Dear Members and Friends of The PORT,

Here's a link to the April newsletter: https://paumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PORTLIGHTApril2020.pdf We also have a few weeks left in the Youth Spring Plant Fundraiser (orders due April 19), so here's a link to that: https://paumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-Spring-Plant-Order-Form.pdf . Now's the perfect time to plan your summer flower & vegetable gardens, or to dream about a patio plant or two. Please support our youth group by ordering your plants via this fundraiser. You may mail your order form with payment to the church office, but please do so soon to allow plenty of time for it to arrive by the deadline. The order form and newsletter are also attached if you prefer to access them that way.

We have a new YouTube account! Please "subscribe" to it so that you won't miss any new content to come, including online worship services on Sunday mornings, starting this Sunday. Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8VTgOhg7PNDgwjLArbXn1A . Our Bishop has asked that all United Methodist Churches in Minnesota suspend in-person worship through at least May 10, so we will continue to review the advice of denominational leaders, national and local leaders, along with the CDC, in determining when we return to in-person worship. Until then, please watch your email and our YouTube channel & Facebook for ways to connect.

If you'd like to look back on previous newsletters on the website, you'll find them here: https://paumc.org/portlight/. And if you've missed a recent sermon, you may listen to it here: https://paumc.org/sermons-2/

We're all missing in-person contact with our friends. Yet we still have a wonderful opportunity to remain connected, so make telephone calls, send notes through the mail, and use email or any of the other electronic outlets or social media platforms available. We will get through this together.

With my care, Pastor Carol