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This Sunday Pastor Heidi will lead us in a service of prayer: prayers for Transgender Awareness and Resilience Week, prayers of thanksgiving, and prayers for all of us facing a time of increased quarantine to dampen the spread of Covid-19. A Thanksgiving coffee hour on Zoom will follow worship at 11:30 (details below).

Rev. DiAnne Hatch will lead worship this Sunday, accompanied by several members and friends of McKinley, and the choir. In her sermon, “Ponder this Parable,” Pastor DiAnne will reflect on the parable of the talents, or coins, found in Matthew 25:14-30.

This Sunday Pastor Heidi and the choir will lead the congregation as we look to spiritual ways to move through the results of the 2020 election. This week’s service will also include live Prayers of the People. If anyone has a prayer concern, please email it to Heidi (h-weatherford@mckinley-church.org) no later than 9 a.m. Sunday […]

In partnership with Garden Hills Elementary School, McKinley Church and Foundation will provide Thanksgiving baskets for families in need throughout Champaign and Urbana. Due to COVID-19 precautions, we cannot accept purchased items for the baskets as we have done in the past. Instead, please consider making a donation of any amount to the McKinley Foundation. […]

After the postlude on November 1, Yohei will play special Halloween music on the organ (themes from two well-known movies). Please enjoy! (Because of copyright issues, his performance will be deleted from the archive of the service. If you miss it, you can contact Yohei to send you a recording.)

This Sunday we celebrate All Saints Day, All Souls Day, and Day of the Dead. Rev. Cindy Shepherd is our guest preacher, and Pastor Heidi will lead us in a remembrance of those who died in the past year. If we were worshipping in person at McKinley, we would create a memorial space for the […]

This Sunday we welcome Rev. Stu Smith as our guest preacher. In the 1980s, Stu was a member of McKinley until he entered seminary. Stu will lead the pastoral prayer and will preach from Mark 4, on Jesus and the disciples in the storm.