Sunday, June 26
Preacher: Rev. Taylor Fuerst
Scripture: Matthew 11:2-11
This week's curious question is, "Are you the one?"
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9:00AM and 11:00AM | Sanctuary
Please note: We apologize, but COVID exposures and longtime travel plans among our staff and volunteers mean that Children's Sunday School is cancelled for Sunday, June 26. If a parent or caregiver plans to attend Sunday School or Coffee Talk during the 10:00AM hour, children may be dropped off in childcare in EDU 104. Again, we are sorry for the short notice and look forward to seeing children in Sunday School in July.
Austin/Travis County's community COVID level has returned to low. At this time, masks are optional during worship at FUMC Austin. For more information about this community of faith's approach to masking, visit our website.
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Coffee Talk
Sundays, June 19-July 24
10:00-10:45AM | EDU Murchison Chapel
Come as you can to Coffee Talk, a brief, casual time of connection this summer. On Sunday mornings, we will meet in Murchison Chapel to meet new people, learn, and share together. This week's theme is "Happy." Whether you are in town one weekend or all summer, you are welcome to this chance to meet people and help us dream about how to help our community flourish. For more information, contact Pastoral Intern Becca Edwards.
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This Sunday's FEAST Event Has Been Postponed
FEAST: Reproductive Freedom, scheduled for this Sunday night at 7:30PM, has been briefly postponed because of illness. We will announce its rescheduled time soon.
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Feed My People Breakfast
Tuesday, June 28 | 5:15-7:00AM
Family Life Center
We need volunteers! Preparing and cooking this meal that feeds our vulnerable neighbors begins at 5:15AM and clean-up is finished by 7:00AM. June 28 is a fourth Tuesday, for which First Church sponsors the meal and provides volunteers. Sign up here>
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Lunch & Learn: Voting as an Act of Love and Anti-Racism
Sunday, July 3 | 12:15-1:45PM
FLC Garrison Chapel or Zoom
What better way to celebrate our nation's independence than to join us for a Lunch & Learn discussion about Voting as an Act of Love and Anti-Racism? We are focusing on voting issues in July to equip us to use our votes and voices to advance God's kin-dom in Austin and around the world. Lunch will be provided by our Mercy & Justice team. Donations are welcome. Zoom link sent when you register here>
Please note that last Sunday's Weekly erroneously listed another Lunch and Learn option on Tuesday, June 28. This was incorrect. We apologize for the mistake.
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One Person, No Vote
Tuesdays, July 5-26
6:30-8:00PM | Zoom
Join Pastor Cathy Stone to read and discuss Carol Anderson’s book, One Person, No Vote. Anderson chronicles the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, known as the Shelby ruling. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. With vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans. Zoom link will be sent with registration. Sign up here>
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Caregiver Support Group
Wednesday, July 6 | 8:00-9:00PM | Zoom
Caring for a loved one in their season of need is a sacred trust and holy work. At the same time, it can be isolating and exhausting—no matter how much we love the recipient! Often, caregivers need a brief time away to renew their spirits, to just be themselves, and to connect with others in similar circumstances to receive support and encouragement. Pastor Cathy Stone and member Judy Breckbill are the hosts for this time that is open to those currently caring for a loved one or who have recently been in this role, whether in-home or miles apart. For our July gathering, you are invited to email Pastor Cathy a picture of the person you are or were caring for. Please email Judy Breckbill with questions or for the Zoom link.
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Community First! Cinema:
A Goofy Movie
Friday, July 8 | 8:00PM
9301 Hog Eye Road
Nestled into Community First! Village, the cinema is one of the coolest outdoor venues in town, even in this heat. The Mercy & Justice Team invite you to make a night of it. All proceeds help the residents of the Village earn a dignified income. Purchase tickets>
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Cheers to Visit Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibit
Thursday, July 28 | 6:00-7:30PM
Paddock Events Center | 9201 Circuit of the Americas Blvd.
Join the Cheers Ministry, a community for those young-at-heart who are recently retired and semi-retired, as they visit Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition. This exhibit allows guests to admire Michelangelo’s masterpieces up close like never before. Purchase your senior tickets ($22.60) and register with the church so we know to expect you. Contact Dick Young with any questions. Find all the links you need and register here>
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Table for 8, please! Whether you are picnicking, potlucking, hosting, or dining out, it is hard to beat a shared meal as a way to make new friends and reconnect with old ones. Just think of all the ways Jesus used meals to invite all kinds of people into deeper relationship with God and one another!
