Welcome to LJUMC

We’re a group of Christ followers who try to love God and neighbor, as we seek to grow in our individual spirituality and community with one another. We make a difference together and we have fun together.

Sunday morning Traditional Worship is both online and in-person and takes place at 10am. A brief Online Worship Tutorial for our Sunday morning online service can be found here.

Location Details

6063 La Jolla Boulevard La Jolla, CA 92037

“I give you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, so you also must love each other. This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, when you love each other.”
John 13:34-35 (CEB)

Sermons

Nurture

Our series on the vows we make at baptism continues with the fourth promise, and this one belongs to the congregation rather than to the person being baptized: to nurture one another in the Christian faith and life, and to include in our care the people standing before us. Most of us were formed by someone who made that promise about us, a Sunday school teacher, a choir director, a neighbor. Few of us think of ourselves as the ones…

Confess

Our series on the vows we make at baptism continues with the third promise: to confess Jesus Christ as Savior and to serve him as Lord. Confessing means saying out loud who Jesus is to us, and allowing our confession to change the way we live in the world. Every one of us answers that question somehow, whether we say it or just live it. This week we explore what this means, and where we find the confidence to trust…

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Church News

Sermon Note: Believe

Introduction This is the final Sunday of Our Baptismal Vows, our summer series on the promises of the United Methodist baptismal covenant. We’ve renounced the powers that diminish us, accepted the freedom God gives us to resist evil and injustice, confessed Jesus Christ as Savior, and promised to nurture one another in faith. The fifth and final promise is the profession of faith itself, the central words of the Apostles’ Creed: to believe in God, in Jesus Christ, in the Holy…

Sermon Note: Nurture

Introduction We’re four weeks into Our Baptismal Vows, our series walking through the promises of the United Methodist baptismal covenant one Sunday at a time. So far we’ve renounced the powers that diminish us, accepted the freedom God gives us to resist evil and injustice, and confessed Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. The fourth promise is addressed to the congregation rather than to the one being baptized: will you nurture one another in the Christian faith and life, and include…

Sermon Note: Confess

Introduction We’re three weeks into Our Baptismal Vows, our series walking through the promises of the United Methodist baptismal covenant one Sunday at a time. So far we’ve renounced the powers that diminish us and accepted the freedom God gives us to resist evil and injustice. The third promise is confession: to confess Jesus Christ as Savior, to put our whole trust in his grace, and to serve him as Lord, in union with the Church he has opened to people…

Missionary Katherine Parker at LJUMC

Save the Date -Evening of Tuesday, August 11th at 6:00 p.m.Missionary Katherine Parker is returning for another visit to our church. We have provided continual support for her mission in Nepal through a covenant relationship with Katherine since her visit in June of 2019. Katherine began serving in 2013 as part of the Health Team of the United Mission to Nepal leading to improvements in education, health, good governance and sustainable livelihoods. Katherine’s work in Nepal has been especially important…

Giving

As members of this faith community, we commit together to support the ministries of this church. One way we do this is through our financial giving.

To support our ongoing ministry, use the button below. To learn more about legacy gifts through our Church Foundation, use the menu at the top of this page.

Events

Book Talk Announces New Season

Book Talk is a group of enthusiastic readers who meet monthly in the Fireside Library to listen to presentations by church members and friends of books they have read and loved. Generally we meet on the first Wednesday of each month, October through May, at 2pm, in the Fireside Library, for about one hour.  There is no requirement that you read the book scheduled, or that you rsvp for any meeting, and we encourage you to bring friends! As of…

Thursday Bible Study

  • 8:00 am
Our weekly morning Bible study meets each week on Thursdays at 8am. This study follows study guides that could include short-term or long-term studies, academic books, and more. Like our Explorer Adult Class, leadership comes from within this capable and faithful group. If you are interested in joining this class, please contact Don Lincoln at dlincoln@dlincolnlaw.com or by phone at (619) 838-0817.

Traditional Worship

  • 10:00 am
Join us at our weekly Worship service here at La Jolla UMC! In an effort to remain welcoming to all persons, worship continues in both an online and in-person format. Masks are optional. Find our online worship and resources here. For information on Children’s Ministry or the sacraments of Holy Communion and Holy Baptism, select one of the images below.