Dear Church,

I've really been enjoying the poems that go along with each week's question. This past Sunday we heard the disciples ask, "who sinned?"

Instead of a poem to read and digest, this week I'll share a poem writing prompt- Write a poem that is also a letter. Address the letter to a past version of yourself. What do you want to say to the 6 year old version of you? the 17 year old, the 24 year old, the ___ year old version of you? What about life or faith do you know now that you didn’t know then?

We have a lot of good stuff coming up in the life of our church community these next few weeks! The children are putting on a Resurrection Play, we're planning Kids Camp, were getting ready for Holy Week and Easter worship, we're preparing for our Second Annual Spring Social. See below for all the details!

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Peace and grace,

Rev. Nancy Martin

Pastor, Fairview United Methodist Church

revnancygmartin@gmail.com

573.356.0945

Sunday Worship

This Sunday we will worship together on Zoom and in person in the sanctuary at 10:00 AM.

It's the Fifth Sunday in Lent. We'll celebrate Holy Communion and focus on John 9:1-41

Click here for more information about finding your way around our building.

Children's Church will be offered during the worship service for children 4 years old through 5th grade. Nursery Care will be available for children 3 and under beginning at 9:45 AM. 

To join on Zoom, click the image or use this info: Meeting ID: 966 9179 0992 Password: Jesus

Children's Easter Play

The children will present a short play about the resurrection on Easter Sunday, April 9th. 

We'll practice Thursday evenings at 6 PM in the sanctuary.

The first practice will be Thursday, March 23rd at 6 PM in the Sanctuary. 

Second Annual Neighborhood Spring Social

Our second annual Neighborhood Spring Social is coming up VERY soon! - April 8 starting at 4 PM.

We need YOU to make this event a success. Last year we had 80 kids hunting eggs and we hope to have even more as this event becomes an annual tradition.

Our hope is that the Neighborhood Spring Social brings together all sorts of folks from our neighborhood for fun and fellowship. We'll have an egg hunt and craft for the kids, but also a food truck and lemonade stand, a spring photo area, and other fun stuff!

Click here to sign up to help- in many different ways!

Help us fill some eggs!

Our Second Annual Neighborhood Spring Social is coming up which includes an egg hunt. Last year we had over 80 kids hunting eggs and hopefully more this year!

Please bring filled eggs to the church narthex. We also have empty egg shells. If you'd rather, grab a bag full of shells and bring them back filled.

Please fill with candy that cannot melt or stickers.

We'll need them by April 7th.

Kids Camp Coordination Meeting

It is time to start coordinating Kids Camp 2023!

Kids Camp will be here before we know it. This year we'll host Kids Camp at Fairview July 17-21st.

There will be a Coordination Meeting this Monday, March 20th at 7 PM in the Church Office for anyone that is interested in attending.

Kids Camp is for young people who have finished Kindergarten through 6th grade. Folks who have complete 7th grade through age 15 can be Junior Counselors.

Click here for more information about Kids Camp and how you can help. Also, come to this meeting!

Click here to sign up a young person for camp!

Share this link with anyone who is interested in sending their kid to camp

March 20 | 7 PM | Church Office

Help at The Wardrobe

Twice a year The Wardrobe has "Change Over" day to switch from winter to summer and then back again.

Warm weather is coming and Change Over day at The Wardrobe will be Monday, March 27 from 9 AM - 3 PM. Stop by between those times and help!

March 27 | 9 AM-3 PM | The Wardrobe

Loaves and Fishes March 29th

We will serve at Loaves and Fishes Wednesday, March 29. Thank you to all who have signed up already. Because of all your sign ups, we just need three more crockpots of green beans!

Click here to access this meal's recipes

We also need in-person volunteers to be there to get ready, serve the food, run the dishwasher, etc.

Please arrive by 4:30 PM to Wilkes Blvd UMC if volunteering.

