Hello everyone and Happy Friday!
Check out this weeks announcements and sign up for the church newsletter so we can get more information to you as well. God Bless you all in this week and we pray that God would bless you, keep you, make his face to shine upon you and give you peace!
RESOURCES ABOUT RACISM AND RACIAL JUSTICE FOR YOU AND THE FAMILY
Thoughts and Scriptures About Racism and Racial Justice:
Read about a Christians response to racism, racial injustice, protests, and calls for change here. Also, a NEW scripture study about what the Bible says about racial injustice here.
Talking to your Kids about Racism:
Here is a good article from Christianity Today about talking to your kids about racism. Also, this New York Times article gives great book recommendations about talking to your kids about racism, including a book by a former youth group student of mine, Carolyn Heisel!
FATHERS DAY VIDEOS!
It's time to get your cameras out again!! Record your kids or yourself sharing about how your father figure is your superhero OR show him in action! Please shoot horizontally and leave 5 seconds of silence before and after each clip.
Minors under the age of 18 must have a media release form signed by a guardian found here: https://tinyurl.com/y847vaem. Upload video and release forms by Thursday, June 18th here: https://tinyurl.com/y8qpaszd
Thank you!
GUEST SPEAKER THIS WEEK!
As you might have heard, Pastor Chris is out of town this week and we have the privilege of having Pastor Sam Kim preach at our service. Pastor Sam is the lead pastor at Good News Church NYC (https://www.gncnyc.org, is a gifted expositor of scripture, and has been our retreat speaker for the past two retreats. He graduated from Rutgers University and Westminster Theological Seminary. Upon graduating seminary, Sam joined Good News Church in NYC in 2010 and has been the lead pastor since January 2015. always, join us for worship at 12:10p on Sunday on our YouTube channel.
Also, after church we will be having fellowship time in in ‘the lobby’ (a zoom chat room) so please come after the service and say hello. Find the Zoom link on the live chat on youtube and our Facebook page.
COVID-19 RELIEF FUND TO HELP CONGREGATION MEMBERS IN NEED
The English Congregations COVID-19 Relief Fund is a temporary fund created to specifically help to meet the needs of individuals and families in the English congregation at the Reformed Church of Newtown who are experiencing significant financial difficulty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to raise funds through donations of our congregation members while reaching out to our congregation to identify those in need. The fund will remain open for donation and distribution from June 14, 2020 through August 14, 2020 and will be managed by the English deacons.
How to donate:
Checks written out to "Reformed Church of Newtown" can be mailed to the church office at 49-20 87th St., Elmhurst, NY 11373. PLEASE include "for COVID-19 Relief fund--ENGLISH" in the memo section -OR- through online giving -- visit www.rcnewtown.org/covid19english
How to request help:
Visit http://www.rcnewtown.org/covid19english and fill out an online request -OR-directly contact any of the English deacons (David Cheng, Beverly Chang, Jerry Chang, Grace Hong or David Ko)
ONLINE TITHING
Please consider tithing online while we are not meeting in person: ihttps://www.rcnewtown.org/donat