December 8th is the Second Sunday of Advent
PEACE
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Prayers for Encouragement and Comfort...
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Our prayers are with the Rev. Francie Preston and her husband, Sam
; Sam is now in Hospice Care. Francie and Sam
deeply appreciate the prayers and love of their friends at Chatham UMC.
Francie was one of the Associate Pastors at Chatham UMC. She and her family were active members at Chatham UMC for many years.
Please Click Here
to read to read additional information from Rev. Jeff Markay.
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Longtime Chatham United Methodist Church member,
Susanne "Sue" Gale has entered Life Eternal. Susanne and her husband, Chris, have resided in Hoschton, Georgia since 2008.
Cards of love and support for Sue's family may be sent to her husband at the following address:
Mr. Chris Gale
5994 Creek Side Lane
Hoschton, GA 30548
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Friday, December 6th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Cookies4Life!
All-ages, Intergenerational Event
All are invited for an evening of food, fun, and cookies! CUMC has been asked once again to provide 500 cookies for the inmates and staff at the Morris County Correctional Facility as part of the Chaplaincy’s Christmas Gift Collection. We’ll gather in Rodda Hall, enjoy some pizza (please bring some money to chip in), have fun activities for little ones and we’ll bake cookies, decorate plain,
pre-baked, homemade cookies (no frosting), and package the cookies in Ziploc bags. It will be a wonderful time for all ages, and a great opportunity to bring a friend or two to church!
Can’t be there? Consider donating plain homemade cookies for us to decorate. Questions? contact
Associate Pastor Sharon Yarger at the church office or at
scyarger@optonline.net.
Please scroll down for additional information about our
Pack Bags with Cookies
event on
Monday, December 16
th
at 9:15 AM!
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Saturday, December 7
th,
3:00 PM
A Blue Christmas Service
is a time to acknowledge the feelings that surrounds Christmas for some of us, a time to remember the reason for those feelings, and a time to offer those feelings to God. This service offers a haven for people who desire a special touch from God during the holidays, and promises to be a time of quiet reflection, candle lighting, readings, singing, and prayer. We invite you to join us this Christmas season for a time of comfort and rest.
The service will be held in the Sanctuary and followed by light refreshments and shared fellowship. Please join us, and bring a friend.
Hosted by CUMC’s Stephen Ministers
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Sunday, December 8
th
Second Sunday of Advent
Peace
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- Family Promise Week Begins (information below)
- Advent Small Group Discussion, 10:15 AM, Room 6
Weekly Small Group Discussion will resume after the New Year.
- Weekly Advent Gathering, 4:30-6PM
Hosts:
Jeff Markay and Julie Yarborough
48 Elmwood Ave, Chatham
(Details below in
December Details
)
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Sticky Buns for Christmas!
Place your order this Sunday, 12/8!
The RISE 2020 team is taking orders for their famous
Sticky Buns made by the youth to help fund their summer mission trip to help repair homes in Appalachia.
The buns are sold for $12 per dozen - plain or pecan - and come frozen so that you can pop them in the oven on the day of your choosing and enjoy the wonderful aroma of freshly-baked sticky buns wafting through your home. Place your order on Sunday at the RISE table in Rodda Hall between services.
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Monday, December 9
th
- Advent Small Group, noon, Room 6
Monday, noontime Bible Study will not be held during Advent. Join us for our Advent Small Group! Bible Study will resume on January 13
th
Advent Small Group
, 7:30 - 8:30 PM, Wesley Room
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Wednesday, December 11
th
- UMW Planning Meeting, 10:00 AM Asbury Room
- UMW Advent Luncheon, Join us at 11:30 AM in Rodda Hall to sing some Christmas Carols before lunch at noon. Alyssa Keifer will be joining us to talk about Advent
- Taize Prayer, 7:30 PM, Asbury Room In the midst of the frenetic pace of this Holiday Season, news, work, life and stress, it is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the music, beauty, stillness, scriptures, and prayers of a Taizé Prayer Service. All are invited to come and enjoy the serenity. Taizé Prayer Service is monthly on the second Wednesday each month in the Asbury Room. For information, you may call the church office at (973) 635-7740.
