Praise the Lord for this Fabulous Friday. It is going to be another brilliant and beautiful Autumn day. Alice and I walked three miles last night under the brilliant starry sky illumined with abundant moon light. It will be a blessed and winsome weekend for serving and worshipping the Lord. I am conducting two weddings and two funerals this weekend. Every time and every place we gather in the Name of Jesus we declare His Lordship and His majesty. Alice is driving out to Boston tomorrow to spend some time with Micah, Simeon, and Ada. Our friend Kelly Johnson flying in from Memphis tomorrow to be here to enjoy the beautiful New York Fall Foliage and get ready for the prayer conference starting on the 14th of October. Please pray for our weekly TV outreach this evening at 7 PM on Time Warner Cable channel 4. We praise the Lord for so many who are serving as the servants of Jesus in our region in the ministry of flood recovery. The Lord is still performing miracles. He calls us to be partners in His miracles.
Someone wrote a few years back: “A basketball in my hands is worth about $19. A basketball in Michael Jordan’s hands is worth about $33 million. It depends whose hands it’s in. A baseball in my hands is worth about $6. A baseball in Mark McGuire’s hands is worth $19 million. It depends whose hands it’s in. A tennis racket is useless in my hands. A tennis racket in Pete Sampras’ hands is a Wimbledon Championship. It depends whose hands it’s in. A rod in my hands will keep away a wild animal. A rod in Moses’ hands will part the mighty sea. It depends whose hands it’s in. A sling shot in my hands is a kid’s toy. A sling shot in David’s hand is a mighty weapon. It depends whose hands it’s in. Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in my hands is a couple of fish sandwiches. Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in God’s hands will feed thousands. It depends whose hands it’s in.”
Jesus’ hands transformed everything he touched. A blind man once lived in a black vortex, but when touched by Jesus’ hands color and movement flooded his life. A leper’s body was diseased and rotting, he was covered with shame and no one would come near him out of fear — that is until Jesus touched the untouchable and his body was made whole and his relationships were restored. A widow’s son died, and his death meant excruciating loss to her in every way. But as they carried the young man’s body on a stretcher, taking it to a dark tomb while his soul was taking its place in the realm of the dead, Jesus’ hands held him and he smiled at his mother as life pulsed through his body once more. The funeral procession stopped and a dance began.
In Mathew 14 Jesus’ hands took common bread and a couple of fish, and as He touched it, it multiplied. He broke the bread for all to see and eat. Before that moment, the crowds could only stare at the few loaves and fish, as they drooled with the thought of having a few bites. But there was not enough for 5,000 or even 50. (Actually, the number of those present may have been more like 15,000 or 20,000, because there were 5,000 men, not counting women and children. Women and children weren’t important to most people, but Jesus wasn’t "most people".) Here was God, not just looking down on the world trying to see what he could get from his subjects and control them, but God who was genuinely touched by human need.
Thousands of people gathered around our Lord. They spent the whole day with Jesus. By evening they were in need of physical food. The disciples understood this and said to Him: “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.” This would have been a great way to get rid of the crowds and have a little down time. No one would have questioned it. But instead Jesus was moved with compassion for the people.
Jesus turned to his disciples and said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” The startled disciples said, “We have nothing here but five loaves of bread and two fish.” They lived in a small world of limited possibilities, but Jesus lived in a world of unlimited possibilities. They realized they had very limited resources, and the crowd had unlimited need. They knew they had nothing to offer. But then Jesus, referring to the five loaves and two fish, said, “Bring them here to me.” Who would have dreamed what he was about to do. Certainly not the disciples. Even in the very next chapter, when Jesus fed another 4,000 people, the disciples seemed perplexed about what to do, for they said, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?” Where indeed!
We really are no different from the disciples. We still see impossibilities when God is wanting us to see possibilities. We, like the disciples, need to see that the situation is not in our hands, but in His hands. When Jesus takes charge of the situation everything changes. We look at our meager resources and say to God: “But what are these among so many?” He responds, “Bring them here to me.” He places His hands upon our pitiful resources and everything changes. This is the formula: We bring God our meager offering and He places his hands on our small gift and causes it to grow thousands of times over. We never have the resources to meet people’s needs. We have nothing that is sufficient to solve the problem, so all we can do is bring our nothing to Jesus and have Him turn it into something.
In Christ,
Brown
http://youtu.be/zlA5IDnpGhc
Saturday, October 8.2011
Praise and worship service:
First United Methodist Church, Endicott
Sponsored by Union Center UMC
6 PM Gathering - Coffee Fellowship
6:30 PM Worship
Music: Laureen Naik
Speaker: Jim Nedlik
PRAYER CONFERENCE:
Union Center United Methodist Church:
128 Maple Drive, Endicott, New York 13760
Friday, October 14 through Sunday, October 16, 2011
Need hope?
Need a reason to continue?
Need joy?
Need peace?
Need an answer?
Need rest?
" COME TO JESUS AND LIVE "
Need NEED LIFE?No matter what you need…
JESUS says “Call to Me & I will Answer!”
~ Jeremiah 33:3
Join us for a weekend of Hope, Joy, Peace & Life!!
Friday Oct. 14 – 6:00 pm: Opening session at Union Center UMC with Kelly Johnson from Two By Two Ministries
Saturday Oct. 15:
9 am – Noon at Union Center UMC: Open Prayer Time: A refreshing time of personal prayer and community prayer for any storm you’ve weathered. Prayer teams available to pray with those who desire it.
5:30pm – Community Dinner at Endicott First Methodist
6:30pm – Worship service with Kelly Johnson at Endicott First Methodist.
Sunday Oct. 16 – 8:30 & 11:00 am at Union Center UMC– Join us for morning worship with guest speaker Kelly Johnson.
***Please note our two locations for these events***
Union Center United Methodist Church is located at 128 Maple Dr. Endicott
Endicott First Methodist is located at 53 McKinley Ave. Endicott
For information please call 607-748-6329-748-1358 or 427-4359
If you are unable to come but have a need you’d like to have us pray for, please email it to umcgospel@aol.com or you can mail it to the Union Center UMC address listed above attn: Prayer Team
We praise the Lord for the following who will be leaders in the Prayer conference:
Kelly Johnson from Memphis, TN.
