Finding community might be closer than you think.

Wow! With all this rain, the community garden is bursting with growth! 🌧️🌱😋 Check out these HUGE zucchini’s from the Jackson family plot 😱🤩🥒🙌🏼 Can you guess how many pounds they are??? 🤔🤓 #communitygarden #community #garden #summer #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

We enjoyed celebrating our graduates from Pre-K all the way up through high school this past Sunday! 🎓 We even got some of our grandparents up to receive certificates for their grandchildren! 😇 Well done students and families! 🙌🏼 We love being able to support y’all as much as we can! ❤️ #graduates #graduates2025 #family #schoollife #sunday #churchfamily #kids #churchlife #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

Thank you to our breakfast crew for preparing an amazing spread for Oakwood Elementary teachers and staff on the last day of school! AND well done teachers, administrators, custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, and more for all you’ve done this year for your students and families!! Praying this last day is a blessed one!! #teachers #lastdayofschool #schoollife #hallcountyschools #Oakwood #elementary #oakwoodelementary #oakwood

Our women’s Bible study is still going strong! They are reading and discussing Pew Sisters and having a great time fellowshipping and growing in faith! 🙌🏼🌸🙏🏼😇 #women #biblestudy #encouragement #community #churchfamily #churchlife #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

It was a real TREAT to provide dozens of donuts for all the teachers at McEver Arts Academy last week for Teacher Appreciation. We look forward to being their new neighbors at Everwood Elementary this Fall! 🍩🙌🏼 #teacherappreciation #mceverartsacademy #schoollife #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mommas and momma-figures throughout our lives! Thank you for being a blessing to us all!! 🌹🌹🌹 (Not all mom’s pictured, but all mom’s appreciated! 😇) #mothersday #mothersdaycelebration #sunday #church #churchfamily #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

We love the rain and so does our garden!! 🌧️☔️🌱 Check out the buds, fruits, and growth from our trees, vines, and corn field! 🙌🏼 #community #communitygarden #garden #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

Another tour this time with future parents of Everwood! Our own Pastor Tyler is looking forward to being a part of the developing Parent Group for Everwood as both parent and pastor! “It’s so exciting to see the care and excitement from both communities of Oakwood and McEver Arts Academy coming together to support students and parents - not just this year but for years to come.” - Pastor Tyler We look forward to being great neighbors and being one of many partners to bless the Everwood family. Go owls!! 🙌🏼 #everwoodelementaryschool #family #kids #community #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

Our house church gathering was a blast last night! Interested in finding community, encouragement, and asking questions about faith + free dinner? It’s a simple, safe environment for you to be a part of! Join us for the “Ship” twice a month, where we help each other navigate life through fellowSHIP, relationSHIP, worSHIP, and discipleSHIP. 😉🙌🏼 Let us know in the comments if you’re interest or just message us! Hope to see you at the next gathering! 😇 #safespace #positive #family #kids #young #adults #youngadults #community #housechurch #housechurchfamily #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

Our community garden friends beat the rain yesterday evening adding more beds, mulching, and seeding the corn plot! New and old gardeners alike got to meet and enjoy personal pizzas in our earthen oven, too! 🌱🌽🍕🙌🏼😎 #communitygarden #garden #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

Easter worship here, there, and everywhere!! ✝️🌸🌺❤️ We enjoyed worship during this morning’s sunrise in our community garden, worship with kids during our 11 am, and bringing worship to congregants who are in extended care. The Resurrection isn’t just an event, it’s a movement. We celebrate what Jesus accomplished when he conquered the grave but we also celebrate what Jesus STARTED. Jesus’ story of Resurrection is about new life becoming our story, too! 🙌🏼 May you receive all that God has given through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus so that the worst part of your story isn’t the end of your story!! Have a blessed Easter season! 🙏🏼

The praises poured out this morning in the celebration of Palm Sunday with younger and older voices, alike, processing and singing!! Because of what Jesus has done, we have “joy, joy, joy down in our hearts today!” 🌿🎶🙌🏼😇

