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      • Children's Ministries
        • Featured Page: Older Church Building - New Life All Around - Serving Young Adults, Youth and Children of our Community
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        • Early Learning Center
          • ELC Payment and Document Center
      • Youth Ministries
        • Youth Forms
        • Youth Group: UMYF
        • Youth Calendar
        • Sunday School
      • Adult Ministries
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        • Conference Room Class
        • Friendship Sunday School Class
        • Open Door Sunday School Class
        • Pathfinders - Sunday School Class
        • Questors Sunday School Class
        • Scripture Study Sunday School Class
        • Fifth Sunday Breakfast and Program
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        • Chancel Choir
      • Prayer Ministries
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        • Prayer Shawl Ministry
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      • FUMC Food Pantry
      • UMCOR Cleaning Buckets
      • UMCOR Hygiene Kits
      • Operation Christmas Child
      • Clare's Closet
      • The Bridge
      • Brother's Keeper
      • Little Free Pantry
      • Kairos Ministry
      • Family Promise (IHN)
      • Czech Republic
      • Good Samaritan
      • Holston Home for Children
      • Medical Mission to Mexico
      • Melting Pot
      • BABMOC Bear Another's Burdens Ministry of Christ
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First United Methodist Church

Welcome to
​First Church

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ALL who desire to minister, to feed, to love, to accept and be loved and accepted, all, are welcome here. 

WORSHIP ON SUNDAYS 10:30 am in person (please pre-register) and livestream;
also recorded for later viewing

 
 Other than 10:30 am worship most church gatherings are temporarily suspended due to Coronavirus pandemic response
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900 Spring Street Johnson City TN 37604    Church Office: 423-928-9222
SENIOR PASTOR:  REV. JODIE IHFE    ASSOCIATE PASTOR:  REV. GARY IHFE

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EARLY LEARNING CENTER WEEKDAYS 7 am - 6 pm YEAR ROUND
ELC Office: 423-926-0700      [email protected]

Use the Search box look for content within website pages


JOIN US FOR ONLINE WORSHIP THIS WEEK!  

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-With the grey content box below you should see a window on the left which shows our live-stream worship service each Sunday. You can use the button at the bottom right of the actual video section to view the service full screen on your device. There is also a tab on the left side of page labeled live worship which takes you from this homepage to the live video and worship guide.
-There should be a window to the right of the worship video which is an optional "chat room" for comments.
-The buttons for online giving and the worship guide are also in this grey content box.  
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This Nov 8  will be our second time live-streaming the service - be patient please. If the video does not stream live for you, it will still be recorded and can be viewed later. Thank you.  (Worship will be online only - not in person for Nov 8, 15, 22)

L I V E   S T R E A M    W O R S H I P   

VIDEO

CHAT ROOM

LINK ON-LINE GIVING

LINK TO WORSHIP GUIDE (for Nov 8, 2020)

Online Giving
Worship Guide

REGISTER RESERVATION FOR IN-PERSON WORSHIP

COVID RELATED INFORMATION

RETURNING TO CHURCH INFORMATION AND THE REQUIRED CHECKLIST FOR GROUPS THAT GATHER AT CHURCH CAN BE FOUND
​AT THIS TAB.

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Online Worship will be different this week beginning November 1, 2020
There will not be a "pre-recorded" service which premieres each Sunday.
Instead, the worship service will be live-streamed at 10:30 am on Sunday mornings from the sanctuary.  Each worship service will be recorded and available as a viewable file following the service as well.

Also note the links for bulletins and online giving.   Stay well and thank you for continuing to adapt to these temporary changes as we continue to BE the church. Going to church is great. Being the church is greater. So if you are in an at-risk group or are more comfortable at this time worshiping from home, please join us with the live feed or a subsequent recording. The previously recorded videos will be available at:
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Communications Tab: Video Worship


November Newsletter for FUMC

Newsletter for November 2020

NEW:  SCROLLING CALENDAR  
            FOR ACTIVITIES

SEE FULL SIZE CALENDAR HERE:
Link to Google calendar
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If you have an interest in learning more about 1stChurch membership, or The United Methodist Church in general, please consider attending our Explore 1stChurchJC classes. Watch for more information about future explore 1stChurch sessions. If you have an interest or questions that cannot wait until the next session please contact the church office.



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Attention Please:  
​For your  information, the security and safety team would like for you to be aware that 1stChurch now operates surveillance cameras inside and outside church property.


Holston Conference issued a call for Cleaning Kits,  Hygiene Kits 
​and monetary donations to restock for supplies which had been depleted by recent disasters (hurricanes)

If your church plans to assemble kits, they may be delivered to the Three Rivers District Ministry Center.  It is always a good idea to call ahead of time to make certain someone is in the office to accept your delivery.

