Madison First United Methodist Church
296 South Main Street
P. O. Box 350
Madison, GA 30650
Email: office@madisonfumc.com
Phone: 706-342-3325
Women’s Bible Study
Join the Women’s Bible Study starting this Thursday, March 21 at 10AM.
They are reading Luke: Gut Level Compassion, by Lisa Harper.
Contact Claire Zant or Cindy Tingle for more information!
Youth Putt Putt & Hiking
Join Jen on April 21st for Putt Putt & Hiking at Hard Labor State Park.
$5 a person
Email JenB@madisonfumc.com to sign up!
Staff Parish Relations Committee News
Dear Church friends, today we announce that Kathleen Bryant, is stepping back from her position as our beloved Choir Director effective March 31st (Easter Sunday). Kathleen served our church for over 7 years and has been a blessing to our traditional music program. Kathleen plans on continuing to participate in the life of the church as she is a Church Member first, and employee second. You may see her working with the children or singing in the choir in a few weeks. Please reach out to her and thank her for her many years of service to Madison First UMC. Your Staff Parish Relations Committee is working on finding her replacement as well as a new organist for the 11:00am service. Please be in prayer for the right people for these positions.
Weekly Devotion | March 14, 2024
Reweaving the Connection
I have some beautiful hand-woven handkerchiefs, a stole, and a backpack in my office. I bought them from people I worked with when I was serving as a missionary in the Philippines. The colorful fabrics were woven by hand by women supplementing the family income.
Weaving fabric by hand is not an easy process. Imagine hundreds of 5-foot threads tied to a metal loop on one end. A special stick had grooves to spread each thread out so the shuttle could slide beneath above every other thread. It’s hard to explain. The loom could be worked on for a few hours or stored hanging on the wall. Most houses had a loom hanging with fabric in process.
Sometimes when life was busy, the looms lost their tight weave. The threads became loose and looked tangled and frayed. If weaver wanted to get back to work, he/she had to take time to comb out the twists and knots to get the project going again. Reweaving the fabric tightened up the loose ends.
We are in a process of reweaving our United Methodist Connection. Over the past year or so, the fabric of our connection to other UMC churches has been tattered or even broken off completely. Like weavers attending to a messy loom, our Board of Laity is putting together 4 regional gatherings for North Georgia Conference United Methodist churches. These gatherings are a time for us to come together for fellowship, relationship building, and strengthening our United Methodist identity as disciples of Jesus Christ. We will have worship, pack flood buckets, and break out for individual workshops. Our Bishop, Robin Deese, will be there to preach and answer questions. Registration cost is $20, which goes to purchase items for UMCOR Flood Buckets. Our church, Madison First UMC is hosting the event on March 24th.
Don’t let the fabric of your faith or your church connections become neglected and unwoven. Put March 24th 2:00pm on your calendar for a time to “Re-weave the Connection” with your fellow United Methodist brothers and sisters. Click the link below to register. Register today!
Peace,
zack@madisonfumc.com
No School Friday 3/15
MoCo Teacher Work Day
