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Zoom Fellowship Time on Sundays
Join us for a Zoom Coffee/Fellowship Time after worship each Sunday so that we can have virtual fellowship after worship. Bring your own coffee!
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Every morning I spend time in prayer and have a time of devotion to start my day. In November, during my morning time with God, I began reading a Psalm each day. I have been inspired, humbled, and comforted by the words of the Psalmists who...
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Every Monday we will release a new video on YouTube featuring one of music groups that contribute to our worship music! |
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FUMC Job Opening - Director of Christian Education |
We are hiring for the Director of Christian Education! This is a part-time and permanent position. For a full description, click the button below. |
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Submitting Photos For Worship |
On Sunday February 14th we would like to create a prelude that includes images of how Open Door Churches has shared God's love with the community. Please email your photos to Sharon Cooper (srkc@aol.com) by January 31st to be included in the video.
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Open Door Churches Directory |
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It is finished! After months of hard work and perseverance by Erika and Brenda Bateman, we have a printable and available to you, Open Door Churches Photo Directory!
Some statistics about the making of this directory:
- There are 837 records.
- The Batemans spent about 250 volunteer hours on this project. Erika was given pdfs or sent individual emails and had to key in most of this information into a spreadsheet. They added names of children, added additional cell numbers and added and updated emails that people sent to them.
- They exported to MS Word, formatted the contact info, made fliers and church announcements to solicit pictures, contacted members directly during December to get more pictures, imported/cropped/lightened all the pictures, and then spent time cleaning up the distribution list.
Note from staff: Knowing there is a frequency of change with people's contact information, you may find updates to be made to the contact portion of the directory - if you see something about your address, phone number, or email that needs to be updated, PLEASE let your affiliated church office know?
The office staff from each church will be doing updates to their portion (for example, Katie C. will be making the FUMC updates, Julie P. will be in charge of Trinity UMC updates, Vicki will be in charge of Morningside's updates, and so on). We will share updates with each other as we receive them, so that each church (and you) will have an accurate copy available to print.
Again, please check your information and help us keep the Open Door Churches Directory updated! Here is a link for a downloadable copy for printing:
Let us put our hands together for Erika and for Brenda for a job well done! We appreciate their time, their work and their creativity!
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Saturdays of Service Report |
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Another Saturday of Service in the book. Thank you for being active in our community on this Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. You donated 1,160 diapers, 3140 baby wipes, 13 baby blankets, 84 jars of peanut butter and over 100 pounds of other food items to Las Naciones and the Jason Lee Food Bank. Donations to Backpack buddy families at Hoover Elementary are still being collected through the giving links or by mailing a check to First United Methodist Church with Saturdays of Service in the memo line. Photos coming!
“Everybody can be great....because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” Martin Luther King Jr.
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Financially Support Open Door Churches Worship |
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Together we continue to reimagine how we worship in the middle of the pandemic while following our call to Do No Harm, Do Good, and Stay in love with God. As we continue to create spaces for worship costs come up and we need your help.
If you would like to financially support Open Door Churches Worship please make checks payable to Open Door Churches with Open Door Worship in the memo line and mail your check to our Open Door Churches PO Box.
Open Door Churches
PO Box 4489
Salem Oregon 97302
You can also give online
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Christian Education Opportunities |
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Christian education is our invitation to understand God’s world and our experience in that world in deep and transformational ways. We will not be able to gather in person this winter, while our country and our communities engage in urgent conversations about racism, police brutality, power, government, creation care, and so much more. We want to provide opportunities for us as a faith community to learn, discuss, and inspire one another toward action for justice. As we begin the new year many of our classes are regrouping or changing topics, that makes for a great time to join a new class.
Prayers of the Heart - Meets via Zoom every Sunday at 9am
This group gathers to share a short reading, a time of meditation, and lectio divina. Contact Dennis Lundeen ddlundeen@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Modern Christian Life: Getting Educated on Race & Racism
- January 25: “Selma” and What it was Like to be There?
Tuesday Evening Women’s Book Group - Tuesdays at 7 PM on Zoom
Jennie Pitney- jenniepitney@hotmail.com for Zoom link. The group is joining the Monday night class on "Getting Educated on Race & Racism" for the month of January. See above.
Christian Education for children.
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Salem's New Police Chief, Trevor Womack
Guest Speaker,
Monday, February 1, 2021, 7 - 8 p.m.
Salem’s new Police Chief, Trevor Womack, will be joining our online group, “Educating Ourselves about Race and Racism” class on February 1. Chief Womack assumed his position on Dec. 7, 2020.
Because we know he will have a lot to say – and that you will have plenty of questions and things to say – we are asking that you forward any questions or statements to CesieDelve@gmail.com. We will be sending those questions/statements to Chief Womack prior to his speaking to us. To receive information on how to attend the meeting, please contact Cesie at the email above. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the class.
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Upcoming Youth Activities
Jan 24th we will be doing our next round of Eat it or Yeet it. This month we will be making our own mystery dish. Gather these items (rice, protein of your choice, carrots, paprika, lemon). You can make whatever you want and you can add anything you want to your recipe. Join us for some cooking fun on Jan 24th 1-2:30
Jan 31st we will be doing a painting tutorial. We will be painting a winter scene together, hopefully easier than a Bob Ross painting. You will need a canvas or a 9 X 12 watercolor paper, these colors (black, peacock blue, turquoise, tropical blue, what acrylic paint, or something close). You can use other kinds of paints or colored pencils. You can watch the video here to see what we will be doing and what supplies are needed. To make the painting exactly like the video you will need to do some pre-painting of your canvas.
Come to the Zoom youth group -- Email any of the youth leaders below for information about joining Zoom. Contact Rev. Jeff Lowery: revjeff@opendoorchurches.org for the link information.
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Coffee, Conversation, & Community
The young adults meet regularly for a time of spiritual conversation and community. Please contact Pastor Alyssa for more information.
"As we move forward in our time together I have a couple of series for us to look at and consider engaging in together. At our next gathering on January 27th we can spend some time chatting about these series and make some choices about how we want to spend our time together. Looking forward to spending time with all of you."
~Pastor Alyssa
Open Door Church Young Adult Instagram
Are you following Open Door Young Adults on Instagram?
Check out the Instagram page to see what is happening with Young Adult Group and to see what some of our Young Adults are up to!
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Rev. Alyssa Baker
Worship
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Rev. Kalina Malua Katoa
Pastoral Care
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Rev. John Fleming
Administration
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