Sunita and Andy from Washington, DC
Rob and Jenn from Washington, DC
Melanie from Baltimore
Laureen from Binghamton
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Brown's Daily Word 10-6-11
Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this new day. It is going to be another awesome Autumn day, colorful and brilliant. The Lord blessed us with a wonderful Wednesday fellowship and study last evening. Alice and I walked for over 4 miles between 9 and 10-something PM last night. It was a sparkling and brillian starry night along with an abundance of moonlight that was so gentle and mild.
In Luke 14 it is recorded that our Lord Jesus told a story of an invitation to a banquet that was turned down. The invitees offered feeble excuses to defend their abrupt change of plans. They initially agreed and were expected to come…but then they backed down. Had they been honest, they would have admitted they really had no intention to come. There is nothing wrong with tending to the business of fields, oxen, or getting married, but there are no grounds for missing God’s banquet. There are, however, many excuses for rejecting what God has to offer, and God sees through them all. People are too occupied with their lives to have God be part of their plans. They don’t see their need and they’re not willing to commit to faith. They find the invitation inconvenient and may think the party won’t be fun. But no excuse is valid when God calls us.
There is far more to this than rejecting hospitality. This parable is also about the honor of God. We dishonor Him by choosing to refuse His mercy. God offers Heaven itself and people refuse it. They make a free decision to remain alienated from God. C.S. Lewis described the doors of Hell as being locked on the inside. We make Hell for ourselves when we refuse Heaven and God and joy .
In Jesus' story, the host was outraged over these rejections but he turned his anger to grace. He could not let the food go to waste, so he chose an unexpected option: he told his servant to invite the outcasts -- not the “beautiful people” but the so-called “unwashed masses” who offer no excuses (the kind of people Jesus was known to eat with). Matters such as real estate and livestock didn’t impede them, and many couldn’t afford to be married. They were told, “come on in; the food’s on the table!” They were welcome to enjoy the Host’s hospitality. This was not a meal for the full but for the hungry. If we are full of the world we will have no appetite for Heaven.
These outcasts regarded themselves as unworthy. They had to be reassured of their invitation to attend the banquet. The host said, “Compel them to come in” (23/NASB). In the same way, we share the Gospel message with a great sense of urgency, eager to have people come join the party! We are servants of the Host and our mandate is to go out and invite people to come to His table, to let them know they are most welcome. “The greatest favor we can do for any human being is to introduce them to Jesus Christ” (Paul Little).
What became of the original guest list? Those who snubbed the host would not get even a taste of the meal. The door was shut and the invitation was withdrawn for those who refused to come. One commentator gets to the point of the host’s withdrawal: “They don’t know what they’re missing but it serves them right that they’re missing it!” None were excluded except those who excluded themselves. Who missed out, but those who rejected the invitation? We should let nothing stand in the way of accepting Christ’s invitation.
Jesus suggested to his fellow dinner-guest that, “We’re enjoying this fine meal because we accepted our gracious host’s invitation. We need to accept God’s all-inclusive invitation to His table.” Scripture warns, “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts” (Psalm 95:7-8). There’s a peril in rejecting God. If we think we can live without God, we are indeed on our own, but we are also without excuse. The offer’s been given…dinner is served.
In Christ,
Brown
http://youtu.be/WklhFbJdbCU
Saturday , October 2.2011
Praise and worship service:
First United Methodist Church , Endicott
Sponsored by Union Center UMC
6PM Gathering- Coffeee- Fellowship
6.30PM Worship
Music: Laureen Naik
Speaker: Jim Nedlik
PRAYER CONFERNCE:
Union Center United Methodist Church:
128, Maple Drive, Endicott, New York 13760
PRAYER CONFERNCE:
Friday October 14 through Sunday October 16,2011
Need hope?
Need a reason to continue?
Need joy?
Need peace?
Need an answer?
Need rest?
" COME TO JESUS AND LIVE "
Need NEED LIFE?No matter what you need…
JESUS says “Call to Me & I will Answer!”
~ Jeremiah 33:3
Join us for a weekend of Hope, Joy, Peace & Life!!
Friday Oct. 14 – 6:00 pm: Opening session at Union Center UMC with Kelly Johnson from Two By Two Ministries
Saturday Oct. 15:
9 am – Noon at Union Center UMC: Open Prayer Time: A refreshing time of personal prayer and community prayer for any storm you’ve weathered. Prayer teams available to pray with those who desire it.
5:30pm – Community Dinner at Endicott First Methodist
6:30pm – Worship service with Kelly Johnson at Endicott First Methodist.
Sunday Oct. 16 – 8:30 & 11:00 am at Union Center UMC– Join us for morning worship with guest speaker Kelly Johnson.
***Please note our two locations for these events***
Union Center United Methodist Church is located at 128 Maple Dr. Endicott
Endicott First Methodist is located at 53 McKinley Ave. Endicott
For information please call 607-748-6329-748-1358 or 427-4359
If you are unable to come but have a need you’d like to have us pray for, please email it to umcgospel@aol.com or you can mail it to the Union Center UMC address listed above attn: Prayer Team
We praise the Lord for the following who will be leaders in the Prayer conference:
Kelly Johnson from Memphis, TN.
Sunita and Andy from Washington, DC
Rob and Jenn from Washington, DC
Melanie from Baltimore
Laureen from Binghamton
Praise the Lord for this new day. It is going to be another awesome Autumn day, colorful and brilliant. The Lord blessed us with a wonderful Wednesday fellowship and study last evening. Alice and I walked for over 4 miles between 9 and 10-something PM last night. It was a sparkling and brillian starry night along with an abundance of moonlight that was so gentle and mild.
In Luke 14 it is recorded that our Lord Jesus told a story of an invitation to a banquet that was turned down. The invitees offered feeble excuses to defend their abrupt change of plans. They initially agreed and were expected to come…but then they backed down. Had they been honest, they would have admitted they really had no intention to come. There is nothing wrong with tending to the business of fields, oxen, or getting married, but there are no grounds for missing God’s banquet. There are, however, many excuses for rejecting what God has to offer, and God sees through them all. People are too occupied with their lives to have God be part of their plans. They don’t see their need and they’re not willing to commit to faith. They find the invitation inconvenient and may think the party won’t be fun. But no excuse is valid when God calls us.
There is far more to this than rejecting hospitality. This parable is also about the honor of God. We dishonor Him by choosing to refuse His mercy. God offers Heaven itself and people refuse it. They make a free decision to remain alienated from God. C.S. Lewis described the doors of Hell as being locked on the inside. We make Hell for ourselves when we refuse Heaven and God and joy .
