Thank you to all of our musicians and educators throughout our year for making each Sunday special with your music, art, and teaching!

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

• For Healing for Becky & Soudim, both treating aggressive cancer in Indiana. (S)
• Of Healing for Russ K. and his caregiving wife, Lynda, after surgery last Thursday.
• For Leon-healing and recovery after surgery.
• Of Concern for the youth of our nation-that they will hear voices of reason and love and know that they are beloved children of God. (RY)
• For Concern for our great nephew, Michael, who passed to eternal life this past week after battling a brain tumor at 23 years of age. Grant him and his family peace. (DM&BM)

We recently received a thank you letter from The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights. 

To read this letter, please Click Here. The original letter can be found on the bulletin board.

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!

Last Call! Deadline: Monday, June 13^th

If you are graduating or have a loved one that is graduating from Middle School level or above, please notify the church office. You may call (973) 635 -7740 or email your news to Meghan Muccilli at adminassistant@chathamumc.org.

Please include: the individual's name, from where they are graduating, if their studies are continuing, and the name of the next school they will be attending. Please send in your information no later than Monday, June 13^th to be included in the special graduate insert on Sunday, June 19^th.

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/. 

Dear Friends,

We have 9 youth and 4 adults who will represent Chatham UMC on this year’s RISE mission trip. We are sending two teams that will help make homes safer, warmer and drier in northern Appalachia. This is the 41^st year of sending teams from Chatham UMC. It has been a mutual blessing for those who are giving and receiving for every youth and adult who have participated in this vital ministry.

We are in need of some serious fundraising support. We need to raise over $9,000 each year to send two teams to RISE for a week. If you would like to support this ministry, click on the Make a Donation below and you will be directed to our website donation page. Please choose RISE Youth to input your tax deductible contribution. Checks can also be made payable to CUMC, and earmarked RISE 2022. Thank you!

Memorial Service Postponed

The Memorial Service for longtime CUMC member, Jerry Cunningham, who entered Life Eternal on January 14, 2021, has been postponed. Jerry's wife Isabelle recently had a fall and needed surgery for her hip. The family has decided to postpone Jerry's service so that Isabelle can be present. 

We will inform you of a date in the Summer or Fall when the service is rescheduled. Until then, let's keep Isabelle and the Cunningham family in our prayers as they care for one another.

If you know people who were planning on coming to Jerry's service tomorrow, please let them know. Thank You.

The Church Family Work Day and RISE Car Wash, scheduled for this Saturday, June 11th, has been postponed. Both will be rescheduled to a future date.

In-Person Sunday School/

Christian Education takes place on Sunday mornings

at 11:00 for ages 4 and up!

(If you would like a Zoom option please let Pastor Sharon know at scyarger@optonline.net)

Whirl Kids (age 4 – 4th grade) 

Sundays at 11:10am , upper level in Room 6.

Submerge (5th-8th grade) –Sundays at 11:10am meet with Pastor Sharon in the Wesley Room. 

High School Discussion - Sunday at 11:10am meet with Matthew Beland in Room 7.

This will be our last meeting for Sunday School this academic year!

Have a great summer!

This Sunday we continue our 6-week study of "The Acts of the Apostles and Paul's Journey" as Anita Hoffman leads our discussion of Romans, a letter whose theme is the basic gospel – God’s plan of salvation and righteousness for all people. We encourage you to read Romans before the meeting and hope you will join us at 11:15 (following worship) in the Asbury Room!

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

This weekend’s June 12^th, Sunday service at 10:00 a.m. will include the Covenant Choir with the Ukulele Orchestra performing Sing Together by Train and Ubi Caritas by Victor C. Johnson. The Wesley Ringers will ring What a Friend We Have in Jesus. 

Our program season will finish on June 12^th until the Fall. We will thank our musicians, artists, and educators on Sunday, June 12^th with Music, Arts, and Teacher Appreciation Sunday. Thank you to all of our musicians and educators throughout our year for making each Sunday special with your music, art, and teaching!

The Ukulele Orchestra will next practice online and in-person on Saturday, June 11th, at 10:00 a.m. in the Asbury Room. For Zoom information contact Peter Hill at petepiano@mac.com.

Let us know how we can minister to you through Chatham UMC’s music program and our music groups: the Covenant Choir, the Praise Band, the Wesley Ringers, and the Ukulele Orchestra. Contact music director, Peter Hill at petepiano@mac.com.

Chatham UMC has begun an 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.

FREE Lunch And Learn

6/15/22

Presented by Bradley Funeral Home from 11:30 to 1:00 PM

Bradley, Brough & Dangler Funeral Home

299 Morris Ave. Summit.

Please RSVP as seats are limited. Original flier can be found on the bulletin board near the CUMC Library.

For more information please call,

(973) 635-2428 ext. 140

Now Hiring!

The Arc of Essex County’s Camp Hope has been providing an exceptional camp experience for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities since 1956. 

The success of the Camp Hope program is due in large part to the quality staff that supports the campers who attend each summer. Camp Hope is now hiring high school aged students on up for counselors and volunteer counselors in training. For more information Click Here. Original flier can also be found on the bulletin board near the CUMC Library.