This Sunday: Rev. Rhina Ramos on Abundant Grace

We are so glad to welcome Rev. Rhina Ramos to the UCH pulpit this Sunday, June 28.

Rhina is someone who has lived the sermon before she preaches it. Before entering ministry, she practiced labor law on Long Island, recovering owed wages for immigrant workers — the kind of on-the-ground, unglamorous justice work that doesn't make headlines but changes lives. She went on to become a local pastor and church planter of Ministerio Latino, and she currently serves as Associate Conference Minister for our own Northern California Nevada Conference of the UCC.

She's also the author of In My Heart, a Volcano — a memoir about life as an immigrant and queer woman — and if that title doesn't make you want to hear what she has to say on Sunday, we don't know what will.

This week's theme is "the perseverance that gives way to hope," and Rev. Rhina will be preaching on Romans 5:1-8 — Paul's insistence that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance produces character, and character produces hope. Her sermon is titled "Abundant Grace."

You are warmly welcome to join us Sunday as we receive what she brings. We gather on Zoom, with fellowship at 10am PT, and worship at 10:30am PT.