In Jesus' story, the host was outraged over these rejections but he turned his anger to grace. He could not let the food go to waste, so he chose an unexpected option: he told his servant to invite the outcasts -- not the “beautiful people” but the so-called “unwashed masses” who offer no excuses (the kind of people Jesus was known to eat with). Matters such as real estate and livestock didn’t impede them, and many couldn’t afford to be married. They were told, “come on in; the food’s on the table!” They were welcome to enjoy the Host’s hospitality. This was not a meal for the full but for the hungry. If we are full of the world we will have no appetite for Heaven.
These outcasts regarded themselves as unworthy. They had to be reassured of their invitation to attend the banquet. The host said, “Compel them to come in” (23/NASB). In the same way, we share the Gospel message with a great sense of urgency, eager to have people come join the party! We are servants of the Host and our mandate is to go out and invite people to come to His table, to let them know they are most welcome. “The greatest favor we can do for any human being is to introduce them to Jesus Christ” (Paul Little).
What became of the original guest list? Those who snubbed the host would not get even a taste of the meal. The door was shut and the invitation was withdrawn for those who refused to come. One commentator gets to the point of the host’s withdrawal: “They don’t know what they’re missing but it serves them right that they’re missing it!” None were excluded except those who excluded themselves. Who missed out, but those who rejected the invitation? We should let nothing stand in the way of accepting Christ’s invitation.
Jesus suggested to his fellow dinner-guest that, “We’re enjoying this fine meal because we accepted our gracious host’s invitation. We need to accept God’s all-inclusive invitation to His table.” Scripture warns, “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts” (Psalm 95:7-8). There’s a peril in rejecting God. If we think we can live without God, we are indeed on our own, but we are also without excuse. The offer’s been given…dinner is served.
In Christ,
Brown
http://youtu.be/WklhFbJdbCU
Saturday , October 2.2011
Praise and worship service:
First United Methodist Church , Endicott
Sponsored by Union Center UMC
6PM Gathering- Coffeee- Fellowship
6.30PM Worship
Music: Laureen Naik
Speaker: Jim Nedlik
PRAYER CONFERNCE:
Union Center United Methodist Church:
128, Maple Drive, Endicott, New York 13760
PRAYER CONFERNCE:
Friday October 14 through Sunday October 16,2011
Need hope?
Need a reason to continue?
Need joy?
Need peace?
Need an answer?
Need rest?
" COME TO JESUS AND LIVE "
Need NEED LIFE?No matter what you need…
JESUS says “Call to Me & I will Answer!”
~ Jeremiah 33:3
Join us for a weekend of Hope, Joy, Peace & Life!!
Friday Oct. 14 – 6:00 pm: Opening session at Union Center UMC with Kelly Johnson from Two By Two Ministries
Saturday Oct. 15:
9 am – Noon at Union Center UMC: Open Prayer Time: A refreshing time of personal prayer and community prayer for any storm you’ve weathered. Prayer teams available to pray with those who desire it.
5:30pm – Community Dinner at Endicott First Methodist
6:30pm – Worship service with Kelly Johnson at Endicott First Methodist.
Sunday Oct. 16 – 8:30 & 11:00 am at Union Center UMC– Join us for morning worship with guest speaker Kelly Johnson.
***Please note our two locations for these events***
Union Center United Methodist Church is located at 128 Maple Dr. Endicott
Endicott First Methodist is located at 53 McKinley Ave. Endicott
For information please call 607-748-6329-748-1358 or 427-4359
If you are unable to come but have a need you’d like to have us pray for, please email it to umcgospel@aol.com or you can mail it to the Union Center UMC address listed above attn: Prayer Team
We praise the Lord for the following who will be leaders in the Prayer conference:
Kelly Johnson from Memphis, TN.
Sunita and Andy from Washington, DC
Rob and Jenn from Washington, DC
Melanie from Baltimore
Laureen from Binghamton
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Brown's Daily Word 10-5-11
Praise the Lord for this new day. It is wonderful to be alive and to know that our Lord reigns. We will gather for our mid-week fellowship and study today at 6 PM followed by choir practice at 7:30 PM.
I love the wonderful passage that recorded in Joel 2. I have used this powerful passage in preaching and in my prayer time. It talks about restoration. Restoration... What a powerful word! Our God is a God of new beginnings, and a God of second chances. God is in the restoration business! Job experienced this. He lost everything, and the book records his struggles with himself and with God during that time of devastation. Then, at the end of the book, he had everything restored: his health, more land than he had before, more money, another wife, more kids. In Joel 2, we read about another great restoration.
It is going to be one of the beautiful and brilliant days. We all enjoy watching the sunrise. Sunrises are especially significant because they come after long, dark nights. Sunrise is that moment when the light touches the darkness and the light wins out. Sunrises are significant because they are signs of hope. In the midst of hopelessness a light shines. A sign of life comes to us in the midst of death. First it starts as a glimmer and then it becomes a blaze of light in the midst of darkness. Sometimes during those dark parts of our lives when all seems to be going wrong, when all hope seems gone, there is s sunrise. Suddenly in the darkness of our situation, there is a color and light in the distant sky. Then, in an instant, a bright light floods over the horizon dispelling the darkness. That is precisely what we need.
In the midst of that darkness Joel saw a light from heaven, much like a sunrise after a dark night. It was a hope for the people of Israel, and he preached that hope. Like Job, they were to have their material blessings restored. No longer would God allow these pagan insects to infest their land. No longer would they go hungry, but they would have plenty. However, this restoration promised in Joel even goes beyond that. God’s message through Joel is so much more. It is about spiritual blessings, as God’s spirit is poured out on human hearts. It is about the restoration of the whole of creation. We pray for this kind of ultimate restoration every Sunday when we say, “Our Father which art in heaven…thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” - and we wait for that time to come.
According to the picture in Joel, the kingdom of God affects the whole of creation. It is a restoration to the way things were in the beginning, back in that first garden. Remember that at first there was food enough for all, just there for the taking, because of God’s goodness. Then, because of his sin, Adam was told he would have to work and struggle in order to get enough to eat, though food had been freely given in the garden. Once again, out of the abundance of God’s graciousness, not because of any human effort, Joel saw that everyone would again eat plenty. Verse 26 points out that in the kingdom of God, which Joel saw as Israel restored, God said, “My people shall never again be put to shame.”
