Wesley UMC in Lincoln, RI and the World

Welcome to our Family!

Sunday Schedule: Summer worship hours through Labor Day weekend

9:30	Worship Services
	No bible study and no Sunday school during the summer, but there is nursery coverage for young children

Fellowship Time after Worship

All are Welcome!

News / Coming Events

Wesley "Rhode Runners" Participate in the11th Annual Rhody 5K Race and Plan For New Ministries

On Sunday June 6th, 21 members and friends of Wesley United Methodist Church participated in the 11th Annual Rhody 5K Road Race to Benefit The Lincoln Days Committee and The Tomorrow Fund who received checks for $14,000 and $48,000.

Seventeen folks aged 13 to sixty-something trained to either run or briskly walk and 4 others designed and donated Tee Shirts for the participants, helped with publicity and volunteered the day of the race at Twin River. Some folks completed their first race ever,some completed their first 5K without having to walk at all, some intended to walk but started running and never stopped, some had their personal best 5K race time, but all knew that they had done something good for their health and for the Town of Lincoln!

Rev. Parks hopes that this race will be just the beginning of incorporating good health and exercise along with reaching out to the town into the ministry and life of the church. There seems to be more evidence daily that total good health involves the body, mind, and the soul or the spirit. Sometimes we get so busy with life that we forget we need a balance of physical exercise, mental exercise and spiritual exercise to be truly healthy and balanced. Thus, the church will continue to add ways to grow spiritually through worship, Bible Study, Prayer Groups, Book Studies, etc., they will continue their running/walking group, participate in events that help others, and start a bicycling group for individuals and families sometime this summer.

Another idea that came to Rev. Parks and race participant Theresa Bellinger is to share excess vegetables and fruits from our gardens and offer a Farmers Market for those struggling to put fresh vegetables and fruits on their tables for their families in these tough economic times.This idea is in it's infancy stage so if you have any interest in helping or offering expertise or ideas we'd love to hear from you! If you have young adult books and or snacks for the Literacy Center in Manville, produce from your garden, non-perishable food or clothing for those in need, please call the church at 724-7954. Also, please call or visit if you are looking for a welcoming church for you and or your family to help you get healthy in body mind and spirit. Finally, please call if you have any other ideas about other ways folks can come together to make a positive difference and help each other. We look forward to hearing from you!

Choir practice Thursdays 7:00 to 8:30, all voices welcome!

55 Woodland Street
Lincoln, RI 02865
(401) 724-7954

Wesley Church Staff:

Rev. Jean Russo-Parks,
Pastor

Jim Russell

Interim Organist

Mary Chadwick,
Administrative Assistant

Sue Woodmansee
Sexton/Custodian

General Info: ^{info@wesley-umc.org}

Sunday Schedule:

Worship	9:30
Sunday School	No bible study and no Sunday school during the summer, but there is nursery coverage for young children
Fellowship after Service

Directions to Wesley UMC:

From I95, exit onto Smithfield Ave and go North on Route 126. Follow for approximately 2.5 miles until you get to a 3-way set of stop-lights by the gas station. Turn left onto Woodland St. and follow up the hill. Directly across from the Saylesville Elementary School you will see a stone monument marking the driveway to Wesley. Come on up! See a Map

How Wesley UMC came to be, what we are now, and what we want to be

Wesley Church began it's ministry in Lincoln in the1960's. Three churches (First Methodist, Thomson Methodist, and St. John's E.U.B. from Pawtucket) discerned God's guidance as they joined together and moved to our present location. In the 1970's, Berkley Methodist Church also joined us. Wesley Church serves persons living in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Wesley is a church that is growing! It has a strong Sunday School, an excellent music program, and a relevant, uplifting worship Service. We believe that children are sacred gifts to us and thus we have numerous programs for families. Through our ministry we strive to reach out beyond the walls of our church to server God's people in a variety of ways. We believe that when we unite as the church, we lock arms, hearts, and minds and understand more deeply that we are a people with a mission, a purpose and a task on earth that is greater than ourselves. God has created us and called us to create a society of peace, love, and wholeness.

Through our shared ministry we also strive to reach out to the community by hosting a variety of community based organizations. Messages of personal discipline and responsibility are upheld by our personal lives and our teaching. We strive to be open and tolerant to those who are different from us, recognizing that it is God who has created the wonderful diversity that we find in our world.

We invite those who are looking for a church home to visit us at Wesley and we pray that through our ministry many will find the church home they are seeking.

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