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The Methodist Messenger
First United Methodist Church
,,,Edinburg, Texas

November 2022

“ The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps of joy and with my song I praise him” (Psalm28:7)

The usual thing for November is to talk about how
thankful we are and those things/people for which we are thankful. And I am thankful. Really, I am. For the last year, EFUMC has made a weekly practice in our worship to write down one way in which God blessed us that week. We brought them forward as a praise offering. It’s beautiful to read them each week. And, it’s a reminder that gratitude should be every day not just November. Instead… I keep thinking about “the Table.”
I was supposed to be the Spiritual Director for a
women’s retreat weekend. The talk I was supposed
to give is about the Means of Grace, our holy moment encounters with God. Some of these moments are our sacraments, others, moments of everyday, ordinary,
holiness when heaven touches earth. For me,
understanding both of these – sacraments and
ordinary moments of extraordinary grace – come with images of being gathered around a table. Whether it’s the Lord’s Table, a dining table, a kitchen table, a
coffee table, a counter with stools, there is an
opportunity for intimate and honest conversation
and presence with others.
Sharing a table allows to really see people. And it allows people to see us. Scripture teaches us that Jesus revealed himself at the table. He taught about the Father and
himself over meals. He for told the crucifixion and
resurrection at the Passover meal. The disciples
recognized Jesus after the resurrection by coming to the table with him. Communion isn’t just Sunday morning worship. Communion is every time we eat and drink and remember Jesus. Every meal, every time.
This month’s sermons will be about a call to Come To The Table. As we get ready for the holidays, starting with Thanksgiving, many of our traditions are about food, gathering with family and friends. Who will be at your table on Thanksgiving? What will be on your table? What will you talk about? Who will you invite?
Who will be missing?
At the Lord’s Table, there is place for everyone – for
anyone. The difference between an invitation and place card. You can decline an invitation and perhaps, your place will be offered to someone else who can/will come. But a place card, that holds a space for the intended guest.
At the Lord’s Table, you have an invitation and place card. No one will get your place if you decline. It's
waiting for you, no matter how long it takes. There is a place for you. As a focus for prayer this month, we will have place cards for you to write a name on. Who is missing from our table? Who needs to hear an invitation from the Lord, from you? We’ll place the name cards on the center table as a reminder to pray for those people who are missing from our tables.
I invite you into a spiritual discipline for the month of November. As a practice of remembering Jesus, eat as many meals as possible at your/a table and without any distraction. No eating on the couch while
watching tv. No eating on the run or in your car. Sit at the table. Sit with your family, your friends. Invite
people over for a meal or dessert or coffee or
something. Just no mindless eating in November.
Be present at the table with Jesus. Your body and heart will be full.
In Jubilee
Pastor Michelle

Holidays and
Holy Days
Each year we are blessed (even as we might feel stressed) to celebrate holidays, especially blessed by opportunities to gather with family and friends of the family for good food and telling old stories retold year after year and new stories of the past year’s happenings. It can be a truly holy time of feeling thankful (what is more fundamental to living faith than giving thanks?). It can also be an extremely difficult time for those who feel out of place with their families, who feel someone is missing from the family gathering because of death or disagreements, and who feel utterly alone without family or the means to be with family because of financial burdens or work commitments. (Remember to be extra thankful with kind words and encouragement to employees when you are in stores during the holidays. If you think you’re stressed, imagine how they feel!)
Hosting and being hosted by families likely has some expectations, right? You want to provide the best you can for your guests—clean the house, get out decorations, prepare favorite foods. What else do you do to prepare for family and friends in the holidays? Are there certain things you do for certain guests because you know it matters to them? What do you expect when you are a guest? What makes you feel truly welcome?
The term “holidays” is derived from the older term “holy days.” This month we not only celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving, we will celebrate the holy days of All Saints Sunday and on Christ the King Sunday (the last Sunday of the Christian calendar) we will be observing a Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Then we will begin the new year in the Christian calendar with the first Sunday of Advent on our last Sunday this month. That’s a lot of holy days!
In reality, every Sunday is considered a holy day of the Church universal. How are we preparing for our guests? What would it take to help you feel truly welcome if you were a guest at EFUMC for the first time? What would make you feel as welcome as beloved family if it were your first or first time in a while to be worshipping at EFUMC?
I’m looking for hosts to help make our worship services on Sunday morning as welcoming and warmly inviting and engaging as they can be. We don’t want our holy days to make anyone feel out of place. We want others to feel like they have been missed and they are not alone. Can you imagine taking on a small part or pushing yourself just a little more out of your comfort zone on a Sunday morning in order to help someone else feel a part of our holy day celebration?
What if we had greeters in the parking lot, ready to help direct people toward the handicap parking on the side of the building or to the YOUth room entrance for easier access to the Social Room while worship services are still going on? What if we had sanctuary stewards who made a point to put things back in their place after Sunday worship and refill and replace items as needed? What if the stewards maintained hospitality baskets in all the restrooms, too? What if we had children’s ushers whose particular job is to usher families with children through the morning, pointing out the nursery, Sunday School, busy bags, stuffed animals, and rocking chair. How would a family know children are welcome in worship if we don’t show them they are welcome? What if those children’s ushers and the sanctuary stewards worked together to maintain the busy bags and to print children’s activity pages? No one person needs to do all the work, but if we work together as a family, our guests might feel truly part of the family, too. What if certain hosts saw their role as reaching out particularly to new faces to be sure we know their names.
I’m looking for folks who feel they have the spiritual gift of hospitality or who are ready to stretch themselves. Be on the lookout for a training soon!
Grace and peace, Pastor Lizzie

