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Worship Service

Join us on Sundays to celebrate Jesus. All are welcome and we have many activities for all ages. Including bible study, Sunday school and many activities for you to get involved in through the Methodist Church.

Sunday Services:

9:00am - Traditional Service

11:00am - Blended Music Service

Children Sunday School

Sundays at 9am and 11am

Bible Studies

To help you grow spiritually and in your personal relationship with Jesus Christ, High Desert UMC is offering the following Bible Studies this Fall. Please join one of the following studies in the classroom:

Sunday 10 am: Studying the Gospel of Luke. Led by Tony Smith

Monday 9 am: Studying "40 Days Through the Book of Acts"

Wednesday 10:30: Studying the Holy Spirit and the Psalms starting September 6th. Led by John Kottenbrook

Wednesday 5:30: Studying the entire Bible using “The Story,” by Max Lucado and Randy Frazee. Led by Reuben Thomas.

Fairwinds: Tony Smith is also leading a class at Fairwinds on Tuesday.

Online Studies: Each week an email is distributed from Tony Smith on a chapter from the Book of Isaiah. In addition, you can participate in one of Tony’s online studies on Daniel, John and Revelation at coraleno@aol.com.

Footsteps Podcast: Available online (see Activities section of this site titled Podcast Ministry)

Hearing Inloop System

Recently High Desert UMC installed a Telecoil hearing aid loop under the carpet in the outer aisles, center aisle and across the front and back aisles. The purpose of this system is to enhance the worship experience of those who wear hearing aids.

The telecoil, a small wire coiled around a rod located inside your hearing aids, works as an antenna to pick up magnetic signals and streams them as sound into your hearing aid. With this “T-setting,” your hearing aid can stream the sound of the speaker’s voice or the music directly into your ears from the microphones – without any pesky background noises.

Contact your hearing aid specialist to help determine if you have the telecoil function, and if so, to add this setting to your settings.

Learn More

Are you interested in learning more about our church? Please call our office at 891-4206 or email us.

About Us

Reuben Thomas - Pastor

Rev. Thomas comes to High Desert UMC after serving for 6 years at St. Paul's UMC in Socorro, NM. Prior to that appointment, he served seven years at First UMC in Grants and 3 years as associate pastor at St. Stephen's UMC in Albuquerque. Reuben is a second career pastor having worked for thirty-one years for the Federal Highway Administration. He is a graduate of Clemson University with degrees in Civil Engineering and, following retirement from the Federal Government, he completed the required course of study at Perkins Theological Seminary at Southern Methodist University to become a licensed pastor. The primary focus of Reuben's ministry are biblical preaching and teaching, hospitality, missions, spiritual growth and a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.