Union Chapel UMC

Imagine a village suffering from a severe drought. The community gathers for a massive prayer service to beg for rain. But as everyone gathers, only one little girl shows up holding an umbrella. 🌧️

While everyone else prayed for a miracle, she was the only one who actually expected it to happen. Her unwavering faith is an inspiring lesson for all of us: true faith means trusting that good things are already on the way. When you pray, are you bringing your umbrella?

"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." — Hebrews 11:1

Let's challenge ourselves this week to pray with expectancy. Trust God completely, prepare for His blessings, and don’t forget your umbrella! Have a blessed week! 🙏✨

🤝 Better Together.

At Union Chapel UMC, we aren't just a building or a Sunday destination—we are a family. We celebrate together during life's joys, hold each other up during life's trials, and share life's everyday moments. If you’ve been looking for a place where you are truly known, seen, and valued, you’ll find it here.

"Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts." — Acts 2:46

Come experience what true community feels like this weekend! We can't wait to welcome you. 🏠❤️

Sylvia is home and thankful it wasn’t anything serious! On her behalf, thank you for all your prayers!

This is an excerpt from the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church. It reminds us why we care and pray for those who suffer and are need among us and abroad. “For God so loved the WORLD that he gave us Jesus…”

So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God.”�— Ephesians 2:19

In these unsettled days, the church is called once more to remember who we are and whose we are. Before we are citizens of any nation, we are children of God, each one bearing the divine image (Genesis 1:27). The prevenient grace of God has gone before us, already at work in every person of every nation, long before any of us sought God or could earn or even recognize it, awakening conscience and bestowing a worth no court can grant and no decree can revoke. In Christ that same grace gathers us into one family, so that we are no longer strangers and aliens but members together of the household of God (Ephesians 2:19). This is the first and deepest truth about every migrant, every immigrant, every refugee, and every child among us.

The gospel proclaims a citizenship deeper still, for our citizenship is in heaven (Philippians 3:20), and from that secure belonging we are freed to contend for the dignity of every earthly neighbor.

Scripture holds together what we often try to pull apart, binding the eternal and the temporal in one calling from God. The same Lord who tells us that our home is in heaven commands us, here and now, to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God (Micah 6:8). To ancient Israel God gave the charge, ‘The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt’ (Leviticus 19:34). Our Lord himself knew the refugee road, carried as a child into Egypt to escape a ruler’s violence (Matthew 2), and he teaches us that when we welcome the stranger, we welcome him (Matthew 25:35). A faith that professes these truths and does nothing is no living faith at all, for faith without deeds is dead (James 2:26).

This is the holiness our Wesleyan tradition has always taught: a faith made complete in love, hearts warmed by grace and hands at work in a world of need, where the very mercy we extend to the stranger becomes the place we meet the grace of God in return.…indeed it becomes the place where we meet Jesus.