I want to thank everyone for your amazing spirit in worship on Sunday. I could feel your openness to God as we walked together towards him. The posters from worship this past Sunday are going up in the office, so if you'd like to add more things, please come by any time.More than anything, I'd like you to keep praying. Pray with me that God willUse us for things we can't imagine over the next 12 m...  Read More

I'm not sure if you've figured it out, but there's a reason, a method to the themes of the sermons. I spend a lot of time praying over worship planning and what to preach. It's part of the long-term planning for our church.Thinking ahead helps me be able to stop when things arise each week and not feel unprepared. Or, I know the plan is in place, so I can handle what's placed before me as it comes...  Read More

School is back in session at Legacy Scholars Academy (LSA) which was founded in 2015 as a partnership school with the Volusia County School District. LSA serves middle and high school students on the Enterprise campus which includes youth living in family foster homes. LSA was designed to meet the academic and social and emotional needs of the students. The school utilizes Yale University's R.U.L....  Read More

September 4th, we welcomed Cathy Perry and Katie Strickland into membership. It was a joy to receive them both into membership as they renewed their belief in Christ. They are officially committed to living out their faith through our congregation with their prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness. They've both been doing this for quite some time. For many, you may be asking why a person ne...  Read More

This past Sunday, I preached on dreaming big and praying about those dreams. That brings me to the question, what dreams have you claimed and are now praying for?It's tough to believe, but we're in September. I've been at Fleming Island for 3 months now. Some may say you can believe it, but the time has flown for me. Soon, the holidays will be here. I want to thank you all for holding on during th...  Read More

We have finished our first series of our new curriculum Blast-Off!  In this series we focused on four spiritual habits that help us grow spiritually.  Each week we focused one, our BIG IDEA from the week. Week 1:We read about the time Jesus visited Mary and Martha’s home and learned that WE CAN SPEND TIME WITH GOD.Week 2:We learned about the time a group of people helped their paralyzed friend get...  Read More

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