Sunday's worship service
will premier
at 9:45 a.m. on August 2nd, 2020 with announcements and music then the service will begin at 10 a.m.
Please have communion elements ready as we will partake of them together.
Some people have asked for how long we are planning on doing services online.
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Communion Update
The pastors received a couple of questions recently about when we will be celebrating communion and wanted to share this information.
We will have communion on the first Sunday of every month starting with August 2. When and if we choose to have communion an additional Sunday we will announce it ahead of the service.
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Worship Update
As Covid-19 infections are going up, our churches are still closed and we don't have a definite date of when it will be safe to worship in person.
We will therefor continue to worship together online on Sunday mornings or whenever you are able to join us for the foreseeable future.
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Saturdays of Service
Save the Date: August 15, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Registration Opens: August 1st on Sign-up.com. (We will share the registration link once available.)
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, all projects will be outdoors and registration will be required so that the organizers can divide up the work parties in numbers that benefit the project and uphold the social/physical distancing rules. We will not be having a meal together and volunteers will meet at outdoor job sites.
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New Emails for the Pastors
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We have new emails for the pastors! Always feel free to contact our pastors if you have a concern.
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Town Hall with the Pastors...
What do you want to know?
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We are creating a town hall for people to ask the pastors questions. It will be prerecorded and released in early August. Do you have a question you want to ask? No video is required. Just send your questions to one of the pastors or
ccumsk@gmail.com
.
The finished question and answer sessions will be released in the near future! We will let you know and send out the link!
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Participate in a Sunday Service!
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Do you want to participate in an upcoming Sunday service by reading a verse, playing music, or offering a prayer? We are looking for people throughout Open Door Churches to join in by recording a piece for our worship times together.
We can talk you through how to video yourself and upload it to our Dropbox folder.
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Watch below for tips and tricks on how to record yourself. The only thing that has changed since this video was created is we now send you a link to directly upload your video via Dropbox. Let us know if you have any questions!
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A Summer Camp
to Inspire the Young Social Activists Among Us
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Kicks Off Monday, August 17th
CommUNITY Allies is a home based summer camp to inspire the young social activists in our community! The program kicks-off August 17th with material pick-up or drop-off (at your house) including a t-shirt, snacks, and supplies for all the activities. Families will have access to online videos with stories, music, lessons, art, science, and movement activities all about empathy, social activism, and our connection to the global community. Children will have an opportunity to explore how they can support efforts for change in their community. Visit our
CommUNITY Allies website
for more information and to register.
We'd love to have you and your families involved - and please pass this along to friends, neighbors, parent groups! We want to be sure families in Salem and Keizer have access to this material - it is really good. For those friends or family that might be leery of a camp led by a church, visit the
LEARN MORE
page of the website. The last question speaks to the "churchiness" of the program.
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Learn About Racism Through Zoom
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Open Door Churches Summer Book Study
Join us in reading and discussing
How to Be an Anti-Racist
by Ibram X. Kendi.
We'll meet together over Zoom to discuss the book every Monday evening in August from 7:00-8:30 PM.
Register for updates on our discussion topics and to receive the Zoom link.
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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 summer, 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.
We have several options for gathering online throughout the summer to do that:
Let’s Read: Open Door Churches Summer Book Study
(See above)
Prayers of the Heart – Sundays at 9 AM on Zoom
This group gathers to share a short reading, a time of meditation, and lectio divina.
Tuesday Evening Women’s Book Group- Tuesdays at 7 PM on Zoom
Join for a lively engaged discussion of a new book each month.
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Open Door Churches Directory
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This is an on-going project and we will let you know when it is ready to share, but to complete it we need you!!
Send us your pics as soon as possible!!
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It has been quite a week. So much to process, to pray for, and to do. Many of our families have young children, and our children all have different levels of exposure to current realities of racism and anti-racist work being done in the world right now. Throughout our time together, I will be introducing the subject, and giving families the opportunity and resources to go deeper into the subject.
Kid's Opportunities
Children's Connect Zoom: We will meet the 1st and 3rd Wednesday's at 4:30 and the 2nd and 4th Sundays will be a story time or activity video posted. Here is our schedule for June:
- Godly Play: Normally last Sunday would be our last day of Godly Play for the year! So we are going to take a break for June to spend some time planning new opportunities for the summer.
- Children's Time: Each week there is a children's time during the worship service.
Parent Opportunities
- Parent Happy Hour continues on Fridays at 8:30
- Book Club: The CE Committee is starting up a book club with opportunities to read and reflect together. Look for information soon.
- Stories from the Inside: We are doing a series of interview with church members/families as a way to keep connected to one another stories throughout the summer.
Prayers about for peace, justice, hope, healing, and love during this time.
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Open Door UM Youth Group Zoom meetings
Sunday Zoom
We've had some really great youth gatherings the past few weeks. We've seen a few youth that we haven't seen in a while which has been great. If you haven't joined a call recently we would love to see you and hear how your summer is going. This Sunday we will be playing some new quiz games. One week from Sunday, July 26th, we will be doing our second round of Eat it or Yeet It!. The Chef Bros will be trying to defend their title and we will be making Pumpkin Pie Tacos. The link below has a recipe that I will be using but you are welcome to create a
Pumpkin Pie Mini Tacos
with any ingredients of your choice. Gather some ingredients, get permission to use your kitchen and join us a week from Sunday.
I hope you and your families are keeping healthy and holding in there under this quarantine. We want to try to stay connected with you the best we can and will hold Zoom call for any youth to join during our usual youth group time. Just click on this
Link
and you can join the call starting at 1pm on Sunday and at 7 pm on Thursdays.
Our Youth Group Leaders:
Rev. Jeff Lowery
541-654-1878
Kelly Mason
503-580-1475
Maddy Hickerson
503-999-5077
Book Club
We are reading a book together on race and discussing it. We have chosen the book "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo. Any youth who wants to join us should purchase the book. Email Jeff at
directoroflast@gmail.com
to get the Zoom link.
The youth and youth council are planning the October 2-4 fall retreat for all Open Door Churches, that will be held at Camp Magruder. We will start an interest list soon and then let people know well in advance if the camp remains closed as we get closer to the fall.
Email any of the youth leaders below for information about joining Zoom on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and at 1:00 p.m. on Sundays.
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Coffee, Conversation, & Community
Join us on Wednesday's at 7 on Zoom. This week we will host a meet and greet with Pastor John Fleming. Next week we will continue our new series from The Work of The People on Wednesday July 29th. The series is called "The Ridiculous Journey" and takes a closer look at Jesus life and helps us deeply think about why we follow him today. Don't worry if you missed previous sessions you can still join in.
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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