Office Hours
MWF from 9am-3pm
(269) 375-3262
Mission Statement
“People’s Church strives to inspire intellectual, spiritual and religious growth,
to encourage freedom
of thought, and to promote personal quests
for meaning and religious challenge.
Wishing to provide opportunities for fellowship and community involvement for all people, in a nurturing and supportive environment, we will continue to function
as a role model of diversity for the community
and to serve as a base for active outreach to benefit the world around us.”
Proposed Mission Statement
"People's Church is a welcoming religious community drawing on wisdom and inspiration from many sources to discover and live out our highest values."
Proposed Vision Statement
"In the Kalamazoo community, we are recognized as a home for religious values including freedom of thought, fairness, inclusion, and environmental responsibility. Our congregation embraces diversity. We live courageously in right relations to develop meaningful relationships.
We draw from many sources of wisdom including major world religions, science, the arts, and nature. Our wide range of programs and worship services inspire spiritual, emotional, and intellectual growth for all ages. Our members and our children develop lifelong religious values and enthusiastically embrace congregational life.
We have a positive impact on targeted social justice issues.
The community knows us for how we live our values."
February 14th, 2010 "The Many Faces of Love" Sunday Services Committee - 10:45am
Valentine's Day can be a beautiful celebration of romantic love, but it can also oversimplify what love really means. Several People's people—members of the Sunday Services Committee—will explore more of the nuances and depths which give love its power and potential. We'll look at love in art and literature, love as justice and mourning, love and health, and muse about what love in action looks like in its myriad forms.
Music before the service will be provided by the People’s Church band.
Service Auction, Saturday, March 13th
It’s that time again! Our Annual Service Auction will be held on Saturday, March 13th this year. Social hour will begin at 6, bidding will start at 7. Please bring an appetizer to share. Childcare will be available.
Inventory your talents - what services can you offer to auction at this year’s event?
Inventory your closet/kitchen- help us re-build the silent auction with your crafts, culinary creations, art work etc. The bidding takes place “silently” during the course of the auction and the winning bidder goes home with the goods! We’ve had fun with this in the past and would like to offer it again this year.
Let us know what you’d like to donate/bring. Email Leslie Cronenwett
or look for donation slips on the kiosk
in the church foyer.
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Martha's Table
Thanks to all who have signed up to help with our new community collaboration as a part of Martha’s Table,
a weekly meal and fellowship for homeless people, sponsored by ten local religious congregations. More than 50 of us have signed-up! Cindy Pietras and Dave Bryan have graciously agreed to be our congregational coordinators, working with representatives from the other congregations. Our first assignment is to provide worship and the meal on Sunday evening, January 31. A group of about 12 people from the sign-up list have been asked to be part of this first team. If you were not called, don’t worry – we’ll be serving about once every ten weeks, so everyone will get a chance to help.
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Holiday Generosity
Generosity is flowing at People’s Church. The Christmas special collection for our two Partner Churches netted more than $6000. $1000 will be sent to support the Transylvanian university student. $5000 will become part of the Burundi Building Project Fund, which will grow with contributions from other UU congregations. A very generous supporter has committed $10,000 in matching funds for this project – so the next $10,000 we help to raise for Burundi will be doubled! If you have friends, relatives or neighbors who might be interested in contributing to this project, by all means invite them to do so.
When we pool our resources and work together, great things tend to happen. Thanks to all who contributed!
In addition, on Sunday Jan. 17 we collected and sent $2961.76 to the UUA / UUSC Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.
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Between Us
 I write this in the week before our “Searching for the Future” weekend, during which we will do our best to come to new clarity of understanding our priorities as a congregation—priorities which will hopefully help us make decisions about our building and our programs. I’m eagerly looking forward to the process—though I myself will only be an observer, since this process belongs to the congregation. I’m eager and interested because of all the energy I’ve seen and felt in the last several months as so many of you have worked, talked, read and discussed in preparation for this process.
For all the committees, dinner groups, chalice circles and other gatherings which addressed the focus questions in some way—thank you! The few that I participated in convinced me that there is a depth of commitment to religious life...Full Article
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