A Room with a View (Love): Fourth Sunday of Advent
2021-12-19 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Detroit) | MI
This has been an Advent season of prophets: Jeremiah, Baruch, Isaiah, Micah. And now the prophet is Mary–the woman who was the original house for the holy. She was “the inn,” her womb gestating love for the world. With all her heart, she proclaims that the lowly are lifted, the hungry are fed, mercy reigns. Like Mary, we must envision, must see, must prophesy and act on that vision for the world that God continues to call us to co-create. What is the view from the room that God has prepared?
First Beats Children’s Ensemble is excited to once again be able to present a live re-telling of the story of the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ. The children have worked hard learning their various roles. They each had a voice in what part they would like to play and it has been such fun to watch them grow into each of the parts. May you share in our joy this morning as we present our work.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sunday, December 19 at 10am.

4pm Children & Family Worship
2021-12-24 16:00 - 17:00
This service will include a sweet and simple retelling of the night of Jesus’ birth and the singing of Christmas Carols. During this child friendly and interactive worship, the children may choose a nativity character they wish to be by selecting a head piece from one of the containers on the way into the sanctuary. We will end worship with singing of “Silent Night” by candlelight. Childcare will be available during this service.
To ensure hospitality and protection for all persons, masks will be required during the entire sanctuary worship experience. We urge you to be vaccinated and, if available, be tested before you attend, and if you are not feeling well, please join us via our live streamed worship at 7pm: https://umc-kzo.org/live/

7pm Lessons & Carols
2021-12-24 19:00 - 20:00
This traditional favorite celebrates the birth of Christ through the reading of scriptures and the singing of favorite Christmas carols. The organ, a brass ensemble and the choir will lead us musically. We will sing “Silent Night” as we light our candles and proclaim, “Christ the Savior is born.” Seating will be available in the balcony to allow space for physical distancing. We will also plan to have overflow in Wesley Hall and the parlor. Childcare will be available during this service and this service will also be live streamed.
To ensure hospitality and protection for all persons, masks will be required during the entire sanctuary worship experience. We urge you to be vaccinated and, if available, be tested before you attend, and if you are not feeling well, please join us via our live streamed worship.
Join us in person or online for worship on Friday, December 24 at 7pm.

9pm Carols & Communion
2021-12-24 21:00 - 22:00
This worship will be similar to the 7pm (and will feature the choir, organ and brass ensemble, as well as “Silent Night”) with the addition of communion being served. Seating will be available in the balcony to allow space for physical distancing. We will also plan to have overflow in Wesley Hall and the parlor.
To ensure hospitality and protection for all persons, masks will be required during the entire sanctuary worship experience. We urge you to be vaccinated and, if available, be tested before you attend, and if you are not feeling well, please join us via our live streamed worship at 7pm: https://umc-kzo.org/live/

11pm Silent Night on the front steps
2021-12-24 23:00 - 23:30
Last year our only in person event was “Silent Night” on the front steps. As the snowflakes drifted from the dark night sky; we knew we had come upon a beautiful tradition. For all who may be hesitant to worship inside, we hope you will consider coming for this simple but inspiring gathering. It is also a witness to our community as we sing to those who may be in the park admiring the lights and paying homage to the nativity.
To ensure hospitality and protection for all persons, masks will be required during the entire sanctuary worship experience. We urge you to be vaccinated and, if available, be tested before you attend, and if you are not feeling well, please join us via our live streamed worship at 7pm: https://umc-kzo.org/live/

