to your participation! You can sign-up by following this link!
We are raising .25 for each meal we package. Just imagine that 30 dollars would feed a student for the whole month. If you would consider skipping your morning coffee for 30 days, just imagine what impact those funds would offer toward our project. This is a big undertaking and we trust that your generosity will help us meet this goal. We will be accepting checks made payable to Stop Hunger Now or cash donations may be dropped off at First United Methodist Church or given to Diana Heise.
Stop Hunger Now is working toward bringing a packaging warehouse to the Boston area. If we are lucky enough to raise additional funds they will go towards the development of the warehouse. Andrew Sullivan, Program Manager, from Stop Hunger Now and Keith Newins, Chair of the Advisory Board for the Boston warehouse project will both be participating in our packaging event at First United Methodist Church.
In a few weeks, our Church will be informed of where our packaged meals have gone in the world!
More Information: www.stophungernow.org -- website
http://www.stophungernow.org/site/DocServer/Media_Kit-Complete.pdf?docID=1241 -- SHN Background “Charity Navigator’s Four-Star rating”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gYtE4AQ88s&feature=player_embedded–YouTube video of a packaging event at another UMC church. (Fun Times!)
All the best,
Diana Heise
Mission & Outreach Coordinator
cell 781-820-0414
Other Events for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service:
16th Annual Potluck Dinner and Program
Monday, January 16, 2012
The First Congregational Church, 121 West Foster Street
Potluck Dinner: 5:00 PM
(please bring a main dish or dessert to serve 4- 6 people with ingredients identified)
Family Program: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Keith Newins, Chair of the Boston Advisory Board of Stop Hunger Now has been asked to speak because of our (FUMC!) packaging event. Please come out and support this effort!
 January Food Pantry Item!
In order to make it easier for our church family to participate in donating food pantry items to church, FUMC has gone to an item-of-the-month format for food pantry donations. Each month our FUMC Families will be asked to donate a specific type of item, I know this well help all of us with the "what do I donate" dilemma. Please donate an item a week or a few times a month. The basket for donations is in the main hallway. With so many more needy families than ever, every jar or package helps the Food Pantry continue God's work of feeding the hungary.
The food pantry item-of-the-month that we are collecting for January is... Peanut Butter! Please bring jars of Peanut Butter (any kind...creamy, chunky, honey nut, old fashioned) to worship throughout the month of January for donation to the food pantry !
January 2012 (!) at FUMC
December Gleam and Calendar are up on the website...please click GLEAM-Here and CALENDAR-Here to reference upcoming events!!
Mission News !!
Please follow this LINK to our Mission Page to catch up on the latest and greatest NEW Mission information!
Volunteer Online!
Really, it's no fuss - no muss! This LINK will take you to the instructions for our new on-line signup sheets. Or click the "Volunteer @ FUMC" link to the left. Give it a try and sign up today!
FUMC on Facebook!
Did you know that FUMC-Melrose can be your facebook friend?! If you are on Facebook, you can "like" the church and receive these posts in your News Feed. To "like" the church go to www.facebook.com/fumcmelrose and click the Like button. The more members we have to like our Facebook page , the more Facebook will suggest our church to others!
First United Methodist Church
645 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176
tel: 781.662.7060
fax: 781.662.7061
email: fumc@fumcmelrose.org
Church office hours: Monday - Friday 9am - 1pm
 Promote Your Page Too  |
Just for You...Rent our Church !!Volunteer @ FUMC |