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Sign Up to Hear from Us By Email
If you want to join the mailing lists for Children’s Ministry or Youth Ministry, email those staff persons directly or use your Sunday Connect Card to sign up. Lindsay Robinson, Director of Children’s Ministry, lrobinson@hilliardumc.org Nikki Buskirk, Director of Middle Grades Ministry (grades 3-6), nikki@hilliardumc.org April Andrick, Director of Youth Ministry, humc_youth@yahoo.com
Sacred Earth Group
Wednesday, October 236:30-7:30pmIn person:Sanctuary buildingParlor (room 206) Join facilitators Ellen Hans and Emily Lamb in this new group for conversation and action around climate change, environmental stewardship, and how to best care for our Sacred Earth! Come make plans to work on projects together, generate group and individual action steps, perhaps hear a guest speaker, read and discuss books to educate ourselves, and mostly support each other in our efforts to protect our Earth. Bring your ideas and energy for…
Listening to our Hearts
May 22, 2024A Note from Pastor April Dear Friends, I’ve been back from my renewal leave for six months this week, and I continue to feel the benefits of those four months away. Some of the gifts were expected — rest, time with family and friends, and a chance to travel were among the highlights. One of the greatest gifts, however, was entirely a surprise. The time away gave me time to LISTEN to what my heart truly desires. I’m…
Fill Your Cup
May 8, 2024A Note from David Bartholomew Dear Friends, So, you’re hoping to be in tune with today’s discipleship in a time when your views on social change can make or break nearly all sense of community? No matter what beat you’re marching to, we can all find common ground in the idea that we are here to do what He has called us to do. That is the very foundation of what led me to join the congregation officially…
Listening to our Hearts
January 3, 2024A Note from Pastor April Dear Friends, 2023 was filled with life lessons. Some of these were lessons that I was focused on from the start of the year. I learned a lot about what it means to listen to my body and the valuable wisdom she brings. Renewal leave allowed me the space I needed to slow down and move at a pace that felt healthy and healing. (A lesson I’m still learning after coming back from…
Stand Up & Go Gold!
May 10, 2023A Note from Robin Ozbolt Dear Friends, In our preschool world, colors are a topic of conversation on a daily basis. What is your favorite color? Can you share the red crayon? My dress is pink! My shoes are green! But when does a color represent much more than a shade on the spectrum of colors? The Color Gold The color gold has been on all of our minds this year. Gold is a precious metal, but it…
Methodism – Denominational Update
November 16, 2022A Note from Pastor April Dear Friends, I remember the moment I knew the United Methodist Church was the right one for me. I was in seminary in a United Methodist History class, and our professor, Dr. Diane Lobody, was telling us story after story of John Wesley in the early days of the Methodist movement. Wesley lived in the mid 1700s, a priest and academic in the Church of England. He bore witness to the massive divide…
Want to hear from us more often?
We send out occasional news eblasts about upcoming events, adult learning opportunities, and places where you can plug in and serve others. Weekly Letters of Encouragement will give you some hope and joy and boost your faith. If you like to pray for others, sign up for our twice-weekly prayer chain.
Still Standing, Still Celebrating: 4 Years as a Reconciling Church
June 2, 2025A Note from Pastor Jon Dear Friends, Still Standing, Still Celebrating: 4 Years as a Reconciling Church In June of 2021, after a thoughtful and prayerful discernment process, the membership of Hilliard United Methodist Church overwhelmingly voted to become a Reconciling Congregation in the United Methodist Church. It was more than a statement. It was a commitment—to justice, to radical love, and to the full dignity and sacred worth of all persons in the life of the church.…
View for a Black Woman
May 21, 2025A Note from Nikki Buskirk Dear Friends, I often find myself asking, where did I turn left while others kept straight when it comes to individualism? I can’t remember a time when I didn’t think about others’ welfare, when I ever wanted to not include someone. When I was younger, I was the shy, nerdy, Black kid who was often left out. I always tried to make sure others weren’t excluded in anything I was in. Whether it…
The Lens of Progressivism
May 7, 2025A Note from Pastor April Dear Friends, In last week’s Letter of Encouragement, Pastor Jon shared a bit about how the lens of fundamentalism shaped his story. Sunday, he shared more about this lens that has influenced so much of modern Christian practice. Fundamentalism arose largely as a push back to society’s shifting views toward science and evolution. Interestingly, progressive Christians also had concerns about the growing emphasis on reason and the ways some thinkers in the early…
The Lens of Fundamentalism
April 30, 2025A Note from Pastor Jon Dear Friends, When the Letter Becomes Stone:A Reflection on the Rise of Theological Fundamentalism Before I ever studied hermeneutics or learned to pronounce it, I had already been shaped by a singular lens of interpretation — one that read the Bible as both map and rulebook, absolute and unchanging. I grew up in Hopewell, Virginia, just down the road from prominent faith leaders and communities deeply connected to the rise of fundamentalist Christianity.…