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Iglesia Metodista Unida Casa del Alfarero
Meeting at Shingle Creek UMC
2420 Old Vineland Road
Kissimmee, FL 34746
(407) 396-6364
Pastor Daniel Martinez
daniel.martinez@flumc.org
Worship: Sunday 6:30 pm
Prayer Vigil: Thursday 6:00 pm
Small Group Bible Study: Thursday 7:00 pm
Casa de Paz
Worship Monthly at Cypress Elementary School
2251 Lakeside Drive,
Kissimmee, FL 34734
Mailing Address:
PO Box 430155
Kissimmee FL, 34743
(407) 595-9731
Pastor. Jose Nieves
Palm Coast Hispanic
5200 Belle Terre Parkway
Palm Coast, FL 32137
(386) 445-1600
El Faro – Clermont
Meeting at First UMC, Clermont
950 Seventh Street
Clermont, FL 34711
321-946-6833
Pastor Maria Fernandez
maria.fernandez@flumc.org
Worship: Sunday 6:00 pm
Bible Study: Wednesday 7:30 pm
Venetian Bay
EC District Cluster Launch
Mailing Address:
569 N Airport Rd
New Smyrna Beach FL, 32168
(386) 427-8229
Rev. Rebecca Hyvonen
Sunday Worship: 10:00 a.m.
Creekside Middle School in Port Orange
6801 Airport Road, Port Orange, FL 32128
[visit website]
HopeSpring Church
An Extension of St. Luke's UMC, Orlando
4064 Winter Garden-Vineland Road (CR 535)
Winter Garden, FL 34787
(407) 876-4991
Rev. Bill Barnes
Meeting @
Bridgewater Middle School
5600 Tiny Road,
Winter Garden, FL
[visit website]
Christ to the Nations Church
14801 Sussex Drive, Orlando, FL 32826
(407) 384-0640
Rev. Jamie Faberlle
On Eagles Wings Hispanic Mission
660 Bluebill Court, Kissimmee, 34759
(407) 346-9797
Rev. Leo & Rev. Carmen Rodriquez
Meet @ Poinciana Community Complex
395 S. Marigold Ave. in Kissimmee
LifeSong Church
1395 Campus View Ct, Oviedo, 32765
(407) 359-2112
Rev. Lyndol Loyd
[visit website]
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New Church Start Boot Camp
Simpsonwood Conference and Retreat Center
4511 Jones Bridge Circle,
Norcross GA 30092
Hispanic Boot Camp -
November 2-5, 2010 Click here for the brochure
Korean Boot Camp - November 30-December 2, 2010 Click here for the brochure
New Church Development: "Find the pain . . ."
by Pastor Rebecca Hyvonen
Those words from a district clergy meeting last fall continue to echo through my mind:
"Find the pain, and the need in your communities, and then meet those needs." This was the challenge put forth to all of us that day.
At Venetian Bay UMC, as we continue to build and grow as a new church start heading into our third year, we have been praying and looking hard for the pain and need in our community. We've been praying for God's guidance, strength, and wisdom to attempt to meet those needs, and ease that pain, in the name of and through the Spirit of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, and to His glory. We are grateful to have received the "Partner of the Year," award from the Volusia County School Board, for our service at Creekside Middle School, where we are privileged to worship, but we all feel that there is so much more that we can do!
We've received the opportunity to move our office space into the Venetian Bay Town Center. That will leave the current facility empty, until it is to be removed (as a "temporary building," secondary to the city of N.S.B.'s building dept. plans).
In seeking God's guidance in how best to make use of our soon-to-be-empty additional space for ministry, we became increasingly aware of the gaping necessity for child care in the Venetian Bay, northwest NSB, and southwest Port Orange communities.
We've been meeting, and praying, and researching; and discovered that the most pressing need for single parents and 2-parent working families is after school care for elementary children. That is also the easiest children's ministry to set up, and most cost effective, (and even profitable) as we move forward in serving the community around us.
Deuteronomy 6:7 gives advice to parents to take God's ways and "impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." As the July 9 "Upper Room" reading said, "Children are a precious heritage and a wonderful gift from God. Every Christian home can be a theological institute, and parents can be the first ones to speak the word of God to their children. We can introduce them to Jesus when they are young."
In this current society, where fewer people seem to know Jesus, and families are more scattered than ever, the church can help to meet, or complement that role of "impressing" on children the basics precepts of the Christian faith, while providing professional, warm and loving Christian care as well. We can ease the pain of empty homes for after-school elementary children; be a life-giving place of parental and Christian instruction; and continue to build and grow relationships as we connect people to God, each other, and the community and world around us.
Oh what a joy to be a servant, child, and friend of our magnificent God, and His life-giving ways! With great joy, gratitude, and humility.
Churches transplant their DNA to make new disciples
May 24, 2007 An e-Review Feature
By John Michael De Marco**
As the Florida Conference continues to set the tone nationwide for starting United Methodist churches, the conference’s East Central District is a catalyst and mother-daughter launches are the means. At least 10 new churches or missions have launched in two years or are about to emerge within the district [MORE]
LifeSong Church Launches in East Orlando
Sat., Sept. 29 & Sun. Oct. 1, LifeSong Church opened its doors in East Orlando. After months of prayer, preparation, planning, construction, advertising and practice, the extension campus of University Carillon United Methodist Church (Oviedo) finally became a reality. [MORE]
Cluster Contemplates Starting New Church
Aug. 8, 2007 An e-Review Feature By John Michael De Marco**
The Florida Conference’s church cluster concept has been steadily giving birth to new and deeper relationships among congregations. One cluster is taking that dynamic to another level by potentially starting an entirely new church. The proposed congregation would be part of the East Central Florida District and located in or near the new Venetian Bay community west of I-95 near New Smyrna Beach and Port Orange. While Covenant United Methodist Church in Port Orange would supply the primary “DNA” for the new church, the other United Methodist churches in the cluster — DeLeon Springs, Lake Helen, Trinity in Seville, Pierson and First, New Smyrna Beach — would be well represented in the formation and life of the new church. [MORE]
New Church Development in the Florida Conference
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