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February 2, 2025

We gather in person and online. Join us at 10 a.m. on Sundays via Facebook: hopeuccmacomb or IN-PERSON.

Mickey Johnston passed away on 1/19. Visitation will be held at Faulmann & Walsh on Saturday 1/25 from 3PM until the time of funeral at 7PM.

SAVE DATE:

February 8th- Food Pantry 9-12

February 16th- Chili Cook- Off- following worship

Committee chairs please write your 2024 annual report and submit it to the church office.

We have so many ministries and events to look forward to making a reality. We need your support to make these happen!

Pick up giving envelopes at church.

In this season of gift giving please keep YOUR church as a priority.

If you haven’t tried giving online and would like to try it, click on this link to go directly to the website http://hopeuccmi.com/giving/.

Reminders:

If you would like to have altar flowers, please contact the church office, or sign up on board in Fellowship Hall.

Please sign up to be a liturgist on the table in the lobby.

Please sign up to host coffee hour.

We need more people to participate!

During challenging times, we strive to hang on to hope.

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23

The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a distinct and diverse community of Christians that come together as one church to join faith and action. With over 5,000 churches and nearly one million members across the U.S., the UCC serves God in the co-creation of a just and sustainable world. The UCC is a church of firsts, a church of extravagant welcome, and a church where "…they may all be one" (John 17:21).

The Church of Firsts

Since 1957, the United Church of Christ has been the church of firsts, weaving God’s message of hope and extravagant welcome with action for justice and peace. Together, we live out our faith in ways that effect change in our communities. The UCC's many "firsts" mean that we have inherited a tradition of acting upon the demands of our faith. When we read in Galatians: "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus"—a demand is made upon us. And so we were the first historically white denomination to ordain an African-American, the first to ordain a woman, the first to ordain an openly gay man, and the first Christian church to affirm the right of same-gender couples to marry. We were in the forefront of the anti-slavery movement and the Civil Rights movement. Our response to the demands of our faith is woven into the history of our country.

A Church of Extravagant Welcome

Today, we continue to change lives throughout the world. We work alongside more than 200 mission partners. We labor ceaselessly to fight injustice, in the United States and abroad. We instill our vision into our youth and young adults, forging leaders who will imagine new dreams. And we sustain and develop church leaders, pastors, and our local churches to live their faith in exciting new ways. We believe in a God that is still speaking, a God that is all-loving and inclusive. We are a church that welcomes and accepts everyone as they are, where your mind is nourished as much as your soul.

We are a church where Jesus the healer meets Jesus the revolutionary, and where together, we grow a just and peaceful world.