A great way to end our series of learning sessions about our Latino, Hispanic neighbors and community through the celebration of Communion. Through God’s saving work and ongoing reconciliation, we are drawn together into the body of Christ, whose Kingdom is both diverse and beautiful. May we continue to develop a posture of humility with open doors, open hearts, and open minds to the work of God’s grace and the image of God found in everyone! 😇 Thank you to our friends across our United Methodist Connection who joined, participated, and led these learnings and discussions, especially Rev. Ash McEuen, Rev. Nora Colmenares, and Rev. Juan Quintanilla! Gracias! 🙏🏼 #UMC #umcconnection #seeallthepeople #communion #communitylove #churchlife #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

This time last-week, we joined in celebrating all four of Pack 204’s Arrow of Light (AOL) Scouts (5th graders) earning their AOL Rank and crossing over (graduating) to their respective Troops! Here are just a couple of photos of the celebration! Way to go Scouts!! 🙌🏼 🏹☀️🏅😎 #pack204 #scouts #cubscouts #scoutingBSA #ScoutingAmerica #scoutinglife #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

Wow! What an absolute joy for Pastor Tyler and some members of our School Partnership Team to be invited to tour Everwood Elementary with Principal Hitzges and some of her staff. There was a lot of energy throughout the tour anticipating all the opportunities for students and families as well as the partnership between our church and the school! We look forward to supporting all the good they will be doing and to being great neighbors!! Go OWLS!! 🦉📚✏️🖍️🖌️🏫🙌🏼😇 #schoollife #everwoodelementaryschool #schoolpartnerships #communityfirst #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

This morning we celebrated having Pastor Tyler officially re-appointed as our Lead Pastor for another year! We’re grateful for you and your family’s love and dedication! 🙏🏼😇

📢 You're Invited to Our Annual Easter Egg Hunt! 🐣🌿 Join us for a morning of fun, laughter, and celebration as we hunt for eggs and enjoy a delicious grill-out afterward! This event is free and open to all, so bring your family, friends, and neighbors! 📅 Saturday, April 12 🕙 10:00 AM 📍 McEver Road UMC Don’t miss out on the fun—RSVP on our event page (link in bio)! We can’t wait to celebrate Easter with you! #EasterEggHunt #McEverUMC #FamilyFun #EasterAtMcEver

Happy first day of Spring! 🌸 Our garden team has been busy improving the grounds and preparing for the upcoming growing season! Be sure to apply online for your plot and join the gardening fun!🪴🥕🍅🧅🌶️🫑☺️ APPLY NOW: https://www.mceverumc.org/campus#CommunityGarden #communitygarden #communitygardens #communitygardensbuildcommunity #garden #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

Heres a couple of pictures from the women’s retreat of rest and renewal this past weekend! 😇🕊️🌱🙏🏼

We enjoyed partnering with Flowery Branch UMC and Oakwood UMC all throughout this Ash Wednesday!! Today marks the beginning of the season of Lent, where Christ-followers acknowledge their brokenness, turn intentionally toward God, and strengthen their faith to better serve God and neighbor. 🙏🏼

We enjoyed partnering with Flowery Branch UMC and Oakwood UMC all throughout this Ash Wednesday!! Today marks the beginning of the season of Lent, where Christ-followers acknowledge their brokenness, turn intentionally toward God, and strengthen their faith to better serve God and neighbor. 🙏🏼

All ages worship and all ages serve! Just a couple of photos of some of our communion servers this morning! ❤️👏🏼🙌🏼 Silas (3 years old) said, “These are all my friends.” And Pastor Tyler said, “Yep, because of Jesus’ love, we’re all friends in the body of Christ.” 😇

We loved hosting the Scout Pinewood Derby event this past weekend! 🏎️💨😊 Cub Scouts of all ages and their families cheered on all the racers and voted on “best-in-show.” Not only that, but families enjoyed concessions donated and cooked by our church as well as community members showing off their real cars/trucks 🙌🏼 #pack204 #cubscouts #pinewoodderby #car #show #carshow #church #kids #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

