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Sunday, June 13, 2010- Baccalaurate Sunday Guest Preacher: Pastor David Cassidy, Mother Africa Zoar UMC. Come Celebrate the Lord and our graduates of middle school, high school, college and graduate school.
Saturday, June 19, 2010- St. Matthew UMC Block Party from 12:00-6:00pm. Bring the family and let’s share in a day of food, fun and fellowship. We will have puppet shows, clowns, face painting,hula hoops, Double dutch, video games, touch football, dodge ball, basketball, prizes and more.
Sunday, June 20, 2010- Discipleship Sunday and Father’s Day: Celebrate as we annoint new disciples in Christ and honor book three and four graduates. Also, Pastor Holston has a special word for Men.
Summer Discipleship – June 24 to July 29. Six Week Session entitled Purpose Driven Plus. Summer Session designed for people who did not finish discipleship and people who have join the church in the last year.
Every Thursday night 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
St. Matthew Summer Camp starts in July.
St. Matthew Basketball Camp starts in July.
Church Cookout the 2nd Sunday in July.
If you missed this week at St. Matthew UMC, May 30, 2010, the praises went up and the blessings of the Lord came down. The Praise Ensemble ushered us into the Spirit of Praise and Worship rendering the selections; Grateful, My Name Is Victory, and Hallelujah You’re Worthy To Be Praised. The Holy Spirit prepared all hearts to receive the Word of God as Minister Holston minnistered in song rendering the selection; For Every Mountain before the sermon. Pastor Holston’s sermon titled was “What Are You Waiting For?” which is part seven of the Profiles in Courage Series. What a powerful message from God! The text of the sermon was taken from Psalm 27. Pastor taught us how we allow our own impatience to hinder our blessings. God says you are definitely missing my blessings for you if you are impatient. Just wait on the Lord.
If you missed this week at St. Matthew UMC, April 18, 2010, the praises went up and the blessings of the Lord came down. The Praise Ensemble ushered us into the Spirit of Praise and Worship rendering the selections; I Call You Holy, Let It Rise, and I Feel the Presence. The Holy Spirit prepared all hearts to receive the Word of God as our Praise Ensemble ministered in song rendering the selection I Will Bless The Lord before the sermon. Pastor Holston’s sermon titled was “Fireproof” which is the first sermon of Pastor Holston’s Profiles in Courage Series. What a powerful message from God! The text of the sermon was taken from Daniel 3: 8-30. Pastor taught us how courage is performing effectively in the presence of fear. God does not give us the spirit of fear. He taught us how to stand in courage by giving us three key points
* Know God
* Experience God
* Have a Relationship with God
Want to hear the whole Sermon “Fireproof”, click on the Sermon Tab and view parts one and two. God Bless You All!
If you missed this week at St. Matthew UMC, April 4, 2010, Resurrection Sunday all I can say is what a blessing. The Praise Ensemble ushered us into the Spirit of Praise and Worship rendering the selections; Lord I Lift Your Name On High, Rejoice, and Why Do You Cry. The Holy Spirit prepared all hearts to receive the Word of God as our Luke 4: 18 Dancers ministered in dance to the song by Donnie McClurkin Create In Me a Clean Heart and St. Matthew Mass Choir rendered the selection So Many Wonderful Things About Jesus before the sermon. Pastor Holston’s sermon titled was “The Greatest Comeback Of All Time”. What a powerful message from God! The text of the sermon was taken from Luke 24: 1-12. Pastor taught us how to Jesus made the greatest comeback of all time. He said, “A comeback always has to come through adversity. In order to make a comeback from something…you have to be in something…to comeback from something!”
If you missed this week at St. Matthew UMC, March 28, 2010, the praise was high as usual. The Praise Ensemble ushered us into the Spirit of Praise and Worship rendering the selections; Open the Eyes of My Heart Lord, Lord You Are Awesome, and Holy. The Holy Spirit prepared all hearts to receive the Word of God as our Youth Dancing for Christ ministered in dance to the song My Purpose (by Spensha Baker) and Christian Sounds of Youth rendered two selections I Am a Friend of God and Jesus Loves Me (a Brother Tiros Rhoden original) before the sermon. Pastor Holston continued his series on Reconciliation with the sermon titled “Pursuing Peace”. What a powerful message from God! The text of the sermon was taken from Ephesians 4: 1-3. Pastor taught us how to pursue peace by the principles of humility, meekness, forbearance, patience, and love.
To here the whole sermon “Pursuing Peace” Click on the Sermons Tab
If you missed this week at St. Matthew UMC, March 14, 2010, the Holy Ghost showed up and showed out in this place. The Praise Ensemble ushered us into the Spirit of Praise and Worship rendering the selections; Lord I Lift Your Name On High, I Just Wanna Praise You, and Because of Who You Are. The Holy Spirit prepared all hearts to receive the Word of God as our Praise Ensemble sung Blessed and Highly Favored. Pastor Holston continued his series on Reconciliation with the sermon titled “When God Offends”. What a powerful message from God! The text of the sermon was taken from 1 Peter 2: 4-12 with the focus being on verses 7 and 8. Pastor taught us how God can use the offenses of the enemy to bless us and give Him the glory. That’s why God calls himself the Rock of Offense in this text. As we become obedient to God’s will, things of God that offends us (His word) becomes precious to us!