Information Update!
EFUMC started using Breeze Church Management System at the beginning of 2021. In making the switch, we’ve learned that much of the information is incomplete (we need your birthdays and anniversaries) as well as outdated. If we have you on Breeze, look for an email that will allow you to access your membership information and update it in the system yourself. If you’re not a computer kind of person, we’ll help you get your information updated. Be on the lookout for “connect” cards where you can fill out/update your information
Decorating For Advent
We will be preparing the worship space for the Advent/Christmas Season on Sunday November 20th after worship. We’ll have a soup/sandwich potluck to keep up our energy while we decorate. Many hands make light work! It will be a lot of fun and get us into the right spirit coming into the HOLY-days season!
From The Hub!
Weekly farm stands are back! We'll have seasonal farm produce for sale every Saturday morning 9-11 am along Mon Mack Rd from now through June. On the second Saturday of each month, we'll also have a series of free urban agriculture workshops. The topic for this month's workshop on November 12, 10 am -12 pm, will be Vegetable Seeds and Seedlings. Feel free to stop by any time and check out the new extended walking trail!

October Food Pantry Distribution
The food distribution for this month was blessed in many ways:
We had a surprising number of volunteers, some who had never helped with our distribution before.
We had more produce than we usually do because we asked Buster Lind Produce to allow us to fill our own bags. That caused them to send us boxes of oranges, pears, bananas, carrots and apples ...more than would be needed for the 100 bags we normally have, so we were able to give more generously with our produce than in past months.
We also were able to locate some 10 pound bags of
chicken for less than $5. this month...We will see if that lower price will last at Aguilar's Meat Market....
We served 100+ of our neighbors with food and the bonus of a smile and a blessing from each person in attendance..
Thank you very much for your continued prayers,
donations and time. We have faith that we will continue to be blessed, so we may be a blessing to others.

Time to Feed College Students!
UM Campus Ministry is in need of people willing to provide a meal on Thursday nights for dinner and discipleship. If you are willing to help feed our college students, please contact Todd Jones at toddmcjones@gmail.com

Market Day
Our next Market will be on Saturday,
November 5th, from 8am-1pm. We will have a Market filled with live music, food, and many vendors! We hope you all will join us and be a part of this
fun-filled event!

Book Study
“Life Of The Beloved” by Henri Nouwen
This study is a continuation from
October. We are meeting at Will and
Dora Pagel’s home (1812 Majella, 78542) at 7pm on Wednesdays. You are God’s beloved, come join the
conversation!

