Messages 2024 + 2025

2025

We have worship services every Sunday morning at 8:00 am, and 10:20 am with Sunday School at 9:00 am. Click here for more information about our worship services. We are conveniently located at 407 E. Spring Street in Downtown Boonville, Missouri, just off Main Street. Parking is available on the streets around the church and in the bank parking lots across Spring Street.

LIVE Messages (Virtual Worship) are located on our church’s Facebook page (click here) as a link to our YouTube channel, Nelson Memorial UM, for our weekly live “Virtual Worship” at 10:25am – or click on these links to go straight to our YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@NelsonMemorialUMC/streams (click here for LIVE)  as well as past services, https://www.youtube.com/@NelsonMemorialUMC (click here for PAST services).

2024

“On The Way To Bethlehem” Advent Message Series: December 1 – 29

December 1: “Rome – A Place of Longing”

December 8: “Jerusalem – A Place of Waiting”

December 15: “Nazareth – A Place of Simplicity”

December 22: “Bethlehem – A Place of Humility”

December 29: Persia – “A Place of Return”

“There’s No Place Like Home” Message Series: November 10 – 24

November 10: “Leaving Home”

November 17: “Longing For Home”

November 24: “Returning Home”

All Saints Day: “Setting Out” November 3

November 3: All Saints Day “Setting Out”

“Promised: God’s Vision For More” Guest Speaker: Rob Gordon – October 27

October 27: “Promised: God’s Vision For More”

“Do Unto Others” – October 20

October 20: Do Unto Others

“Seeking Unity Amid Division” – October 13

October 13: “Seeking Unity Amid Division”

“Facing Our Giants” Message Series: September 8 – October 16

September 8: “They’re Huge!”

September 15: “Self-Doubt”

September 22: “Anger”

September 29: “Apathy”

October 6: “Limitations”

“Upside Down: A Look At The Beatitudes” Message Series: July 7 – August 25

July 7: “Blessed Are: The Poor In Spirit”

July 14: “Blessed Are: They Who Mourn”

July 21: “Blessed Are: The Meek”

July 28: “Blessed Are: They Who Hunger and Thirst For Righteousness”

August 4: “Blessed Are: The Merciful”

August 11: “Blessed Are: The Pure In Heart”

August 18: “Blessed Are: The Peacemakers”

August 25: “Blessed Are: Those Persecuted Because of Righteousness”

“Reaching Out To God” – June 30

June 30: “Reaching Out To God”

“There’s Work To Be Done” – June 23

June 23: “There’s Work To Be Done”

“As Christ Loved the Church” – June 16, Father’s Day

June 16: “As Christ Loved the Church”

“Minor Prophet, Major Impact” Message Series: May 12 – June 9

May 12

May 19: “Joel”

May 26: “Amos”

June 2: “Habakkuk”

June 9: “Micah: The Heart of God” Guest Speaker – Sara Snyder

“Moving Forward With Hope” Message Series: April 7 – May 5

April 7: “A Wide Embrace”

April 14: “Biblically Literate”

April 21: “Always Growing”

April 28: “Always Serving”

May 5: “Even Them?”

Easter Sunday, March 31

March 31: “Come, See, Go, Tell”

“Resilience: Forging A Stronger Faith” Message Series: February 18 – March 24

February 18: “What Will I Become?”

March 3: “Feeling the Heat”

March 10: “Thick, Heavy Relationships”

March 17: “In Times Of Trouble”

March 24: Cooling Off”

“Cringe” Message Series: January 14 – February 11

January 14: “You Can’t Handle The Truth”

January 21: “You Must Hate Your Family”

January 28: “Who Is My Family?”

February 4: “You Must Eat My Flesh”

February 11: “You Must Sell Everything And Give To The Poor”

January 7, Guest Speaker: Rev. Dan Faust

January 7: “Overwhelmed,” Rev. Dan Faust