Author: normalfumc

Who did you dream of being when you were growing up? Did you idolize some Superhero and dream of having the same abilities and characteristics that person had? The strength of Superman? The Speed of Flash? The courage of Batman or Batgirl? The power of

Over the past couple of years, one of the questions we’ve heard many times from our church family is “How can we better serve the campus community? What need does the ISU community have that we have the gifts to respond

While we were waiting for our lunch to be ready, I was perusing the shelves of The Mountain Goat Markey in Monteagle, TN. I came across a shirt that I absolutely loved because it sums up much of what I

Since 1920, the ISU Wesley Foundation (Merge) has been an integral part of the lives of college students at Illinois State University and a partner in ministry with Normal First! FUMC and Merge have worked side by side to create

Last Friday, our three minivans pulled into the church parking lot and junior high students tumbled out to greet their parents. We had been serving in the Quad Cities for a week, and the youth were full of stories to

If you had been a citizen in Nazi Germany, would you have contributed to the holocaust or would you have resisted?   If you had been a soldier in Vietnam, would you have joined everyone around you in killing women,