Membership Audit Starting Soon
At our District Charge Conference, our District Superintendent asked us to resume conducting membership audits. This involves reaching out to members who have been absent, inviting them back, and or asking if they would like to be removed from membership so that they can join another church. If we cannot reach a member who has not been present, their names go on a list that gets read at Charge Conference for 2 years, then they are removed from the roll.
However, an audit also creates an opportunity to invite people back into faithful membership. It creates an opportunity to invite regular attenders to become members, to join the church. As United Methodists, we take membership vows when we join a church. We promise to serve God through the church with our prayers, presence, giving, serving, and witness/testimony. We promise to participate in the ministry and work of the church. Being a member means no longer coming and going anonymously. Being a member means bringing life and vitality to the church through your involvement.
In a culture that seems no longer sure it values “church”, I’ll confess, this work of an audit can seem scary, but I’m convinced it’s necessary. We have more than 300 people listed as members of our church. We see less than a third of that in weekly worship “in person” (though we still have a solid online viewing attendance). How can it be so hard to fill pumpkin patch shifts with 300 people on the roll? How is it so difficult to meet monthly expenses with 300 people on the roll? In contrast, we have MANY people who attend weekly, give, tithe, serve, pray, share their witness and testimony who “technically” aren’t members because they haven’t “officially” joined the church. Hmm… I’ve got to say. I’m pretty ok with that. Membership isn’t the vow, it’s upholding and living the vow.
The church is, and will always be, here for you. The church is “for” you whether you become a member or not. Church membership is a statement that says you will be here for the church. It’s an awkward conversation, but again, a necessary one. Most reliable statistics say that in any congregation, 15% of the people do 85% of the work. And in truth, in any congregation, less than 15% of it’s people sustain the financial health and obligations of the church. As a result, that core, who shows up for everything, physically and financially, gets burned and burned out. The health and vitality of the church suffers unless EVERY PERSON in the community does what they can, when they can, all the times that they can.
For example, it’s hard to find people to serve on the Administrative Board because they KNOW the expectation is “the board should do it”. There are people in this church who sometimes don’t want to come on Sunday for worship because they know, because they serve faithfully, that someone will approach them with another need, another
thing “to do“ and every one else has said, ‘no.’ As members, (officially or unofficially) we say that the responsibility belongs to all of us – and we all pitch in to help, we all give, we all pray, we all are invested in the life and legacy of the church. How can it be hard to find people other than our “core” to serve if there are more than 300 on the roll?
Auditing membership also gives a clear reflection of who we actually are as a congregation and informs how we do ministry. Do we, as a church congregation, look like our neighborhood? What ministries are important to continue? What ministries do we need to let go of to start new ones? Where should we be looking to grow? What do we need to do to sustain?
EFUMC will begin looking at our lists, making calls, sending letters, to invite people back into faithful membership. In January, we’ll start making the list of names to remove through charge conference over the next 2 years. I’m going to ask each of you to pray. Pray for renewed passion and commitment to the church. Pray if people aren’t coming here, they’re going somewhere else and serving God there. Pray about your own membership vows and how you are living into those vows. Pray about whether you are ready to become a member. Know that you have a place here and you are invited to come to the table.
In Jubilee,
Pastor Michelle

First United Methodist Church
3707 West University
Edinburg, TX 78539-7782
Rev. Michelle Vernone, Pastor
Office: (956) 381-9806
Fax: (956) 381-9807
Email: office@edinburgfumc.org
Web: www.edinburgfumc.org
Live Stream Worship 10:30 am
Address Services Requested

Non-Profit Organization
U.S. Postage Paid
Permit No. 1

Office will be closed
November 23rd - 28th
For the Thanksgiving Holiday

THE EXTENDED WALKING TRAIL IS COMPLETED!! COME CHECK IT OUT!!

Security For The Church
The Ad Board is continuing the conversation about whether or not there is a need for hired security at the church. There were only about 20 people at the church meeting to discuss so we suspended the vote until we have significantly more participation. You will be receiving a letter in the coming weeks with more information regarding additional safety precautions the church is implementing and it will include card to include your opinion/vote about whether or not there is a need for hired security. If you have any questions, please contact Gerry Rodriguez, our board chair.

FAN CLUB EVENT
Are you a fan of First UMC? Are you a fan of having fun? Help show support to our faith family and community by joining us for this upcoming Fan Club event:
Friday, September 23rd
Vela vs. Edinburg North football game
at Vela HS
Meet at the church @6:45pm if you want to carpool. Game starts at 7:30pm.
We will get a chance to support:
Audrey Gonzales, Emilee Lopez and
Gabriel Molina

Rummage Sale - Oct. 1st
Please bring your donations, for the annual church
rummage sale to the fellowship hall starting
Sept. 25 (10am– 3pm) and Sept. 26-Sept. 29 (9am to 5pm)
If you need to drop off items before the 27th,
contact the church office at 381-9806.
We especially could use the following:
Working appliances
Electronic equipment
Gently used clothing and shoes
Furniture in good condition (best seller)
Gently used bedding, towels, and curtains
Dishes, utensils, pots, and pans
Knick-knacks
Tools of all kinds
Kids’ toys, games, books, and bicycles
A sign-up sheet for workers is in the Narthex/entryway.

