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Dear Church Family and Friends,

We will gather online for Sunday worship at 10 am. We gather at 9:40 to say hello and add prayer requests. Join us at 10 am Sundays on Facebook: hopeuccmacomb.

Attached is the order of worship and the music for Sunday, July 12th.

You can tell you are clicking on this week’s service because the preservice loop slides will be green.

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.

This Sunday is Trunk and Lunch on Sunday, July 12th at 12 pm. Bring your lunch and a lawn chair and have a social distance picnic in the church parking lot. Wear a mask. If the weather is bad, we will reschedule.

Sue is back from vacation on Monday. Pastor Meg is still in the office and checking phone messages. Please reach out to her directly if you have any needs: 248-890-3264.

Upcoming - July 26th - Christmas in July Worship Service! Dig out your Christmas Spirit! We will sing carols and hear the Christmas story.

Sunday, July 26th - Pets and People Gathering - Join Pastor Meg and her dogs, Glory and Captain Sully, for a fun and furry Zoom Call at 7 pm! Next week we will send the Zoom link.

Lamentations 3:22-23 - The Lord’s kindness never fails! If he had not been merciful, we would have been destroyed. The Lord can always be trusted to show mercy each morning.

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.