Get Connected

Our staffed nursery is available every Sunday during worship.

Confirmation on Wednesday Evenings September-May.

Especially during a pandemic, we rely on small groups for connection, learning, and growing deeper in faith!

UMCA has several small groups currently meeting, many virtually. These include Bible Study, book groups, 20-30 somethings, and more! We would love to help you connect to an existing group or to start a new group! CONTACT US!

Sewing and Quilting

Do you love crafting, sewing, or quilting? Join a fun group of folks to work on a variety of projects, including many to support our local community. The group meets a few times a month at UMCA and enjoys friendship and fellowship. New friends are always welcome!

Breakfast Book Scholars, Thursdays at 7am

Bring Your Bible, Thursdays at 9:30am

Exploring Racism Book Club, Wednesdays at 4pm

Contact the Church office if you have any questions or want to learn more. 763-421-2378

Music

Music Ministry has been the heart and soul of UMCA for generations. Now, during a season of pandemic, we are finding creative ways to keep music central to our worship and expression of our faith!

We embrace many styles of music and include a wide variety of music in our worship, such as organ, piano, handbells, acoustic guitar, and many ensembles. Styles range from classical to modern and even include the occasional visit from a jug band or a barbershop quartet! We love to have musicians of all ages and skill levels use their gifts to glorify God!

We also see music as a ministry and love caroling at the local hospital each year!

We’re looking for musicians willing to share their talents. Interested? CONTACT US!

United for the Community!

Our vision at UMCA is providing hope to our community. Our signature ministry, United for the Community, encompasses all the ways that we seek to live in service to others as followers of Jesus. This ministry builds community as we rely on many community partners who come alongside us in these ministries.

We invite our neighbors to a variety of events throughout the year, including a back to school backpack giveaway and summer Bible day camp for kids! Church members coordinate and volunteer for local organizations including Meals on Wheels, ACBC food shelf, local schools, domestic violence shelters, and many more! We send contributions throughout the year to missions through UMCOR.

Caring Ministry

Making connections with each other is one of the best things about becoming part of a congregation! Here at UMCA, we are finding creative ways to build and maintain connections wherever we can, especially as many of the people we love most are feeling isolated and at high risk.

You can offer care and support in a variety of ways. Here are a few ideas:

We can give you a few names of people who would enjoy receiving a card now and then, and you can write to them
Join our calling team and commit to call one or several folks each week to check in, listen, and pray together.
Let us know if you’d be willing to deliver groceries, pick up medications, or help in other ways.

About Us

At UMCA, we PRAY always! Prayer is the foundation of everything we do as a faith community. We believe God has a vision for our church and pray together for that vision to be revealed and for us to be bold as we live into God’s vision. We pray with each other and for each other, sharing one another’s hopes and joys and sorrows and burdens. We pray for our church, that all who come to us will find welcome and rest and hope.

At UMCA, we GROW in faith! That starts with showing up. Our journey of getting to know God more fully and loving our neighbors more completely never ends. At UMCA, we expect our members to be ready to commit to their own faith journeys and to be open to growing together in faith!We strive to be a church where every person will have an opportunity to grow spiritually, to know what they believe, to be able to speak about their beliefs, and give voice to their questions.

At UMCA, we GIVE generously. We are part of something big – far bigger than ourselves. When we give to the church, we experience our small part in God’s very big mission. Giving invites us to trust God in meeting our personal needs and to love others with our resources as well as our emotions. Giving grows the kingdom of God, and giving glorifies God. All our gifts come together to provide hope and to make disciples for the transformation of the world.

At UMCA, we SERVE others in the name of Jesus. We serve in many ways including, but not limited to our signature United for the Community events and our Good Samaritan Fund. We are committed to rolling up our sleeves for hands-on ministry in our neighborhood, and we strive to be the place our neighbors come to find help with basic necessities, activities for their families, and transformational worship experiences.

At UMCA, we SHARE the story! We lovingly pass down our traditions and the deep historical roots of our faith, and we embrace innovation and change as open doors for the work of the Holy Spirit. Our mission statement at UMCA is about making new disciples, which means we need to be reaching new people with the good news of God’s amazing love! We do not wait for the world to come to us, we are the church in the world and we are bursting with love for Jesus and for our neighbors.

At UMCA, our lives are the stories of Jesus alive in the world!

Our MISSION is making new disciples of Jesus Christ

for the transformation of the world.

Our vision is providing hope to our community.

We believe that God’s love is for EVERYONE!

Rev. Kevin Schill,

Transitional Lead Pastor

UMCA is part of the Minnesota Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Our presiding bishop is Bishop David Bard. Click to learn more about Methodists in Minnesota or about our denomination!