Membership Audit Starting Soon
At our District Charge Conference, our District Superintendent asked us to resume conducting membership audits. This involves reaching out to members who have been absent, inviting them back, and or asking if they would like to be removed from membership so that they can join another church. If we cannot reach a member who has not been present, their names go on a list that gets read at Charge Conference for 2 years, then they are removed from the roll.
However, an audit also creates an opportunity to invite people back into faithful membership. It creates an opportunity to invite regular attenders to become members, to join the church. As United Methodists, we take membership vows when we join a church. We promise to serve God through the church with our prayers, presence, giving, serving, and witness/testimony. We promise to participate in the ministry and work of the church. Being a member means no longer coming and going anonymously. Being a member means bringing life and vitality to the church through your involvement.
In a culture that seems no longer sure it values “church”, I’ll confess, this work of an audit can seem scary, but I’m convinced it’s necessary. We have more than 300 people listed as members of our church. We see less than a third of that in weekly worship “in person” (though we still have a solid online viewing attendance). How can it be so hard to fill pumpkin patch shifts with 300 people on the roll? How is it so difficult to meet monthly expenses with 300 people on the roll? In contrast, we have MANY people who attend weekly, give, tithe, serve, pray, share their witness and testimony who “technically” aren’t members because they haven’t “officially” joined the church. Hmm… I’ve got to say. I’m pretty ok with that. Membership isn’t the vow, it’s upholding and living the vow.
The church is, and will always be, here for you. The church is “for” you whether you become a member or not. Church membership is a statement that says you will be here for the church. It’s an awkward conversation, but again, a necessary one. Most reliable statistics say that in any congregation, 15% of the people do 85% of the work. And in truth, in any congregation, less than 15% of it’s people sustain the financial health and obligations of the church. As a result, that core, who shows up for everything, physically and financially, gets burned and burned out. The health and vitality of the church suffers unless EVERY PERSON in the community does what they can, when they can, all the times that they can.
For example, it’s hard to find people to serve on the Administrative Board because they KNOW the expectation is “the board should do it”. There are people in this church who sometimes don’t want to come on Sunday for worship because they know, because they serve faithfully, that someone will approach them with another need, another thing “to do“ and every one else has said, ‘no.’ As members, (officially or unofficially) we say that the responsibility belongs to all of us – and we all pitch in to help, we all give, we all pray, we all are invested in the life and legacy of the church. How can it be hard to find people other than our “core” to serve if there are more than 300 on the roll?
Auditing membership also gives a clear reflection of who we actually are as a congregation and informs how we do ministry. Do we, as a church congregation, look like our neighborhood? What ministries are important to continue? What ministries do we need to let go of to start new ones? Where should we be looking to grow? What do we need to do to sustain?
EFUMC will begin looking at our lists, making calls, sending letters, to invite people back into faithful membership. In January, we’ll start making the list of names to remove through charge conference over the next 2 years. I’m going to ask each of you to pray. Pray for renewed passion and commitment to the church. Pray if people aren’t coming here, they’re going somewhere else and serving God there. Pray about your own membership vows and how you are living into those vows. Pray about whether you are ready to become a member. Know that you have a place here and you are invited to come to the table.
In Jubilee,
Pastor Michelle

Promotion Sunday is August 28th — It’s time to recognize another milestone for our children! Our 3rd graders will receive a gift bible as part of growing in faith. Please call Lynn at the church office at 381-9806 by August 17th and let us know if you have a child
entering 3rd grade.

Mission Matters

FELLOWSHIP HAPPENINGS

Christmas Eve

One of my favorite hymns begins, “I go to the garden to pray, while the dew I still on the roses . . ..” I like this hymn because it reminds me that the quiet and solitude of nature can bring us close to our creator. Our church prayer garden was designed to provide a place, a place where we could forget the hustle and bustle of the world and remember we are children of God.
Now, we have the opportunity to remember loved ones, to honor someone who has been dear, or simply to share our love with each other, by having an engraved brick placed in the prayer garden.
Orders can be made starting in September by placing one of the “Prayer Garden Memorial” envelopes in the offering plate. All proceeds from the sale of engraved bricks will be used for the perpetual care of the Prayer Garden.
The cost of engraving is one line for $50, two lines for $75, and three lines for $100. Lines can be up to 14 characters long.

