Worship Service airs live on our Website and YouTube at 9:00 am and posted later to Facebook.

Go to the Worship Page on our Website to find more information about future services.

Pastor Rob Preaches Faithful Women in Fearful Times

A look at the women of the exodus and how their faith, courage and tenacity beats in all hearts today.

Sunday's Blessing Tables include the Meet & Greet the Pastor table with Pastor Rob, Linda McConnell & Jane Siarny and the Church Council table with Jim Alderfer.

We will learn about how to activate the Holy Spirit by taking care of the Earth. We will have wildlife speakers and wild animals! We will talk about planting gardens, make Rice Krispie Treat Earth balls and play huge Earth globe ball games! Parent Connections will have a speaker from Wild Ones native gardeners.

Registration is now open. Click here to register your family. Click here if you would like to volunteer to help during Spirited Adventures. Registration is open to the public. Please invite your friends and family.

More information: Julie Popplewell at Julie@genevaumc.org or check our this website page for updates.

We are going to have a guided geocaching event in Geneva. All 6th-12th graders and their friends are invited. For more information please contact Mike Crain at mike.crain@ministryarchitects.com

Submit information each week by Wednesday at 12pm for inclusion in Bulletin Announcements or the Weekly Messenger.  Please use the submission form that can also be used for adding items to the calendar and reserving rooms. This form can also be found on the sign-ups page on our website. You may also send them to communications@genevaumc.org. Information sent to this email goes to Carolyn, Debbie, and Lorie. 

This year by shopping at the new CVM Geneva location you’ll raise funds for ASP. The CVM Geneva location has the meats and products you love from the original Sublette location, plus full-service meat, seafood, and deli counters. Fifteen percent from your food products purchased at the Geneva store during the week of May 16-May 21 will fund ASP. Just specify “this order is for UMCG ASP” at checkout. Please help us improve those ASP homes while providing our youth an experience of a lifetime.

If you have a suggestion for a charity organization to receive some of these monies, please complete this form and return it to Jenean Larsen by May 10. She will then compile the suggested charity list and share it so everyone has the list prior to the meeting on the 15th. 

The form can be emailed to Jenean at jenean_larsen@yahoo.com or dropped off in the office. Copies of this form are available in the office as well. An email containing all the requested information on the form is also acceptable. If you have questions, please contact Jenean via email or phone/text at 847-707-6598. 

We’d like to extend our congratulations to those who have or will be graduating in 2022 from high school or post-secondary school. If you or a family member is graduating this spring, please contact the office at debbie@genevaumc.org, and let us know from which school they are graduating, as well as any future educational, work or other plans. 

Please send your information by May 31. 

Something extraordinary happens when you share your home and family with a high school student from another country.

You can help build bridges of intercultural understanding and peace while enriching your life in many ways. Click on this link Greater Illinois Student Bio Flyer to learn more about AFS and view the amazing students we are working to place. Contact Robbin Lang

at 630-346-4320 with questions.

UMCG invites you to three sessions to help you in your grief journey. We will meet on May 12, 19 & 26 at 2:00pm in the Parlor. These meetings will last approximately 1.5 hours and, although everyone's grief journey is very authentic, we will try to cover many things that seem to be common.

Swedish Days in Geneva is returning this year, AND the United Methodist Church of Geneva's Swedish Days booth is back again! We are asking everyone in our church to consider volunteering for one or more shifts at our booth. Watch for more information and save the dates of June 22-June 26. For more information please contact: Steve Lillie sandnlillie@gmail.com,  630-452-6736; Lorne Tweed tweed.lorne@gmail.com, 908-723-2617; Jim McConnell mcjamesc@aol.com, 630-715-3480.

The Friendly Visitors will hold a short in-person meeting on May 22 at 10:15am in the library. This meeting is for all those currently involved with the program or those considering becoming a Friendly Visitor. The meeting purpose is to check the status of ongoing visitations and address any concerns or issues which may have arisen. The Friendly Visitors are individuals who visit church members who are elderly, ill, or shut-in, and who may therefore be unable to attend church or maintain long-standing friendships. If you are unable to attend the meeting, questions may be directed to Rod Yarger, at 630-584-2656, or Nancie Lillie, at 231-845-6097.

The center is near Springfield, about 3 hours away. We will meet at church on Friday, May 20, at 9am, drive to Springfield and have lunch. We will then unload at the center in Chatham and volunteer to sort and pack with them in the afternoon. We will get supper in Springfield and return home around 9pm. Contact Pastor Lisa Telomen Lisa@genevaumc.org if you are interested in going.

If you can help, please sign up on the Creation Care bulletin board in Fellowship Hall or email Debbie Karr at dlk24@att.net.

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Prairie Central eNews is here.

The NIC weekly eNews is here.

The Download the NIC Reporter for May here.

UMCG has a hidden page on the website for our church family to access called the Document Center. This includes our committee roster, communications submission forms and in the future, our committee agendas, reports and minutes.