Please have any hot food to the Fairview New Kitchen by 2 PM on Wednesday the 29th

Please have any frozen ziti to the Fairview New Kitchen by Monday the 28th at noon and any refrigerated food by Tuesday the 29th at noon.

If you have any questions, please ask Stacy Drane - sdrane@centurytel.net

Click here to give online- select Loaves and Fishes from the dropdown menu.

Click here to sign up online (or sign up in the Narthex!)

March 29 | 4 PM | Loaves and Fishes (at Wilkes Blvd. United Methodist Church)

Cake Decorating with Bonnie

Mark your calendar for a fun morning learning how to decorate a cake with Bonnie!

It'll be $20 per cake. Includes cake, icing, decorative icing, cake board and box. Bring any supplies you'd like!

Children participating must have an adult partner working on the same cake

Click here to sign up online (or sign up in the church narthex)

April 1 | 10:30 AM | New Kitchen

Story and Song Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday, April 2nd we will have a special worship service as we prepare for Easter Sunday.

We'll tell the story of Jesus' Passion in Story and Song.

Would you like to read part of the story?

Click here to sign up or sign up in the Narthex

Holy Week Worship

We will worship together on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday the week before Easter.

Maundy Thursday April 6 at 6 PM

Good Friday April 7 at 6 PM

Special Noon Good Friday Service

In addition to our Good Friday service at Fairview at 6 PM on Friday, April 7th, we have another opportunity for worship that day.

Come to St. Luke United Methodist Church on Good Friday, April 7th at noon to experience a Seven Last Words Service.

Our Pastor, Nancy Martin, will be one of the pastors participating.

Easter Pictures

Nick Campbell will be taking pictures on Easter Sunday.

This is a great opportunity to get your photo in Instant Church Directory or to update your current directory photo.

Room at the Inn 2022-23 Update

Click below to sign up to volunteer at Room At The Inn Winter Shelter this season or to provide a warm meal.

Meal Sign Ups go through March 31 and Volunteer Sign Ups go through April 1.

Fairview Children's Choir

Calling all kids! 

Come sing in our choir.

We practice Sunday mornings at 9:30 in the sanctuary.

The Children's Choir will next sing in worship on April 9th. They'll be singing

Every Day is Easter

Fairview Choir

Come sing with us Wednesdays at 7 PM. 

All experiences levels welcome.

Photos of the minute-to-win-it games in between rounds at Fairview Trivia Night on Friday, March 17th. We had fun!

Tuesdays| 6:30 PM | Church Office

Joy Group Small Group

Joy Group Lenten Study is Tuesdays at 6:30 PM in the church office.

Anyone is welcome to join!

We are reading Walking in the Wilderness: Seeking God During Lent

by Beth A. Richardson

Join in person or via Zoom. The meeting number is 872 7965 0140 and password JOY.

Children's Church



Children's Church is offered during our 10 AM Sunday worship service for those in fifth grade and younger.

Children can stay with their adult(s) in the sanctuary or join our Directory of Children's Ministry Abby and her Safe Gatherings Certified assistants to learn about the scripture we will focus on as a church that week. They will do crafts, have games, a snack, gym/outdoor time and fellowship.

Sunday Adult Bible Study 

Join us for Bible Study Sundays at 9:00 AM in the Pastor's Study.

Don't forget your Bible!

If you have any questions contact the Class Shepherd- Susan Burpo

Sunday Adult Book Group

This week at 11:15 AM in the Church Office/Zoom join us as we discuss the pages on "Who sinned?" in the Lenten Devotional.

Meeting ID: 872 2387 8090

Passcode: Breakfast

Click here to enter our Zoom Room

Moms Small Group

The Small Group for Moms with Kids in Elementary School and younger will next meet Sunday, April 2nd at 7 PM in the Narthex.

We're reading Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren.

Our aim is to meet every other Sunday evening.

Join us!

Happy Birthday Curt Matson (23) and Matthew Neff (26)!

Click the image to see this month's upcoming birthdays and anniversaries.

To add your celebration to the church's list, please email the office at office@frontyardchurch.org.