Remember that in the garden of Eden Adam and Eve were naked and they were not ashamed. They had no reason to hide from God or one another until they sinned. According to Joel, God would again wipe the slate clean, and people would be freed from the stain of shame to begin again. Another thing that Joel foresaw happening in this total restoration was a renewed closeness and intimacy between God and humanity, as he said in vs. 27: “you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel.”
God walked with Adam and Eve in that early garden. God moved in close and intimate relation with humanity. Sin broke that communion but, in salvation, God again walks in the midst of His people. That intimate relationship is restored in salvation. The promise of restoration went beyond what they could have anticipated, beyond what they imagined, and probably even beyond that which Joel imagined.
In our lives we need to be open to the new beginnings God brings to us, open to God’s leading, and open to whatever the restoration God has in mind of our lives, even if it is not quite what we imagine or expect. God's promise is that no matter how it comes, or when or what form it takes, or whether it is how or what we expect, restoration will come, just as surely as the sunrise follows the darkness. God is a God who restores, and a God of new beginnings.
Today we live in a dark world where people kill one another, and where wars and terrorism abound. It is a world where people are enslaved by drugs, abuse, materialism, and self-centeredness. Despite the bleakness of all of this, God’s word tells us that a light will break through the darkness because God is a God who restores. Morning is on the way. God has sent His Son to bring light into our life. God has sent his Holy Spirit to invade and possess our soul and give peace and joy. God has promised a day when all oppression and evil will cease. God has promised to be a God who restores… physically or spiritually, in this life or the next.
We are planning for a weekend Prayer Conference, beginning on Friday October 14. We are praying and trusting that the Lord would perform His deeds of mercy and grace. Those who live in the area join us. I am attaching a schedule for the weekend. Please pray for the event.
In Christ,
Brown
http://youtu.be/pOzYcXaZY8k
PRAYER CONFERNCE:
Union Center United Methodist Church:
128, Maple Drive, Endicott, New York 13760
PRAYER CONFERNCE:
Friday October 14- THROUFGH Sunday October 16,2011
Need hope?
Need a reason to continue?
Need joy?
Need peace?
Need an answer?
Need rest?
" COME TO JESUS AND LIVE "
Need NEED LIFE?No matter what you need…
JESUS says “Call to Me & I will Answer!”
~ Jeremiah 33:3
Join us for a weekend of Hope, Joy, Peace & Life!!
Friday Oct. 14 – 6:00 pm: Opening session at Union Center UMC with Kelly Johnson from Two By Two Ministries
Saturday Oct. 15:
9 am – Noon at Union Center UMC: Open Prayer Time: A refreshing time of personal prayer and community prayer for any storm you’ve weathered. Prayer teams available to pray with those who desire it.
5:30pm – Community Dinner at Endicott First Methodist
6:30pm – Worship service with Kelly Johnson at Endicott First Methodist.
Sunday Oct. 16 – 8:30 & 11:00 am at Union Center UMC– Join us for morning worship with guest speaker Kelly Johnson.
***Please note our two locations for these events***
Union Center United Methodist Church is located at 128 Maple Dr. Endicott
Endicott First Methodist is located at 53 McKinley Ave. Endicott
For information please call 607-748-6329-748-1358 or 427-4359
If you are unable to come but have a need you’d like to have us pray for, please email it to umcgospel@aol.com or you can mail it to the Union Center UMC address listed above attn: Prayer Team
I love the wonderful passage that recorded in Joel 2. I have used this powerful passage in preaching and in my prayer time. It talks about restoration. Restoration... What a powerful word! Our God is a God of new beginnings, and a God of second chances. God is in the restoration business! Job experienced this. He lost everything, and the book records his struggles with himself and with God during that time of devastation. Then, at the end of the book, he had everything restored: his health, more land than he had before, more money, another wife, more kids. In Joel 2, we read about another great restoration.
It is going to be one of the beautiful and brilliant days. We all enjoy watching the sunrise. Sunrises are especially significant because they come after long, dark nights. Sunrise is that moment when the light touches the darkness and the light wins out. Sunrises are significant because they are signs of hope. In the midst of hopelessness a light shines. A sign of life comes to us in the midst of death. First it starts as a glimmer and then it becomes a blaze of light in the midst of darkness. Sometimes during those dark parts of our lives when all seems to be going wrong, when all hope seems gone, there is s sunrise. Suddenly in the darkness of our situation, there is a color and light in the distant sky. Then, in an instant, a bright light floods over the horizon dispelling the darkness. That is precisely what we need.
In the midst of that darkness Joel saw a light from heaven, much like a sunrise after a dark night. It was a hope for the people of Israel, and he preached that hope. Like Job, they were to have their material blessings restored. No longer would God allow these pagan insects to infest their land. No longer would they go hungry, but they would have plenty. However, this restoration promised in Joel even goes beyond that. God’s message through Joel is so much more. It is about spiritual blessings, as God’s spirit is poured out on human hearts. It is about the restoration of the whole of creation. We pray for this kind of ultimate restoration every Sunday when we say, “Our Father which art in heaven…thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” - and we wait for that time to come.
According to the picture in Joel, the kingdom of God affects the whole of creation. It is a restoration to the way things were in the beginning, back in that first garden. Remember that at first there was food enough for all, just there for the taking, because of God’s goodness. Then, because of his sin, Adam was told he would have to work and struggle in order to get enough to eat, though food had been freely given in the garden. Once again, out of the abundance of God’s graciousness, not because of any human effort, Joel saw that everyone would again eat plenty. Verse 26 points out that in the kingdom of God, which Joel saw as Israel restored, God said, “My people shall never again be put to shame.”
Remember that in the garden of Eden Adam and Eve were naked and they were not ashamed. They had no reason to hide from God or one another until they sinned. According to Joel, God would again wipe the slate clean, and people would be freed from the stain of shame to begin again. Another thing that Joel foresaw happening in this total restoration was a renewed closeness and intimacy between God and humanity, as he said in vs. 27: “you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel.”
God walked with Adam and Eve in that early garden. God moved in close and intimate relation with humanity. Sin broke that communion but, in salvation, God again walks in the midst of His people. That intimate relationship is restored in salvation. The promise of restoration went beyond what they could have anticipated, beyond what they imagined, and probably even beyond that which Joel imagined.
