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Wherever you are on your faith journey, Wesley UMC invites you to join us. We welcome diversity and pets are always permitted in our Sanctuary for every worship service. Our worship experiences are traditional as well as casual and we enjoy a time of fellowship after each service. Our doors and our hearts are always open - find in us your spiritual home!

Social Media

Unable to attend in person? Want to keep up with the latest happenings at Wesley UMC and connect with fellow members? Check out our Facebook and YouTube pages! Worship services are streamed live on Facebook at 9am each Sunday, and past services are available for viewing on both platforms.

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Wesley United Methodist Church of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is located at 823 Union Avenue, near the corner of Union and 8th. Parking is available on-street in front of the church, as well as across the street in the parking lot.

Handicapped Accessibility

Parking

Handicapped parking is available next to the church. Those who need to use the handicapped parking will have to enter the alleyway behind the church via 9th street.

Building

Wesley has a handicapped-accessible lift system. The lift can be accessed through the rear doors of the church, adjacent to the handicap parking spaces in the alley behind the church.

Wesley UMC News

A Thought on Pets in Church

By Fred Shaw
Methodist Elder in the Ohio Conference, Director of Native American COS, and Shawnee Native

One of Wesley UMC's visiting dogs during the pet blessing serviceOne of the threats we face today is that we humans drastically have separated God and God's creation in our minds and practices. We compartmentalize life so that we can manipulate "things" for our own benefit (real and imagined) and ignore the sanctity of their own being. That enables us to believe we can exploit what God has created, that it is less sacred than our desires. That breaks the circle, the balance, of all being. We can take more than we give and feel that we are justified in doing so. Hence, the present practice of focusing upon the bottom line of profit-and-loss rather than maintaining a sustainable balance for the future.

God’s being encompasses all that is and all that is not, which makes all life sacred. The Sacred personified itself in birth in a stable. Jesus spent his vision quest of 40 days among the animals and flora in the wilderness. Jesus' teachings often used the animals and the plants in making his point. The Apostle Paul indicated that all of the creation is waiting for the redemption that is in the Christ.

Will having pets in worship offset the imbalance of human practice? Should we turn the sanctuary into a barn? Of course not, but neither should we be concerned that God is offended by the presence of any of God's creation in worship. Maybe, just maybe, that small, dependent life that gives another person such unconditional joy and love will remind someone of how undeserving we are of the love of the Sacred, and that all being is sacred because God looked at it and said, “It is good.”