First Methodist Church of Moorestown

THANK YOU to all who attended, volunteered, donated and sponsored our 1st annual Apple Festival!! It was an incredible evening with nearly 1,000 of our friends and neighbors in attendance! We are so grateful for your kindness, patience and support! We’re already looking at next year and how we can expand and improve to make it an even better event!

Share your photos and videos of the night in the comments below!

Special thanks to our many church donors, corporate sponsors and local partnerships: Raising Cane’s, Wawa, Bayada, Custard’s Last Stand, Folks Farm, and Platt’s Farm.

Good morning! We are working on getting our FB live stream up and running this morning. Please go to our YouTube page for the live stream of our service this morning! We are working on our FB stream and will go live as soon as we can.

Thanks again to The Moorestown Sun for highlighting our inaugural Apple Festival! Here is the digital article about our event on September 20, 4:30-7:30pm!

Church hosts inaugural apple festival - The Sun Newspapers First Methodist Church of Moorestown will host its inaugural apple festival on Friday, Sept. 20, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. The event is for all ages and will include seasonal activities, a variety of apple products, and kids’ crafts and games. Rain date is the following day. “First Methodist Church...

Have you received The Moorestown Sun yet?! Be sure to check out Page 3 and the coverage of our upcoming 1st annual Apple Festival being held September 20 from 4:30-7:30pm. It's going to be a great event and we hope you'll join us! Look for a Facebook event post on our page soon that you can share with your friends!

Thanks to The Moorestown Sun for including FMC in this issue!

Extra Extra 📰 “In support of the freedom to read” and more! Check out the August 21-August 27 edition of the Moorestown Sun, including articles on Moorestown Library; Moorestown Police Department's address on vehicle thefts; First Methodist Church of Moorestown’s apple festival; local filmmaking brothers; BurLink buses; Moorestown Township Public Schools' Board of Education candidates; and September soccer clinics☀️

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Our Mission Team is hard at work this week on their trip down South with ASP! Please continue to keep the team in your prayers as they experience the joy of blessing others through acts of service the rest of this week. Also pray for safe travels as they return home this weekend!

Our team will share their experiences with us during worship on August 18th.

Episode 2 of Pastor Gina's Podcast, PLAY! released yesterday. Listen to "The Personalities of Play" - Each of us has strong preferences for types of play over others. Some things float your boat, others don't. Are you the Joker? Explorer? Artist? Competitor? What is your Play Personality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkhVCKabFhY

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FMC Life Unfiltered Podcast : Play - Episode 2 - The Personalities of Play The Personalities of Play - Each of us has strong preferences for types of play over others. Some things float your boat , others don’t. Are you the Joker? E...

You won't want to miss tomorrow (7/14) at FMC! Join us for worship at 10am - make sure to wear your favorite baseball fan gear - and then stick around for our annual Church BBQ starting around 11:15am! Volunteers have been smoking the meats and our bakers are prepping their pies for the Apple Pie Bakeoff competition! Come enjoy great food and friends! Can't stand the heat? - our BBQ is held in our nice air conditioned Fellowship Hall! We hope to see you tomorrow!

*There is no cost to attend!

News from the Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference regarding bishop areas...please continue to keep the conference and delegates in prayer as they meet through tomorrow, July 12th. New bishop assignments will be announced at the end of the conference. We're excited to learn who God is sending us to lead GNJ (& EPA) in this next chapter of ministry together!

Delegates of the Northeastern Jurisdiction voted yesterday to reduce the number of episcopal areas to six. This decision was affirmed by a 123-19 vote (86%). The new episcopal areas are:

• Baltimore-Washington & Peninsula-Delaware
• Eastern Pennsylvania & Greater New Jersey
• New York & New England
• Susquehanna & Upper New York
• Western Pennsylvania
• West Virginia

Episcopal assignments will be announced on Friday.

Read full story at https://nejumc.org/nej-reduces-episcopal-areas-to-six-will-share-bishop-wallace-padgett-with-sej/

Pastor Gina’s new summer podcast, PLAY! kicks off today! Join her each Wednesday in July for a new episode.

𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 - 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟭: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆
Too many of us are living with a "play deficit" in our lives! There's power in play that is fun, creative, exciting and restorative to our body, mind and soul!

🎧 Listen now:

FMC Life Unfiltered Podcast : Play - Episode 1 Too many of us are living with a "play deficit" in our lives! There's power in play that is fun, creative, exciting and restorative to our body, mind and soul!

Tonight is our first Summer Family Movie Night from 5:30-7:30pm! Join us in the Parlor/Chapel (in the Sanctuary building) and bring a friend! It's going to be a fun-filled night of dinner, music and a movie! Tonight's movie is "Joseph King of Dreams."

Help us spread the word about this new, free family-friendly event happening each Wednesday during July!

Young Followers have enjoyed the delicious meals that have been prepared for them this fall. We are starting back next week (1/11) and would love our church family's help in providing dinner through the spring. Please click on the link below to sign up if you are able to help. Thank you!

Young Followers Meal Sign up We are estimating 15 kids to start the year. We will update this number as we get more information. Thank you for supporting our children's ministry in this way