In our lives we need to be open to the new beginnings God brings to us, open to God’s leading, and open to whatever the restoration God has in mind of our lives, even if it is not quite what we imagine or expect. God's promise is that no matter how it comes, or when or what form it takes, or whether it is how or what we expect, restoration will come, just as surely as the sunrise follows the darkness. God is a God who restores, and a God of new beginnings.
Today we live in a dark world where people kill one another, and where wars and terrorism abound. It is a world where people are enslaved by drugs, abuse, materialism, and self-centeredness. Despite the bleakness of all of this, God’s word tells us that a light will break through the darkness because God is a God who restores. Morning is on the way. God has sent His Son to bring light into our life. God has sent his Holy Spirit to invade and possess our soul and give peace and joy. God has promised a day when all oppression and evil will cease. God has promised to be a God who restores… physically or spiritually, in this life or the next.
We are planning for a weekend Prayer Conference, beginning on Friday October 14. We are praying and trusting that the Lord would perform His deeds of mercy and grace. Those who live in the area join us. I am attaching a schedule for the weekend. Please pray for the event.
In Christ,
Brown
http://youtu.be/pOzYcXaZY8k
PRAYER CONFERNCE:
Union Center United Methodist Church:
128, Maple Drive, Endicott, New York 13760
PRAYER CONFERNCE:
Friday October 14- THROUFGH Sunday October 16,2011
Need hope?
Need a reason to continue?
Need joy?
Need peace?
Need an answer?
Need rest?
" COME TO JESUS AND LIVE "
Need NEED LIFE?No matter what you need…
JESUS says “Call to Me & I will Answer!”
~ Jeremiah 33:3
Join us for a weekend of Hope, Joy, Peace & Life!!
Friday Oct. 14 – 6:00 pm: Opening session at Union Center UMC with Kelly Johnson from Two By Two Ministries
Saturday Oct. 15:
9 am – Noon at Union Center UMC: Open Prayer Time: A refreshing time of personal prayer and community prayer for any storm you’ve weathered. Prayer teams available to pray with those who desire it.
5:30pm – Community Dinner at Endicott First Methodist
6:30pm – Worship service with Kelly Johnson at Endicott First Methodist.
Sunday Oct. 16 – 8:30 & 11:00 am at Union Center UMC– Join us for morning worship with guest speaker Kelly Johnson.
***Please note our two locations for these events***
Union Center United Methodist Church is located at 128 Maple Dr. Endicott
Endicott First Methodist is located at 53 McKinley Ave. Endicott
For information please call 607-748-6329-748-1358 or 427-4359
If you are unable to come but have a need you’d like to have us pray for, please email it to umcgospel@aol.com or you can mail it to the Union Center UMC address listed above attn: Prayer Team
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Dugudi Girls home
Many of you have read about our recent trip to Orissa, India. It was a great blessing to be there with my family. The Lord really blessed our time there together, giving us opportunities to minister to the people in the Church at large. We were able to visit a nursing school, churches, villages, and two children's homes, Nanda and Dugudi. The children at Nanda are fully supported by friends in the States. The Lord is providing for their needs through people back in the States who love the Lord and love children.
While we were there, we saw a great need that exists at the Dugudi Children's Home. At that time, there were forty-five girls that were living there. Due to lack of funds, fifteen had to be sent home to their families. Currently, there are thirty girls that live on the premises. The facilities need some repair due to a leaky roof. The children are sleeping on the floor on mats. This leads to illness, especially during the colder months. Furthermore, the food supply is rather meager.
We prayed about it and would like to do something to address these needs. We would like to provide three adequate meals every day, as well as provide a simple cot for each girl there. We also hope to provide needed school supplies and for their medical needs as well.
All of the girls at Dugudi come from very poor and needy families. They come from rural interior areas that only have very poor educational opportunities. We want to provide the girls at Dugudi with room and board and a good education up through high school. While they are there, they will have the opportunity to come to know Jesus and grow in His grace and grow up to be His servants.
Recently the State of Orissa has passed a law to have every children's home registered by the State and to meet certain standards to remain in operation. This home will be managed by a small committee, keeping records and maintaining accountability.
We are excited about the opportunity to bless these children in the name of Christ. It will take $25 a month to support each child. This money will be used entirely for caring for the needs of the children: room and board, clothing, medical care, and a small support staff.
I would like you to prayerfully consider supporting one child, maybe two, as the Lord enables you to do. At this time you can commit to sponsoring a child through the month of April,2012, which is the end of the school year. You will be able to reconsider supporting a child again in June, when the school year begins anew.
If the Lord leads you to support a child through this ministry, you can begin to send a check monthly made out to Union Center UMC with "Orissa Misison/ Children's Home" in the memo. The address of the church is 128 Maple Dr. Endicott, NY 13760.
Thank you for considering with a prayerful heart the opportunity to come alongside to touch a child's life. It will be a blessing to the children and a blessing to you as well. I am enclosing pictures of the children who are currently at the home. If you decide to give towards this ministry, we will send a picture of one of the girls, along with some background information so you can pray for her.
With Gratitude,
Brown
Brown's Daily Word 10-4-11
Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this new day. The forecast is for some beautiful and brilliant autumn days this week. The colors of fall should peak around here in the next week or so. We usually have September frost, but this year we had none. Praise the Lord for many theologians and Christian thinkers from around the world who have blessed my heart. Two brothers, John and Don Baillie from Scotland, number among them. I use, "A Diary of Private Prayer", by John Baillie in my morning devotions. One of his prayers follows:
"O God, who of Thy love and pity didst send us Jesus Christ for the illumination of our darkness, give me wisdom to profit by the words He spoke and grace to follow in the steps He trod.
"Jesus Christ said, 'When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any.' O God, give me grace now so to do.
"Jesus Christ said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' O God, give me grace to-day to think, not of what I can get, but of what I can give.
"Jesus Christ said, 'When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.' O God, grant that what I give may be given without self-congratulation, and without thought of praise or reward.
"Jesus Christ said, 'Enter ye in at the strait gate.' O God, give me grace this day to keep to the narrow path of duty and honourable dealing.
"Jesus Christ said, 'Judge not.' O God, give me grace this day first to cast out the beam out of my own eye, before I regard the mote that is in my brother's eye.
"Jesus Christ said, 'What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?' O God, give me grace so to live this day that, whatever else I lose, I may not lose my soul."
