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HAITI RELIEF EFFORT

The Gibbsboro United Methodist Church is supporting the Haiti Relief Effort of the United Methodist Conference (UMCOR).  If you would like to donate, please make your check payable to UMCOR and forward it to our church office at 30 West Clementon Road, Gibbsboro, NJ  08026 -OR- go directly to the UMC website www.umc.org/Haiti/

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This site continues to be under construction.  Kinda like disciples....

Sunday Morning Worship Service is at 10:00AM.
Pastor's Bible Study on Sunday mornings at 9:00AM

SonZone:  Wednesday Evenings starting with dinner at 6PM!

The Light - Youth Group Sunday evenings 6-8PM. 

Women's Bible Study the first and third Sundays 6-8PM. 

Report any problems you have to our church at gibbsboroumc@aol.com

Welcome Gibbsboro United Methodist Church Online!
We are a growing community of believers seeking to express the love of God in ways that relate, transform, and inspire!
Please click on the link below to listen or download the message, "Thunder on the Mountain."  This message highlights the critically important task of worship in the church.

Thunder on the Mountain

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Power in the Presence

Two St. Louis Cardinals pitchers, two guys in the prime of life, two games against the Chicago Cubs, two sets of grieving families and unanswered questions.  Darryl Kile and Joshua Hancock were supposed to pillars of the Cardinals club for years to come.  Both were ushered from this life to the next in circumstances that most would term "before their time." 

I'm not sure how a family deals with that kind of a situation.  The grieving is so intense.  The healing takes a long time.  The scar will always be visible. 

And yet, not one of us is guaranteed a tomorrow.  Every day is precious and every breath is significant.  Every relationship should be treated as a sacred trust.  We will not get another chance to live this day through.  Have I given this day all I had?  Or did I hold back, thinking, tomorrow will have its own opportunities.  Presumption can lead to difficult learning.

On this day we saw Jon Corzine be checked out of Cooper Medical Center in Camden.  Three surguries and a few metal rods after the SUV tumble on the Garden State Parkway, the governor can see how precious life is.  It really doesn't matter that he is able to write a personal check to cover his medical bills.  He's just lucky to be alive.  And he knows it.  And that might make all the difference. 

One of the refreshing aspects of the gospel message is that each day is a gift from God and that each day is fraught with new potential and with gracious blessing.  We can live life to the full because we have experienced the liberating hope that salvation affords.  God is at work.  God is at work in me and in you.  That is a reason to put two feet down on the floor each day and say, "Glory to God in the highest! Another blessing from above!"

We never know when the last one will be.  I pray that no matter when that is, I will be able to say that I haven't held anything back!

10:20 pm edt          Comments

Class and Virginia Tech
Dear Friends,
I want to remind those of you who would like to be reacquainted with the basics of the faith or who would like to join the church as a new member or confirmand (that is, youth group member in 8th grade, at least), that we will have a class on the basics beginning tomorrow morning from 9:30-10:15.  Those of you who joined in November, this is the class for you as well.  I hope you can make it.  The class will cover the basics of the faith as well as the specific marks of United Methodist belief and practice.
We have all seen the images from Blacksburg over the course of this last week.  It has deeply saddended me that something like this could unfold at a University where people are supposed to go to learn and explore in peace and in freedom.  We continue to pray for those family members who have lost loved ones and we are praying that the Holy Spirit would comfort our hearts as we mourn.
The perpetrator of this act of violence has repeatedly been described as a "loner".  Those who lived in the suite with him were never even given his name, except for the piece of paper from the University with the rooming assignments.  He had completely isolated himself.  It will be interesting to see what, if any, data can be ascertained from cell phone records or computer records that would explicate such a senseless act.
Isolation and loneliness are deadly to the soul.  Fragmentation and brokenness can result in deep bitterness and angst that, if not dealt with in the spirit, will result in hatred, malice, and violence.  Real, genuine community in the Body of Christ seeks to answer the world's isolation and brokenness by announcing the peace of God ruling in our hearts as a community of faith.  We seek to overcome the darkness and violence through a continued stretched out hand.  We cannot accomplish this by ourselves or out of an idealism rooted in the human spirit.  Rather, we must be strengthened for this task by the Spirit of God.  The redemption in Christ Jesus does away with the myth that we are ever alone and seeks to put us in right relationship with God and with one another.  Rightly trusting in God yields to a peace beyond our own reference and to a way of life that is oriented to love not to disintegration.
Love is all of us that will last.  That love begins and ends in the redemptive and saving act of Jesus Christ on the cross on our behalf.  To see that is to see the face of God aright. 
We join with those who mourn.  We pray for those who are hurting so deeply and who experience this kind of isolation that can breed this kind of hatred.  Our prayers must take flight, however, not just to heaven, but to our fellow brothers and sisters.  One place that this happens tangibly and with full reality is in the church.  I hope you will join with us for worship and that you bring a prayerful heart, ready to stretch your hand out. 
11:50 am edt          Comments

HAPPY EASTER!

Amid the chance for snow, there is the certainty of new life in Christ!  Because of Jesus' death and resurrection we have been wrapped up into the very family of God!  Praise the Lord!

I hope you can join us for worship on Easter Sunday.  Our Sunrise service will be at 6:30 at the paintworks lake.  Our 8:30 and 10:30 worship services will be held as scheduled with two special acts of worship at the 10:30 service:  Our interpretive dance team, under the direction of LouAnn Gunning will minister and all of the attenders will participate in the flowering of the cross.

Also, after the second worship service on Easter Sunday there will be an Easter Egg hunt for all of our children. 

May God's Blessings surround you each day... Rob

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Worship Schedule

Sunday Worship Service
10:00AM 
Pastor's Bible Study
9:00AM Sunday Morning
Women's Bible Study
First and Third Sundays 6-8PM
Youth Group
Sunday Nights 6-8pm
Youth Bible Study
Wednesdays at 6PM starting with dinner.
SonZone
Wednesdays 6-8PM starting with dinner.

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