Please know our church and facilities remain closed due to the attempt at physical distancing to curb COVID-19.
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Congratulations to our graduates near and far!
We are so proud of you and all that you have achieved. Thank you to our members that shared with us your joyful news so we all could celebrate your children, grandchildren, and close friends.
All graduate families have been mailed copies of our traditional graduation booklet with some extras for you to share; you can expect them in your mailbox soon! If you would like to see and print out this list at home, you may do so now by
Clicking Here.
(Please know that images and text may not appear the same when you download via a mobile phone.)There is also an envelope with a few extra copies of the booklet available now at the back door entrance behind the Upper Room shelf.
Please join us for our special online worship experience this weekend via
YouTube,
Facebook and our
W
ebsite
. We will honor our CUMC High School graduates.
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Dear Church Family,
It’s been over a month since Frank’s brother,
Joe Fillimon
, passed away from COVID-19 complications. We wanted to thank you all for your prayers, phone calls, cards, emails, and texts that we have received during this very sad time, and to let you know how much comfort your kind-heartedness has and continues to give us. We take one day at a time, to face the loss we feel, and the precious memories that Frank, his sister Rosemary, and Jane, Joe’s wife, share remind us how lucky we were to have Joe in our lives.
With great appreciation,
Frank & Chris Fillimon
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We Need You!
As we continue our
weekly
Online Worship Experience,
we truly need your help. We are requesting additional, very brief videos for various parts of our Worship. Having you participate ensures that we have a warm, member inclusive worship we can all share.
Here are some ways you can lend a hand:
- Passing of the Peace: simply film yourself saying "peace be with you"
- Acolytes: we'd love to see our kids but all ages are great!
- Windchimes: Do you have a set of windchimes? You can just take a video of the chimes being rung and then step out of the picture. You can continue to film and just let the chimes continue for as long as possible before turning off the camera.
- Liturgists: We have added some additional slots for the coming summer weeks. Please see below in CUMC Outreach to sign up!
Please note that our recordings are due on Tuesdays before the coming weekend.
To submit a video or if you have any questions, please contact:
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We Thank YOU!
We’d like to thank our members for generously donating to the
CUMC COVID Relief Fund.
To date, we’ve collected $1,875.
Your donations will be used to purchase $25 gift cards from Shop Rite along with other needed items for the weekly Wednesday food drive. We are so grateful to you all for your support!
If you would like to support this fund, checks can be made payable to:
Chatham UMC, and write in the memo line: CUMC Covid Relief Fund.
CUMC members can also pay by via an online donation by clicking
Donate
on our website and selecting the “CUMC COVID Relief Fund” option.
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Dear Friends,
Dick Barney
, faithful member of the Chatham UMC from 1977-2005 entered Life Eternal on June 8, 2020 after suffering a heart attack last week. He and his wife moved to Ticonderoga NY years ago but have recently been worshiping with us online during this time of pandemic. Dick and I have corresponded numerous times having conversation about the online worship, and his joy in seeing familiar and new faces in our congregation. Dick and Ruth are involved now in a church that has been reading Richard Rohr books, and were so thrilled to see the video of Richard Rohr speaking here at Chatham UMC a few years ago.
I had conversation and prayer this week with Ruth over the phone as she waited for news about Dick. I assured her of our collective prayers and love from her church family here in Chatham. There will be a service for Dick near where they live, at an appropriate time. Let us surround Ruth, and their adult children Sean and Heather and their families, with our love and prayer.
If you would like to send a condolence card or note of love, please send it to:
Ruth Barney
54 Stoughton Drive,
Ticonderoga, NY 12883.
with love, with prayer, and with trust,
Jeff
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Jim Rutherford
,
former member of Chatham UMC, entered Life Eternal. Jim was an active member of our Finance Committee years ago, and more recently lived in a retirement community the Boston area.
