Praise God! Holy Covenant is FINALLY opening up for in-person worship! In our wildest dreams we would not have imagined no congregational worship for a year in our church building! But that was reality and it is OVER!   We wanted to report to all of you that Sunday was great, outstanding, wonderful to worship at last as a gathered family!   As you feel safe, please join us for 8:30 outside worship in the back (bring your own chairs and beverage) or 10:30 in the sanctuary.  We will continue to live stream the 10:30 AM worship and the evening Holy Week services (next Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:00 PM).   We are requesting that everyone wears a mask and is as distant as is appropriate. We also have air purifiers that are cleaning the air in the sanctuary keeping it as safe as possible.   Join us for after worship fun this Sunday! … Read More

At last, after 53 weeks we are meeting to Praise God as the Body of Christ at Holy Covenant this Sunday!!!!Join us for worship in three ways beginning Sunday, March 21:8:30 AM Outside in our back area – bring your chairs, blankets, coffee –bulletin will be emailed out at 8:00 AM10:30 AM Livestreaming & In-person – you are invited to join us in the sanctuary with masks and safe distancing Holy Week WorshipPalm Sunday – March 288:30 AM outside in our back area -bring your chairs, blankets, coffee – bulletin will be emailed out at 8:00 AM10:30 AM Live Streaming & In person – you are invited to join us in the sanctuary with masks and safely distancing11:30 AM Families gather for picnic (bring your own)12 noon Holy Week Celebration for HCUMC family – stations for children to visit1:00  Drive thru Pantry for our neighbors Maundy Thursday – April 17:00 PM Live … Read More

A year ago today we began our pandemic shut-down. The reality began for me at a lunch with my District Superintendent, Todd Harris and the Grayson County clergy at Huck’s (a fried catfish favorite restaurant in Denison). They were talking about the Dallas area churches having worship this one last week and then shutting down. I was shocked! Then phones were beeping with the NBA cancelling games, golfers walking off the Players tournament, and…you know the rest.   A year that required faithful resilience, patience, courage and changed all of us in many ways. After a year, Holy Covenant is planning on opening up for in-person worship on Sunday, March 21. And perhaps, you will be so filled with joy to return to see friends and worship together that you won’t notice there will be a new preacher welcoming you back and a new music director inviting you to “sing.” We will not be able to return to everything, … Read More

St. Francis de Sales once said, “Have patience with all things but first of all with yourself.” Good words of wisdom for our Lenten journey.    We need to be patient and loving to ourselves. We also need to remain in the season of “doing no harm.” For that reason, when you are on the Holy Covenant property we will continue to be requiring masks, distancing between one another and hand washing hygiene. The leadership will continue to follow the suggestions of the CDC and leading doctors and scientists. We will be posting signs and encouraging people to continue to be patience. We are so close to being safe again, to arriving on the dawn of this liminal season.   We are working towards offering three ways to worship with the HCUMC congregation beginning Sunday, March 21: 8:30 am Outside in-person10:30 am Livestreaming10:30 am In-person, with masks, distance & an air purifier installed in … Read More

  We hope you are joining us for online worship on Facebook Live. We will be on Facebook again this Sunday at 10:30 am. If you have missed any of the services, or do not use Facebook, you may also find them on our website hcumc.org.       Outside Sunday Worship – Returning!   OUTSIDE WORSHIP – Will return Sunday, March 21st at 8:30 am, weather permitting!     Sunday, February 28 Second Sunday in Lent Sermon: You Are Beloved!     Prayers of the People   Please keep the following people in your prayers this week: The Lathrop and Roberts family; the Mincieli family; Rhonda King; Andy Edwards; Helen Mayo; Mary Harrison; Tyler Ackerman; Jojo Sain; Mike and Susan Bragg; our friends at Atria Carrollton; and those impacted by the winter storm.         Highlights This Week Music Ministry Check-In Thursday, February 25 7 pm on … Read More

