What's Going On At Kearney First UMC?

Our church is turning 154! Please join us in between services in the Gathering Area on April 27th for a birthday celebration and information on the Birthday Builders Fund.

Please join us in celebrating our Confirmation Class! Confirmation Sunday will be May 4

The East Lawn Food Ministry is in need of volunteers to complete various tasks on Saturday Mornings and join the pick-up substitute list.  Contact the church office if you are interested volunteering.

Let us celebrate the risen Christ on Easter Sunday, April 20! Our traditional services will be at 8 and 11 and our modern service will be at 9:30.

Please join us for our Maundy Thursday service at 6:30 PM on April 17th and our Good Friday service at 6:30 PM on April 18th.

Join us in the Heritage Room on Mondays from 7:00-8:00pm, beginning March 3rd and running through April 21st, as we walk together through Lent, preparing to become truly Easter people. Pastor Jo Ellen will lead a study on how Christ’s journey through suffering and death helps us face our own pain with hope. This study invites us to reflect on the hardest part of being human, acknowledging our mortality and embracing the suffering of Good Friday, as we await the joy of Easter. Contact the church office to be included, so we have a book and chair ready for you. We look forward to exploring this season together!

Let’s connect and grow in our faithfulness to Jesus through a monthly gathering. Each gathering will be one hour, in which we’ll study parts of the Gospel of John using a video study by New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine. Click Read More for the dates!

Our radio broadcast ministry is now a call-in sermon ministry.  You can call 308-208-6336 to listen to Sunday’s scripture and sermon!  The sermon will be uploaded on Sunday afternoon and is available 24/7 until the next Sunday’s upload.  If you’d like to listen to the full service, you can find it on the sermon archive page of our website, our YouTube channel, or on our mobile app!

If you would like to dive in deeper during our 2025 series but may not have the time to commit to an in-person Bible study, our Thursday morning podcasts will be structured as a mini Bible study. They will focus on segments of the non-preached passages of scripture from the pastor who didn't preach on the chapter. You can find our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Podbean, or on the Podcast and Sermon Archive Page of our website!

The Health and Wellness Ministry will be hosting a Skin Cancer awareness event on Sunday, May 4 in between services in the chapel. Skin cancer is the most common and most preventable type of cancer. During this event, the Health and Wellness Ministry will be providing face and scalp scanning for skin damage and educational resources on prevention and types of sunscreen. All are encouraged to attend!