Our worship service follows the traditional United Methodist order and feature both classic and contemporary hymns. Services usually last just under an hour. Fellowship, discussion, and refreshments follow in our downstairs community hall where there is often lively discussion of the sermon topic (where everyone is free to disagree). We encourage dressing comfortably. This is a worship service, not a fashion show. Worship time is 11:15 every Sunday.
As a United Methodist congregation, we practice open communion, which we celebrate on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. All are welcome to partake of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, including children and non-Methodists. We also have a healing service every 5th Sunday during which you may share your personal concerns and the Pastor will anoint you with oil and pray with you. Presently, we do not have a nursery available during services but children are more than welcome and there is a children’s sermon during the service.
Theologically, we are orthodox but not dogmatic or judgemental. Questions, even hard ones, are welcomed. In our politically polarized age, there is too often an unholy union between religion and secular, political ideology. Dietz strives to be welcoming to persons of all political and ideological persuasions, believing that we can all learn from different perspectives. This means, however, that as sisters and brothers in Christ we sometimes have to agree to disagree. As a family of God, we are not required to always agree with each other or even like each other. What we are required to do is to do as Christ commanded his disciples: to love one another. This is our hope and expectation at Dietz.
As a United Methodist congregation, we practice open communion, which we celebrate on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. All are welcome to partake of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, including children and non-Methodists. We also have a healing service every 5th Sunday during which you may share your personal concerns and the Pastor will anoint you with oil and pray with you. Presently, we do not have a nursery available during services but children are more than welcome and there is a children’s sermon during the service.
Theologically, we are orthodox but not dogmatic or judgemental. Questions, even hard ones, are welcomed. In our politically polarized age, there is too often an unholy union between religion and secular, political ideology. Dietz strives to be welcoming to persons of all political and ideological persuasions, believing that we can all learn from different perspectives. This means, however, that as sisters and brothers in Christ we sometimes have to agree to disagree. As a family of God, we are not required to always agree with each other or even like each other. What we are required to do is to do as Christ commanded his disciples: to love one another. This is our hope and expectation at Dietz.
About our Pastor, Mark M. Richardson
Pastor Mark M. Richardson is a fifth-generation Methodist minister on his mother’s side – both his father and mother were pastors. He has served small, United Methodist churches throughout Nebraska for 40+ years. After retiring in 2017, he accepted a part-time appointment at Dietz Memorial United Methodist Church and has been preaching at their pulpit ever since.
Although he is pushing 70, Mark has a young wife and 12-year-old daughter. He has his own Youtube Channel ("Uncommon Sense with Pastor Mark") and enjoys playing and composing music for both banjo and guitar. He and his family live not far from the church in the Little Bohemia neighborhood off of South 13th Street.
Pastor Mark is not only the pastor at Dietz, but also the caretaker (sexton) of the church and grounds. Besides being in charge of general maintenance, he's undertaken a number of major renovations. He feels God has called him not only to be the shepherd of the Dietz flock, but to preserve this lovely, limestone church along with its 19th-century “tracker” pipe organ. Read more about the historic organ here.
The Dietz church family is small but growing steadily. We welcome persons of all political persuasions. Pastor Mark strives to foster a church that is orthodox, but not dogmatic, ethical, but not judgmental, and traditional, but not backward. Dietz is all about creating and maintaining relationships, especially our relationship with God and our relationship with each other as a family of God. Come see for yourself on Sundays at 11:15am.
Pastor Mark M. Richardson is a fifth-generation Methodist minister on his mother’s side – both his father and mother were pastors. He has served small, United Methodist churches throughout Nebraska for 40+ years. After retiring in 2017, he accepted a part-time appointment at Dietz Memorial United Methodist Church and has been preaching at their pulpit ever since.
Although he is pushing 70, Mark has a young wife and 12-year-old daughter. He has his own Youtube Channel ("Uncommon Sense with Pastor Mark") and enjoys playing and composing music for both banjo and guitar. He and his family live not far from the church in the Little Bohemia neighborhood off of South 13th Street.
Pastor Mark is not only the pastor at Dietz, but also the caretaker (sexton) of the church and grounds. Besides being in charge of general maintenance, he's undertaken a number of major renovations. He feels God has called him not only to be the shepherd of the Dietz flock, but to preserve this lovely, limestone church along with its 19th-century “tracker” pipe organ. Read more about the historic organ here.
The Dietz church family is small but growing steadily. We welcome persons of all political persuasions. Pastor Mark strives to foster a church that is orthodox, but not dogmatic, ethical, but not judgmental, and traditional, but not backward. Dietz is all about creating and maintaining relationships, especially our relationship with God and our relationship with each other as a family of God. Come see for yourself on Sundays at 11:15am.