Calvary Church, United Methodist

Members of the Calvary Youth Group and several Calvary families will be joining the Project Bread Walk For Hunger on Sunday, May 1. The 20 – mile course winds from Boston Common out through Newton and back along the Watertown and Cambridge side of the Charles River.  Last year at least 15 members of Calvary Church completed the full 20 mile course to raise money and awareness of hunger in Massachusetts.

If you would like to encourage the Team Calvary walkers and donate to this excellent cause, you can click here and donate directly on-line at the Team Calvary page. While you are at it, send a few prayers our way on Sunday morning.

On Friday April 22nd, all are invited to participate:

At 12 noon, we will join the Good Friday Service at St. John’s Church, 74 Pleasant St. Arlington.

And at 7 p.m. at Calvary, join us for a Service of Tenebrae (shadows) with dramatic readings from the passion Christ.

The children will be escorting Guapo the donkey down Mass. Ave., meeting at Calvary at 10 a.m.  Guapo the donkey will arrive at Calvary by 10:45.  At that time during the service, the congregation will be invited to go outside for a few minutes to greet him.

On Friday March 4 and Saturday March 5 our seven confirmation youth and their mentors will learn firsthand about the present situation of homelessness in Boston.

Friday evening at Calvary they will be briefed and oriented by Carl McDonald, director of Boston Urban Outreach, a youth program of the City Mission Society.  They will be joined for dinner by two guests from “Public Voices,” a program which introduces folks in the community to persons who at one time in their lives experienced homelessness.

Our youth will then spend the night at Calvary, heading to Boston Common for an early morning walk to give out sandwiches and have conversations with folks on the street.  They will be organized and led by another BUO staff person.  Mid-morning they will head to Pilgrim Church UCC in Dorchester to help prepare and serve the weekly community lunch – and will take turns eating with guests and chatting with them.  A debriefing session with BUO staff and Pilgrim Church hosts will follow, before the youth and mentors head back to Arlington at 3 p.m.

BUO will distribute to area programs whatever we can collect for them.  Donations of the following are still needed, and can be left (up to Friday March 4)  in the large cardboard donation box outside the church office:

• New white socks, all sizes
• Good used sweatshirts and hoodies
• Warm hats
• Travel-size toiletries
• Backpacks or tote bags

Thank you for your support, prayers and assistance in this endeavor!

Please join us on Christmas Eve as we celebrate Emmanuel, God with us, the birth of our Savior.

December 24 – 5:00 p.m.
Intergenerational Service of Lessons and Carols, featuring choral music and candlelight singing of “Silent Night.”  Childcare provided.

December 24 – 7:00 p.m.
Christmas Eve Vesper Service with Communion. Features quiet music of the season and candlelight singing of “Silent Night.”

The offering at both services will be donated to the United Methodist Committee on Relief for the relief efforts in Haiti. 100% of all donations goes directly to the needs of the Haitian people.

Sunday, October 24th was a wonderful day of worship and community at Calvary Church. It was a pleasure to welcome back Justin Hildebrandt as our guest preacher and a joy to visit with Ying and little Justin, too. The worship service featured beautiful music, with lovely vocal and instrumental pieces. The Calvary congregation responded generously to the invitation to offer their gifts and resources to the church in the coming year and we enjoyed a wonderful catered luncheon together.