Mission

Letters and Prayer Sponsors Needed

June 25, 2011 - 4:54pm

UPAVIMYou can be in ministry with our Guatemalan mission delegates as they travel to Guatemala City July 6-14 to deepen our friendship with UPAVIM, our sister organization. How? By being a letter or prayer sponsor. To be a letter sponsor, simply write a note of encouragement that the delegates can open and read each day they are there. Notes need to be turned into the church office by July 3. Or email Sharon to have her print your note for the delegates. To be a prayer sponsor, commit to pray for our delegates on any of their mission days. This year’s delegates are Barb Ehst, Debbie and Lexie Faber, Claire and Stephanie Marich, Ina, Ray and Louise Osborn, and Emily Stuba.

Please also pray for the women of UPAVIM as they work to bring hope and services to the people of their impoverished neighborhood, La Esperanza. It is a wonderful opportunity to encourage their work and stand beside them as they struggle for a better life.

Dine Away Hunger

Dine Away HungerOn June 15, participating restaurants in Carol Stream, West Chicago and Winfield will donate 10% of their sales to the People's Resource Center's food pantries. Central DuPage Hospital will also match all money raised, which will be used to purchase nutrient-dense food for the 2,900 food pantry clients PRC helps each month.

Click here for a list of restaurants.

Date: 
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 12:00pm

Church Wide Day of Service

June 6, 2011 - 8:15pm

Please mark your calendars for the Church Wide Day of Service to be help on September 10, 2011. This is a wonderful time for families and people of all ages. Activities will include home clean up for the elderly, phoning or writing those on the prayer list, visiting the children at Almost Home, SOS, and helping out PRC. There will be 3 stations located here at church for scarf making, letter writing, and soup preparation. Lunch will follow at church afterwards. In addition, soup and bread will be prepared and delivered to those individuals who are unable to leave their homes and those on the prayer list. We look forward to you joining us in this special time.

Listen, Link and Launch

Listen, Link, and Launch

  • How can we listen to our community?
  • What are they asking us, as a church to be about?
  • How can we link resources in building new ministries?
  • How can we do ministries that relate to our communities’ needs and aspirations, connecting with others so that we can do together what we might not be able to do or carry out alone?

Listen, Link and Launch is a hands-on experience of listening to a community, finding new tools for listening, combining resources, launching ministries that can involve people who aren’t already part of a faith community. Bring money for lunch, a heart for reaching out, good shoes for a light walk,and creative imaginations for collaborating with others in seeing new possibilities for our Church.

Location: 
First United Methodist Church, Downers Grove
Date: 
Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 10:00am

Please Eat the Daisies!!!

May 28, 2011 - 3:04pm

DaisiesThere will be decorated sugar cookies for sale in the Parlor on Sunday, June 5, to benefit Bridge Communities. They are individually wrapped, so you can
take one for the road or eat it on site. Please stop by the Garden Walk ticket sales table and treat yourself for a good cause!

If you’d like to pre-order 6 or more, please contact Julie Stone.

Don't forget that tickets for this year's Garden Walk, which is on July 9, will be on sale from June 1.

Feed My Starving Children

Feed My Starving ChildrenThe Missions Work Area has reserved 40 places on Saturday, June 4 at 9:00AM at Feed My Starving Children, in Aurora, IL. For those of you not familiar with FMSC, they are a non-profit organization whose mission is: "Feeding God's Starving Children Hungry in Body and Spirit." It is a very fulfilling and rewarding experience to give the gift of your time to this organization and help feed thousands of children.

FMSC is located at 555 Exchange Court, Aurora, IL 60504. You can now register on line for this event. Go to registration, join an existing group. From the drop down menu choose June 2011 and under the group name enter Downers Grove and our group will pop up. Click join and fill out the information to complete your registration. If you are not able to sign up on line, you can contact Jim Gracey. Or contact Sharon in the Church office (630.968.7120).

Date: 
Saturday, June 4, 2011 - 9:00am

Hola From Bolivia!

May 23, 2011 - 4:36pm

We’ve just walked back “home” to our house in Copacabana, after a regional worship service in nearby Iglesia Manko Capak (named after the 1st Incan Emperor and the name of the Province in which Copacabana is located). The Bolivian Methodist Church (Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en Bolivia) is celebrating its 100-year jubilee. Each church district is hosting celebrations of this kind. The 4.5-hour service was unusually brief, probably because Bishop Javier Rojas (the only Bolivian Bishop), officiated.

Easter Offering for Mission

May 14, 2011 - 9:05am

Children around the world have benefited from the generosity of the FUMC congregation. Through your Easter gifts in 2010, we have also supported the following project and mission:

Lee Memorial Girl’s Dormitory, India—a residential school for girls in an area where girls are largely overlooked for education. Nurturing and educating the orphaned and destitute, this school makes it possible for girls to learn not only basic education, but also skills for a brighter future as empowered women.

Street Children Ministry, Cambodia—street children in Cambodia, including children living in orphanages and in poor communities, have limited access to local public school education, proper nutrition, fellowship activities, or opportunities to learn about the Bible. In each of the four communities where our NIC-supported missionary Clara Biswas works, the project has enhanced their education, provided means for fellowship, and filled various other needs to improve the overall quality of the child’s life and teaching about God’s love for them.

FUMC 4 Benefit Concert for Bridge

FUMC Quartet

Join Brett Goad, Ward Feste, Scott Hudson, and Mark Kostelny, with Diane Hires, for the FUMC Four's Third Benefit Concert for Bridge Communities. The concert will feature both sacred and secular tunes as only the FUMC Four can do them. Come join us for an evening of great singing and songs that will speak to your heart.

All proceeds from ticket and CD sales help Bridge Board and homeless families.

Tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door.

Location: 
Sanctuary
Date: 
Sunday, May 15, 2011 - 7:30pm

The Rainbow Covenant

April 25, 2011 - 7:29pm

One of the benefits of being United Methodist is the way we work together to be in mission all around the world.

The first, foundation level of mission outreach is through the “apportionment” giving that is a part of our regular church budget. Through apportionments, a portion of our offerings are used throughout the year to minister through the World Service and Conference Benevolence Funds. The World Service Fund enables our church’s world-wide mission outreach. All United Methodist churches share together in contributing to the World Service Fund. The Conference Benevolence Fund directs a portion of our offerings to mission and ministries within our Northern Illinois Conference, from the inner city neighborhoods of Chicago to the rural areas of western Illinois. All the United Methodist Churches in our Conference in our Conference share financially in our Conference Benevolences.

Rainbow CovenantThe second, “extra” level of mission giving is through the “Rainbow Covenant.” The Rainbow Covenant allows us a congregation to select specific ministries and mission projects for our congregation’s support. There are nine color “bands” of the Rainbow Covenant. To be a Rainbow Covenant church, a congregation first needs to pay its apportionments in full, and then give at least $25 to a mission in each of the color “bands” of the Rainbow.

The various colors each support an area of mission. They are:

  • Burgundy— International
  • Red—U.S.A
  • Orange—United Methodist Committee of Relief
  • Yellow—Children and Youth
  • Green—Northern Illinois Conference
  • Blue— District
  • Indigo—Missionary Support
  • Purple—Local Benevolences and Special Sundays
  • White—Sister Church Relationships.

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