We have a variety of Sunday School classes here at FUMC. We have something for everyone, please come and see what we have to offer.
Hand in Hand
Hand in Hand Sunday School class represents senior adults made up of both couples and singles. Carole Bell an excellent leader teaches our curriculum. We study the Bristol Bible Curriculum. Our class still has an active music program. Hymns are sung in class, led by a talented director and pianist. We actively participate in the many ministries of our church. We donate both money and time to the choir, Wednesday night meals and study, youth projects, "Bible, Blankets, Bears", exercise at the Cross and Flame, Hope and many others when needed. Hand in Hand class also donates regularly to community organizations which includes meals on wheels, Salvation Army, Dress a Live Doll, Rainbow Room and Silver Star. A Christmas party and a yearly picnic is fun for members and guests. We also enjoy the activities planned by the "Senior Saints". Hand in Hand is made up of nice, friendly and generous people and would very much welcome and visitors and new members.
Pastor's Class Age of Members 50+
The Pastor's Class continues a 30 year tradition of meeting together to study the meaning and authority of the Bible for living a Christian life. Dr. Joe Horn is our teacher and the Adult Bible Studies is our guide for study and discussions. We celebrate our time together with refreshments, singing, devotionals, prayer concerns and praises. With faith and love, we support each other as a family. Individually and as a class we are involved in many ministries of the Church. We enjoy our class Christmas Dinner and other Church socials throughout the year.
Open Door
The Open Door class is a diverse group (couples and singles of all ages) of dedicated Christians who believe in the Word of God. Randy Noel, an excellent and inspirational teacher, leads a discussion style class based on the Bristol Bible curriculum. We are located on the second floor in room 208. We participate in the Bears, Blankets, and Bibles project. We give faithfully to the Methodist Children's Home Fund, Dress A Live Doll, Hale County Fish and the Methodist Disaster Fund. We have an annual Christmas party and occasionally make group trips to the Ragtown Theater in Post. We have an ongoing project of making pillows for shut-ins. We are a class that is concerned and supportive. We continue to honor this by sending encouraging cards to church members and others in the community. Come join us for lots of Christian love and learning.
Harmony
We are the Harmony Class of First United Methodist Church in Plainview, Texas. We are and active group of Senior Citizens with the average attendance of about 20 members of couples and singles. We meet in room 200 on the second floor, southwest corner. We have an elevator. We have a good teacher, Judy Wiggins, and she teaches from the Cokesbury literature. We sing from the Cokesbury hymnal and have a talented pianist, Jean Bennett. Our class president is Robert Edwards. We contribute to the youth mission trips, dress a live doll at Christmas, Methodist Children's Home, a scholarship to the Wee Care Child Care Center, Fish and some other requests. You can come early and visit, but the class starts at 9:15 a.m. and goes to about 10:10 a.m. to give us time to be in church by 10:30 on Sunday morning. We would love to have you come and visit us.
Living and Giving
The Living and Giving Class is located on the second floor of the church in room #201. Our teacher is Dr. T.Coe Branch. Our class believes deeply in prayer and frequently do a laying on of hands and prayer for our members who have serious health problems.
Our members range from 35 to 70 years old and all take a very active approach to outreach supporting F.I.S.H., Meals on Wheels, Happy Feet, The Crisis Center, Dress a Live Doll and the Methodist Children’s Home.
We have a yearly Christmas party at one of the members homes and get together at least two more times during the year.
If Living and Giving sounds like a class you would like to visit we would love to see you this Sunday.
Wesley Class
The Wesley Sunday School Classroom is located on the first floor of FUMC on the east end near the end of the hallway. We use the Adult Bibly Study curriculum. Our class consist of members 65 years and up. We have a teacher, Bill LaFont and an assistant, Paul Lyle. We give to various organizations such as F.I.S.H., Salvation Army,
Meals on Wheels, and Dress A Live Doll at Christmas.
We serve at the Family Fellowship Night here at the church for one month out of the year and enjoy a wonderful Christmas Luncheon in December.
If this sounds like a Sunday School Class for you we would love for you to join us any Sunday morning at 9:15 a.m.
Genesis
The Genesis Sunday school class at FUMC Plainview has approximately 55 members ranging in age from 40 to 55. We are a diverse group in many ways.
Diverse in Family structure, some have kids as young a one year old and some have kids that are grown and out of the nest.
Professionally diverse; we have many professions represented, 20 members are involved in education, 9 in agriculture, 4 from banking, 2 accountants, 2 insurance agents, 2 construction and 13 other professions.
