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In-person & Online Worship Service

January 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM

Baptism of the Lord

*Scripture Lesson

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

*Sermon

"Seeing Ourselves as Beloved"

by Rev. Sooah Na

*Worship Assistant:

James Mojomick

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Announcements

Family Ministry Update

Hello Children and Youth Families,

Happy and Blessed New Year to you and your Families! 

Just a quick update for this Sunday, January 5th.  This Sunday would normally be Communion Sunday, however Pastor Sooah has decided to postpone communion until next week. She is testing negative but feels comfortable allowing more time before handing communion. 

We will have Sunday School this week and also next week , however we will have the children and youth come back into service for communion. 

Finally, for our youth, we will have a youth group meeting January 12th following fellowship. 

Many Blessings,

Grace 

December Diaper Drive Mission Report

DIAPER DRIVE COLLECTS RECORD NUMBER

OF DIAPERS, WIPES FOR THE MAKER'S PLACE

Bolstered by a very generous donation from the College Avenue Community Church of New Brunswick, Centenary collected a record number of diapers and wipes during its seventh annual Advent Diaper Drive for The Maker's Place, a United Methodist Hope Center in Trenton.

On Sunday, January 5th, after Pastor Sooah blessed the donations during our worship service, Centenary delivered 7,598 diapers and 4,192 wipes to Trinity United Methodist Church in Ewing Township, which serves as a diaper depot for The Maker's Place. Pastor Sooah expressed Centenary's deepest appreciation to Pastor Douglas Shepler and the congregation of College Avenue Community Church for their outstanding contribution of 5,143 diapers and 2,592 wipes to the drive.

Since its establishment in 2018 to address the high infant mortality rate in the Trenton area, The Maker's Place has distributed more than one million free diapers to families struggling to keep their infants clean, dry, and free from infection.  Each month, The Maker's Place diaper depot distributes some 26,000 diapers to needy families from eight distribution locations in the Trenton vicinity.

Special thanks to everyone who donated diapers and wipes to this year's drive; to Se Hoon Oh and Vika Chala, for making their pickup truck available on short notice to deliver the diapers (and to their children, Sophia and Nikolas, who were a big help unloading the diapers at Trinity UMC); and to the volunteers who helped load the diapers into Se's vehicle and mine at Centenary.

Bob Carlson

Missions Chairman

January- February Lamplighter

Prayer Request List Refresh

As we prepare to welcome the new year, we are thoughtfully updating our prayer request list in the bulletin to better serve and support one another.

To keep our bulletin meaningful and focused, we will be removing existing prayer requests unless we hear that you or your loved ones wish to keep them.

If you would like your prayer request to remain in the bulletin, please let us know by submitting the prayer request form available in the Narthex area or by reaching out directly to Pastor Sooah at pastorsooah@gmail.com.

We warmly invite you to share any new prayer requests as we enter the new year together.

Get Well Cards

Get well cards may be sent to Tom Moyer, a long-time member, who is recovering from a recent stroke. Although he is still in the rehab center, cards can be sent to his home at

Tom & Nancy Moyer

42 Buchanan Road

Metuchen, NJ 08840-1012

January’s barrel offering is designated to UMCOR

UMCOR, the humanitarian relief arm of The United Methodist Church, supports those affected by disasters—natural or human-made—offering relief, recovery, and hope worldwide.



Centenary’s January barrel offering will go to UMCOR. Learn more about their impactful mission in the video below!

Every Wednesday & Sunday

• Celebration of Found Cans (nonperishable item collection ministry from 9:30 am to 12 pm)
• Bell Choir Practice at 2 pm at Music Room

January 12th (Sunday)

• Youth Group at Room 20 (Following the service)

January 13th (Monday)

• Board of Trustee Meeting at 7 pm (online)

January 14th (Tuesday)

• ELC Liaison Meeting at 11 am (online)
• Prayer Group meeting at 7 pm (online)

February 2nd (Sunday)

• Blessing Prayer for the Blessing Bag Project

February 3rd (Monday)

• Church Council Meeting at a 7pm

February 4th (Tuesday)

• Prayer Group Meeting at 7 pm (Online)

February 13th (Thursday)

• Sandwich Making Night at 6:30 pm at Room 20

February 16th (Sunday)

• Valentine Cookie Decorating Event (Following the service)

February 17th (Monday)

• Finance Committee Meeting at 7 pm (Online)

We pray for...

Remember in your prayers: Tom Moyer Lester Heim, Jr. (son of Mary Ellen Heim); Family of Sandi (Bruce's sister in law), Carolee Szajko; Cathy Savoia; Heeja Park (mother in law of pastor Sooah); Josiah (The son of Nicole’s friend); family of Dorothy Lake; Janet Sweeney (friend of Donna Dingle); Howard Tarlow's family (Martino family's acquaintance), Kerwinna Ortega (Jegari's sister), Jennifer Ignacio (Jegari's cousion), Richard Heim (son of Mary Ellen Heim); Darla Downes; Michelle Moyer; family of Rosalina Magno (mother of Virginia Giordano); family of Young Oh (father of Se Hoon Oh); Harvey Schwartz’s family (Diana Lee-Cary’s uncle); Joseph Gehrmann’s family (James Mojomick’s friend); family of Miriam Dingle; family of Shirley Utts; Joelle Williams and her family of Metuchen School District; Fontaine Anzalone (aunt of Paul Manjourides); Rodrigues family of Metuchen; Rosanne and Chris Moxley; family of Doreen Jones (mother of Darla Downes); family of Kiara Gonzalez (cousin of Nicole Tierno); Michael Gabriel (friend of Ruth Lechelt); Jessica Elil (daughter of Stella, co-worker of Peggy Martino); Kenny Fischer (cousin of Charles Giordano); John & Portia Lashley; family of Celeste Ramsey (mother-in-law of Isabel Pichardo); family of Ed (friend of the Mojomicks); families of Sylvia Woodfield; family of Heather Vail (friend of Ruth Lechelt); Amelia (student at Edgar MS-Metuchen); Mary Ellen Heim; family of Sandy Baks; family of Rev. Dr. Hoo Sug Lee; family of Anne Beattie; parents of Lester Gesteland; mother of Asher Irfan; family of Rowena Principe (sister of Odessa Delos Santos); family of Rev. Gary Frieze; family of Samantha Nu Nguyen Hogan (friend of the Tiernos); Shirley & Steve Mosteller; family of Lewis Hause; Monika Van Houten; Patricia Thompson; family of Matthew Ferry (former teacher of Lily Tierno); Pvt. Brian Reppert (serving overseas and family friend of Ruth Lechelt); Poonam Chauhan (sister-in-law of Mala Roberts); Arthur Manjourides (father of Paul Manjourides); Terri Sgambati (aunt of Nicole Tierno); Lori Loza; Debra Martin (daughter of Mary Ellen Heim); Lee Lehman; Lester Heim, Jr.; Laura Vasile (daughter of Rita Vasile).

*Bold indicates new to the list.

Celebration of Found Cans

LET’S REPLENISH! LET'S FILL THE BINS!

Centenary continues its weekly collections of non-perishable food items to help “REPLENISH” (formerly the Middlesex County Food Network) make a dent in food insecurity!

Food collection at Centenary takes place on WEDNESDAYS and SUNDAYS from 9:30 a.m. – noon. On Wednesdays, the green REPLENISH collection bin is located at Centenary’s front door; just drop off an item or two or more (follow your GPS to 200 Hillside Avenue in Metuchen)!