Check out what's going on this week at the UMC of Red Bank! |
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Connections
Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Pastor Cam's Weekend Preview |
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Reminder: We have resumed in-person worship and continue to live-stream the service on our website and YouTube channel.
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Easter Flower Orders Start Soon!
See Amanda for more information about dedicating flowers to loved ones and to place orders.
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Faith, Hope & Love- 4/22
Join Bonnie Deroski and others at Faith, Hope & Love! on Saturday, April 22, 2023 in Ewing, NJ
Faith, Hope & Love: Building Safer & More Welcoming Congregations for LGBTQ+ Youth is an inter generational event filled with learning, story-telling, resources, worship, and more. It is for teens, young adults, pastors, seminarians, youth workers, parents, congregational leaders, and resource providers. This day is for anyone who cares about making churches safer and more welcoming for LGBTQ+ youth. This year, Faith, Hope & Love will be by suggested donation of $20/attendee or $40/family (3 or more members of the same family). Registration is required. Please register at https://forms.gle/rMGh6LL6XJqpMKiF8 . See Bonnie Deroski for more information.
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Thank You!
A great big thank you to all who supported our second Takeout Only Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner. We sold over 150 dinners and took in Patron donations resulting in a profit of over $2,500 even though expenses rose significantly this year. That profit will be a big help toward financing scholarships for our youth. Our work crews before, during, and after the dinner for clean-up were fabulous in preparing the vegetables, trimming and slicing the meat, assembling the dinners, selling tickets, distributing dinners and cleaning up. Our committee is so grateful to all of the enthusiastic adults and youth who volunteered so many hours and worked so hard. Also, we appreciate the help of the church staff for all they did to make this dinner a success. A special shout out to Scott Gades, our chief cook and kitchen manager, and his family, who did so much to help make the dinner a success. - With Gratitude, The Scholastic Assistance Committee.
Please Note* Applications will be emailed on April 1st to last year’s recipients and this year’s high school seniors. More information will follow
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Church & Society Book Discussion- 3/26
Learn more about the "gender data gap" and how it impacts women by failing to take them into account in public policy, medical research, technology design, urban planning and more. Join us in a book discussion on "Invisible Women" by Caroline Criado Perez on Sunday, March 26 at 11:30 am in room 114. Contact Carol Rigler for more information.
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Come Garden with Us –
First Grounds Clean Up Day is 4/1
Did you know there are several ways to help our community through gardening here at UMC Red Bank? This is a great way to spend a little time in nature and make a difference!- Vegetable Garden: Our UMC Red Bank vegetable garden is in Fair Haven and is planted with all kinds of different vegetables. As always our proceeds will be donated to a local food pantry. Cyndi Skove leads this effort and the United Women in Faith (UWF) underwrites this garden by paying for the gardening plot and buying the supplies. We need help watering, weeding and harvesting. Group work days are planned for Monday mornings this year. We usually spend about an hour on Mondays once the garden gets up and going. There are also ways to be involved that can be managed on your own schedule.
Church Grounds Upkeep: You might have noticed how beautiful our church grounds are. Much of this is the result of church volunteers who do things like water the pollinator garden, weed the planting beds and trim the bushes. Group activities usually happen on Saturday mornings when we meet for an hour and do what ever needs to be done that week. There are always simple things to do like weeding and sometimes a little bit of heavy lifting such as tree trimming. This is an activity for all ages and abilities. Bring yourself or bring the whole family. No special tools or knowledge required.
Our first Church Grounds cleanup day is this Saturday, April 1 from 9:00 – 10:30. We would like to get the grounds spiffed up before Easter Sunday on April 9. If you would like to know more about upcoming gardening opportunities at UMC Red Bank contact Bobbie Ridgely at propertymanager@umcredbank.org.
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Pastor Cam & Evans Lent Reflections- Every Wednesday
Join us every Wednesday in Lent as Pastor Cam and Evan share musical, visual, and spoken word reflections based on our Lenten theme of the journey from the barren wilderness to the new life and bloom of resurrection! The video link will be sent at Noon on Wednesdays via email and will also be linked via the Church's social media at that time!
*In case you missed the email Wednesday, 3/15, click the image for the video link.
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Backpack Crew Pantry
Donations Welcome
The Backpack Crew has continued to serve the increasing number of people who are impacted by food insecurity in the midst of this health crisis. Food donations are greatly appreciated on the back porch of the church, Monday though Friday from 9 am to 3 pm.
The current donation request is PASTA.
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Adult Education Class -
Sundays (in person) &
Wednesdays(online)
On Sunday March 12, Adult Education will start a new study on Sunday mornings: Hell, No! by Richard Rohr. All are welcome to join us at 8:45 am in the Lounge as we examine our concepts of hell and what that does to our theology. This is approximately a 3 week series. The Wednesday evening class is continuing our study of Climate Church, Climate World.
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Pastoral Care
If someone is hospitalized or in need of pastoral care,
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