Our 2022 Graduate keepsake will be available at this Sunday's 10:00AM worship service. If you would like to print from home a similar version of this program, please CLICK HERE.

Congratulations to all our graduates! We can't wait to see where your journeys will take you next. Wherever it is, our prayers and warmest well wishes go with you!

The church office will be closed on Monday, June 20^th in observance of the national Juneteenth Holiday.

The office will be open on Tuesday, June 21^st at 10:00AM.

During the last Sunday's worship service, we received the following requests for prayers...

• For M. who is struggling with her spouse and his addictions.
• For thanks for the many European families that have opened their homes and welcomed the families fleeing from Ukraine. (RY)
• For hope for Matthew S., moving from inpatient care to transitional living tomorrow. (SD)

Church Office Summer Schedule

Begins on Monday, June 27^th

The Church Office will be closed on Fridays from July 1^st – September 5^th

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

Independence Day, Monday July 4^th

Labor Day, Monday, September, 5^th

The Church Office will return to regular schedule beginning Tuesday, September 6^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 3^rd Service: Join us at 10AM for the Blessing of the RISE Teams

Monday, 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 17^th Service: Join us at 10AM to welcome back the RISE teams and hear about their experience.

Sunday, June 26^th 10:00 Worship Service

Dr. Igor Kraiz, Chief Medical Officer at the Central Clinical Hospital #5 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, will be speaking at Chatham UMC!

Dr. Igor and his colleagues have sent us various videos since the war began in late February. Our congregation sent video greetings on Easter, and they have watched our online worship experiences from the shelters in Kharkiv. We hope you can come, hear Dr. Igor speak in a round table discussion with Pastor Jeff and a Ukrainian translator, and meet him after worship on Sunday morning, June 26, 2022!

Summer Reading Suggestions

This summer, whether you’re at the shore, on a flight, or sitting under a shade tree, take a book with you. Reading expands our imaginations, enlightens us, and increases our vocabulary.

Here are a few suggestions for your summer reading enjoyment: For inspiration and spiritual growth try Forgiveness: A Lenten Study by Marjorie Thompson or The Return of The Prodigal Son and other books by Henri Nowen. 

For those interested in early Christianity and how it grew, try Bart Ehrman’s The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World or Charlotte Allen’s The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus. 

While it may seem like heavy reading, Philippians and Ephesians are brief letters by the Apostle Paul who provides an insight into the issues that he and the early church faced. Philippians is a letter of thanks and love to the people of Philippi. It contains some of Paul’s most beautiful statements of love and Christology. Ephesians was written to help the early church appreciate God’s purpose, grace, and goals for the church. Add 1 Corinthians 13 and you have wonderful words of life.

The display cart outside our church library has additional suggestions, plus instructions about borrowing books. You can view the entire CUMC Library holdings at http://www.chathamumc.com/cumc-library/. 

Ways to support CUMC RISE Teams

• Come for the blessing of the RISE Teams on Sunday, July 3 at 10am worship service.
• Come and support the RISE Fundraiser at the July 4 parade, and help us sell popcorn, water, and ice pops.
• Pray for the team members: John, Shelley, Carl, Jeff, Sophie, Esther, Annika, Anna, Mia, Lauren, Cole, Liz and Eric from July 10-16, 2022.
• Pray for our homeowner hosts.
• Come to hear about the RISE experience on Sunday, July 17, 2022
• Support this ministry with your finances. Checks payable to Chatham UMC, earmarked CUMC RISE 2022.

 Thank you!!!

This Sunday we will conclude our study of "The Acts of the Apostles and Paul's Journey". Ron Yarger will lead our discussion of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, a letter of love, joy, and gratitude. Come join us as we discover what this brief letter says to us today.

 We'll meet in the Asbury Room at 11:15am, following worship.

Sunday, June 19^th will be our last Adult Class until September.

This Sunday’s service at 10:00 a.m. will feature Mike Maguire and Peter Hill, piano four-hands, playing The Sweet By and By. Join us!

Our program season finished on June 12^th until the Fall. Thank you to our musicians and artists for your hard work and for making each Sunday special with your music throughout the year. Look here for information as we begin again in September. Enjoy your Summer!

Chatham UMC continues our effort to collect funds and then distribute those donations as reparations each time the congregation sings a Spiritual during the Sunday service. Early American Black Hymns and Spiritual Songs whose authors were not recorded never received the payment that they deserved when their music was published. This effort on their behalf is a small, but powerful, way to honor their enormously important contributions to the lexicon of hymnody. CUMC will soon send our first donation to the Newark Boys Chorus School. Our efforts in this manner will be ongoing.

Online Worship Liturgists Needed!

Please sign up to read and record yourself reading scriptures, this will be a blessing to our online worshiping community. We have open weekends through Pentecost.

Click Here to Sign Up

Can You Help the Bread Ministry?

The bread ministry is looking for more volunteers to assist in collecting bread from Panera. Sign Up Here

Communities of Care

If you wish to receive a call, a text or an email from someone at the Chatham UMC community?

 Email Church Office Here

CUMC Community Food Pantry

The community support and need of

our 24/7 pantry has grown.

 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 Here.

The Masterworks Chorus is pleased to announce Summer Sings

Come enjoy a full season of Summer Sings and choral camaraderie. We provide the conductor, accompanist, and professional soloists and you provide the voices!

Tickets are $15.00 per person, per sing for non-members, $10 for Masterwork Members and Alumni. Tickets will be available at the door, including packets of 5 tickets for $65.

Click Here for more detailed information.

Latest Newsletter is Out!

The Senior Center of the Chathams is an independent, 31-year old non-profit organization located here in town and offer a wide range of programs, activities, and services to older adults in Chatham and the surrounding areas. Click Here to read the latest newsletter and learn about their fantastic programs.