The First Sunday after Christmas: Dwelling
2021-12-26 10:00 - 11:00
There will be no in person or live streamed worship service at FUMC Kalamazoo on December 26, 2021.
A welcome from Pastor Julie Kline will be streamed at 10am on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021. You can access on our site or via YouTube.
On this Sunday after Christmas, we invite all to worship from home using a simple liturgy that will be mailed and available online. While some have returned to the sanctuary this year for “in-person” worship, many have continued to worship online from your homes. On this first Sunday after Christmas, we invite all to continue our collective celebrations of Christ’s birth by worshiping from home. It is our hope that this liturgy moves you to experience the joy of Christmas, the love of Christ, and the good news of Emmanuel – God with us. The staff and worship leaders share this liturgy with you in gratitude for an opportunity to find our own spaces of rest and renewal after a busy Advent Season while continuing to navigate the unique challenges presented to us by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Second Sunday After Christmas: The Risk of Incarnation
2022-01-02 10:00 - 11:00
The day of Epiphany is Thursday, January 6 and in anticipation of Epiphany we hear the story of the Three Wise Men today in our worship. This story, found in the gospel of Matthew, continues the whimsical and beautiful pageantry we are so fond of remembering at Christmas time, but it also carries a subtext full of intrigue and risk, indicating to us that our pursuits of the Christ child might call us to take our own risks. On this first Sunday of the New Year, we will also celebrate the Eucharist, and together, take the risk of discovering, along with the wise men, the gift and love of the Christ Child.
Those who are worshiping from home are invited to prepare bread and grape juice to participate in the Eucharist celebration.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am.

First Sunday After the Epiphany
2022-01-09 10:00 - 11:00
You’re invited to join us for coffeehouse worship!
As we continue to experience the Epiphany, we celebrate Light being revealed to the world. Our worship will seek the light as we remember the baptism of Jesus and our own baptism. Our Co-Lay Leaders, Tammy Eaton and Donna Dunyak will lead worship along with several lay persons on this Laity Sunday. As we experience a baptism of Light, we remember that we are to be the light, so that others may see in us the Light of Christ. We acknowledge the light we have seen in one another and give God thanks for that vision in the darkness. Come, God claims you and loves you, let us celebrate this Light given to us.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am.

Spirit for the Common Good
2022-01-16 10:00 - 11:00
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is a motivating power and when we pair it with our God given gifts and seek to serve others, we can transform ourselves, our community, and the world. As we worship today, we hear the Apostle Paul and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. calling us to the common good, united by the Spirit for the transformation of the world. Come and worship and be sustained by God’s love and presence, joining together in one spirit as we build the beloved community.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Being the Body of Christ
2022-01-23 10:00 - 11:00
“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.” – 1 Corinthians 12:12
Relationships form us. As we gather for worship, we celebrate our relationship with the Holy and with one another. We remember and experience how these relationships have the potential to transform us. We have been created by God, gifted by God, given life by God and we open ourselves to creating connections that express the body of Christ. Our bodies are good. Our bodies are vessels for the Holy to do marvelous works of love in the world. As we worship, let us gather anticipating that God joins us together as a strong community bound in love.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Comfort for the Soul: Shelter Me
2022-01-30 10:00 - 11:00
“I will look back in days to come and realize your faithfulness has led me home. Within your house I’ll find my peace, trusting that in your mercy you have sheltered me.”
From “Shelter Me” by Father Michael Joncas
This Sunday we are beginning a spinoff of sorts of our traditional New Year Rhythms of the Soul series. Where in the past we have developed themes from popular music (old and new), this year we are looking to the Psalms for comfort and refuge while singing music to accompany the Psalms. Entering the third year of the pandemic with a current uptick in infections has left many with continued feelings of isolation, grief, abandonment and just plain old sadness and frustration. The Psalms provide us with words to pray through each of these experiences. This week’s text, Psalm 71, reminds us that God is a refuge to be trusted, a rock and a fortress. Along with the Psalm, we will sing “Shelter Me” written at the beginning of the pandemic by Father Michael Joncas. “Shelter Me” mirrors the sentiment of Psalm 71 as well as the 23rd Psalm, and reminds us of God’s presence in our past and God’s faithfulness in our future.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Steadfast Love
2022-02-06 10:00 - 11:00
This Sunday we receive a song of thanksgiving that brings comfort to our soul as our spirit finds union with the Divine. God offers a steadfast love that is consistent and constant, and we find ourselves turning to receive with hearts of gratitude. It is a practice that needs to be cultivated in our lives. It is a journey that restores and renews our courage and compassion each time we attune ourselves to the love of God. On this Sunday, in the bleak mid-winter let us find the holy ground of gratitude as we participate in the ritual of Holy Communion. If you are worshipping from home, please prepare elements of communion, bread and juice, crackers and water, even cereal and milk. It is the receptive heart that God most desires. Let us experience God’s steadfast love.
We will celebrate communion this Sunday. For those joining us for worship online, please bring bread and juice to your home worship space.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

