Dear Church Family and Friends, Many of you were drawn to our church because of our wonderful hospitality and emphasis on loving everyone without exception. In addition, you truly appreciate and love our beautiful, historic building. You also understand that with an almost 100-year-old building come capital improvement and maintenance
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Dear friends, The season of Lent is drawing to a close, and I can’t wait to celebrate Easter with all of you … but as you all know, we can’t celebrate Easter without first going to the cross. We have some meaningful opportunities next week designed for you to meditate
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Dear Church Family and Friends, I’m very excited to introduce you to some new additions to our Avondale UMC Team! We’ve had hiring teams for Music Ministry, Nursery, and ASP who’ve worked diligently over several months to interview candidates for several positions that we had open. Their dedication paid off,
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Dear Church Family and Friends, This Sunday is Pledge Sunday. This is the time of the year when everyone is invited to prayerfully consider what they can commit to giving to the church for 2022. The phrase “We’re all in this together!” is especially true in the life of Avondale
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Dear Church Family and Friends, We may never appreciate the power of gathering together in person more than we do today. Although the pandemic has filled our lives with challenges and concerns, one good thing it has done for us is that it made us all thankful for things that
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Dear Church Family and Friends, I’m starting to feel like the fog is lifting, and I am seeing bright glimmers of light. For so long I’ve felt as though we were all walking blindly through this dense COVID fog. When we first went on lockdown, I didn’t think the isolation
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Dear friends, Throughout the pandemic our church has worked hard to keep our congregation and community as safe as possible from COVID. We’ve sought and continue to seek to follow one of John Wesley’s (our Methodist founder) simple rules which is to “Do No Harm.” Given the spike in COVID
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Dear Church Family and Friends, The week has finally come for us to return to in-person worship in the sanctuary. We’ve been through a long winter since the beginning of the pandemic, and in many ways, I’ve felt like the apostles of the early church as we’ve sought to find
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Dear friends,The Great Garden Refresh of 2021 is underway on our street corner, and it’s looking quite lovely. Several folks had been talking for a few years about needing to replace some plants in the beds that had long since seen better years and were starting to wane. Plus, we’d
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Dear Church Family and Friends, If COVID has taught me anything, it’s to be flexible. For the most part, I’ve always been a “roll with it” kind of gal … but throughout the pandemic, I’ve had to roll-with-it more than ever before. This past Sunday was another roll-with-it kind of
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