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Church Closed, Services Cancelled

14 Mar 202014 Mar 2020

Based on the advice of local officials, all services tomorrow are cancelled. The office will be closed until further notice and all rehearsals, meetings, and other gatherings at the church…

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COVID-19 Update

This Sunday, March 15, services will be held, as usual, at 8:45 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Governor Brian Kemp has echoed public health officials who recommend those who have chronic…

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Announcing New Nursery Staff

Katelyn Miller joins the staff of Eastman First United Methodist Church in our nursery! She will work with Charlene Thompson, our other regular nursery worker, on every Sunday except the…

Building Godly Families | March 8, 2020

8 Mar 20208 Mar 2020

Think back in your memory to those lazy Sunday afternoons of your childhood. Maybe you remember hanging out with family, a meal at a grandparent’s house perhaps. Maybe you remember…

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Ministry Opportunity

Special Opportunity | Pack Meals with our District

4 Mar 20202 Mar 2020

If you've ever done Stop Hunger Now or a similar food packing project, you know how fun and exciting they are. It's an hour or so of team building, high…

Pray the Scriptures at Home

As we continue our push to pray the psalms, consider using the process from the Combined Sunday School as the method for prayer. This process that we're learning together during…

Work/Rest Rhythm | March 1, 2020

Toilets are agents of chaos. One day, years ago when we lived in Macon, we came home from walking to one of our favorite restaurants. Jack was young, maybe two,…

Make Our Lives Have Meaning | Ash Wednesday Sermon

27 Feb 202027 Feb 2020

I like to work on our cars as much as possible on my own. There’s something good about working with my hands. And mechanical problems are problems that have solutions,…

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Your help needed! | Participate in Service Sunday

27 Feb 20205 Mar 2020

One of our goals for 2020 is to use fifth Sundays for church-wide service projects. On Sunday, March 29, we’ll live into exactly that. Together, during the 11am hour, we’ll…

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Give Up Time This Lent | Call to Lenten Discipline for 2020

Yesterday, Ash Wednesday, the call went out for this church to keep a Holy Lent by giving up some time. That is a hard thing to do, no doubt, but…

The Wrong Question | February 23, 2020

Where do we begin, the rubble or our sin? The band Bastille in their hit song Pompeii asks that question. It’s a poignant question for any of us who have…

Obedient Servants | February 16, 2020

To begin this morning, I have a couple of maps to share with you. First, take a look at this map of the Methodist Church in the United States in…

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Goals for 2020 | As celebrated Sunday, February 9

Facebook campaign to educate on what it means to be MethodistEvery Wednesday, a new post will come out with informationLike our Facebook page to keep up!Acts of PietyPastoral Prayer ChangeTopical…

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2019 Ministry in Revew

This is a copy of Leigh Law and Stephanie Burton's remarks from worship yesterday, February 9, 2020. Well, 2019 was an exciting year for Eastman First! Our faith is not…

Show Me Your Glory | February 2, 2020

Last February, the courthouse had a terrible smell. We all know that story. A story of dead pigeons, of an odor so terrible it drove everyone from the courtroom. A…

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Praying Scripture | Combined Sunday School

30 Jan 202030 Jan 2020

During Lent, Sunday School classes from elementary school children through the Social Hall Class will join together to pray scripture. Each Sunday of Lent, starting March 1, we’ll have the…

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Book Club!

Join us for a book club! This is a new opportunity, reserved for the first fifteen folks who sign-up, to have a small group discussion of a challenging and enriching…