Thursday, January 30, 2014


“I have decided to stick with Love.  Hate is too great a burden to bear.”                              
Martin Luther King

 
Scripture for this Sunday’s service:  I Samuel 17: 1-11

Who are your Goliaths?

 

Announcements and Upcoming Events!

1.      Sunday, February 9th we will be having our annual Soup Bread Pie luncheon. The Fellowship committee will be providing a variety of soups, bread and cheeses.  Please bring a dessert to share with everyone.  All are invited!!

2.      Wednesday, February 12th will be our next Community Dinner at 6:00pm in Parish Hall. Come and bring a friend!  This month’s menu is pasta and meatballs, garlic bread, salad, and dessert.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

“Four steps to achievement:  Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully.  Proceed positively.  Pursue persistently.”                                                                                                                        --William Arthur Ward
 
Scripture for this Sunday’s service:  Matthew 27: 3-10

What regrets do you have?

This Sunday we will look together at this giant in our lives and how we might deal with it.


Announcements and Upcoming Events!

Sunday, February 9th we will be having our annual Soup Bread Pie luncheon. The Fellowship committee will be providing a variety of soups, bread and cheeses.  Please bring a dessert to share with everyone.  All are invited!!

Thursday, January 16, 2014


“Life is like a camera: focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.”               
-- Source Unknown

 

Scripture for this Sunday’s service:  Luke 13: 31-35

What focus do you have?

 

Announcements and Upcoming Events!

The monthly Tuesday luncheon will be this coming Tuesday, Jan. 21st at noon time in the Parish Hall. All are invited.  A free will offering will be taken.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
                                    --Robert Heinlein
Scripture for this Sunday:   Mark 12: 28-34


The Reverend Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist minister, was recently defrocked for officiating at his son’s same-sex marriage in 2007. If you were Frank Schaefer, what would you have done? What is the real issue here:  Love or legalism? Come to worship this Sunday as we explore this issue that is making national headlines

Announcements and Upcoming Events!
Mon. Jan. 13 – Bristol Lodge Serving Day
Wed. Jan. 15 – 12:00pm – ROMEO at UNO’s in Waltham
Wed. Jan. 15 – 7:30pm – Church Council Meeting
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
                                    --Robert Heinlein

Scripture for this Sunday:   Mark 12: 28-34


The Reverend Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist minister, was recently defrocked for officiating at his son’s same-sex marriage in 2007. If you were Frank Schaefer, what would you have done? What is the real issue here:  Love or legalism? Come to worship this Sunday as we explore this issue that is making national headlines.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014


Historic Visit to Be Recalled at Sudbury Church


 

When Cardinal Richard Cushing, Archbishop of the Boston Archdiocese visited Sudbury Methodist Church on January 19, 1964, his gesture was welcomed as a sign that changes endorsed during the Second Vatican Council could lead to closer relations between Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians.  Fifty years later, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley will visit the same Sudbury church to preach and lead worship with the episcopal leader of United Methodists in New England, Bishop Sudarshana Devadhar.

 

At 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 12, a large congregation is expected when both bishops invite Christians in their communions and others to focus on Baptism as a source of unity, according to the Rev. Joel B. Guillemette, pastor of Sudbury’s United Methodists.  “When Cardinal Cushing spoke in our sanctuary fifty years ago, Washington was more unified and Christians were virtually estranged from each other.  A half century later, Christians share much more in common but Washington is polarized.  Perhaps it’s time for people who share a common faith with some differences to set an example for political leaders who share a common citizenship with some political differences,” Guillemette said.

 

“This will be a wonderful celebration of our unity as Christians and a great opportunity to reflect on how we need to grow,” said the Rev. Richard Erikson, pastor of Sudbury’s Our Lady of Fatima Parish.  “The prayer service will be taking place on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which offers a superb context for us to contemplate on what we share as brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ,” Father Erikson said.

 

Ecumenical worship on January 12 will include musical offerings from both churches.  Music directors Cynthia Carpenter and Kevin Murphy are preparing choral and instrumental selections that will involve singers and players from both congregations.  An extended instrumental prelude before the service will welcome participants who arrive early to claim good seats.  To add to the celebration, Sudbury’s United Methodists will host a reception in the church’s fellowship hall following worship during which guests will have the opportunity to meet and greet each other while sharing light refreshments. 

Sudbury United Methodist Church is located at 251 Old Sudbury Road in Sudbury, MA.  The pastors and congregants of Our Lady of Fatima Parish and Sudbury United Methodist Church invite all of their friends and neighbors to attend.

 

UM clergy who attend are invited to bring their vestments and be seated with their colleagues in a reserved area at the front of the sanctuary.

Friday, January 3, 2014


“God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow into them.”
--Author Unknown

 

Scripture for this Sunday’s service:  Matthew 2:  1-12

 Announcements and Upcoming Events!

Saturday, January 4th – All women in the church are invited to the baby shower for the Dickerson twins from 2-4 pm in the church parlor.   The babies can use lot’s of diapers size 1 and larger; and clothes sizes 18 months and older.

Sunday, January 5th – the choir will be singing the Christmas Cantata that was postponed in December due to the snow.  Also, we will be having our Christmas luncheon after the worship service.  Come and invite a friend.