Table for 8 is a casual, fun way to spend one meal a month connecting with people from FUMC in a relaxed atmosphere. Whether you participate solo, with a spouse or partner, or with a family of any age, the goal of Table for 8 is to bring a small group of adults who live in the same general geographical area together for fellowship and a meal. We hope groups will meet three times in the fall and three times in the spring. Once created, your group will organize the details of those meals based on the needs and preference. The goal is to meet new people or deepen connections with people you don’t know well. Sign up with a sense of adventure! Do continue to see your longtime TUMC friends, but please don’t request that we put you in a Table for 8 groups with specific people.
As you sign up, you can indicate whether or not you are interested in being in a group that also includes children. Groups will be notified in mid-August and will begin meeting in September. When you register, consider volunteering to help coordinate your group’s first meeting. Questions? Email Emily Buchanan.
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”Take a long, hard look down the road you will have to travel once you have made a commitment to work for change. Know that this transformation…Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year...Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.”
—Congressman John Lewis
How did John Lewis survive that day in 1965, when he was clubbed by police on the Edmund Pettus bridge, fracturing his skull during a nonviolent march for civil rights? One breath at a time.
We know the Holy Spirit as Advocate. The Greek word pneuma—or breath—is also used for the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is the breath of God, the same breath that hovered over the deep waters at creation and stirred them to life, the same one that brings us to life with a cry.
But advocacy takes more than one breath. Advocacy is repetitive, often invisible work and finding respite is key to sustaining yourself when it is hard to know how to go on.
Have you ever noticed that lifelong advocates, people like John Lewis, are deeply rooted in the serious work of justice and an unusual connection playfulness or joy? John Lewis got into good trouble. He also kept chickens and danced to the Pharrell Williams’ song, “Happy,” almost every day. When the pneuma, the Spirit, is at work, we can’t see it, but we can see the results it inspires, encourages, influences, activates—like a belly laugh at the end of a long day.
How to we sustain ourselves for the work of advocacy? One breath of life after another. As Lewis said before his death, “Our country is a better country. We are a better people, but we have still a distance to travel to go before we get there.”
How will you allow the spirit to work and play in you? For whom will you advocate?
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Thank you, First Church!
The May mission emphasis was Mobile Loaves & Fishes and we collected $3,450. Your generosity supports our efforts as we try to make a difference for our friends living on the streets.
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Submit a prayer request online.
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Within Our Congregation
The Drazic Family, Pat Freeman, Marcia Houston, Martin Morales, Sallie Novinger, and Dan Wood.
Continued prayers for our 2022 Appalachia Service Project Team.
Beyond Our Congregation
Jo Rene Altenberg, sister of Fay Brown; Nate Barns, cousin of Teresa Baker; Samuel Cutrone, father of Jason Cutrone; Pat Davis, friend of Bob Block; Carly Faulkner and Colton Wimberly, friends of Cindy Reidland; Dick and Bonnie Fuerst, parents of Brad Fuerst; Becca Gordon, daughter of Kristin Robertson; Mackey Greene, father of Bert Greene; Johnnie Houston, mother of Marcia Houston; Genie and Bill Kilday, parents of Dan Kilday; Elissa Marek, friend of Curt Ashmos; JJ; Rev. James Mayfield, friend of Molly Drazic; the Maynard family, friends of Caroline Jones; Robert McCarroll, son of Virginia McCarroll; Olivia, daughter of Sue Maple; Spencer Pace, friend of Alan Stephens; Vickye Patrick and Mitzi Moore, friends of Jan Ashmos; David Potts, father of Annemarie Potts; Lauren Stafford, niece of Cheryl Bias; Tonya Basler Stout, sister of Grady Basler; Susan, friend of Cindy Gunderson; Jacqueline Vidal and family, friends of Scott Cook; and Dr. Robert Wootton, friend of George Gaston.
Continued prayers for the people of Uvalde, TX.
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Contact Us
First United Methodist Church
1201 Lavaca St. Austin, TX 78701
(512) 478-5684
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