Welcome to Buffalo United Methodist Church's website! We are a church made up of many ages, personal experiences and faith backgrounds, who celebrate our God-given graces and gifts together in worship and service. We share a common faith in Jesus Christ and a desire to grow in faithfulness, but we're diverse in that God speaks to each of us uniquely. We have different learning styles, we like different styles of music, and we have different ways of expressing our growing faith. A quote from Methodist church founder, John Wesley, sums it up well: “In essentials unity, in all else charity.”
We are serious about following Jesus, but casual about most everything else. We are Biblical in focus, with scripture as the first source of our faith, reflected on using our reason, experience, and faith tradition. But, we also believe that we do not have to agree on everything to love one another or to serve together.
We are grateful to be a generationally-diverse church with over 125 years of history in this community and a rich denominational heritage and connection. Yet, we are continually asking “What is God calling us to do today and tomorrow?”
We strive to share unity, grace and the joy of knowing Christ in our community and in the world. Come visit anytime!
We are serious about following Jesus, but casual about most everything else. We are Biblical in focus, with scripture as the first source of our faith, reflected on using our reason, experience, and faith tradition. But, we also believe that we do not have to agree on everything to love one another or to serve together.
We are grateful to be a generationally-diverse church with over 125 years of history in this community and a rich denominational heritage and connection. Yet, we are continually asking “What is God calling us to do today and tomorrow?”
We strive to share unity, grace and the joy of knowing Christ in our community and in the world. Come visit anytime!
Re-Discovering Joy This Christmas
At the first Christmas, angels proclaimed good news of great joy for all people. But are we still experiencing true joy each Christmas? In our worship series this December we re-tell the Christmas story and rediscover for ourselves the JOY that Christ's birth brings, especially to those least expecting it. Regardless of what's going on in our lives, or perhaps we could say especially because of the struggles and craziness of life, we need find a way to experience the deep and lasting joy that the birth of Christ brings. It's not a fleeting happiness like that of receiving a nice gift or enjoying sweet treats of the holidays...it's a promise of hope and peace that comes even in the midst of the storms of life...that's real joy! Let's re-discover it together this December!
Worship with us any Sunday morning at either the 8:15 Joyful Praise service or the 10:30 traditional service, and we'd love to have you worship with us on Christmas Eve, as well!
December 1 - Joy in the Darkness
December 8 - Joy in our Relatives
December 15 - Joy We Can't Yet See (plus our Sunday School children's Christmas Program from 10:30-11:00 am)
December 22 - Joy for the Lowly
December 24 - Christmas Eve Worship - Good News of Great Joy at 5:00 (Praise) or 7:30 (Classic)
At the first Christmas, angels proclaimed good news of great joy for all people. But are we still experiencing true joy each Christmas? In our worship series this December we re-tell the Christmas story and rediscover for ourselves the JOY that Christ's birth brings, especially to those least expecting it. Regardless of what's going on in our lives, or perhaps we could say especially because of the struggles and craziness of life, we need find a way to experience the deep and lasting joy that the birth of Christ brings. It's not a fleeting happiness like that of receiving a nice gift or enjoying sweet treats of the holidays...it's a promise of hope and peace that comes even in the midst of the storms of life...that's real joy! Let's re-discover it together this December!
Worship with us any Sunday morning at either the 8:15 Joyful Praise service or the 10:30 traditional service, and we'd love to have you worship with us on Christmas Eve, as well!
December 1 - Joy in the Darkness
December 8 - Joy in our Relatives
December 15 - Joy We Can't Yet See (plus our Sunday School children's Christmas Program from 10:30-11:00 am)
December 22 - Joy for the Lowly
December 24 - Christmas Eve Worship - Good News of Great Joy at 5:00 (Praise) or 7:30 (Classic)
Be Part of a New Music Team! We are blessed with many talented musicians, but there is definitely room for more, especially as we head into fall. We'd like to form a second praise team (contemporary music and band) that would lead worship just once a month or so. This allows a slightly lesser time commitment, and a chance for fresh new music, ideas and sound. If you'd like to be part of something new and have a place to share your musical talents in worship, please contact Laurie at the church - 763-682-4409 or email laurie@buffaloumc.com .
We Are a Missional Church!
Buffalo UMC has joined other United Methodist churches across the country in boldly asking God to work through us in new ways. We have adopted five new missional ministry initiatives as a pathway we are following to increase our fruitfulness in reaching more people with the good news of Jesus Christ. These five initiatives (and twelve new ministry teams) are adding vitality and momentum to our ministries of meeting, listening to, learning from, and loving other people in the name and Spirit of Jesus. We are on a journey of becoming fearless, selfless, and hopeful disciples, doing whatever it takes to bring the love of Jesus to hurting, lonely, and left-out people.
Buffalo UMC has joined other United Methodist churches across the country in boldly asking God to work through us in new ways. We have adopted five new missional ministry initiatives as a pathway we are following to increase our fruitfulness in reaching more people with the good news of Jesus Christ. These five initiatives (and twelve new ministry teams) are adding vitality and momentum to our ministries of meeting, listening to, learning from, and loving other people in the name and Spirit of Jesus. We are on a journey of becoming fearless, selfless, and hopeful disciples, doing whatever it takes to bring the love of Jesus to hurting, lonely, and left-out people.
