Here is your Monday e-Blast For The Week Of 12-3-2018

The First United Methodist Church of Eugene

1376 Olive Street, Eugene Oregon 97401

Phone: 541-345-8764 Fax: 541-485-5025

December 10, 2018

This Week At First

Monday, December 10th:

Office Closed

Tuesday, December 11th:

9:30 a.m. UMW Reading Group in the Library

7:00 p.m. Book Study, Falling Sky on Oak Alley

Wednesday, December 12th:

4:30 p.m. Handbells in Room 20

6:30 p.m. Thursday Morning Keepers Cafe Breakfast Prep

6:15 p.m. Informal hymn sing in Chapel

6:30 p.m. Choir in the Chapel

Thursday, December 13th:

8:00 a.m. Keepers Cafe Coffee Hour

9:00 a.m. Keepers Cafe Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Sewing Sisters in Fellowship Hall

9:45 a.m. Thursday Theology in the Library

10:45 a.m. Backpacks in Fellowship Hall

5:15 p.m. Handbells in Room 20

6:00 p.m. Egan Training in the Chapel

7:00 p.m. SPRC in the Library

Friday, December 14th:

12:00 p.m. Advent Organ Recital in Sanctuary

Sunday, December 16th - Advent III:

8:00 a.m. Men's Group in the Library

9:00 a.m. Traditional Worship in the Sanctuary

10:00 a.m. Coffee Hour in Fellowship Hall

10:00 a.m. Youth Group

10:00 a.m. Cookie Walk in Fellowship Hall

10:00 a.m. Book Study Groups in Room 19 & Chapel

10:15 a.m. Ring, Sing, & Serve Christmas Pageant

Rehearsal in Room 16

11:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship in the Sanctuary

4:00 p.m. Church-Wide Advent Festival in the Fellowship Hall

5:00 p.m. Restore Book Study @ Bier Stein

Advent Reading Groups Continue

this Week!

This December we have a really incredible resource that is informing our ministry together - a great book by Brian McLaren, “We Make the Road by Walking.”

We have some great Advent reading groups coming together to explore this book together. Right now, we have groups forming up:

Tuesday evenings @ 7 p.m. at Falling Sky on Oak Alley.
Thursday mornings @ 9:45 a.m. in the church library
Sundays at 10 a.m. in Room 19 or the Chapel
Sundays Dec 16th @ 5 p.m. at the Bier Stein

Questions? Send Pastor Jessie an email by clicking here.

Our hope is that these groups will be permeable - one week it may work out for you to join the Tuesday evening group, but another week it may work better for you to attend the Sunday discussion.

Bishop Stanovsky has made some great resources available to accompany our reading, and you can find those by clicking here.

Cookie Walk This Sunday

10:00 a.m.

Fellowship Hall

Don't Miss It!!!!

Keepers Cafe this Week

Please join us this Wednesday evening, 6:30 p.m. on December 12th, to help us prepare for our regular Thursday morning breakfast. And of course the more helpers the better on Thursday mornings - come by anytime after 8 a.m. - there will be plenty to help with!

For more information, contact Karen Love Baisinger at

541-915-0335 or Click Here To Contact Karen By e-mail .

Church Office Hours

Monday- Office Closed

Tuesday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m.

Friday - 9:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m.

Don't Forget To Order Your

Poinsettias For The Chancel

There is still time for you to order Poinsettias in honor or memory of your loved ones. Check your bulletins and the counter outside of the church office for order forms. The cost this year is $16.50.

Prayers and Thanksgivings

James Walugembe thanksgiving for Samuel's successful dental surgery; for the Kingsbury family as they go through the season of mourning after Bob's death; healing for family relationships; Cleo Mapfumo for peace, love, and hope in all of the world; unspoken request for healing; Shelly Hutson for nephew Eric Rolston in Ohio who is in his in his final days from cancer; Rand Cooper for inner strength; Susan Costa for God’s will to be done in downtown Eugene; Kathy Hoffer-Riedman for Richard Riedman to find strength for his final journey; for those going through treatment for cancer: Mick Gough, Blake English, and many others … Gracious God, hear our prayers.