You’re invited to Advent Worship Services all season long. The first Sunday of advent will be celebrated Dec. 1.
Children are invited to attend Sunday School 9:30 – 10:30 am. Find the check in table downstairs below the sanctuary. Drop off before worship and pick up afterwards. You’ll find two classes: pre-k through first grade and second through sixth grade. No Sunday School Dec. 24 or Dec. 31. Learn more
Children (pre-k through sixth grade) are invited to worship with their parents through the first three songs, then they may meet their teachers in the back of the sanctuary for a short lesson and activity. They will return to the sanctuary during the offering time, before the closing songs. Learn more
Nursery care is provided for children (ages 12 to 36 months) of families attending worship (both services) or Sunday School at the Brighton Campus.
Sign-in at the Check-in table outside the nursery room (lower level in the Children’s Ministry wing underneath the Sanctuary) and pick-up from the nursery room.
Meets Wednesdays 6-7:30 pm at The Well. Grades 5-12 meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Contact Pastor Lindsey, lindsey@brightonfumc.org Learn more
Your donation of $25 per plant will help decorate the sanctuaries for Christmas Eve. You may, if you choose, give in honor or in memory of someone special. Following the 9 pm service on Christmas Eve, you may take home a plant. Those not picked up in the week following will be shared with homebound parishioners. Donate online or designate “Christmas Flowers” on your check.
Each service includes Holy Communion, candle lighting, Christmas music and message.
Note: one service only at Brighton Campus.
In addition to the Wednesday night study, you can join one of these small group:
Whitmore Lake Advent Study / April Schauer / Sundays / following 9:15 am worship
Men with Tools / George Lutz / Tuesdays / 9 am
Wednesday Morning Studies / Sue Urban / Wednesdays / 9:30 am
Small Group Bible Study / Deb de Laski-Smith / Wednesdays / 7:00 pm
Women of the Word / Anne Walters / Thursdays / 1:00 pm
Men of Faith / Ron Lewarchik/ Saturdays / 9 am
Sign up online or contact Pastor Lindsey Hall, lindsey@brightonfumc.org.
There are many ways to open your heart and prepare for Christmas. Find a mission, donate a coat, socks or mittens, come to a worship service. We look forward to sharing this special time with you.
Gifts of Hope provides Christmas gifts for Livingston County children in foster care. You can sponsor a child by donating money, gift cards or shopping from a wish list. Each sponsorship is approximately $100 (you can participate at any giving level). Contact Mary Kushner to become a sponsor, mkushner23@gmail.com or 810-220-2820. In 2023 we provided gifts for 65 children in foster care.
Deadline for dropping off gifts is Dec. 2 (foster families will pick up the gifts Dec. 7). Thank you for spreading hope this Christmas!
With your donations, the Christmas trees in the Brighton and Whitmore Lake Campuses will be adorned with new hats, scarves, mittens and gloves. At the end of the season the items will be distributed to people in need through local nonprofits.
First United Methodist Church volunteers will be bell ringers at Salvation Army “red kettle” sites during the Christmas holiday season. Contact Bob Hemphill if you are interested in volunteering.
Dec. 2-8, the United Methodist Women’s Dorcas Circle is collecting new or clean, gently used coats (men’s, women’s and children’s) and gloves for Cass Community Social Services (Detroit). Individual blankets (new or gently used and clean) are requested for St. Adnrew’s (Ann Arbor). If you can volunteer to drive the donations to Cass Community Social Services the week of Dec. 8, that would be super helpful!
Contact Judy Lytwynec
The United Methodist Women are collecting non-slip socks to give to the residents at Regency of Whitmore Lake. Our goal is 126 pairs of new socks so that every resident gets a new pair of socks by Dec. 18.
Contact Darla Miller
Help decorate the church for Advent. Stay after services to help 10:30-11:30 am at Whitmore Lake Campus Contact Susan Kimball, susan@brightonfumc.org.
Help decorate the church for Advent. Many hands make light work! 9 am at the Brighton Campus Contact Susan (Snow) Kimball, susan@brightonfumc.org.
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