Wow! What a week! Hope you are well, safe and warm as you receive this email.   No one could imagine the week we have had. If you were lucky enough to keep power and water this week – you did well! Many struggled and are still struggling! What a way to begin Lent! Lent is a season of wilderness walking – but really after the year we have had, who needed any more time in the wilderness with wild beasts? This Sunday we will begin our Lenten worship services. They will be reflecting on things in our lives that pull as away from a God that want to be in our lives. Through our prayers, our scriptures, our songs, our witness we will feel the presences of our Living God with us! Even in the messiness of our daily struggles. Hope you will tune to join Holy Covenant’s livestreaming worship on Sunday morning at … Read More

  We hope you are joining us for online worship on Facebook Live. We will be on Facebook again this Sunday at 10:30 am. If you have missed any of the services, or do not use Facebook, you may also find them on our website hcumc.org.       Outside Sunday Worship – Suspended   OUTSIDE WORSHIP – Will be suspended until weather warms up. Sunday, February 14 Transfiguration Sunday Scripture: Psalm 103:1-5 & 1 John 4:11-15     Prayers of the People   Please keep the following people in your prayers this week: The Lathrop and Roberts family; Kristen, Sean and Harris Murphy; Andy Edwards; Helen Mayo; Mary Harrison; Tyler Ackerman; Jojo Sain; Mike and Susan Bragg; our friends at Atria Carrollton; and those who have lost employment.   Attention Parents! We have a gift for your child! Heather Hinton has created a Lenten craft for every Sunday. They … Read More

  Greetings from Holy Covenant! Thank you for Zooming into our Churchwide meeting on Sunday. I am grateful to the leadership for their reports. 2020 was a challenging year, however we finished it distant but well. We are grateful for the faithful work of the committees and the excellent leadership we have in place for 2021. A year that will invite us out into a new dawn.   As I have walked through the church building this week – it feels as if we are coming back to life! The preschool is at capacity welcoming 25 students into our Covenant Center daily. There are painters and workers fixing needed repairs on our buildings. And the staff and Food Pantry are busy serving both our congregation and our neighbors.    Today, like many of you in the past or future weeks, Jeff and I received the first of our shots. Such a sign of hope! We are planning to … Read More

  We hope you are joining us for online worship on Facebook Live. We will be on Facebook again this Sunday at 10:30 am. If you have missed any of the services, or do not use Facebook, you may also find them on our website hcumc.org.        Outside Sunday Worship – Suspended     OUTSIDE WORSHIP – Will be suspended until weather warms up.     Sunday, January 31 Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany Scripture: Mark 1:21-34     Prayers of the People   Please keep the following people in your prayers this week: The Ponce family; the McAnally family; the Boren family; Randy Richter; Kristen, Sean and Harris Murphy; Andy Edwards; Max and Nicole Thomas; Paul and Shelley Fincke; Kent Prindle; Mary Harrison; Tyler Ackerman; Jojo Sain; our friends at Atria Carrollton; and those who have lost employment.   Churchwide Meeting This Sunday   Churchwide Meeting Sunday, January … Read More

    We hope you are joining us for online worship on Facebook Live. We will be on Facebook again this Sunday at 10:30 am. If you have missed any of the services, or do not use Facebook, you may also find them on our website hcumc.org.         Outside Sunday Worship – Suspended     OUTSIDE WORSHIP – Will be suspended until weather warms up.     Sunday, January 24 Third Sunday after the Epiphany Sermon: Following Jesus Scripture: Mark 1:14-20     Prayers of the People   Please keep the following people in your prayers this week: The family and friends of Carlos Ponce who passed away January 8th. The McAnally family on the loss of Rex’s mother Evelena. The Boren family on the loss of Wendell Stephens, Scott’s stepfather. The Piccola family on the loss of Tracy and Jeff’s grandmother, Mamie Piccola. Randy Richter on … Read More