Every audio sermon week across the years we have — a filled cell is a week with an upload, darker blue means richer topics. A steady weekly cadence shows as a solid band across years.
LessMore·no upload·known, not transcribed
Each cell is one week · darker blue = richer topics (clean, sermon-only audio scores higher) · pale = thin, faint = no upload · gold outline = known, not yet transcribed · red outline = broken/failed file · uploaded in 26 of 27 weeks across the span (96%).
How this church compares
Against other umc and against every sermon on the site. Signals are approximate and grow more reliable as more of the archive is scored.
●this church┃peer average┃site average
Emotional rangenoticeably wider
Its sermons travel noticeably wider in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and noticeably wider than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensitysomewhat lower
The peaks run somewhat lower than peers, somewhat lower than the site.
site avg 0.64
lowerpeer avghigher
Dynamic deliverynoticeably higher
In the voice itself, energy runs noticeably higher than peers, noticeably higher than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among umc churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #21 of 96 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it uses a more distinctive, less typical vocabulary for its tradition.
“In the book of Deuteronomy and in the book of Exodus as we read just a moment ago, in the Ten Commandments there is a mandate given to every single t…”
“And in this moment, there is one where Moses and Elijah, these pillars of the faith of the past, had encountered God, they come now to meet Jesus, to…”
“But I sometimes have trouble not laughing a little bit at those words as I think of all the times that I have sung them amidst the chaos of Christmas…”
“Mary, Joseph, sheep, shepherds, angels, magi, just like our Christmas play and almost any, the cast of characters were all present, and they were to…”
“I can tell you that as of Friday, we still need $915,000, which sounds like a staggering amount of money, but let me tell you this time last year, we…”
“And because for some of us, two different stories from Daniel have kind of gotten mushed up in our head over time, this story unfortunately does not…”
“Jonah flees in the opposite direction from where God has called him to be, then paid his fare and boarded a ship in Japa that was headed to Tarshish.”
“" And to the man he said, because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, you shall not eat…”
“I invite you to remain standing in body or spirit as you are able, as we share in God's holy word for us today that comes to us from James, chapter 1…”
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of United Methodist sites
This church
Economic justice & mutual aid
26%
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LGBTQ+ affirming
18%
Radical hospitality & accessibility
10%
Anti-racism / racial justice
5%
Creation care / climate
3%
Children & youth
72%
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Online worship
53%
Small groups
52%
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Child safety policy
13%
Financial & governance transparency
6%
Languages / interpretation
2%
Website & sermons online
This church: video only — like 44% of United Methodist churches.
Audio + videoAudio onlyVideo onlySite, no sermonsFeed without audioJS-only siteBlocked / timeoutDead or hijackedNo website
Website completeness, all churches: a rough score of how complete and easy-to-navigate the church’s own website is.
Among the 3,012 churches with a readable, rated website (scores of 0 and 100 left out), this one scores higher than about 58%.
Values stated, within United Methodist churches: how many of the 29 values we track each church’s website states. This one states 4 — ahead of 59% of United Methodist churches (the typical one states 3).
Not found on the pages we checked: Anti-racism / racial justice, LGBTQ+ affirming, Open to people of all faiths, Immigrant & refugee welcoming, Radical hospitality & accessibility, Creation care / climate
Belonging & practical
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Children & youthsourceInfant/Toddler and Preschool childcare is offered throughout the morning Children’s Sunday School is from 10:10-10:50am Preschool classes meet on the bottom floor of the Norma Story Building.
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Small groupssourceYou can also join us at 10AM on Wednesdays for a special in-person Bible Study!
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Not found on the pages we checked: Languages / interpretation, Online worship
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