We enjoyed celebrating just a fraction our scouts and their families. We are so grateful for the parents and leaders who continue to pour into these kids each week. Thank you to Pack 204 and we are grateful for our partnership! #ScoutsBSA #cubscouts #pack204 #ScoutSunday2025 #churchfamily #church #kids #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville #gainesvillega

We are so grateful to the ongoing support of the South Hall Food Bank. We collected food donations over the last couple of weeks to restock the shelves for the new year! We were able to donate approximately 400 lbs of food to serve individuals and families in Hall County! ❤️🙌🏼😇🙏🏼 #mission #food #pantry #foodpantrydonations #church #churchfamily #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesvillega

The Ship strives to help all ages navigate life and faith with relationship, fellowship, worship, and discipleship. Tonight they met in a member’s home, shared a meal, enjoyed conversation, and served Communion to one another. All ages remembered God’s sacrificial love with the simple elements of classic white bread and juice in a cup. They are simple in that they are common or readily available just like Gods grace is always available to all of us. May we always be grateful for this simple yet profound truth!! ❤️😇🙏🏼 (Even the dog got some grace, too! 😉🐶)

We sure miss our church family this morning! We hope you are well and we invite you to check out Pastor Tyler's Sunday Morning Devotion for a time of scripture reading, reflection, prayer, and song. *VIEW NOW:* https://mailchi.mp/6156144996e0/march-31-2019-sermon-warm-up-where-we-are-10146136?e=[UNIQID] As a reminder, everything planned for this Sunday, January 12 will take place next Sunday, January 19 - we hope to see you then!

Out of an abundance of caution, our Leadership Team has decided to cancel this Sunday morning’s activities: 9 a.m. Holy Grounds, 10 a.m. Sunday School Hour, and 11 a.m. Worship. We are not confident that by Sunday morning, conditions will be optimal enough for congregants to travel safely to the church campus. You can look forward to a brief devotional being sent out on Sunday morning via email and on social media for a time of prayer and reflection. Everything planned for this Sunday, January 12 will take place next Sunday, January 19.

We loved ending our Christmas Eve celebration with a congregational candle lighting while singing “Silent Night”. We wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas and offer this blessing: God has come near to dwell among us and make God’s love real to all. 🙏🏼 #christmaseve #candlelight #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

Our covered arbor got a recent upgrade just in time for our new nativity scene to be on display! We hope you come and enjoy it at one of our next Sunday services or Christmas Eve service! 😇🌠❤️ #advent #Christmas #Eve #christmaseve #nativity #nativityscene #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

The third Sunday of Advent is about reclaiming joy - even in the difficult days of our lives. We’re grateful for little voices sharing the Word of God and lighting the candles of hope, peace, and joy. May God’s Light shine through each of us as we proclaim the goodness of God and join together in fulfilling God’s promises. 🙏🏼🤍🤍🩷🕯️🕯️🕯️

This evening was filled with the warmth of the Christmas season as we gathered tons of donations - coats, blankets, socks, toiletries, and more! - and raised over $500 dollars to support the homeless ministry through Grace by Time. It’s amazing to see how God makes connections. One of our young adults met Rev. Dr. Wakima Carson through culinary school, where it was discovered that she feeds ~500 people experiencing homelessness every week! 😇 Thank you for all you do Dr. Carson and thank you Lucas for helping us host a great meal for a great cause ❤️🙏🏼 🙌🏼 #churchfamily #churchlife #homelessnessawareness #homelessoutreach #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

We’ve enjoyed the first two Sundays of Advent - Hope and Peace - with kids and families alike helping to lead us in worship! 😇 (just be careful what you ask the kids because they will always give you some surprising, funny answers 😆) 🕯️🕯️

Be sure to reserve your spot for our upcoming donation dinner on Wednesday, December 11 starting at 6 pm on our campus for Grace by Time! Help out by bringing coats, clothes, and toiletries as well as raise money for a bountiful meal for those experiencing homelessness this holiday season! It’s $10 per person for a great meal, fellowship, and a great cause. (Seating limited to 75 people) Please RSVP online or in person this Sunday! https://forms.gle/pmiqyKEWTD2CCEEB6

