Worship Service airs live on our Website and YouTube at 9:00 am and posted later to Facebook .

Go to the Worship Page on our Website to find more information about future services.

Celebrate Earth Day with the Creation Care team by planting trees at the Elburn Forest Preserve. We will be meeting at 8:45am in Elburn. This is a family friendly event. Dress for the weather and bring a refillable water bottle and gloves. Water, snacks and tools are provided.

We will learn about how to activate the Holy Spirit by taking care of the Earth. We will have wildlife speakers and wild animals! We will talk about planting gardens, make Rice Krispie Treat Earth balls and play huge Earth globe ball games! Parent Connections will have a speaker from Wild Ones native gardeners.

More information: Julie Popplewell at Julie@genevaumc.org or check our this website page for updates.

For more information contact Mike Crain, mike.crain@ministryarchitects.com

Submit information each week by Wednesday at 12pm for inclusion in Bulletin Announcements or the Weekly Messenger.  Please use the submission form that can also be used for adding items to the calendar and reserving rooms. This form can also be found on the sign-ups page on our website. You may also send them to communications@genevaumc.org. Information sent to this email goes to Carolyn, Debbie, and Lorie. 

Attention all high school seniors and college undergraduate and graduate students! UMCG scholarship application dealine is approaching. You can find the application form on our Scholarship page or click this link. The deadline to submit your application is May 6, 2022 at 11:59 PM. No application will be accepted after that date, and all parts of the application must be received by May 6. This year, the scholarship committee will only accept official transcripts, so please plan accordingly so that the transcripts are received prior to the May 6 deadline. Please contact a committee member with questions or if you need help: Colleen Fasbender, Barb Pribble, Suzanne Zefron, Gwen Powell, Don Mendenhall, and Nancy Tweed. 

We’d like to extend our congratulations to those who have or will be graduating in 2021 from high school or post-secondary school. If you or a family member is graduating this spring, please contact the office at debbie@genevaumc.org, and let us know from which school they are graduating, as well as any future educational, work or other plans. 

Please send your information by May 31. 

Church Council will be meeting in a hybrid setting on Tuesday, April 26 at 7pm. You can join us in the Parlor at 7pm or on Zoom using this link. Check for the Agenda, Minutes and other committee reports in the Document Center.

The first 30 minutes of the meeting we will be discussing Chapter 3 (pages 49-64) of How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You're Going.

Sale Dates remaining: Today 9am -5pm, and Saturday, April 23, 9am to noon

Clean Up: April 23, Noon to 2:30pm

You can still sign up to help out on Saturday! Click here for the volunteer sign-up.

At long last...Peaceful Heart Yoga with Donna Burg is returning to Fellowship Hall 1 time per month, on the 4th Wednesday of every month, 9:30-10:45 (except when her travel schedule interferes).  If you would like to attend on Wednesday April 27 or Wednesday May 25 please email Donna to register, so we don't overflow the space! Cost is $10. Bring your yoga supplies (mat, yoga blanket, blocks and bolster, if preferred). Questions? Donna can be reached at 630- 309- 0614 or donnaburg.db@gmail.com.

UMCG needs 2 more adult leaders for June 11-18^th (25 years and older please)! Please consider joining us on our crazy adventure with some GREAT teens. You won't regret it! See Julie or Mike with any questions or considerations at julie@genevaumc.org

You may have noticed that donuts are back during coffee-time in Fellowship Hall. As in the past, this is a fundraiser for our ASP Mission Trip each summer. If you want to be the rock-star one Sunday as the donut volunteer, consider signing up for a week or two on our online sign-up. If we don't have volunteers, we won't have donuts.

Adult Sunday School will begin a new study of the Ten Commandments on Sunday, April 24 at 10:30 in the Parlor. Participation in this class will also be available by Zoom. The class will be using the book Words of Life-Jesus and the Promise of the Ten Commandments Today by Adam Hamilton. Contact: Jim McConnell mcjamesc@aol.com.

On Thursday April 21 the Men's Early Bird Fellowship class began a 4 week study on the Holy Spirit. The book is "The Holy Spirit" by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon. The class meets each Thursday at Colonial Cafe on Rt.64 and Tyler in east St.Charles. If you have any questions, please contact Jim McConnell at mcjamesc@aol.com.

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Join us for a respectful conversation exploring the harm of racism to ourselves and others during this in-person workshop, developed by The Northern Illinois Conference Anti-Racism Task Force. Facilitated by Dr. Richard Guzman, we will take a deep faith-based look at the systems that underlie and support racism. We'll discuss individual, institutional and policy-based realities in our country's history and how profoundly they affect our lives today as we share our actions, experiences, and hopes that will lead us to Becoming a Beloved Community of Elgin and the Greater Fox Valley. Register by April 30. Click here for more information and registration form.

The NIC Annual Conference will take place June 8-June 10, 2022. Registration opens on April 4. More information is available here.

Prairie Central eNews is here.

The NIC weekly eNews is here.

The Download the NIC Reporter for April here.

UMCG has a hidden page on the website for our church family to access called the Document Center. This includes our committee roster, communications submission forms and in the future, our committee agendas, reports and minutes.