Cards of love and care can be sent to his wife Ann at:
575 Osgood St., Apt.1211
North Andover, MA 01845
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Thursday, June 11
th
Did you miss our
Prayers Live @5 on Facebook last night? Don't worry. You can
rewatch by clicking here. You don't need to be on Facebook to rewatch this link. If you would like to participate this coming
Wednesday, June 17
th on Facebook or you would like to submit a prayer request, see the information below for
Wednesday, June 17
th
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Prayers Live at Five on Facebook
All are invited to tune into a brief Facebook Live event on
Wednesdays at 5:00 pm
. We will be lifting up some prayer practices that might be helpful as we navigate this new landscape. If you have prayer requests that you would like lifted up, you can type them into the comments section of the FB Live event or you can
email them to Pastor Jeff at
revjmarkay@earthlink.net
These Wednesday Prayers videos will be stored on our Chatham UMC Facebook page for those who are unable to participate on Wednesdays at 5PM.
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Sunday's Worship
:
Look for Pastor Sharon’s message for children on the worship video!
Lectionary themed activity
sheets for readers and non-readers are available below for you to print at home!
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The Zoom Log-In for the following meet ups will be emailed.
If you would like to be added to the distribution group
, please email Karen at:
youthchatumc@optonline.net.
Sunday School Kids (PreK-3rd grade):
meet online Sunday morning at 9:30am.
This Sunday’s theme:
Celebrate
! This is the last Sunday of our regular school year. We will celebrate with a reading from the Psalms and a special Whirl Kids video presentation you won’t want to miss!
Submerge Class (4th-7th graders):
meet online Sunday morning at 10:30am
. This week we will wrap up our year of Bible study with some Bible games (have a Bible handy!) and take a look at a music video mash up of an old classic and Toby Mac’s
‘new day is on the’
“Horizon” with special appearances by submerge fans.
Submerge / Tween Time:
Thursdays at 4:00pm on zoom
. Time to hang out, play some games, connect and help each other thru this time of social distancing.
Confirmation Class:
meet online Sunday at 11:15am
. We will continue the exploration of some SHORT ANSWERS TO BIG QUESTIONS. We will continue the exploration of some
Short Answers to Big Questions.
This week we’ll discuss another question that has crossed most minds at some point: “
What if I have doubts about God?”
High School Discussion Group:
will meet Sunday at 1:30pm on Zoom.
This week’s topic: Celebrate! Join us to celebrate our graduating seniors and all that they have shared with us over our years together.
Virtual VBC is in the works. If you’d like to get involved,
contact Karen
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For your enjoyment...take a listen to our latest piece of online music:
Mike Maguire playing a mashup of Marvin Gaye’s
What’s Going On and
God Is Love on both piano and drums!
Thank you to our musicians for your hard work and music-making this season, especially during the last several months while we have all been at home.
During Sunday, June 21
st
’s Worship Experience video, Peter Hill will thank CUMC’s musicians and everyone who continues to make our worship experiences, both in and out of our sanctuary, meaningful.
The next CUMC music video project needs your help!
Everyone in the congregation is invited to take short videos (10 seconds or so) of where you take walks, where you go for comfort or respite, where you find kindness rocks, where you like to walks on the beach or the park, or where you go on drives.
Send them to music director, Peter Hill.
The Praise Band is creating a music video of Bruce Springsteen’s song,
Hello Sunshine and we need clips to show the world of people’s journeys of comfort and hope.
To send a video or for more information contact, Peter Hill at
petepiano@mac.com.
The
Chatham UMC Ukulele Orchestra will host their next online sing and play-a-long on
Saturday, June 20
th at 11:00 a.m.!
For ukulele music and/or more information please contact Peter Hill at
petepiano@mac.com.
The
Covenant Choir is working on their first virtual choir project! The Choir will be singing Tim Oseik’s
Like A River In My Soul.
All singing friends are invited to participate; for more information contact Peter Hill at
petepiano@mac.com
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All are invited to
Wednesday Prayers via Facebook Live at 5PM.
This will be done every Wednesday for the foreseeable future.
If you have people and situations that you would like lifted up in prayer, please email them to:
revjmarkay@earthlink.net
and indicate whether you want the prayers to be confidential, or shared with the greater Chatham UMC community.