In this season of thanksgiving, we are so grateful for new members, who joined the life of McEver Road Church this morning during one of our worship experiences! Welcome Hugh and Carlette as well as Mary 🙌🏼😇

We’re grateful for our Pastor Emeritus, Rev. Don Cooper, for preaching this morning as we observed and celebrated All Saints Sunday. Thankful for God’s abundance that has come to us through the faith and encouragement of those that have gone before us 🙏🏼🕊️🕯️

We know that tomorrow will be an especially anxious day in an already stressful election season. We hope this Election Day hourly prayer guide will be a helpful resource to help guide, ground, and focus your thoughts throughout the day. https://www.umc.org/en/content/hourly-prayer-guide-for-the-2024-us-presidential-election-day Please share this post with others you think may benefit and want to join together in prayer. 🙏🏼

We were so glad to celebrate some our retired teachers during Retired Educators Day here in GA this morning during worship. We have such a rich history and involvement with education that continues through our local school partnerships! Among our retired teachers we have a total of 255 years of service!! 🙌🏼❤️📚🎓 Be sure to share some love in the comments

We enjoyed hosting an Advance Care Planning presentation for our Lunch and Learn gathering from Libby Dunahoo at Northeast Ga Medical Center! Thank you so much, Libby, for sharing so much helpful and important information with members of our congregation and community. 🤓❤️😇

We’re so happy to welcome Cristina Rubio as our new Coordinator for Next Generation! She brings with her a wealth of enthusiasm, experience, and ideas! We look forward to all the ways she will help us reach, care, and nurture the Next Generation at such a time and place as this! 🙌🏼🙏🏼❤️😇 #churchfamily #kids #nextgen #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

What a wonderful morning of worship celebrating World Communion Sunday - remembering that we are not the only church (thanks be to God!) and that the power and presence of Holy Spirit is on display in every person and every place where God reigns. 🕊️😇 Although we don’t see the fullness of the Kingdom yet, what we do see is the people of God not giving up! 🙏🏼 We enjoyed sharing, singing, and listening to other languages throughout worship. AND we enjoyed the little hands helping to serve God’s grace ❤️ #sunday #churchfamily #world #communion #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

We’re back with our Holy Grounds worship experience with all generations present together! We’re grateful for the lay members of our church leading music and our discussions of life and faith for all ages! 🙌🏼😇❤️ If you haven’t come by for this special service at 9 am, come check us out! We’ve also have another service at 11 am that is a different format and style but still full of Jesus and the Spirit. 🕊️

UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) continues to coordinate both donation and volunteer opportunities in response to Hurricane Helene. You can give through our church website (www.mceverumc.org/give) by selecting “UMCOR” from the drop down menu (100% of your donation goes to the work of disaster relief). In addition, from now until this Sunday, October 6, they are requesting donations of tarps, large black trash bags, and water. Please only deliver the specifically requested items to the following drop-off locations (Gainesville First UMC https://www.gfumc.com/ - or Jefferson First UMC - https://www.jfumc.org/) at the time specified on each church's website. Find other volunteer opportunities and ongoing updates on how to serve at https://www.ngumc.org/newsdetail/disaster-response-update-flooding-18666291

Another beautiful day with some beautiful people 🤩 We enjoyed and extra dose of fellowship at our church picnic this afternoon. It’s always good to slow down and spend time with each other. We hope you’ll join us at the next one! Thanks to all who grilled, cooked, and (my favorite) ate! 😋

We had a blast with all generations having fun in the sun with our “pizza hut!” Tonight was our Pizza Movie Night and although the movie was a treat, there was even more fun and excitement as both kids and parents enthusiastically crafted their very own personal pizzas - yum! 🍕😋 We learned a lot and can’t wait to do it again soon! 🙌🏼😎

What a great way to “dive” back into Scouts! Not enough parents got wet so the kiddos were sure to soak parents with water blasters and “hug attacks.” Of course, parents got their revenge, too 😉🪣🌊😱😆🙌🏼 #scouts #scouting #scoutsofamerica #pack204 #kids #summer #waterplay #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

