Stewardship

MATTHEW 7:16You will know them by their fruits… November is Stewardship Month at University Church. By Pledge Sunday, which is November 19, we are invited to turn in a pledge card (or PLEDGE ONLINE here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYm_qdQk5YW4OP76YsjtiJR-r6GpyyaztQ7Iuwr9EvKDr6Ag/viewform) ) affirming how we plan to support University Church time, treasure, and talents in 2024. This year, the Finance […]

Pledging our time, talent, and treasure in 2020 For many, University Church represents a beacon, a warm light that welcomes and embraces all who enter with love, full acceptance, and support in times of need. Won’t you take a moment to consider how the path has been made a little easier or brighter? How can […]

NOVEMBER 2018 – “Homecoming” Each year we spend the month of November committing with our time, talent, and money for the next year. We each make a pledge, and then use that to set our budget for 2019. It is how God and our dream of the Beloved Community is made real in this space, […]

Imagine a loaf of fresh-baked bread: warm and soft yet filling and sustaining. Even the thought ignites your senses: it’s the best. What causes bread to possess this power over us is the living yeast which, when added to the flour and a few other simple ingredients, grows and rises into a loaf. During our […]

  Thank you for making this HOME.  “…Or at close at it can get,” is what Jose Juan told me about a week after we had welcomed him into Sanctuary. That was April 2016, and he was fighting to remain with his family in America. We were helping him. One reporter that came to interview […]

“Everybody In, Nobody Out”   What’s your favorite Jesus miracle? Feeding five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fish? Turning water into wine? Raising Lazarus? Each of Christ’s wonders speaks to us in different ways, but they share a common setting: miracles happen in groups. Miracles happen when people come together under […]