1020 S 10th Ave, Safford, AZ 85546, US
From the Pastor
December 2025
Join us this year for
"A Family Christmas"
Christmas Eve Service 4:00 PM
From Pastor's Desk -
A flourishing faith is one that is both deeply rooted and reaching outward—grounded in scripture and growing in understanding. Colossians 2:6–7 says, “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness” (NIV).
In this season we will dwell in the theme of grounded and growing, starting in Advent when we see the shoot from the stump, a promise of future flourishing. Jeremiah 17:7–8 says, “But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit” (NIV).
We invite you to join us this Advent season to send out your roots and flourish: join us for a season of "grounded and growing.
About the Advent and Christmas Series
In Advent, we start with the promise of a shoot in Isaiah and arrive on Christmas with the gift of the long-awaited seed. For out of darkness a light shines. From a dead stump a shoot grows.
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Lesli
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
1020 S. 10th Avenue
Safford, AZ 85546
(928) 424-1190
