Please know our church and facilities remain closed due to the attempt at physical distancing to curb COVID-19. |
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Help Us Celebrate Betty!!!
Betty Perkins is turning 100 THIS COMING Tuesday, October 20, 2020!
Her family is trying to get 100 cards for her to open on her birthday. Please consider sending Betty a birthday card to help her celebrate! If you wish to send a card address it to:
Betty Perkins
92 Cottage Place
Gillette, NJ 07933
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All Saints Day is November 1st
If you have a name you'd like included in our All Saints Day list, please send an email to our Church Secretary, Zrinka Cvetkovic at: churchsecretary@optonline.net. Please include the individual's name and date of death. Details on our virtual service is coming soon. |
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20 Days of Thanks Coming Soon!
Help us create "Thanksgiving in a Box" for our Helping Hands Wednesday Food Distribution. For 20 days, you are invited to add a non perishable, holiday food item to a box and remember all that you have to be grateful for this 2020 Holiday Season. (Our special shopping list of 20 items will be available soon! )
Completed boxes (having all 20 items on the list) will need to be dropped off at Chatham United Methodist Church- 460 Main Street. Our collection day of completed boxes will be Saturday, November 14th 10:00 AM - 12 noon.
More information to come!
If you wish to make a monetary contribution, checks can be made payable to Chatham United Methodist Church. Please specify COVID Relief fund on the memo line.
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How does shopping on AmazonSmile work?
The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to CUMC from your eligible smile.amazon.com purchases.
Tens of millions of products are eligible for donations. You will see eligible products marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages at smile.amazon.com or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app. Recurring Subscribe & Save purchases and subscription renewals are not currently eligible to generate donations.
Remember, only purchases made at smile.amazon.com, (not www.amazon.com) or with AmazonSmile turned ON in the Amzon Shopping app on your mobile phone will generate AmazonSmile donations. You may click on the image above to begin shopping!
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Thursday, October 15th
Did you miss our Prayers Live @5 on Facebook last night, Wednesday, October 14th Don't worry. You can rewatch by clicking here. You don't need to be on Facebook to watch this link.
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Sunday, October 18th
Our worship service will be posted on Facebook, YouTube,
and our Website by Saturday morning.
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Sunday Zoom “Virtual Coffee & Conversation”
Join Us at 10:00am by clicking below:
Meeting ID: 680 233 812
Password: 015665
Looking for the full Zoom Information?
If you would like to help create our Sunday online worship, please scroll down to CUMC Outreach and sign up today!
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Wednesday, October 21st
Prayers Live at Five on Facebook
All are invited to tune into a brief Facebook Live event each Wednesday at 5:00 pm. 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.
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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 October 15, 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:
A Time of Silence together...
- Please pray for the health and well-being Grady B (age 4 1/2) as he undergoes surgery this Friday (October 16) at the Cleveland Clinic to correct a congenital abdominal deformity, and for strength for his parents Erin and Jason, and for his grandparents Michele and Billy, that they may support Grady in his recovery.
- Thanks for the health and well-being of Bill, Kathy and their daughters Erica and Eileen, and their families.
- For Len as he recovers from an eye procedure this week.
- For those wondering and worrying as they wait for Covid results.
- For those dealing with anxiety.
- For Doreen as she prepares for surgery
- For Betty Perkins as she celebrates her 100th birthday this month.
- For Carol Millar who celebrates her 90th birthday this week.
- For Peter’s Mom Nene, for patience and healing as she undergoes a knee procedure
- For those impacted by Hurricane Delta, and for the millions who are mucking out their houses once again. Knit together these communities as they care for one another
- For those who are parenting and working from home
- For teachers who are caring for their own families and health, as well as teaching our collective children and youth.
- For those who are fighting depression
- For churches that are struggling, and yet serving Christ in the midst of this pandemic.
- For those who are working for racial justice, healing and reconciliation.
- For our nation as we continue to live out our experiment in democracy.
- For Elise and her family as they care for one another
- For Bill as he searches for meaningful work
- For those dealing with mental health concerns and crisis
- For those living with cancer
- Prayers for Nicole, Elizabeth, Haley, Elyse
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. |
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The scriptures and prayers that are being shared this week for you and your communities are below:
Scripture:
A voice says, “Cry out.”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
“All people are like grass,
and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
7 The grass withers and the flowers fall,
because the breath of the Lord blows on them.
Surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.”
Isaiah 40:6-8
We are part of that Word of God.
We are part of that rhythm of grass growing and withering, flowers blooming and dropping their petals, trees growing leaves and letting them go…all part of the Word of God that endures forever. All part of the paschal mystery.
We are One in the Cosmic Christ, the Word, the Creation of God.
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to
each other.” Mother Teresa
Prayer:
Creator of Heaven and Earth,
as the trees turn, let go of their leaves, and trust,
help us to do the same.
Amen.
Music:
See I am Near (Taize)
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Youth, Kids, and Music News... |
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Sunday School is welcoming new friends to join our active groups! Zoom log-in info for the following online classes will be emailed at the end of each week. If you would like to be added to the distribution group or have questions about which class is right for your children, please email Karen at youthchatumc@optonline.net.
PreK / Early Elementary: Sundays at 9:30am on Zoom. Last week we learned that God loves us all in ways that at times may not seem fair but are always generous. This week’s topic: Abundance. We’ll learn about Jesus’ first miracle and how it demonstrates there are no limitations to God’s power and reminds us of God’s abundant love.
Submerge (4th-8th grade): Sundays at 10:30am on Zoom. We continue diving deeper into some familiar Bible stories with “13 Very Bad Days, and how God fixed them.” This week we’ll look in the book of Jonah to see how he dealt with his bad day and learn that even when we’re not perfect, God forgives us. Have a Bible handy and another hard cover book.
Submerge / Tween Time: This week we’re meeting on Friday at 6:00pm to hang out, play some games, connect and help each other thru this time of social distancing. See email from Karen for details.
High School Discussion: Sundays at 11:45am on Zoom. Last week we discussed miracles, laws of nature, the age old question “if God is all powerful can he [insert something here like ‘make a round square’]?” and the rationality of creation, among other deep thoughts that came up in A?k Because Your Questions Matter. This week’s topic: Origin and Evidence
Key Concept: God has put enough into this world to make faith a most reasonable thing and God has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone.
Key Verse: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." —Hebrews 11:1
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CUMC Musicians will next meet online on Thursday evening of October 22nd at 7:30 p.m. For Zoom info contact Peter Hill at petepiano@mac.com
The Chatham UMC Ukulele Orchestra will meet again for their next online sing and play-a-long on Saturday, October 17th 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 next virtual choir project for November’s All Saints Day Service. If you are interested in joining the choir for this online piece, please contact Peter Hill at petepiano@mac.com. If you are interested in being an online part of our other music groups: Youth Musicians, Praise Band, Covenant Choir, Wind Ensemble, Wesley Ringers, and Ukulele Orchestra, all are invited! Our online music program welcomes musicians from New Jersey and the wider world. |
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CUMC Outreach
Volunteers are always needed
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We Need Your Help!
We’re reaching out to all church members for pre-recorded Gospel readings through the Fall. (Please remember to film Sunday’s Gospel message by the previous Tuesday!)
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We are hoping that you can send in one or more videos that can be filmed in a few seconds on your smart phone:
1) A video of you dropping a leaf, and saying what you'd like to let go of.
2)A video of wind chimes that you may have outside your home, or in your neighborhood.
3) A video of you, and or your family looking in the camera and saying: "Peace be with you."
Please take these videos holding your phone in a horizontal position so that it takes up the whole screen when edited. Please add one or two seconds before and after you speak so that it can be edited in with other videos in the online worship experience. Please sent these videos to Jeff Markay at revjmarkay@earthlink.net, or text the video to my cell phone: 973-769-5266. |
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Volunteers are needed to pick up excess bagels from Chatham Bagel at 260 Main Street each day at 2:00pm (their closing time). Chatham Bagel has been an important partner in supplying our Wednesday Food Distribution efforts with fresh bread. Please help us keep this effort supplied!
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Pop Up Food Pantry
Take what you need or leave what you can at our two pantry shelves. The shelves are now located across from the CMP Playground and are winter ready!
Help keep our shelves filled.
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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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We offer links to resources you may need to help you or your loved ones through this "storm" of Covid-19. 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. |
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All submissions for next week's CUMC Weekly E-news are due by Tuesdays, 2:00 PM. Submissions may be emailed to Eileen Ruggiero.
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460 Main Street
Chatham, NJ 07928
(973) 635-7740
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