Accountability is Sustainability
Join us this Sunday, August 11th as we hear the Rev. Jeff Kunkel speak to us on the theme, “Accountability is Sustainability,” about Step 5 in our ongoing series on 12-Step Spirituality.
Sunday worship begins at 10:15AM.
Join us in person in our sanctuary or watch online via Zoom, Facebook or YouTube Live.
Bulletin Link
You may give your Tithes & Offerings by mail, or click here to give online.
Watch Online
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 879 9397 9913
Passcode: 326043
Or dial the following number: 1(669) 900-6833.
When prompted, enter the meeting ID & passcode above.
To join Sunday Worship via Facebook, click here and look for the live video at the top of the page.
To watch the livestream of our service on YouTube, click here.
Upcoming Sundays
12-Step Spirituality
August 18, 2024
Ready and Willing
*
August 25, 2024
The Quest for Humility
*
September 1, 2024
Reflecting on Our Relationships
*
September 8, 2024
Making Amends or Restitution
Please read ALL of the ANNOUNCEMENTS!
New Alarm System at LMUMC
As of this week, we are instituting the new alarm system at Lake Merritt United Methodist Church. This means that church meeting groups must have a designated security person trained on the alarm who will be the first person to arrive and the last to leave. Please contact Ken, our Church Administrator, at office@lakemerrittumc.org if you have any meetings that are not on the calendar, and if you need additional training on the alarm.
Food 4 Thought Begins New Lecture Series September 1st
Sound Bath
6:45pm Friday, August 9th
Sound Bath returns this Friday, August 9th with Egemen (Ege) Sanli. What better way to end your week than by slowing down and relaxing, surrounded by meditative vibrations and melodies? Be immersed in flowing sounds as you sit in a chair or lie on the floor with your own mat, blanket, and/or pillow.
Admittance for the church community is donation-based; $20 is suggested via cash, check, or Venmo. No RSVP needed. Doors open at 6:30 pm; please arrive by 6:45. Program begins promptly at 7:00pm. Download our flyer and share our Eventbrite page to invite family and friends!
Peace in Palestine Upcoming Events
LMUMC’s Peace in Palestine / Friends of Wadi Foquin Circle invites you to join them in hearing one or both of the following speakers. This Saturday 8/10-Sunday 8/11, the Rev. Munther Isaac, one of the most important Palestinian Christian voices of our time, will be in the East Bay on a national speaking tour addressing the U.S. church about its critical role in calling for peace and justice in Gaza and the West Bank. Rev. Isaac is pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, academic dean at the Bethlehem Bible College, and he directs the influential Christ at the Checkpoint conference held annually in Bethlehem. See the attached flyer for more details.
On Saturday, August 17th (3-5pm at Twin Towers UMC), join Adam Manasra as he discusses the many shifts and changes that have happened in Wadi Foquin and across the West Bank since his arrival in the Bay Area one year ago. See the attached flyer for more details and RSVP via the QR code.
If you would like to submit an announcement for our weekly e-blast, please adhere to the guidelines found here. All submissions are due Wednesday by noon.
Daring to Face Ourselves
Step Four of the Big Book of AA says, “We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” I hear from our AA siblings that this is one of the hard steps in the Twelve Step program. This step is about daring ourselves to face our shadows.
Jesus says it this way in Matthew 7:4-5:
4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, the log is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye!
Step 4 is about seeing your own log first, so you can stop blaming, accusing, denying, and therefore displacing the problem. What is your own log in your life? –Pastor Sunae
Sunday worship begins at 10:15AM.
Join us in person in our sanctuary or watch online via Zoom, Facebook or YouTube Live.
Bulletin Link
You may give your Tithes & Offerings by mail, or click here to give online.
Watch Online
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 879 9397 9913
Passcode: 326043
Or dial the following number: 1(669) 900-6833.
When prompted, enter the meeting ID & passcode above.
To join Sunday Worship via Facebook, click here and look for the live video at the top of the page.
To watch the livestream of our service on YouTube, click here.
Upcoming Sundays
12-Step Spirituality
August 11, 2024
Accountability is Sustainability
*
August 18, 2024
Ready and Willing
*
August 25, 2024
The Quest for Humility
*
September 1, 2024
Reflecting on Our Relationships
Please read ALL of the ANNOUNCEMENTS!
Dignity on Wheels Mobile Showers & Laundry
Tuesdays, 9am-1pm at E 12th St & 2nd Ave
WeHOPE’s Dignity on Wheels (DoW) mobile hygiene service is providing free showers and laundry for the unhoused every Tuesday, 9am-1pm, in our neighborhood at E 12th St and 2nd Ave. Comprehensive case management support may also be provided to address a variety of individual challenges including job loss, illness, and food insecurity. Other Bay Area locations are available throughout the week: view the full schedule here. Please share this information with our community members in need!
Support Needed for Food Fellowship Ministry
Food 4 Thought Goes on Summer Break
Sound Bath
6:45pm Friday, August 9th
Sound Bath returns next Friday, August 9th with Egemen (Ege) Sanli. What better way to end your week than by slowing down and relaxing, surrounded by meditative vibrations and melodies? Be immersed in flowing sounds as you sit in a chair or lie on the floor with your own mat, blanket, and/or pillow.
Admittance for the church community is donation-based; $20 is suggested via cash, check, or Venmo. No RSVP needed. Doors open at 6:30 pm; please arrive by 6:45. Program begins promptly at 7:00pm. Download our flyer and share our Eventbrite page to invite family and friends!
If you would like to submit an announcement for our weekly e-blast, please adhere to the guidelines found here. All submissions are due Wednesday by noon.
Sweet Surrender
Our neighbors sometimes get the impression that “religious” people are all smug and self-satisfied. The great irony and truth of Step 3 and of the Gospel is that true power fills our lives when we surrender “our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.” In that surrender, our understanding is such a limited requirement. Grace fills our lives with gratitude and humility.
I am very grateful to be sharing the pulpit this Sunday with Andrew Champion, who will be sharing his story of surrender and spiritual release. –Pastor Dale
Sunday worship begins at 10:15AM.
Join us in person in our sanctuary or watch online via Zoom, Facebook or YouTube Live.
Bulletin Link
You may give your Tithes & Offerings by mail, or click here to give online.
Watch Online
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 879 9397 9913
Passcode: 326043
Or dial the following number: 1(669) 900-6833.
When prompted, enter the meeting ID & passcode above.
To join Sunday Worship via Facebook, click here and look for the live video at the top of the page.
To watch the livestream of our service on YouTube, click here.
Upcoming Sundays
12-Step Spirituality
August 4, 2024
Daring to Face Ourselves
*
August 11, 2024
Accountability is Sustainability
*