A recent article in the New York Times shared that “a judge in Virginia handed down an unusual sentence after five teenagers defaced a historic black school house with swastikas and the words ‘white power’ and ‘black power.’ Instead of spending time in community service, Judge Avelina Jacob decided the youth should read a book. But…

It is with great excitement that we launch the newly-revamped First Wayne Street UMC website!  A big “thank you” goes out to Jessie North, our Communications Assistant (she also handles postings to the church Facebook page and the monthly newsletter) and to Alan Fox, First Wayne St. UMC church member!  Thank you to both of…

Over the years, we have all heard the famous words of wisdom like “actions speak louder than words”! The writer of the little New Testament letter entitled “1 John” said something related to that: “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” It seems that in every…

Our Jewish brothers and sisters have been much on my mind lately. As we celebrated our own Messianic Passover on Maundy Thursday, I thought about Jewish families celebrating Passover in their own gatherings as we too celebrated the freedom that God provided for the Hebrews as they escaped slavery in Egypt and the freedom that…