At the beginning of Lent, we launched an effort to encourage donations to one or more of our local missional partners. By supporting these agencies, we help to gird up body, mind, and spirit of the people who most need our help.

We have assisted some of these organizations for a number of years, but we have also added several different ones this year. Below is some information taken from their websites, and links for each of these agencies:

If you have not already contributed, we encourage you to do so during the remaining 50 days of Eastertide. We can continue to make a difference! Support their crucial work by clicking here, and clicking the Give Now button.

I want to take just a moment again to thank so many of you who have brought me messages from church members as to their well-being. We are a caring community. It's as if we express what Dietrich Bonhoeffer had in mind when he wrote his powerful book, Life Together. Our lives are together, even if separate. As we will learn in an upcoming sermon We all abide in Christ. Our need for this ministry to grow continues.

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We are developing an online member directory project, beginning now! Currently, we have only a few entries, but we would love to include as many of our members as possible. The directory will be hosted on our website, and will be password protected. If you are willing to be included in this online directory, please click here to complete the form. This is an opt-in form, so that you can decide if you want your information included. As you complete the form, you can indicate specifically which contact information you would like to have shared within our First Church family. Thank you in advance for making our directory a useful resource!

We are mindful of congregate facilities opening so that those shut in may now have others enter in, those in prisons that the disease may be controlled and laws which create so many prisoners may be re-crafted to offer care when it can replace incarceration.

Dr. Kathy Hartke will address Racial Equity in the Wisconsin Health Care System and Marti Gobel will discuss Racial Equity. Suggested donation is $10.00. Registration form is available here. Men and women are invited to this United Methodist Women event. For more information – email [email protected] or call Josie, 920.988.0705.

There are many wonderful DVDs that are available for ‘check out’ from our church library. Click here for a list of available titles.

If you are interested in any of these, please contact Josie Gobel or call her at: 920.988.0705 and Josie will have the DVD’s for you to pick up on Tuesdays between 2:00 to 2:30 – or she will make arrangements to meet you at the church parking lot at a time convenient for you. 

TERRACYCLE UPDATE: Terracycle recycling is back at church! This pilot program is called the T.T.T. Terracycle Drive-up & Drop-off, from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. every Tuesday. Find more details here.

We have learned that some members and friends of FUMC are once again receiving fraudulent emails from Kelly Walling or Rev. Mark Fowler, asking for help and contributions. These emails appear to come from church staff, but they are from a FALSE Gmail account. 

DO NOT RESPOND to these emails. DO NOT CLICK in the emails - they are a SCAM and are not from First Church or Pastor Fowler. When you receive emails from us, they will be from our Constant Contact mail service (as this one is) or from an address ending in FUMC.ORG.

The staff of First Church would never contact a member via email to solicit donations or funding of any kind. If you are unsure about any email message, please contact the Welcome Center at 608.256.9061 or email at [email protected].

Thank you for not responding to this spam attempt, and be careful what you click.