Believe it or not, we've unpacked, hung the pictures, and the Parry family wants to invite you over to see all the work the church has done in the parsonage.Everything done to prepare our home for us has blessed us so much. It was a busy week moving and unpacking during Vacation Bible School, but here we are, about 8-weeks later. I won't say anything will change from this point forward because...l...  Read More

It has been three Sundays since I have officially been the new children's minister and I am so excited for the future of the children's ministry and the church.  Early in the summer, I was considering finding a new church home. I had a dream of the type of children's ministry I wanted to my kids to grow-up in.  My mom convinced me to come and meet Pastor Faith on her first Sunday here.  While I wa...  Read More

Admin West, or the Youth Room, has undergone a transformation over the past few weeks. The Café, as I'm now calling it, isn't done. With a little bit of paint, some cleaning, rearranging, and some new furniture, we hope this transformation project hope we've started down a road for our students to have a place they can call home.Years ago, the students had a space that was theirs. Many have shared...  Read More

Another team volunteered this morning at The Kitchen of Clay County, Middleburg UMC location. Preparing sandwiches, dipping up bowls of soup, taking orders as people drove up and then bagging up and delivering their lunches to their cars was a very rewarding way to spend a Saturday morning. We served 80 lunches today!...  Read More

The phrase "being good stewards" has lots of meanings. The best way to describe it is from Luke, when Jesus talks about how we're to be ready at all times for him to return: And the Lord replied, "A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them. If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a g...  Read More

On Monday, Aug. 8, Eddie & Valerie Coppage delivered the school supplies and a check to the Children's Home. The following message was shared on the the Children's Home Facebook page: Our wonderful friends at Fleming Island UMC collected a lot of Back To School items for our children, as well as a sizable check! This will certainly help to make sure the children have all they need to start the new...  Read More

A lot's been done in a small amount of time! I want to give Katie a big thank you for all her hard work to get ready for the Back to School bash we had this past week. It was a different kind of Sunday from what we had in the past, but we consider it a success. The kids had fun, and we got to talk with some families we hadn't seen in a while. Kids' rooms were cleaned and refreshed for the start of...  Read More

The Florida Coalition for Children (FCC) recently recognized Enterprise house parents, Mike and Maritza Velez, with the Nurturing Well Being Award at FCC's Annual Conference. This award is granted to an individual, couple, team, or organization who is highly regarded by their peers and community for their extraordinary compassion in nurturing the well-being of those they serve. Mike and Maritza ha...  Read More

“Come and see what our God has done, what awesome miracles he performs for people!” –Psalm 66:5 Well, this year's VBS is officially in the record books. Today, our 36 kids, 21 adults, and 10 youth celebrated everything they learned with a small presentation to their parents. Each crew sang a song they had been working on from worship time.The kids returned to Joseph's story, learning what happened...  Read More

I haven't had the blessing of being at a Vacation Bible School in many years. At my church in Ft. Walton Beach, our VBS was always the first week of June when the pastors had to attend our Annual Conference. We missed everything. Changing a VBS week is not something you do. It's a delegate balance in the church community ecosystem.This year, I was so excited to be a part of it all. Val didn't assi...  Read More

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love.–Romans 8:38 Today was an exciting day, especially at the end! We moved from the Old Testament into the New as we looked at connections between Joseph and Jesus. Today's big takeaway was that God is stronger than anything. Our 23 adults, 9 youth, and 38 kids all saw the extraordinary strength of God in many different ways today.T...  Read More

How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! –Psalm 147:5 The kids aren't ready for VBS to end, but I think our 24 adult volunteers might start losing some of their steam at the end of day 3. They've sung, danced, and acted with Godly Gusto so far. Our 11 youth volunteers today have been amazing too. Those helping with games even volunteered to let the kids dump water on their heads and pie them ...  Read More