The May 2025 edition of First Family should now be in your homes. The online version on this website, is viewable, downloadable, and sharable. You can find information on church activities, as well as a photo album of FUMC’s April adventures in this issue. If you want to go back and find something specific, you can also find years of First Family, available in the archives at any time.
Please be aware that our services are livestreamed, and any adults or children participating in musical groups, children’s messages, and liturgist roles will appear on camera.
Pastor Jeanine will be preaching on “Is it Well…?” We’ll be celebrating Garden Sunday and Mother’s Day. While the service will be streamed and available at any time following, we hope you will be able to attend in person. It is truly an enhanced experience. Thank you to the Livestream Team for making this online service possible.
Music this week will be provided by Tapestry, pianist Haven Anderson, and our youth music groups: Class Ring, JAM and the Peanut Butter Band, and JAM Jr. We hope you will join us in celebrating the wonderful depth of musical talent at FUMC!
A nursery for children age 5 and under is available on the lower level, and will include a Bible lesson. Sunday School for children in K-5th grades will be held in the upper level Children’s Lounge.
For those who will watch the service online, either live or later in the week, please fill out the Connect Card. If you are attending in person, you may also record your attendance using this card. This is important for maintaining accurate church records. If you need help or have questions, please call the church office at 218-727-5021 between 9am and 3pm, Monday-Friday. You can find all our online services on the Worship Service Video Bulletin Archive page and our YouTube Channel.
Bulletin for Sunday, May 11, 2025
Bulletin for Sunday, May 4, 2025
Bulletin for Sunday, April 27, 2025
Bulletin for Easter Sunday – April 20, 2025
Bulletin for Thursday, April 17 – Maundy Thursday
Bulletin for Sunday, April 13, 2025 – Palm Sunday and Confirmation
We worship in person in our Sanctuary every Sunday at 10am and online on YouTube every Sunday morning at 10am. The service can also be watched anytime after 10am Sunday morning.
May 4 – Holy Communion
The theme is “Be Not Afraid.”
May 11 – Garden Sunday and Mother’s Day
Sermon: “Is It Well?” We will ponder the questions, “Is it well with you?” “…with your partner/relationships?” “…with your children?”
May 18 – Graduate Recognition
Sermon: “It All Depends on Your Point of View.” Real change, lasting growth, requires a change in vision and in perspective.
May 25 – Memorial Weekend
Sermon: “How Awesome is This Place!” We will explore places and situations in which we find God in awesome ways.
The Northern Lights Music Festival will present a concert on Saturday, July 13 at 3:00pm at First United Methodist Church, 230 E Skyline Parkway in Duluth. Featured on the program will be some of the great chamber music polished and performed at the Northern Lights Music Festival held each summer on the Iron Range.
The repertoire on the program includes piano trios by Johannes Brahms and Arno Babadjanian, Café Music by Paul Schoenfield, and works for solo piano. Performers will include musicians representing Indiana University, Rowan University, University of Nebraska, and the University of Cincinnati. There will be a freewill donation taken.
