Welcome to Mount Vernon United Methodist Church
Where All the People are Ministers of Christ
Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church has been in ministry to Jesus Christ and the greater Williamsburg community for over 137 years. We’re known as the small church with a very big heart! We offer a traditional style of worship, using the United Methodist Hymnal with organ and piano music. Our choir under the direction of Mrs. Carol Kendall delivers both traditional and praise anthems.
Our vision is to seek to live and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to nurture persons of all ages and circumstances for faithful discipleship, and to transform faith into service to others.
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- Office Closed: The church office will be closed on Friday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day.
- Summer Lunch for Kids: From His Hands has partnered with Meals On Wheels to feed 250 children daily over the summer. Please consider baking chocolate chip cookies or donating Oreos for the needy children! Please package the cookies in small snack bags with 2 cookies per snack bag. Theresa Kaufman will be picking cookies up weekly on Sundays at church. Thank you so much for supporting the kids this summer!
- Fellowship/Social Hour: Due to low attendance and summer travel we will be suspending fellowship after the third Sunday service for the months of June, July, and August. We will resume on Sunday, September 21.
- Ink Cartridge Recycling: We are able to get Staples rewards for recycling up to six empty ink cartridges per month. We don’t go through that many so if you have any empty cartridges that need to be recycled, we would be glad to do it. The rewards points will be used to purchase ink for the office printer (for which each cartridge runs about $125). There will be a basket outside the fellowship hall. Thank you!
- Prayer Requests at Sunday Service: Our Sunday service is streamed live on the internet. Prayer requests should include name and brief description, but please leave out personal information that you might not want the world to know. Please wait for the portable microphone to be brought to you so everyone can hear.
- Wishlist: Mt Vernon UMC now has a wish list on Amazon.com. If you purchase anything on our wish list, it will be sent directly to the church and will be automatically updated that the item(s) were purchased and are no longer needed. https://a.co/5XTCMvo.
- Proclaiming Grace Outreach (PGO): If anyone is interested in seeing how the PGO foodbank operates, contact Jesse R.
FISH: Fish Food Pantry: Updated 3/19/2025 — The food items needed are:Tomato products, Spaghetti & Other Pastas, Brownie Mix, PancakeMix/Syrup, Canned Soups, Canned Vegetables, Canned Chicken, Tuna &Beef Stew, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Boxed Mac & Cheese, Canned Fruits. There is a donation box in the Fellowship Hall marked FISH. Everything donated will be in honor of Jewell Bryant who encouraged Mt. Vernon’s participation in FISH.
- Fellowship Time: On the 3rd Sunday of every month, there will be a Fellowship Time after the Sunday Service.
- Cereal..Cereal..Cereal: We will concentrate on collecting ONLY cereal donations to St. Olaf’s & PGO Food Pantries, so please consider picking up an extra box or two of cereal each week and deposit it in the basket in the narthex. It’s a need that we can help to fulfill. Thanks!
- Bridge Group: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.- 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, Fellowship Hall
Worship With Us!
Please join us on Sunday mornings!
Worship service at 10:15 a.m.
Sunday School at 9:15 a.m.
James City Chapel Cemetery
The James City Chapel Cemetery is a ministry of Mt. Vernon UMC.
From the community
A thank-you letter was received from “From His Hands” (https://www.fromhishands.org/about), thanking the congregation for its recent donation. They are grateful that Mt. Vernon continues to support them in their efforts to feed those in need!
From current & former members
I just wanted to thank all of your for the wonderful gifts that you sent me, as I recover from surgery. The prayer shawl is lovely—it touched my heart so! The Brunswick stew, and that terrific chicken soup have just been wonderful. I came as a stranger to your church in December, and you embraced me as a friend. You personify what it means to be “in Christ.” Again all my thanks—I will see you soon.
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Why do I love Mt. Vernon? I love Mt. Vernon because Mt. Vernon embodied all that the church can be to the world! The church is where we have a sense of belonging, being connected to one another, in our common goal of knowing Christ and of living a life pleasing to Him.
From Our Facebook Friends
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