Dear Family of APUMC, Here is a question for you: Where did you first learn about community? Was it at home? At church? At school? On a team? In a gang? Looking back, much of my early exposure came from my early obsession with...
For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was...
This week we begin our series on Joseph. We meet Joseph in Genesis 37 and then he appears in all but one of the remaining chapters of Genesis. So, Joseph’s story is an important one for us to read and consider. His is a familiar story to...
Greetings APUMC Family, How is it with your soul? This is a question I have been carrying with me this week as I have written and prayed over Sunday's sermon on Genesis 32. It seems like a simple question, but it is not always an easy one to...
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves have...
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth (Psalm 100:1). Greetings APUMC family,Summer sure does have a way of filling our days, doesn’t it? We look forward to this season of vacations, ball games, camps, gatherings, and adventures...
Dear Friends, This time of the year, I often think back to the familiar “camp songs” that I first learned at Blue Lake over multiple summers that I spent there during my high school years. Do you know this one? I...
The Alabama-West Florida 2026 Annual Conference at the historic First United Methodist Church in Pensacola was a wonderful time of celebration, fellowship, and kingdom work. The theme, “Empowered by the Spirit” was evident in Business...
Greetings APUMC Family, I was told once that there are only a handful of days in life that you know you will remember forever – the kind of days when you will remember how you felt, who was there, what you were wearing, and where you stood...
MEMORIAL DAY Leave flowers at grave sites,On street corners, and at memorials.Leave candles and letters,Bundles of sageor crosses made of twigs.Let all knowThat they are not forgotten, That their lives,No matter how short or long,Made a...
