Fern Prairie WA United Methodist Church

06/27/2021

Sorry, no video today due to no internet signal!

06/27/2021

https://davidking.blog/2021/06/27/striving-for-healing-and-wholeness/

June 27th, 2021 Scripture Readings: 2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27; Psalm 130; 2 Corinthians 8:7-15; Mark 5:21-43 This is my last sermon given at Fern Prairie UMC. I will continue to share my writings at This…

06/20/2021

https://davidking.blog/2021/06/20/next-steps/

Faith vs. Fear. June 20, 2021 Scripture Readings: 1 Samuel 17:(1a, 4-11, 19-23), 32-49; Psalm 9:9-20; 2 Corinthians 6:1-13; Mark 4:35-41 Our son graduated from High School this week, after a most p…

06/13/2021

June 13th, 2021. Scripture Readings: 1 Samuel 15:34–16:13; Psalm 20; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, (11-13), 14-17; Mark 4:26-34

05/30/2021

If you have ever visited another church, you are more likely to notice the differences than the similarities, to varying degrees. Although we may say we worship the same God, we do some things differently. Sometimes this is a good thing, sometimes not. It’s good to learn different views and get ne...

05/16/2021

Luke tells us that while the disciples were watching, Jesus was carried up into Heaven. We can all probably visualize this taking place; perhaps even share that sense of longing those present probably felt as Jesus disappeared into a cloud. Perhaps we too feel anxious for His return, as most believe...

05/09/2021

Recently, I have been driving a little boy to and from school that I met just recently. His mom is always there when I pick him up and is always waiting when I take him home. They obviously are very close, but he has issues, or he wouldn’t be on my bus, he’d be on the big bus. I have heard he ca...

04/25/2021

Not far from our home in Troutdale is a small tavern, just as you come into town. Nothing fancy, but it is a cozy place to meet friends, and the food is usually good. Like many neighborhood saloons, it is cramped inside and certainly suffered greatly under Covid restrictions. Even before the pandemi...

04/18/2021

As we all know, one of the best ways to get folks to show up at church is to have food available. We all love a good potluck, and anything advertised as being “catered” is sure to get a good response. Jesus must have known this for He practiced it frequently; in fact, we share a meal named after...

04/11/2021

02/21/2021

Oops, sorry no video for today, kept cutting out when it started and didn't reconnect, even though it looked like it from where I was. Guess that's one of the problems of being a one man show!

02/20/2021

The story of Noah and the Ark is one most of us learned as kids, a story told on felt boards and in coloring books and performed on toy arks with plastic animals and people. At the time, we may not have understood the need for the rainbow, it was just a happy ending to the story as we knew it. Even....