Please join us for our Sunday worship service with Reverend Kathleene Card and her sermon That Perfect Gift.
Our hymns include Gather Us In, We Three Kings, and Bind Us Together.
Our liturgist Michael Robidoux will share our scriptures Isaiah 60:1-6 and Matthew 2:1-12.
Our bulletin is available here: http://www.peterboroughumc.org/sunday-january-6-2019-pumc-order-worship/
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2018 PUMC ANNUAL REPORT
This is a reminder that the 2018 Annual Report for PUMC is due on January 31, in FOUR weeks. This is an internal document meant to celebrate our accomplishments over the last year and maintain transparency with the church family who can't always attend our service.
Also please remember to record your small groups and other event attendance in the black notebook in the office so we can complete our statistical reporting.
You may download last year's report here: http://www.peterboroughumc.org/pumc-2017-annual-report/
Please let us know if you need any help completing your report.
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WORLD RELIGIONS CLASS
The books are in for the Class on World Religions. Here is a sample of what we will discuss at the first session. This is how Adam Hamilton frames the discussion:
He describes how we will “explore several of the questions a theology of religions seeks to answer, beginning with, ‘If there is only one God, why are there so many religions? If there is only one God, wouldn’t that God clearly identify himself* rather than allow confusion and multiple religions to coexist?' It’s an important question, and one that has left a number of people struggling with faith altogether. I’ll offer one line of reasoning that makes some sense to me. Theologians speak of deus absconditus—a Latin term that translates as ‘the hidden God.’ While we may see God’s handiwork all around us (we ourselves are part of God’s handiwork!), we are unable to see God directly. In Exodus 33, Moses prays to God, ‘Show me your glorious presence’ to which God replies, ‘You can’t see my face because no one can see me and live’ (vv. 18, 20).”
I hope you will consider joining us. We will meet on Wednesday morning at 9:45 Starting on January 16th. Please let me know if you would like to have evening sessions for people who work during the day. When I think about how ai see God, I think about the goodness I see daily in the acts of kindness all over the world. I also think of the beauty of this area when I take a walk. It is breathtaking at times. How about you? Where do you see God?
*(Hamilton has a footnote here saying he does not assign a gender to God, but he finds using the popular “Godself” is not helpful for many people so he uses “he.” Hopefully people will not let this nuance interfere with the deeper purpose of exploring how we all understand God.)
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Events this week:
Thu 3 Office Hours 9-12
Sun 6 Epiphany/Three Kings Sunday Worship Service 10a
Sun 6 Adult Bible Study Class 11:15a
Mon 7 Confidential meeting 6p
Wed 9 Office Hours 9-12
Wed 9 Choir Rehearsal 11a
Wed 9 Covenant Discipleship Group 6:30p
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Announcements & Upcoming :
Jan 13 Free Community Breakfast 8a
Jan 15 Church/Administrative Council 6:30p
Jan 16 Bible Study Class begins - World Religions 9:45a
Jan 18 Open Mic Night 7p
Jan 19 Hundred Nights Tailgate Dinner 4p
Jan 22 Newsletter due
Jan 23 Prayer Shawl Group 1p
Jan 26 Men’s Monthly Breakfast 7:30a
Jan 26 PUMC Quilters 11a
Jan 27 Free Community Breakfast 8a
Jan 29 PUMC Book Group 1p
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Did you know?
PUMC has online giving. We use JustGive.org to facilitate secure credit card payments. You may provide a donation or send your offering via the web by visiting http://www.peterboroughumc.org/inside_worship/online-giving/.
Support PUMC with Amazon Smile. Visit http://smile.amazon.com. You will be prompted to select a non-profit to support. We are listed as United Methodist Church of Peterborough Inc. Shop as normal, starting from smile.amazon.com, and a percentage of your purchase will be donated to PUMC.
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Submissions for the What's Happening email are due on Tuesdays. ALL announcements and submissions should now be sent to Melissa wearing her Secretary hat at info@peterboroughumc.org or call 603-924-6960.
*Don't forget to add info@peterboroughumc.org to your address book so we don't end up in your spam folder!
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