The Gathering Worship Service

The Gathering Worship Service Sunday evening worship, 5:00pm. The Gathering is a Ministry of First United Methodist Church, Wichita We gather to worship, we gather to share, we gather to be.
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Every week we gather, we open with this prayer:

Precious Lord we gather in your presence not as refined Christians, but as works in progress. We welcome you, God, into our space, this place of gathering. Welcome. (a moment of silence as we open our hearts to God and to each other)

we welcome the threatened
we welcome the dangerous
we welcome the unsure and the arrogant
we welcome the single, th

e married, the divorced
we welcome the annoying, insufferable, and just plain mean. we welcome the clean
we welcome the dirty
we welcome the majority and the minority
we welcome the activist and the apathetic
we welcome the optimist, the pessimist, and the realist


we welcome the healthy
we welcome the sick
we welcome the addict, the felon, the fraud
we welcome all who rejoice and all who suffer
we welcome those who agree and those who disagree


We welcome all, Lord, because in this space “they” become “we” and we are your children. We welcome the past, the present, and the future whatever each may hold because you are in all three, and we welcome you, and you, and you. Amen.

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330 N. Broadway
Wichita, KS
67202

Opening Hours

4:30pm - 7pm

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(316) 267-6244

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Precious Lord we gather in your presence not as refined Christians, but as works in progress. We gather to worship, we gather to share, we gather to be.

We welcome you, God, into our space, this place of gathering.

Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.