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The
Ukulele Orchestra
will next meet on
Saturday, December 7
th
at 10:30 a.m. in the Music Room.
This Sunday morning for the 9:00 a.m. service, the
Youth Musicians will sing
Come Darkness, Come Light by Mary Chapin Carpenter and ring Larry Sue’s arrangement of the hymn tune,
There Is A Fountain. For the Message in Music in the 11:00 a.m. service, the
Covenant Choir will sing
Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus arranged by John Carter.
On
Thursday, December 12
th at 10:30 a.m. in CUMC’s Sanctuary,
The Suburban Music Study Club will host a performance with noted local performers: Carolyn Enger, piano, Laura Paparatto, flute, and the
Radiance Chamber Ensemble. All are welcome to this free recital of classical music.
Singing friends are invited to sing with the
Covenant Choir for Special Music on
Sunday, December 15
th as they perform Hal Hopson’s
Thou Shalt Know Him. For more information email Peter Hill at
petepiano@mac.com
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Help Up fill our Tree with Socks!
Sock Collection from December 8 - December 29th
Please bring in new socks of all sizes and for all ages to hang on our Sock Tree. The gift of a new, warm pair of socks this cold winter season is so important for those in need.
Please hang your gift on our Christmas Tree located near the upstairs elevator. Thank You!
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CUMC Family Promise Host Week is Here!
December 8
th
- December 14
th
, 2019
Call for Volunteers:
We will be hosting our Family Promise guests
December 8
th
- December 15
th
. We need your help! Please sign up to host, make a dinner, or help with set-up, clean-up or laundry. Visit the sign-up sheet opposite the Pastor’s Office in the hallway, or contact:
Holidays and winter weather are especially stressful for our families struggling with poverty, homelessness, estrangement, misfortune, and injustice. Our hospitality is their exaltation, dignifying and strengthening their lives. Don’t hesitate to call Claudia with questions.
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2019 Weekly Advent Gatherings
Sundays in Advent 4:30 - 6PM
Our congregation and friends will be gathering together on Sunday afternoons from 4:30-6PM for hors d'oeuvre fellowship, and some brief devotionals, Advent candle lighting and singing. Our schedule is as follows:
December 8th
Hosts:
Jeff Markay and Julie Yarborough
48 Elmwood Ave, Chatham
December 15th
Hosts: Cheryl, Jeff, & Cole Dennis
81 Summit Ave., Chatham
December 22nd
Hosts: Babbitt/Incardona Family
15 Pierson Lane
Florham Park, NJ 07932
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CUMC’s Jr. Youth Invite You to Help with
Annual Giving Tree
This year’s Giving Tree
helps a family of children who lost their mother to cancer in September. Alison was a single mother to three amazing kids, June, 17, Eric, 15, and Isabelle, 13—students in the school district where one of our CUMC members teaches. This family has endured several financial setbacks over the past two years since Alison was unable to work due to the aggressiveness of her illness.
With this year's giving tree, and your support, our youth hope to bring a bit of joy to these children as they go through this difficult holiday season.
Please return all unwrapped gifts and gift cards by Sunday, December 15th!
Here’s how you can still help:
1. For cards / tags with gifts, please
sign your name
by the corresponding item on the
“Giving Tree” Donor Sign Out
list on the door by the tree.
2.
Purchase the gift or gift certificate
or make a cash/check donation (made out to Chatham United Methodist Church, note: Giving Tree)
3.
Attach the holiday gift card / tag to the purchase gift
. Please do not wrap the gifts. Gift bags or unsealed decorative boxes are okay.
4.
Place gifts under the tree by
Sunday, December 15
. (Cash/gift cards can be placed in the decorated Gift box in the church office.
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Christmas Poinsettia Deadline Approaching!
Deadline is Sunday, December 15
th
The CUMC Missions Committee has selected the following organizations to receive this year’s contributions:
Local:
CUMAC,
National:
UMCOR US Disaster Response and Recovery,
International:
Feed My Starving Children. The poinsettia display at Christmas time has always been the hallmark of the Advent celebration.
