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Our prayers, our presence, our gifts and tithes, . . . and our music.  It makes sense to insert Charles Wesley’s hymns in our study of Treasures of the Transformed Life.  Music was “instrumental” (pun intended) in the founding of the Methodist church.  Today’s lesson can be found at http://www.fumctupelo.com/pdf/hymn_sing/8th.pdf. For our purposes, we can [...]

Just a friendly reminder: 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30 – the FUMC Chancel Choir and Jazz Band will present its annual Gospel Fest. We’re doing arrangements of nearly every standing, leaning and bleeding song you’ve ever sung or heard, not to mention such bestsellers as Amazing Grace and When the Saints Go Marching In (among [...]

Methodists according to Garrison Keiller (Prairie Home Companion) We make fun of Methodists for their blandness, their excessive calm, their fear of giving offense, their lack of speed and also for their secret fondness for macaroni and cheese. But nobody sings like them. If you were to ask an audience in New York City, a [...]

Get Ready: 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30 – the Chancel Choir will present its annual Gospel Fest. We’re doing arrangements of nearly every standing, leaning and bleeding song you’ve ever sung or heard, not to mention such bestsellers as Amazing Grace and When the Saints Go Marching In (among others).  It’ll last about an hour. [...]