Please know our church and facilities remain closed due to the attempt at physical distancing to curb COVID-19. |
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Please Click Here to read an important update from the Church Council, SPRC and Trustees about building use and upcoming outdoor worship experiences.
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Dear Friends,
Thank you all for your generous expression of appreciation for each member of our Church staff during the holy season of Christmas. Your gifts of gratitude for those who unselfishly served our congregation, during a year of uncertainties, was warmly acknowledged by all recipients.
Sincerely,
Chris & Hal
Chris Fillimon, Co-Lay Leader Hal Burlingame, Co-Lay Leader
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With Gratitude
Thank you to all that lent a hand in securing bags for the Wednesday Community Food Distribution that we host each week. We have received an overwhelming amount of bags that will keep us well supplied for the next couple months or more! We are so grateful for your help and response to serve our community.
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Hi CUMC! My annual SouperBowl of Caring Food Drive, which directly benefits the CUMAC ECHO Food Bank in Patterson NJ, is taking place through March 28th (Palm Sunday). Please consider dropping off beans, rice, canned soup, pasta & sauce, and personal care items at either at my house or email me ( swimmergirlrockz@gmail.com) to make pickup arrangements. In recent years, we have been able to help hundreds of families in need, and I am hoping that we can continue this worthy cause, despite the uncertainties of the pandemic. Thank you in advance for your donations and continuous support! ~ Kate Ziegler
I am pleased to give an update of over 375 pounds of food collected to date!
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Thursday, January 28th
To view last night's Prayers Live @5 on Facebook,
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Sunday, January 31st Weekly Online Worship Service
We invite you to our online worship service. Service is posted weekly on Facebook, YouTube, and our Website by Saturday mornings. |
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If you would like to help create our Sunday online worship,
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Sunday Zoom “Virtual Coffee & Conversation”
Join Us at 10:00am by clicking below:
Meeting ID: 680 233 812 Password: 015665
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Wednesday, February 3rd
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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Check out our latest piece of music online from CUMC musicians: Mike Maguire, organ, performing Ralph Vaughan Williams’ arrangement of the hymn tune: Rhosymedre.
Members of our Ukulele Orchestra will next meet online on Saturday, January 30th at 11:00 a.m. For music and Zoom info contact Peter Hill at petepiano@mac.com.
Our next CUMC Musicians evening Zoom meeting will take place on Thursday, February 4th at 7:30 p.m. For Zoom info contact Peter Hill at petepiano@mac.com.
Our CUMC music groups have begun music projects for the new year. Whether you are presently part of our groups: Youth Musicians, Praise Band, Covenant Choir, Wesley Ringers, Wind Ensemble, or Ukulele Orchestra, all are welcome to join with their voice or instrument to make music online and share it with our friends and congregation. For more information contact, Peter Hill, music director at petepiano@mac.com. |
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Sunday School always welcomes 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 read what someone called “the most difficult story in the Bible” and learned a valuable lesson about God’s grace. This week our topic is Parable and we’ll read The Parable of the Sower. Parables can be difficult – just ask the disciples! However, they are meant to take ordinary objects - things we understand – and use them to explain large abstract concepts of faith that may be otherwise difficult to understand. We may need to do some decoding, but once we do, we’ll understand more about God’s giant love for each of us and how we can share it with the world.
Submerge (4th-8th grade) - Sundays at 10:30am on Zoom. This week’s topic: Believing Jesus Even When No One Else Believes. Have you ever decided whether you wanted to get to know someone based on their actions? A person’s actions can give us a lot of information about that person. This week we’ll go deeper into the story of a blind man who was healed by a man he did not know and how that action gave him strength when challenged by people who did not believe Jesus was the Son of God.
High School Discussion - Sundays at 11:45am on Zoom. We’ll continue with A?K – Because Your Questions Matter and the unit on “MORALITY – What’s Right and What’s Wrong?.” This week’s session: “Moral Stories.” The topic of morality is more than an academic discussion – it is something that affects us on a personal level. It is important to look at our life experiences because they shed light on our own world views. What do our experiences teach us about our morality? This week’s Key Verse: Romans 6:21c-23
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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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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...
Prayers lifted on January 27, 2021
- For Holly and her family for healing and good health.
- Katie’s family as they continue to grieve the death of her grandfather.
- Thanks be to God for successful dental surgery for Hilary
- For Fran
- Thanks for your Healing touch in the lives of Jennifer, Gary, Alison, Brittany.
- For Doris’ daughter Michelle who has Covid, and for Doris as she deals with some anxiety
- For Barbara’s nieces Samantha who recently gave birth, and for Whitney who will be giving birth this week.
- For Janice as she begins teaching full time.
- For Jeremy who had Covid and continues to live with Leukemia
- For Barbara’s Mother who is slowly declining in hospice care
- For Isabelle and her family as they grieve Jerry’s death
- For students beginning a new semester
- For Jeremy W at the birth of their third daughter.
- For Jana, who is on hospice care, her husband Tom, as he cares for her, her cousin Annie Walker, and this entire family
- For Jerome’s grandchild being born today
- For the Drew University student from Nepal who has been missing for the past week.
- For someone dealing with anxiety,
- For those dealing with food insecurity
- For Elise, and her family as they care for one another.
- For Simone as she has a second job interview
- For Benjamin, a toddler with cancer, and his mother Elizabeth as she cares for him.
- For Bill Dentzer who died this week. Bless his family as they grieve his death, and give thanks for his life.
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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CUMC Outreach
Volunteers are always needed
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URGENT: CUMC Community Food Pantry
The community support and need of our 24/7 pantry has grown. After a very busy month, our pantry and stock of supplies is very low. We have a critical need for many items. For updates on our current needs you may visit our dedicated Facebook page and Website. These sites are updated weekly with accurate information on what our current needs are and how to best support our efforts before you shop. Thank you all for your continued care of one another and making our Pantry a community staple.
Help keep our food distribution sustained:
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We Need Your Help! New Dates Added!
We’re reaching out to all church members for pre-recorded Gospel readings. New dates have been added through mid March! (Please remember to film Sunday’s Gospel message by the previous 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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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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