Cold Spring Church
780 Seashore Road
Cold Spring, NJ 08204 USA
609-884-4065
Women’s Community Club of Cape May
District Council Meeting Snow Date (tentative)
Women’s Community Club of Cape May
District Council Meeting (Tentative)
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.
Photo-Op for Everyone!
Smiling faces! Everyone loves a smile. Where in your life is God smiling on you? What has brought a smile to your family’s faces? What shines in your life? Share a photo. Draw a picture. Write a poem.Thank you! Post your photos on Facebook, and tag coldspringchurch, send via Facebook Messenger, or email.
How can I prepare for Worship Online?
Set the environment in your home to allow you to focus, participate, and enjoy the service. Fix your coffee, tea, or snack. Make sure everyone can comfortably watch and prepare to receive from God as we worship together, apart!
Share Your Experience!
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!
God is Shining On Us All!
Hello friend.
Memorial Day is a particular time to remember. We realize in this pandemic that God is present with us, offering hope, even as we experience discomfort, inconvenience, suffering, stressors, and losses. Our neighbors, nation and the world need hope, too. Join us for Worship Online and discover how God is shining on you, and shining through you to others. While we remember the sacrifices of those who have died serving our country, let’s remember that our country sacrificed not only for our nation’s freedoms, but we have always sacrificed so that others around the world could experience freed, too. God loves the world. Jesus said, “There is no greater love than this, that one lays down their life for another.” God so loved the world!
What do you remember about this Memorial Day? Give thanks to God for freedoms here at home and around the world. For freedom in Christ! God is shining on you! That is something to remember every day!
Thinkable for this week: Sometimes, we may think God is frowning on us. But the Good News is that in Jesus Christ, God’s love, forgiveness, and hope set us free!
- How do you experience God’s smile on you?
- What new blessings do you want to thank God for right now?
- In what ways does your life shine on others? What will you do today to let your light shine even more!
Last Week’s Service May 17,2020
Worship Guide (v1) for May 24, 2020
Notes to Share for May 24, 2020
Hello friends of Cold Spring Church.
Thank you for your faithfulness in taking care of yourself and others during the pandemic. We continue to pray for and stand with those serving on the frontlines, those who are sick, and we mourn with those who have lost loved ones and neighbors to this disease. We miss seeing each other, and being with each other: in person, in the sanctuary, and in ministry we enjoy across our campus. Also, thank you for continuing your generous financial support and participating in our Worship Online each week. While the State of New Jersey has announced measured re-openings, and hopefully some relief for small businesses, building restrictions are expected to remain in force through June and we should be prepared for a longer period of time. Our session and pastor remain in consultation with neighboring communities of faith and with our amazing presbytery leaders as we consider the many variables for even partial church sanctuary openings.
Let us not grow discouraged or dismayed as we wait to gather together in our sanctuary. Let’s prepare one another for the new reality, a new way to safely gather in worship. Emerging guidelines for congregations are particularly hard to hear regarding many aspects of worship that we have grown accustomed to. For example, limiting the spread of COVID-19 will severely limit or eliminate the use of hymnals and Bibles, bulletins, congregational singing, and affect the way we enter and exit the sanctuary. Our commitment to the health and wellness of everyone will require strict adherence to six-foot social distancing and mask protocols, and may require other safety or screening measures. We will get through this, together, as we co-create a new reality of corporate worship. Christ is our hope and God’s emerging future will be filled with grace and abundance.
There are three important ways you can experience new spiritual energy today!
Remember to practice social solidarity and not spiritual distance. You have found a place to encounter God and people who care about you – just as you are, right where you are, anytime. Our thriving faith community puts God’s love into action to help make greater Cape May a better place.
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.
Photo-Op for Everyone!
God is in our midst, doing new things. What new experiences have you noticed during the pandemic? Any plants blooming? Babies born? Discoveries made? Have any new recipes brought a smile to you family’s faces? Maybe worship online has brought new energy to your spirit! As restrictions are gradually relaxed, what are you noticing that’s new outside?Share a photo of your new. Draw a picture. Write a poem celebrating the new! Sure. We’re locked down, but we’re not locked out of God’s mercies that are new every morning! (Lam. 3:23)Thank you! Post your photos on Facebook, and tag coldspringchurch, send via Facebook Messenger, or email.
Photos: Shannan and David’s new baby and Liam’s new tent and new home for bald eagle on our Cold Spring Campus.
How can I prepare for Worship Online?
Set the environment in your home to allow you to focus, participate, and enjoy the service. Fix your coffee, tea, or snack. Make sure everyone can comfortably watch and prepare to receive from God as we worship together, apart!
Share Your Experience!
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
Notes to Share for May 17, 2020
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