Join the Men's Tuesday Morning Bible Study for a Pancake Brunch following worship on Sunday in the Fellowship Hall.

Beginning March 5 at 11:45am and continuing through the Lenten Season, CFUMC will be offering a “Lenten Lunch and Devotion”. Let’s gather in the Fellowship Hall and walk this Lenten journey together. All are welcome!

The March One Thing Ministry will support the 2025 All God's Children Summer Camp. The complete list of supplies can be found here.

Some items to consider for donation include: 

• blankets, pillows & sheets
• towels & washcloth/shower puff
• deodorant, comb, toothbrush, toothpaste
• poncho, laundry bag 

Questions? Contact Carolyn McGee carolynmcgee@cvillefirstumc.org 

Join us in the Chapel at 6:30pm for our Ash Wednesday Service. 

Visit McGuffey Art Center to explore Mark Stephen Chapman's exhibit named  Lessons in Art at an Exhibition.

A reception will be held March 7th at 5:30pm to open the exhibit and it runs through March 30th.

The Board of Church and Society’s Creation Justice Team is holding the 1st VAUMC Climate Summit on Saturday, March 8, at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland.

YOU ARE INVITED!

We are gathering VAUMC leadership (stakeholders) at Conference, District and Church levels to rethink our understanding and action around Climate change/justice and its intersection with racial justice. We will gather to connect and learn why we are the key to VAUMC response to sustainability in climate change, and our response to the "Net Zero by 2050" resolution passed at the 2024 Annual Conference.

We are also asking our youth to come--there are special workshops for them and for youth leaders at a reduced price of $5. One of the workshops will feature
Charlottesville First’s solar panel project! Lunch at Randolph Macon’s cafeteria is included in the $25 registration fee.

Scan the QR code to learn more.

Who am I? Who is God?

Aldersgate UMC and CFUMC will host a women's retreat on March 8th. Open to all women. Attendance is $25 - scholarships will be available.

To sign up and for more information visit here.

Let's celebrate our Girl Scouts during Girl Scout Sunday on March 9th. 

Hey everyone! We’re excited to announce the start of a new Members Class next week, on March 9th at 11:30 AM, right after the service. The class will meet in the Conference Room, which is the one to the left of the stage downstairs.

We’ll have two more sessions on March 30th and April 13th. And you don’t have to commit to membership to join. It’s a great opportunity to
meet some of our church staff and leaders and learn more about Charlottesville First! See Carolyn or Pastor Alex for more information.

Join Mark Miller as he presents Music: The Praise of God and the Cry for Justice.

On Friday Evening, CFUMC will host a Joy & Justice Sing-In and Presentation.

On Saturday, Trinity Episcopal will host a Choral Worship.

See the poster for more information.

Rise Against Hunger will be Saturday, April 12, 2025.

All ages are welcome. We will be packing 20,000 meals! Rise provides food to the chronically undernourished.

Contact Harriet or Larry Lambert with any questions. (434) 960-8233. Sign up link will be available closer to the event. 

Join us in Fellowship Hall for a Pancake Brunch.

The Youth Collective will meet at Wesley Memorial on March 9th for dinner and activities. Hope you can join the fun!

Celebrate Easter with an Easter Egg Hunt following service on Easter Sunday. We will meet across the street in Market Street Park.

"Trusting Jesus in a Wild World!"  

We have our dates, our teaching materials, and our Jesus. Now all we need is our volunteers and kiddos! Attached is a promotional flier to get the word out.  Please send those volunteers and kids our way.

Looking forward to a wild time!

Abigail Carroll was our inaugural Marsden Faith & Arts speaker and she has donated her honorarium to an organization close to her heart.

Abby says: The Village2Village Project is an organization that works with about 225 vulnerable children in the rural district of Serere in Uganda through mentoring, nutrition, medical care, and educational support. A few years ago, with the release of  Habitation of Wonder, I initiated an arts justice project with the proceeds in collaboration with the Ugandan board, specifically providing for the purchase of native African instruments for the children as well as lessons.

The project has been tremendously successful, and when Cup My Days Like Water released, I decided to continue the project, as they have now opened a second campus in the neighboring district which is even more under-resourced and under-educated as an area. I'm extremely delighted to continue to share the gift of the arts through the generosity of Charlottesville First United Methodist Church.

If you'd like to read more about the organization, here is a link to their website: Village2Village Project. 

Catherine “CJ” McCrary is a current PhD candidate in Religion, Literature, and Culture at the University of Virginia.

