"Home" is something that carries a lot of meanings for all of us, and each of them is different. Home might be a place we go to for safety and security or it can be someplace we dread. Home can be filled with our loved ones, or home might be the place we miss our loved ones who are no longer with us. Home is something that is heavy and carries with it all different sorts of emotions. This Advent, join us on a journey where we seek comfort from the One who made their home with us and to find, wherever our home might be, joy, hope, courage, and love.

There are times in life when we face difficult decisions or have unexpected opportunities come up in our lives. When this happens, a lot of the time we weigh the pros and cons to try and discern what we should do. A lot of the time, the temptation is real to just play things safe and kipe doing the same old, same old. But there comes a time when we have to make a decision, are we going to commit or not?

We're starting a new series here at Fredericktown United Methodist Church where we'll be taking a look at some of the ways we are asked to commit for God because God committed for us totally and completely in love. How do we commit to that love and each other? Join us as we look for answers together!

This week we are starting a brand new series at Fredericktown UMC called: Courage - Spelling It Out. We have a lot of assumptions about what courage entails or what it is. What if it is all those things, but also more than we imagined and begins in ways we never realized? Join us for the next several weeks together as we seek to spell out just what courage is and how we can use it to build up each other and our communities.

We're starting a new series this week called "Abundant" which is based on the theme of this year's Annual Conference. In John 10:10, Jesus tells listeners that he came not to steal, kill, or destroy, but so that people could have life and have it abundantly. The next few weeks together, we'll be taking a look at what it meant to have an abundant life through all the ups and downs, twists and turns that life can bring. Join us for the abundant life!

Today, we're starting off a brand new worship series at Fredericktown UMC called: Can I ask you a question.... Through this series, we hope to be able to try and help us learn how to be together again. Because with everything that happened through 2020, one of the largest things that people noticed is that we missed just being able to be together and when we weren’t able to get together either here in church or in our schools or at the movies, anywhere, really, and it’s almost like we got out of practice where we needed a little bit of a kick start to get back in the habit of just being together, meeting together, communing together.

And so, with that in mind, we have this new series that is built on all these questions that encourage us to get to know each other more and maybe deeper than before, to encourage us to truly listen to one another. Because to build connections and trust, we must listen to one another’s stories and experiences, to learn who and what shaped us throughout our lives. We need to feel seen, to feel known by others. And so maybe, just one question at a time, we’ll remember how to stay curious, to keep listening and asking, and to keep seeing the face of God in each other.

Our next message series is taking a look at the call placed on us as United Methodists through our Baptismal Creed and our Membership Vows. We've seen in our previous series that we are called to live out the Resurrection and be a Pentecost people, but how do we say we are called to do that specifically as United Methodists? That's what we’re going to be looking at over the next several weeks together! We hope that you will be our guest!

We celebrated the resurrection on Easter Sunday! So, now what? Where do we go from here? What difference does it make in our lives? We invite you to join us through the season of Easter as we take a look at how to live out the resurrection in our lives. It’s more than just believing in a fact, this is about living the story. We hope that you’ll join us in worship for the next 6 weeks together as we learn how to live it out.

For the next few weeks together, we're going to be working through the book of Habakkuk. We don't know much about the author, other than he was named Habakkuk and that he came to God with some hard questions that we might all have asked throughout our lives. Why is evil allowed to happen? Why doesn't God do something about these horrible things we're seeing? The fact that God doesn't just make everything "right" causes us to doubt God is listening or even there. These were the questions that Habakkuk took to God, and these are what we're going to be looking at when we see how we can still hold on to faith and hope "when God seems silent." We'd love for you to be our guest for worship in person or online at 9 AM on Sunday.

This week, we’re starting off a new series at Fredericktown UMC called “The In-Between.” It seems like all of last year, we were just trying to make it through to Christmas and then to 2021. We were so eager to be out of 2020! Now that we are, though, it doesn’t seem like a lot has changed. We can look back fondly at how things used to be, and we can look ahead to a time when we are past this pandemic, but for right now we are still in-between those two places. And, really, that’s how we are a lot in life: between what was and what is; just trying to live out the now as best we can. How do we, as a church, live up to the calling that has been placed upon us to live out our very best now? What can we take from the past and what can we dream about in the future that helps make what we do in the in-between not just a time of remembering and waiting, but a time of doing, building, restoring, and renewing? Let’s take a look at how to live out our best “in-between.”

We’re never ready for Advent. Each year it seems to sneak up on us out of nowhere. This year, that seems to be true more than ever. In the midst of all the “mess” this year has brought us, we might feel tired, deflated, and just not sure if we’ll ever be ready for Christmas again. This is precisely the reason we need it. We hope that you will join us in person or online as we prepare for a messy Christmas and just what it might mean for us in times like these. We would love for you to be our guest. Here, at Fredericktown UMC, YOU are welcome. Be you. Be loved. Belong.