Would you like to participate but can't get to CUMC for a form? Simply
Click Here to print out the form and mail it in.
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Make a Difference ... Change Lives ...
Pack Bags With Cookies!
On
Monday, December 16
th
at 9:15 AM at the Morristown UMC (on the green), all are invited to participate in assembling gift bags for inmates at the Morris County Correctional Facility as part of their Chaplaincy Christmas Gift Ministry. This will include the cookies we decorated at our
Cookies4Life event! Many hands make light work, and the more the merrier! For more information or to carpool, contact Associate Pastor Sharon Yarger at the church office or at
scyarger@optonline.net
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Advent Small Groups Information
Groups meet
:
Sundays at 10:15 AM, Mondays at noon, or Mondays 7:30 PM
During the holy season of Advent we’re delighted to offer an opportunity to grow in faith as we deepen our relationships with God and one another by being part of a small group.
Advent 2019 features the DVD-based study
Light of the World: A Beginners Guide to Advent
. Author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the birth of Jesus. Join her as she traces the Christmas narrative through the stories of Zechariah and Elizabeth, Mary, the journey to Bethlehem, and the Magi’s visit.
Signup sheets are located across from Pastor Jeff’s office, and books may be purchased for $15.00 each.
For further information contact
Associate Pastor Sharon Yarger
at the CUMC office or at
scyarger@optonline.net
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- The 2020 Altar Flower Calendar is now up on the bulletin board across from Jeff's office. Please sign up for your weekend before it fills!
- Epiphany White Gift Sunday is on January 5th. This year our gifts will once again benefit Our Promise. Our Promise is a day center for people living on the street in Morristown; it is under the umbrella of the Family Promise organization. A suggested list for White Gift donations will be provided soon.
- Jazzed for RISE, January 11th, 7:00-9:00pm, Rodda Hall
A benefit concert featuring the Chatham Community Jazz Band
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UMW Fall Rummage Sale Wrap Up
Some of our unsold goods left over from our October Rummage Sale were generously donated to the
Morris ReStore of
Habitat for Humanity.
A total of 8 Boxes and 2 Bags filled with various items such as glasses, dishes, bowls and more were delivered at the end of October.
Habitat for Humanity's
ReStore
sells donated items to the public and all proceeds help
Morris Habitat for Humanity
build more homes in our community. The
ReStore
also helps make our communities "greener" by keeping almost 11 thousand tons of materials out of local landfills!
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2019 Holiday Cards and Gifts Sale!
CMP is partnering with
Minted to fund raise!
From now until December 31
st go to
www.minted.com/HOLIDAY and shop for your holiday cards and gifts. When you use the program code:
FUNDRAISECMPRES
you will save 20% on your order AND Minted will donate 15% to CMP!
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Volunteers are always needed for Ministry Outreach.
Please click on the following to get involved:
- Bread Ministry Click Here to Sign Up
- Liturgy Ministry Liturgists Needed for Sundays through Epiphany Sunday 2020! Click Here to Sign Up If you have any questions about this ministry, please feel free to contact Barbara Babbitt at bbabbitt@optimum.net.
- MedShare Collection Barrel To see a list of items for donations and guidelines please Click Here Fliers are also available on the barrel. For more information about MedShare please visit their website. MedShare.org
- Care Corp: CUMC remains committed to our neighbors in need throughout the year with our Care Corps Ministry. If you or someone you know needs meals or transportation, please call the CUMC office at (973) 635-7740 or Marie Watt at (973) 635-7326.
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The Chatham Emergency Squad will be hosting a Blood Drive on
Saturday, December 7
th at the Borough Squad Building - 31 North Passaic Avenue. The hours of donation will be from
8:30am to 2:30pm.
Donors, ages 17-76, should be in good health and have some form of identification. Teenagers, age 16, can also donate with parental permission; forms for this will be available at the blood drive.
Donating is a wonderful way to begin the holiday season. And after donating, please sneak a peek at our Snow Village Winter Wonderland.
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460 Main Street
Chatham, NJ-(973) 635-7740
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