Prayer Garden Bricks
We are getting ready to send off for our first order of engraved bricks for our Prayer Garden. We would like to get as many brick orders in at one time. This is a great opportunity to remember loved ones, to honor someone who has been dear, or simply to share our love with each other, by having an engraved brick placed in the prayer garden.
There is an order form on the back of the church calendar included in this newsletter or you can just pick up an order form on the information table in the Narthex.
All proceeds from the sale of engraved bricks will be used for the perpetual care of the Prayer Garden.
The cost of engraving is one line for $50, two lines for $75, and three lines for $100. Lines can be up to 14 characters

Now available:
Traveling? Keep your donations current by using your Smart Phone.

Food Pantry Needs YOUR Help
Robert Frost once said, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." Our church food pantry is the place where, when people are hungry, we feed them. We don’t have to. We do, because we remember Jesus' words, “When I was hungry, you fed me.” So, in a way, we have to, because we have to follow his example.
We can’t share with those who are hungry unless we share with each other. That’s where you get the opportunity to follow Jesus' example. A single grocery sack full of staples seems so insignificant, yet makes such a difference: Families, some of whom don’t qualify for assistance at local agencies, are allowed to come once a month to pick up enough food to last four days. We run out of food almost every week and have to turn the hungry away. We need donations of canned meat, canned fruit, and canned vegetables, peanut butter and saltines. The place? The narthex. Drop off your donations there. When you do, pause and say a prayer. That’s the place where you, Jesus, and the hungry meet.

Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to the following
individuals who have chosen to Remember or
Honor loved ones through a special contribution.
In Memory of: Given by: Perpetuated in:
Lucille Davis Dean & Christi Quinn
Shirley Bair Susan Hancock
Ray Dooley Susan Hancock

Food Pantry Easter Boxes
Our Easter food distribution was a big success! We were able to give an entire Easter meal to 125 of our food pantry clients.

February 2015

Did you know that our
sermons are posted online?
If you have been traveling or ill and missed a Sunday at church you can go to our website at www.edinburgfumc.org and get caught up!

We are collecting plastic eggs and wrapped candy for our
Easter Egg Hunt. Please bring your donations to the office
during the week or to the sanctuary on Sunday!

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RISING Young Adult Ministry
Sunday nights
The rising generation of young adults come together every Sunday night to have fun, talk about questions of faith and life that arise, and to rise to the needs of the community with service projects the group feels called to do.
Come get a light dinner at 6:30pm in the social room and join in the NOOMA movie and conversation starting at 7pm.
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Time to Feed College Students!
UM Campus Ministry is in need of people willing to provide a meal on Thursday nights for dinner and discipleship. If you are willing to help feed our college students, please contact Todd Jones at toddmcjones@gmail.com
Information Update!
EFUMC started using Breeze Church Management System at the beginning of 2021. In making the switch, we’ve learned that much of the information is incomplete (we need your birthdays and anniversaries) as well as outdated. If we have you on Breeze, look for an email that will allow you to access your membership information and update it in the system yourself. If you’re not a computer kind of person, we’ll help you get your information updated. Be on the lookout for “connect” cards where you can fill out/update your information.
Security For The Church
The Ad Board is continuing the conversation about whether or not there is a need for hired security at the church. There were only about 20 people at the church meeting to discuss so we suspended the vote until we have significantly more participation. You will be receiving a letter in the coming weeks with more information regarding additional safety precautions the church is implementing and it will include card to include your opinion/vote about whether or not there is a need for hired security. If you have any questions, please contact Gerry Rodriguez, our board chair.
Decorating for Advent/Christmas – November 20th after church – Soup/Sandwiches - We need you!
Walking Trail - ?
Church office closed Nov. 23rd -28th
Book Study – Life of the Beloved – take from Mailchimp email from Pastor Michelle
Food Pantry – from Judy
Memorials – from Jackie
Finance – from Dana
HUB – from Stephanie

