Entries by Jessica Sapp

Easter Service

With the the help of Ministry Matters and the United Methodist Publishing House we are providing an outline of an Easter Service that you can combine with the music on our website or Facebook page, along with the scripture and message for Easter found there or offer your own. If the weather is good by […]

Home Worship for the Vigil of Easter – Saturday Evening

While Easter is every Sunday, we have been looking at a trio of services journeying up to the full burst of Easter Celebration. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are like one great annual Sunday and thanks to Ministry Matters we are using these resources for Home Worship during the pandemic. While Easter is […]

Good Friday Worship Resources for Home

Good Friday is our next focus in the trio of services that burst into the resurrection celebration of Easter. This gathering of items to assist you in a family/home worship is an adaptation of materials from Ministry Matters. As you begin this service, place a cross – necklace, picture, drawing, whatever –where everyone can see […]

New Easter hymn written for coronavirus era

Please see this news from The United Methodist Church website: https://www.umc.org/en/content/new-easter-hymn-written-for-coronavirus-era Just in time for Easter, popular hymn writer Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written a new hymn specifically for a season in which the Church and its members are dealing with the coronavirus. “This new hymn,” Gillette writes, “is a prayer to be used in […]

Easter Scriptures and Activities

We missed having our community Easter Egg Hunt this year, but we want you to have fun with Easter Eggs while at home! Attached is a resource full of Holy Week bible stories that you can go through as a family or on your own. Each story has an image that you can draw on […]

Maundy Thursday Worship Resources

Holy Thursday, or Maundy Thursday as we often call it is the beginning of the trio of services that burst into the resurrection celebration of Easter. This gathering of items to assist you in a family/home worship is an adaptation of materials from Ministry Matters. The Holy Communion liturgy online from Palm Sunday can be […]

Dear Community of Faith at Worthington UMC,

We are beginning an adventure that few, if any of us, have experienced before;  and none of us desired.  As sporting challenges are cancelled, stores full as if for holiday buying, schools for K-12 closed for at least three weeks, and older students attending online as their professors scramble to figure how that will work, […]

Worthington UMC Update – March 11 2020

Hello all Worthington UMC Members and friends, Please see the attached file for a letter from Pastor Cyndy Garn and the church staff regarding the current health concerns. As of now, we are continuing all regular church programming. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at (614)-885-5365 or at […]