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We illuminate our community with God’s grace as we lovingly accept, listen to, and serve all in the Spirit of Jesus.

SUNDAY SERVICES TAKE PLACE IN-PERSON & ONLINE AT 9:00 AM

Worship Service airs live on our Website , YouTube  and  Facebook at 9 am.

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

Third Sunday of Easter, April 14, 2024

Methodical Behavior - Matthew 22:34-40

From the beginning Methodists were driven by personal & social renewal. This wasn’t just some band of activists sweeping the country, they were a group of people committed to personal & social holiness via a set of General Rules for living so that God could transform their lives & our world. Join us as we see how we gotta ‘walk the walk’ when making a Methodist.

THE ELEVATOR HAS BEEN REPAIRED - MOSTLY.

IT IS IN WORKING ORDER. WHEN USING THE ELEVATOR YOU WILL

NEED TO PUSH THE BUTTON OF THE FLOOR AFTER THE DOORS HAVE CLOSED.

HOPEFULLY THAT WILL BE FIXED SOON AS WELL.

IF IT IS OUT OF SERVICE ON ANY SUNDAY, WE WILL SET UP VIEWING

OF THE LIVESTREAM IN THE LIBRARY.

PLEASE ADD OUR ELEVATOR TO YOUR PRAYER LIST!

Submit information each week for the Messenger and Bulletin Announcements by WEDNESDAY AT 12 pm for inclusion in these communications. Please use above button or click here for the COMMUNICATIONS submission form -- all requests for communicating an event should be made via this form, including getting items on the calendar and reserving rooms for your event. This form can also be found on the sign-ups page on our website. If you cannot use the submission form please email communications@genevaumc.org. Information sent to this email goes to Carolyn, Lorie and Kimberley, as does the submission form. 

HELP US PLAN OUR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WEEKEND!



The 185th Anniversary Steering team is looking for people to volunteer to help coordinate the events for our Anniversary Celebration on September 27-29, 2024

We are looking for people to help on one of the subcommittees that will plan each day's event:

Fri, Sep. 27: Church History Celebration and Reunion with previous clergy and staff

Sat, Sep. 28: Afternoon Block party and Family Fun Day

Sun, Sep. 29: Worship Service with Bishop Schwerin and Reception Following

To volunteer or learn more about joining one of our planning teams, please email Chuck Howlett.  

SHARE YOUR STORIES/PHOTOS TO HELP CELEBRATE OUR ANNIVERSARY!

Share Your Personal Church Stories: Whether you've been a part of our church family for decades or you've recently joined us on this journey of faith, your story is an integral part of our collective history.

Click this link to share stories and photos or documents; If you need to upload multiple files use this link.

***If you have photos or documents that need to be scanned, you can drop them off in the office

and we will scan and return to you.***

Tour Hesed House – Saturday, April 20, 2024 @ 10 AM

The Church in Society Committee invite you to an opportunity to tour Hesed House and learn more

about the services provided thru Hesed House and about our monthly service date – the SECOND

MONDAY of every month.

Hesed House in Aurora is the second largest shelter in Illinois and the only low threshold shelter in Kane

County. They currently serve 200+ adults and 100+ families each night in their emergency shelters. In addition, staff support 70+ households in apartments in the community along with 12 permanent

supportive rooms on-site.

For the past 32 years, UMCG has supported Hesed House. Over the past 3 decades, Hesed House has

expanded and adjusted to meet the growing and changing needs of our community neighbors.

We will plan to meet at Hesed House (659 S. River Street) at 10 AM.

If you need/want to carpool – we can arrange to meet at church at 9:30 AM.

Tour should be about 1 hour so you can plan to be home by Noon.

Come and find out all that Hesed House and you make possible for our neighbors in need.

Questions and to RSVP – Carolyn Sprawka 630-222-4150 or csprawka@gmail.com

Turning Off the Faucet of Single Use Plastics

Dianna Cohen is a visual artist, a producer of documentaries about plastic pollution, an environmental activist and a founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. Watch her 2010 TED Talk here (or click on the image) to learn about plastic pollution in our oceans and everyday life, it’s challenges and how WE can become part of the solution. 

Learn more at www.plasticpollutioncoailition.org

Ready to cook up some fun? Tri-City Methodist's Food Truck Party VBS invites children of all ages to get on a roll with God as a parade of Food Trucks rolls into their neighborhood for the summer's biggest party!

This VBS invites children to pray as Jesus teaches us in Matthew 6:11; "Give us this day our daily bread." These words serve as a reminder that everything we have comes from God — and that it's by turning to God in prayer that all of our daily needs are met.

At the center of the Food Truck Party is a special food truck called "On a Roll." Here, Kids (or "Chefs") will learn from the food truck's Top Chef, along with DJ Cupcake (an adorable cupcake puppet), about the Daily Specials (Daily Learnings), which are lines from the well-loved prayer that teaches us to turn to God to meet our needs.

VBS will be June 24-28, 2024, from 9-11:30 am

at Baker Memorial UMC in St. Charles.

Thank you to everyone who helped make the 2024 ASP Chili Cook-Off a success!

With your help, we were able to raise over $1000 to help fund this years ASP trip. A special shout out to our 2024 winners:

Hottest Chili: Robbin Lang

Best Overall Chili: Mike Popplewell

Most Creative Chili: Jami Johnson

From the chili chefs to the clean up crew to the chili tasters and everyone else who donated their time, we could not have done this event without you! Thank you!

Dinners needed for Lazarus House to help our neighbors

A father and young daughter arrived at Lazarus House in St. Charles without coats on a snowy April evening but were cheerful to come into the warmth and awaiting dinner donated by UMCG volunteers. An older gentleman from the neighborhood knocked at the entry with well-worn hands to ask for "dinner only," and staff put a to-go box for him and his wife into his grateful arms.

UMCG volunteers provide dinners twice a month for Lazarus House, our local homeless shelter. When you make a casserole-sized dish for Lazarus guests, you help nourish families in need and reach out to them with tangible kindness and compassion.

Please consider providing a dinner casserole or meal for 15 people by signing up here.

DINNER FOR LAZARUS HOUSE

• We need volunteers to buy or prepare meals for Lazarus House in 2024.
• Please CLICK HERE to choose a convenient date and sign-up.
• Directions are on the sign up page.
• Please call/text Gwen Powell at (479) 899-1779 with questions.

Jane Siarny is returning to UMCG April 21-27!



Please let her know if you are interested in the activities below. To receive her latest newsletters, email Jane at jsiarny@att.net or call at (630) 715-8590. 

Sunday, APRIL 21 

10:30-11:30 am

(or 1:00-4:00 drop in-Fellowship Hall)

Learn about Jane's new program, The AWE Project;

how Arts, Wellness & Environment support Faith Formation

Monday, APRIL 22 

11:00 am

Wing & A Prayer Wellness Reunion class 

St. Mary's Park (weather permitting) followed by LUNCH

From Delores Drees re: Beulah Drees

Could you perhaps send her a card of well-wishes? Beulah Drees is 102! and has recently been in the hospital. She loves to get mail from her church family!

Beulah Drees

903 Redwing Drive.

Geneva, IL 60134

I appreciate all the prayers and concern from everyone at church. Your prayers helped!

I am recovering from surgery and doing well.

Janet Helm

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