Saving Jesus

Ever feel like Jesus has been kidnapped by the Christian Right and discarded by the Secular Left? "Saving Jesus" is a DVD-based exploration of a credible Jesus for the 21st century. Join Marcus Borg, Walter Brueggemann, Amy-Jill Levine, John Dominic Crossan, and a host of others for a conversation around the relevance of Jesus for […]

A Love That Makes Us Whole: Tender Mercies

The Twenty-third Psalm is a great comfort to us as we imagine the green pastures and still waters. It also recalls the dark valleys and calls us into the not-so-easy […]

The New Storyteller

There are many storytellers at work in this brief text from Acts chapter 7 that we will hear on this day in worship. The “old guard” storytellers casting stones at […]

Advocate for Love

“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.” John 14: 16   An advocate is one who is called to the […]

Visiting Missionary: Joy Eva A. Bohol

"If young people are the future of the church, come hear what a world-wide expert on young people knows about the present." We are honored to have Joy Eva, a […]

Confirmation and Ascension Sunday

Join us this Sunday for a very Special day. On this day, we will gather together to celebrate and acknowledge those who are taking a pivotal step in their spiritual […]

Pentecost

Join us this Sunday in person or online at 10:00 am. Pentecost has arrived. It is the fiftieth day or the seventh Sunday from Easter Sunday As modern Christians we […]

Trinity Sunday

Join us this Sunday in person or online at 10:00 A.M We're reminded of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego's courageous faith, standing unflinching in the face of earthly power, assured of […]

PRIDE Sunday 

Join us this Sunday in-person or online. On this second Sunday after Pentecost, we are reminded of the ways we might be filled with the sudden and fiery Spirit of […]

Juneteenth and Graduation Sunday

Nearly two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation a Union general named Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform enslaved African Americans of […]

The Call of Life “Take the Plunge”

The mission of Kalamazoo First United Methodist Church is to “Experience, Celebrate and Share God’s Love. Our mission is love. Love is our calling and our vocation as individual participants […]

Representing

“Whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple -- truly I tell you, none of these will lose […]