In Christ,
Brown
http://youtu.be/qaHmiFaX_pk
Saturday , October 8.2011
Praise and worship service:
First United Methodist Church , Endicott
Sponsored by Union Center UMC
6PM Gathering- Coffeee- Fellowship
6.30PM Worship
Music: Laureen Naik
Speaker: Jim Nedlik
Please mark your calendar for our prayer conference, which will begin on Friday, October 14 and continue through Sunday morning, October 16.
The Keynote Speaker: Kelly Johnson from Memphis, TN.
The Prayer Team will include: Sunita and Andy, Rob and Jenn, and Meredith from Washington, DC.
The tentative schedule follows:
Friday, October 14 at 6 PM - opening session at Union Center UMC
Saturday, October 15, 9 AM - noon - concert of prayer at UCUMC
The Prayer teams will be available to pray for people for salvation, restoration, healing, deliverance...
Saturday, 5:30 PM - banquet at First UMC, 53 McKinley Ave., Endicott
6:30 PM worship service, including an open invitation to pray at the altar following the worship service. I invite you to be a part of the prayer team during that time.
Sunday morning worship at 8:30 and 11 AM. at UCUMC Kelly Johnson will be preaching. There will be a time for prayer / a concert of prayer
Saturday, October 8.2011 at 6:30 PM (Coffee Fellowship at 6 PM) at First United Methodist Church, 53 McKinley Avenue in Endicott.
Our youth will be attending the Word of Life Superbowl at the arena and other sites on November 4 & 5.
Our annual Thanksgiving Banquet will be held on Saturday, November 19.
The Russian Men's Ensemble will be in concert on December 3.
We are planning for a trip to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Extravaganza on December 6, leaving here at 6 AM, spending the day in NYC, and attending the show at 5 PM. There are optional sites to visit, including the Ground Zero 9/11 Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The trip costs $90 per person, including the bus ticket and a ticket to the show. Anyone who wants to reserve a spot on the bus should make their check payable to Union Center United Methodist Church, memo "Radio City Christmas Extravaganza".
Here at Union Center- Wesley- Endicott, we focus on " World as our Parish"., We remind ourselves that we serve under a captain who has never lost a battle. Jesus Christ the Head of the Church is Faithful. We are invited to embrace 7 holy habits of Christian faithfulness. We are called to FOCUS on our prayer life, our relationship with Christ, reading the Bible, faithful worship attendance, financial gifts to Christ and His Church,, serving Jesus with our hands, and sharing the good news of His Great Redemption,with others. May Christ be praised.
Praise the Lord for this new day. The forecast is for some beautiful and brilliant autumn days this week. The colors of fall should peak around here in the next week or so. We usually have September frost, but this year we had none. Praise the Lord for many theologians and Christian thinkers from around the world who have blessed my heart. Two brothers, John and Don Baillie from Scotland, number among them. I use, "A Diary of Private Prayer", by John Baillie in my morning devotions. One of his prayers follows:
"O God, who of Thy love and pity didst send us Jesus Christ for the illumination of our darkness, give me wisdom to profit by the words He spoke and grace to follow in the steps He trod.
"Jesus Christ said, 'When ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any.' O God, give me grace now so to do.
"Jesus Christ said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' O God, give me grace to-day to think, not of what I can get, but of what I can give.
"Jesus Christ said, 'When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.' O God, grant that what I give may be given without self-congratulation, and without thought of praise or reward.
"Jesus Christ said, 'Enter ye in at the strait gate.' O God, give me grace this day to keep to the narrow path of duty and honourable dealing.
"Jesus Christ said, 'Judge not.' O God, give me grace this day first to cast out the beam out of my own eye, before I regard the mote that is in my brother's eye.
"Jesus Christ said, 'What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?' O God, give me grace so to live this day that, whatever else I lose, I may not lose my soul."
In Christ,
Brown
http://youtu.be/qaHmiFaX_pk
Saturday , October 8.2011
Praise and worship service:
First United Methodist Church , Endicott
Sponsored by Union Center UMC
6PM Gathering- Coffeee- Fellowship
6.30PM Worship
Music: Laureen Naik
Speaker: Jim Nedlik
Please mark your calendar for our prayer conference, which will begin on Friday, October 14 and continue through Sunday morning, October 16.
The Keynote Speaker: Kelly Johnson from Memphis, TN.
The Prayer Team will include: Sunita and Andy, Rob and Jenn, and Meredith from Washington, DC.
The tentative schedule follows:
Friday, October 14 at 6 PM - opening session at Union Center UMC
Saturday, October 15, 9 AM - noon - concert of prayer at UCUMC
The Prayer teams will be available to pray for people for salvation, restoration, healing, deliverance...
Saturday, 5:30 PM - banquet at First UMC, 53 McKinley Ave., Endicott
6:30 PM worship service, including an open invitation to pray at the altar following the worship service. I invite you to be a part of the prayer team during that time.
Sunday morning worship at 8:30 and 11 AM. at UCUMC Kelly Johnson will be preaching. There will be a time for prayer / a concert of prayer
Saturday, October 8.2011 at 6:30 PM (Coffee Fellowship at 6 PM) at First United Methodist Church, 53 McKinley Avenue in Endicott.
Our youth will be attending the Word of Life Superbowl at the arena and other sites on November 4 & 5.
Our annual Thanksgiving Banquet will be held on Saturday, November 19.
The Russian Men's Ensemble will be in concert on December 3.
We are planning for a trip to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Extravaganza on December 6, leaving here at 6 AM, spending the day in NYC, and attending the show at 5 PM. There are optional sites to visit, including the Ground Zero 9/11 Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The trip costs $90 per person, including the bus ticket and a ticket to the show. Anyone who wants to reserve a spot on the bus should make their check payable to Union Center United Methodist Church, memo "Radio City Christmas Extravaganza".
Here at Union Center- Wesley- Endicott, we focus on " World as our Parish"., We remind ourselves that we serve under a captain who has never lost a battle. Jesus Christ the Head of the Church is Faithful. We are invited to embrace 7 holy habits of Christian faithfulness. We are called to FOCUS on our prayer life, our relationship with Christ, reading the Bible, faithful worship attendance, financial gifts to Christ and His Church,, serving Jesus with our hands, and sharing the good news of His Great Redemption,with others. May Christ be praised.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Brown's Daily Word 10-3-11
Good morning,
Praise the Lord for this new day. The Lord blessed us with a beautiful weekend of worship and witness and fellowship. Better is one day in His house than a thousand elsewhere.
