EVENTS

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Current & Coming Events

Sermon Series
Stories for Adults (and kids!)

Sundays 9:15am, Youtube and Facebook

CONNECTION UMC'S

FALL FESTIVAL - SAVE THE DATE - SAT., OCTOBER 19, 2024

MORE INFO TO FOLLOW

SCROLL DOWN TO SEE PICTURES FROM 2023'S FALL FESTIVAL

    

----------SMALL GROUPS----------

Come for a walk with Pastor Darren along the YMCA Greenway. 

He will meet you there at  9am on Tuesdays.


 

SUNDAY SCHOOL HOUR

There is fellowship time in the lobby, immediatley following the worship service .

 

The Builder/Sharers Adult Sunday school class meets after worship, starting around 10:30am. 

 

The Brunch bunch meets in the front of the sanctuary then determines where to go for Brunch.  The Brunch Bunch invites everyone to brunch.  Children invited too!

 


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Previous Events

 

----SUMMER TIME FUN - FAMILY POOL FUN, BUILDER/SHARERS LUNCH----

----HEALING ARTS PROJECT INC. (HAPI) PARKING LOT PARTY----

 

 

----SING-ALONG MOVIE / GAME NIGHT----

Connection UMC at Pride Weekend

Connection UMC hosted a booth at Nashville Pride, June 22 & 23, alongside other UMC in our area that are affirming congregations.

Throughout the festival Clergy and laity served Holy Communion to ALL who wish to receive it.

The UMC booths were located next to the Kids & Family area.

APRIL AND MAY 2024

Get inspired to live out the Easter Story by learning how organizations in middle TN are sharing hope with our community.


From Pastor Darren Wright:
I am beyond excited for our sermon series at Connection UMC.
Sometimes Easter and resurrection can feel abstract and hard to really understand. Some of the ways Easter and resurrection are most real and tangible is in loving, serving, and being in relationship with our communities and our neighbors in ways that empower, discover gifts, and work together to meet needs. Each week during our sermon we will welcome a different organization from middle TN to share stories of hope from the relationships they have made, and are making, in our communities.


Apr. 07, 2024, Sunday

Community Resource Center

Tina Doniger

     

To view Community

Resource Center website

CLICK HERE


Apr. 14, 2024, Sunday

HIP Donelson

Daryl Woods

      

     

To view HIP Donelson

website

CLICK HERE


Apr. 21, 2024, Sunday

Trinity Community Commons

Zach Lykins

      

To view Trinity Community Commons website

CLICK HERE


Apr. 28, 2024, Sunday

Healing Arts Project Inc.

Lynece Benton-Stewart

To view Healing Arts Project Inc. website

CLICK HERE


May 5, 2024, Sunday

Volunteer Network

Regina Girten

To view Volunteer Network website

CLICK HERE


May 12, 2024 Sunday

Nashville in Harmony

Reece Holland (Membership Secr.)

Steve Wolf (President)

To view Nashville In Harmony's website

CLICK HERE


May 19, 2024 Sunday

MASHUP

Jerry Ivery & Brian Marshall

To view MASHUP's website

CLICK HERE


May 26, 2024 Sunday

Launch Pad

H.G. Stovall

To view Lauch Pad's website

CLICK HERE


May 26, 2024 Sunday

Hickman Elem. School

Carole Scates

To view Hickman Elem.'s website

CLICK HERE



To learn about any of these Stories of Hope, shared at Connection UMC:

on Facebook CLICK HERE

on YouTube CLICK HERE

Mother's Day & Sunday Pictures

Our front wide-open door greeters.  Our choir singing for the day.  Darren preaching to the children from a kayak.  Our children distributing flowers.  New members.

Hickman Elementary - Staff & Teacher Appreciation - Salad & Potatoes luncheon

Celebrations of UMC General Conference Changes

From Pastor Darren:  I am thankful for generations of folks who have worked for decades for the day when the UMC would remove the walls it built around the expansive and affirming love of Christ.
God, we give you thanks and praise!

Salad Bowl Luncheon

Holy Week, Easter Egg Hunt & Easter Sunday

 

Palm Sunday


Maundy Thursday


Good Friday


Easter Egg Hunt


EASTER SUNDAY

Sunrise Service


Easter Worship Service

Lent

 

 

Christmas Eve Morning Service

Hymn Sing & "Ugly" Sweaters

 

 

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

with Children's Nativity



From Pastor Darren

Love makes room


Launch Pad's Christmas Tree

The "ornaments" on the tree had Launch Pad's guest needs and needs for the shelter.  Thank you for your loving response to these needs. 


 

Youth Christmas Progressive Dinner

Metro Housing Navigation Center

Launch Pad / CCF

We are excited to celebrate the ribbon cutting of Nashville Launch Pad’s new transitional housing facility

at Connection UMC in partnership with Community Cares Fellowship!

Thanks to the compassion, hard work, advocacy, and generosity of a ton of people, combined with the people of Connection UMC’s commitment to being a welcoming, inclusive, congregation that exists for the community and models God’s radical love, 15 young adults will have a warm and safe place to sleep and call home.    Pastor Darren

 

Community Thanksgiving Food Assistance

Sat., 11/18, Connection UMC joined with 13 other groups to aid 120 families in need of food assistance for Thanksgiving. Thanks be to God.  Thank you to ALL that worked to make this day happen.

Donelson Heights UMC/WEB Tutorial, Donelson Church of the Nazarene, Donelson Presbyterian Church, Holy Rosary Catholic Church, St. Stephen's Catholic Community, Donelson Christian Academy (DCA), Donelson Lions Club, L'Evate M3, Pennington Fellowship Church, St. John's Lutheran Church,

St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, 

Victory Seventh Day Adventist Church

 

 

Fall Festival

 

Connection Construction Crew
Mobile Housing Navigation Center / Launch Pad / CCF

Our Connection UMC family at the construction party! 
22+ volunteers worked to move this project forward.

Hickman Elementary - The Couch Potato

Pastor Darren Mayberry Wright

This is Pastor Darren at Hickman Elementary's Family Night. Pastor Darren was one of the stations set up around the school. The children would make their way around the school and stop at his station if they wanted to have a story time. He read the book The Couch Potato to all the children that visited his station. Check out his potato costume. Thank you, Pastor Darren, for being IN our community!

 

CPR Red Cross Class

 

Connect and Serve Luncheon