With a master’s degree from Boston University’s Methodist School of Theology and a Bachelor of Arts from Liberty University, she boasts nearly a decade in Christian higher education. While she has attended church and volunteered in the children’s ministry at Wesley Memorial UMC in Charlottesville for the past two years, the Connectional Ministries Internship represents CJ’s first formal foray into church ministry.

Her passion for Christ’s body and bride, the Church, and the children whom Jesus urges to “come to me” (Lk. 18:16) is matched only by her hunger for God’s Word revealed in Scripture.

She counts herself blessed to serve the church family of First UMC Charlottesville, and she eagerly looks forward to pursuing the church’s mission of “loving the city whole” one person at a time.

It is with a heavy heart that we share yet another catastrophic flood impacting our region. We have confirmed widespread devastation in Hazard, Leslie, Floyd, Harlan, Clay, Perry, and Pike counties in KY; Buchanan County, VA; and McDowell County, WV. A levee failure in Rives, TN has left the town submerged.

ASP will have teams on the ground to assess damage, connect with partners, determine ways to assist and offer resources like tools and equipment. ASP's role in recovery will take time to develop as we assess the needs and our capacity, while also honoring our existing commitments.

If you feel called to give, you can do so here.

The Tuesday Morning Men’s Bible Study Group has accepted the position of “Chief Cook and Bottle Washer” for the Shrove Tuesday Sunday Pancake Breakfast on March 2nd immediately following the worship service!

 The group can always use a “few good men” to support this effort.

If you are interested, please contact Jim Berlin jimberlin79@gmail.com or Tom Ashley ashletj@gmail.com and they will put you to work (and will appreciate your help!)

Thanks in advance!

The Nurture Committee has a Martha’s Ministry that provides funeral receptions here in our church. This offering of love from our community provide varied foods, flowers if necessary, lovely set up either in the gathering space or fellowship hall. The families are comforted by our outpouring of love and comfort during their difficult times of grief. They are provided with a brochure outlining our assistance and are contacted in order to personalize the reception.

If you would like to participate in this ministry and are not on the Nurture or Women at the Well contact lists, please contact Joan Ashley, 434-242-4531 or ashletj@aol.com or carolynmcgee@cvillefirstumc.org

The Hinton Avenue Clothing Close is able to take donations again. They reopened for the New Year on January 7th.

Have you subscribed to Pastor Alex's podcast?

The Whole City Podcast is now available on Apple Podcasts - and episode 2 just dropped.

The podcast will be streaming on all platforms soon!

Mimm Patterson, a mixed-media artist, creativity coach and trauma-informed yoga teacher living in Crozet, is our new exhibiting artist in the Gallery. Mimm is a juried member artist at the McGuffey Art Center and can be found joyfully working away in Studio 6B in the North Lower Level. Take a minute to spend some time with her art. You will find that the works speak to the heart through objects of earlier times.

If you or someone you know can no longer attend services but would like to receive Communion in your home please contact Carolyn McGee at carolynmcgee@cvillefumc.org. or
DeAnn Posey at 757-208-6998 or dsposey2426@gmail.com

After rent and utilities, the most requested need is for furniture.  Love INC Cville is desperately looking for volunteers with vehicles to pick up and deliver furniture that has been donated to Love INC for distribution to our neighbors in need. Without the ability to deliver the furniture, large amounts end up in the dump instead of going to those who desperately need it.

To inquire about how to help, message Raymond Klein, Executive Director of Love INC at raymond@loveinccville.org .

Happy 2025!  Despite a few snow days early in the month and some very cold distributions, the pantry had a great start to the new year.  In January, we served:

• 3,286 total households - That is an average of 205 households/828 people receiving groceries on each of the 16 distribution days in January.
• 13,262 individuals:  37% aged 0-18; 53% aged 19-59; 10% aged 60+  
• Roughly 9% of households last month were first-time visitors, and approximately 36% of our clients visited us twice in the month. 

Women at the Well

Thursdays from 9:30am to 11am

Women at the Well will be studying Adam Hamilton’s new book, just released, called “The Message of Jesus” We will explore six of the most important themes in Jesus's teachings, why they matter, and how they speak to us today. 

Join us on Thursday mornings 9:30am - 11 for good study, great discussion and wonderful fellowship!

Faith Explorers

Sundays at 11:15 am in Room 308

Prayer Quilt Ministry

Contact Teri Guertler if you need a prayer quilt for someone going through a difficult time, or if you would like to help in the creation of the prayer quilts. No experience necessary.