If you missed this week at St. Matthew UMC, February 28, 2010, you missed an Off the Hook Sunday Worship Service. The Praise Ensemble ushered us into the Spirit of Praise and Worship rendering the selections; Mighty To Save, How Great Is Our God, and To Worship You I Live. The Holy Spirit prepared all hearts to receive the Word of God from Rev. Gregory Holston. Rev. Holston continued the sermon series on “Reconciliation” with the title “Flip the Script”. His text came from 1 Samuel 24: 1-22 and told the story of David and King Saul. He started by saying that David was chosen by God to be King of Israel. David didn’t have a good relationship with his father Jessie, so he developed and hoped to have a good relationship with Saul as his second father. From the time that David was annointed by God to become king, things started happening in his life. David stood up and answered the call to fight Goliath and was victorious as he fought with all faith in God the Father! David was also the one that God had annointed to sooth the soul of Saul’s heart by playing the harp….
If you want to know more click onto the Sermons tab to get a full video of Rev. Gregory Holston’s Sermon.
On Wednesday, 2.17.10 here at St. Matthew UMC we had our Ash Wednesday Service. A great time in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was had by all! We had a packed house and the Spirit was High! We fellowshipped here at St. Matthew UMC with our brothers and sisters from Bethel….The Church at Franklin Mills. All I can say is; What A Blessing! Pastor Rob Tarnoviski was our Guest Preacher of the evening and he reminded us of the true meaning of Repentance and Reconciliation during this season of Lent! He reminded us to be true about our Repentance and not to play games because we can’t pull the wool over God’s Eyes…He Knows the truths of our Hearts! He reminded us that the purpose of giving up something that we love is to realize that God is Everything that we need ALL the Time! The message was on time and it fell on fertile soil. God moved through this place and started healing broken hearts as people prayed that God would reveal their hearts so that they could repent!
Now moving forward to Sunday February 21, 2010, a Holy Ghost filled great time was had by all. The Praise Ensemble ushered us into the Spirit of Praise and Worship rendering the selections; Let the Glory of the Lord, Open the Eyes of My Heart, and I Feel the Presence. The Holy Spirit prepared all hearts to receive the Word of God from Minister Victor Gimenez. However, before Minister Vic rendered his sermon Bro. Hasker Thomas shared his testimony on reconciliation and sung a song that God placed on his heart to write, God…He Will Heal Your Broken Heart. After that, Minister Victor Gimenez kept the worship going after the selection he said, “The Spirit of God is heavy in this Place!” He began to pray for the healing that was taking place in St. Matthew. He continued the series on Reconciliation with the title “Ministering Reconciliation ” which came from 2 Corinthians 5:11-17. He spoke on how because of Christ’s love, he died for us! So we must die to ourselves and no longer live in ourselves. He mentioned that this is God’s house…not talking about the four walls of this church; We are God’s Church! So if we are in Christ, we are new creations. Everything old about us has passed away and EVERYTHING has to become new! We are God’s Peculiar people we handle Reconciliation the way the Holy Spirit would have us to handle Reconciliation through Love and Truth…not the way the World does!
If you missed this week at St. Matthew UMC, February 7, 2010, a Holy Ghost filled great time was had by all. The Praise Ensemble ushered us into the Spirit of Praise and Worship rendering the selections; Open the Eyes of My Heart Lord, Walk in the Light, and Holy. The Holy Spirit prepared our hearts to receive the Word of God from Reverend Gregory Holston. Reverend Holston began his series on “Reconciliation” and his first sermon was titled “Can’t We All Just Get Along”. The text of Reverend Holston’s sermon came from 2 Corinthians 5: 16-21. Unfortunately, this time the sermon was not recorded. Seeing as how this is subject to happen from time to time, let’s just say, you have to be one in the number to experience the Greatness that God is giving us each week here at St. Matthew UMC.
Praises were HIGH, HIGH, and I did I say HIGH…ok just making sure that you were paying attention! The Praise Ensemble ushered us into the presence of the Holy Spirit rendering the selections Mighty to Save, Glorious, and To Him Who Sits on the Throne. Then we were blessed by Sis. Delores James’s Stewardship Testimony! That testimony she gave was on Fiya for the Lord…people could barely contain themselves! Everyone was excited and exhilirated by her testimony. After that, Pastor Holston’s Sermon was “Stewardship of the Tongue” and that message fell on fertile soil if you know what I mean! The Holy Ghost showed up and showed out!