To Stand Grounded
2022-02-13 10:00 - 11:00
This week in worship, we continue to find comfort in the wisdom and hope of the Psalms, looking to Psalm 1. Central to this ancient poem is the image of a healthy fruit-bearing tree, planted by the water; an image likened to those whose lives are grounded not in the messaging of popular consumer culture, rather, in the word and the law of God. Psalm 1, a preamble of sorts to the entire book of Psalms assures the reader that God’s desire is for us to prosper and to thrive, as the fruit bearing tree. On this Coffeehouse Sunday we’ll ponder the notion that “We were made to more than just survive, we were made to thrive…” and ask the question, “How is God leading me to prosper and thrive in this time?” Those in the sanctuary will be invited to write responses on a paper ribbon and hang them on the tree to reflect the imagery of the Psalm. Home worshipers are encouraged to have paper and pencil ready for journaling during this time of worship.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Be Still and Know
2022-02-20 10:00 - 11:00
Be still before God. Wait patiently. Are these passive words? Or reserved actions? The Hebrew of God’s command to “be still” is similar to stop what you are doing and know me. Be still, so that you may be emptied and then filled with God. Stop praying and be prayer, allow God to pray through you. Allow God to be in your head, your heart and live through you. Be still. It is not passive. It is receiving, filling and then turning to fulfill love. As we worship together and baptize a child of God, let us remember that God claims us, helps, and protects us and loves us too. This is comfort for the soul.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Seeing the Glory
2022-02-27 10:00 - 11:00
On this Sunday we climb the mountain with the disciples, Peter, James and John, to see the glory of Christ revealed and the truth affirmed that Jesus is the Son of God. Transfiguration Sunday plays an important and pivotal role in our journey of discipleship just as it did for the disciples then. On this day, seeing Christ’s glory we will sing of the glory of God and give praise. This “mountain top” experience will prepare for a new trajectory that begins on Ash Wednesday, when we turn our hearts and minds towards Jesus’s journey to the cross of crucifixion during the season of Lent. But for now, on this day, we’ll linger with the disciples up on the mountain seeing and praising Jesus in all his glory.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Finding Your Life: Listening Deeply
2022-03-02 19:00 - 20:00
As we prepare for our 40-day journey of Lent, we “turn around” (the root meaning of the word “repent”) from the distractions of daily noise and focus our attention on listening in a deeper way. Writer Parker Palmer suggests we must listen “to what our life is telling us”–in other words, to listen to the deep wisdom God gave to us as a birthright, connecting to God’s purpose once again.
Additional resources: The Daily Examen is a technique of prayerful reflection on the events of the day in order to detect God’s presence and discern God’s direction for us. The Examen is an ancient practice in the Church that can help us see God’s hand at work in our whole experience.
Join us in person or online for Ash Wednesday worship on Wednesday, March 2 at 7pm. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

