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September 24, 2023 - Sunday Worship, 10 a.m.

Service will be in-person and online. If you enter worship through the website, you go to hopeuccmi.com and hit CLICK HERE TO JOIN ANY OF OUR LIVESTREAMED FACEBOOK SERVICES. This will take you directly to worship.

CHURCH PHOTOS: You can sign up in person THIS SUNDAY. The online sign-up information is attached.

Our Altar is bare! Please consider giving flowers in memory and honor of loved ones.

Sunday, October 1st, is World Communion Sunday and the UCC Neighbors in Need offering. When we give to Neighbors in Need, our gifts go wherever there is a need. The UCC responds in times of disaster and devastation because of our giving.

Help Needed: The Turkey Dinner Give Away. The packing party is on Friday, November 17, 6-8 PM. The distribution is on Saturday, November 18, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. This is a wonderful way to join with others to make a HUGE difference. It is a GREAT event for families to serve others! Please text or call Susan Winters at 734-678-3582 prior to September 27 to let me know how many people from your family will participate.

Are you able to support the church? We need your offerings and gifts to be able to maintain the church and serve our members and the community. Please pray about what kind of support you are able to offer.

When we pray about how and when to share our resources, we turn to the scriptures for guidance. And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased. Hebrews 13:16

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.