Services

 

General Worship Information

Worship – 9 am on Sunday
Join us each Sunday for in-person Worship Services in our Sanctuary.

We also offer our livestream service that is also posted to our website, YouTube and on Facebook. You can view all our online services here.

Please join us! Worship includes a children’s message and great music. Children’s Sunday school, Youth, and Adult Sunday school are also meeting in-person and online. 

Contact office@genevaumc.org for more information.

Children’s, Youth, and Adult Sunday School also meet on Sundays during the school year.

Lenten Series

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
The haunting hymn invites us to consider what it was like for the people who were there on Good Friday. Join Pastor Rob Hamilton this Lent for a narrative look at the bystanders and scoffers, the other victims, the soldiers, the beloved disciple, the women, and those who cared for Jesus’ body – all were there with Jesus in his final hours.


(Based on the scholarship of Amy Jill Levine in Witness at the Cross). 

Sunday, February 26 at 9:00am: The Bystanders and Scoffers
Consider those who mocked and tormented Jesus. We know the type who make sure the world knows people deserve what is coming to them. These scoffers stinging words hang in the air, just as Simon of Cyrene stings from the pain of carrying the cross. He was just an innocent bystander that day. Are we scoffers and bystanders to where we see Jesus today? Join Pastor Rob Hamilton at the start of this new series, Were you there?

Sunday, March 5 at 9:00am: The Other Victims
As we know, Jesus wasn’t the only person to be crucified on that fateful day. Two others were crucified with him. Were they thieves, bandits, criminals, terrors, rebels, freedom fighters? What was their experience like? What might we be called to do for victims in our day? Find out with Pastor Rob Hamilton in this narrative Lenten series “Were you there?”

Sunday, March 12 at 9:00am: The Soldiers
They just had a job to do, right? Someone has to work for the department of corrections. The soldiers all had a role in Jesus death – some it was another day on the job stripping men of their dignity, others actually realized that Jesus wasn’t just a man, he was the Son of Man. Join Pastor Rob as we explore what the crucifixion was like from the perspective of the soldiers.

Sunday, March 19 at 9:00am: The Beloved Disciple
They just had a job to do, right? Someone has to work for the department of corrections. The soldiers all had a role in Jesus death – some it was another day on the job stripping men of their dignity, others actually realized that Jesus wasn’t just a man, he was the Son of Man. Join Pastor Rob as we explore what the crucifixion was like from the perspective of the soldiers.

Sunday, March 26 at 9:00am: The Women
There were women lining the streets and beating their chests. There were women who followed Jesus from the moment he was arrested, until they rolled the stone over his grave. When others looked away, the female disciples were with him until the end. What do the women teach all of us about true discipleship? Join Pastor Rob Hamilton as we consider what it was like for the women at the cross.

Palm Sunday, April 2 at 9:00am: The Undertakers
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus were somewhat secret admirers (maybe students even) of Jesus. They were not your typical undertakers. They were men of means who took great risk to offer Jesus a shred of dignity after everything had been stripped from him. What do these two faithful ones teach us about love, risk, and dignity from the cross? Join pastor Rob Hamilton as we learn more from those who cared for his body.

Maundy Thursday, April 6 at 7:00pm at Batavia United Methodist Church
Share in a Tri-City Methodist Maundy Thursday Worship Service that features twelve moving monologues that help draw us into the events of Holy Week and the evening of Jesus’ Last Supper with the Disciples. This shared worship service also celebrates communion and will be held at Batavia UMC at 7pm on Thursday, April 6, 2023. Batavia UMC is located at 8 N Batavia Ave, Batavia, IL and parking is located in the public lots and marked streets surrounding the church.

Good Friday, April 7 at 7:30pm
Our 7:30pm Good Friday Service calls us to remember the passion of Jesus Christ through dramatic readings of gospel accounts of Good Friday. This solemn service features: singing, prayer, choir and candlelight in addition to the readings.

Easter Sunday, April 9 at 9:00am: Were are there!
Our 9am Easter Worship celebrates Jesus’ resurrection from the grave, triumph over sin and death and serves as the capstone to our Lenten Worship Series Were You There? Our bright music and beautiful sanctuary will surrounds Pastor Rob’s Hamilton’s message We Are There as we go to the garden with Mary, the other women, and the disciples to experience Easter morning afresh for our lives today!