Archive for May, 2007

8 Confirmands presented to the congregation with their mentors.

Dear Centenary Church Family:

Greetings from Valley Forge, PA, and the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference. Your Lay Member to Annual Conference, Giselle Esquivel Cordero, and I gathered for the Service of Tribute and Sacrament of Holy Communion with over 1,000 lay and clergy members from the 600+ United Methodist churches in our Greater NJ area yesterday morning as we began four-days of Holy Conferencing in this historic venue. Last evening we were blessed by the dynamic preaching of the Rev. Tyrone Gordon from St. Luke’s UM Church in Dallas, TX, and as we return to the Conference setting this morning, Pastor Gordon will lift our hearts in preparation for the day. (more…)

Dear Centenary Church Family:

On The Day of Pentecost, we come to the end of the Great Fifty Days of Easter and celebrate the birth-day of the Church with the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples in Jerusalem. We will mark this special Festival Day of the Church in our 10:15 AM Worship this Sunday, May 27. Red will be the color of the day…and we invite/encourage you all to wear something red to represent the flames which hovered over the heads of our forebears as they received the power of the Holy Spirit. (more…)