We were grateful that lots of congregants from our church as well as from other local churches gathered yesterday evening for a volunteer appreciation dinner at Oakwood United Methodist Church and the South Hall Food Pantry. In addition to a great time of fellowship, attendees were introduced to the launch of a new “client choice” model for families at the food pantry. Families will now be able to “shop” for food and ingredients that they prefer and enjoy. Our church will be the first at this pantry’s location to roll out this new model! Prayers for smooth experience for both volunteers and families. If you’d like to help, you can serve this week Monday, August 5 from 4-6 pm, Thursday, August 8 from 10 am - 12 pm, and Saturday, August 10 from 10 am - 12 pm. ❤️😇 #love #people #lovepeople #food #pantry #foodpantry #community #service #hope #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

We had a great time putting extra smiles on the teachers and staff of West Hall Middle School this morning as they got back in the swing of things! Nothing like a huge, home-cooked breakfast spread to get you fueled up for the big day!! 😋😎😇 We pray blessings on all Hall County Schools as they get back to the hard work of teaching and caring for students and families! 🙏🏼 #westhallmiddle #westhallmiddleschool #teacherbreakfast #teachers #backtoschool #church #churchfamily #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

A bunch of sweet, smiling faces as we blessed the backpacks this morning! We got to pray over the donated backpacks, teachers, and, of course, our amazing students! We can’t wait for each of you to have a great school year!! You know we’ll be supporting you all the way through! 🙌🏼📚✏️🏫🖍️🚌 #sunday #church #kids #backtoschool #blessingofthebackpacks #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

The creativity and heart of our Craft & Quilting Squad who made and delivered 9 quilts for foster children at Wellroot! We hope they feel the love of God wrapped around them just as much as these blankets! 🧶🧵🥰🙌🏼 #Craft #quilting #kids #foster #fostercare #serveothers #serve #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

This time yesterday, we had the joy of welcoming and serving families during the Oakwood Elementary Back to School Bash! Great seeing all the students have fun AND get supplies for the upcoming school year! 🤩❤️🙌🏼 #oakwood #kids #backtoschool #oakwoodelementary #goeagles

Starting THIS Sunday (July 21), we'll be adjusting our morning schedule! Check out the details below! #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville #worship #sunday

We don’t love all of this heat 🥵 but our tomato plants sure do! Lots of picking happening at our community garden lately!! 🌱🍅😋 #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville #summer #community #garden #communitygarden

Yesterday, our pastor and a small group of our members joined the other many hands at West Hall Middle School to prepare school supply bags for students to receive at open house! We love supporting our schools! #oakwood #westhallmiddle #schoolpartnerships #community #love #communitylove

Yesterday during Summer Explorers was all about crafts as we learned about the “Bee” Attitudes and how God shows us love and kindness to all 😉🐝❤️ Bee sure to join us next Wednesday at 9 am for another fun adventure! 😇

Lots of smiling faces this morning as kiddos participated in relay races, a nature scavenger hunt, painting/crafting, AND celebrating a birthday with a piñata - Feliz Cumpleaños!! 🥳🎂🪅 Today we talked about growing in God’s love! 🌱 And how to be doers of God’s kindness and not just hearers. 😇 #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville #summer #kids #camp #church #churchfamily #churchlife

Today was bitter sweet - we had the joy of welcoming new members - John and Lori McCandlish - this morning (yay!), but we also said goodbye to Pastor Chris and his family as this was their last Sunday with us before they transition to their new church home at Trinity UMC in Clermont, GA. Be sure to welcome the McCandlish’s and wish Pastor Chris and his family well! 🙏🏼

We had a bunch of Summer fun at The Ship (our young families navigating life and faith through relationship, fellowship, discipleship, and worship) tonight with some good ol’ fashioned pizza, hand squeezed lemonade, and games!! ☀️😎🍕🍋🙌🏼 Pastor Tyler might have been a little too competitive 😬😆

