Communications Team

UPDATED Worship Guide v2 below.

This week is the perfect time to join in our worship online. We simplified our online service and made it even easier to participate, and viewing does not require a Facebook account! Join the video stream on Facebook Live (www.facebook.com/coldspringchurch) or, if you don’t have internet access, use our New call in number: +1 (929) 205-6099. Enter Meeting ID: 875 2479 7260. Password: 278951.

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Once you and your family are ready, share the picture with us by posting to Facebook #ColdSpringChurch or Instagram #coldspringchurchnj. You may want to subscribe to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

Wake up, Everybody!

What’s new? Our pandemic news cycles are informative, but stressful. All of us have been affected by the escalating counts of the sick and the dead. Lockdown orders keep us safe while our lack of sleep, interrupted wellness routines and isolation darn our energy. Working from home, working on the front lines in healthcare or service businesses, or not working at all, we all need hope! But we have hope within us. Christ is no the foundations or our hope, Christ is our hope!

While our lockdown experiences may seem as novel as the coronavirus itself, there are many lockdown stories in the Scriptures. But lockdowns can keep us safe until the new day has downed. Remember Noah? Locked down in that ark, God kept the family dry and secure from the threats outside. Even the disciples on that first Easter morning were locked down in fear, trying to keep the threats at bay. This Sunday’s worship online will awaken your faith. My message from Acts 17 will help us wake up and engage our local context because our faith was made for times like these!

Wake up, everybody! Christ is our hope!

Sincerely,

Pastor Kevin

(Background Photo credit: Sunset Beach, ©Christine Cloer)

Worship Guide (v2) for May 17, 2020

Readings May 17, 2020

Notes to Share for May 17, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 4-7 for May 17, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 8-12 for May 17, 2020

This week is the perfect time to join in our worship online. We simplified our online service and made it even easier to participate, and viewing does not require a Facebook account! Join the video stream on Facebook Live (www.facebook.com/coldspringchurch) or, if you don’t have internet access, use our New call in number: +1 (929) 205-6099. Enter Meeting ID: 875 2479 7260. Password: 278951.

Happy Mother’s Day

Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate! – Proverbs 31:31

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. You may want to subscribe to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

From Fragile To Antifragile Faith

Cape May County, like every other region of the country, seeks a holy grail of achieving both population safety and economic health and a return to normal. Our neighbors across the street and friends across the pews can struggle with their faith. Robust individuals and businesses resist the pandemic’s worst consequences, and resilient ones try to bend but not break under the severe stress. But fragile populations and organizations weaken and too often, tragically break.

We may feel fragile. Our faith may appear fragile. While fragile systems break, the opposite of fragile, antifragile systems benefit from shocks and thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, stressors, and uncertainty. This week, Pastor Kevin’s message from Acts 7:55-60 invites us into a new reality, from fragile to antifragile faith as we look at disciple Stephen whose faith first appeared to be robust, but once arrested and tested, resilient was all that was hoped for, a return to normal. But to his persecutors like Saul (aka Paul), Stephen’s faith appeared fragile as he was crushed to death under the stones of hatred and fear. Find out how a fragile faith can be transformed into an antifragile faith. everybody’s story is different. Stephen. Saul. You, me. Everyone.

God is not a routine. Jesus is not a cliché. Faith is not a franchise. Years later, Paul (formerly Saul) wrote, “There’s more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we’re hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next (Romans 5:3-5). 

Let’s discover what Go is doing next. We can engage our pandemic world, and our search for safety and prosperity, with a faith in Christ that goes beyond robustness or resilience to an antifragile faith: growth in stress. See how our lives can be strengthened and create a new reality, full of hope.

Last Week’s Service May 3, 2020

Worship Guide (v1) for May 10, 2020

Readings May 10, 2020

Notes to Share for May 10, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 4-7 for May 10, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 8-12 for May 10, 2020

Worship Guide (v1) for May 3, 2020

Readings May 3, 2020

Notes to Share for May 3, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 4-7 for May 3, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 8-12 for May 3, 2020

This week is the perfect time to join in our worship online and communion. We simplified our online service and made it even easier to participate, and viewing does not require a Facebook account! Join the video stream on Facebook Live (www.facebook.com/coldspringchurch) or, if you don’t have interest access, use your phone to listen by dialing: +1 (301) 715 8592. Enter passcode: 277 095 8375#.

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. You may want to subscribe to our weekly Connections email newsletter. Sign up here!

