Sunday Worship is streaming via Zoom and Facebook Live at 10:15am. You may give your Offerings through this link here. Also, please have your bread and beverage at-hand for Communion.
“Doing, Undoing, Listening, Being, Acting”
3rd Sunday after Pentecost
Rev. Pamela Kurtz, Pastor, Laurel Williams, Sherri Elinson, Margaret LeWright
LMUMC Worship Vitality Team
Youtube Music Links
Click on the song title and become familiar with this week’s selections.
Opening Song: We Are Called
Song of Thanksgiving: We Bring The Sacrifice of Praise
Closing Song: Turn Turn Turn
Bulletin
Download and print the clickable PDF below as an in-home bulletin to participate in the live-stream.
06.21.2020
Please send prayers and “gratitudes” to Pastor Pam by noon Saturday so she may lift them up during worship.
ZOOM Information
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89059510871?pwd=ZGdPL05xbGREZjBuZ0RqWFhBOGJjZz09
Meeting ID: 843 4289 1742
Password: 018021
To join Sunday Worship via Facebook, log onto your Facebook account and search for ‘Lake Merritt United Methodist Church’ page. To join via Telephone (no computer or smart device) please dial the number below then, when asked, dial the meeting ID and Password provided.
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Meeting ID: 890 5951 0871
Password: 018021
Previous Services
Missed a service? No need to worry, LMUMC is uploading previous worship services onto our Facebook via our website. View June 7 at this link here.
Sunday Worship is streaming via Zoom and Facebook Live at 10:15am. You may give your Offerings through this link here. Also, please have your bread and beverage at-hand for Communion.
“The Cross and the Lynching Tree”
2nd Sunday after Pentecost
The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Pastor, Trinity UCC, Chicago
Youtube Music Links
Click on the song title and become familiar with this week’s selections.
Opening Song: Saranum, Saranum
Song of Thanksgiving: We Bring The Sacrifice of Praise
Closing Song: There is a Balm in Gilead
Bulletin
Download and print the clickable PDF below as an in-home bulletin to participate in the live-stream.
06.14.2020
Please send prayers and “gratitudes” to Pastor Pam by noon Saturday so she may lift them up during worship.
ZOOM Information
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89059510871?pwd=ZGdPL05xbGREZjBuZ0RqWFhBOGJjZz09
Meeting ID: 843 4289 1742
Password: 018021
To join Sunday Worship via Facebook, log onto your Facebook account and search for ‘Lake Merritt United Methodist Church’ page. To join via Telephone (no computer or smart device) please dial the number below then, when asked, dial the meeting ID and Password provided.
1(669) 900-6833
Meeting ID: 890 5951 0871
Password: 018021
Previous Services
Missed a service? No need to worry, LMUMC is uploading previous worship services onto our Facebook via our website. View June 7 at this link here.
Over the past three weeks we have witnessed and learned of assaults on black and brown persons by police officers, and private assaults unreported by police officers. These nationally publicized acts caused an outpouring of grief and anger at the ongoing systemic assaults as well as systemic neglect of assaults by private parties on black and brown people. The anger and grief have been felt and experienced in our own faith community of LMUMC.
As a result, last Sunday, May 31, I opened a Zoom ‘LMUMC Townhall on Systemic Racism and its Effect on Black and Brown People.’ I asked our black and brown brothers and sisters to speak first. Those who joined the townhall expressed some raw feelings, and many also heard and experienced the grief, anger and dismay. Near the end of the gathering, we recognized that this was only the first of several necessary conversations that our community needs to have about the deep-rooted systemic racism that many have experienced their whole lives, as well as the subtle and not-so-subtle racism that many Caucasians either express, or stay silent in the face of hearing. These townhalls we believe need to occur to begin to remedy the brokenness of our system, the long-existing systemic inequality and the practices that individuals, especially Caucasians can and need to begin or continue to do.
We have decided to hold weekly LMUMC Townhalls on Sunday evenings, 6:30 pm. I recognize that the time between 5 pm and 8 pm is the dinner hour for most families. It was not possible to pick a particular hour that would not interfere with at least one family’s dinner. If this is your dinner hour, we hope you will make this townhall your dinner hour conversation.
