Monday's thoughts on Sunday's sermon

Rebecca McFee will be preaching this Sunday in the 8 am Chapel service and in the 9:15 and 10:45 services in the sanctuary.

The Crosswalk, alternative service at 10:45 in the Chapel will feature a group from Nashville called "The Weather Folk".

It will be another exciting Sunday at First Church.

Sunday evening's talent show was a remarkable combination of talent, and multi-generational interaction. We had young children featuring a puppet show, we had older children baton twirling and hula hooping, playing the piano. We had teenagers singing, playing violin and flute, we had college students who played cello, and carried out a humorous song "the pot luck queen", we had older people acting older than they were, and we had a tuba player who rewrote a song taken from West Side Story "Some Day A Van For Us". It all ended with a balladeer who sang "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You" and we had one church member who tried to insert herself into the event intermittently and humorously.

The food was great and significant money was raised toward the church van for the youth mission trips. There were between 150 and 200 people in attendance.

Last Sunday was Children's Sabbath and it was Communion Sunday and we had so many people we almost ran out of bread and juice. The Stover Street Stompers and the Joyful Noise Children's Choir sang and there were balloons all over the place.

At the end of the morning there were over 20 college students who met together for lunch and we had 10 people attending the membership meeting.

The church is thriving and growing and last Sunday was exciting.


I met with people from the worship services to get their ideas. If you have thoughts about worship in our church write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net.


Rebecca will give her "build a sermon" thoughts in this space soon but I wanted to share some of my observations about last Sunday. I have to attend a church meeting in Nashville next weekend. I am sorry to miss with is going on at the church. I'd rather be in Fort Collins.

Charles