New Reality

South Jersey’s growing COVID-19 case count reminds us every day how upended most aspects of our lives are. We are acutely aware that the global coronavirus pandemic is now a local crisis – everywhere. But hope is alive because Jesus is alive, and all of us in Christ are alive, really alive, as well! That’s why we worship God. Gather. Pray. Give. Serve. Hope. Repeat.

This Sunday, May 3, plan to join our grand worship online when we celebrate at the Lord’s Table virtually. Yes, virtually! (If you’d like to participate, look for simple instructions in the Worship Online Guide, and you do not need a Facebook account or log in to watch the service.) The Good News message from John 10 will provide fresh ideas that will help us move forward into our new reality, and Jesus is the Gate!

We hear the word “unprecedented” a lot these days – and for a good reason. But don’t let fear or anxiety get you down. We have experienced “unprecedented” many times during our 306 years of community ministry serving greater Cape May. The Risen Christ is still leading us into a brighter, better, and different way ahead.

Are you looking for that new reality? Know that we’re here to provide spiritual resources today, tomorrow, and every day after that. Let’s open the Gate together this Sunday as we virtually 6-1gather around the Lord’s Table. Hope is alive!

Sincerely,

Pastor Kevin

Worship Guide (v1) for May 3, 2020

Readings May 3, 2020

Notes to Share for May 3, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 4-7 for May 3, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 8-12 for May 3, 2020

This week is the perfect time to join in our grand celebration for the Third week of Easter. We simplified our online service and made it even easier to participate. Join the video stream on Facebook Live (www.facebook.com/coldspringchurch) or, if you don’t have interest access, use your phone to listen by dialing: +1 (301) 715 8592. Enter passcode: 277 095 8375#. And, we have a special request of the children this week.

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime.

Connect and Serve

We believe that everyone deserves to experience God’s love in relevant and authentic ways, while keeping themselves and the community safe, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our thriving faith community puts God’s love into action to help make greater Cape May a better place. We joyfully love and serve God and our neighbors through the power of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining us!

“He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again’” (Luke 24:6-7).

Below are resources that can be used before, during, and after our 10:30 AM worship experience. Share them with others, too!

“Wherever two or three are gathered, there I am…” Jesus.

Worship Guide (v1) for April 26, 2020

Readings April 26, 2020

Notes to Share for April 26, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 4-7 for April 26, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 8-12 for April 26, 2020

This week is the perfect time to join in our grand celebration for the second week of Easter. We simplified our online service and made it even easier to participate. Join the video stream on Facebook Live (www.facebook.com/coldspringchurch) or, if you don’t have interest access, use your phone to listen by dialing: +1 (301) 715 8592. Enter passcode: 277 095 8375#. And, we have a special request of the children this week.

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime.

Connect and Serve

We believe that everyone deserves to experience God’s love in relevant and authentic ways, while keeping themselves and the community safe, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our thriving faith community puts God’s love into action to help make greater Cape May a better place. We joyfully love and serve God and our neighbors through the power of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining us!

“He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again’” (Luke 24:6-7).

Below are resources that can be used before, during, and after our 10:30 AM worship experience. Share them with others, too!

“Wherever two or three are gathered, there I am…” Jesus.

Worship Guide (v2) for April 19, 2020

Readings April 19, 2020

Notes to Share for April 19, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 4-7 for April 19 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 8-12 for April 19, 2020

He Is Risen!

You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime.

Connect and Serve

We believe that everyone deserves to experience God’s love in relevant and authentic ways, while keeping themselves and the community safe, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our thriving faith community puts God’s love into action to help make greater Cape May a better place. We joyfully love and serve God and our neighbors through the power of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining us!

“He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again’” (Luke 24:6-7).

Below are resources that can be used before, during, and after our 10:30 AM worship experience. Share them with others, too!

“Wherever two or three are gathered, there I am…” Jesus.

Worship Guide (v1) for April 12, 2020

Readings April 12, 2020

Notes to Share for April 12, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 4-7 for April 12 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 8-12 for April 12, 2020

Welcome to Palm Sunday!

At Cold Spring Worship Online, you have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime.

We believe that everyone deserves to experience God’s love in relevant and authentic ways, while keeping themselves and the community safe, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our thriving faith community puts God’s love into action to help make greater Cape May a better place. We joyfully love and serve God and our neighbors through the power of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining us!

Below are resources that can be used before, during, and after our 10:30 AM worship experience. Share them with others, too!

“Wherever two or three are gathered, there I am…” Jesus.

Worship Guide (v1) for April 5, 2020

Worship Guide Slides for April 5, 2020

Readings April 5 2020

Notes to Share for April 5, 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 4-7 for April 5 2020

Children’s Worship Ages 8-12 for April 5 2020