All are invited to join us from 4:00-5:30pm on November 27 to sing carols, eat and decorate cookies, and drink hot cocoa as we enter the Advent season together. Please let us know on your connect card if you plan to attend and if you'd like to bring a batch of cookies to share.

A Service of Remembrance, Grief & Hope, December 21, 2022, 7:00 p.m.

We often talk about Christmas as a joyful time, “the most wonderful time of the year,” but for many of us that joy can be tinged, or even overshadowed, by pain and grief. You are invited to join us for a special Christmas service that acknowledges the grief we can feel in the holiday season when we have lost someone we loved or experienced another type of loss. All are welcome and we encourage you to invite others.

Early in July we launched our new First Methodist podcast, "Beyond the Sermon."This will be a new avenue for us to not only distribute our sermons, but also to engage in conversations about what we're learning related to those sermons. Our hope is that this podcast will be an opportunity for you to connect with what God is doing in our church and to give you a glimpse of the conversations that happen behind the curtain.

You can listen and subscribe to the podcast on:

• Spotify
• Apple Podcasts
• Google Podcasts

We would really love for you to be a part of this conversation, so email your questions to scott@fumccollingswood.org or jeremy@fumccollingswood.org. We'll do our absolute best to answer those questions or, if we can't answer it, we'll at least have a conversation about it.