We’re now taking reservations for Worship for Sunday, July 19, 2020. Feel free to call the church office at 785-263-2623 if you have any problems with the form.

Link: forms.gle/vLkyJJUcsj4K6fqX9

We have a Zoom meeting scheduled for the Wednesday Evening Communion Service at 6:00 p.m. Here are the details:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://bit.ly/38bf9qZ
Meeting ID: 937 0998 7388
Password: 67410

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Meeting ID: 937 0998 7388
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Please note that I have set up separate meetings for the Communion Service and the Bible Study on the Gospel of Luke.

The church building is open for in-person worship on Sunday Mornings. In order to better love one another, we’re continuing to practice social distancing, wear masks, and take reservations. (The reservations also help us make room for everyone who shows up.)

You can request reservations for next Sunday, July 12, 2020, here:

Link: https://forms.gle/sukFTJW6ddSyZJSNA

The service will continue to be available online—indeed, we intend to continue to make improvements.

Because it’s not safe to sing when we’re gathered together, we’ve made some changes to the order of worship. We’ve dropped the number of hymns to two. (The words are printed in the bulletin, so that people at home can sing along—we’re trying to stick to familiar hymns to make that easier.) In order to make up for the congregational participation we lost in taking out the hymns, we’ve added a Psalter (a reading from the Psalms) and often a unity prayer of confession. We’re keeping the creed and the response to the creed the same every week in the hopes that those at home who don’t have a bulletin available can more fully participate.

We have a Zoom meeting scheduled for the Wednesday Evening Communion Service at 6:00 p.m. Here are the details:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://bit.ly/38bf9qZ
Meeting ID: 937 0998 7388
Password: 67410

One tap mobile
+13462487799,,93709987388#,,,,0#,,67410# US (Houston)
+16699006833,,93709987388#,,,,0#,,67410# US (San Jose)

Dial by your location
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Meeting ID: 937 0998 7388
Password: 67410

Please note that I have set up separate meetings for the Communion Service and the Bible Study on the Gospel of Luke. The old link for Wednesday evening activities will no longer work.

The church building is open for in-person worship on Sunday Mornings. In order to better love one another, we’re continuing to practice social distancing, wear masks, and take reservations. (The reservations also help us make room for everyone who shows up.)

You can request reservations for next Sunday, July 5, 2020, here: forms.gle/SbErGzcAEm6BHFAR7.

The service will continue to be available online—indeed, we intend to continue to make improvements.

Good news everyone! My semi-vacation is working. It has unstuck my brain enough that I figured out a tweak to make the sound for next week’s service sound better. I also think I’ve found a good compromise for our “internet congestion” issue (which is interrupting our live streaming). However, this one comes with cost. The cost is that I’m going to drop the resolution of the livestreaming video while maintaining the resolution on the recording that is uploaded to vimeo.com/abilenefirstumc later. This should allow you to watch the livestream without interruption and/or watch the recording in higher definition.