• Fifth Sunday of Lent: Finding Your Mystic, Listening Beyond the Voices

    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…

  • Palm Sunday: Finding Your Purpose, Listening to Your Heart

    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…

  • Holy Thursday: Finding Jesus

    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…

  • Good Friday: Listening for the Inner Jerusalem

    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…

  • Easter Sunday 8am Service: Listening for a Stone Rolled Away

    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…

  • Second Sunday of Easter: Hi. Hello. Hey there.

    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…

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    Sunday Morning Class: Living the Questions

    You're invited to Living the Questions, a DVD-based discussion class featuring noted theologians and church leaders. It seeks to be an alternative to studies that attempt to give all the…

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    New Member Class

    If you would like to further explore the commitment and joy of membership in The United Methodist Church, please contact Pastor Julie at jkline@umc-kzo.org. Class will take place online and…

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    Godly Play and Nursery Care

    Godly Play is offered for children 4 and older, as well as nursery care on the 2nd floor of First United Methodist Church of Kalamazoo for infants through 3-year-olds with…