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SUMMARY:Fifth Sunday of Easter: Abide in Me
DESCRIPTION:Abiding in the presence of Christ is our call this week. How do we abide? More importantly\, what does abide mean? Let’s spend some time abiding in Christ. Silence\, music and Scripture can lead us to the ways of abiding. We are practicing this abiding in Christ as we worship together with the hope that it will continue after the benediction is pronounced and the postlude ends. Cultivating habits for lifelong worship is a part of what we do when we gather for worship\, even as we gather “together” in our own homes. Let us worship steadfast hearts that seek to abide with the One who calls us to life. Note: It is a communion Sunday\, please bring juice and bread to your worship space if you are able.  \nOn Sunday\, May 2\, we will also offer communion in the parking lot from 12:30-1:30pm. We will use both driveways as entrance ways. Pastor Julie Kline and Pastor Matt Weiler will be at one of the driveways to offer you communion. Please stay in your cars\, with masks on and they will serve you in your vehicle. Please join us in the breaking of the bread and the sharing of the cup\, remembering that we are the bread and the love freely poured out in the world in the name of the Christ who redeems.
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SUMMARY:Sixth Sunday of Easter: No Greater Love
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to join us for Coffeehouse Worship! \nWe are called this day to celebrate the love that has been poured out on us and then to strive to exemplify this love in our lives. How do we shape a life of loving in a difficult world? We embrace the idea of “no greater love” found in the person of Christ and the life he lived and gift he gave. We also celebrate love that is nurturing\, caring\, supportive and that we have been blessed with mothers\, motherly figures\, and motherly love role modeled in many human beings who have walked among us. We are blessed and can be a blessing as we offer the world a love that desires to sustain and is bound up in the well-being of all. Note: You are encouraged as we gather to worship to have a writing utensil and paper. We will also be anointing ourselves for the work of love and service to the world\, please bring some lotion for the anointing of your hands. Let us experience\, celebrate and share God’s love.
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SUMMARY:Seventh Sunday of Easter: Imagine the Joy. Imagine the Power.
DESCRIPTION:Jesus is praying for us! What an amazing thing. And Jesus is leaving\, but Jesus is with us. It is Ascension Sunday. Jesus takes his place at the right hand of God\, returns to the circle of the Trinity\, but at the same time continues to be present with us. This final Sunday of Eastertide is a celebration of living the Resurrection with the Resurrected one at our side. We are reminded that we are not alone\, that we continue to journey with the one who calls us and the one who saves us; even as we look forward to the one who will empower us to continue the work of building toward the kin-dom of God. May our hearts ascend with the Resurrected one as we worship together.
URL:https://umc-kzo.org/event/seventh-sunday-of-easter-we-are-yours/
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SUMMARY:Wednesday Evening Outdoor Prayer Service
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to join us for the return of our Wednesday evening prayer services on our picnic table yard. We ask that you bring your own lawn chair or blanket. These times of worship will give us the opportunity to raise our joys and concerns\, participate in a simple liturgy and sing together! Yes\, we will sing together because we will be outside. Masks are optional for this outdoor service\, but we will continue to physically distance. \nThis prayer service is one step toward finding our way back to gathering with one another. We are all yearning for community and to create opportunities to be with our church community in person. We hope you will join us for this simple time of worship that allows us to experience\, celebrate and share God’s love. \nThis will be a short prayer service of 30-45 minutes. We will not be using the church building\, only the lawn. This will mean that bathrooms will not be available (unless it’s an emergency). As we did with our 2020 outdoor services\, we will update through email and social media if services need to be cancelled due to inclement weather. We look forward to sharing this special time with you!
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SUMMARY:Pentecost: When the Spirit Moves
DESCRIPTION:Pentecost has arrived. It is the fiftieth day or the seventh Sunday from Easter Sunday. As modern Christians we observe Pentecost as a holiday\, not to celebrate a wheat harvest\, but to remember when the Holy Spirit invaded the church as the story is told in the second chapter of Acts. The Spirit is alive and moves among us as it did in the early church. We are a church that can proclaim resurrection hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. As the spirit is poured out\, the body of Christ moves and shifts and brings an amazing beauty to the world around us. Pentecost is an invitation to take flight and soar on the winds of hope and promise\, through the Spirit of Christ we can bring together a broken world. As we worship\, let us connect with others who seek to fly into a kin-dom way of living.
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SUMMARY:Dawn Patrol
DESCRIPTION:Dawn Patrol is an intentionally diverse group of men who meet each Wednesday at 9am on Zoom. Books that stimulate the sharing of stories are chosen. Our goal is growing in an understanding about\, not only what it means to be a follower of Jesus in a divided world\, but also what Christians are called to do to help bring an end to systemic racism that still harms so many People of Color. Contact Pastor Matt Weiler at mweiler@umc-kzo.org for more information and the Zoom link.
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SUMMARY:Trinity Sunday: An Economy of Freedom and Love
DESCRIPTION:We are members of a divine economy of freedom and love. In this economy there is abundance\, there is shared power\, there is mutuality and creativity\, and most importantly\, there is a sharing of life with the very source of our creation. Every year on the Sunday after Pentecost we celebrate Trinity Sunday\, the Sunday in which we acknowledge\, celebrate and attempt to make sense of the God is wholly three in one and one in three. What is challenging\, is that Christians have been trying to make sense of it for 2\,000 years and at some point we have to just raise our hands\, stop trying to make sense of it and simply live into it…live into creation’s constant renewal and newness\, live into love’s triumph over evil\, live into grace poured out on an infant’s head. The Trinity is a divine economy – alternative to the world’s economy. A mystery\, yet so good.
URL:https://umc-kzo.org/event/trinity-sunday-an-economy-of-freedom-and-love/
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