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Earn Your WINGS
What’s essential for a long journey or a long flight? Your first thoughts might be good music, plenty of snacks, clothing, money, or gas. While all of these things and more are necessary, nothing is as essential as a road map, a GPS, or a flight plan to get you to where you’re going. The same is true for our faith journey. Why WINGS? Scripture calls us to be and to make disciples of Jesus Christ. So, how do we live,…
Onward and Upward
A View from above The Steel Has Arrived On January 9, the steel arrived for our building project, and our workers have begun assembling our Children’s Center. We expect the steel framework and deck for the Children’s Center to be complete in approximately two weeks. BEAM SIGNING THIS SUNDAY: PUT YOUR NAME ON OUR NEW ATRIUM We have placed a steel beam for our new atrium has been placed outside our east entrance. On Sunday, January 13, after worship, we…
MLK Event Volunteer Opportunity
On January 21, from 11:30am-1:00pm, FUMC Allen will host the Collin County Martin Luther King Jr Appreciation Day celebration in our sanctuary and gym. We are expecting between 1,000-1,100 guests. We need your help in extending the hospitality of our church to all who enter our doors. Here are just a few places where we need your help: Bake two dozen cookies and place in individual baggies for the sack lunches we will provide to our guests on January 21.…
Making Relationships Work: We Need Your Family Pictures
In our February worship series, we’ll be focusing on Making Relationships Work: how to enhance our love, overcome gridlock, turn toward one another instead of away, and create a life of shared meaning together, whatever our families may look like in this season. As a part of our worship series, we’d love to share some family pictures from you. They could be of your grandparents when they were children, a school picture from when you were little, your mom and…
Grief Support Winter/Spring 2019
FUMC Allen hosts a variety of on-site grief support programs presented by the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Hospice. These programs are free and open to adults from our community. Child care is not provided. When coming for the first time, please RSVP two business days in advance To RSVP, contact VNA Bereavement Coordinator Susan Bryan, LPC, bryans@vnatexas.org or 214.733.5543 Grieving Hearts Group: First TuesdayS A monthly support group for anyone grieving the death of their spouse. 10:00am – 11:30am CLC203…
SOAR: Faith Taking Flight
Our SOAR series challenges us to look at how our faith can get stronger, deeper, more life-giving, and more outwardly focused in 2019 as we leverage our WINGS to soar in the New Year. Each week offers a unique perspective on one of five key pillars of discipleship: worshiping, inviting, nurturing, giving, and serving. Each sermon is designed to move us from where we are in our faith to where we can be and to where God is leading us.…
Bridgeport Camp Announces Summer Camp Dates
As we celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, we often break out our calendars for the new year. And if you’re a parent, you are already looking for and marking dates for summer activities. FUMC Allen is excited to announce our summer camp dates at Bridgeport Camp and Conference Center in Bridgeport, TX. Bridgeport offers fun, Christ-centered camps for children and youth (completing grades 3 through 12). SEEK Camps are for our special needs campers. Learn more about SEEK Camps…
Making It Concrete
Rain, Rain Go Away So We Can Pour Some Concrete Today! Have you noticed, we have had a lot of rain this fall? Our contractors are painfully aware as it has affected our construction schedule almost every week. But they have patiently persevered, and today, they were able to pour the slab for the new Children’s Center. As you can see in the pictures and video below, Pastor Todd was on hand, making sure that your prayers, collected in worship…
Share the Gift of Christmas on December 24
SHARE the gift of Christmas at FUMC Allen on Monday December 24 FUMC Allen offers four worship services with four different formats and times to accommodate all busy schedules during this holiday season. Join us in a time of peace and joy as we share the hope and light of Christmas Eve. Family Worship 4:00pm FUMC Allen invites you to a family-friendly Christmas Eve worship service with candlelight and communion. Our families will enjoy the Christmas ABC Story with traditional…
Our New Facilities Will Begin to Take Shape in December
Concrete Slab Work to Begin in Early December After 3 months of demolition, excavation and site preparation, the actual new construction of our new Children’s and Hospitality Additions will begin next week. During December, the concrete slabs for both facilities will be poured followed by the assembly of the structural steel which will support both facilities. Please be cautious as you enter and exit the facilities, especially during weekdays as there will be many trucks entering and exiting our property.…
Worship Series: The Xmas Xchange
Exchanging gifts comes with the season. Sure, sometimes gift exchanges are a hassle, but in the end, we occasionally receive that for which we’d hoped. What if we could do the same the heaviness that comes with Advent? What if we could exchange our despair, chaos, fear, bitterness, and darkness for the very best God offers through hope, peace, joy, love, and light? It can be ours if we but look to the source of all good gifts. Some will…
Community Survey 2018 Results
The results are in… We’ve completed our community survey and have learned some insightful information. The feedback we received will help guide future decisions related to our community as we seek to make a positive impact on the world around us. We’ve condensed and grouped over 100 survey responses into 5-6 bulleted results for each questions. You can check out the results here. Community Survey Report 2018