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Oct 07
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2019 Annual Fall Harvest Potluck Supper a Huge Success!

By Intersections

A sincere thank you to all of the members and friends of the congregation who met in Price Hall on Saturday, October 5, for our Second Annual Fall Harvest Potluck Supper. The selection of foods was not only delicious but attractively prepared and colorfully displayed as to create a feast worth a second visit to the tables. Our take home boxes went back to the cupboard as there was little to take home but fond memories.

Thank you to Mary Imperato and Anne Ferrari who provided a fun-filled trivia contest where guests vied for small prizes. MAC’s Mary Stewart joined us to present an informative Halloween presentation. Pumpkin centerpieces were awarded to those who found an autumn leaf under their dinner plates. All this and the chance to share a meal made for a memorable evening.

Food, fun, fellowship – all experienced by the Fabulous Fifty who gathered with us.

Lenore Bowne, for the Congregation and Community Life Team

Oct 06
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Message- Faith, Your Bicycle For the Spirit

By Intersections, Sermons

This week, Pastor Kevin’s message starts with the disciples asking for more faith to meet a particularly thorny problem about forgiveness. But in response, Jesus says they had all the faith required, it just needed to get in motion! So its like riding a bike, because there’s a huge difference in outcomes between riding a stationary bike and a moving bicycle. We’ll learn about a Scientific American study that Steve Jobs shared many years ago. The research evaluated which species on the planet was the most efficient in locomotion. While the mighty condor was above any other species, beating even a human in an automobile, it was a human riding a bike that blew the condor away from its top spot! We will learn we don’t need more faith, in a message titled, Faith: Bicycle For the Spirit.

We also gather for Global Peace and Witness- World Communion Sunday with an opportunity to receive a special offering to help put our faith into action locally and around the world. You’re invited to join us for inspiring worship as as we gather around the Lord’s Table. All this and more this week at Cold Spring Church, your neighborhood stop for moving faith.

Oct 06
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2019-10-06 Message for Kids- The Power to Do Good

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What do you do when you get some money? What are your options? Well, you could spend, save, or give it away.

Doing good in my family, school, & community makes me happy Our brain is “hard-wired” to feel happy when we do good. You can increase your feelings of happiness by giving service and doing good to others. Directions: Make a list below of things you can do in your family, school, and community to make them better and happier.

“When we have the opportunity to help anyone,

we should do it” (Galatians 6:10a).

“Each one should give, then, what one has decided in your heart to give.

You should not give if it makes you sad.

And you should not give if you think you are being forced to give.

God loves the person who gives happily”

(2Corinthians 9:7).

God wants us to use our time, energy, attention, talents, and even our money wisely because God loves a cheerful giver. A cheerful saver. A cheerful spender. Being cheerful is remembering that God loves us and wants us to be loving towards others, too! You have the power to do Good!

Oct 03
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Our Vision and Mission Shape Community-Focused Ministry

By Intersections, Uncategorized

Energize Your Spirit — Transform Your Life

Our Vision

We believe that everyone deserves to experience God’s love in relevant, accessible, and authentic ways, and that our faith in practice represents an amazing opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of individuals, communities, and the world. Our thriving faith community puts God’s love into action to help make greater Cape May a better place. We welcome people of all ages to joyfully love and serve God and our neighbors in the name of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. God loves Cape May, and we demonstrate that love every day of every year!

Our Mission

Cold Spring Presbyterian Church energizes spirits and transforms lives by delivering  resources and experiences that are rooted in the Good News of Jesus Christ through  inspiring worship, practical teaching, innovative programs, and community-focused events and ministries.

Established in 1714, Cold Spring Presbyterian Church is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a member of the Presbytery of West Jersey. We invite you to become a part of our hopeful future.

(Our vision and mission was drafted by our Transformation Pastor and was updated received by the session in September 2019. It emerged from the work of the Mission Study Team including Marty Bowne, Kevin Beare, Taylor Burkhardt, intentional transformation journey our congregation began in 2016, including community-directed worship and events, congregational surveys, feedback, and the Focus Your Vision day in 2018. The comprehensive Mission Study will be completed in November 2019.)

Who is the Mission Study Team:  While the Mission Study Team (MST) was open to new folks joining in and helping out as we go along, the team to date included: John Stalford, Chuck McPherson, Melissa Arnott, Marty Bowne, Lenore Bowne, Larry Hume, Taylor Burkhardt, and Kevin Beare. Pastor Kevin led the team.

