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

Local and Connexional

Methodist churches have never operated alone. A congregation in La Jolla is tied to congregations across California and to congregations on the other side of the world, and that tie shows on ordinary Sunday mornings more than you might expect. In worship this week, we ask what it means to be cared for by people we did not choose, and to be counted on by those same people in return. Scripture: Romans 12:9-21 (NRSVUE)

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Church News

Sermon Note: The Texts That Shape Us

Introduction We’re nearing the end of our series, Knowing Who We Are, drawn from the book of the same name by Rev. Dr. Laceye Warner. So far we have explored the grace God pours into us, the connexion we belong to, the small groups of early Methodists, and the neighbors God sends us to serve. This week we turn to the texts that inform and shape us. Wesley called himself a person of one book, writing, “At any price, give me…

Important Meeting for All Women

Calling all women of the La Jolla United Methodist Church. UMW (United Methodist Women), also known as United Women of Faith, are planning to revitalize our unit here at LJUMC. To that end, a meeting has been called for immediately after church on Sunday, September 20. The agenda consists of twoitems—election of board members and a decision to move some of our assets to the Foundation. Who is a member of UMW? “.. .any woman who commits to the purposes…

Sermon Note: Local & Connexional

Introduction This is week two of “Knowing Who We Are,” six weeks on the Wesleyan way of grace. Last Sunday we started with the grace we receive from God. This week we look at the people God puts us among. Methodists spell connexion with an x because that’s how Wesley spelled it, and we keep this spelling to remember that we are connected to one another even back into our own tradition. La Jolla UMC isn’t on its own! We…

Sermon Note: Finding Grace

Introduction This Sunday begins Knowing Who We Are, a six-week series in our year of considering what it means to be United Methodist. Recently, we have explored our history and our baptismal promises, and over these next six weeks, we’ll journey through grace, our practice of faith, and look again at our beliefs as United Methodists. In 1742, John Wesley asked, “Who is a Methodist?” His answer, rooted in Romans 5:5, was that a Methodist is one who has the love…

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…

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.