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Serving Our Schools
St. Andrew's UMC School Mission Initiatives St. Andrew's UMC had a long tradition of supporting Dover Elementary School for many years,...
Leonard Henry
Aug 7, 20252 min read


Finding Strength in Shared Loss
Good Grief Support Group Offers Healing Through Community Grief is a strange companion. It shows up uninvited, stays longer than...
Gary Uremovich
Jul 30, 20252 min read


Love in Action Can Change the World
United Women in Faith at St. Andrew's United Women in Faith is a 156-year-old national organization begun by eight women in 1869. At St....
Shari Gillis
Jul 24, 20252 min read


Nurturing Worth and Dignity
Vitality Respite Center Vitality Respite Center provides an environment of well-being for our “friends” living with memory loss by...
Terri Hartney
Jul 16, 20252 min read


Creating Community for Women
GALS: Growing & Loving Servants All ladies are invited to join with GALS (Growing & Loving Servants) to watch Season 5 of “The Chosen”....
Carol Wetherington
Jul 9, 20251 min read


Transition by Faith
Sometimes it is good to make a change. Starting next Friday, July 11, we are shifting our approach to the space in the Friday Connection...
Pastor Jayne Rideout
Jul 3, 20251 min read


An Ocean of Compassion
None of us have all the spiritual gifts. Through our baptism, we each our given some. One that I lack is mercy. My husband has a lot of...
Pastor Jayne Rideout
Jun 26, 20252 min read


Love Does.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Dear friends,...
Pastor Gary Rideout
Jun 18, 20252 min read


Trinity Sunday
"Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…"...
Pastor Gary Rideout
Jun 13, 20252 min read


Why We Give
Practice Supporting Your Church Financially As United Methodists, we believe in supporting our church financially. The biblical...
Pastor Gary Rideout
Jun 12, 20251 min read


A Church of Connection
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but...
Pastor Gary Rideout
Jun 4, 20252 min read


The Easy Yoke, The Light Burden
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and...
Pastor Gary Rideout
May 29, 20252 min read


Eastertide
If you attend a traditional service at St. Andrew’s, you may have noticed that the paraments on the altar and pulpit have been white...
Pastor Jayne Rideout
May 20, 20252 min read


Seeing Yourself as God Sees You
In the book of Luke there is a short, but powerful story that is probably familiar to many of you and one that may stir up an emotional...
Pastor Jayne Rideout
May 9, 20253 min read


From Denial to True Discipleship
Peter responded, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!” At that very moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. The...
Pastor Gary Rideout
Apr 17, 20252 min read


Moving Towards what is Hard
Holy Week is almost upon us. As a United Methodist, I love this week. I did not practice Lent growing up. Only the Catholics in our...
Pastor Jayne Rideout
Apr 10, 20252 min read


the Spirit of Life
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set...
Pastor Gary Rideout
Apr 3, 20252 min read


St. Andrew's Preschool is Now St. Andrew's Academy
“Laying the Foundation for Lifelong Learning” “Teach children how they should live, they will remember it all their life.” Proverbs 22:6...
Kathy Grant
Mar 27, 20251 min read


Transformation.
“Don’t even begin to think that I have come to do away with the Law and the Prophets. I haven’t come to do away with them but to fulfill...
Pastor Gary Rideout
Mar 20, 20252 min read


Peace Leads to Joy
"The Lord is for me—I won’t be afraid. What can anyone do to me?” Psalm 118:6 CEB Today I am happy. It is interesting what makes us happy...
Pastor Jayne Rideout
Mar 14, 20252 min read
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