May
18, Confirmation Sunday, 11:00 service. 9:00 worship includes the Service
of Holy Communion.
Wednesday,
May 21, 7:00 a.m. Krum UMC hosts a beautiful breakfast for all graduating
seniors from Krum High School.
CDO (Children's Day Out,
3K and 4K pre-school) is now enrolling for Fall, 2008. For more information,
please click here.
We
are recycling papers now. Get all the information here.
Confirmation Sunday is May 18, 2008. This is also a "new members"
Sunday--if you are interested in joining this church, please contact the
pastor: christy@krumumc.org, 940-482-3482.
Looking for something? Search the Krum UMC website here.
The more formal word
for Christian Education is "Formation,"
or the shaping of the individual so each of us becomes
most fully human and in our full humanness, we are able
to experience the transformation that permits the light
of Christ to shine through us.
Formation is a life-long
process. In the United Methodist Church, we often
refer to this as our "journey." For some of
us, it begins with a dramatic entrance into knowing God
and God's forgiveness with a powerful experience of some
sort. With others, it is a gradual entering into greater
and great light as one's knowledge and experience grows.
In every person, whether the entrance into
the Christian life be sudden or gradual, a
key component is the act of repentance. Repentance,
or "re-thinking," opens the doorway to grace.
It is within the act of "re-thinking" that we
learn to develop holy habits, the kinds of habits and
choices that remind us that we are deeply loved, the God
has graciously offered to us forgiveness and reconciliation,
and that we have the privilege of offering what we have
received to all around us.
Ideally, children
are nurtured in the faith. As United Methodists,
we offer the sacrament of baptism to all, from the newborn
to adult. A child is baptized as a sign of the grace that
is always before us, and parents and guardians make promises
to raise that little one in the ways of God. When children
are old enough to understand more fully the Good News
of Jesus Christ, we bring them through a Confirmation
Class into full membership of the church.
This page shows part of the baptism liturgy and the
promises that are made by the one being baptized or by
his/her parents or sponsors.
In order to serve the community and our
church members well, we also offer a twice a week Children's
Day Out program. Click here
for more details.
After confirmation,
the youth
group becomes a very important place of nurture and
the next step in the formation process. At Krum United
Methodist Church, we are honored to have Brittany
Burrows serve as the director of our Youth Ministries,
ably assisted by many of the parents of our youth. The
youth meet weekly, both for Sunday School and on Wednesday
evenings, and are involved in study, mission, and just
fun activities.
Of course Formation
does not stop when one becomes an adult. There
are multiple stages of adulthood, from those continuing
on with their studies to those who enter the workforce.
Some marry early, some later, some not at all. The addition
of children to a household brings dramatic changes to
the spiritual needs of couples and individuals. And as
we age, our theologies need to mature as well, so that
we may grow deeper and deeper as more fully formed Christians.
As those who have come into our current
facility quickly note, we are extremely
short of space for Sunday morning adult
educational needs. We do have a class for older
adults that meets in the Sanctuary at 10:00 a.m., and
another in the one adult room in the educational wing.
Periodically, we have mid-week studies for adults on Sunday
and Wednesday evenings. We also will be starting home
groups as well. Please contact Christy
Thomas, Pastor, if you'd like further information
or would like to help with these formation needs. As we
Dare to Dream together,
we will soon be in a facility where we can hold multiple
adult fellowship, service and educational opportunities.
For more information about the process of
Christian Formation, you might check this
page which speaks specifically to the call to make
disciples.