The Methodist Messenger
First United Methodist Church
Edinburg Texas

Ash Wednesday Is Mrch 2nd
We’ll have a time for self-reflection and
imposition of ashes in social room at
7:30am – 9:30am & 11:30am-1:30pm. An evening imposition of ashes will be available at the Pagel’s home at 6:45pm.
Imposition of ashes will also be available at UM Campus Ministry building (123 N. Sugar Rd)
from 11:30am –1:30pm.
If you would like ashes
delivered to your home for self-imposition, please
contact Pastor Michelle at
pastor@edinburgfumc.org or michelle.vernone@gmail.com

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SWEET HOUR
Starting in January, there will be an opportunity to meet, share in Holy Communion and pray, on Monday nights. Each week we will pray for specific concerns regarding our church, community, country, and much more. This time of prayer will be led by Pastor Michelle and Barbara Engelbrecht. Prayer gatherings will be from 6pm to 7pm in the Social Room.

Upper Room Devotionals are available in the entryway. If you don’t already have a daily devotion, or want to add to your current daily devotion, this is a great resource.

From your Family Album to our Church Family Album
Don’t forget to bring in photos taken at the church or of church folks out being the church. Help Pastor Lizzie prepare for a few future projects by checking your albums for pictures of the church’s life from years past (as far back as you can go). The photos will be scanned to a digital file and then returned to their owners, so just be sure to bring them to the office in an envelope clearly marked with your name. If you have digital files or a hyperlink to a website of photos, email them to Pastor Lizzie at
elizabethruthwright@gmail.com. Looking forward to telling our church’s story in new ways in the New Year!

Top Reasons for Joining the Church Choir
You’re running out of clean clothes and the robe saves on laundry.
The church is crowded and you want to make sure you always have a seat.
The collection plate is never passed to the choir.
For years, you have wanted to know who sits in the back of the church but were afraid to turn around and look.

Thank you to
David Renner of McAllen Mobile Park for his donation to underwrite our newsletter this month.

Fan Club
There’s no special membership fee or requirements to join the fan club, just a desire to support each other and the community!
Friday, October 21
Sharyland Pioneer Marching Band
featuring John Ryan and Jaron Rodriguez
Sharyland Pioneer vs. Valley View
at Pioneer High School
Kickoff @ 7:30pm
Meet at the church at 6:30pm
Saturday, October 22
Pigskin Marching Band Competition
Angela Keebaugh of McHi, Paige Fleming of Progresso, and Randy Sifuentes of Sharyland Pioneer direct high school
students starting in the summer
for this epic, all-day event,
sure to please music lovers!
Edinburg Cats Stadium
Come and go or stay tuned for times to support our EFUMC folks

Join us for

Finals are already coming up!
Help us treat our college students during the end-of-semester crunch. See the poster in the entryway for a slip to include with $10 or a Starbucks card to place in the offering or bring to the office by April 24th.

Don’t forget to “LIKE” us on Facebook so that you catch updates, info, events, and photos in your newsfeed! You can “share” posts to spread
awareness to friends and neighbors perhaps not yet connected to EFUMC!

During our 5pm worship, the music will be led by our praise band, Into the World. At 7:30pm worship, the music will be led by our Chancel Choir.
Both services on December 24th will be candlelight services of lessons and carols and will celebrate holy communion.
Tamale Potluck Dinner
Between Christmas Eve services, we will have our 2nd annual Tamale Potluck Dinner! Tamales on Christmas Eve is long standing tradition in the Valley, when families gather to anticipate the birth of the Christ child. Bring your favorite tamales to share, join your church family, and get sustenance from the food and fellowship!

Fan Club
is back!
Are you a fan of First UMC? Are you a fan of having fun? Help show support to our faith family and community by joining us for these upcoming Fan Club events:
March
16th & 17th
John Ryan Rodriguez will be showing his heifer midday at the Rio Grande Valley Stock Show in Mercedes
April
1st @ 7pm
The UTRGV Vaquero Baseball team takes on New Mexico State;
more info to come
2nd @ PSJA-North
Maddie Rierson and the Vela Winter Guard compete in the TECA qualifier
MARK YOUR CALENDARS and keep an eye and ear open for more info, including how to get your FAN CLUB tshirt!

Don’t forget to “LIKE” us on Facebook so that you catch updates, info, events, and photos in your newsfeed! You can “share” posts to spread
awareness to friends and neighbors
perhaps not yet connected to EFUMC!

5pm  7:30pm