Countryside Community Church

Countryside Community Church An inclusive family of faith. Countryside is affiliated with The United Church of Christ.

Countryside was born into the denomination known as The Congregational Church, one of the oldest denominations in America, and remains strong in the New England states where we started with the beginnings of our nation, including the pilgrims and the puritans. In 1957 there was a merger of four American Christian denominations, including our parental stream, The Congregational Church, the Reformed

Church in the United States, independent congregations of the Christian Connection, and the Evangelical Synod of North America. Most of us go by the name The United Church of Christ, often referred to simply as “The UCC.”

The UCC is a body that lives in covenant and community. We are connected for mission and nurture, but we have no superior body that tells congregations what they can or cannot do. We are, as a congregation, a free agent that lives in freedom and responsibility. Local congregations are free to accept, reject, or ignore initiatives from the wider church, but we are responsible to listen and consider. The big decisions for the congregation are made by the congregation itself, in a meeting of the congregation. There is a great deal of governmental freedom in The United Church of Christ. Countryside is part of The Nebraska Conference of The United Church of Christ and appreciates the covenantal connection of that relationship.

05/29/2026

We are created in and for relationship — called to live, love, and grow in community. But community doesn’t simply happen. It is nurtured through presence, care, and the ways we choose to show up for one another.

Join us this Sunday as Jenny reflects on “Showing Up Together” through Matthew 28:16–20 and Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poem X” (1982). Take a moment to reflect on the communities that sustain you — and how you are called to help sustain others.

Join us in person or online. You are welcome here at Countryside.

Countryside Community Church ~ Your Place. Your People. Your Home.
13130 Faith Plaza
Omaha, NE 68144
countrysideucc.org

05/27/2026

At Pentecost, wind and fire don’t just signal something dramatic—they signal a widening: of voice, of understanding, of belonging.

Rev. Charlene’s message, “Wind and Fire,” invites us to consider what it means to be a people shaped by the Spirit’s expansive work among us.

As one reflection reminds us: we will not be met by Christ and told we loved too many people, showed too much grace, or included too wide a circle.

Where might the Spirit be inviting us to widen our circles of care, compassion, and belonging today?

Watch Rev. Charlene’s full message, “Wind and Fire”
https://youtu.be/cOTYU9Lgfn8?si=A3Uc6aixA0EOnm4v


Countryside Community Church ~ Your Place. Your People. Your Home.
13130 Faith Plaza
Omaha, NE 68144
countrysideucc.org
"Wind and Fire"
Acts 2:1-21

05/26/2026

At Pentecost, wind and fire break open something new—language, understanding, and community shaped by the Spirit’s movement.

Rev. Charlene’s message, “Wind and Fire,” invites us to consider what it means to be heard and understood across difference—and also where we are called to resist forcing one single way of understanding the Holy.

Where in your life are you sensing the Spirit inviting deeper listening? And where might God be stretching your understanding of unity and difference?

Watch Rev. Charlene’s full message, “Wind and Fire”
https://youtu.be/cOTYU9Lgfn8?si=A3Uc6aixA0EOnm4v


Countryside Community Church ~ Your Place. Your People. Your Home.
13130 Faith Plaza
Omaha, NE 68144
countrysideucc.org
Wind and Fire
Acts 2:1-21

05/23/2026

On the day of Pentecost, the Spirit came like wind and fire—unexpected, unsettling, and full of life. Where might that same Spirit be breaking into your life today?

Join us this Sunday at 10 am, in person or online, as Rev. Charlene shares the message “Wind and Fire” from Acts 2:1–21, and we listen for how God’s Spirit is still moving among us.

https://countrysideucc.org/live/

Countryside Community Church
Your Place. Your People. Your Home.
13130 Faith Plaza
Omaha, NE 68144
countrysideucc.org

05/22/2026

What might the Spirit be stirring in you this season—what new voice, courage, or clarity is waiting to be spoken?

Join us this Sunday at 10 am, live or online, for Pentecost as Rev. Charlene brings the message, “Wind and Fire,” from Acts 2:1–21. Come listen for how the Spirit is still moving among us today.

https://countrysideucc.org/live/

Countryside Community Church
Your Place. Your People. Your Home.
13130 Faith Plaza
Omaha, NE 68144

05/19/2026

There is a quiet freedom in knowing we are already held.

Not striving to become beloved but living from the truth that we already are — that belonging is not earned, but given.

What would change if you trusted, today, that you are already home in God’s love, already part of the family of things?

May we learn to live from belonging, not toward it.

Watch Jenny’s full message, “Showing Up in our Family of Things”
https://youtu.be/Pkt2idRnExM?si=c7i9YHrWdGyDZTBX


Countryside Community Church ~ Your Place. Your People. Your Home.
13130 Faith Plaza
Omaha, NE 68144
countrysideucc.org
Showing Up in our Family of Things
John 17:1-11
Wild Geese, Mary Oliver

05/18/2026

In one of the most tender moments in the Gospels, Jesus prays not for the world in general, but for those entrusted to his care — naming them as beloved, held, and already belonging to God.
Even in his leaving, he turns toward the people he loves and asks for one thing: that they may be one.

What might it look like for you to live today as though you are already held in that kind of love — protected, cherished, and made one?

We are not forgotten.
We are not outside of God’s care.
We are held.

Watch Jenny’s full message, “Showing Up in our Family of Things”
https://youtu.be/Pkt2idRnExM?si=c7i9YHrWdGyDZTBX


Countryside Community Church ~ Your Place. Your People. Your Home.
13130 Faith Plaza
Omaha, NE 68144
countrysideucc.org
Showing Up in our Family of Things
John 17:1-11
Wild Geese, Mary Oliver

05/15/2026

What if paying attention is its own kind of prayer? ✨

In this Message in a Minute, Jenny reflects on the invitation to see the world with astonishment — to notice beauty, love, and the sacred woven into ordinary moments. When we slow down enough to truly pay attention, we may discover that God’s astonishing love has been drawing us in all along.

What has captured your attention in a meaningful way lately?

Watch Jenny’s full message, “The Power of Noticing” https://youtu.be/x9nvnS5zxNk


Countryside Community Church ~ Your Place. Your People. Your Home.
13130 Faith Plaza
Omaha, NE 68144
countrysideucc.org
"The Power of Noticing"
Acts 17:22-31
The Summer Day, Mary Oliver

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