Last week was a really busy week with a lot of press coverage of our disaffiliation plight and follow-up contacts. This week, I’m hoping things will quiet down somewhat. It is good to have publicity and perhaps add some pressure to our annual conference to negotiate an exit route that...
If the effort to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church is successful, The Fount will face new challenges. Well, actually, The Fount will continue to face old challenges! Because it is not new and it is no surprise that The Fount needs to grow. As a congregation, we have been...
Last week, I outlined what I believe to be the lessons learned during the pandemic and what our focus should be going forward. You can read that post here (click on “here” to be taken to the post). This week I want to dig deeper into the first two points...
Our Lenten Study for 2022 will be offered on Tuesday evenings at 6:00 PM. Featuring the study of the book A Jesus-Shaped Life by Steve Cordle, it will include a video presentation and discussion. The book is available from Seedbed Publishing, click here to be taken to the website to...
What if we could… Break free from self-destructive sins? See and value people like Jesus does? Reflect Jesus’ love, joy, and peace to others? We are constantly being influenced by outside forces–our families, the media, and even our cell phones. Yet God promises to shape us into the image of...
You’ve heard the praise of the New Room Conference from Pastor Glen and Ric Seaver, now experience some of it yourself by joining the Zoom class on Tuesday evenings. The class will feature selected talks for this year’s New Room Conference in the Nashville area, and discussion amongst the class...
Pastor Glen and Cyndy attended the New Room Conference in Tennessee last month and were blessed and encouraged by the speakers. They would like to share those speakers with The Fount family, and so beginning October 26th and going for six weeks on Tuesday evenings, they will offer an online...
This Lent we are going to be engaging with the study “Soundtrack: A Forty-day Playlist Through the Psalms” by J.D. Walt. The components are a daily devotional, a weekly online study, and a sermon series on Sunday, all keyed to the Psalms as we journey through Lent. The daily devotions...
The early Methodists gathered together in three different “meetings”. The Society Meeting was the general meeting of all members, much like our Sunday morning worship service. The Class Meeting was a smaller group of up to 12 people who gathered to hold one another accountable for growth and faithfulness, answering...
You are invited to make this Advent a great, and spiritually enriching experience with your church family! We are going to be using the new Advent study by J.D. Walt, titled “The Christian New Year.” The study will include daily devotionals, weekly sermons, and a weekly Zoom gathering with video...