Alice and I walked for over five miles in the evening in one of the local parks. One of the walking trails goes along the river bed. The waters still looked turbulent. Some of the big trees have been uprooted during the recent floods. We can see the devastating and destructive effects left by the power of the running waters.
In Mark 4 we read about a mighty storm. Even the professional fishermen were surprised and frightened at the severity of the storm. They knew the Sea of Gallilee, and so they knew it was famous for its sudden, severe storms. Yet the severity of this particular storm surprised even them. They panicked and so, as most of us do, they expected Jesus and everyone else around them to react in the same way.
One thing we often fail to realize is that the presence of the Kingdom often means opposition and conflict. Many expect that once they become a Christian, the storms of life will not turn their world upside down. Both in our churches and in our own hearts, we try to avoid conflict as we would avoid tossing seas. Though we often experience life as chaotic, threatening, and even frightening, we tend to view this and any conflict as “unholy”, an infringement of secular “chaos” into sacred” calm. However, the Gospel of Mark is telling us that is just how life is, conflicted and chaotic. The kingdom’s presence does not mean the end of conflict in our communal or individual lives. It does mean, though, that we have another lens through which to look at life.
The disciples forgot that fact. While they were afraid for their very lives amidst the chaos of the storm, Jesus rested in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. When they saw that Jesus was calm, not panicked, their fear led to ange, because they felt that Jesus didn’t care. They cried out at that point, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing.” That is similar to the way we react to the storms of our lives.
When there is chaos all around and we are being tossed about so that we think surely we will be overwhelmed by it all, we tend to wonder, “Lord, where are you in all this?” We can identify with the disciples' reaction. They asked him, in essence, “don’t you get it man, we’re gonna die!” Jesus reacted to their panic and anger with calmness and gentleness. He didn’t yell at them for getting upset at him, and he didn’t sharply answer their question as we might, “of course I care, who do you think I am, watch me fix it!” In fact, though he responded to their need, he did not answer them. He simply stood up and spoke to those pesky waves, “peace be still!”
Suddenly, in the very place where there had been the violent chaos of the storm, there was calm. Only then did Jesus answer the disciples, with a question in return. “Why are you so afraid,?” he asked. Do you still have no faith? Jesus turned their question around. He revealed their personal insecurities and lack of faith. Jesus has been calm amid the storm, while the disciples showed their immature faith. Fear, not doubt, is the opposite of faith.
We live in a society that fosters fear rather than faith. Fear is everywhere. We fear for our safety in our homes and on the highway. The Bible recognizes the reality of fear, but it encourages faith instead. Jesus expressed divine power in calming the sea not for his own benefit, but in order to calm the disciples, to show them that they do not have to be afraid in the midst of storms. They could, rather, be confident because Jesus was in authority, in control.
A pastor tells the story of visiting a refugee camp at Eglin Air Force Base in the 1970's, just after the Vietnam war, and finding hundreds of refugees huddled under tents. Some were learning English, some were filling out government forms, some being taught to cook. Children were playing games. In the temporary chapel, there was a group singing in their native tongue, “leaning on the everlasting arms.” Here were people who had lost everything but their lives and their faith, and they were singing, “what have I to dread, what have I to fear, leaning on the everlasting arms.”
In 1945 when Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a 39 year old German Lutheran pastor who opposed Adolf Hitler, was taken away to be hanged in a Nazi prison, some said, “it is the end.” Bonhoeffer said: “it is the beginning.” So faith can enable you and I to face with confidence the challenge of living and dying.
There are times and places in our lives filled with uncertainty and with great fear. This passage speaks to people of faith who are being swept away by the currents of life and beaten down by the waves of the storms, with the simple question of faith, “do you trust Jesus?” Friends, Jesus is in the boat with us! Will we let him calm our storms?
In Jesus who is the Christ in every crisis.
Brown
http://youtu.be/NO8uyHtOAHo
Saturday , October 2.2011
Praise and worship service:
First United Methodist Church , Endicott
Sponsored by Union Center UMC
6PM Gathering- Coffeee- Fellowship
6.30PM Worship
Music: Laureen Naik
Speaker: Jim Nedlik
Please mark your calendar for our prayer conference, which will begin on Friday, October 14 and continue through Sunday morning, October 16.
The Keynote Speaker: Kelly Johnson from Memphis, TN.
The Prayer Team will include: Sunita and Andy, Rob and Jenn, and Meredith from Washington, DC.
The tentative schedule follows:
Friday, October 14 at 6 PM - opening session at Union Center UMC
Saturday, October 15, 9 AM - noon - concert of prayer at UCUMC
The Prayer teams will be available to pray for people for salvation, restoration, healing, deliverance...
Saturday, 5:30 PM - banquet at First UMC, 53 McKinley Ave., Endicott
6:30 PM worship service, including an open invitation to pray at the altar following the worship service. I invite you to be a part of the prayer team during that time.
Sunday morning worship at 8:30 and 11 AM. at UCUMC Kelly Johnson will be preaching. There will be a time for prayer / a concert of prayer
Saturday, October 8.2011 at 6:30 PM (Coffee Fellowship at 6 PM) at First United Methodist Church, 53 McKinley Avenue in Endicott.
Our youth will be attending the Word of Life Superbowl at the arena and other sites on November 4 & 5.
Our annual Thanksgiving Banquet will be held on Saturday, November 19.
The Russian Men's Ensemble will be in concert on December 3.
We are planning for a trip to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Extravaganza on December 6, leaving here at 6 AM, spending the day in NYC, and attending the show at 5 PM. There are optional sites to visit, including the Ground Zero 9/11 Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The trip costs $90 per person, including the bus ticket and a ticket to the show. Anyone who wants to reserve a spot on the bus should make their check payable to Union Center United Methodist Church, memo "Radio City Christmas Extravaganza".
Here at Union Center- Wesley- Endicott, we focus on " World as our Parish"., We remind ourselves that we serve under a captain who has never lost a battle. Jesus Christ the Head of the Church is Faithful. We are invited to embrace 7 holy habits of Christian faithfulness. We are called to FOCUS on our prayer life, our relationship with Christ, reading the Bible, faithful worship attendance, financial gifts to Christ and His Church,, serving Jesus with our hands, and sharing the good news of His Great Redemption,with others. May Christ be praised.
