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  • Doing Prayer

    This Sunday we explore living by a spirit that calls us to adventure beyond the spoken prayer and embrace that every moment has potential to be holy as we become prayer. Doing prayer means we are desiring to find the place that we are most ourselves and God is fully present. Doing prayer can be…

  • Worship at FUMC

    You are invited to join us on Sunday mornings at 10am for worship in the sanctuary. We ask that those who join us wear a mask and arrive at least a few minutes early to sign in at the doors off the parking lot. Please keep space from one another in the sanctuary and, as…

  • Sunday Morning Class: French or Foe? Cultural Competence for Christians

    Join us on Sunday mornings in June at 11:15am! Class is available in person in the parlor or online via Zoom. We want to be a welcoming congregation, and we're pretty good at welcoming people like us. How do we extend the idea of Christ-like hospitality to people who aren't like us? Cultural competence means…

  • Walking Prayers

    You're invited to join us for Coffeehouse Worship! So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new. Our theme for worship is this week is “Doing Prayer” with an emphasis on “Walking Prayer.” This is not praying while walking, rather, setting the intention…

  • Making Art

    We worship a creating God who calls us into this same creative, spiritual energy. Creativity comes from God and is expressed in a myriad of ways and means. Children have this distinctive sense that they are creative and will find ways to express themselves. The trouble is that as we age, we are often not…

  • Sacred Healing

    “Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications!” I spent a week at Wesley Woods High School Camp recently with a large group of teenagers and every…

  • Holy Food

    “If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.” Today, we gather around the table of grace to receive the bread of life and the…

  • The Prayer of Planting

    “Blow upon my garden that its fragrance may be wafted abroad.” Have you ever planted a garden and even though you know what you put into the ground, still you…

  • Sunday Morning Class: Short Stories by Jesus

    Join us for Sunday Morning Class after worship at 11:15am: In person in the Parlor at First United Methodist Church of Kalamazoo or online on Zoom Short Stories by Jesus:…

  • Beyond Doing

    "Be still and know that I am God." As we pray, we are seeking love, we are drawn into God because we are called by love, we come out of…

  • Doing Justice as Prayer

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    For this final sermon in our summer preaching series The Renewing Work of God, we turn to the work of Doing Justice as Prayer. Throughout this series we have been encouraged to…