Save the Date!
Sundays
10:00am
Sunday Worship Details
Come as you are and join us each Sunday at 10am for worship and fellowship. Everyone is welcome. Bring a friend!
- Please use the doors at the top of the big staircase that faces Stockley Gardens (Rd). Park in our parking lot in the back or on the street.
- Bring the children! Pastor Britney will have a special message for your children and grandchildren during Worship. All children are invited to begin the hour in our worship service. After the Children’s Message, children ages 3 through 5th grade are invited to Sunday School in the Library. On Communion Sundays (usually the first Sunday of the month), children are invited to come back into the service to celebrate Communion alltogether with their church family.
You can watch previous services and videos on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Ghent UMC is licensed to stream our FB Live worship services through CCLI #20175590 and One License A-727358.
1st Sundays
10:00am
Holy Communion
Join us on first Sundays for our Worship Service when we celebrate Holy Communion! Everyone is invited to the table of Jesus. We use a gluten-free loaf and grape juice.
Sundays Through oct. 11
10:00am
How to Transform the World Like Jesus
We have a new sermon series! Rooted in the United Methodist vision statement – Love Boldly, Serve Joyfully, and Lead Courageously – this sermon series is being used by congregations across the Virginia UMC conference AND the church globally to reflect on what it means to follow Jesus Christ in today’s world and respond with renewed commitment and hope.
There is power in unity! When United Methodists around the world pray the same prayers, reflect on the same Scriptures, and seek the same miracle together, a holy momentum is created that deepens faith, strengthens our witness, and renews our shared mission.
Be a part of this momentum. We are joining with United Methodist congregations in Tanzania, the Philippines, Hungary, and 30,000 churches around the world!
Visit the Virginia UMC’s website to learn more about this sermon series.
Sundays
9:00am
Sunday Bible Discussion
Our weekly, in-person Bible discussions are back! Meet us Sundays, 9 – 9:45am starting September 13th. All adults are invited to meet in the back of the sanctuary where the three lounge chairs are. This group reviews the Bible using the Standard Lesson Quarterly series.
Please enter the building at the top of the big staircase that faces Stockley Gardens (Rd). If needed, use the ramp on the side of the front porch.
If you are interested, email Peter Griffin.
On-Going
This Season
Collecting for People In Need
Our mission this season is to provide hygiene items and clothes. We are now collecting new and gently used men’s and women’s clothes. We are focused on collecting clothes that people can wear to work such as khaki pants, jeans, and polo shirts. Please take a look in your closets and see what you have available to donate. We are not accepting suits or dress up clothes.
Also, please consider bringing any travel-size toiletries, such as shampoo, toothpaste, lotion, bodywash, bar soap, deodorant, toothbrush, etc. Put your donations in the baskets in the preschool lobby or back of the Sanctuary. If you want more information, call the church office at (757) 622-2843.
4th Sundays
10:00am
Food Collection Sunday
Each 4th Sunday, we place a basket by the altar to collect non-perishable food for those who are hungry in our community, including those experiencing homelessness. If you forget your donation on Sunday, drop it off at the church office during the week.
Food suggestions include hearty snacks, canned goods such as tuna (pop top, if you can), cereal, boxed milk, water, instant coffee, sugar packets, and individual powdered drink packets that are added to bottles of water and dried fruit.
Most of the food, particularly any perishables, will be taken to Ghent Area Ministry on Colonial Ave. The rest will remain here for those who ask us for food.
If you would like to volunteer to help with food collection, contact the church office at (757) 622-2843.
Sundays
10:00am
Organ Music
Our Organist Brad Norris plays our Casavant organ for our 10am Worship service several times a year. Come enjoy his gift and be blessed.
While our building is in a stage of progress, Brad will be playing the piano. He will play for our service on Sunday, October 18 at 10am.
Brad is Dean of the Tidewater Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. After 36 years, he retired from St. Andrew’s Church and School in Newport News. He lives in Hampton and enjoys doing work as an organ/piano substitute and accompanying various singing groups in Hampton Roads, such as Bellissima.
SAt. – Sun.
Oct. 17 – 18
Book Sale & Parking Fundraiser
Grab your new, fall reads or some cherished favorites at our used book sale! Check us out on Saturday, October 17th from 10am-4:30pm. There will books at the top of our large staircase and in the lobby. Our prices can’t be beat. Hardbacks are only $1.50 and paperbacks are $1.00. Children at our sale can get a free children’s book, while supplies last.
Park one block from the Stockley Gardens Arts Festival. We host paid parking on Saturday, October 17th, 9am – 4pm and Sunday, October 18th, 11:30am – 3:30pm. The requested donation is $10.
If you park in our lot, you can also get a BOGO coupon for a free book. While you’re here, feel free to have a seat in or take a look around our sanctuary. We are a welcoming bunch of folks!
Mondays
10:30am – 12:30pm
Morning Bible Study
Our in-person Bible Study meets on Monday from 10:30am – 12:30pm at the home of a GUMC member. For more information, write your request on your Connection Card at church, contact Debbie B. or email the church office.
Sundays
10:00am
Want to Sing or play?
If you would like to sing with us on Sundays, let our Minister of Music know! Choir rehearsals are on Sundays, 11:30am-12:30pm. The choir sings on selected dates.
There are also musical opportunities, if you want to play an instrument. The Gathering Jam Band meets 15 minutes before the service on the second Sundays and plays through the service that day. If you don’t play an instrument, come out and play the maracas or other hand percussion. Let Minister of Music Nellwyn Beamon know, if you have any questions.
