The breakfast gathering features devotional sharing, learning more about the community and its needs, and considering assistance to members of the church who are grappling with emergencies.

It is a meeting of United Methodist Men (UMM), a group which has been gathering together this way mornings or evenings for years. “Our meetings are informal but accomplish several objectives,” says UMM President Doug Williams. “We look for ways we can help members of the church and community. We have speakers from civic and cultural organizations, government and other nonprofit and for profit groups. We join in devotional readings and we build camaraderie among the participants.”

UMM raises funds through major annual events such as their steak fry in November.

Through the years, the group has helped by contributing money to members facing medical and other emergency expenses; purchasing various audio-visual equipment; handling construction chores, such as remodeling the sanctuary stage, upgrading a bathroom to make it handicap accessible, converting two classrooms into a gymnasium, donating maintenance related items, gifting the Youth Group, and providing funds and labor to Habitat for Humanity, Cody Cupboard and other Cody nonprofit organizations.