First United Methodist Church of Keansburg

07/12/2024

Jul 12, 2024 | James Lee ([email protected]) Bishop Cynthia Moore-Koikoi has been assigned to serve as the episcopal leader of United Methodists of Eastern Pennsylvania and Greater New Jersey, effective September 1, 2024. Elected as a bishop during the 2016 Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference in La...

04/21/2024

The first General Conference for the Global UMC begins Tues.

Below is Bishop Karen's weekly message to our conference:

I am praying for the laity and clergy of the Mountain Sky Conference as we prepare our souls for the refreshment found in worship.

I write from Charlotte, North Carolina, where the Council of Bishops has been meeting prior to the start of General Conference. Over the next few days, delegates, volunteers, and observers from around the world will arrive as the long-awaited General Conference begins.

There is a pensive hope that pervades our meeting, hope that we are nearing the other side of the chaos and contention we all experienced during a difficult season of disaffiliation.

How many of us have brought tender hope to the start of each General Conference, only to have that hope crushed in painful ways as the delegates reaffirmed or tightened restrictions about the role of LGBTQ+ people in the life and ministry of the church?

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Today, on the eve of the start of General Conference, I am drinking from the well of infinite hope.

I am hopeful that this General Conference will be an experience of God’s grace beyond what we have ever experienced.

I am hopeful that this General Conference will provide a witness to the world that there can be unity in the midst of diversity.

I am hopeful that this General Conference will be spiritually enriching for the delegates and all who are assisting and watching.

I am hopeful that this General Conference will remove the harmful language about LGBTQ+ people, so no one will question whether they are welcomed in the household of faith.

I am hopeful that at the conclusion of this General Conference, we will be a new church, with a renewed sense of identity and purpose. It has been a long pregnancy. The labor has been particularly painful. But there is a birthing in our midst and we are the midwives. May we be attentive as we listen for sighs too deep for words, for the stirrings of the Spirit, for the movements of new life seeking to see the light of day.

And then, when the last person leaves the convention center and returns home, may we all participate in raising this new church to be a strong presence in every community around the globe. The world is in need of the generous grace and deep love found in Jesus Christ that is a bedrock of United Methodism.

Please cover the delegates in prayer as they begin their work. May the Holy Spirit sustain and guide them in the days to come.

With love,
Bishop Karen

04/02/2024

"Actually, Monday was a celebration for me. The tomb was still empty Monday. It will still be empty this Sunday. In fact, the empty tomb of Christ will remain as proof of his power and provision until the day I die. And it seems to me we should see the days after Easter as a beautiful opportunity. The ground has been plowed. Now is the time to nurture growth and hope in the hearts of all those quickened by the message of Jesus." TREVOR DEVAGE

04/01/2024

Easter is not over!
Easter is a time of joy and renewal. Followers of Jesus saw their darkest days replaced with the miracle of hope and eternal life. Christians today take time for self-examination and reflection during Lent. "Going dark" for a few weeks prepares us to fully experience those first rays of resurrection light on Easter.

This prayer was composed by the Rev. Michaela Youngson, the Methodist Church of Britain.

Prayer:
When everything was dark
and it seemed that the sun would never shine again,
your love broke through.

Your love was too strong,
too wide,
too deep
for death to hold.

The sparks cast by your love
dance and spread
and burst forth
with resurrection light.

Gracious God,
We praise you for the light of new life
made possible through Jesus.
We praise you for the light of new life
that shone on the first witnesses of resurrection.
We praise you for the light of new life
that continues to shine in our hearts today.

We pray that the Easter light of life, hope and joy,
will live in us each day;
and that we will be bearers of that light
into the lives of others.
Amen.

03/31/2024

10 AM Easter Sunday service
Easter people raise your voices. Sounds of heaven in earth should ring. Christ has brought us Heaven's choices. Heavenly music let it ring

03/30/2024

This morning at 9!

On Saturday March 30
The United Methodist Church
21 Church St. Keansburg will be having a pancake breakfast from 9 til 11 am. Adults $8.00 and children $5.00. An Easter bake sale will be held at the same time. Call 732-787-0289 for more info.

03/29/2024

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.

03/29/2024

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, “It is finished.” And He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.

03/29/2024

Good Friday Service 7pm

03/28/2024

The Last Supper
Mark14;12 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

03/27/2024

Mark 14:6 “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you,[b] and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”