Human Relations Sunday

“You are my Son, the Beloved, with you I am well pleased.” Mark 1:11b  “But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends. It is this type of understanding […]

Third Sunday After Epiphany

Join us this Sunday in person or online at 10:00 am Our understanding of God and God’s all-embracing grace can be so limited, and when this is the case then […]

Heal Us and Strengthen Our Love

“I know who you are, the Holy One of God.” Mark 1: 24b We need healing. One of the beauties of being a Christ follower is recognizing that we are […]

Belonging: Manna and More

Join us this Sunday at 10:00 AM for a special Sunday, where our Young Adult resident, Jonathan Townley, will be preaching. We will also have a reading from “This Here […]

Transfiguration Sunday

Join us in person or online at 10:00 AM. Elisha saw an astonishing thing take place right before his eyes when Elijah, the greatest of the prophets did not die […]

First Sunday of Lent

The story of Jesus’ baptism and the Spirit driving him out is certainly brief in the Gospel of Mark but there is plenty of drama. With the clearing away of […]

Community: We are the story we tell

This second Sunday of Lent we raise the congregational value of COMMUNITY. How fitting then to celebrate the baptism one of our youngest disciples as the community reaffirms our own […]

Inclusion: Bent on Mercy

Inclusion seems to be a buzz word of the time with many organizations and entities claiming inclusion as a value. For Christ followers, inclusion is an ancient spiritual practice that […]

The Call of Love and Life

“Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit” […]

Kalamazoo FUMC Sunday, March 24th ~ Palm Sunday

Led by: Rev. Matt Weiler Bulletin: https://www.umc-kzo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Bulletin_March_24_2024.pdf It is Palm Sunday, a time when we remember Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. And so we, like those who hailed Jesus on […]

Maundy Thursday

Join us in person or online March 28, 2024 at 7:00 PM With water and a basin, we remember that Jesus tells the disciples that he wants to wash their […]