Let Us Pray

"Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ." -Galatians 6:2

Each week we will share the prayer requests received during Sunday worship. If you would like to add your prayer request to this list, please email the church office (office@frontyardchurch.org) and it will be included in the next News and Notes.

Kay Parish's niece Lizzie "Lizard" Church who was just transferred to Children's Hospital in Columbia with the tentative diagnosis of Kawaski disease.

Phyllis JiJi recovering from cataract surgery.

Alycia, friend of Abby Amann 

Nicki, niece in law of K. D. Berrey, lump in breast and upcoming tests. 

Fairview Administrative Board

Student of K.D. Berrey, loss of his grandmother.

Mary Amanda, Brendon, Freddy and Phillip.

People with no shelter, home and food.

Sherry, friend of Janice Zelasko, with a brain tumor. 

Alden, son of Linda Woolley, having surgery on Monday. 

Beth Gillespie friend's husband with liver and pancreatic cancer. 

Traveling mercies for Beth and Brianna.

Pat, Isana Mendelson's friend, recovering from a breast removal and has a brain tumor.

Please call (573-445-5891) or email (office@frontyardchurch.org) to alert us of changes and/or additions to this calendar.

Church Office Regular Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pastor's Day Off: Monday

Wed, March 22 | 7 PM Choir Practice Sanctuary

Wed, March 29 | 7 PM Choir Practice Sanctuary

Mon, April 3 | 9 AM BTQG FAC

Wed, April 5 | 7 PM Choir Practice Sanctuary

Thurs, April 6 | 7 PM BTQG FAC

Thurs, April 6 | 6 PM Maundy Thursday Service Sanctuary

Fri, April 7 | 6 PM Good Friday Worship Service Sanctuary

Sat, April 8 | 8:30 AM Men's Fellowship Breakfast West Broadway HyVee

Sat, April 8 | 2 PM Neighborhood Spring Social FAC/Outside

Wed, April 12 | 7 PM Choir Practice Sanctuary

Thurs, April 13 | 1:30 PM UWF Office

Fri, April 14 | 6 PM Crafting Evening Office

Mon, April 17 | 8 AM Lifeline Screening FAC

Wed, April 19 | 7 PM Choir Practice Sanctuary

Wed, April 26 | 7 PM Choir Practice Sanctuary

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FAC is Fellowship and Activity Center (the Multipurpose Room)

BTQG is Booneslick Trail Quilters' Guild

UWF is United Women in Faith

MMO is Mother's Morning Out Preschool

Click the link below for all events held at the church building!

Student Prayer Ministry

Would you like to be part of our Prayer Team? We pray by name for children and youth in our neighborhood and church community.

If you would like to add children or youth from your family or neighborhood, please email Yoko at yokogely@hotmail.com

Do you have an announcement to share? Would you like it included in our News and Notes? Email it to office@frontyardchurch.org, and we will include it in the next email. If you'd like a specific image to go along with your message, attach it to your email.

Instant Church Directory

To access our online directory, click HERE.

If it is your first time logging in, click HERE.

You will then create a login with your email and a password of your choosing. This log-in information gives you access to our directory.

You can edit your information at any time from the website or the app. Please add in your birthday and include a family photo.

This is also an app for your phone! Yes, that’s right, you can have the church directory with you always! Go to your app store and search “Instant Church Directory.”

Once you have the app, your fellow church members are just a click away. If you click their phone number, it will let you text or call right from the app. If you click their email, you can email them right from the app.

Tip: Use your smart phone to take a picture of a family picture and upload that!

If you would prefer a paper copy, email the church office at office@frontyardchurch.org or call (573) 445-5391 and we will print you a copy.

Fairview United Methodist Church

3200 Chapel Hill Rd

Columbia, MO 65203; 573.445.5391

frontyardchurch.org

Office is open M-F 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Mothers Morning Out

3200 Chapel Hill Rd

Columbia, MO 65203; 573.445.5391

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