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Festival Gloria – A Christmas Service of Worship

Join us at 9am & 11am in the Sanctuary for Festival Gloria!

Our annual Christmas concert is a gift we invite you to share with your friends and family. Come and enjoy the outstanding music-led worship at both services featuring the Christmas Festival Choir and a professional orchestra.

Both services will be held in the sanctuary (no 9am contemporary service). Nursery will be available for both services.

Festival Gloria Musician Breakfast

We have the privilege of hosting 35 professional instrumentalists on Sunday, Dec. 4. To bless the nearly 100 singers and instrumentalists, we are providing breakfast to help keep them energized for the 9:00 and 11:00 worship services! We are requesting donations of food for breakfast. To sign up, please complete the form below.

For questions or if you need help signing up, please email Mary Ann Andrus at maryanna@fumcwp.org or call the church office at 407-644-2906.

Advent Serve Day – Worship Time Change

Worship: 10-11am, MFLC Gym
Service Projects: 11:15am-12:30pm

We are a church that values service and we want to dedicate time during this busy season to serve together as a family.

Join us on Sunday, December 11 for our Advent Serve Day! On this day, we will hold one blended worship service at 10am followed by several opportunities for relational service in our community. Our hope is to spread God’s love, lend a helping hand, and build relationships both in and out of the church!

Explore the service projects below and sign up online today!  You can also sign up by visiting our table in the courtyard each Sunday, Nov. 13-Dec. 4.

Project 1: Decorating for Christmas with Residents at The Oaks
This service project is FULL!

Project 2: Assembling & Distributing Street Eats Snack Bags
Leaders: Dave Nielson and Dylan Kling
Location: Wesleyan Fellowship Hall
Let’s gather to assemble and distribute street eats snack bags in fellowship with one another! We will share a devotion and prayer, assemble the bags, and then distribute bags in our community.

Project 3: Making Paracord Survival Bracelets, Writing Letters, & Drawing Pictures for our Military
Leader: Donna Albert
Location: MFLC Gym
Support our military near and far with encouraging letters, pictures, and survival bracelets. Items will be sent through Operation Gratitude. The bracelets provide 7.5 ft of cord that can be used in an emergency. It is named after the parachute cord and can hold up to 550 lbs of weight!

Project 4: Gardening & Campus Beautification at Killarney
This service project is FULL!

Project 5: Writing Letters & Drawing Pictures for Inua Youth
Leader: Lauren Berlin
Location: MFLC Gym
160 vulnerable youth in Naivasha, Kenya, are part of the Inua two-year wellness and training program. This advent, we would love to send the youth Christmas & New Year letters to show our love and support. Letters are sent electronically! Please consider bringing your laptop. Handwritten letters can be scanned & sent too!

Project 6: Caroling for Our Homebound Neighbors
Leaders: Claud Smith and Mary Jane Nunley
Location: Meet in the Sanctuary Courtyard to Receive Assignments
Spread some holiday cheer by caroling house to house and room to room! We will split into smaller groups to visit some of our homebound members and sing familiar carols with leadership from our children and adult choirs.

Surviving the Holidays – Grief Support

Wondering how you will survive the weeks surrounding Thanksgiving and Christmas? Are you dreading these holidays, knowing that everything has changed and that happy memories from past years can’t be recreated?

Our Surviving the Holidays seminar is especially for people who are grieving a loved one’s death. You’ll learn:

  • How to deal with the many emotions you’ll face during the holidays
  • What to do about traditions and other coming changes
  • Helpful tips for surviving social events
  • How to discover hope for your future

All Saints’ Sunday

Join us in worship on November 3rd for All Saints Sunday as we recognize and honor the great cloud of witness that have gone before. There will be a special worship service at the Lakefront Chapel at 10:15am.

All are welcome to come and remember those who are no longer with us and find hope and healing through worship and church community.

Inua 5K – 7th Annual Run/Walk

Join us in-person or virtually for the 7th annual Inua 5k!

Over the past six years, this event has raised over $172,000 to support Inua Partners in Hope, a program designed to break the cycle of poverty and move orphaned and vulnerable youth in Kenya from dependency to self-sufficiency. Inua Partners in Hope is a joint ministry of First United Methodist Church Winter Park and Naivasha United Methodist Church in Naivasha, Kenya.

