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Connections
Thursday, October 21, 2021
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Worship Sneak Peek
October 24, 2021 at 10:00 am
Join us for worship this Sunday in person or online at 10:00 am as we wrap up our sermon series Grace Made Visible. We will be focusing on how we help to make God's grace visible for others as we live as faithful stewards with all our resources and gifts. Don't forget to bring your pledge card, if you haven't already, so we can ask God's blessing on our intentions of giving for 2022! Hope to see you either in person or online!
Reminder: We have resumed in-person worship and continue to live-stream the service on our website and YouTube channel.
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Stewardship Season-2022
We Need Your Help!
Our annual Stewardship Campaign is underway with a pledged giving goal of 100 pledges and $300,000. You should have received your pledge card last week.
Please return your pledge card by October 24th, Consecration Sunday, when we will celebrate all we can accomplish through the diversity of gifts we bring.
Thank you for your continued financial support of our church. Your gift truly makes all the difference!
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Beach Clean Up-This Saturday
Please come join us for Clean Ocean Action's Beach Clean up this Saturday, October 23rd at 9:00 am at Sandy Hook. Come out and clean up the beach that we love so much! It is a great opportunity for families and friends to enjoy some time together as they help make the world a better place!
Contact Kathy Hackler at hackler@optonline.net
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Trunk or Treat October 31- We Need Your Help
Come lend a hand and help us to host a family-friendly, community outreach event, providing a safe trick-or-treating environment for our children and our community neighbors.
Sign up to reserve your spot for our Trunk-or-Treat Spectacular. Trunkers, decorate your trunk in a fun or scary theme and be ready with candy to hand out to our Trunk-or-Treaters starting at 12:00pm. All candy should be individually wrapped and preferably peanut-free.
In addition to trunks, volunteers are needed to help run the games and contests, so please sign up online with the Trunk-or-Treat Volunteer form if you are able to help.
For more information and for any questions, please e-mail us at FamilyNights@umcredbank.org
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Hygiene Kits-Items Needed
For the month of October, the Mission and Service committee is asking everyone in the church family to donate items for hygiene kits that will be given to Church World Services for disaster relief. There are two boxes available. One on the back porch and one as you enter the back door of the church.
Items Needed: Hand towels (no fingertip or bath size); band aids-standard size; washcloth; sturdy comb-at least 6" teeth; fingernail/ toenail clippers; bath size bar of soap (no ivory or jergens); toothbrushes-adult size individually packaged.
Thank you for your help. Any questions, please contact Carol Voorhees at 732-670-6270
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UMW Fall Fundraiser-
Basket Auction
Stop by Fellowship Hall after worship this Sunday to place your bids on this year's baskets. Winners will be announced on Sunday, November 14th.
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Book Club: This Saturday-1 p.m.
The book club will be meeting October 23 at 1 p.m. in the church library. Join us in our discussion of The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. All are welcome!
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Backpack Crew Pantry
Donations Welcome
The Backpack Crew has continued to serve the increasing number of people who are impacted by food insecurity in the midst of this health crisis. Food donations are greatly appreciated on the back porch of the church, Monday though Friday from 9 am to 3 pm.
The current donation request is QUICK BREAD, MUFFIN & BROWNIE MIX.
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Adult Education In person or Online
Adult Education class is meeting 8:45-9:45 am on Sundays in person and has an online option on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm through Zoom. We will start the Fall with a DVD lecture by Father Richard Rohr on the stages of spiritual development. We are then looking to move into his book Falling Upward about moving into the “second half of life” and the failures, disappointments, or even tragedies that are often instrumental in our coming to question the values of the “first half of life” and begin the search for something deeper.
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Wondering About the Bible with Children
This book discussion group is for anyone who has children in their lives. For 5 alternating Thursday evenings at 7pm starting October 7th on zoom. Come once, come all 5 times. You are welcome.
The book addresses the following questions: How do we talk about miracle stories, healing stories, and the creation stories? What about violence? What 's my role in helping children read, engage, wrestle, and grow into a deeper understanding of the Bible. Wondering about the Bible with Children is for those who come to the Bible with souls open to be fed and who want their children to seek faith and wisdom.
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CROP Walk Success-
Thank You, Supporters!
We had a great celebration of the 41st Red Bank CROP Walk last Sunday afternoon at Red Bank Regional HS. It was a nice Fall day where supporters enjoyed music, refreshments, art contest, photo-ops and more while doing a whole lot of good for our local food pantries.
Under the tent, we collected and distributed 15,000 lbs. of food to 22 local food pantries.
Our 74 on-line teams have raised more than $ 68,000 thus far. That gets added to the approx. $49,000 raised from sponsors, cash/check donations and sale of CROP Gear for $ 117,000 of which 25% comes right back to our Monmouth County partners.
We’re not done yet! This program continues to the end of the year. Last year we had a similar amount on CROP Sunday and closed the year with $ 138,000 to fight hunger in Monmouth County and elsewhere.
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UMW Craft Group
Tuesday, Oct. 26
Craft Group will be meeting on Tuesday, October 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the lobby above the Church Library. Please come for the whole meeting or whatever portion you can attend. Bring your snack for our short lunch break.
New members are always welcome to help make our greeting cards. Halloween and Thanksgiving cards are available (along with all our other categories of cards) at the Card Table in Fellowship Hall after our Sunday 10 a.m. Church Service.
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Balance and Strength Training -
IN PERSON AND ONLINE
Tuesdays and Thursdays (on-line) at 12:00 pm
Online Balance and Strength Training with Janet Tartaglia. Beginners welcome! Items needed: chair (with no arms) and weights (can be 2 16 oz. water bottles), or you can choose to follow along without the weights. Exercises done with chair or standing, no floor work. The Zoom connection information for each session is located on the calendar on our website.
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Online and In-person Yoga
Wednesdays at 9:30 am
Join us online or in-person weekly on Wednesdays for yoga with Tiffany McCann. The Zoom connection information for each session is located on the calendar on our website.
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Boiler Replacement Project
Over the summer we undertook a large capital improvement project to replace the boiler in the Christian Education wing of our building. Our whole building was shut down for 3 weeks in August due to asbestos remediation, but that stage of the project is complete and the old boiler has been replaced with a new one! There is still some work to be done in the basement, but great progress has been made. Many thanks to all who helped to move the furniture in the basement and for all the angel donors who helped to defray the cost of the project, which is estimated to total $124,460, a large portion of which will be funded from our endowment. To learn more about the scope of the project, click here to view a detailed presentation. We are incredibly thankful to the generosity of our saints who have gone before us and contributed to the endowment. If you would like to help defray the cost of this project, donations are more than welcome, either through a check with "Boiler Project" in the memo line, or an online contribution here. If you would like to learn more about how to plan your advanced giving to the church endowment to help secure the future sustainability of UMCRB for years to come, contact Pastor Jess, or click here to learn more about your planned giving options.
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Christmas Flower Orders- Start Nov. 28th
Sponsor a flower arrangement for our Sunday services in the Sanctuary this season.
Arrangements are $45.00.
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Pastoral Care
If someone is hospitalized or in need of pastoral care,
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