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 136 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.
Mt. Vernon’s 137th Anniversary
This week marks the 137th year in the life of Mt. Vernon UMC. Methodist circuit riders founded James City Chapel in 1791 on the site of today’s James City Chapel Cemetery in Norge, the cemetery of Mt. Vernon UMC. The Chapel was the mother church of Mt. Vernon. After nearly 100 years of service as a Methodist house of worship, the Chapel’s congregation decided to build a new church in Toano. The new railroad line from Richmond to Newport News would have a station, bringing prosperity and more potential members for the church. A portion of the James City Chapel was deconstructed and moved to Toano on a railcar to the depot at the bottom of Church Hill, hauled up the hill by a team of oxen, and reconstructed. Mt. Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was dedicated in 1887 and continues to serve its members and the community today as Mt. Vernon United Methodist Church 137 years later.
Carole Dishman, Church Historian, 9/28/2024
Sunday Worship Service - October 6, 2024
INSTRUCTIONS FOR VIEWING CHURCH VIDEOSLaity Sunday: Laity Sunday is October 20, 2024! Please come to worship service and support our church laity. Al Glindemann will be preaching during the worship service.
UMCOR: Please consider donating to UMCOR US Disaster Response and Recovery. The funds will help those suffering from Hurricane Helene and other natural disasters. Donate online here: https://umcmission.org/advance-project/901670/ . You can also donate by sending a check made payable to Mt. Vernon U.M.C. with UMCOR written on the memo line.
All Saints Sunday: All Saints Sunday is October 27, 2024. If you would like to honor a loved one that has recently passed, please contact the church office at (757) 566-0162 by October 20, 2024.
Proclaiming Grace Outreach (PGO): If anyone is interested in seeing how the PGO foodbank operates, contact Jesse R.
FISH: FISH is a volunteer-operated, non-profit organization that provides food, clothing, and small housewares to persons in need who live in Williamsburg, James City County and York County. FISH is in need of certain food for their food pantry and Jeanne F., who volunteers at FISH, has set up a box marked FISH for donations in the Fellowship Hall. The food items needed are: rice, sweet cereals, canned mixed vegetables, boxed mashed potatoes, macaroni, (no spaghetti), canned chicken, peanut butter, and jelly. The items are also listed on the donation box.is a volunteer-operated, non-profit organization that provides food, clothing, and small housewares to persons in need who live in Williamsburg, James City County and York County.
Operation Christmas Child: You’ve likely heard of Operation Christmas Child (OCC) — the organization that sends gift-filled shoeboxes to children around the world at Christmas, together with the message of the Gospel. To date, over 200 million shoebox gifts have been delivered. If you would like to participate by packing a box, there is information on the credenza by the entrance door to the Sunday School wing. Cardboard OCC boxes have been ordered, but you may also use a shoebox from home or buy a 6 or 7 qt. plastic box with a lid. Gift items may include little toys, hygiene items, and school supplies. If you would like more information, please see Vanda. She and Rob will be happy to pick up any boxes that our church has packed and take them to the local collection center from where the boxes will be trucked to a regional processing center. National collection week is November 18–25, 2024.
- Fellowship Time: On the 3rd Sunday of every month, there will be a Fellowship Time after the Sunday Service.
- Grass cutting schedule: Is on the bulletin board in the hallway. Please sign up for a slot if you are able to help keep the church grounds cut for the summer.
- 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.
Mt. Vernon News Blast
Read our weekly newsletter showing upcoming events and this week’s scripture.
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.
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