Monroe Community Church in Grand Rapids Michigan

Welcome to Monroe Community Church

Love God • Love People • Love the City

Worship with Us

When

Sundays at 10:30 am

Where

1020 Monroe Ave NW
Grand Rapids, MI

How

In-person at 1020 Monroe or Online via YouTube

This Sunday: December 1, 2024

Advent 2024

This Sunday is the first Sunday in the Season of Advent. A season in the Church calendar for fasting, expectation, and longing. Advent then, is all about how God's reality can break into our time, creating space where we did not expect to find it.

This year for Advent we are exploring a few of the different names of Jesus as given through the prophecies in the Old Testament. These are referred to in the prayerful practices of the Catholic church as the 'O' Antiphons. Each Antiphon is a title of Jesus which promises to answer a longing held in every human heart.

This week we reflect on the prophetic name of Jesus as "O Root of Jesse". A name that reminds us that Jesus came into the world as part of a grand story of redemption. Jesus entered into the story and lineage of one broken family, in order to restore all human brokenness.

Sundays, 10:30 a.m. @ Monroe Community Church, 1020 Monroe Ave NW GR MI 49503

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Alpha returns the week of January 26, 2025. Now more than ever, we all have questions - but in our busy, complicated world, there is rarely enough time to think things through, ask questions or really share your point of view and listen well.

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Love God. Love People. Love the City.

That is our to-do list at MCC. This is why we are here. We recognize this is easier said than done, especially since we are a community of broken people who need grace every day.

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Pray for the World

This year at MCC, we want to continue our Mission of Love God, Love People, & Love the City. We also recognize the need to look beyond our context in order to help better shape our local mission in the Kingdom of God. In order to orient our hearts and lives around our mission this year, you are invited to join MCC Staff in praying for the world each week.

We invite you to pray for a few listed countries each week: For their governments, leaders, economies, and church. 193 countries and 2 observing governing states will be prayed for over the course of 52 weeks. Each week the MCC announcements will have 3-4 countries for you to pray for, in no particular order.

To ground your prayer in the context of the nation, we suggest a starting point of referencing the world factbook here.

This week we invite you to pray for:

Eswatini
India
Bahamas

Community Life

Small Groups provide an opportunity for us to gather during the week, around a table, and be the people of Jesus in our neighborhoods. These groups allow us to build deeper relationships with each other, and to live out our faith in meaningful ways throughout the week. They are a vital part of our church community and a way for us to connect with others and feel a sense of belonging and support.