{"id":16374,"date":"2017-10-14T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?page_id=16374"},"modified":"2020-10-06T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:14:32","slug":"neighbors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?page_id=16374","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our building is located at what&#8217;s been called the &#8220;Gateway to Pitman&#8221;; we&#8217;re right on the edge of town, and much of the traffic entering Pitman passes our building. \u00a0 Across the street is our favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritages.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heritages<\/a> Dairy Store, and down the street is the <a href=\"http:\/\/brightbeginningswest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bright\u00a0Beginnings<\/a> preschool and<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-614 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Aerial-pitman-umc-110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Aerial-pitman-umc-110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Aerial-pitman-umc-110-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/totalturf.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Total\u00a0Turf<\/a>&#8230;..\u00a0 We&#8217;re surrounded by homes on streets like Broadway, Spruce, Elm, and Albert.\u00a0 We&#8217;re part of the Pitman community.\u00a0 And like any welcoming neighborhood, we like to &#8220;open our front door&#8221; and spend some time with our neighbors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have an official &#8220;Let&#8217;s Spend Time with Our Neighbors&#8221; committee, but many at PUMC have created &#8220;ministries&#8221; which do just that.\u00a0 Our Sunday Worship Services and other ministries are always open to anyone, but sometimes we still just want to open up and just be part of our neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;Neighborhood Block Parties&#8221; are open to anyone (regardless of where you live!).\u00a0 Here are some of the events that we offer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Note:\u00a0 <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Use your browsers &#8220;back&#8221; button to return to this page&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Easter Egg Hunt<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>This is one of the highlights of the year.\u00a0 Sometime near Easter (March or April or wherever it falls), we open our building and grounds to kids of all ages for an Easter Egg Hunt.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to the eggs scattered over our lawn, we usually offer food and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an article about one of our Egg Hunts&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"pFOV81JL4Q\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=20834\">Tenth Annual Easter Egg Hunt is a Smash! (4\/20\/19)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Tenth Annual Easter Egg Hunt is a Smash! (4\/20\/19)&#8221; &#8212; pitmanumc.org\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=20834&#038;embed=true#?secret=oIrshI1syK#?secret=pFOV81JL4Q\" data-secret=\"pFOV81JL4Q\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Trunk or Treat<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>When October rolls around, we open up our parking lot to a display of cars and vans with trunks decorated with lights, candy, and any other crazy thing the participants dream up.\u00a0 We also open up our Fellowship Hall for some games and food.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a glimpse of a recent Trunk or Treat&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"luR6rE6RCw\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=22159\">Trunk or Treat is Sweet Inside and Outside! (10\/26\/19)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Trunk or Treat is Sweet Inside and Outside! (10\/26\/19)&#8221; &#8212; pitmanumc.org\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=22159&#038;embed=true#?secret=LyIsYIaQb8#?secret=luR6rE6RCw\" data-secret=\"luR6rE6RCw\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Christmas Marketplace<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Our annual Christmas Marketplace is an opportunity for local crafts people to display and sell their items.\u00a0 And, the proceeds go to help our Missions Projects.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the Christmas Marketplace&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-shadow'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"B03VdiDdea\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=19650\">Christmas Marketplace Provides Drinking Water (11\/10\/18)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Christmas Marketplace Provides Drinking Water (11\/10\/18)&#8221; &#8212; pitmanumc.org\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=19650&#038;embed=true#?secret=jcWefQXPXM#?secret=B03VdiDdea\" data-secret=\"B03VdiDdea\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Community Center&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In addition to the &#8220;fun&#8221; events for the family, we also open our doors for the community.\u00a0 Here are a few of the ways we&#8217;re offering our facilities to our neighbors:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Voting<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 Our Fellowship Hall is one of Pitman&#8217;s polling places.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Blood Drives<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 The American Red Cross holds blood drives in our Fellowship Hall<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Flu Shots:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Every Fall, Gloucester County holds a flu clinic in Fellowship Hall<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Support Groups<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 Several Support Groups meet in our building.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">? ? ?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>You never know what else someone might come up with.\u00a0 Keep in touch and come on out to our next &#8220;Neighborhood&#8221; event!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">+\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 +<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For posts on the events we&#8217;re currently planning, click the following News button:<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?cat=182' class='big-button bigblue'><span style=\"color: #000000;\">News<\/span><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our building is located at what&#8217;s been called the &#8220;Gateway to Pitman&#8221;; we&#8217;re right on the edge of town, and much of the traffic entering Pitman passes our building. \u00a0 Across the street is our favorite Heritages Dairy Store, and down the street is the Bright\u00a0Beginnings preschool and Total\u00a0Turf&#8230;..\u00a0 We&#8217;re surrounded by homes on streets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25703,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16374\/revisions\/25703"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}