Welcome to Farmville United Methodist Church!

See our 2010 Planning Goals for the Church from the SPRC and Pastor Paul, "Living Into Our Mission".

You'll also want to read the 2010: A Call to Vision for FUMC and the details there about our visioning process for next year, including a description of the "Vision Team" mentioned in our goals. God is moving in our Church, and we hope everyone in the Church is praying and preparing to see where God is leading us.


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Sermons:

Go to our Vimeo "Video Vault" for recent archives of services on video!

Audio Archives of requested sermons:
" Your Grace is Enough: How to lean on God when Times are Tough ". The Hope of God is the hope in which we stand secure, and the Peace that helps us face such times as grief, loss, brokenness and more.  In this sermon, Pastor Paul spoke to this Hope in the ways that God helps us face times of trial. Listen here to words of strength and Hope from God's Word, as we explore some of the many places throughout Scripture where we can come and find an ever-present Hope in God. This Word will be meaningful to you no matter what might be on your heart. Our Scripture begins at 2 Corinthians 12:7b-10.
From 8/16/2009, a Sunday where we were in the midst of a weekend of 2 funerals in our church, where grief and deep faith-questions were close at hand.

"Truly Transformed Christians", Easter message 2009.
Pastor Paul Dunham explores the challenges of living an authentic Christian life in the face of a culture more and more hostile to christianity- much like the early Christians faced that first Ressurection morning. Are you a "Palm Sunday Christian", an "in the Garden Christian", or a full of Life with Christ "Ressurection Sunday Christian"?

"Truly Transformed Christians: Week 2".
Is your life transformed by the Breathe of God? Can you believe, even if you do not touch and see the Lord? And how is your life different because you believe? Do not Boubt...BELIEVE!

Ready 4 Discipleship? A lesson in Discipleship from Nehemiah

Links:
United Methodist Church The NC Conference of the UMC
Bible Gateway Daily Bible Plan
Operation Sharehouse ChristianBook.com
FUMC Event Picture Albums FUMC Official Relay for Life Page
FUMC Church Calendar   (Pastor Paul's) YouTube Page
FUMC Prayer/Announcements E-mail List  

Files for Download:
2010 FUMC Goals from the SPRC & Pastor Paul: Living Into Our Mission
Children's Christmas Audio '08
 Choir Christmas Audio '08
Kids' Christmas Program '08
 Choir Christmas program '08
'09 Officers & Committees
 Greeters and Gifters Ministries: Practical ways we'll extend the welcome.


Bible Study Helps:

The Bible Study and Prayer Journal:
     The whole booklet.
     Extra journal pages. Print more pages to add to your journal.
     The page to help you know "How to Study the Bible".
The FUMC Daily Bible Reading Plan
The Study Bible the Confirmands received- order your own copy to have a good new Study Bible.


Get the Bible the Confirmands received here:

223717: The NRSV Discipleship Study Bible with the Apocrypha The NRSV Discipleship Study Bible with the Apocrypha
Edited by B.C. Birch, B.K. Blount, T.G. Long & G.R. O'Day / Westminster / John Knox

The Discipleship Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version including Apocrypha-the first completely new NRSV study Bible in five years!

Laity and clergy in mainline Protestant churches frequently want a study Bible that matches their congregation's translation for worship and education (usually NRSV) while also providing resources for personal understanding and guidance for Christian living. Existing study Bibles based on the NRSV provide factual information about the biblical text but have not developed the personal application direction. The Discipleship Study Bible will be unique in providing a NRSV translation with personal application notes for a mainline Protestant audience.

The annotations in this study Bible give particular emphasis to discerning scriptural guidance for living together in community. Such living encompasses but is not limited to personal piety. The biblical text has an inescapable social dimension and the Discipleship Study Bible demonstrates attentiveness to the public and communal meanings and implications of the biblical text, including the social justice and social witness dimensions of Scripture. In short, this study Bible gives attention to both personal and corporate discipleship, to both spiritual and social needs.

The Discipleship Study Bible:
  • Focuses on discipleship (Christian living for today) for a mainline denominational communion
  • Concentrates on social justice, that is, acts of Christian care and concern for all God’s people and all of God’s world
  • Concentrates on personal piety, that is,  Christian acts of personal response to Scripture
  • Is based on the scholarship and inclusive language of the NRSV translation
The Discipleship Study Bible provides you with a number of features:
  • Extensive (approximately 400,000 total words) introduction and annotations for each biblical book (including the Apocryphal or Deuterocanonical books) solicited from a group of distinguished biblical scholars for this project.
  • Introductions to each biblical book to acquaint you with essential historical, sociocultural, literary, and theological issues valuable in understanding the biblical book in question.
  • Annotations for each biblical book addressing the whole range of the Christian life.  Both spiritual and social needs are given attention to help you recognize that Christian faith makes claims on every aspect of our lives.  Attention is given as appropriate to personal piety as a dimension of faithful discipleship.  But even more attention is devoted to the social dimension of the biblical text and faithful discipleship, especially matters of social justice.
  • Concise chronology of events and literature in and surrounding Ancient Israel and Early Christianity
  • Concise concordance
  • Color maps




Our Stewardship Moment Video

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The Open House Month preparation Inserts:

Offering an Invitation: how to invite someone to church, including the FRAN Plan.

Extending the Welcome: How to welcome someone into the church.  Includes the guidelines for welcome.

Becoming Disciples: Spiritual growth and Discipleship are he root of why we do what we do.