Sunday Mornings
Summer Worship – 9:30 am – begins May 28, 2023
In-Person Worship and Live Stream on YouTube
June 4: Annual Conference Weekend; Guest preacher is Angie Pierce Jennings.
One in-person service at 9:30 AM; the service will also be live-streamed on our YouTube Channel.
NOTE: All summer we will have one service at 9:30 am. The service will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel.
We love that you are able to join us in online worship! But we miss connecting in person. We invite you to reach out to Pastor Scott or Pastor Kristina with prayer requests, joys and concerns or just to tell us that you worshipped with us.
The people of Lovely Lane UMC humbly strive to be light, love and leaven to the world.
We stand with those who are devalued in our society because of their color, gender, marital status, creed, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental ability, immigration status or economic condition.
We serve those in our neighborhood and our community who are in need of food, housing, education, or health care.
We heal the world through collaboration with the national and international missions of the United Methodist Church, because where our hands cannot be, our hearts can.”
Find Us
2424 42nd St. NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
(319) 393-6674
The corner of 42nd Street and Wenig Rd. next to KennedyHigh School
Blessed to be a Blessing
Our campaign to ensure the future of Lovely Lane ministries for the next 50 years.
Nourished
The Missional Campus of Lovely Lane.
Nourished strives to be a holistic healthy community that grows in Spirit and serves in love and justice.
Lovely Lane is a dynamic faith community that seeks to welcome all people, nurture one another in the faith, and reach out in ministry and service.
Lovely Lane is a dynamic faith community that seeks to welcome all people, nurture one another in the faith, and reach out in ministry and service.
Lovely Lane News
NOURISHED: June Treat Box, PRIDE Theme
Order by June 7th for pick up on June 12th. Treat boxes are $30. And everything is gluten free. Sign up at this link. Or email Kristina at kristina@nourishedcr.org.
Seeing God in Story Books
This past week I spent a week off to spend time with Audrey as daycare takes a two-week break, in between the school year and the summer program. We played outside, went on walks, went to the infant story hour at the new Marion Public Library, read books at home in...
Iowa Annual Conference Update – from Pastor Scott
As some of you know, the Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church held a special session on May 23rd. This was a session to allow 83 United Methodist churches in Iowa to disaffiliate and begin a new denomination. This is about 11% of the UM churches in...
Justice Moment: Highlighting the Work of Nourished
"I just wanted to offer my thanks and much gratitude on behalf of the women at ICIW for the notes from the Nourished community. The women were very touched. It's one thing for me to tell them that folks on the outside think about them, care about them, and pray for...
From Pastor Kristina – May 2023
Things always seem to go wrong at the most inconvenient times, don’t they? You get pulled over for speeding when you’re late dropping your child off to school. You hit all the red lights and then come to locked doors at the post office when you need to get something...
Going on a Trip – from Pastor Scott
"'Come, follow me,' he said, 'and I'll show you how to fish for people.'" – Matthew 4:19 (CEB) The summer months are almost here! This wonderful time invites us to enjoy the great outdoors and visit places we have never been. As some of us prepare for a vacation, we...
From Pastor Kristina – April 2023
Lent is certainly not the joy and peace of Advent, is it? We just celebrated that time of year it seems like. Christmas carols, movies, chocolates and candy, gift giving, decorating, etc. Lent doesn’t necessarily bring that. This season is the transition to spring as...
The Love Commandment – from Pastor Scott
The Love Commandment “I give you a new commandment: Love each another. Just as I have loved you, so you also must love each other.” – John 13:34 (CEB) This reading from John’s Gospel brings us to the night Jesus gathered with the disciples in the Upper Room. Scripture...
A Devotion in Gratitude
A recent story on the radio was about a woman trying to save her dog who had fallen into an icy lake. Every time the dog tried to get out, the ice broke and the pooch was back in frigid water again. In her love for the dog, she carefully slid out over the frozen water...
Ash Wednesday Marked the Beginning of the Season of Lent – by Pastor Kristina
Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of the season of Lent, this period of 40 days and 40 nights. Right, it’s the journey to the cross. It’s a solemn season. We just celebrated the birth of Christ, and now our attention turns to his death by crucifixion. We recognize...
Learning to Live Inside Out – by Pastor Scott
Saint Augustine, the Fourth Century Bishop of Hippo, wrote in his book, Confessions, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” Over the centuries these words have described the human condition. Many of us have...
Youth Mission Trips 2023
Mission Trip to Texas/Mexico Border This trip is open to anyone who has just finished 9th grade through students who’ve just finished college. The trip focus will be about considering what our faith has to say about immigration and how we are to respond as Christians....
“For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”
2 Corinthians 4:6
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