PINE RIVER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
February 2026
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 110,
Pine River, MN 56474
Phone: 218-587-4091
Email: prmethodist@gmail.com
Website: https://pineriverumc.org/
UWF Meets February 5th
You are invited to the Grace UWF Gathering on Thursday, February 5th beginning at 10:00 a.m. in the fellowship hall. They will hold their business meeting first, led by Marsha Mower.
This month’s program, “Connected in Our Roots,” will begin at 11:00 a.m., led by Elaine Leach. February being Black History Month, some attention will be given to population dislocations that may have resulted from WWII and highlights where seemingly disparate groups have many things in common. Elaine asks you please bring a map of the area where you live, grew up, or family members have lived.
Potluck Sunday
We are resuming our monthly themed potluck on a Sunday once a month. Our next potluck will be February 15 after worship. It will be make your own taco salads.
Church Address:
When mailing to our church: use our P.O. Box 110, Pine River, MN 56474 for the address. If you use the physical address the mail may be returned and delay your notices to us or offering.
Lent Season
Pastor Jen will be working through a Lenten sermon series based on the book An Unlikely Lent by Rachel Billups.
Pine River UMC will also be doing a Lent study on the book An Unlikely Lent starting Wednesday evening, February 25. Supper is at 5:45 p.m. and study starts at 6:30 p.m. The study will continue each Wednesday in Lent, March 4, 11, 18, and 25.
Senior Series 2026
Our first Senior Series is on March 18 from
1 -3 pm in our fellowship hall with Parker Deutz, Doctor of Physical Therapy who will be talking about learning and maintaining proper adjustment of personal devices and physical safety for the aging body.
Other two topics in April and May will be a speaker from Landsburg Landscape Nursery and another on Naturopathic Medicine with Dr. Sophia Fox, Fox Natural Medicine. More information to come next month.
Scriptures on Centering Our Hearts
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21 NKJV
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Philippians 4:8 NIV
“let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.”
Hebrews 10:22 NLT
“Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.” Psalm 139:23
2 He lifted me out of the pit of despair,
out of the mud and the mire.
He set my feet on solid ground
and steadied me as I walked along.
Psalm 40:2 NLT
I Said a Prayer for you today
I said a prayer for you today and know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart although He spoke no word.
I didn’t ask for wealth or fame, I knew you wouldn’t mind.
I asked Him to send treasurers of a far more lasting kind.
I asked that He’d be near you at the start of each new day.
To grant you health and blessings and friends to share your way.
I asked for happiness for you in all things great and small.
But it was for His loving care I prayed the most of all.
Author Unknown
The Living Word Of God
17 But whatever is good and perfect comes to us from God, the Creator of all light, and he shines forever without change or shadow. 18 And it was a happy day for him when he gave us our new lives through the truth of his Word, and we became, as it were, the first children in his new family. James 1:17-18 TLB
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 2 Timothy 3:16 NIV
Thank you to those who have contributed to the February Newsletter. Please submit to Pam March information by February 23 if possible.