Christ Church Summit

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Affiliated with the United Church of Christ (UCC) and the American Baptist Churches USA (ABC-USA)
• Rev. Charles Rush, Senior Minister • Rev. Julie Yarborough, Associate Minister • Rev. Caroline Dean, Associate Minister of Adult & Youth Education

No matter who you are, or where you are on life's journey, you're welcome here!

The annual Church Financial Review meeting will be held on Sunday, December 13, in Barnwell Hall following the first service. The Executive Board will present the current and prospective operating budgets and provide opportunity for discussion and questions. The meeting is open to all. A formal Congregational meeting to approve the operating budget will be held in early January 2010. Please plan to attend both meetings.

Worship Service & Sunday School start at 10:00, followed by coffee hour. Double services resume in the fall. There is no second service. Nursery care is available continuously from 9:00 to 11:30 PM, through coffee hour. [ directions ]

Worship Service & Sunday School start at 9:30 followed by coffee hour, and a second shorter service with meditative jazz begins at 11:15. Nursery care is available continuously from 8:30 to 12:30 PM, through both services. [ directions ]

Note: We're now on our summer schedule with one service each week at 10:00 A.M. and Summer Sunday Camp for children through 6th grade running concurrently. We will resume our Fall schedule of two services with Sunday School at the 9:30 hour on Sept. 13.

Members and friends: Please support the missions of Christ Church by joining our annual pledge campaign.

Note: Rev. Rush has an essay A Brief Visit From My Soldier Son in the New York Times of Sunday Nov 8, 2009. You can read it online here. It's based on a sermon which you can read here: Sending my Son Back to College War. Rev. Rush is pleased to report that his son and daughter-in-law completed their military service safely. He welcomes your .

Announcing... Al Bunis led a Bible Study series on 4 consecutive Monday evenings starting Feb 22. The topic was “The Great Stories of Genesis” [ details ]

Job Opening for Director of Music. Application deadline was Aug 30. Review process is underway.

The Cornerstone School, a dynamic new preschool in Summit, located at Christ Church, opened in September, 2009. [ details... ]

Note: Bridges has moved. Dropoffs are no longer being collected at Christ Church. [ details ]

Christ Church is pleased to host Heavenswill Church (Rev. Jae Han, Pastor), which serves the Korean-American community and meets at noon on Sundays. You can listen to Rev Han's sermon of December 21, 2008 [ here ]

-- Hosted by Rev Chuck Rush, on HomeTowne TV in Summit (Comcast channel 36, Verizon channel 33)

Weekly showings: Mon at 8:00 PM, Wed at 9:00 PM, Thu at 11:00 PM, Fri at 8:30 PM, and Sat at 7:30 PM & 10:30 PM. [ more | full HomeTowne TV program schedule ]

As part of the Summit Interfaith Council, we are joining other congregations in Summit to build an affordable housing unit in Summit in partnership with the Morris Habitat for Humanity.

You can hear Rev. Julie Yarborough's sermon “Holy Ground” from our 6-9-2002 outdoor worship service at Camp Riverbend.

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Welcome to Christ Church, Summit NJ. We are an interdenominational, open and affiriming congregation
serving Summit, New Jersey, and its neighboring communities

of our adult, children's, and handbell choirs, and experience the
warmth of our fellowship. Our diverse church family is engaged in numerous activities,
including community service, adult education, children's and

fuller description of our church community and its ministries. Our affiliate denominations are: UCC - United Church of Christ. ABC - American Baptist Churches. Our staff: Rev Dr Charles (Chuck) T Rush, Senior Minister. Rev Julie Yarborough, Associate Minister for Christian Education. Holly Chatham, Director of Music. Cheryl Levy, Church Secretary and Office Manager. God is still speaking...
Never place a period where God has placed a comma. -- Gracie Allen. Our "Open and Affirming Declaration": We believe that we are all part of God's creation and that we are all sisters and brothers in God's family. We welcome and affirm gay men and lesbian women into the life and leadership of our congregation. We condemn all acts of violence against people because of their sexual orientation. To this end, we join the United Church of Christ Open & Affirming Congregations and the American Baptist Churches Welcoming & Affirming congregations. And in the spirit of this affirmation, we authorize our ministers to extend to gay men and lesbians all of the blessings of life in our congregation, including the blessing of same-sex unions. Our Illuminators bring dramatic presentations to our worship services. Other words and phrases characterizing our Church... Adult Education, Advent, Alternative Gift Market / Mitzvah Mall, Baptism, Barnwell Hall, Bible Study, Board of World Fellowship, Chancel Choir, Charity, Children's Choir, Christian Education, Christmas, Church Mice, Church School, Communion, Community Service, Confirmation, Congregational Church, Deacons, Diversity, Easter, Ethics, Ethical Principles, Genesis Choir, Good Friday, Habitat for Humanity, Handbell Choir, Homeless Hospitality Network, Homosexuality, Interracial Homosexuals, Inclusive, Inspiration, Interfaith Hospitality Network, Jesus Christ, Journey of Faith, Joy, Jubilation Bell Ringers, Labyrinth, Lile Hall, Liturgical Music, Let us Pray, Loving Spirit, Maundy Thursday, Meditation, Ministry, Moral Principles, New Testament, Nicaragua Outreach, Nondiscrimination, Old Testament, Pastoral Concerns, Peace Be with You, Pipe Organ, Praise God, Praise the Lord, Prayer Concerns, Protestant Church, Religion, Religious, Sacred, Salvation, Sanctuary, Savior, Saviour, Social Action, Social Justice, Spirit of God, Spiritual, Spirituality, Stained Glass Windows, Sunday School, Theology, Worship Service, Tom Reiber Martinez Reiber-Martinez former Associate Minister, Youth Fellowship, Workshop Rotation Model - (WRM), City of Summit, NJ, New Jersey, 07901, USA, United States of America. UCC, Summit NJ. United Church of Christ, Summit NJ., gay-friendly, Fiat Lux Chamber Players, Patrick Wood, Holly Chatham, Adam Grabois, Lile Piano Trio, ABC Summit NJ. American Baptist Church, Summit NJ, The Devil's Advocate Sarah Pomerantz