First Sunday of Lent: Listening Spaces
2022-03-06 10:00 - 11:00
Sometimes we just need to get away in order to hear from that “still small voice” within. This quiet voice is an attribute of the Holy Living God, as Elijah found out when he retreated to a cave where he expected to experience God in big wind and earthquake and fire. What is your “cave?” What place– perhaps a park, a path, a rocking chair, a shoreline– and what practice–such as walking, journaling, reading, or making art–helps you get quiet enough for long enough so you can hear past the chaos and into the depths of your life? This Lent we will quiet things down and heighten our attention to the “still, small voice” of God and our own true self. Listening through prayer as well as meditation on sacred texts is an ancient Lenten practice. So, let us come and rest, come and listen.
We will celebrate communion this Sunday. For those joining us for worship online, please bring bread and juice to your home worship space.
Additional resources: The Daily Examen is a technique of prayerful reflection on the events of the day in order to detect God’s presence and discern God’s direction for us. The Examen is an ancient practice in the Church that can help us see God’s hand at work in our whole experience.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Second Sunday of Lent: Listening to Our Bodies & Finding Our Breath
2022-03-13 10:00 - 11:00
Come and listen to the sacred text that connects our own aliveness with the breath of God. Together let us “pray without ceasing” as we pay attention to our breathing and believe that breathing is prayer. God blew breath into us at creation, and we continue to breathe all of creation in and out of our bodies constantly. The early church also believed that breath and Spirit were one in the same. As we sigh, let us join our breath with the Spirit that beckons us to the deep and promises to join us in spaces of love that work together to believe in a God breathed life for all. Come, spirit, come, and let us rise on your wings.
For the March Mission of the Month we will be taking a special Change the World offering this Sunday to help support Sunnyside UMC’s Community Garden. During the service, those attending in person will be asked to come forward and offer their gifts. If you would like to donate online, you may do so on our website.
Additional resources: The Daily Examen is a technique of prayerful reflection on the events of the day in order to detect God’s presence and discern God’s direction for us. The Examen is an ancient practice in the Church that can help us see God’s hand at work in our whole experience.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.
Worship note: Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 14 at 2am! Make sure to set your clocks forward one hour.

Third Sunday of Lent: Willingly Haunted
2022-03-20 10:00 - 11:00
As part of The Big Deal Weekend, our weekend built around anti-racist education focused on the intersection of faith and identity, Bishop David Alan Bard will preach his sermon, Willingly Haunted, for our Sunday worship. Bishop Bard is the presiding bishop of the Michigan Conference of The United Methodist Church. Bishop Bard also shepherds the Minnesota Annual Conference as interim bishop until 2022, and serves as President of the North Central Jurisdiction College of Bishops. In addition, we are honored to share a new hymn today written for The Big Deal Weekend: ‘Round the River’s Bend with music by Director of Music, Jacqueline Stilger and lyrics by Jennifer Clark. We will also remember our baptism and commit to the work of anti-racism that frees us for joyful obedience and collective work that might give birth to the flourishing of life for all. Come and experience, celebrate, and share God’s love!
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Fourth Sunday of Lent: Finding Your Power, Listening to Healing
2022-03-27 10:00 - 11:00
This week in worship we hear the story of an unnamed woman and a man named Jairus. Both are desperate. Jairus has wealth, and power, and access. The unnamed woman has none of those things. Both come to Jesus in prayer seeking healing. The woman for herself, while the man, Jairus, for his daughter. As we find ourselves listening to this story now in the fourth week of Lent, our task is to stand with Jesus and the disciples in the space between these two humans’ suffering and listen to their stories. In listening, perhaps we’ll hear our own stories as well. Join us as we continue the Lenten journey of listening.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Fifth Sunday of Lent: Finding Your Mystic, Listening Beyond the Voices
2022-04-03 10:00 - 11:00
We often have a “cast of characters” living inside our heads that love to carry on endless conversations–each from their own perspective. The chatter of our minds can sometimes keep us from a deeper listening and it is often difficult to understand what is a mystical connection to God. Getting our True Self into the chairperson’s seat in the committee meeting does not mean ignoring those voices of fear, pessimism, people-pleasing or accusation, but instead listening intently to them and not letting them bully us into negative action. Letting them in and letting them go is the prayer of the mystic within.
We will celebrate communion this Sunday. For those joining us for worship online, please bring bread and juice to your home worship space.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Palm Sunday: Finding Your Purpose, Listening to Your Heart
2022-04-10 10:00 - 11:00
For those joining us in person, we will meet on the front church steps at 9:30am to walk together to the community Blessing of the Palms at the Bronson Park bandstand at 9:45am.
Today in coffeehouse worship we celebrate the liturgy of Palms, and we turn with Jesus towards the cross of Jerusalem in the liturgy of Christ’s Passion. In the a moment, the light bearers, the children, along with those who have already been celebrating outside in Bronson park, and the choir will lead us in procession around the sanctuary remembering that day of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Today’s coffeehouse worship Change the World offering will go towards the Fresh Start / Fresh Place initiative with Ministry With Community providing cleaning supplies for low-income persons moving into new homes or apartments. The Tween AND Youth Group members will utilize this money to go shopping for supplies to gift to this initiative.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.