You are invited to participate in some contemplative practices and prayer by clicking on the link to our Chatham UMC Facebook page:
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Prayers lifted on June 10, 2020
For those who want to join hundreds of others who have been praying for the following people and situations, keep reading, and thank you.
Intercessory Prayers emailed or shared with us this week:
Time of Silent Prayer...
- For Elise, in need of God’s healing touch as she enters week 11 with the coronavirus. Surround her with your light, your love, and your healing touch. Bless also, Deb, Harrison, Hayes and Reed as they care for her and each other.
- For Jo G. as she goes through tests and is in need of your healing touch.
- For Diane at Beth Israel hospital in Boston, bless her with your healing touch in body and soul. We give thanks for her faith, and ask that you would deepen her faith and trust in this time of need.
- For a friend in Hong Kong, in need of strength and continued wisdom
- For Tom, living with the stress of laying off employees, and fearing his own unemployment.
- For all who are looking for meaningful work
- For all who are unemployed and underemployed
- For all who are showing up at food distribution sites in need of help.
- For all who are serving at food distribution sites that we may all see each others sacred worth and human dignity.
- For those protesting for racial justice, and law enforcement who are protecting their first amendment rights, that they might see each other’s humanity and inherent sacred worth.
- For those who are finding their voices and using their voices to build a more just and compassionate society
- For those in the service industry and restaurant workers
- For Jana undergoing cancer treatments
- For Mitsy having a heart procedure.
- For Ron as he prepares for surgery in Memorial Sloan Kettering. Bless his doctors and nurses with wisdom and compassion, guide their hands and the technology they use. Bless Sharon, Nathanael and Miriam as they care for him and for one another.
- For Dick Barney, who entered Life Eternal last week. Bless his wife Ruth, and their adult children Sean and Heather, and their families, as they grieve his death, and celebrate his life, that in Christ has no end.
- For all who are living with the coronavirus, and all who are caring for their well-being.
- For Frank T. who succumbed to pancreatic cancer.
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To continue to reflect and pray over prior weeks' intentions, you may do so by
Clicking Here
Prayers will be archived here for each month.
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The scriptures and prayers that are being shared this week are below:
Scripture:
Psalm 146:5-8
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Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord their God,
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who made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them;
who keeps faith forever;
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who executes justice for the oppressed;
who gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets the prisoners free;
8
the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.
Prayer from Hymn # 577 in the United Methodist Hymnal:
Grant us wisdom.
Grant us courage.
For the living of these days…
Grant us wisdom.
Grant us courage.
For the living of these days…
Grant us wisdom.
Grant us courage.
For the living of these days…
Amen.
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CUMC Outreach
Volunteers are always needed
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DATES ADDED!
OPPORTUNITY FOR ONLINE LITURGISTS!
We’re reaching out to all church members for pre-recorded Gospel readings. We've created easy to follow instructions- just grab your cell phone and click below!
(Please remember to film Sunday’s Gospel message by the previous Tuesday!)
- Click Here for instructions
- Click Here to Sign Up for Your Slot Please note that dates are listed as Tuesdays on our Sign Up Genius because recordings are due on Tuesday.
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Bread Ministry
:
If you would like to be involved in our Bread Ministry, please contact
Edit Ostrom
at:
nyuszi@mac.com
or
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Seeking Resources/How to Help
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We offer links on our website to resources you may need to help you or your loved ones through this trying time. Because CUMC has always been a loving community of dedicated ministry, we know you are also seeking ways to give back to those in need.
If there is a resource you would like to add,
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Pop Up Outdoor Food Pantry
Take what you need or leave what you can at our two pantry shelves.
The shelves are located behind the building at the doors of the Chatham Methodist Preschool.
Please help keep our shelves filled.
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All submissions for next week's CUMC Weekly E-news are due to Eileen Ruggiero by Tuesdays, 2:00 PM Submissions may be emailed to
chatumc@optonline.net
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Chatham, NJ-(973) 635-7740
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