Andrew Burd-Harris

Community Dinners Fall 2025

August 28, 2025 by Andrew Burd-Harris Leave a Comment

This fall Evangelical UMC is hosting three communities dinners. Each dinner will start at 4:30 PM and end at 6 PM. Dinners are available for dine in or take out. Adult meals are thirteen dollars. Children under twelve are five. All are welcome.

Schedule

September 20-Roast turkey dinner, stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetable, cranberry sauce, and dessert.
October 11-Roast turkey dinner, stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetable, cranberry sauce, and dessert.
November 15-Chicken parmesan and lasagna, salad, and dessert.

Worship on Sunday, August 17, 2025

August 14, 2025 by Andrew Burd-Harris Leave a Comment

This Sunday, August 17, we have two worship options. The first is an in person worship service. Our service will include a picnic. We’ll be joining with Geyers UMC and Neidig UMC to have a time of worship, food, and fellowship. The service will start at 11 AM. Consider bringing something to share. Contact us for the location or more information. There will be no service in our sanctuary on Sunday.

We also have an online worship service planned for Sunday. You can experience the worship service on our live page. The service will start at our normal worship time (10:15 AM).

Picnic with Geyers and Highspire in August of 2023.

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools (Sunday School Class)

August 11, 2025 by Andrew Burd-Harris Leave a Comment

Prayer doesn’t begin with you; it begins with Jesus.

“Paul wrote, ‘Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us’ (Romans 8:34). Interceding. That’s what Jesus is doing right now. He is praying for you. He is the bridge between the Father’s heavenly resources and your earthly life. Every prayer you have ever prayed, and every prayer you ever will pray, is a response to his prayers for you.

Join pastor and author Tyler Staton for a five-session Bible study that takes you to the starting point of a journey that will lead you from receiving the intercession of Christ to interceding with Christ. Along the way you’ll make four stops, summarizing the Lord’s Prayer that Jesus taught into four core practices: adoration, confession, petition, and intercession. But it all starts and ends not with our prayers, but with Christ’s.” [1]

Join Pastor Andrew as his Sunday School class reads and discusses Tyler Staton’s Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: an invitation to the wonder and mystery of prayer. Participants should pick up a copy Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools. If you would like the church to order a copy of the book for you, please contact the church office. The cost of the book is $14.00. If the cost of the book will be a problem, please talk to Pastor Andrew. If you would like to order through the church, please let us know by Sunday, August 24^th.

Schedule

September 14 – The Intercessions of Christ [Read appendix 1 in Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools and the Welcome section on page 2]
September 21 – Our Father in Heaven (Adoration) [Chapter 3]
September 28 – Search Me and Know Me (Confession) [Chapter 4]
October 5 – Our Daily Bread (Petition) [Chapter 6}
October 12 – On Earth As It Is In Heaven [Chapter 5]

Contact us for Zoom Information or to order the book

[1] From Bible study’s promotional materials

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools book cover

Called By Name (Summer Sunday School)

June 10, 2025 by Andrew Burd-Harris Leave a Comment

But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

Isaiah 43:1 (NRSV)

This summer our Sunday School teachers are taking a well-deserved break. In July and August, Pastor Andrew will be offering an experimental Sunday School class. The class will use the Bible and the story of Jesus as seen on the TV show The Chosen to explore what it means to be called by Jesus. You can learn more about The Chosen by visiting their website.

Each class will be in two parts. The first part of the class will be watching an episode of the first season of The Chosen. Participants are welcome to watch the episode at home and come at 9 AM. If you would like to watch it at the church, please see the schedule on the back. The shortest episode is 30 minutes long and the longest episode is an hour. Our first session start time depends on the length of the episode. Showing of the episode will start exactly at the time listed on the back of this sheet. Streaming options are listed below.

During our traditional 9 AM Sunday School hour, we will pray, share joys and concerns, read some scripture lessons (there may be more than the ones listed on the back), and discuss both the scripture lessons and that week’s episode. If the class is small enough, the class will be on Zoom and in Room 3. Contact us for more information.

Streaming Options

The Chosen App

Amazon Prime

BYU TV

Schedule

Date Episode Viewing Start Time Episode Name Scripture Lesson
7/6 1 8 AM “I Have Called You By Name” Is. 43: 1-7; Luke 8: 1-3; John 3:1; Mat. 4: 19, 9:9
7/13 2 8:10 AM “Shabbat” Gen. 2: 1-3; Ex. 20: 8-11; Ps. 46: 8-11; Mat. 11: 28-30; Is 43: 3-4
7/20 3 8:20 AM “Jesus Loves the Little Children” Matt. 18: 1-4; 19: 13-15; Is 43: 5-7
7/27 4 8 AM “The Rock on Which It Is Built” Lu. 5: 1-11; Matt. 16: 13-20; Is 43: 8-10
8/3 5 8 AM “The Wedding Gift” John 2: 1-12; Is 43: 11-13
8/10 6 8 AM “Indescribable Compassion” Lu. 5: 17-25; Is 43: 14-15
8/17 7 8:10 AM “Invitations” Matt. 7: 24-27; 9: 9-13; Is. 43: 16-19
8/24 8 8 AM “I Am He” Luke 9: 1-6; 28-36; Is 43: 20-21

Chicken BBQ June 2025

April 30, 2025 by Andrew Burd-Harris Leave a Comment

On June 21, we will be hosting a Chicken BBQ. The meal will consist of 1/2 a chicken, a baked potato, applesauce, a roll, and butter. The cost is 14 dollars. Tickets should be ordered ahead of time. Some extra chickens will be available on a limited basis. The chicken dinner will be available for take out only from 11 AM to 3 PM. Pre-ordered chickens must be picked up before 2 PM or they maybe resold. Contact us for more information. Tickets are for sale after worship on Sunday mornings.