Adult ChoirKeynote Kids

Christian Education Ministry -- Our Christian Education Ministry contributes wide and varied Bible-based training for all ages.

Adult ClassesYouth DepartmentChildren's Department
Wednesday Night Alive KIDS

Mission -- Mission is important to us at Greenville First United Methodist Church.  We are a medium size church with 390 members and an average attendance of 189.  We are able to share our gifts freely as God has given freely to us.  We gather our gifts in connection with other churches to change lives, develop struggling countries, and transform alternatives which are offered to this world.  Here is a brief list of 2000 highlights, descriptions, and effectiveness.  This is where our mission dollar goes.

The Adult Choir enhances worship during the 10:30 a.m. Sunday services with anthems and also presents seasonal musical specials during the year.  The choir rehearses each Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m.

Keynote Kids, a children's choir, delight our hearts as they sing and sometimes do interpretive movements to contemporary music in our services.  

Our Adult Classes are mixed with loosely defined age groups.  Each class gathers for fellowship as well as for education.  Our traditional model presents church school classes and also adds Bible Study groups which meet in the church and in homes, spiritual support groups, companionship, and training in specific areas like sharing Christ with others and spiritual gifts.

The Youth Department offers classes for Junior and Senior High students with a foundation to learn Bible truths and apply them to the situations young people confront each day.  They also meet weekly for fellowship and enjoy Bible Study, activities, mission retreats, several trips, and camps together.

The Children's Department provides Bible-based programs designed to teach the fundamentals of Christianity and fun in discovering themselves in Bible stories.  Of course, we have child care for most every program and service.

A unique Wednesday Night Alive KIDS group is offered for preschool children ages 4 and 5, and grades 1-6.  Very loving and helpful teachers and leaders share the Bible and its principles to prepare children for a world of decision making and most importantly to follow Christ.  This is accomplished through Bible stories and memorization, scriptural songs, Christian living, and missionary stories, puppets, games, field trips, and fun quizzes.  It's great enjoyment.
$8,904 World Service and Conference Benevolence -- a basic giving channel through which thousands of ministries are maintained nearby and globally by our denomination including missionaries, retirement homes and children's homes, higher education, social service agencies to poor and elderly, and care and counseling.

$2,580  Connectional Ministries -- consist of 1) Ministerial Education Fund which supports thirteen seminaries across the nation and local aid to ministerial students, 1) Black College Fund which supplements operational and capital needs of eleven black colleges and one medical school, 3) African University Fund building a major university in Old Mutare, Zimbabwe, and 4) Focus 2000 Mission Initiative expanding youth minstry and ministries to the Hispanics in our conference and the nation.

$2,202  Health and Welfare Agencies -- these are caring institutions in our conference like the Children's Home in Mt. Vernon and the United Methodist Village in Lawrenceville.  We also gave $202 to the Golden Cross Sunday offering which covers 10 conference agencies.  Additionally, we gave $257 to general church offerings like One Great Hour of Sharing, UM Student Day, Peace with Justice, and World Communion Day.

$1,071  Conference Advance Specials -- Life-touching ministires in our conference boundary which includes specialized ministries that vary from food pantries, disaster fund, and camping, to Crisis Centers, Prison ministries, and Minority Fellowships.  This year we gave to Lessie Bates Neighborhood House, Washington Park Grace UMC, and the Bishop's Initiative "Children of Hope."

$533  General Advance Specials -- Emergency/Disaster Relief locally and worldwide, the Red Bird Mission, and general support to the McCurdy School (Hispanic school ministry) are the recipients of this area.  We choose general and conference advance specials each year.

$5,011 Other benevolence includes Wesley Foundation ISU, Mission Society - Peter Najjar, Preachers' Aid Society, The Simple Room (Greenville Youth Ministry), Greenville Food Pantry, Toys for Joy, African Inland Mission, and School Supplies for the Needy in Bond County.

(Not included in the total figure below, Clergy Support and Administration$12,708 only because some interpret it as not directly misison work but it does include some items that assist the local church -- a reimbursement fund for churches which have frequent clergy moves, District emergency fund, Salary adjustments for emergencies, the superintendent's fund for travel reimbursement to local churches, and a reimbursement fund for the Board of Ordained Ministry.  Also not included, the amount of $15,468 which goes to the Pension and Health Benefits.)

In 1999, we provided $205,741 in ministries of which $20,760 was Mission giving.
 

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