Join Parkwood UMC for New Year’s Eve Watchnight Service, December 31st at 6 pm. We will begin with fellowship around the dinner table and then we will transition into the sanctuary for worship at around 7 pm.
This service exists for us to confess our shortcomings from the year before and renew our covenant with God and the church for the coming year. Consider this opportunity to begin a new year with us in worship.
On The first Sunday in Advent the sanctuary is decorated during the Hanging of the Greens ceremony. The lighting of the altar and Advent candles, hanging wreaths and garlands, placing holly and cedar branches and poinsettias, placing the Nativity and the meaning and lighting of the Chrismon tree are explained while members of the congregation perform the activities. The ceremony is followed with a communion service.
On the second Sunday we incorporate a Moravian Love Feast in our morning worship. A Love Feast is a service of song during which a simple meal of buns and coffee are served. The buns and coffee are carried in baskets and trays by “Dieners”, or servers, while the choir, congregation and other musicians sing and perform hymns and carols. This is a simple, devout service that has great significance in the Moravian church and has been adopted by churches of other denominations.
The third Sunday of Advent is our Choral Cantata Sunday, during which our choir performs.
Join us for a simple service remembering the Holy Family’s search for shelter and a celebration of the Nativity. The service will begin outside as we join Mary and Joseph, Weary from travel, as they seek a place to stay from the innkeeper. Once invited inside, we will hear and see the story of the Nativity and celebrate the birth of Christ with cakes, snacks, and music. Children are especially welcome and will participate as magi and angels.
We celebrate the Festival of Lessons and Carols on the fourth Sunday of Advent. This service includes congregational participation in reading of the lessons and the singing of the hymns and carols.
Join us for a candlelight communion service.
The final Come to the Table get together for 2015 will be held on Saturday, September 26th. Dinner plans for this service have not been finalized; be on the look out for more information here on the website or in the Sunday Service bulletin.
Don’t worry, the “Come to the Table” dinners may be gone for the rest of the year after September 26th; gone but not forgotten. Be on the lookout for the winter edition of “Come to the Table” starting in January. Break out the 2016 calendar and circle Saturday, January 30th, 2016.
Join us for Come to the Table, a service of worship around the dinner table, August 29th at 5:30 pm. We are looking forward to having Sal’s Italian provide food for the evening and we will be introducing children’s church that will take place after dinner together. Sharon Schulze will be sharing the message.
Join us July 25th at 5:30 pm for a worship service around the dinner table. “Come to the Table” is a simple worship service around the dinner table and we will close with Holy Communion.
The meal for this event will be Hot Dogs and Hamburgers. Members are asked to bring a side dish.
Come run the happiest and most exciting race ever, with Jeff Slaughter on this fun-filled VBS, which starts at 2 Timothy 4: 7-8. Follow the race route on a scripture-packed course through Bible Studies, Worship, Crafts, Games and more; all to encourage your kids to run and finish the most important race of all . . . pathway to salvation in Christ.
Join us Sun July 19 – Thurs July 22 for Vacation Bible School at Parkwood United Methodist Church, 5123 Revere Rd. Durham. Ages 3 to 10 are all welcome! (All “threes” must be “potty” trained). The time is 5:30pm – 7:30pm. We will have an ice cream social on Sunday night to kick off the fun and will serve a light dinner for the children at 5:30pm each evening thereafter.Download the registration form here. For more information you can call the church office at (919) 544-1078.
Reserve your child’s spot at Parkwood UMC’s Vacation Bible School event Now!
Just fill in the contact form below and turn in your registration form Sunday, July 19th!
Join us beginning January 18th for a 3 part sermon series on the importance of covenant. What’s expected from us as members of Parkwood United Methodist Church? What is PUMC doing to encourage our growth and equip us to meet those expectations? What can God do for this community through our relationship with God and each other in covenant? We’ll wrestle with these questions and more together before welcoming some new members into our fold during worship on February 1st.
A New Year’s Eve Watchnjght Service will be held at Parkwood United Methodist Church on December 31st at 6:00 pm. We will begin with fellowship around the dinner table, prepared by Jan Schwarze and then we will transition into the sanctuary for worship at around 7:00 pm. This service exists for us to confess our shortcomings from the year before and renew our covenant with God and with the church for the coming year. Consider this opportunity to begin a new year with us in worship.
On The first Sunday in Advent the sanctuary is decorated during the Hanging of the Green ceremony. The lighting of the altar and Advent candles, hanging wreaths and garlands, placing holly and cedar branches and poinsettias, placing the Nativity and the meaning and lighting of the Chrismon tree are explained while members of the congregation perform the activities. The ceremony is followed with a communion service.
On the second Sunday we incorporate a Moravian Love Feast in our morning worship. A Love Feast is a service of song during which a simple meal of buns and coffee are served. The buns and coffee are carried in baskets and trays by “Dieners”, or servers, while the choir, congregation and other musicians sing and perform hymns and carols. This is a simple, devout service that has great significance in the Moravian church and has been adopted by churches of other denominations.
The third Sunday is our Choral Cantata Sunday, during which our choir performs.
On the fourth Sunday we celebrate the Festival of Lessons and Carols. In 1880 the parishoners and townspeople of Truro, England asked their Pastor, the Rev. G.H.S. Walpole, who later became Bishop of Edinburg, and his Bishop Edward White Benson, later to be the Archbishop of Canterbury, to develop a Christmas service in which the congregation and others could participate. Rev. Walpole and Bishop Benson revived a medieval liturgical custom of beginning the lesson with the fall of man and chose the rest of the readings to illustrate the story of redemption from the Old and the New Testaments.
The ceremony was adapted for use in the Chapel of Kings College in Cambridge, England in 1918. This adaptation, however, was designed to feature the Chapel Choir rather than involving participation by the congregation.
For our service we have chosen to use the original concept of congregational participation in the reading of the lessons and the singing of the hymns and carols.
Our Advent and Christmas celebration ends with a candlelight communion service on Christmas eve.
Our Christmas eve communion service begins at 7:00 PM.
You are cordially invited to join the Chancel Choir at Parkwood United Methodist Church. The choir meets weekly on Wednesday nights from 7:30 pm.
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Durham, NC 27713
Phone: 919-544-1078
Email: pumc@parkwoodumc.org'
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