I pray that each of you are leaning into the power and hope of the Holy Spirit during these times of Covid-19 pandemic and the reckoning of our country’s built-in racism and its effect on everyone of us, most especially on our black and brown brothers and sisters. I also pray that even if you feel talked out, listened out, heard or spoke enough about the long-existing issue, you will continue to lean in, listen to, speak to, and be open to transformation through the love of God, the compassion and justice of Jesus the Christ and the power and passion of the Holy Spirit.
I look forward to seeing on Sunday mornings for worship at 10:15 am and in the evenings at 6:30 pm for LMUMC Townhall on System Racism and Its Effect on Black and Brown People.
Please see our website for the Zoom links for both Sunday morning worship and Sunday evening townhall.
Sunday Worship is streaming via Zoom and Facebook Live at 10:15am. You may give your Offerings through this link here. Also, please have your bread and beverage at-hand for Communion.
“Voices of our Graduates”
1st Sunday after Pentecost
Tiye Kurtz-Miott, Alameda Science & Technology Institute
Santana Rougemont, UC Berkeley Masters Program in Social Work
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATES!!!
Tiye Kurtz-Miott (High School), Santana Rougemont (Masters Degree), Daniel Champion (High School), and John Champion (Middle School)
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Youtube Music Links
Click on the song title and become familiar with this week’s selections.
Opening Song: Sanctuary
Special Song: Unwritten
Song of Thanksgiving: We Bring The Sacrifice of Praise
Closing Song: Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
Bulletin
Download and print the clickable PDF below as an in-home bulletin to participate in the live-stream.
06.07.2020
Please send prayers and “gratitudes” to Pastor Pam by noon Saturday so she may lift them up during worship.
ZOOM Information
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89059510871?pwd=ZGdPL05xbGREZjBuZ0RqWFhBOGJjZz09
Meeting ID: 890 5951 0871
Password: 670444
To join Sunday Worship via Facebook, log onto your Facebook account and search for ‘Lake Merritt United Methodist Church’ page. To join via Telephone (no computer or smart device) please dial the number below then, when asked, dial the meeting ID and Password provided.
1(669) 900-6833
Meeting ID: 890 5951 0871
Password: 670444
Previous Services
Missed a service? No need to worry, LMUMC is uploading previous worship services onto our Facebook via our website. View May 31 at this link here.
Sunday Worship is streaming via Zoom and Facebook Live at 10:15am. You may give your Offerings through this link here. Also, please have your bread and beverage at-hand for Communion.
“Power of the Purpose”
Pentecost Sunday
Rev. Staci Current, DS Bay District, UMC
As this is Pentecost Sunday, we invite you to wear fiery colors, and/or create your own Pentecost background [you know you have some items around your home to create something 🙂 ]. Or, find a Pentecost background on the web and make that your background. See you on Sunday. Keep safe and separate, yet together.
ZOOM Information
https://zoom.us/j/988056399?pwd=enFhMUx4eWZoZ3hSZiswZGdHVzJVZz0
Meeting ID: 988 056 399
Password: 658782
To join Sunday Worship via Facebook, log onto your Facebook account and search for ‘Lake Merritt United Methodist Church’ page. To join via Telephone (no computer or smart device) please dial the number below then, when asked, dial the meeting ID and Password provided.
1(669) 900-6833
Meeting ID: 988 056 399
Password: 658782
Bulletin
Download and print the clickable PDF below as an in-home bulletin to participate in the live-stream.
05.31.2020
Please send prayers and “gratitudes” to Pastor Pam by noon Saturday so she may lift them up during worship.
Music Links
Become familiar with this service’s selections and sing along.
Opening Song: Wa Wa Wa Emimimo
Song of Thanksgiving: What A Mighty God We Serve
Closing Song: In the Midst of New Dimensions
Previous Services
Missed a service? No need to worry, LMUMC is uploading previous worship services onto our Facebook via our website. View May 24, 2020 at this link here.
