Rev. Cynthia coordinates our ministries of Congregational Care at First Church. If you have a concern, know of someone who needs support, needs additional information about the ministries below, or would like to volunteer in our ongoing efforts to be a caring congregation, please contact Rev. Cynthia.
The pastoral staff is available to pray with you before your surgery and visit you while you are in the hospital. Please call the church office (970-482-2436) to let the pastors know.
FUMC has a team of lay volunteers who visit the ill, elderly, shut-ins, and infirm from our church and community. If you would like to be a volunteer visitor, would like a visitor, or know of someone who could use a visitor, please contact Charlotte Allum ().
Volunteers follow up by phone with people who have just returned home from the hospital, rehab centers, those who are ill, lost a loved one, and the older people in the church. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Rev. Cynthia Paquette.
We believe in the power of prayer and trust that God works through our prayers, thoughts, and concern for others to make a difference in their lives and in the world around us. To join the team or to submit prayer requests, please contact Margaret Hotze ().
Volunteers knit shawls that provide a tangible form of the embracing and comforting presence of the church as the body of Christ to people who are dealing with health or other issues. Monthly Knit-Ins are held in the church parlor on the third Saturday morning of each month, from 9:30–11:30 a.m. Please come if you would like to join the team or contact Elva Alden () or Glenda Gill ().
This network of caring church volunteers offers short-term physical assistance to people who are in need until a more permanent solution can be arranged. This group provides a wide range of services ranging from some help with yard cleanup to a ride to the doctor’s office. Please contact Karen Waldron () if you would like to volunteer or could use some help.
Volunteers split up flowers from Sunday worship service and deliver them to people in hospitals, rehabs, ill, lost a loved one, and the elderly. Please consider donating flowers for Sunday worship services. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Susan Block ().
Volunteers make and send cards to people in the church who could benefit from receiving a card. If you would like to make or send cards, please contact Sallie Youngman () or Glenda Gill ().
Volunteers send booklets on how to cope with grief during the first year of the loss of a loved one. These books are from the Stephen Ministries organization. If you would like to help send these books or know of someone who would benefit from receiving the books, please contact Glenda Gill ().
The Grief Support Group meets weekly on Tuesdays at 4-5 p.m. in the church Conference Room to offer fellowship, support, and encouragement to those who have experienced the death of a loved one. It does not matter where you are in your grief process, just come. Join the group for dinner after the group meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. For more information on the group, please contact JoAn Hopkins ().
OK Chorale is an informal singing support group for people with memory diagnoses or concerns and their friends. The group, led by Sandra Meyer, sings a variety of familiar and varying favorites and occasionally performs for others. Singing sessions are on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays from 3–4 p.m. Please contact Sandra Meyer () if you are interested in joining.
Other support groups will also available at certain times of the year. Please check our electronic weekly newsletter, First Wire, for updates.
A team of volunteers drives the church van to bring people who do not have their own transportation to church on Sunday mornings for the 9:30 a.m. worship service. Commitment time is only a half-hour before and after service once per month. If you would like to drive or assist in the van or would like a ride to church on Sunday mornings, please contact Randie Bell ().
Volunteers make CDs of the recorded Sunday worship services to send to shut-ins so they can listen to the worship services at home. If you would like to volunteer or could benefit from receiving the CDs, please contact Karen Waldron ().
the use of Fort Collins First United Methodist Church members and those actively involved in the ministry of First United Methodist Church who may or may not have been members.