Christmas Concert and Worship Services

Dickson First United Methodist Church
Christmas Concert and Worship Services

 

December 11th 6pm – Christian Life Center
Christmas Concert featuring all music ensembles and choirs

December 24th Christmas Eve Worship – Sanctuary
5:30 pm Children and Family Candlelight Communion Service
11:00 pm Candlelight and Communion Service – Led by Cumberland Furnace/Cedar Grove and Dickson First UMCs

December 25th Christmas Day Worship – Christian Life Center
10 am Christmas Worship – Led by Bowman Chapel/Stone Chapel and Dickson First UMCs

Dickson First United Methodist Church is located at 215 North Main Street. All are welcome to worship with us!

Youth Ministry Position

Want to make a difference in the lives of high school youth? Looking for some part-time work that makes a full-time difference?

Join our Christ-centered team as we help young people know, trust, love and serve God. In this teaching position, you will work with high school leaders and students for 5-8 hrs/week on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. Salary is negotiable. Our First UMC family strives to do more than merely get youth into heaven; we strive to get heaven on earth, both in our youth and thru them to others. For more info, email us your resume, or any questions you have, to: dicksonfirstumcstaff@gmail.com or call 615-446-2917.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: This is a teaching position, working with a team dedicated to positively impacting the lives of youth through leadership in ministry and fellowship. An ideal candidate will be a mature and motivated individual that works well with a team. The position will require 5 – 8 hours per week on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings leading lessons and/or activities.

Gordon Mote Concert, Sunday, March 16th

Join us on Sunday, March 13th at 6:00pm in the sanctuary of Dickson First United Methodist Church to hear Gordon Mote! This concert is free and open to the public. A love offering will be taken.
Though blind since birth, it seems the Lord blessed Gordon with profound musical talent in lieu of vision. When he was just three, Gordon amazed his family on Thanksgiving by sitting down at the piano and playing “Jesus Loves Me” with both hands. “I was just passionate about music,” states the Atalla, Alabama native. “My music is so eclectic today because I listened to every album I could find. As kids, my brother (who is also blind) and I traveled and sang in churches of all sizes and denominations.”
As a young man, Gordon became one of the first blind students in the country to be mainstreamed into the public-school system and later received a full scholarship to Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. After three years at JSU, he transferred to Nashville’s Belmont University and graduated with honors. Two days after graduation, Country music legend Lee Greenwood asked Mote to join his band.
Greenwood became the first of many popular entertainers with whom Gordon has shared the stage over the past three decades, including Trisha Yearwood, Tanya Tucker, Porter Wagoner, Bill Gaither & the Gaither Vocal Band, and most recently, popular Southern Gospel quartet, Canton Junction.
In addition to touring with these legendary musicians, Gordon has enjoyed an illustrious solo career. His eleven albums have blended Country, pop, and Gospel influences to earn multiple Dove and Grammy nominations. His latest recording, Love Love Love, garnered Mote a second Grammy nomination for Best Roots Gospel Album. [His first Grammy nod was for Hymns and Songs of Inspiration.]
For any other aspiring musician, these blessings would be more than enough. But the Lord opened even more windows for Gordon to become one of Nashville’s most sought-after studio musicians. His big break came when fellow keyboardist Hargus “Pig” Robbins (who also happens to be blind) asked Mote to fill in for him on a session for Country superstar Alan Jackson. That recording session yielded Jackson’s iconic 9/11 tribute song, “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?” Mote’s keyboard genius has since graced recordings by Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Martina McBride, Bob Seger, Rascal Flatts, Sheryl Crow, Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie, Josh Turner, Darius Rucker and Alison Krauss, just to name a few.
Gordon has received multiple awards from Music Row Magazine, as well as the Academy of Country Music, who has named him Piano/Keyboard Player of the Year two times. ACM has nominated him again this year for the 17th time.
Balancing a busy music career with family time can be quite taxing but Gordon credits his wife Kimberly–as well as their three children, Samantha, Parker, and Ashton — for keeping the balance there. “I am so blessed,” Gordon beams. “Kimberly is Super-Woman, and I can’t thank God enough for the blessings He has given to me both personally and professionally.”
It might be tempting for this blind boy from Alabama to claim credit for the good things in his life, but Mote realizes that all he has is heaven-sent. As such, he takes every opportunity he can to point his listeners toward the source of his blessings: a loving Father in heaven who closes doors and opens windows for His glory and our good.