Diverse in our style of worship, about half the class attends the contemporary early worship service and about half attend the late worship service that is more traditional.
Diverse in leadership, our teacher is Dr. Charles Starnes, a retired submarine commander and economics professor at WaylandBaptistUniversity. Charles is 60 years old, married to Susie and has four grown children seeking there way in the world. The class president is T. Leslie Gattis a 40 year old local business man married to Lori and has two children ages 2 and 5. Leslie and Lori are life long resident of Plainview both graduating from PlainviewHigh School in 1987. Many members of our class have leadership roles in the church such as Board of Trustees, Board of Stewards, Outreach, PPRC, and you name it somebody in our class is probably on it.
Diverse lessons, currently we are using the book Doing Business by the Good Book by David L. Steward. In the past we used the book Being Methodist in the Bible Belt by F. Belton Joyner, and The 40 days of Purpose by Rick Warren. And the Faith Connection Adult Bible study Guide is always resource for the class.
Diverse activity, we like to get together outside of church too! Every spring we have a shrimp boil party that always provides great entertainment and memories. Every Christmas we load up our families in the church bus and go around town singing Christmas Carols to some of the elderly members of the church, followed up with dinner at a local restaurant. In 2008 we took the church bus and about 20 family members to Lubbock to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra concert. Wow that was some Christmas Music!! And occasionally we like to go out to eat after church. You never know when we might just throw together a party.
The only thing missing from the Genesis class is you!
Koinonia
Koinonia Class is a committed group of both singles and couples with a wide range of ages, ethnic backgrounds, and vocations, who enjoy coming together to study God’s Word, grow our faith, share Christ through outreach, and fellowship with one another.We are located on the second floor in Room 205.Wanda Carter is our teacher and Curtis Bailey is the assistant.
Currently, Wanda is teaching the book of Revelation.Other studies of various topics have included Experiencing God by Henry Blackerby, Adult Bible Lessons by Cokesbury, The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, and The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel.
Koinonia, which is the Greek word for fellowship, faithfully supports FUMC ministries as well as community projects including Faith in Sharing House and Dress a Live Doll.For over seven years, Koinonia has sponsored a child at the New Life Children’s Home in Guatemala.This year, we also helped sponsor a layperson to evangelize in Brazil through his Paint Talk ministry.Through the years, many of our class members have answered the call to teach other Sunday School classes within the church.Several of our members have served in the military; at present, we have one who is serving in Iraq, one whose brother is serving in Afghanistan, and another whose son is in the Coast Guard.
We embrace the power of prayer, and we maintain an ongoing prayer list.We are open to anyone who wants to attend, and we would love to have you visit our class!
Morning Light
At the present time Rodney Bell is the class president, Eldon Gouldy is vice-president, Mary Beth Fox is secretary and Barbara Bell is in charge of church meals for class members.)
The members of our class take turns teaching the lesson each Sunday. Most of the men teach at some time during the year and occasionally one of the women does likewise. The couple responsible for the lesson brings a light breakfast, which no one wants to give up for sure!!!!!!!!!! We enjoy breaking bread together and visiting before the lesson. This has been a tradition for MANY years for this class. We use the Bristol Bible Curriculum Bible Study for our weekly lessons. These lessons are easier for us to follow when we are having several couples out or away from town, then they can easily pick up and review or at least know what will be happening on the next Sunday when they return. Occasionally we watch a film series that correlates with our lessons or the season of the year.
We have enjoyable get togethers during the holidays. We have a progressive supper during the Christmas season and have a sunrise breakfast and lesson at the Wilder's house on Easter. We do try to get together during the summer and fall season. We have enjoyed going to Palo Duro and Lubbock for a special supper and program from year to year.
We help serve the Wednesday night meals during the school year and try to support the youth programs, lunches, cookouts, etc.
Morning Light Class is made mostly of middle-aged couples (50-65). We have a total of 28 enrolled members. Several of our members are business owners or employees in the community and involved in many community activities in various ways. Some of the men are: farmers, local business men, financial advisors, members of the Chamber of Commerce or related boards of service. A lot of the members are grandparents, which results in a varied Sunday to Sunday attendance due to visits or travel. Many of the women and a few of the men are teachers for the public or private school systems of Plainview.
We are faithful donors for the Dress-A-Live programas well as the FISH or Faith and Sharing programs. We are more inclined to work with local needs as they arise within the community.
We would be very happy of have anyone come visit and join our class. We will hopefully make you feel welcome to any and all of our activities throughout the year.