"May Peace Prevail on Earth" is written in English, Korean, Armenian, and Spanish on our pole.

To be connected to any of our ministries, visit us on a Sunday morning or call the church office.

 Grandmas to Go: Our UMW Women at the Well circle leads out in coordinating ministry to our neighboring Learning Works! Charter School, which is part of the Pasadena Unified School District. This new partnership brings us into relationship with young people working hard to finish high school and get their lives in order. We are pleased to be part of such a positive, energetic endeavor.

This just in: Grandmas to Go is the recipient of a Pasadena District Block Grant for $1600!

Our Seniors Ministry Core Team makes sure that all of our homebound members stay in connection with our church. With the support of The Ginger Fund, this team involves the congregation in visiting and gifting our seniors.

At CVUMC, we seek to be part of God's plan for a peaceful world. We've started a movement we call MonkMail - letters for peace so beautiful - they'll be looked over - not overlooked. 

 Our church is a Covenant Partner with Community UMC in Nome, Alaska. This church started the Regional hospital, the Community Center (youth, AA, etc.), the Senior Center and most of the other social services in Nome. Nome serves as a regional center for 20 native villages on the Seward Penninsula. For example, Nome Hospital has 17 beds and 17 doctors, and a DSW, MSW, and a paraprofessional social worker. The United Methodist Women provide a Thrift Shop which sells used clothing (by the pound). They also give a layette to each baby born at the hospital.

The congregation is the oldest Protestant Church in town and has about 28 families, with half of them being native. The doxology is sung in English and Inupiaq.

We support the Nome church not only because it does great work, and because they are our UMC brothers and sisters, but also, perhaps, out of a fascination with people who live in cold and snow so much of the year. We sit here in our perfect 70 degree California weather and try to imagine....

 New to our church is support for The Free Burma Rangers, a multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement. They bring help, hope and love to people in the war zones of Burma. Ethnic pro-democracy groups send teams to be trained, supplied and sent into the areas under attack to provide emergency assistance and human rights documentation. Together with other groups, the teams work to serve people in need. We have been amazed to see what David and Karen Eubank have been able, with God's help, to put together. David has become recognized by the U.S. government as someone who can speak authoritatively to Burmese army human rights abuses. We participated in the March 9th Global Day of Prayer for Burma. CVUMC currently has a $1000 challenge grant to meet in support of FBR. Find out more at www.freeburmarangers.org.

Photos from freeburmarangers.org - Global Day of Prayer for Burma - March 9, 2008

On the first of every month, we collect canned and other nonperishable foods and deliver them to the food pantry at our neighbor UMC church in Tujunga, and to the ECPAC Friends in Deed House in Pasadena.


At CVUMC, we care about our community. Our church hosts over a dozen AA and Al-Anon groups. We offer our sacred space and our prayers for your journey.