Meet us on the playground on November 17th to play, eat, and meet someone new! We will have snacks beginning at 11am and lunch at noon.
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Family Advent Experience
Join the church family as we kick-off the advent season with a shared meal and prayer stations exploring the season. We will gather in the Fellowship Hall and Courtyard from 5:45-7:30pm for all the fun, including gingerbread nativity building! All ages are invited to participate.
Cost of Poverty Experience
You are invited to attend the Cost of Poverty Experience, an immersive poverty simulation designed to offer a glimpse into the lives of low-income individuals and families living in our communities.
For more information and questions, please reach out to Victoria Vaden at victoriav@fumcwp.org or 407-644-2906 x269.
Vacation Bible School 2025: To Mars and Beyond
Save the Date for Vacation Bible School 2025: To Mars and Beyond!
Blast off on this VBS adventure To Mars and Beyond! VBS will help kids discover the wonders of God’s universe. They’ll become voyagers on a journey through space and be inspired to give glory to God, who is able to do far beyond all that we could ask or imagine! This week if full of singing, dancing, games, snacks, crafts, and more.
Registration Information
Registration for the Community is OPEN. Click the blue button below to register today!
We need many volunteers to make this week a success. Please sign up to be a Crew Leader (taking students from station to station), or a Station Leader or Assistant (helping in a specific area such as Bible or Music). You can also help behind the scenes.
Volunteer at VBS: Sign Up Here
VBS Youth Volunteer Application: Sign Up Here
Snacks & Donations
- Donate snacks and drinks for our amazing volunteers (chips, La Croix, water, juice boxes, sweets, and more).
- Donate items for Street Eats bags. During VBS week, students will assemble care bags for those in need. We’re collecting items like water bottles, chips, applesauce, granola bars, black socks, cheese crackers, and cookies.
- Check out our wish list for additional items you can donate at the link below.
All donations are due by June 15. To sign up to donate, please email Leah at leahg@fumcwp.org!
VBS Preview Party: To Mars and Beyond!
Join us in the new year for our VBS Preview Party!
At this event, you can register first for VBS, enjoy space snacks, crafts, inflatables, and learn more about Vacation Bible School.
Celebrate Pride
Pride week is right around the corner in Orlando and we’re offering multiple ways to celebrate! Please join us in our effort to affirm and encourage LGBTQ members of our church as well share God’s inclusive love to our neighbors in Central Florida. Our goal is for each person we interact with to know that they are God’s beloved, now and forever, because of who they truly are, not anything they’ve done.
Here’s what we’re up to!
1. Sunday, October 13th will feature a prayer time in the Marcy Chapel from 10:15 to 10:45am. Co-hosted by the Forum Class, this time will feature Scripture readings and spoken and silent prayers to uplift our LGBTQIA siblings and allies as they prepare to march. This is an opportunity to join together, show solidarity, honor predecessors, lament harm, and affirm our commitment to love.
2. Sunday, October 13th will also feature a special Elevate program for youth, open to all members of our church, to dig into the history and importance of Pride, share a potluck meal, and work together to create small gifts that will be handed out during the parade. Come from 6–8pm to join Winter Park Student Ministry in the MFLC Gym and bring sides, drinks, or desserts!
3. Saturday, October 19th is Orlando’s Come Out With Pride festival! Pride brings tens of thousands to Lake Eola Park. We have been invited to staff community booths in the marketplace, but we will also be marching as a church in the Pride Parade. Reserve your spot (and find out more details) by clicking below!
Registered parade marchers will be sent a link to a pre-event Zoom call to go over purpose, expectations, logistics, and questions for the day. This call will be Monday, October 7th from 8–9PM, with a video made available soon after.
Enrichment Workshop: Financial Planning Tools 101
The 4 Pillars Counseling and Enrichment Center will be presenting its enrichment workshop entitled “Financial Planning Tools 101.” The enrichment workshop will be led by Jeffrey Hudson, a Trust and Estates partner at Winderweedle, Haines, Ward, and Woodman and an active member of FUMCWP. This interactive session will allow attendees to become enriched in areas related to effective estate planning strategies and the maximization of existing financial goals. The event will be held in the Fellowship Hall and light refreshments will be served. All are encouraged to attend.
Children’s Ministry Volunteer Training
All those volunteering with children this school year are invited to this training luncheon on Sunday, September 8th at 12-1:30pm. Nursery will be available by RSVP. We are excited to kick-off a new year with you!
Acolyte Training
Students in 5th-12th grades are invited to join our Worship “ninjas” as acolytes, carrying the light of Christ during services, lighting candles, assisting with offerings, and occasionally communion about once every 5-6 weeks. It is a great way to contribute to our traditional services without a weekly commitment. Training will be held on Sunday, August 25 at 12:15pm in the sanctuary.
If you’re interested, please contact Mary Ann Andrus at maryanna@fumcwp.org.
Festival GLORIA! Fall Retreat
Want to sing accompanied by a full orchestra? Lead the congregation in some of the most beautiful Christmas carols? Be part of a fun family that grows in discipleship together through music? Look no further!
The Festival GLORIA/Chancel Choir Christmas Retreat will take place this September!
Please let us know if childcare will be needed – we can make it available!