2025 Camp Meeting- a Summer of Praise and Worship (starts 7/13/25)
“A Summer of Praise and Worship…” The Pitman Camp Meeting will hold its 154th season of services in the Pitman Grove. As in recent years, the 2025 Camp Meeting will meet on Sunday evenings (7:30PM). Several area churches will take turns “hosting” the meetings and leading the worship. Open this post for a full schedule.
Read MorePastor’s Ponderings: Worship is a Living Sacrifice (June 2025)
Paul urged the Roman Christians to be a “Living Sacrifice”. What does that mean in our own time and culture? Pastor Mike looked at this topic in his June 2025 Steeple Notes article.
Read More2025 Vacation Bible School Heads North! (6/23/25)
The 2025 version of Vacation Bible School will be held during the week of June 23, 2025. During this week, we’ll discover our “True North”- where do we turn when we’re lost? Where do we need to be headed?
Read MorePUMC Ready to Host Spring Blood Drive (5/15/25)
Yep- “Another” Red Cross Blood Drive. People keep getting injured or sick, and the needs for blood are continuous, especially as we begin to enter the summer season. You can help fill that need (and maybe even save a life) by donating blood. The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive at PUMC on 5/15/25. Open this post for details.
Read MorePastor’s Ponderings: Jesus- Problem Solver of the World! (May 2025)
Easter is now behind us, but we must keep our focus and continue to be “Easter People” as we move forward. “There are some things that we disagree about, but there is one thing that we should all agree upon as Christians, Jesus is Lord!”
Read MoreBands to Battle to Share Gospel in Mexico (5/3/25)
A “Battle of the Bands” evening will be held on 5/3/25 to support an upcoming trip to La Palmilla, Mexico. Our missions to La Palmilla have helped this growing church share the Gospel of Jesus’ love and salvation with this community in Mexico.
Read More2025 Easter Egg Hunt (4/19/25)
The 2025 Easter Egg Hunt will be held on Saturday 4/19/25 between 11AM-1PM. Through the “how’d he do that?” wonder of a magic show and through the treasure of broken eggs, this will be a morning of discovering and praising our awesome God! And, we’ll have a lot of fun while doing it (and bring home a lot of “sweet treasures”)!
Read MorePastor’s Ponderings: God Keeps Rolling Up His Sleeves! (February 2025)
Instead of frantically asking, “God where are You?”, we can find peace and hope in the truth that “even when I don’t see it, you’re working” (as it says in the song “Waymaker”). God’s always there. The question is not, Jesus where are you but rather, Jesus let me find you! Jesus has not left us and is working through the Holy Spirit everyday.
Read MoreCatacomb Praise to Celebrate 200th Episode! (3/3/25)
During the pandemic in 2020, Pastor Mike was burdened by the fact that we couldn’t meet together for times of praise and worship, so he began to post videos of music and scripture. They were intended to reach us during our time away from the sanctuary, and he called them “Catacomb Praise.”
Over the years, 199 of these videos have now been posted! To celebrate the 200th video, it will be “taped before a live studio audience” in our sanctuary on 3/3/25, at 7PM.
Lenten Devotional 2025
Pre-Prayer for this year’s Lenten season by reading a daily devotional article written by local church members. Booklets of these articles will be distributed to churches, and electronic versions of the booklets are available on the PUMC website.
Read MoreNew Small Group to Study “Mere Christianity” (2/10/25)
What is faith? How can finite people even begin to understand the infinite God? This upcoming Small Group will study the book “Mere Christianity”, written by C.S. Lewis. Let’s get together and use our “thinking faith” to encourage each other’s walk with God.
Read MoreWeekly Prayer Guide
In 2025, Pastor Mike preached a sermon series on the “Disciplines” of our faith… the tools we can use to grow closer to God. One of those disciplines is Prayer. Each Sunday, a list of specific prayer areas is provided to every congregant attending the Sunday worship service. These concerns are posted in this page and updated each Sunday.
Read MoreMen Retreat Together to Live Harmoniously (2/21/25)
The men of PUMC will join with the men of the Pitman Church of the Nazarene to focus on a weekend of unity. The pastors of our two churches will team together to lead a retreat with the topic “Harmonious Living in a Hostile World.”
Read MorePUMC To Host Winter Red Cross Blood Drive (1/22/25)
Yep- “Another” Red Cross Blood Drive. People keep getting injured or sick, and the needs for blood are continuous. You can help fill that need (and maybe even save a life) by donating blood. The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive at PUMC on 1/22/25. Open this post for details.
Read MorePastor’s Ponderings: Christmas in Our Hearts All Year Long (Dec. 2024)
Christmas doesn’t end in December! The decorations might come down, but the message lasts throughout the entire year. Celebrate the Good News and persevere in grace throughout the year.
Read More2024 Advent Devotionals (December 2024)
The Devotional Booklet for the 2024 Advent Season has been published! If you don’t have a hardcopy, you can view the booklet in this website post. The devotional contains articles for each day in the Advent Season (starting December 1), and it also includes daily devotionals for the period between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
Read MorePastor’s Ponderings: Always be Joyful! (Nov. 2024)
God’s will for us is to be joyful, to pray and always be thankful. When we keep our focus on God when we’re in the midst of difficult circumstances, our Thanksgiving be still be filled with hope and joy.
Read MoreChristmas House Tour Opens Doors and Hearts (12/7/24)
The Christmas House Tour is an annual event organized by the Pitman Women’s Club. It raises scholarship funds to help High School Seniors as they prepare for college. This year, PUMC will be one of the stops on the tour. Stop by to see some beautiful decorations and to be inspired by the coming of the Christ. The tour is on Saturday 12/7/24, and it runs from 2-8PM.
Read MoreOpen Wide for Trunk or Treat! (10/26/24)
PUMC will host it’s annual Trunk or Treat on Saturday October 26, 2024 (6:30-8:30). Drop by for a Fall family celebration. Wander through the parking lot to admire the decorated trunks, then come on in inside to try some of the games. If you’ve got extra energy to work off, there’s even a Bounce House in the Fellowship Hall!
Read MoreChristmas Marketplace to Open (11/9/24)
The Sixth annual Christmas Marketplace will be held in the Fellowship Hall on Saturday 11/9/24 (between 9AM-2PM). The Marketplace raises funds to support a variety of missions projects which feed needy people, provide drinking water, and help families recover from recent storms. Stroll through the tables of crafts, baked goods, and other “attic treasures”. Make some prized purchases and support the missions projects of PUMC’s United Women in Faith.
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