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

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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.

Sunday, June 30, 2024

"Understanding the Assignment" – Mark 7:31-37



This story of the healing of a deaf person demonstrates Jesus’ need for a PR firm. He’s terrible at marketing! He’s been going around instructing people to not tell the stories about him and yet, they do it anyway! Thank God they did, otherwise we wouldn’t have these stories today. Join us for another story of Jesus that might make us terrible secret keepers too. 

This week's Bulletin can be found in the Document Center.  

SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLE OR EVENT INFORMATION

Submit information for July 5 Messenger and July 7 Bulletin Announcements by Monday, July 1 at 12 pm for inclusion in these communications. Please use button below 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. 

We took 29 volunteers to Charleston, WV this year. We had a new adventure working in a more urban area where there is still a great need for housing rehabs. We worked on 4 houses in total. We installed a handicap accessible bathtub and new toilet and flooring, put up new drywall in several rooms that had water damage, and one crew had an abandoned house that they took out all the flooring, walls and ceilings. One house we worked on will be given to a family whose home is too far gone to be repaired.

We ate a lot of ice cream, laughted a lot, sweat, shed tears, and experienced God moments. This was a special trip! ~ Julie & Mike Popplewell

Many thanks to all of you who volunteered or bought food at the Men’s Club Swedish Days booth last week. Because of you, we had our second most successful fund raising event ever, exceeded only by last year which had perfect weather. We filled 122 volunteer slots, served over 2,206 people, and had gross sales of over $21,387, and increased our visibility in the community. The Men’s club will be meeting this fall to identify the charities that we will support with the income from Swedish days and our other fund raisers.

We have limited quantities of sausage, soda, water, hot dogs, cookies, cakes, buns, chips, Dilly Bars, dill sauce, ketchup, cucumbers, and ice left over that we will be selling at cost. Please see Jim McConnell after church to purchase and pick up anything you might want.

Again, thank all of you who helped make this a successful Swedish Days! ~ Lorne Tweed, Steve Lillie, Jim McConnell & Bob Weick

Check out our Facebook page for more photos from Swedish Days.

UMCG is sponsoring an end-of the-summer ALL CHURCH EVENT!

Come on out to cheer on your Kane County Cougars as they battle it out with the Sioux City Explorers. Enjoy hot dogs and drinks with your UMCG family / friends. Besides enjoying a fantastic game with our church community; kids can run the bases and enjoy fireworks after the game! Game tickets are $9.00 per person. General parking passes are $6.00 per vehicle or preferred parking is $10.00. Game tickets and parking passes must be purchased in advance for these prices. Buy tickets at this link or find it on the church website. The cutoff to buy online tickets is July 17th. Tickets and parking passes will be available in the church office July 23 – Aug 1.

If you have any questions, please contact Keith Rawson.

A Note from our Trustees

 Some may have noticed or read about one our neighbors being dissatisfied with a recent tree trimming to remove branches from our sanctuary roof. Please know that we have reached out in good faith: communicating prior to the trimming, offering to trim the trees on their side at our expense and even previously replacing arborvitae. We will continue to do our best to be good neighbors while also caring for our building and grounds.

A Note from Dr. Greg

Dear UMCG,

I just want to sincerely thank you all for your warm welcome into the community of Geneva, and for your embrace of me and my daughters at this wonderful church. I will always hold a special place in my heart for the good people of this Tri-City area. Keep seeking first the kingdom.

Grace and Peace,

Greg Coates

Do you have photos from past ASP trips?

In anticipation of celebrating our 185th Anniversary this September, we are trying to collect as many visual memories (photos or movies) that we can to help us create some historical exhibits.

We have very few pictures from past ASP Trips.

Please look through your old photos and if you find some pictures, bring them in to church and we will scan them and give them back to you!

THE GOSPEL OF MARK SUMMER BIBLE STUDY

Join Pastor Rob in a companion study to the Tell Me The Stories of Jesus sermon series that will focus on the Gospel of Mark. All one needs is a Bible to participate. An optional resource that Pastor Rob will be using is “Mark: Immersion Bible Studies” by Emerson B. Powery. This book is widely available for download, library lending and via used book sellers if one chooses to add this to their studies. 

There are two options to participate: 



Sunday Morning Adult Sunday School,

Sundays 10:30-11:30am UMCG Parlor and Zoom 

OR

Early Bird Men’s Fellowship,

Thursdays, 7-8:30am at Colonial Café in St. Charles. 

Click here for the schedule and assigned readings.

For a video overview of Mark’s gospel, check out the Bible Project video below.

Prairie Central eNews is here.

The NIC weekly eNews is here.

Download the NIC Reporter here.