Watch Video of FUMC's Arts Program - Staging a Miracle

Participants Performed Musical Revue 'I'm Showing Up'

Staging a Miracle is a First United Methodist Church program developed to offer high-quality music and arts education to the children of the City of Sacramento, regardless of their ability to pay.  

Special Thanks for Staging a Miracle Funding Goes to: Family and Friends of Edna Mae Nauman Gregory & Seta Tcherkoyan Tanis Toland Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Comission Digital Deployment Sacramento News & Review Kindermusik Ethika Foundation Sacramento Men's Chorus California Nevada Annual Conference Committee on Children in Poverty St. Mark's United Methodist Church Pioneer Congregational Church Lucas Eatchel, Capital Beverage Co. Hall Windows

The program was directed by Michael Miller, formerly Director of River City Theater Company, with music direction by Kevin Manz, our Acting Organist.

The five-week summer program for children and their families included dinner for cast members and their families each Tuesday and Thursday evening; music and dance classes for parents, teens and pre-schoolers and infant childcare.

Our community partners in this program include, among others, Family Promise, Mustard Seed School, Women’s Empowerment, St. John’s Shelter for Women and Children and Habitat for Humanity.  Their hope, and ours, is that by nurturing the creative gifts of children whose families cannot afford to purchase music and arts education, we can remind those children that they are loved by God and created to live good and productive lives. 

In an economic environment where most of these programs are being cut from school budgets, the need is even more clear.  The gifts and resources of this church, and especially our long and deep appreciation of music and the arts, make this a great opportunity for us to be involved in God’s work of bringing wholeness to our community.  

Staffing for this program was entirely donated by volunteers who dreamed, planned, cooked, served, drove, hammered, painted, sang, danced, drummed, word-processed, sat with babies in their arms, played, laughed, hugged and welcomed all God's children to this program. 

This ministry is a very big and very bold step for us.  But God has been blessing and preparing us for a long time.