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Ash Wednesday will be on Wednesday, March 2. Ashes will be given from 9:00 am – 10:00 am in the Church Sanctuary.   Please enter the church by the glass elevator doors. There will be a Vesper service for Ash Wednesday at 7:15 pm in the Church Sanctuary.

Church, we are in the season of Easter. What a glorious time of the year that we can celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Let’s keep celebrating the empty tomb, our resurrected Savior, and the faithful call that He has placed on our lives to go and share the good news!Continue reading “On Doubting Thomas”

Hello, and welcome to Second Ave. UMC’s website we’re glad you are here. As a church we have adapted a COVID-19 policy that applies to our life together, if you are looking to come visit us in person please review our policy so we can ensure your experience with us in person is meaningful andContinue reading “Covid Guide”

Church, I am a person who loves big moments. I enjoy parties, weddings, birthdays, celebrations, baptisms, and more. I enjoy and really like the spotlight. I really crave the big moment. But, life is not filled with big moments, in fact life is filled with the ordinary moments. Moments that many of us wouldn’t deemContinue reading “Faith in the Ordinary”

I’ll be honest these days of COVID-19 have produced beliefs, opinions, articles, arguments, moments of joy, and moments of frustration in a way that I’ve never seen before. We as a society have become more on edge, more frustrated, and more irritable than I have noticed in a long, long time. If you are readingContinue reading “On COVID-19”

Church,                 These past several weeks have been very difficult for many of us. It has been trying, hard, but I do want you to hear that we have not stopped being the church. Period. The church of Jesus Christ is stronger than any pandemic, any separation, or any difficulty that may occur. We areContinue reading “Return to In Person Worship”

Friends, these most certainly are challenging and uncertain times. One of the most challenging things during this time is there is not a certain end date and most people are very uncertain as to what the end will look like. That makes life tough. But, friends I want to remind you that numerous times throughoutContinue reading “On Times of Uncertainty”

As of this moment we are still planning on opening up the food pantry on Friday March 20th.

In John 1:1-18, we are blessed to have a beautiful prologue to one of the most compelling, life changing pieces of literature ever written: the gospel of John. John begins the Gospel with a powerful image: Jesus as the word. In the Greek the word, word, is logos. Logos is more than just a simpleContinue reading “The Word Has Come”

Friends, one of the more challenging epistles in scripture is John’s Revelation. In this gripping narrative John the Apostle is blessed to see many revelations through the power of the Holy Spirit of what the end of time will look like. My encouragement for all of us is to know what this powerful text says,Continue reading “The End of Time”