Evening Prayer Guide - May 20th, 2020

Evening Prayer Guide

A Note From Our Music Director - May 20th, 2020

‘When In Our Music God Is Glorified’ 

William W. Walford, an unknown, blind lay preacher from Warwickshire, England composed the poem that has resonated in our hearts for many years, Sweet Hour of Prayer. The story goes that one day in 1842, Walford’s friend, Thomas Salmon, a fellow cleric, stopped by his shop and it was there that Walford asked Salmon to write down the poem that he had composed. From there the poem made its way to the U.S. and across the desk of the editor of the New York Observer. 

Pastoral Thoughts - May 20th, 2020

Dear Dyersburg FUMC Family, 

I want to offer many thanks to our Discipleship Team and their hard work in creating multiple new opportunities for our church family to connect with one another even in this time of physical distancing. It is an act of courage and faith to try new things when we have no precedent to refer to, and I am so grateful that this group of disciples is working so faithfully to offer ways for our whole church—really our whole community—to remain bound together even as we navigate new waters. I encourage you with all of my heart to take advantage of one of these news ways of connecting with each other, and to offer your thanks to this team for creating these opportunities.