Holy Thursday: Finding Jesus
2022-04-14 19:00 - 20:00
You are invited to Holy Thursday worship to come and listen, to be silent and to exam our hearts in this holiest of weeks. Breaking the bread and lifting the cup of grace, Jesus asked that we remember him and dedicate ourselves to a new covenant. This is the Feast of Love, come kneel at the communion rail and pray that we might be the body of Christ for the world. If you are joining us online, you are invited to take communion in your own homes with elements that you have available. Come, let us create sacred space, that begins with this holy meal on Thursday and continues with earnest prayer on Good Friday.
Join us in person or online for worship on Holy Thursday (April 14) at 7pm. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.
Childcare will be available for Holy Thursday worship.

Good Friday: Listening for the Inner Jerusalem
2022-04-15 19:00 - 20:00
Tonight we will hear the story of Jesus’s passion through the 14 stations of the cross. Sometimes we will listen, sometimes we will sing, and sometimes we will be invited to rise and move to new spaces for experiential prayer. This is the night of Jesus’s crucifixion. This is the night Jesus asks us to stay with him remembering the cross he bore, and trusting in the hope of resurrection to follow. But for now, we linger with Jesus in the hours of his suffering. Let us worship and remember.
Join us in person or online for worship. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices. For those worshiping at home, if you can, please have with you at your worship space a pen and paper, a nail, and a small cross. These will be used for experiential prayer during worship.
Childcare will be available for Good Friday worship.

Easter Sunday 8am Service: Listening for a Stone Rolled Away
2022-04-17 08:00 - 09:00
After nights of deep darkness, we come in the bright light of Easter morning celebrating that Christ is risen indeed! Resurrection is possible. It is a glorious morning filled with tulips, lilies, brass and timpani, voices raised in joy, all proclaiming “Alleluia!” On this glorious morning let us listen for a stone rolled away and the sounds of new life. Let us hear death moved aside for the sounds of life, wholeness, and resurrection. Jesus is alive and together we will sing the “Hallelujah Chorus” once again at the 10am worship.
8am worship is in person only and for our early risers who would like to celebrate Easter earlier in the morning with a smaller gathering. It will be a joyful celebration, yet quieter than our 10am service. Please review our updated Covid practices prior to joining us for in person worship. Childcare will not be available for 8am Easter Sunday worship.
The ministries we are supporting with this year’s Easter Offering – the Methodist Children’s Home of Costa Rica, Dr. Desiree Segura-April and Rev. Emily A. Everett – seek to protect and help children. You can assist these ministries by donating online, by mailing a check with ‘Easter Offering’ in the memo line or by using the Easter envelope you may have received in the mail. Thank you for your support of this important work.

Easter Sunday 10am Service: Listening for a Stone Rolled Away
2022-04-17 10:00 - 11:00
After nights of deep darkness, we come in the bright light of Easter morning celebrating that Christ is risen indeed! Resurrection is possible. It is a glorious morning filled with tulips, lilies, brass and timpani, voices raised in joy, all proclaiming “Alleluia!” On this glorious morning let us listen for a stone rolled away and the sounds of new life. Let us hear death moved aside for the sounds of life, wholeness, and resurrection. Jesus is alive and together we will sing the “Hallelujah Chorus” once again at the 10am worship.
10am worship will be a festive Easter celebration that will include our choir, timpani, brass and the “Hallelujah Chorus” sung by all at the end of worship. Childcare and Godly Play will be available for 10am Easter Sunday worship.
Join us in person or online for worship 10am Easter Sunday worship. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated Covid practices.
The ministries we are supporting with this year’s Easter Offering – the Methodist Children’s Home of Costa Rica, Dr. Desiree Segura-April and Rev. Emily A. Everett – seek to protect and help children. You can assist these ministries by donating online, by mailing a check with ‘Easter Offering’ in the memo line or by using the Easter envelope you may have received in the mail. Thank you for your support of this important work.