Candlelight Christmas Eve Service

Sarah Reeves Concert – More the Merrier

Certain to become a staple of countless Christmas and Holiday music collections for many years to come, More The Merrier, the 8-song holiday EP from pop artist and songwriter Sarah Reeves will fit perfectly alongside Bing and Nat and the Vince Guaraldi Trio. Featuring originals such as “More The Merrier” and “Sentimental,” plus fresh takes on classics including “Winter Wonderland (feat. Clark Beckham)” and “Go Tell It On The Mountain,” listeners are sure to experience all of the sounds and feelings the holidays have to offer or remind us of, from the lighthearted, jazzy fireside moments to the sacred. More The Merrier was produced and arranged by Ben Schofield and Mark Campbell.
Sarah signed her first record deal at age 18. For more than a decade, in addition to pursuing her own artistry, she has dedicated a vast portion of her career to writing songs for other artists and TV and film. Her music has appeared in Disney Plus and National Geographic’s six-part original series “Welcome To Earth,” starring Will Smith; Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon international trailer; promos for “American Idol” and UFC; and on television series across major networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and Netflix, among others.
About More The Merrier, Reeves shares, “More the Merrier is quite possibly my favorite project of my career thus far. It is a timeless collection of Christmas songs both new and old that I hope you enjoy listening to as much as we enjoyed making it. I tapped into a side of my artistry that I’ve never known before, yet it felt natural and effortless. The energy in the studio was electric as we brought jazz musicians in to bring these songs to life. I hope you feel the magic, the joy, a touch of nostalgia and warmth this holiday season as you fill your home with these Christmas carols.”
Reeves has also been featured on tracks by high-profile DJs, including Gattüso, Laidback Luke, Justice Skolnik, R3HAB, and Armin Van Buuren. Having amassed more than 53.3 million career on-demand streams, the Curb | Word Entertainment artist has garnered 24.6 million Pandora lifetime streams and over 37.5 million YouTube views to date.
This concert will be held in the Christian Life Center at Dickson First United Methodist Church on Saturday, December 4th at 7:00pm. The concert is free to attend, but a love offering will be collected.

DFUMC Concert Series – Diane Earle

Dickson First UMC, 215 N. Main Street, Dickson, TN will present the first concert in a new concert series on Sunday, August 15th at 4pm. Dr. Diane Earle will present a piano concert and Chris Greene will be joining her to sing a couple of songs as well. The concert will feature wonderful piano arrangements of hymns, spirituals, sacred songs and classical pieces.

 

Dr. Earle is a renowned concert pianist who has toured and performed all of the world. Her biography and photo are listed below. There is no cost to attend the concert, but we will take up a love offering.

 

We hope you will make plans now to attend this great concert. For more information, please contact the church office at 615-446-2917.

 

 ABOUT DIANE EARLE

 

     Dr. Diane Earle has performed in sixteen countries, including three extensive China tours. She has also enjoyed many Europe concert tours, including multiple performances in Italy, Czech Republic, Great Britain, and others.  A newspaper in Wuxi, China, wrote:  “When the beautiful music notes cascaded from her fingertips, all the people in the audience were mesmerized.”

 

On the national level, Diane has performed in 34 states.  Highlights include Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Hawaii University International Conference in Arts and Humanities, Straz Center (FL), Sioux City Chamber Music Association (IA), The Juilliard School (NYC), Kaufman Center (NYC), The Mansion at Strathmore (Washington, D.C.), Canton Cultural Center (OH), Kazanetti Quartet (GA), Asheville Symphony Guild (NC), Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society (IN), and many others.  She has enjoyed performing recitals on Royal Caribbean and Celebrity cruise ships. Earle also partners with violinist Alfred Abel of Indianapolis in chamber music recitals, and has upcoming performances planned in 2022 including Israel, Carnegie Hall, and others.

 

On the local/regional scene, Dr. Earle is Professor Emeritus of Music at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Music Director at Settle Memorial United Methodist Church, and principal pianist for the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra. As a Kentucky Arts Council Performing Arts on Tour Directory Artist, Diane was honored as Featured Artist in May and June of 2016, and KET produced a YouTube segment about her.  She was selected as Grand Marshal of the 2014 Owensboro Christmas Parade. Diane is featured on several CDs and DVDs, and plays approximately 200 local/regional performances each year.

 

Diane received a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance, magna cum laude, from University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Piano Performance and Literature were from The Ohio State University. She did additional doctoral and post-doctoral study at Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, Music Academy of the West, Blossom Festival School, and New York City.

Service Time Update

Congregation Update

On May 2, we will begin having two Sunday Morning Worship services. At 9 a.m., the first service will be in the Sanctuary. At 11 a.m., the second service will be in the CLC.

As always, these will also be live-streamed online if you are unable to physically attend. To view our church’s YouTube channel and prepare for the upcoming live stream, please click here.

Holy Week Service Schedule

Maundy Thursday: Walk-thru Open Communion, available 5:00-7:00
Virtual Good Friday Service (on YouTube) – April 2nd @ Noon & 6:00pm
Easter Sunrise Service (in-person) – April 4th @ 6:30am*
Easter Worship Service (in-person) – April 4th @ 10:00am*

For those not attending in person, Easter Worship Service will be live-streamed on YouTube @ 8:45am and posted shortly after that for later viewing.

*Easter Sunrise Service and Easter Worship Service will be held in the church parking lot so be sure to bring your lawn chairs. In case of inclement weather, services will be moved to the CLC.

New Church Service Time!

Congregation Update

We have re-opened our doors for in-person worship! We have a new single service time of

9:15 a.m.

which will also be live-streamed online if you are unable to physically attend. To view our church’s YouTube channel and prepare for the upcoming live stream, please click here.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we continue to navigate this time together.

A Pastoral Letter to United Methodists of the Southeastern Jurisdiction

A Pastoral Letter to United Methodists of the Southeastern Jurisdiction

Click here to read a letter from our Jurisdictional Bishops in response to recent events regarding race relations in our nation and church.