Happy Summer! With each passing year, I am increasingly astonished at how quickly time seems to pass. I once heard it said that when we are young, the days feel short and the years feel long, but when we are older, the days feel longer and the years feel short. I believe this to be […]

The Society of St. Simeon was the brainchild of the Senior Pastor of our church (at the time) John Ogden, along with Sheila and Jeff Campbell and Nell Sogard in 1992. They envisioned a church that dug deeper together—deeper in prayer, deeper in study, deeper in relationship. Inspired by the story of Simeon from Luke […]

In March, FUMC took a team of 11 people, led by Brent Lamberth, Youth Ministry Director, and Georgia Harrison, Associate Pastor, to work with Operación Abrigo in Juarez, Mexico. Operación Abrigo is an ecumenical ministry with 30-years of partnerships building thousands of cinder-block homes, five churches, a medical clinic, and a community center for the […]