Youth Sleepover

The youth will have their monthly sleepover on Friday, March 4th in the Youth Room in the East Chapel.  If you are interested in having your child attend, please contact Ted McFarland at ted@fountainvalleyumc.org.  

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New Worship Leader/Music Minister!

FVUMC is pleased to announce the hiring of Jonathan Kupper as our new Worship Leader/Music Minister who began his ministry with us on February 7th!  Jonathan is a composer, pianist, worship leader and musical director whose artistic endeavors have taken him throughout the United States and the world.   He has received...

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The Master’s Storyteller: March 20-23

Put this on your calendar right now and plan to attend a very special Holy Week series of revival services at FVUMC!  United Methodist Evangelist, Wesley Putnam is coming to share the Gospel with us and call us to a deeper walk with the Savior.  Through music, teaching and dramatic...

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Pastor Glen and Cyndy to Help Lead Seminar

Aldersgate Renewal Ministries (ARM) is an affiliate organization of the UMC which seeks to revive churches and people across our denomination.  One of the local church events that ARM sponsors is called “Lord, Teach Us to Pray” (LTUTP), which FVUMC hosted a few years ago.  Pastor Glen and Cyndy have...

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Begin Lent Right

Come and join your church family at the Ash Wednesday Service on February 10th at 7:00 PM in the Sanctuary.  This is a solemn service of repentance, prayer and the imposition of ashes to mark the beginning of the season of preparation which leads to Easter.  To observe a holy...

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“Souper Bowl Sunday”

FVUMC will be collecting cans of soup at our 10:30 am service on Sunday Morning, February 7th in support of the Souper Bowl of Caring.  This grassroots program was started in 1990 in a South Carolina church from a single line in the pastoral prayer “Lord, even as we watch...

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Living Missionally

As our culture turns more and more away from its Judeo-Christian roots, we who follow Jesus will find ourselves on the outside of the “in crowd.”   And that is okay with me. To be honest, the church gets lazy and soft if the culture is friendly and accommodating to it.  When...

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Church Name Change

As you know, we are currently praying for discernment with regards to changing the name of our church (D.B.A. only, corporate name to remain “First United Methodist Church of Fountain Valley”) so that it will be more relatable to unchurched, younger people. The leadership and the staff of the church...

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