Laying the foundation for hy-brid worship

Several Grace UCC Council members have been working diligently over the past couple of months to put plans into place to allow GUCC to get back to in-person worship while still keeping Zoom as an alternative means of participation.

On August 21st a small group met at the Flemington Women’s Club to move in and set-up the equipment that will allow us to make hy-brid worship a reality.

While we have pushed the pause button on in-person worship for a little longer, beginning in September, the service will be broadcast over Zoom from the Women’s Club. This will allow for the team to become familiar with the equipment and adapt our set-up and other logistics as needed.

Keep an eye on this space for further updates as we move closer to in-person worship.

IMPORTANT IN-PERSON WORSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

After thoughtful discussion at our aUGUST church council meeting, we made the decision to push back our in-person worship to at least October.

Our first priority is keeping everyone safe, and we feel we need more time to work through the various logistics required to keep everyone safe once we return to in-person worship.

Instead, in September a small team will be working on transitioning our Zoom broadcast to the Flemington Women's club as we continue to pull together all of the moving parts for a successful hy-brid service. Special thanks to Don Manning for leading us in these efforts.

Watch this space for further announcements as we move into the fall. Thankyou for your patience, and your support as we continue to navigate these unusual circumstances.

An update from our Treasurer

During the month of June we were blessed to receive a $6,000 unrestricted donation from one of our members. So by definition it should have been a great month financially. But what did we do? Yep. You guessed it. We decided to spend $3,294 on 15 twin beds for men freed from human trafficking! Then we decided to spend $2,000 in support of a rehab center being built in West Virginia by Mike D’Aversa. Oh yeah. We now make monthly support payments to the Little Food Pantry initiative at the Flemington Food Pantry. And we purchased chicken feed for the free eggs program that Mike and Maggie are running. And still that wasn’t enough. So we donated $250 to the Coalition For Peace Action Committee that is run out Princeton by Rev. Bob Moore… a bunch of Peter Schutz types who believe we should pressure our government to reduce our military budget and other things to mitigate the possibility of an nuclear war catastrophe.

In summary, we took what could have been a great month financially and turned it into a truly fantastic month of living our faith. In addition, we gleaned for the America’s Grow A Row and we rallied for justice and diversity in Milford. Our contributions in those areas don’t show up in the financials, but are important parts of our mission work.

All funds donated to our church are put to use in the community month-after-month to put our love and faith into action.

— William Taylor, Treasurer