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Community Meal - Every Thursday, we host a free community meal where we offer a variety of delicious, free food to anyone who wishes to join us.
Easter - We celebrate Easter with Family Worship in church at 9:30am.
Messy Church - Messy Church has two big Sanctuary Parties. In December we have a "Happy Birthday Jesus Party" with games and treats. Likewise before Easter we have an Easter Egg hunt in the Sanctuary. Go to our FB page for the most updated times of the event.
Christmas Eve - On December 24th, we have a Traditional Carols and Stories Service at 9:30am, followed by a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 7pm.
Welcome to our community of believers working to serve our neighbors and understand those who feel forgotten.
At SUMC, we welcome ALL. We are a United Methodist Church located in beautiful Sandpoint, Idaho, known for our vibrant personality. In fact, we were the first church to be established in Sandpoint! Inclusivity and acceptance is vital to our theology and practices. Every Sunday, we come together as a community to worship, socialize, and invite God into our lives.
Every Thursday at 4pm, we host a free Community Meal and Family Messy Church Program at 4:30pm. Come join us!
Check out our Angel Wings website at sandpointangelwings.com.
Our Pastor: Reverend Catherine Lyle
Phone: (208) 263-4232
Email:umcsandpoint@gmail.com
Worship time: Every Sunday, 9:30am
Location: 711 Main St. Sandpoint, ID 83864
Sunday
9:30 Traditional Worship
10:30 Fellowship
Food Bank donations accepted during the week and at worship
Thursday
4:00-6:00pm Community Meal
5:00pm Messy Church
You can watch Reverend Lyle's last sermon here!
Like most pioneer settlements in their beginning, "sandy point" -- (called this by the Northern Pacific people) was rough and tough. As the women began to arrive and make homes for their families, they felt the need for moral influence.
Early history is a bit sketchy, but it is known that Mrs. George Holten had Sunday School in her tiny home with two other women helping her to teach. A Mrs. Murphy taught (gratis) day school for a while in her living room over the Northern Pacific Railroad station.
Both schoolings were rather sporadic between 1883 -1888 until when in 1888-1893 they met in a building near the depot in the abandoned White Swan Saloon. The day school had about 10 students and the Sunday School had 16 students of all ages.
A school board was formed and they pushed through the building of a little one room school house on the west side of Sand Creek. Except for the Earl Farmin home, this was the first building across the creek. Besides day school, the Sunday School and social affairs met here.
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We host many support groups. More information about those groups that we host and organizations we partner with can be found below. More information will be added soon!
Twinlow Camp
Reach them at https://twinlow.org/
Twinlow is a Methodist camp with many sessions and fun activities for both kids and adults! Located in Twin Lakes, ID.
Monday Men's Meeting
Reach them at northidahoaa-districtaa.org
This is a closed meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Information about upcoming meetings can be found at district14-aa.org. Meetings are every Monday at 5:30-6:30 at SUMC.
Attraction Not Promotion AA
Reach them at northidahoaa-districtaa.org
7:00pm. Open, children welcome
N.A.
Reach them at nonawww@msn.com
N.A. meets at Sandpoint United Methodist Church on Sundays from 6-7pm and the first and third Wednesday of the month at 5-6pm. These are closed meetings to addicts only, but are kid friendly.
Reverend Catherine Lyle has been serving Sandpoint UMC since 2022. We are a small and accepting community that strives to make others feel welcomed. Especially, those on the fringe who have struggled in the past to connect with an engaging faith community focused on doing good rather than just being perceived as good. Pastor Catherine and Rose Greene started “Messy Church” on Thursday nights and with this tool we make a fun interactive all ages safe space for kids and parents to explore their faith. Rev. Catherine Lyle takes an ecumenical approach when spreading the good news. Attending several kinds of churches as a former child in foster care, helped her appreciate the good parts of churches and support the whole body of Christ. Initially, Rev. Catherine Lyle was baptized Catholic, she rebelled greatly from her Irish/Scottish roots and became a Methodist in her middle school years joining Cheney UMC where she served as the EWU campus minister while also sitting on the EWU Catholic Newman Center as their ecumenical chair. At 19 she graduated with her BA from Eastern Washington University followed by a fun summer studying Irish history and Literature at NUI in Galway, Ireland. More about Rev. Lyle...
