JULY 4 PARADE

RISE FUNDRAISER

Come and support the RISE Fundraiser at the July 4 parade, and help us sell popcorn, water, and ice pops.

Ways to Support CUMC RISE Teams

• Come for the blessing of the RISE Teams on Sunday, July 2 at 10am worship service.

• Pray for the team members joining this trip from July 9 - 15, 2023.

• Pray for our homeowner hosts.

• Come to hear about the RISE experience on Sunday, July 16, 2023

• Support this ministry with your finances. Checks payable to Chatham UMC, earmarked CUMC RISE 2023.

 Thank you!!!

Ridge High School Volunteers

For the second year in a row, Ridge High School sent over volunteer students and a volunteer chaperone to help CUMC with a list of tasks.

This year, the 10 students and chaperone focused on heavy manual labor - they weeded basically every bed outside the church (but for Memorial Garden) and CMP, including the stone beds, loaded and mulched most of those beds after weeding, and also pulled out large dead plants and shrubs around the property.  The students and chaperone were incredibly hard-working, enthusiastic, friendly, and successful. Those beds looked fantastic after the work of the volunteers, and it's always important in the Garden State to take care of weeds and beds and dead plants as often as possible!

Special thanks to Donald Underhill and Robbie for getting supplies and mulch ready in advance so the volunteers could focus on the backbreaking work they completed.

Justin Klug

* Included is a thank you note from Ridge Gives Back Non Profit. Click on the image to enlarge. *

Green Village Donation to CUMC Food Pantry

We are grateful to the Green Village Office of the Peapack-Gladstone Bank for their donation of $1000 to the Chatham United Methodist Church Food Pantry. Pictured is Tina Lane, Retail Private Banker at Peapack-Gladstone Bank presenting a check to Rev. Jeff Markay, Senior Pastor at Chatham UMC. This will help purchase fresh fruit, vegetables, milk and eggs for 30-50 families this week.

Church Can Grow With 'Community Services'

The United Methodist News recently featured an article about a vision for present and future ministry that indicates that Chatham UMC is on the right path. When a church's mission and compassion is focused on services provided for those in need in the greater community, it is win-win for those receiving the service, and for the church. What are your thoughts?

Click here to read the article by Ps Dale G. Caldwell.

Library News

Massacre at Sand Creek describes the sad story of events that led to the killing of Native Americans in Colorado Territory in November 1864. While small on the scale of battles during the American Civil War, it nonetheless garnered lots of public attention at the time and still raises controversy today. Promises made by the US Government were broken, settlers felt threatened, and Indians were seen as uneducated savages. While the events described here are not unique, it is nonetheless disturbing to hear how Methodists participated in such tragedies.

“On the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Milton Chivington [a Methodist minister serving in the US Army] gave the command that led to the slaughter of 230 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho – primarily women, children, and elderly, camped under the protection of the U.S. government along Sand Creek in Colorado Territory [who were] flying both an American flag and a white flag.” (from the book cover.)

A highlight in Roberts’ book is the discussion of the cultures of the ‘white man’ (typically a European) and of the Native American. Europeans saw life as linear, a progression of events and discoveries, one after the other. Improvements and advancements were key to growth for Europeans. For Native Americans, however, as Roberts notes, “Life was a transcendent cycle, not an irreversible line. For the Native American, every creature in Creation has place and spirit. There is an essential interrelatedness in all of Creation.” People who did not fit into the European model were moved or eliminated.

Roberts’ book is part of a follow-up in 2012 by the United Methodist Church to study and provide a full disclosure of the events of the Sand Creek Massacre.

Reviewed by Ronald Yarger

Sunday, July 2nd’s 10:00 a.m. Sunday service will feature Dorothy McCorry, flute, and Peter Hill, piano, performing John Rutter’s For The Beauty of the Earth and Irlandaise by Claude Bolling. Join us! 

The Ukulele Orchestra will next meet in-person and online Saturday, July 10th at 10:00 a.m. in the Asbury Room and on Zoom. 

This Summer we will have to two Summer Choir opportunities: Sunday, July 23rd and Sunday, August 13th. All are invited to practice an easy-to-learn anthem starting at 9:00 a.m. before the service at 10:00 a.m. For more information contact, Peter Hill, music director at petepiano@mac.com.

Church Office Summer Schedule

Begins on Monday, June 26^th

The Church Office will be closed on Fridays from June 30 - September 6th, office hours are 10am - 1pm.

The Church Office will be closed in observance of the following Summer Holidays:

Independence Day, Tuesday July 4^th

Labor Day, Monday, September, 4^th

The Church Office will return to regular schedule beginning Tuesday, September 5^th

We will be continuing to have our weekly worship services on Sundays at 10:00 AM in our Sanctuary throughout the summer. 

UPDATE: Our weekly coffee fellowship following the worship service will be moved outside the Narthex Main Street Doors. In addition to our usual goodies, we will have juice boxes and sidewalk chalk available for our youngest friends.

All are welcome to join us!

Important Dates:

Sunday, July 2nd Service: Join us at 10AM for the Blessing of the RISE Teams

Tuesday, July 4^th: Pick your spot on the CUMC front lawn for the annual Chatham 4th of July Parade! Our RISE Teams will be here selling some much needed refreshments on a hot summer day! This is a fundraiser event for our Teams!

Sunday July 16^th Service: Join us at 10AM to welcome back the RISE teams and hear about their experience.

Chatham United Methodist Church

460 Main Street

Chatham, NJ 07928

(973) 635-7740

Email: info@chathamumc.org