Second Sunday of Easter: Hi. Hello. Hey there.
2022-04-24 10:00 - 11:00
We are now in Eastertide on this Second Sunday of Easter and our scripture this week takes us to the upper room, on the evening of Jesus’s resurrection. While every Sunday is a “little resurrection” it is always helpful and important to remember that Easter is not one day, rather Easter is a Season of 50 days leading up to Pentecost. And so in our worship we continue this week in our Easter celebration in the liturgy, the hymns and the sermon remembering that wonder-filled moment when Jesus came to the disciples in their fear and said, “Peace be with you.” When has Jesus met you with peace in your places of fear?
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated mask policy.

Third Sunday of Easter: Celebrating Stephen Ministry
2022-05-01 10:00 - 11:00
“When they had gone ashore, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” ~John 21: 9-10
“Come and have breakfast” the resurrected Christ invites the disciples to a meal of fish and bread on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. A meal is the setting for the reunion following the death of Jesus. It is just as it had happened so often in their life together, they were breaking bread and fellowshipping with one another. It was a fitting context for Jesus to invite his followers into a deeper invitation to follow him and hear the commission to feed and care for God’s people. We will celebrate our Stephen Ministers in worship and invite people to consider joining the Stephen Ministry Team. Just as the disciples were invited to receive grace and forgiveness from the risen Christ, we too are invited to commune with Jesus with a meal of bread and juice. If you are worshipping from home, we invite you to find communion elements that you have in your home. Let us to worship together and share God’s love.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated mask practice.

Fourth Sunday of Easter: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
2022-05-08 10:00 - 11:00
The message for May 8 is called “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?” (Credit to Lin Manuel Miranda…) We’ll reflect on the 23rd Psalm in song form and we’ll hear a story of resurrection from the book of Acts. With the Psalm we are reminded of God’s presence in the shadows and even to death. With the story from Acts, we know the good news that God’s love is more powerful than death. As we find ourselves now in the Fourth Sunday of Easter this particular story of resurrection speaks to God’s concern for the most vulnerable, and even more, we’ll discover how God resurrects the stories of the vulnerable and the marginalized far beyond our physical lives. The Staff-Parish Relations Committee (SPRC) will also celebrate the coming ordination of Heather McDougal with the gift of a new stole to be worn in worship, and as this is a Coffeehouse Sunday, our Change the World offering will go towards the good work with vulnerable woman at our local YWCA.
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated mask practice.
Worship note: To give a visual for this morning’s reading from Acts about Tabitha (aka Dorcas), the Coffeehouse Planning Team opted to place handmade items that represent ways persons have been offered similar compassion in our midst. There is a prayer quilt, tied by members of a church to represent prayers being offered for someone with cancer, and there are prayer shawls, made by needleworkers in this congregation, to wrap persons in love going through difficult times. We also were offered shawls made and gifted “just because” to offer the message of love to friends and family. These tangible gifts are one of the many ways love and care may be offered to those in our midst. Just as Tabitha offered herself, consider all the ways that we may do this for one another and for our community. If you are interested in making prayer shawls for our Caring Committee, please contact Robin at rentenman@umc-kzo.org.

Fifth Sunday of Easter: Hallelujah, Praise God, all ye Dandelions
2022-05-15 10:00 - 11:00
“Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise God from the heights!” All of creation praises God. Let us join in this chorus that interconnects us all. The dandelions are popping up all over! What lessons do they have to teach us? We remember our baptismal vows as we baptize a child into the care of our congregation. Hallelujah, let us rejoice!
Join us in person or online for worship on Sundays at 10am. If you’re joining us in person, please review our updated mask practice.
