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Weather Update: Worship Online This Sunday (January 25)

Due to the weather, all in-person worship services and Sunday activities are canceled this Sunday, January 25, 2025, the Third Sunday after Epiphany.

We will record a worship service and share it online at 10:00 AM, and we invite you to join us from the comfort and safety of home via YouTube or our Facebook page.

Pastor Bruce Johnson will preach on “The Fabric of Our Unity,” offering a message of hope and connection as we worship together—apart, yet united.

If you are able, we invite you to continue supporting the ministry of Pender through online giving at penderumc.org or by mailing your offering. Most importantly, please take care of yourself and one another.

Stay safe, stay warm, and know that you are held in prayer.
We look forward to worshiping together online this Sunday.


“The Fabric of Our Unity”,
January 25, 2026 at 10 am
Online Only

Due to inclement weather, we invite you to join us online for worship this Sunday as Pastor Bruce Johnson preaches “The Fabric of Our Unity.”

In this timely message, we will reflect on how God calls us together—even when we are physically apart—and how faith, grace, and love weave us into one community in Christ. Scripture reminds us that unity is not about sameness, but about being bound together by God’s purpose and call.

Scriptures:
1 Corinthians 1:10–18
Matthew 4:12–23

Though weather may keep us at home, we remain connected through worship, prayer, and the Word. Join us online as we gather virtually to seek God’s guidance and celebrate the unity we share as the body of Christ.

Watch live online and participate from wherever you are—warm, safe, and together in spirit.

 
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Baptism

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Chuck Knows Church — Baptism. What is the meaning of the sacrament of baptism? What’s best: sprinkled, dunked or poured? Chuck will explain a little about this important ancient act and perhaps have a surprise along the way.

 

 
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Posted by on January 11, 2026 in Chuck Knows Church, Videos

 

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The Baptismal Font

Next time you’re at Pender, see if you can spot the baptismal font. Know anything about it, other than there’s water in there?

Chuck will explain a little about this important piece of church furniture.

 
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Posted by on January 11, 2026 in Chuck Knows Church, Videos

 

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Epiphany ~ Chuck Knows Church

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One of the least understood Christian days of the year. Chuck provides some insight while having an epiphany of his own.

 
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Posted by on January 4, 2026 in Christmas, Holidays, Posts of Interest, Videos

 

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Christmas Music, Part 24 – O Holy Night

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At Pender’s Holiday Concert 2022, Adolphe Adam’s “Oh Holy Night” was performed by Corinne Delaney, Soprano and Liz Eunji Moon on piano.

 

“O Holy Night” (“Cantique de Noël”) is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem “Minuit, chrétiens” (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808–1877).

Cappeau, a wine merchant and poet, had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem. Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight, editor of Dwight’s Journal of Music, created a singing edition based on Cappeau’s French text in 1855.

In both the French original and in the two familiar English versions of the carol, the text reflects on the birth of Jesus and of mankind’s redemption.
O Holy Night

O Holy Night sung by Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo

 

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