We got to pour one more glass as Love on Tap (LOT) with our beloved friends of Liquid Nation Brewing yesterday evening. Although LOT will need to find a new “home,” we wish Pap & Mirva the absolute best in this next season of their lives. 🍻❤️🙏🏼

Another song and music program offered yesterday by two of our congregants to the residents at Phoenix Senior Living. Residents got to hear some old favorites while clapping and singing along throughout the afternoon 👏🏼🎶😊

We had another great day of Summer Explorers learning about God’s presence that gives us peace! We walked the trails, colored, played games, planted flowers, and started our stepping stone project! During snack time we listened to scripture readings from Psalm 23, Psalm 50, and Psalm 119 and learned how God is always with us and God is always for us!! ❤️😇🙌🏼 Thanks again to our partners in ministry Flowery Branch UMC and Oakwood UMC! #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville #kids #summer

We are so proud of Pastor Chris being commissioned as a provisional Elder this past Friday evening! It was a joy to see him cross this milestone on his journey toward ordination. We will continue to cheer him on! Well done, Chris!! 🙌🏼

We had a GREAT first day of Summer Explorers with crafting, snacking, hiking, exploring, and gaming!! Lots of excited kiddos and enthusiastic volunteers to make it a memorable experience! Shout out to Flowery Branch UMC and Oakwood UMC for joining in on the fun! If you have kids or grandkids who are ages 4 through 5th grade, then join us next Wednesday, June 19 from 9 am - 12 pm for another great day of exploration! 🙌🏼

It must be officially summer! 😎☀️⛱️ We enjoyed hosting all of the teachers and staff of West Hall Middle School for their end of school year luncheon!! 😋 We love the opportunity to serve whether on our own campus or out in the community! Thank you WMMS for being partners with us for supporting our neighbors and families! #westhallmiddleschool #gainesville #flowerybranch #oakwood

We’re so excited to share an opportunity for you to join our team and help develop our Next Generation!! Learn more and apply at www.mceverumc.org/applynow #MinistryJobs #ChurchJobs #ChristianJobs #YouthMinistry #ChildrenMinistry #KidsMinistry #NextGenMinistry #faithbased #churchlife #faithcommunity #JobOpening #HiringNow #NowHiring #ApplyNow #bilingual

What a joy to worship and celebrate our church’s 50th year anniversary with members, family, and friends spanning the decades. We appreciated a wonderful variety of songs, stories from one of our charter members and others, a reflection from our Pastor Emeritus, Rev. Don Cooper, beautiful liturgies of remembrance and thanksgiving, Holy Communion, and a whole lot of food! Thank you to everyone who was involved in the planning and execution for the day - We couldn’t have done without each of you!! And thank you to our District Superintendent, Rev. Dr. Doug Gilreath and his wife for joining and participating! 🙌🏼 We give God thanks for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit 50 years ago, for pouring it out anew for us today, and for pouring it out in the many days and years to come. 🙏🏼😇🕊️ We will ALWAYS Love Christ. Love People. and Help People Love Christ. ✝️❤️ #worshipwithus #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville #50yearanniversary

Yay! We couldn’t be more excited to welcome students from West Hall High School to plant in our adaptive gazebo. We can’t wait to see all that grows! 🤩🌱😇 #welcome #westhallhighschool #CommunityGarden #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

Wow! Pack 204 scouts (and parents!) did an awesome job seeding our pollinator/flower field in our Community Garden! 🤩 Come by the garden throughout the summer and check out all the beautiful wild flowers that will emerge! 🌱🪻🌷🌺🌸

Happy Monday! The rain won’t keep the light from shining on this good news!! We partnered with West Hall High School again this year to raise $600 to cover expenses related to graduation and sports for seniors. Funds given will help pay for cap and gowns for students in need as well as offer a little extra to cover sport equipment and dues. 🎓❤️🏅 Pastor Tyler was able to hand-deliver a check totaling $845 to Principle Ley Hathcock earlier this afternoon! We love supporting our schools in a number of ways and this is an opportunity we look forward to every year! We wish the best for these seniors and all that is to come! 🙌🏼😇

Shout out to all the mommas and momma-figures in our lives and throughout our congregation! Praying that y’all will have a blessed and wonderful day remembering all that you do everyday!! ❤️💜💛💚 Take a look at our little ones who handed out roses this morning after 11 am worship🌹🤩

The weather isn't the only thing heating up! 🔥 Our ROMEOs have been working on all sorts of projects lately, including building an earthen oven in the garden - wow! This means we'll be able to enjoy all kinds of barbecue, pizza-making, and more! 🐷🐮🍕 We're thinking about nicknaming it the "pizza hut" - what do you think? 😉 We look forward to this being another great way to bring our community together for fun, food, and fellowship! 🙌🏼 #CommunityGarden #oakwood #flowerybranch #gainesville

What a great way to start a Wednesday serving breakfast for the teachers of West Hall Middle School this morning! They came hungry! 🍽️😋 Nothing like full tummies and happy faces as early as 8 in the morning - can you believe it?! God really can do anything!! 😉 Seriously, we are grateful for these teachers and this was just a small way to encourage them they enter the last couple of weeks of the school year - keep going teachers!! 🙏🏼 Principle Amy Wade gave Pastor Tyler two WHMS spirit shirts to thank us for providing such a yummy spread for breakfast! We are grateful for our ongoing partnership 🤩🙌🏼

Believe it or not, this is a *sign* of progress! 😉🙌🏼 We are so excited to be moving forward with our basement renovations for our dedicated Next Generation space!! We can't wait to post more updates soon! 😇

We love it when we can partner with our sibling churches to do MORE good together! Shout out to pastors and team members from Flowery Branch UMC and Oakwood UMC, who joined us for some preliminary planning for our highly anticipated Summer Explorers enrichment camp staring in June!! Stay tuned for more details and be sure to invite friends and neighbors!

There's nothing like brightening a person's day with a song! 🎶 Earlier this week two of our members played and sang songs for residents at Manor Lake, who enjoyed listening (and humming!) along during this mini-concert. ❤️ We're grateful for these members spreading joy on a beautiful Spring day and for a captive audience!! 😇

We offer a variety of ways to worship for all generations!! 🙌🏼 Be sure to #worshipwithus #flowerybranch #oakwood #gainesville

Our walking and fitness trails are great way to enjoy nature and neighbors alike! 🙌🏼#flowerybranch #oakwood #gainesville #walkingtrails #fitnesstrail

It's that time of the year to get involved in the #CommunityGarden!! Whether new or seasoned, you're #welcome to join! You can learn more on our website and apply for a plot at https://www.mceverumc.org/campus#CommunityGarden #flowerybranch #oakwood #gainesville

Earlier this morning was also Announcement Sunday, where our congregation was informed that Pastor Tyler will be staying for another year while Pastor Chris has been appointed to become the senior pastor at Trinity UMC in Clermont, GA! It’s a bitter-sweet announcement as we have been blessed with the ministry that Pastor Chris has led with us the past several years but we are so excited to see him continue into this next season of ministry. We will celebrate him and his family in the weeks to come (announcement TBD) but be sure to offer words of encouragement and love to him and his family while we cherish these moments together until his move later in June. 🙏🏼🙌🏼😇

Another baptism was just among many celebrations this Sunday. Say, “Hello,” to little Hazel. She gave us lots of smiles and a lot of hope for the future! Welcome to the family of God, Hazel! We love you! ❤️😇🙌🏼

What a joyful Sunday celebrating two sacraments this morning - Baptism and Communion! We welcomed both Abigail and Rylee into the family of God this morning (AND they were such good helpers 😉)!! 💧😇🙌🏼 We’re so grateful for all the ways God’s grace is at work in our lives to help bring us together and stay together! ❤️

Wow! What a beautiful Resurrection celebration throughout this morning with Easter Sunrise, Pancake Breakfast, and Easter Service! Be sure to check out the Easter-selfie with the congregation and all the other fun moments that captured our blessed time together. ☺️ Even if you didn’t join us this morning, we want you to know your story can change BECAUSE Jesus is standing outside the tomb!! ❤️✝️🙌🏼😇❤️

