Fairmont United Methodist Church • Raleigh NC

The Raleigh Wesley Foundation Spring Mission Trip is May 12-18. Fifteen students, including three Fairmont members will be heading to San Isidro de El General, Costa Rica. Mission trips out of the country are costly, but the reward is great, both for the students going and for the local church communities in the area they will serve. Please consider helping with their trip expenses. Donations can be made directly to Raleigh Wesley Foundation or through Fairmont. Please mark any donations “RWF Costa Rica Trip.”

Named women in the Bible make up around 15% of named biblical characters, and women's stories are often less explored than those of male characters. From April 28-June 2, we will dig into some of these stories in a series on Women in the Bible.

What does the story of Mary Magdalene, one of the first preachers of Jesus’ resurrection, have to do with women in leadership today – and believing women’s stories? What might the story of Hagar, an enslaved woman who is the first character in the Bible to name God, teach us about which voices we learn from and value? Many of us know the story of Queen Esther, but what about Queen Vashti – a woman whose “no” rang throughout the kingdom and prepared the way for Esther’s act of sacred resistance? And was the New Testament (including the apostle and writer Paul) really against women in leadership? We will hold these stories alongside scholarship from biblical and historical scholars like Dr. Wilda Gafney, author of Womanist Midrash, and Dr. Beth Allison Barr, author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood, and women in church history and tradition. Join us in worship this spring!

Saturday, April 27th, 10:00 AM: Come take a hike with us! Join your church family on a hike at Yates Mill Pond on Saturday, April 27th, at 10:00 am. All ages are welcome -- and bring a friend! For more info or directions on the day of, contact Adam Ottley at (509) 396-1590.

Camp #livedifferently June 17-20 - Registration is Now Open

Camp #livedifferently at Fairmont United Methodist Church offers children a hands-on experience to make a difference. The camp will provide children with practical ways to make a difference in their lives and the lives of others and carry this on to their home, school, community, and the world. With their developing compassionate hearts, they will become the hands and feet of Christ by sharing the love of God.

Camp #livedifferently is based on the Bible verse, Matthew 25:35 “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”  

Each day will offer missional events that include age appropriate learning and projects about hunger, clean water, welcoming and helping our neighbors.

Camp #livedifferently is open to children from 4 years old through 4th grade.

Our registration is now an online Google form and is due by May 20: Link HERE

Fairmont Grow Together Community Garden

Fairmont United Methodist Church has a long history of providing outreach and food to those in need. As members we support a lunch bag ministry, a small food pantry, and the food pantry housed at Wilson Temple United Methodist Church. The community surrounding the church's property contains single family homes, student housing, and apartments. The economic diversity ranges from those near poverty to middle and upper-class. We strive to have a strong connection to our community and to the area college campuses. Peggy Davis, BJ Satterwhite and Helen Kraus view the creation of this vegetable garden space as the next logical step towards providing healthy food to those in need and a collaborative community space.

The vegetable garden seeks to support those that do not have space to grow their own food and those that need access to fresh food. The garden has two main goals: grow fresh vegetable to share and teach others how to grow fresh vegetables. Vegetable beds (4'x10') will be provided, free of charge, to members of our community (member gardeners) who want to grow annual vegetables. The plots will be offered on a first come first serve basis to those who have signed the Clean and Welcoming Use document. This document will provide guidelines for what is acceptable use of each garden bed. Also, there will be an “ask an expert” session once a week to answer member gardeners’ questions. No fee will be charged; however, we will require that each member gardener/garden bed donate 10% of each vegetable harvest to those who cannot grow their own food. With each harvest, a member gardener will place their 10% into a cooler located near the garden. FUMC volunteers will facilitate the distribution of the fresh produce to the FUMC small food pantry and to the Wilson Temple UMC food pantry. Additionally, there will be 3 garden plots to be used for demonstration and teaching. The hope is that Fairmont UMC elementary, middle, and high school children and youth, along with the FUMC volunteers will help plant and care for these teaching areas.

Link HERE to sign up for a vegetable bed.

Link HERE to sign up to help prepare the beds on Saturday, April 27 at 10:00 AM.

Upstairs Youth/UMYF Room: The room is ready! It looks great and thanks to all who made it possible. They are ready to start fixing it up to make it theirs. Now they need things to do that! If you are cleaning house, downsizing or getting ready to declutter the Youth would appreciate anything.
They need: couch, lamps, large rug to cover the carpet, a bookcase, chair, TV
Contact Sandra Cox (call or text 919-264-9377) if you have something to donate and we will help bring it to the church.

UMYF Meals: Can you help? We meed help providing meals for UMYF (6-7 youth with one vegetarian). Meals are needed Feb. 18, March 3, March 17, April 7, April 21, May 5, May 19; time is 5:30-7:30 PM.
In addition, adults are needed to assist Pastor Christina (or if you want to give the program, she’ll assist!) We need 1-2 adults to assist or lead. Text Sandra Cox (919-264-9377) to volunteer.

We also want to thank Sandra Cox, our new Youth Coordinator!

Thanks to everyone who has signed up to sponsor a Mission Lunch this Spring.

Remember, if you need assistance with the lunch Susie Mallard Barnes can help you with the planning and cooking, and your group provides the manpower and helps with the ingredients. 

Just reach out!  smallardbarnes@gmail or 919-412-3230

Thanks for supporting the Fairmont Mission Lunches!  Use this link to sign up!

Many thanks to all who took part in the Reverse Advent Food Collection.
Remember that the need is ongoing!

Wilson Temple UMC Food Pantry is always in need! We'll use donations from our Reverse Advent to help they and they still need volunteers find links to their sign up in our email newsletters.

The Little Free Food Pantry at Fairmont has been running low. We'll use some of your donations from the Reverse Advent to help stock up! Most needed are non-perishable ready-to-eat items, but also some pantry basics and canned goods. You can use the links found in our email newsletters to sign up for a particular day or just bring supplies by the church to stock it up any time.