Church Year

Church Year

November 24, 2019 Update

This coming Sunday, November 24, 2019, will be a busy day at McFarland UMC. There are several things happening that day. Here is a list: This is pledge Sunday. Please prayerfully consider your gifts to the church for the coming year, fill out your pledge card for the General Budget, and turn it in at the end of the service. If you cannot be at the service this Sunday, please mail the card that you received to the church so…

September Update

I wish that I could say that fall is in the air, that the leaves are beginning to turn and the temperatures are beginning to cool. I wish that I could say that. However, as I write this, the temperature is 90 degrees and Hurricane Dorian has finally begun to move after sitting over the Bahamas for several days wreaking unimaginable destruction to the islands. As we move into September, we start a long sermon series that I am calling…

2019 Lenten Devotionals

The Holston Conference Communications staff and the Clergy Services team have joined forces with our District Superintendents and the members of the Board of Ordained Ministry to offer a series of devotions for this Lenten Season. You can find a link to the devotional web page here. From the web page, you can subscribe to a daily email of the devotional, or link to the devotions that have been published. Gary Grogg and I are both contributors to this devotional…