Community and St Mark United Methodist Church Phase 2 in-person worship June 28th, 2020 Gathering and passing the peace-please remain masked and only speak with those around you and with social distancing. Welcome and announcements  *Invocation: Leader: How long, O Lord? People: How long must we hold onto this pain? Leader: How long will the aches of our souls have […]

Community and St Mark United Methodist Church Phase 2 in-person worship June 21st, 2020 Gathering and passing the peace-please remain masked and only speak with those around you and with social distancing. Welcome and announcements   *Invocation: Leader: When we have been cast aside in the deserts of our lives, People: you open our eyes to life-giving water that sustains us […]

Here is the link to today’s service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKcJGjBNtdk&t=8s

If you plan on attending Sunday’s joint worship service at Community UMC 37 Cherry Road Portsmouth I need you to call Kirk today or tomorrow so we can fill out your health questionnaire. If you prefer, you can print out the copy from my last email, fill it out and scan it back to me. Just a reminder we will […]

Community and St Mark United Methodist Church Phase 1 in-person worship June 14th, 2020 Gathering and passing the peace-please remain masked and only speak with those around you and with social distancing. Welcome and announcements   *Invocation: Leader: Call to the Lord, who hears our prayers. People: Sing to the Lord, who delights in our songs. Leader: Wait for the Lord, […]

Starting on June 21st we will be entering Phase 2 of the United Methodist Church’s reopening process. That means we can have up to 50 in worship and children as young as 7.

I am not sure why, but the camera broke this week’s message into two parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTyen_-x5ls&t=2shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RXrGgR7iJE

Community and St Mark United Methodist Church Phase 1 in-person worship June 7th, 2020 Gathering and passing the peace-please remain masked and only speak with those around you and with social distancing. Welcome and announcements  *Invocation: Leader: For the “many-ness” of God’s creative splendor, People: let us give thanks. Leader: Before Jesus’s humility, and the power of Christ’s commands, People: […]

Here are the links for today’s messages.Community Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/communityumcportsmouth/videos/3133287753427121/St Mark Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/142102952538852/videos/277592616945480/St Mark Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGARgRneqWo&t=28sCommunity Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqD_Os0Leic

Here is the link for filling out the Health Acknowledgement Form. You can fill it out, print it and scan it to the pastor at kirkculpepper@vaumc.org. Here is the link: http://doc.vaumc.org/News2020/HealthAcknowledgementform.pdf

Healthy Church Team Action plan for Community and St Mark UMC The HCT is composed of the Pastor, each Administrative Council chair and each SPRC Chair at the present time. Others may be added as needed. Given the current average attendance of each church and the ages of the members, we anticipate being below the 25-worship person limit in Phase […]

The timeline for reopening from the shutdown is as follows: June 7th, both churches will come together at St Mark UMC 4320 Twin Pines Road portsmouth, VA to worship at 10:30 AM June 14th, both churches will come together at Community UMC 37 Cherry Road Portsmouth, VA to worship at 10:30 AM June 21st, each church will worship separately. Community […]

The links for the May 17th message from the DS are posted on each churches Facebook pages.

Happy Mother’s Day everyone. Community UMC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/communityumcportsmouth/videos/254668695678330/ Community UMC Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFuVGKv5578&t=655s St Mark UMC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/142102952538852/videos/2906537569383354/ St Mark UMC Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUqBzD3ppLM&t=669s Just a reminder that next week the service will be done by our District Superintendent Wayne Snead and I will pass on the link as soon as I get it.

St Mark UMC Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViF3eObOEb4&t=320s Community UMC Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0f-GALCIU&t=230s St Mark UMC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/142102952538852/videos/230148918257388/ Community UMC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/communityumcportsmouth/videos/160894075364591/