Why We Need A Mission Study: 305 years is a long time. And over three centuries, even since 2016, every community, everyone, experience change. More than you may at first recognize. Being in a community for a long time can so familiarize us to what we’re used to, that’s we cannot clearly see what has changed and who our neighbors have become. Cold Spring Church does many things, but the future belongs to ministries that can focus their resources to deliver amazing, life-transforming ministry the community really needs. We want to take best advantage of existing community resources, and convince our congregation and other friends that our story and program is worth supporting and investing in. In order to do that, we need to create as thorough and as balanced a profile of our community and our congregation as we can. . . . God is already at work in our community. Our task is to find out where Cold Spring Church can enter that picture moving forward.

Oct 03
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Mission Grant Creates New Community Connections And Opportunities

By Intersections

 

Thanks to a special community-directed $5,000 mission grant from the Presbytery of West Jersey, the session approved and has begun to implement our very exciting two-part mission initiative. Here is a summary of our project.

  • Podcasts and Streaming Videos: As part of our mission we will develop new ways to engage those who find it difficult or impossible to attend worship services, and those who are homebound, remote members, by delivering the worship experience as a video livestream, with post-worship video download as a podcast/online via our website. Anyone with a computer, tablet, or smart phone can participate. Eventually, we may take realtime prayer requests, as well. This initiative is expected to incur costs of under $4500.
  • Conquering the Opioid Abuse Epidemic: As part of our mission, we will support families affected by addictions, especially affected by the opioid crisis, through group ministry of spiritual resources, small groups. Last year, more than 35 attended our Opioid Abuse and Prevention training in partnership with Rutgers University and Youth Advocate Program. Our new initiative, Thriving Families, will be implemented in 2020 and is not expected to incur costs over $500.

Getting Started—Campus Online Access: To extend our reach into the community, we encourage you to use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social media share the good news with your friends and followers. Post photos or maybe a inspirational Bible verse or something you heard in the message, or song.

Facebook: coldspringchurch — Twitter: @coldspringnj

We want our WiFi network to enhance your experience while attending worship or another event, you may use our networks as listed below:

Price Hall Network Name: ColdSpringChurchWiFi Guest (no password required).

Red Brick Church Network Name: CSPCRedBrickWifi Password: See the password printed isn’t he weekly bulletin.

We are grateful for our friends in West Jersey Presbytery for their commitment to community mission and investing in our mission! Get connected and share your experience!

 

 

Oct 03
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Share the Good News at Cold Spring Church

By Intersections

Share Your Good News! To share your organization, team, or event news, or announcements and sign-up forms in our weekly Worship Bulletin and Connections, or the monthly Brickette, please send your information to Connor, our Communications Coordinator, at hello@coldspringchurch.com. The publication deadlines are:

  • Worship Bulletin: 11:00 AM Wednesdays
  • Connections: 11:00 AM Thursdays
  • Brickette: 11:00 AM last Wednesday of every month

If you’d like your announcement to be shared at the beginning of the worship service, please contact Marty Bowne (Worship and Music Team leader), or Pastor Kevin, prior to worship.

Thank you for sharing your good news at Cold Spring Church.

Oct 03
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(Price Hall Reserved)

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Price Hall is reserved to prepare for the Christmas Bazaar. Please contact the office, or Roseann Paulits to join the team, or for more information.

Oct 01
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October Brickette

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Sep 30
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Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship Service in the Historic Red Brick Church

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The entire family is invited to our beautiful Candlelight Christmas Eve Worship Service at 6:00 PM. This annual Greater Cape May tradition will energize your spirit and transform your life! We offer many Christmas events that begin on the First Sunday of Advent, all held in our beautiful, historic, Red Brick Church worship center.

Make Christmas connections at Cold Spring Church! Experience a joyful holiday celebration singing your favorite Christmas music, the lighting of the Advent Candle, and listen to readings from Scripture and an inspirational message about how our live’s can be more energized and purposeful through fresh expressions of the familiar Christmas Story. Sunday morning worship begins at 10:30 a.m. If you need transportation to any of our services or events and dinners, please call the office, or email hello@coldspringchurch.com, and someone from our Caring Team we will try to make arrangements with you.