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
Shout-Out to the Kids!
Last week Pastor Kevin wanted to see photos of your pets! Pictures of dogs, cats, or some other animals you enjoy. Here are a few of the pictures you sent!
Again this week, Pastor Kevin is asking the kids to take a photo of something that brings them joy while being quarantined! Once you and your family are ready, snap a pic or video to share with us by posting to Facebook #ColdSpringChurch or Instagram #coldspringchurchnj. While we have to live apart, we are never alone! The love of Jesus is for everyone, and Eastertide is the perfect time to remember Jesus’ victory.
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. 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
Notes to Share for May 10, 2020
Worship Guide (v1) for 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#.
Shout-Out to the Kids!
Pastor Kevin would like to see photos of your pets! Pictures of dogs, cats, or some other animals you enjoy. If you don’t have a pet, find a photo of a pet you like! Email them to hello@coldspringchurch.com, or post to your Facebook page and tag #coldspringchurch. (Image: Communication Coordinator Max’s daughter Avery, with her best friend Tyson.)
Once you and your family are ready, snap a pic or video to share with us by posting to Facebook #ColdSpringChurch or Instagram #coldspringchurchnj. While we have to live apart, we are never alone! The love of Jesus is for everyone, and Eastertide is the perfect time to remember Jesus’ victory.
How can I prepare for Easter 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. 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
Notes to Share for May 3, 2020
Funeral for Wanda D Jones
Funeral Service for Eleanor Caire
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.
Shout-Out to the Kids!
Parents, I will be asking the kids to share a photo of something that brings them joy while being quarantined! The stay-at-home restriction has been hard on kids and You! Help you kids take a photo of enjoying games, using the kid’s worship worksheet, reading, drawing, watching worship, or making crafts or food.
Once you and your family are ready, snap a pic or video to share with us by posting to Facebook #ColdSpringChurch or Instagram #coldspringchurchnj. While we have to live apart, we are never alone! The love of Jesus is for everyone, and Eastertide is the perfect time to remember Jesus’ victory.
How can I prepare for Easter 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 Easter!
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
Notes to Share for April 26, 2020