Claremont United Church of Christ

Welcome home! Regardless of your age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, abilities, or faith background, we are glad you’re worshiping with us today.

You belong here.

This week has felt darker than ever as ICE continues to terrorise our communities and another person has been murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. But, church, our faith has built us for this moment! It has built us to still believe that the world can change. It has built us to speak up when our voice and our faith are needed the most.

Guest Liturgist & Preacher: Lorraine & Chris Harry

This Sunday we join Lorraine and Chris Harry on Chris' sermon "Bon Appétit: Meals Worth Remembering, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."

Chris and Lorraine Harry have served as campus ministers at The Claremont Colleges since 2004 and 2000, respectively. The group they staff, Claremont Christian Fellowship, is a queer-affirming, justice-seeking, question-loving community, with students from all seven colleges. They both majored in English at Pomona College, and Chris also holds a Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. They live in Claremont with their 16-year-old daughter, Audrey, and beloved cat, Momo. In addition to their career in ministry, Lorraine works in communications at Pomona College, and Chris runs an electronics import business.

The dining table is much more than a place to consume food; it is a place for connecting, laughing, telling stories, and comforting one another. Shared meals bond us, heal us, and lift us up. In the first installment of our new sermon series, Bon Appetit: Meal Worth Remembering, we join a group of disciples after the resurrection who see the risen Christ in the breaking of bread with one another.

The dining table is much more than a place to consume food; it is a place for connecting, laughing, telling stories, and comforting one another. Shared meals bond us, heal us, and lift us up. In the first installment of our new sermon series, Bon Appetit: Meal Worth Remembering, we join a group of disciples after the resurrection who see the risen Christ in the breaking of bread with one another.

This Sunday Pastor Jen will be preaching on

"'Awkward Family Photo: The Family With Nowhere to Go"

Welcome home! Regardless of your age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, abilities, or faith background, we are glad you’re worshiping with us today.

You belong here.

In this next installment of our Awkward Family Photo sermon series we take a look at The Ones Who Get Lost Along the Way. The Magi show up to the scene of the nativity quite late after Jesus’ birth. Were they lost along the way? In today’s sermon, Pastor Jacob shares that it’s not about the answer we seek, but about the journey we take to find them.

Welcome home! Regardless of your age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, abilities, or faith background, we are glad you’re worshiping with us today.

You belong here.

We are an open and affirming in-person and online church! Located in Claremont, California!

The Nativity story contains a wild amalgamation of characters from the shepherds, to the magi, to the Holy Family, a collection of people just as unusual as our own extended families. This Advent, we will take a closer glimpse of the Awkward Family Photo in the Gospels who gather for Jesus birth--beginning with the family members who seem to be at the center of all the drama: Mary and Joseph.

This Sunday we join Kevin in his sermon "'It's Complicated." And That's Beautiful. That's Grace." Taking our cue from a few poems by the Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844—89) which echo wisdom found in the Psalms, we’ll consider what it means to have a sacramental world view—to find visible reminders of God’s invisible grace everywhere around us. Even in the mixed-up, messed-up, impure things, what Hopkins called “pied things.” Even in the messiness of our everyday lives.

Kevin Dettmar is a professor of English at Pomona College, where he teaches courses in British and Irish literature and contemporary popular music. He and his wife Robyn have been members of CUCC since 2022.