Praise the Lord for this new day. The Lord blessed us with a beautiful weekend of worship and witness and fellowship. Better is one day in His house than a thousand elsewhere.
Alice and I walked for over five miles in the evening in one of the local parks. One of the walking trails goes along the river bed. The waters still looked turbulent. Some of the big trees have been uprooted during the recent floods. We can see the devastating and destructive effects left by the power of the running waters.
In Mark 4 we read about a mighty storm. Even the professional fishermen were surprised and frightened at the severity of the storm. They knew the Sea of Gallilee, and so they knew it was famous for its sudden, severe storms. Yet the severity of this particular storm surprised even them. They panicked and so, as most of us do, they expected Jesus and everyone else around them to react in the same way.
One thing we often fail to realize is that the presence of the Kingdom often means opposition and conflict. Many expect that once they become a Christian, the storms of life will not turn their world upside down. Both in our churches and in our own hearts, we try to avoid conflict as we would avoid tossing seas. Though we often experience life as chaotic, threatening, and even frightening, we tend to view this and any conflict as “unholy”, an infringement of secular “chaos” into sacred” calm. However, the Gospel of Mark is telling us that is just how life is, conflicted and chaotic. The kingdom’s presence does not mean the end of conflict in our communal or individual lives. It does mean, though, that we have another lens through which to look at life.
The disciples forgot that fact. While they were afraid for their very lives amidst the chaos of the storm, Jesus rested in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. When they saw that Jesus was calm, not panicked, their fear led to ange, because they felt that Jesus didn’t care. They cried out at that point, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing.” That is similar to the way we react to the storms of our lives.
When there is chaos all around and we are being tossed about so that we think surely we will be overwhelmed by it all, we tend to wonder, “Lord, where are you in all this?” We can identify with the disciples' reaction. They asked him, in essence, “don’t you get it man, we’re gonna die!” Jesus reacted to their panic and anger with calmness and gentleness. He didn’t yell at them for getting upset at him, and he didn’t sharply answer their question as we might, “of course I care, who do you think I am, watch me fix it!” In fact, though he responded to their need, he did not answer them. He simply stood up and spoke to those pesky waves, “peace be still!”
Suddenly, in the very place where there had been the violent chaos of the storm, there was calm. Only then did Jesus answer the disciples, with a question in return. “Why are you so afraid,?” he asked. Do you still have no faith? Jesus turned their question around. He revealed their personal insecurities and lack of faith. Jesus has been calm amid the storm, while the disciples showed their immature faith. Fear, not doubt, is the opposite of faith.
We live in a society that fosters fear rather than faith. Fear is everywhere. We fear for our safety in our homes and on the highway. The Bible recognizes the reality of fear, but it encourages faith instead. Jesus expressed divine power in calming the sea not for his own benefit, but in order to calm the disciples, to show them that they do not have to be afraid in the midst of storms. They could, rather, be confident because Jesus was in authority, in control.
A pastor tells the story of visiting a refugee camp at Eglin Air Force Base in the 1970's, just after the Vietnam war, and finding hundreds of refugees huddled under tents. Some were learning English, some were filling out government forms, some being taught to cook. Children were playing games. In the temporary chapel, there was a group singing in their native tongue, “leaning on the everlasting arms.” Here were people who had lost everything but their lives and their faith, and they were singing, “what have I to dread, what have I to fear, leaning on the everlasting arms.”
In 1945 when Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a 39 year old German Lutheran pastor who opposed Adolf Hitler, was taken away to be hanged in a Nazi prison, some said, “it is the end.” Bonhoeffer said: “it is the beginning.” So faith can enable you and I to face with confidence the challenge of living and dying.
There are times and places in our lives filled with uncertainty and with great fear. This passage speaks to people of faith who are being swept away by the currents of life and beaten down by the waves of the storms, with the simple question of faith, “do you trust Jesus?” Friends, Jesus is in the boat with us! Will we let him calm our storms?
In Jesus who is the Christ in every crisis.
Brown
http://youtu.be/NO8uyHtOAHo
Saturday , October 2.2011
Praise and worship service:
First United Methodist Church , Endicott
Sponsored by Union Center UMC
6PM Gathering- Coffeee- Fellowship
6.30PM Worship
Music: Laureen Naik
Speaker: Jim Nedlik
Please mark your calendar for our prayer conference, which will begin on Friday, October 14 and continue through Sunday morning, October 16.
The Keynote Speaker: Kelly Johnson from Memphis, TN.
The Prayer Team will include: Sunita and Andy, Rob and Jenn, and Meredith from Washington, DC.
The tentative schedule follows:
Friday, October 14 at 6 PM - opening session at Union Center UMC
Saturday, October 15, 9 AM - noon - concert of prayer at UCUMC
The Prayer teams will be available to pray for people for salvation, restoration, healing, deliverance...
Saturday, 5:30 PM - banquet at First UMC, 53 McKinley Ave., Endicott
6:30 PM worship service, including an open invitation to pray at the altar following the worship service. I invite you to be a part of the prayer team during that time.
Sunday morning worship at 8:30 and 11 AM. at UCUMC Kelly Johnson will be preaching. There will be a time for prayer / a concert of prayer
Saturday, October 8.2011 at 6:30 PM (Coffee Fellowship at 6 PM) at First United Methodist Church, 53 McKinley Avenue in Endicott.
Our youth will be attending the Word of Life Superbowl at the arena and other sites on November 4 & 5.
Our annual Thanksgiving Banquet will be held on Saturday, November 19.
The Russian Men's Ensemble will be in concert on December 3.
We are planning for a trip to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Extravaganza on December 6, leaving here at 6 AM, spending the day in NYC, and attending the show at 5 PM. There are optional sites to visit, including the Ground Zero 9/11 Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The trip costs $90 per person, including the bus ticket and a ticket to the show. Anyone who wants to reserve a spot on the bus should make their check payable to Union Center United Methodist Church, memo "Radio City Christmas Extravaganza".
Here at Union Center- Wesley- Endicott, we focus on " World as our Parish"., We remind ourselves that we serve under a captain who has never lost a battle. Jesus Christ the Head of the Church is Faithful. We are invited to embrace 7 holy habits of Christian faithfulness. We are called to FOCUS on our prayer life, our relationship with Christ, reading the Bible, faithful worship attendance, financial gifts to Christ and His Church,, serving Jesus with our hands, and sharing the good news of His Great Redemption,with others. May Christ be praised.
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