from Our Pastor

Friday, May 29, 2020 The dear folk who are the Poca United Methodist Church have blessed your pastor’s heart by your faithfulness in this time of the coronavirus pandemic.  You have shown your love and care for

Saturday, May 23, 2020 Have you ever thought about the message Lloyd C. Douglas put in his first book, “One Increasing Purpose”?  He suggests that the happiness for which many are desperately seeking might come to them if they would forget themselves and begin seeking the happiness of others. That...

Friday, May 22, 2020 Do you ever feel you are walking a lonely, difficult path?  The Afro American Spiritual says, “Nobody knows the trouble I see, nobody knows but Jesus, sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down,

Thursday, May 21, 2020 Yesterday’s “Gazette-Mail” had a front page story about Governor Justice calling for caution in dealing with the coronavirus.  The headline was: “Be cautious or virus will ‘bite’ us.”  As stated earlier.

Tuesday May 19, 2020 A message for the time of the coronavirus pandemic: “For he sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.  And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in...

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 A message for the time of the coronavirus pandemic: “For he sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.  And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in...

Saturday, May 16, 2020 The Word of God for the people of God: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written:  “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We...

Friday and Saturday, May 8-9, 2020 It is going to be a while before we can be together in the Sanctuary for Sunday Worship, so we hope you can join us for the brief service each Sunday at 11:00 A.M. at pocaumc.com.

Friday, May 1 Last Fall a new Sunday School Class was started here at Poca UMC for older adults.  Maycle Mason was pressed into service as the teacher.  Maycle had to miss several Sundays because of chronic health problems.  She asked Karen Lacy, a member of the class, to sub...

April 28, 2020 Because of the coronavirus pandemic, I have had time to do things which I have for too long put off.  So, I have been too busy to feel stir crazy or bored.