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Upcoming Events @ CUMC
- 12/14 Men's Breakfast 9:00 am
- 12/14 Blue Christmas Service 3:00 pm
- 12/17 Last day to submit Poinsettia Orders Forms
- 12/24 - 01/02 Church Office Closed
- 12/24 Christmas Eve Services 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm
- 1/5/2025 White Gifts due
- 1/6/2025 Suburban Music Study Club concert 7:00 pm
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Prayers Lifted on Sunday, December 8
- The prayers on the prayer doves
- For those grieving at this time
- For those who are searching for you O God
- For Tom Lyon having cancer surgery on Tuesday
- For the people of Syria
- For peace in The Middle East
- Of healing for Kelly S after undergoing cancer surgery
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Altar Flowers
The altar flowers this Sunday
are given to the Glory of God.
Thank you for being my church family for 60 years!
Nan Canfield
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This Sunday’s 10:00 AM service on December 15th will feature The Wesley Ringers ringing a medley of The Theme from Swan Lake and Let all Mortal Flesh keep Silence, and the Covenant Choir performing All Praise To Thee by Elaine Hagenberg. Join us!
The first program of the new year of 2025 in our sanctuary will be hosted by the Suburban Music Study Club on the evening of Monday, January 6th at 7:00 PM with Merynda Adams, harp, Jonathan Morales, voice, and Peter Hill, piano. The performers will play gentle music by candlelight to usher you into the new year. There will be an opportunity for members of the audience to light a candle.
All are invited to this free recital of hopeful, classical music.
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What leads us to peace? How do we remove stumbling blocks that get in the way of feeling peaceful? What prayer helps you reach peace? Come join our Adult Discussion Group on Sunday when we seek answers to these and other questions in our Advent meeting. We meet in the Asbury room after worship at 11:15 am. See you there!
Questions? Contact Ronald Yarger at ryarger@optonline.net
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Are you yearning for peace as we approach Christmas?
You’re invited to be part of an Advent Small Group!
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Groups continue on Sundays and Mondays until December 23rd
As we seek to draw closer to God and to one another during the season of Advent, Small Groups will meet weekly for about one hour.
- Sundays, December 1, 8, 15, and 22 at 11:15 am Facilitated by Ron Yarger.
- Mondays December 2, 9, 16, and 23 at 7:00 pm Facilitated by Pastor Sharon Yarger.
Both groups will meet in “hybrid” format – in person in the Asbury Room as well as via Zoom.
We’ll be using the resource Living Well Through Advent 2024: Practicing Peace with All Your Heart, Soul, Strength and Mind.
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The season of Advent, along with this resource, provides us the opportunity to slow down so we can make choices that will help prepare us for the true meaning of Christmas. Living Well is available as an e-book on Amazon, and in various digital and print formats at LivingCompass.org. All the formats are free or at a very low cost. Free print copies will also be available in the church office beginning Sunday November 24
For more information or to receive the Zoom invitation contact Pastor Sharon Yarger at the church office or at scyarger@optonline.net
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A Friendly Reminder that it is not too late to mail or drop off your check towards our Church Staff’s Christmas Gift. As always, thank you for your continued support of our Church and Church staff.
A Note from our Lay Leaders
Dear Friends,
It has been our Congregation’s annual tradition to give a gift during the Christmas season to each member of our Church staff. We plan to give the gifts to the staff by Friday, December 20th.
If you wish to participate, please mail your check to the address below, or give it to one of us before or after the service. Checks should be made out to the Chatham United Methodist Church, with the memo line indicating Staff Christmas Gift, or, if you are familiar with our online donation service via Vanco, you may make a payment by going to our website at www.chathamumc.org, click on the “Make a Donation” button and follow the instructions. Please use the “Other-Miscellaneous” field to enter your payment amount. If you need assistance with using our online donation service, please email our Finance Manager, Zrinka Cvetkovic at finmgr@chathamumc.org.
Chatham United Methodist Church
Attn: Co-Lay Leaders
460 Main Street
Chatham, NJ 07928
Thank you,
Chris Fillimon and Hal Burlingame, Co-Lay Leaders
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Christmas Poinsettia Order Forms
are Due this Sunday!
Financial donations for the poinsettias this year will help pay for
United Methodist mission and ministry in Africa
Thank you!
The beautiful poinsettia display at Christmas time has always been the hallmark of the Advent Celebration. If you wish to participate you can pick up an order form from outside the Sanctuary, from the Church Office, or if you prefer, you can download one here and print it at home.
Order forms must be returned to the office by Sunday, December 15th
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Sunday Morning Faith Formation
Whirl Kids (4th grade and younger) meets the second and fourth Sundays of each month during part of the 10:00 am worship service. Children leave the worship service after the scripture reading and are led down the hallway to Classroom 6. Parents and other adults from our congregation lead the group in singing, Bible reading, a fun video and activities related to the day’s scripture reading. Parents/caregivers pick their children up at the conclusion of the worship service.
Middle School (grades 5-8) meets each Sunday at 11:15 am in the Library. Under the leadership of Matthew Beland, this group explores the day’s scripture reading through conversation and activities designed for growing together in our faith
High School (grades 9-12) meets each Sunday at 11:15 am in the Wesley Room. Under the leadership of Pastor Sharon Yarger, the group gathers for conversation around the day’s scripture reading and current event topics, as we seek to grow together in our faith
Questions? Interested in getting involved? Contact Pastor Sharon Yarger at scyarger@optonine.net or at the church office.
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Huge appreciation for Lafayette School Chatham who collected and dropped of a car full of paper towels and toilet paper last week! | |
A BIG Thank You to the Girl Scouts from Central Avenue Elementary School in Madison
The Girl Scouts at Central Avenue School packed non-perishable lunches and drew pictures for our Wednesday food distribution guests. The picture on the left is of their leader, Ms. Dina Mazzacano dropping off the lunches which were given out to our guests this week.
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Help keep our food pantry and weekly distribution sustained.
Click Here to donate online!
Want to know more about our Pop Up Pantry and how to help? Check out our webpage.
Or, if you wish, you can contribute directly online by visiting our donation page.
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Online Worship Liturgists Needed!
Please sign up to record yourself reading scriptures; this will be a blessing to our online worshiping community.
Sign up here.
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Bread Ministry
The bread ministry is looking for more volunteers to assist in collecting bread from Panera. Please contact the church office for more information.
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Communities of Care
If you wish to receive a call, a text or an email from someone at the Chatham UMC community please contact the church office.
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Chatham United Methodist Church
460 Main Street
Chatham, NJ 07928
(973) 635-7740
Email: info@chathamumc.org
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