Morningside Ministry - UMC

Come, join us for our Saturday Worship and Awakening as we focus on the Isaiah text regarding what the Messiah came to do, a kind of job description, so to speak. This gives us a clearer understanding of what salvation is all about as well as our identity and vocation as Christians and a Christian congregation.
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Come, join us for our Saturday Worship and Awakening as our focus is again on both the Isaiah and the Gospel of Mark texts, the deep passion for the necessary course change in human history in preparation for the coming of the Lord. We will spend some concerted time on the content and the direction/guidelines for this change, that the Gospel calls “repentance for the forgiveness of sins,” as a condition for an authentic "comforting" for the people now under suffering and bo***ge.
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Come, join us for our Saturday Worship and Awakening as our focus completes the three-Week series on the parables found in Matthew 25 regarding the end of the time, and today it is on the well known Parable of Sheep and Goats, challenging our conventional notion of a belief based salvation, and guiding us rather toward living practices in the Kingdom of God.

Join us for our weekly worship and awakening (Sat. Nov. 18 @10 am) as our focus continues with the end of the time parables found in Matthew 25, this time, on the well-known Parable of Talents. We will be challenged to recognize our typical framework, and consider different readings and glean its meaning for our discipleship and missional focus. In person or on zoom

Join us for our worship (Saturday, Nov. 11 @ 10 am) as we focus on the parable of Ten Maiden waiting for the Bridegroom, who is being delayed, that our typical conventional sensibility may not be able to understand its main points, yet provides us with important insights as to how to live now until Christ returns. (in person @ 633 W. 115th and on zoom)

Join us for worship on this Saturday (September 16th) in person or on zoom. We will focus on Jesus teaching us to forgive seventy-seven times, and giving us a parable to understand what happens to us if we don’t forgive others.

Join us for worship on this Saturday (September 8th) in person or on zoom.

Come, join us for worship and visioning as we focus on two calling stories, one God calling Abraham and the other, Jesus calling Matthew, a tax collector. As we deeply enter the text, may we also hear God calling us and we respond.

Come, join us for worship and visioning as we recall the words of Jesus in the Gospel of John, Ch. 10, that he is the good shepherd for us who gives us life and that abundantly. We open ourselves to this good shepherd to take care of us, and learn to grow to become shepherds ourselves to continue his ministry among those who, like the sheep, are lost without the guidance and support of the shepherds.

Come, join us for worship and a visioning gathering as we recall the community of the first disciples who were huddled behind the locked door for fear after Christ was crucified, and there the Risen Lord reveals himself with the message of “Fear Not.” May our scriptural reflection give us a new vision as we move forward.

Join us for worship, in which we really begin to see as God sees, who calls out the real possibility of new life even in Ezekiel’s Valley of Dry Bones or when your beloved friend Lazarus in the Gospel of John is dead and buried for fourth day, all because God is God of Life, and Jesus Christ is the Life and Resurrection.

Worship with us as we take into our hearts the Biblical truth that “the Lord does not see as human beings.” From both the anointing of David as a young boy and Jesus healing the man born blind, we learn the differences between the typical religious folks and God in their primary concerns .

In our worship this Sunday, we witness the encounter between Jesus and a Samaritan woman at the well in the Samaritan village of Sychar, and watch the transformation this encounter brings to her and to this Samaritan village. As we worship, we open ourselves to the same transformation this Holy encounter brings to us. Join us! You shall be blessed for you have come.
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Join us for worship as we hear the message of love and salvation and our new birth from above, in water and the Spirit, anew as if for the first time, again. Holy Communion will be celebrated.

On this First Sunday in Lent worship, we return to the Genesis narrative that gives us an archetype of how sin and temptation entered our very human existence, and contrast that to how Jesus rose above temptations and paved the way for us also to rise above our sin and temptations. , , Join us for worship!!

Join us for worship as we meet Jesus on a mountaintop where he is transfigured and in conversation with Moses and Elijah; the disciples hear the voice from God that directs them to “listen to him (Jesus)!” We will reflect on what it would entail to listen to the Beloved One of God, preparing for his journey to Jerusalem to be crucified.

Join us for worship. Its focus is on the principles of life that God has set in the Orders of God’s creation and especially for us children of God, and regarding the choice we have between life and death, blessing and curse. Jesus teaches us not only the content of the Scriptural teachings, but also how to understand, interpret and apply them to discern our life giving choices.
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Worship with us as we learn what it may mean to be the salt and light of the world from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and the voice of God through Prophet Isaiah. Holy Communion will be celebrated. All are invited

On this First Sunday of Advent, we hear of God’s desire to re-establish a new Jerusalem as the instruments of warfare are being transformed into those of farming and feeding people. Come, worship with us.

On this Reformation Sunday (Oct. 30), join us for worship and celebrate the ministry of Laity with lay preaching!! Using the story of Zacchaeus, we will examine the dual experience of being outside the crowd, both being singled out to be targeted or scapegoated, but also being called out for redemption.

On this Eighteenth Sunday in Kingdomtide, we focus on the story of ten lepers encountering Jesus and receiving healings; in this, we are made aware that we don’t always notice the good things that are happening around us and our prayers are being answered to. Shall we take time to notice and give thanks to God? Come, worship with us!!

Join us for our celebration of the World Communion Sunday, with Holy Communion and Fellowship following. Our worship theme centers around “the humble, prophetic servanthood” as the proper context of growth in our faith. And this faith grows over a long period of time, and even over the generations. Both in person and also on zoom

On this Sunday, our worship will focus on tapping into the grace of God , thus still doing the right thing to heal and reduce sufferings, even in the midst of this undeniable reality of an imperfect and morally compromised world, imperfect and morally compromised people, and imperfect, morally and spiritually compromised Christian disciples. Come, let us worship God!

On this Homecoming Sunday, we focus on what Christ considers to be the real reason to celebrate, “heavenly celebration,” so to speak, thus giving us clear directions as to what we need to focus our ministries on. We will celebrate Holy Communion.
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On this Labor Day Sunday, we conclude our six-week worship series on “Living by Faith” as we focus on the impacts our faithfulness makes on transforming the world as part of the coming of the kingdom of God, and the cost this kind of discipleship demands, which we need to become fully aware of and be willing to take.

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Join us this Sunday (July 24) for prayer @10:30 am and worship @11:00 am, in person or on zoom.

Join us for worship this Sunday (July 17) as Pastor Ray Low, our former assistant pastor, returns to the pulpit to give us the sermon, "A Gospel of Cosmic Restoration"; afterwards, he will lead our Morningside Forum on "Church and LGBTQ+," entitled: "A Seat at the Table."