Check out what's going on this week at the UMC of Red Bank!
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Connections
Thursday, December 12, 2019
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Service of Lessons and Carols - Sunday, December 15th at 7 pm.
Come to fill yourself up with the sounds and words of the season at our Annual Service of Lessons and Carols. This year our Festival Choir and Brass will perform Daniel Pinkham's Christmas Cantata.
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Lessons & Carols reception
Our Music Committee is celebrating our musicians with a reception following the Lessons and Carols service on December 15th at 7:00 PM. Please contact Carol Rigler (
cerigler@gmail.com
) if you would like to offer treats and/or assistance with the event.
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Stewardship 2020
Join in the Excitement!
We have some great news to share! Our 2020 pledged giving currently stands at $
296,203
, so we are 99% of the way to our goal of $300,000! Many thanks to those who have pledged, and if you have not yet, please consider doing so before January 17, 2020, when the campaign closes. Together we make a positive difference in our community!
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Christmas Poinsettias
Orders Due on Sunday!
Please consider making a donation to purchase these beautiful plants in memory, or honor, or in celebration of a loved one for $20 per poinsettia. Order filling out the bulletin insert in church, or
downloading it
and mailing in your check. Contact Sheila,
sleavitt@umcredbank.org
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Advent Options
Please support our alternative giving on December 15 with our Advent Options. This year we will be supporting Habcore, Miracles Everywhere, and Heifer International. We will have a speaker from Habcore on the 15th and representatives from our conference for Miracles Everywhere on both Sundays. Give a gift that gives back.
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Support a Family from the Camden Neighborhood Center
UMW is collecting funds for the children of Camden for Christmas. If you’d like to contribute, please come to the table in Fellowship Hall and donate a little Christmas for the Children.
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Are You Thinking Christmas?
Stop by at the HUBOB table in the Fellowship Hall to pick up some food cards or order gift cards in anticipation of the holidays. Retailers will contribute a percentage of your gift card purchase. Stop by at our table in Fellowship Hall on Sunday morning or contact
Marion Kleiner
at 732-918-9587 to get the names of more participating retailers. The purchase of every card will help to balance the church budget.
Remember: IT’S ALWAYS TIME TO HUBOB!!
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Christmas Events at UMC Red Bank
There are many events going on at church this season! Check out dates and times of all the events on our website,
www.umcredbank.org/christmas/
.
Feel free to
share the link with others!
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JOIN
OUR
TREX
®
CHALLENGE FOR A GREENER EARTH
Now through Feb 28, 2020
Our TREX®
Challenge for a Greener Earth continues now through February 28, 2020. As of mid-November we have collected 94 garbage bags of plastic weighing 316 lbs. We invite you to join the challenge by bringing in single use plastics (details noted below) to the collection bin at the back door. When we meet our goal of 500 lbs, TREX® will donate an outdoor bench for use on our Pre-K playground and together we will have eliminated un-wanted plastic from our area landfills! Please see Janie Schildge or Bobbie Ridgely (
bjridgely@yahoo.com
) for more information. Any plastic marked with a 2 or 4 recycle symbol can be donated. A good rule of thumb is plastic that can be stretched is acceptable, plastic that crinkles is not. Please note, it is VERY IMPORTANT that ALL materials are CLEAN, DRY AND FREE OF FOOD RESIDUE!
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Worship Sneak Peek
December 15, 2019
Join us for the third Sunday of Advent as we prepare our hearts for Christmas. Our sermon series throughout December will help us dig deeper into the Promises of Christmas; hope, love, freedom, peace, and joy. This Sunday, we will reflect on the liberating power of God made known through Jesus and how we can experience freedom from that which binds us.
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Pastoral Care
If someone is hospitalized or in need of a pastoral visit
please contact the church office at
If you have a pastoral emergency, please contact
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