​Explore QuickLinks to these Website Pages:
OUR STAFF
EARLY LEARNING CENTER
WORSHIP GUIDE/BULLETIN
FACEBOOK PAGE
ONLINE GIVING
CALENDAR MONTHLY
A NEW LINK:  CARING.COM (ASSISTED LIVING INFORMATION)
NEWSLETTER 

Are You Getting Ready to Visit First Church? We will be so happy when it is socially responsible to meet at church again. Until then you are invited to a virtual visit either by exploring the website, our Facebook page, our YouTube channel to see what is going on from Sunday worship to mission projects.

First Time Visitor? Click Here
Worship Times 10:30 am Sunday Mornings
​streamed live and recorded for later viewing

Sunday School Time (maybe online or in person depending on class)
Click Here for Information


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  • Home
  • In Person Worship
  • Streaming Worship
  • Backpacks For Liberia
  • Camp in the Community 2025
  • About Us
    • Reaching Embracing Serving
    • Church Staff
    • Weather-Related Changes
    • Methodist F.A.Q.
    • Contact Us
    • General Property Layout and Entrances
    • Directions
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Worship Services / Times
    • Visitor Page
    • Favorite Links
  • Programs/Activities
    • Committed to Christ
    • Basketball Team/Schedule
    • Women's Bible Study
    • Wednesday Night Fellowship
    • Three Rivers District Events
    • Loaves and Fishes Leaps and Bounds
    • More Loaves and Fishes
    • Camp Bays Mountain
    • Boy Scouts Troop 36
    • UMCmarket or Amazon Smiles
  • Ministries, Missions, Giving
    • MINISTRIES
      • Children's Ministries
        • Featured Page: Older Church Building - New Life All Around - Serving Young Adults, Youth and Children of our Community
        • Camp in the Community 2025
        • Early Learning Center
          • ELC Payment and Document Center
      • Youth Ministries
        • Youth Forms
        • Youth Group: UMYF
        • Youth Calendar
        • Sunday School
      • Adult Ministries
        • UMW
          • UMW INFORMATION
        • Conference Room Class
        • Friendship Sunday School Class
        • Open Door Sunday School Class
        • Pathfinders - Sunday School Class
        • Questors Sunday School Class
        • Scripture Study Sunday School Class
        • Fifth Sunday Breakfast and Program
      • Music Ministries
        • Chancel Choir
      • Prayer Ministries
        • Prayer Requests
        • Prayer Shawl Ministry
    • MISSIONS
      • Backpacks For Liberia
      • FUMC Food Pantry
      • UMCOR Cleaning Buckets
      • UMCOR Hygiene Kits
      • Operation Christmas Child
      • Clare's Closet
      • The Bridge
      • Brother's Keeper
      • Little Free Pantry
      • Kairos Ministry
      • Family Promise (IHN)
      • Czech Republic
      • Good Samaritan
      • Holston Home for Children
      • Medical Mission to Mexico
      • Melting Pot
      • BABMOC Bear Another's Burdens Ministry of Christ
      • Other Missions
    • Giving
      • Commitment Form 2025
      • Online Giving
      • Endowment Giving
      • The Building Fund
  • Communications and Media
    • 2025 Worship Video Archives
    • worship video archives 2024 and prior
      • Worship Video Archives Beginning 2024 6 9
      • Worship Videos Archive since Advent 2023
      • Worship Video Archive since Feb 2023
      • Worship Video Archives Beginning Nov 2022
      • Worship Video Archive beginning 6/5/2022
      • Worship Video Archive beginning 2021 8 8
      • Worship Video Archive Prior to August 2021
    • Church-Wide Email Sign Up
    • Newsletter for FUMC
    • Google Calendar
    • Safe Sanctuaries Information
    • Volunteer Rosters
    • 2025 Church Directory
    • Church Leadership 2025
      • Connections/Communications Pillar
      • Spiritual Development Pillar
      • Safety and Security Welcome Group
      • Outreach Pillar
      • Worship Pillar
        • AV Team
      • Leadership Pillar
      • Wednesday Night Fellowship Team
      • Finance Committee
      • SPPRC (Staff, Pastor, Parrish Relations Committee
      • Stewardship Committee
      • Endowment Committee
      • Facilities/Trustees
        • USE OF CHURCH FACILITIES
    • Forms and Information Documents
      • ONLINE FORMS
    • Time and Talent Survey
    • Photo Album General Tab
      • Photo Album
      • Photo Album Not Sorted by Year Yet
      • 2023 Photo Album
      • 2022 Photo Album
      • 2021 Photo Album
      • 2020 Photo Album
      • 2019 Photo Album
      • 2018 Photo Album
      • 2017 Photo Album
      • 2016 Photo Album
      • 2015 Photo Album
      • 2014 Photo Album
      • 2013 Photo Album
      • 2012 Photo Album
      • 2011 Photo Album
      • ELC 5K Event
      • Food Pantry Photo
      • Faces at First New Pics
  • Church Calendar
    • Calendar
      • Revised Common Lectionary
        • Definition
        • Church Year/Liturgical Colors
        • Weekly Readings
  • Online Giving
  • Early Learning Center