Ministries


Something For Everyone
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Music And Worship
Mission and Ministry
Education
Youth
Fellowship
Wyoming Conference
Community Outreach


WORSHIP AND MUSIC

Anyone wishing to participate actively in our worhip services is welcome to do so in any of the following capacities: lay readers, acolytes, ushers, greeters, lay worship leadership, Handbell Choirs: Cherub Choir and Adult Sanctuary Choir, Vocal groups: Choir and The Gospelaires (men’s singing group).

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MISSION AND MINISTRY

Church lay visitation committee, Appalachian Service Project-ASP (a missional team of youth and adults sent from the congregation to help the impoverished), United Methodist Women, prayer chain, meal outreach, outreach to college students, Care & Share ministry to Clarks Summit State Hospital for mentally ill, prison ministry, tape ministry to the homebound, Prayer Shawl group, over thirty world-wide opportunities beyond our basic missional support.

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EDUCATION

Church school for all ages, Bible Study and prayer, Vacation Bible School, Confirmation Classes, a variety of periodic and seasonal workshops.

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YOUTH

The Abington United Methodist Youth Fellowship for Junior and Senior Highs, meeting the second and fourth Sundays of the month, student days, rally day, scavenger hunts, picnics, Sky Lake camping scholarships, Youth Alive, ASP events, breakfast with Santa and Halloween parties are just some of the experiences for youth.

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FELLOWSHIP

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Potluck suppers, annual Thanksgiving dinner, Women’s Christmas and Spring tea, Christmas progressive dinner, coffee hours, Disciple Bible Class, Prayer Shawl group, annual chicken barbecue, semi-annual rummage sales, continually forming new opportunities.

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WYOMING CONFERENCE

The Wyoming Conference is responsible for a wide range of retreats, educational courses, men’s and women’s missional outreaches, Conference video library, Homes for Aging, Children’s Homes, Sky Lake Camps, conferences and retreats, annual Conference events, lay speaking schools, cooperative parish development, Conference foundation, Evangelism conferences, School of Christian mission, and a connection with some of the country’s finest institutions of higher learning including: Duke, Drew, Emory and Boston Universities as well as Wyoming Seminary, the oldest co-educational preparatory institution located within the boundaries of our conference.

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COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Abington Ecumenical Ministries (food pantry, Healthy Communities/Healthy Youth initiative, Thanksgiving service, choir festivals, food, shelter and clothing for the needy), Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, migrant kits, aerobic classes.

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