There are a few links at the top of the page, which will guide you in learning more “About” Newtown United Methodist Church (NUMC); how to “Contact” us, “Directions” on how to get to our Caring Community, the “Worship” Service schedule and “Events” shows a calendar of meetings, happenings and important events!.

Have a particular interest? Click a link in the Categories list in the left sidebar; like Missions or Membership, or any of the other categories listed.

Rethink Church: Economy (UMC)

• One Great Hour of Sharing
• Daylight Savings Begins -   CLOCKS FORWARD !

Those Serving

• Nursery Care: Yunkee & Susan C
• Greeters:  Girl Scouts
  
• Ushers:  Mitch & Linda A
• Acolytes: Girl Scouts -  Anna S, Olivia S
• Liturgists: 8 am  Alice H  &  10 am  Laurie G
  
• Tellers:  Jon & Lydia  C
• Coffee Hosts:    Girl Scouts

Coming Event:

MARCH MADNESS -  Sunday, March 14th

All are welcome to join your Church Fellowship Family at Edmond Town Hall!! Come to worship at 10 am dressed for play (basketball),  followed by a light lunch and the caravan to Edmond for hoops!!

Questions?    Call Robbin   203-426-3742

Are you available during the day to provide transportation to Danbury Hospital?  If so call Barb in the church office  203-426-9998

Live the Word to Sunday, a Lectionary Discussion

Preparing the way for the Lord to let God’s Word work in your life during the week to make your worship experience more meaningful. Sermons during Worship services are often based upon the Revised Common Lectionary. You are invited to log onto this site and Leave Comment on the readings presented with your questions and/or thoughts.  If you have not already done so,you may register here.

March 14, 2010 [Purple] Fourth Sunday in Lent

Joshua 9:5-12 Today I have roll away the reproach…

• In the desert for forty years God had prepared a generation of people to receive his promised land. Joshua had led them, he and Caleb from the prior generation alone had faith enough to share in the hope to enter it. In scripture, God speaks of his long awaited deliverance.

Psalm 32 – Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven…

• This person the psalmist talks of, is she or he righteous from the start? How then is she of he covered, and sins forgiven?

2 Corinthians 5:16-21 So from now on we regard no one from an earthly point of view…

• Paul writes in his second letter to Corinth, how it is that we share in God’s act of grace through Christ. We struggle and falter with sin as did the early church. How does God bring us to righteousness? What is the new way that Paul describes to the church?.

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 – Now tax collectors and sinners were gathered around to hear him…

• So here is God doing what God has always done, forgiving us our sins. But who has paid the price? In Joshua we read that the people paid permanently, it was only their children, the next generation, coming out of the 40 years in the desert, who will be forgiven. Read in the parable of the prodigal, how Jesus describes to those taxpayers and sinners, how this righteousness shall come from the father. But be prepared as the last becoming the first may make some respond in jealousy, from an earthly sense of fairness or justice. Are you prepared to receive? Are you prepared to let the lowly rise, where you have not? Do you relate to the son who never left his father, the son who sinned and asks forgiveness? Or the Father?

NUMC Breakfast Meeting

A celebration of the gifts God has given us, in a Christian Fellowship, with a focus on helping others.

Saturday,  February 20, 2010 – 7: 15 – 9:00 AM -

The United Methodist Men will meet at NUMC for breakfast in Rauner Hall. The speaker will be NUMC member Nikki Singer, who will present a program about her two week Cambodian Mission trip last year.

Please join us for a hearty breakfast, a very thought provoking program and a boat load of good fellowship!!!!

This group is open to caring men aged from high school on up. Do you want to receive  e-Mail notifications? Use the Contact Form and message the webmaster.

In an effort to welcome new and working members to OUTREACH, our next meeting will be held in the evening. The meeting will be on January 7th at 7PM in the Betts Conf Room.

We love to see new faces, so please come and join us!!

CHRISTMAS TAG TREE

Our 6 adopted Christmas Families have provided us with gift lists.

The gift/food tree will be in the Narthex beginning on November 22nd.

Please feel free to take a tag.  The recipient’s info will be inside the tag and the gift will be listed on the BACK of the tag.

Please wrap your gift items and attach the tag to the package!

We would like to have all items returned to us no later than Friday December 18th.

If you have any questions please contact the Church office.

Merry, merry Christmas!!!

THANK YOU to everyone who contributed food and supplies to our Thanksgiving families.  With your help we were able to provide a Thanksgiving meal and food to help these 5 families through the month of December.  We are thankful….for YOU!!!

It’s time to order your Christmas poinsettia to beautify our Christmas altar.  The colors available are burgundy or white.  Please print this page and place it in the offering plate during services or submit same information in a message using the contact form

(click Contact link at the top of the page)

The prices are:

• $10.00 – 6.5″ pot          Qty:    ______      Color:  _____________
• $27.00 – 8.5″ pot          Qty:    ______      Color:  _____________
• $35.00 – 10″   pot          Qty:    ______      Color:  _____________

Orders must be placed BEFORE December 8th!

Name:  ________________________________________________

Phone: (H) (_____)________________   (Cell) (_____)_________________

Bulletin listing (print clearly):_____________________________________

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In a recent Sunday service, a member of our Stewardship committee delivered a discussion of the “Second Mile Campaign, Missions and the Apportionment Process.” Apportions are where some of your financial contributions go in support of the greater United Methodist Church and God’s works globally.

So what is this thing called Apportionment and what does it mean to you and your giving to NUMC? An excerpt is provided below with a link to the entire document  published sometime ago by the General Council on Finance and Administration on why we apportion.

Why We Apportion

A Theology of Giving

Using apportionments to support annual conference and denominational
benevolences is a distinctive feature of United Methodism. Apportionment
giving financially underwrites United Methodist ministry and mission beyond
the local church. For some local church members, why the use of
apportionments is a vital expression of faithful stewardship is not clear. This
document, based on the report of the 1997-2000 Connectional Ministry
Funding Patterns Task Force, explores the Biblical, theological and historical
basis for apportionments. Its use is commended with:

• Annual conference councils on finance and administration

• Local church administrative councils

• Local church finance committees

• Local church stewardship committees

• Pastors

• Other finance and stewardship leaders

* This document and other financial interpretation information are available on
the Web site of the General Council on Finance and Administration (http://www.gcfa.org).

The entire document can be downloaded: WhyWeApportion.pdf

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