“They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither. In all they do, they prosper.” ~Psalm 1: 3 “Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.” Matthew 22:3 In Matthew’s telling of the story, Jesus was involved […]
“Sing to the Lord, a new song” -Psalm 96: 1a “He will come ready to clean the grain, separating the good grain from the chaff.” -Luke 3: 17a The process of letting go can be painful, it can also be liberating as space is made for something new. We often think that we can be […]
Join Us this Sunday October 15th in-person or Online at 10:00 am for worship This Sunday the scriptures call us into a practice of discovering who God is and therefore who we are. And as we come to these two texts we learn that we are a people meant to live decidedly alternative to how […]
Please Join us this Sunday online or in person at 10:00 am In our worship this Sunday, we reflect on the words found in Philippians 3:4b-14, where the Apostle Paul speaks of his own journey of faith and the surpassing worth of knowing Christ. we are called to remember our past, acknowledging the achievements and […]
“The wrong first question is, What do we need to do? The right first question is, Who do we need to become?” ~ Benjamin McBride “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” ~Matthew 6: 10 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for […]
The first week of our worship series, “Braiding Our Stories: Aligning our Values, Vision, Mission, and Generosity” finds us in the Book of Exodus discovering the gifts of God’s provisions. This portion of the Exodus story reveals a people who are distraught with the worry of how they might survive. Their doubts grow and they […]
On REJOICE SUNDAY we celebrate and we anticipate all that God will accomplish in and through First UMC in the days ahead. We lift up our mission to EXPERIENCE, CELEBRATE, and to SHARE God’s love. We make a conscious choice among all the other choices available to come together as the church. So what makes […]
Join us this Sunday in-person or online at 10 AM We are called to: Experience God’s love. Celebrate God’s love. Share God’s love. This is the mission of Kalamazoo First United Methodist Church that was discerned by church leadership in 2001. Since this time, we have been discerning and discovering how it is that we […]
Last week we heard the narrative of Joseph at the end of the Book of Genesis. It was a narrative culminating in God’s newness, abundance, safety, and a promise of wellness for Joseph and his family. This Sunday we find ourselves at the beginning of Exodus the story picks up and we find Joseph’s descendants […]
In this passage, Joseph reveals his true identity to his brothers. They had sold him into slavery many years earlier out of jealousy, thinking they had rid themselves of him for good. However, through a series of events, Joseph had risen to a position of great power in Egypt, becoming the second-in-command to Pharaoh. When […]
Join us this Sunday at 10:00 AM in person or online! This week, we join the disciples on their journey of ministry following the feeding of the 5,000. As Jesus goes to pray, they heed his instruction and set off in their boat on the Sea of Galilee, heading towards Gennesaret where they will continue […]
Join Us this Sunday in person or online at 10:00 am Rev. Callie Plunket-Brewton writes this about Genesis 32: 22-31. “This is a profoundly mysterious story with numerous unanswerable questions. A lone human being wrestles through the night with a nameless antagonist and emerges from the night transformed—is one repeated so often in human experience […]
