The Adult Discipleship Newsletter is for you to stay updated with adult discipleship events and announcements, and stay connected with one another!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Rev. Danielle Kim by email, dkim@crumc.org or Kim Whorley (Adult Discipleship Coordinator) by email, kwhorley@crumc.org.

This survey is to guide us to faithfully discern the needs and opportunities of the discipleship in Custer Road. This survey results will also help us with the staff synergy goal starting this September. Please consider taking this survey and encourage other fellow Custer Road-ians to take it as well. The link is simply: www.crumc.org/survey

The resource library will be ready for us to use starting on 2/6 Sunday in B10! The resource library will be open during the church office hours. All you need to do is to record your name, the book CRUMC barcode number, and the expected date of return and you are ready to take the resource with you!

Click here to visit the online library catalog.

Custer Road UMC is going to have a party and you are invited! This is going to be a Homecoming! We will have a massive tailgate in the north parking lot. We encourage you to invite friends who have not been attending your class!

(1) "Witness at the Cross" by A.J. Levine

Experience Holy Friday from the perspective of those who watched Jesus die: Mary his mother; the Beloved Disciple from the Gospel of John; Mary Magdalene and the other women from Galilee; the two men, usually identified as thieves, crucified with Jesus; the centurion and the soldiers; Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. AJ Levine shows how the people at the cross each have distinct roles to play in the Gospels.

Click here for the teaching videos of "Witnesses at the Cross."

(2) "The Lord's Prayer" by Adam Hamilton

Take this Lent season to study the Lord's Prayer in depth. Adam Hamilton takes us to understand the Lord's Prayer intimately and pray it with its profound meanings.  He explores each of its rich lines and their meaning in the Bible, illuminating what we ask of God and what we ask of ourselves through its words. And he teaches us how to use it as a pattern for our own prayer life.

Click here for the teaching videos for "The Lord's Prayer."

Explore a fresh and timely interpretation of Jesus’ most popular teaching parables. Jesus knew how to tell a story. He knew that in order to get his message across he needed to relate to the people who gathered to listen—first century Jews—who lived in a very different world than the one in which we live today. In Short Stories by Jesus, author Amy-Jill Levine takes you back in time and explains how original audiences understood Jesus’ parables. You’ll learn how new interpretations of the parables continue to challenge and provoke contemporary readers two thousand years later.

FABS is a Fabulous Amazing Bible Study women's group taught by Linda George.

Mondays, February 28-April 4, 10-11:30am, Room 204

Email Linda to register!

Book Sisters meets Monday nights throughout the year at 6:30-8pm in Room 204. Expect lively conversation as we review contemporary and classic books related to our lives and the world around us. Members volunteer to partner with one another to lead discussions. Book selections for 2022 are being chosen now, with the first meeting to be held on Jan. 10. Contact Sally Davies via email here for more information, and/or visit the Facebook private group here and request to join.

February 21, 2022 - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam’s death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam’s possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he’s never seen before. What follows is a surprising and unforgettable odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife’s secret life before they met—a journey that leads him to find hope and healing in the most unexpected places.

April 4, 2022 - The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristen Harmel

Inspired by incredible true stories of survival against staggering odds, and suffused with the journey-from-the-wilderness elements that made Where the Crawdads Sing a worldwide phenomenon, The Forest of Vanishing Stars is a heart-wrenching and suspenseful novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author whose writing has been hailed as “sweeping and magnificent” (Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author), “immersive and evocative” (Publishers Weekly), and “gripping” (Tampa Bay Times).

Upcoming Meetings in Room 212 at 11:30am to 1pm:

Click here to contact Kristina Stacey for more information.

February 16, 2022 - The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

Drawing on the rich history of the twentieth century, the Aviator’s Wife is a vividly imagined novel of a complicated marriage, revealing both its dizzying highs and its devastating lows. With stunning power and grace, Melanie Benjamin provides new insight into what made the remarkable relationship between Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh endure.

March 17, 2022 - Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim

This book is about a haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign. Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."