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“Listen, Hearing that Still Small Voice and Finding Your Own,” The Third Sunday of Lent
This Sunday, March 4, the third Sunday of Lent, Pastor Steve Vineyard continues his sermon series titled “Listen, Hearing that Still Small Voice and Finding Your Own.” This week’s sermon is titled “Finding a Word, Listening to the Texts.” Wisdom shouts in the street; in the public square, she raises her voice. Above the noisy crowd, […]
Continue ReadingThe Third Sunday of Lent and The Youth Musical!
This Lent we will quiet things down and heighten our attention to the “still, small voice” of God and our own True Self. Listening through prayer as well as meditation on holy texts is an ancient Lenten practice. Come and rest, come and listen. This Sunday, the third Sunday of Lent, Pastor Steve Vineyard continues his […]
Continue ReadingOur “Listen” Sermon Series Continues and So Does Our 11 AM Service Pizza Sundays!
The season of Lent began this week with Ash Wednesday. Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon word “lencten” which means “spring.” Lent lasts for 40 days, not counting Sundays, and ends on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. In Western Christianity, Easter Sunday must always fall on the next full moon after Spring Equinox. Lent is […]
Continue ReadingThe Season of Lent Begins
The season of Lent begins this week with Ash Wednesday, this year on Valentine’s Day Wednesday, February 14! Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon word “lencten” which means “spring.” Lent lasts for 40 days, not counting Sundays, and ends on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. In Western Christianity, Easter Sunday must always fall on […]
Continue ReadingGRACE Ministry, Backpack Buddies, and Lent
The season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, this year on Valentine’s Day Wednesday, February 14! Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon word “lencten” which means “spring.” Lent lasts for 40 days, not counting Sundays, and ends on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. In Western Christianity, Easter Sunday must always fall on the next […]
Continue ReadingSterling UMC Presents the 2018 Summer Mission Trips, Local Missions Program, and Fundraiser
(Updated March 8, 2018) Sterling United Methodist Church has kicked off its 2018 Summer Mission Trip and local mission program schedule; and Sunday March 11 will kick off its first fundraiser for the 2018 efforts with its Red Envelope Campaign. The Red Envelope Fundraiser involves red envelopes with donation denominations from $1 to $100 printed on […]
Continue ReadingSterling’s United Methodist Women Start 2018 Off Fast
Imagine a chocolate chip pancake staring at you from your plate. Imagine a chocolate chip pancake laying next to a blueberry pancake staring at you from your plate. Or maybe just some “plain” pancakes surrounded by eggs and bacon and sausage! Well you don’t have to just imagine it; you can come experience it on […]
Continue ReadingCome and Worship with Us This Sunday!
We are quickly approaching the last Sunday in January 2018! Soon we will be entering into the Lent season which begins with Ash Wednesday, this year on Valentine’s Day Wednesday, February 14! However, before we get to the season of Lent there is so much going on in the life of our church! This Sunday, […]
Continue ReadingWhat’s Happening at SUMC!
Soup and Cookie Mix Holiday Gift Fundraiser The annual SUMC Missions Soup and Cookie Mix Fundraiser kicked off earlier this month and will continue through the holiday season. Purchase your gifts of Chicken Noodle Soup mix, Minestrone Soup Mix, Cheese Soup mix, and Tortilla Soup Mix; and for baking; M & M Brownie Mix […]
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Pop Tops and Box Tops and Other Ways To Serve
Last Friday afternoon, Mame Ward dropped off our latest “haul” of aluminum tabs to the Ronald McDonald House in Fairfax. The box of pull tabs totaled 14 pounds! According to Mame, “They were very excited to get them and appreciated the effort by our congregation in collecting them.” The Ronald McDonald House pop top or […]
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Amazing GRACE
‘For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me… ‘(Matthew 25:35-36) The GRACE Ministries food, clothing, and diaper distribution is this Saturday, the second Saturday of this […]
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Fifty Cleaning Kits Assembled and Delivered for UMCOR Hurricane Relief
Yesterday 50 completed UMCOR Cleaning Kits or Flood Buckets were transported from Sterling UMC and delivered to the Burke United Methodist Church where they were loaded on to the Burke UMC church bus. This morning around 10 AM the Burke UMC bus left for the Virginia United Methodist Center in Glen Allen Virginia, the northern […]
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Local UMCOR Effort Underway to Support Disaster Relief
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is an organization dedicated to alleviating human suffering around the globe. UMCOR’s work includes programs and projects in disaster response, health, sustainable agriculture, food security, relief supplies, and more. According to a recent press release about UMCOR’s response to Hurricane Harvey: “UMCOR-affiliated volunteers have been staffing emergency shelters, […]
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Samaritan’s Purse – Operation Christmas Child
“Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God.” These now famous words were written by Bob Pierce in his Bible after visiting suffering children on the Korean island of Koje-do. The result of that visit and his impassioned prayer is the ministry of Samaritan’s Purse which he founded in […]
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Sterling Kids
“Train a child how to live the right way. Then even when he is old, he will still live that way.” Proverbs 22:6 The New Sunday Experience coming September 10 to SUMC includes some changes to our children’s and youth programs as well. Our Sunday School program is now called “Sterling Kids” and […]
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It’s back to school time again and time for the Blessing of the Backpacks!
Remember to have the kids bring their Backpacks to our 9:30 AM service this Sunday August 20 for the Blessing of the Backpacks by Pastor Steve. But also: Does your child’s backpack look like the one this young scholar is wearing in the photo? According the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and the American Occupational Therapy […]
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