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Kent United Methodist Church


We joyfully embrace God's acceptance and love of all people. 

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Kent United Methodist Church


We joyfully embrace God's acceptance and love of all people. 

The church office follows the Kent School District guidelines for weather-related closures. If you need anything, please email us at general@kentmethodist.com or call or email the staff using their personal contact numbers. kent.k12.wa.us/InclementWeather


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10:00 aM In the Sanctuary


Get Ready for Holy Week!

March 28, 2024, Maundy Thursday (7:00 PM)

Hand washing, holy communion, and a focus on servanthood as the everyday way of life of following Jesus are included. Learn how you can put others first and be lifted up and transformed by the joy of service. Parents are encouraged to talk to their children about the meaning of this important day (read Luke 22:14-23).

March 29, 2024, Good Friday (7:00 PM)

Tenebrae worship is a service of candlelight that ends in darkness, remembering Jesus' suffering and crucifixion. A special Good Friday service for children and families will be held in the Fellowship Hall at 7:00 pm.

March 29, 2024, Good Friday Family Service

The miracle of Easter is more fully appreciated by children (and all of us) as an understanding is formed about what came before that joyful dawn. Children and their families are encouraged to join in a special Good Friday worship service in the fellowship hall, which will take place at the same time as the service in the Sanctuary. Our youth will lead this experiential service of stories, light, and shadow. It is designed for children but will be a meaningful worship experience for all ages. 

March 31, 2024, Easter Sunday Sunrise Service on the Church Lawn (7:00 AM)

Easter brings the excitement of an impossible story: Jesus is alive! We have an empty tomb, an appearance to Mary, a risen Christ. God has brought life from death. Suffering and death are not the final words in the divine-human drama. Join us on the church lawn as we welcome this holy day.

Easter Worship in the Sanctuary (10:00 AM)

On Easter Sunday, our youth will wave ribbons and banners as we open our 10:00 am worship service. We will celebrate with beautiful music and singing hymns; Easter brings the excitement of an impossible story: Jesus is alive! We have an empty tomb, an appearance to Mary, a risen Christ. God has brought life from death. Suffering and death are not the final words in the divine-human drama. You will also have a chance to receive an anointing with oil and a blessing, or you might want to renew your commitment to Christ.

Followed by an Easter Egg Hunt for Children through 4th Grade

  • If you want to know the true power of God to change your life and change the world, experience the darkness of your own life lifted-up, broken open, and transformed in holiest week of the year.

    The most important week of the Christian year is called Holy Week, a week filled with hope. It’s also filled with suffering and pain, betrayal and death. It begins with Palm Sunday when Jesus enters Jerusalem in a parade of hopeful populism but humble, on a donkey. He is bringing the kingdom of God, it’s power and purpose, to the holy city of Jerusalem. We hold our breath to see how the world will respond.

    Maundy Thursday lifts-up the Passover, an ancient meal celebrating liberation and freedom. Jesus’ last supper with his disciples on the Passover institutes the sacrament of communion that holds together selfless service and shared food at an open table that will be the center piece of Christian worship forever. This is how Christians live by following Jesus – on our knees serving others.

    Next comes Good Friday when Jesus is tortured and killed. In the eyes of the political and religious authorities, the irritating movement that Jesus called the kingdom of God dies with him on that cross. They are wrong, however. Easter Sunday celebrates the power of God to bring life where there is death, hope where there is only despair. On Easter Sunday, resurrection has the final word! Love is stronger than violence, oppression, and death. In the end, mercy, justice, and hope triumph over suffering, pain, and death.

    Richard Rohr says that Jesus crucified is all of the hidden, private, and tragic pain of our lives and of history brought from the shadows into the light and given over to God. Jesus resurrected is all of that private, ungrieved, unnoted suffering received by God, loved and transformed by God. If this were not so, how could we not die of sadness for what humanity has done to itself and what we have done to one another? Easter is the announcement of God’s perfect and final victory! 1

    Holy Week is the most complete, the most honest, the most real week of the Christian year. It is the time when the crushing and life-stealing forces of the world and the worst in us is exposed for its fraudulence and fear then transformed by love into something good, powerful, and holy: a new life for you and me and all people everywhere, a life marked by peace and hope, solidarity and justice, power and purpose.

    This year, if you want to know the true power of God to change your life and change the world, experience the darkness of your own life lifted-up, broken open, and transformed in the holiest week. Please do not miss the Holy Week this year.

    I’ll look for you in church!

    Pastor Jim

  • How can I grow into a spiritually mature person? Why is it so hard? And will I ever really be any different? Jesus promises that if we will only follow him closely, everything in our lives and in this world will be transformed. Holy change is never easy and rarely instantaneous, but it is possible. Holiness grows in us whenever we get serious about learning from Jesus how to arrange our lives. Join Pastor Jim as we continue our journey with Jesus to Jerusalem and Easter Sunday (March 31st) unpacking some of the Bible’s most powerful teachings about everyday spiritual practices that ordinary people like us can do to live changed lives and make a greater impact in the world.

    March 3, 2024
    Lent 3

    Working Things Out With God – Praying and Confessing
    Matthew 6:5-15

    March 10, 2024
    Lent 4

    Learning the Stories and Seeking Guidance
    John 10:1-18

    March 17, 2024
    Lent 5

    Laying Down Your Life in Servanthood
    Matthew 20:20-28
    Philippians 2:1-8

    March 24, 2024
    Palm Sunday

    Going the Distance In Jesus’ Name

    Mark 11:1-11
    March 28, 2024
    Maundy Thursday
    (7:00 PM)

    Hand washing, holy communion, and a focus on servanthood as the everyday way of life of following Jesus. Learn how you can put others first and be lifted up and transformed by the joy of service.

    March 29, 2024
    Good Friday
    (7:00 PM)
    Tenebrae worship – a service of candlelight that ends in darkness, remembering the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus. A special Good Friday service for children and families will be held in the Fellowship Hall at 7:00 pm. See page 4 for additional information.

    March 31, 2024
    Easter Sunday Sunrise Service

    @ 7:00 AM on the Church Lawn

    Easter Worship
    @ 10:00 AM in the Sanctuary

    Seek and You Shall Find
    John 20:1-18

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Creation Care Commitment

We, the Kent United Methodist Church, commit to continuing to decrease our carbon footprint as measured by the EPA Portfolio Manager metrics to attain the goal of becoming an Energy Star Building by the year 2030. The measurements include our use of electricity, gas, water, and disposal of garbage, recycling, and compost.

Energy Star Score for 2019—30 for 2022—43 for 2023— 59
Energy Star Target Goal: 75 by the year 2030


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Worship with Us At 10:00 AM
on Sunday Morning in Person and Livestreamed
on Facebook & on YouTube