Portia Gaines to Bring Sunday Lent Message at First UMC Center

March 12, 2020 - Please join us at First United Methodist Church, 211 Porter Street, Center, Texas on Sunday, March 15, 2020, 3rd Sunday in Lent. We welcome all to worship with us. We will celebrate Holy Communion and the Communion Rail offering will support the Shelby County Outreach Ministry. Our worship services are 8:30am and 11am with Methodist Men’s Breakfast at 9:30am followed by Sunday School beginning at 10am.  

Our message will be offered by Portia Gaines who is a life-long member of First United Methodist Church of Center. Portia taught at Center High School for 40 years, was an adjunct professor at Panola College, taught Sunday School at First UMC for many years, and she was recently honored as one of the Shining Stars Over Shelby County. At the 11am worship service, the First UMC Chancel Choir will have a beautiful choral offering to bring.  Also, at our 11am worship service, Faythe Abraham, Director of Children and Youth Ministry and Carol Newman, Chair of the Worship Committee, will install our two new acolytes, Wyatt Foster and Keilan Jackson. We look forward to seeing on Sunday.