We are looking forward to another fun Finish Line Celebration where we can gather together to enjoy food, fun, fellowship, and awards after the race to support Inua Partners in Hope.

Race Schedule:
Saturday, February 25, 2023, Blue Jacket Park
5k – 7:30am start
5k Awards – 8:30am
FREE kid’s run – 9:00am

MSEE Kindergarten Informational Meeting

Join our Methodist School for Early Education on Thursday, November 3rd for an interactive Kindergarten curriculum overview, where you will see a day in the life of an MSEE Kindergartener.

Come and learn more about why MSEE is the perfect place for your rising Kindergartener!

 

When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience

When Helping Hurts offers a different framework for thinking about poverty and its alleviation. Rather than simply defining it as a lack of material things, this video series addresses the roots of the issue: broken relationships with God, self, others, and the rest of creation.

Join us for a 7-week small group experience led by Victoria Vaden, our Director of Community Service  & Outreach. Six weeks of study will include a video series, questions, and discussion. We will also spend one class session serving our community. The series is a powerful reminder of how to love each other, how to give and receive, and how to serve each other in a way that lifts everyone up, honoring our God-given dignity and respect.

Unit 1: Reconsidering the Meaning of Poverty
Unit 2: Seeing God at Work
Unit 3: Why Good Intentions Aren’t Enough
Unit 4: Joining God’s Work
Unit 5: Fostering Change
Unit 6: Moving Forward

You will receive a confirmation email upon registration. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact Victoria Vaden at victoriav@fumcwp.org.

 

Vacation Bible School 2023

Vacation Bible School 2023: Hero Hotline will be held June 12-15, 2023 at First UMC Winter Park. We’re learning that we are called together to serve God. We will have music, dancing, singing, cool crafts, fun games, delicious snacks, and inspiring Bible stories! You won’t want to miss this awesome experience!

Children will become Heroes and discover that answering God’s call together means striving for the things that bring peace and the things that build each other up!

Dates: June 12-15, 2023 from 9:00am to 12:00pm and Worship Celebration on June 18th. Please note, this is a Monday through Thursday!

REGISTRATION

VBS Registration is currently closed.

All age groups and are full, with a waitlist. If any spaces open prior to VBS, we will post the registration link and information on this page. Thank you for your interest in VBS.

We cannot accommodate more students for VBS without more adult leaders. If you can volunteer for VBS week, please sign-up to volunteer on our adult volunteer sign-up page below.

SERVE WITH US

Volunteer sign-ups are now open at the link below.

Adult Volunteer Sign-Up

Youth Volunteer Application

 

Church, Community, & Visioning on the Labyrinth 

Rollins College’s Dean of Religious Life and Chaplain, Katrina Jenkins will introduce the FUMCWP community to the process of setting intentions, while walking the labyrinth.  This ancient contemplative practice will help us to cultivate the transformative energy needed to weave a colorful tapestry towards a beloved community.

This event is facilitated by the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. We hope to see you there!

Cinnabar Film Series: First Cow

Cinnabar is a monthly film series designed around hospitality and curiosity. FILMS engage our full selves. They inspire, reveal, challenge, question, and enchant us. Cinnabar was born as a micro-ministry project of Kinfolk Young Adult Ministry and is still connected to our church in that way.

What do we do? Whenever we gather, the first thing we do is share food and drinks. Our host then offers an introduction and invitation to the film they chose and we watch together, whether under the stars or in front of a twenty-foot wall. Finally, we circle up to reflect together. Our one rule is we never say a film was good or bad; we just talk about the impressions it made on us.

Coming up on October 12th: First Cow

“Some people can’t imagine being stolen from.”

We’re looking forward to continuing Cinnabar Fall with André’s selection of the 2019 film First Cow by Kelly Reichardt. Here’s why he wanted to share it:

I notoriously have a negative gut-reaction toward period piece films. They remind me of my high school history teacher putting on an outdated VHS when he couldn’t be bothered. So, naturally, I was apprehensive when I pressed play on First Cow.

But from the very first frame, one thing stuck to me: an insatiable curiosity. I have found few films that have made me lean in, root for, and wonder more than this one. It’s probably not what you think it will be, and yet, it might just envelop you as well.

If that doesn’t sell you, you don’t know Cinnabar. Come be surprised with us at Ligature Coffee, just look for our new fancy signs.

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