PRESCHOOL POSITIONS OPEN 2019-2020

First United Methodist Church Preschool has two positions open for the 2019-2020 school year. Job applications can be picked up from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the preschool office or from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Monday - Friday in the church office. For questions, please call 731-589-3008. 

A Note From Our Music Director - July 17th, 2019

"Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise God, all creatures here below; Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen." 

These are perhaps the most well-known words in all of Christian hymnody, and is likely sung in most Protestant denominations every Sunday. The Doxology was composed as such, a final verse of a hymn written in 1673. Here is one of the verses preceding the Doxology: 

Pastoral Thoughts - July 17th, 2019

Dear Dyersburg FUMC Church Family, 

There’s something we should get out in the open right off the bat. I make mistakes. I make lots of them, and some of them I even make publicly. I made one on Sunday in my sermon, and I am grateful to an attentive congregation member who brought it to me. Before I tell you what it was, I want to let you know that much of the information in my sermon came from the book Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Dr. Amy -Jill Levine. Dr. Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is also an engaging and brilliant author, and I highly recommend her books. Along with Short Stories by Jesus, I also recommend The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus.