Ministry and SErvice Opportunities
Cooking/Serving/Cleaning Teams
The Gathering Meal is the first Sunday of each month. If you can help with this meal contact by text to Kelly Engel.
For the Kitchen Cleaning Team contact Kelly Engel, 325-721-2663
Other All-Church Celebrations are directed by the committee hosting the event. The church office will have that information.
Food for funerals, following hospital stays, shut-ins and emergency needs are directed by Congregational Care.
Contact the Congregational Care chair, Sharron McClellan
The Gathering Meal is the first Sunday of each month. If you can help with this meal contact by text to Kelly Engel.
For the Kitchen Cleaning Team contact Kelly Engel, 325-721-2663
Other All-Church Celebrations are directed by the committee hosting the event. The church office will have that information.
Food for funerals, following hospital stays, shut-ins and emergency needs are directed by Congregational Care.
Contact the Congregational Care chair, Sharron McClellan
Van Drivers
(We do a background check on drivers)
For more information, please contact Church Office (325)-673-6769.
(We do a background check on drivers)
- Van Drivers – picking up and taking children on Mondays, youth on Sundays and special events like camps, mission trips, etc.
For more information, please contact Church Office (325)-673-6769.
Congregational Care Committee
For more information, please contact Sharron McClellan.
- Funeral Meals – The meal is usually at the church before the funeral and volunteers bring food to the church. They also need people who will serve the family and cleanup after the meal.
- Hospital Visitation – Visit, Pray, and once home provide a hot meal.
- Shut-in Ministry – Teams of two who visit our shut-in members. Teams visit twice a month and bring a light meal one visit and communion on the other visit.
For more information, please contact Sharron McClellan.
FUMC Choir
For more information, please contact the church office at 673-6769 or call Sandy Drake, Music Director, at 692-6836.
- The sanctuary choir at FUMC leads worship during the service at 10:30am on Sunday mornings. We sing a variety of music styles from traditional hymns to contemporary worship songs. We rehearse each Wednesday evening in the Wesley Room from 6:00-6:30pm. If you enjoy singing, fellowship, and serving the Lord, you will love being a member of the FUMC Choir!
For more information, please contact the church office at 673-6769 or call Sandy Drake, Music Director, at 692-6836.
Food Bank
For more information, please contact the office at 325-673-6769.
- The Food Bank is a local nonprofit that is supported by the Abilene Community. FUMC supplies volunteers on the first Wednesday of the month to unpack and sort food that arrives by shipments. The hours worked by volunteers earns discounts on the price of the food that the Food Pantry buys from the Food Bank.
For more information, please contact the office at 325-673-6769.
B.O.B.S.
For more information, please contact Mike Ammons at 325-863-0052.
- BOBS, Breakfast on Beech Street, located at First Christian Church on North Third and Beech Street, prepares breakfast for the needy and underemployed of our community every week day from 6:30 AM to 7:15 AM. When the clients leave BOBS, they also receive a sack lunch containing a sandwich, fruit, cookies and a scripture.
- BOBS is an ecumenical partnership between First Central Presbyterian Church, First Christian Church, First United Methodist Church, Heavenly Rest Episcopal Church, and Highland Church of Christ.
- FUMC supplies teams on Wednesday mornings from 5:30 to 7:45 AM. We have four different teams, so each team works every fourth Wednesday.
For more information, please contact Mike Ammons at 325-863-0052.
Other Ministry Opportunities