Lots of fun in the sun celebrating Easter with 100+ of our neighbors and community! 🙌🏼😎🍬✝️ We can’t wait to continue the celebration with you tomorrow in the following ways: - Easter Sunrise 🌅 @ 7AM in the Community Garden - Easter Pancake Breakfast 🥞 @ 8AM in Pavilion (serving till 9:15AM, clean up by 10:15AM) - Easter Service 🌸 @ 11 AM in Pavilion We hope to see you tomorrow morning to celebrate Jesus and the Resurrection - where the worst parts of our story don’t have to be the end of our story!!! ❤️✝️❤️

Last night we observed Holy (Maundy) Thursday with a service of washing hands and communion — both are symbols of Christ’s enduring, sacrificial love that we, as his followers, are called to embody, too. Christ came to serve and not be served, and so we not only remember what God has done through Christ but we also respond to God’s grace by humbling ourselves and lifting up the wellbeing of those around us, including our enemies. We remember the last meal Jesus shared with his disciples and him washing their feet, and today - Good Friday - we sit in the grief of Jesus’ suffering and death on the Cross. ✝️

What a joy to celebrate the groundbreaking for the new elementary school being built next door to our campus for both the Oakwood and McEver Arts Academy students. We’re grateful for our ongoing partnership and all the possibilities to bless students and their families in the days and years to come! 🏫🎓🙌🏼😇🙏🏼

We enjoyed hosting the Leadership and Innovation Academy members from throughout our North GA Conference. We focused on Fresh Expressions and the Blended Ecology as well as heard from Rev. Marshall Bruner about Clergy Care and Wellbeing.

Looks like our little leaders had too much fun waving palms and singing “Hosannah” this morning! 🌿👋🏼🤩😇 We observed together the start of this Holy Week, where we hold in tension the weight of the cross and the freedom of Resurrection that is to come! Be sure to join us for all our worship services and activities throughout this week 🙏🏼

We placed some crosses out on the “hill” just in time for Holy Week - a sign that the worst parts of our stories are never the end of our story! Be sure to check out our FB events to see all the exciting things we have going on at the end of the month! Thanks to our Tuesday Crew for making the crosses and installing them! 😇🙏🏼

Congrats to our AOL’s from Pack 204, who shot their arrows of light and “crossed over” to become Boy and Girl Scouts earlier this week! 🙌🏼 The rain couldn’t stop the smiles or the light from shining! 😊⭐️

Ash Wednesday kicks off the season of Lent where we intentionally draw close to God as God draws close to us. The ashes symbolize our brokenness, death, and grief. The ashes are mixed with oil and we make the “sign of the cross,” which is marked on our foreheads. These symbols together represent our healing and anointing that God brings in the midst of our brokenness. We then are invited to make “room” in our lives for more of God and we “pause” something - or fast - to focus more on God and God’s presence. What are you pausing/fasting from this Lent? Let us know in the comments!

Let's celebrate and congratulate Rev. Chris Hester, who was approved by the Board of Ordained Ministry and will be commissioned as a Provisional Elder in the United Methodist Church at this year's Annual Conference. Congrats, Chris! 🎉🙌😇

Our cub scout families and volunteers had an epic time during the Pack 204 Pinewood Derby Race yesterday! Check out some of the action! 🏎️💨🥇🥈🥉

We had a blast with Scouts and their families this morning! They had so much enthusiasm and brought a lot of warmth throughout worship! Thank you families for joining us and we trust you were blessed as much as we were to have you!! ❤️🙌🏼🙏🏼

Our Leadership Team retreat was a time for sharing, teaching, and inspiration. A smaller group ended up finishing the evening on a high note with some bowling!! 🎳💥🏆 Although not everyone is pictured, we’re grateful for each person saying, “Yes,” to God’s call and we are excited about where God is leading us throughout the rest of 2024! 🙌🏼

Pack 204 was busy today helping scouts and families prep their cars for the upcoming Pinewood Derby!! 🪵🪚🏎️💨 Do you have a photo of your derby car to share?