Upcoming Events

• Summer office hours are in effect (Mondays to Thursdays 10am - 1pm; Fridays Closed)
• July 4th Parade: CUMC volunteers will welcome Chatham parade attendees and participants to our building for cold water, a restroom break, or a cool place to relax. Thank you volunteers!

Prayers from Sunday

• Congratulations to Lauren B. and TD Brody (our choral scholars) and to the entire cast in their production of Annie - Broadway quality!! - NC
• For Karen B as she moves to Indiana this week - NC
• For the people of Venezuela
• Continued prayers for Peggy and Caesar Sweitzer - NC

This Sunday’s Summer 10:00 a.m. service will feature Ron Yarger, flute performing The Swan by Camille Saint-Saëns. Join us! 

The first Summer Choir opportunity will take place on Sunday, July 26th. All singers are welcome! We’ll meet at 9:00 a.m. in the Music Room to practice as easy-to-learn anthem for the 10:00 a.m. service. For more information contact Peter Hill, director of music ministries at petepiano@mac.com

A Note from the Staff Parish Relations Committee

The Staff Parish Relations Committee is very pleased to support the Renewal Leave of our Senior Pastor, Rev. Jeff Markay. Our district superintendent Rev. William Williams has encouraged all full-time pastors in the district to work with their SPRCs in planning time of Renewal Leave as a healthy spiritual practice that ultimately bears fruits in the lives of the pastors and the churches they serve. Pastor Jeff will be taking July and August as a well-deserved Renewal Leave during which he and his wife Julie will be traveling together, visiting friends and family, and unplugging from the ministry demands of the churches they serve. We have encouraged him to not check emails, so if you have an important email that you want him to read, please send it in mid-September. In early September, Pastor Jeff will be doing some continuing education and taking some vacation time while at a wedding in Colorado. His first Sunday back in the pulpit will be September 20, 2026. We hope you can come to our 10am worship on Sunday, June 28, 2026 when we will bless Pastor Jeff.

We also hope you will come to worship throughout the summer. We are grateful for Rev. Sharon Yarger, and Rev. Dan Gepford who will be preaching, and leading worship with Peter Hill and various musicians during the Summer Sundays. If there is a pastoral emergency in our congregation, please contact the church office or a member of the SPRC committee who will then contact Pastor Sharon, or another United Methodist Pastor in our area, who are providing pastoral care while Pastor Jeff is away. The SPRC has also encouraged our ministry with our online congregation by posting previously recorded and posted messages and sermons throughout the summer.

I write on behalf of the Members of the SPRC including Edie Myers-Arnold, Abby Klug, Jenee James, Jan Dvorkin, Steve Davis, Annie Walker, Betsey Ashoka, Leah Van Doornik and Dave Bramwell, and am grateful for their service to the church.

Sincerely,



Hal Burlingame, SPRC Chair

Chatham United Methodist Church

460 Main Street

Chatham, NJ 07928

(973) 635-7740

Email: info@chathamumc.org