Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, Remember a few weeks ago when we played with the meanings of the common biblical themes salt and light? Our Bishop Dan Schwerin (pictured left) recently offered some thoughts on those themes as well. I encourage you to read the whole letter, but here’s a piece of it: “I have […]
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, Way back in 1787, Sarah Mallet was a preacher in the Methodist Church. She was appointed by no less than John Wesley. (Wesley was a main leader in the movement that would come to be known as Methodist.) Minooka UMC has been led by many incredible female clergy over the
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, I just discovered The United Methodist Church released a brand new resource that I think you might very well find helpful and enlightening. It’s called The Handbook of the United Methodist Church. This Handbook is designed to help you understand who we are, how we are connected, and how we
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, John Wesley, the person credited with starting the movement that would become the United Methodist Church, refused to limit his ministry to private, individual spiritual matters. Quite the opposite—he famously declared, “I look upon all the world as my parish.” Wesley understood the inherent, inescapable connection between our faith in
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The United Methodist Church is a
Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, What is the essence of Jesus’ message? To be honest, most of my clergy friends and I would balk a bit at that question and respond with something like: Jesus’ message is meant to be more than a mere soundbite! The beautiful complexity of his birth, life, teachings, death, and
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, In my letter here last week, I shared our denomination’s new vision statement: The United Methodist Church forms disciples of Jesus Christ who, empowered by the Holy Spirit, love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously in local communities and worldwide connections. Let’s explore that a bit further. How did we
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, Last week in this space, I shared a glimpse into some of the work in which our church leaders are engaging. As our leadership team plots plans and paths for 2026, it is helpful to remember (or, um, announce? I don’t remember if we shared this previously) that as a
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family,Wasn’t MUMC Eras Tour slide show so much fun!? Huge THANK YOU to Office Manager Melissa Candler for organizing all those photos throughout the year! If you don’t know to what I’m referring, I must encourage you to click here to watch the video of our worship experience wherein we shared
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Dear Minooka UMC Found Family, Nine days into 2026, how are those New Year’s resolutions going? Research suggests almost a quarter (23%) of those who set resolutions quit in the first week(!). So if yours is still going, great job! That same research shows 70% of all resolutions are health-related. Is that you? Whatever your
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Christmas Eve at Minooka UMC
Wednesday, Dec. 24
4:00PM featuring Pop-up Pageant
9:00PM featuring Communion
