Serving Our Community • Connected To The World
DeBows will use the impossible sermon series during Advent & Christmas. For complete details and schedule, please click HERE. Our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service will take place at 7:00 PM. Please note that there will be no worship service at DeBows on Christmas Day. A link to view a recorded Christmas service from conference will be posted once available.
DeBows is conducting two different mission activities during the holiday season.
Operation Christmas Child (Ends on November 20)
Gift Drive to support The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey (Ends on December 2)
Please click on the below links for more detailed information and how you can participate.
| Effective July 1, 2022, Rev. Scott Clifton has been appointed to be the pastor of DeBows UMC, in addition to his current church, Groveville UMC. As a lifelong United Methodist, Scott grew up serving in the church. He is a Drew University Master of Divinity graduate and a local pastor since 2017. In 2010, he began teaching public school and serving as a Youth Ministry for St. Andrew UMC and from there felt God was calling him to full time ministry. Scott has a servant heart and believes that when we let God’s love work through us, we can then share that love with others. Scott and his wife, Amanda have six children and love camping and the beach Also starting in July, Pastor Denise has been appointed to Jackson UMC and will also continue to serve Pleasant Grove UMC. We wish both Pastor Denise & Pastor Scott all the best as they begin the transition process. |
Friday, April 22nd is Earth Day. The first Earth Day was celebrated in America on this date in 1970 and is credited with raising awareness of environmental issues globally. Today, over 1 billion people in 196 countries observe Earth Day each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.
Being good stewards of God’s creation is also a social principle of the United Methodist Church, which in part states, “All creation is the Lord’s, and we are responsible for the ways in which we use and abuse it. Water, air, soil, minerals, energy resources, plants, animal life, and space are to be valued and conserved because they are God’s creation and not solely because they are useful to human beings.”
Earth Day serves as a good reminder that we need to be environmentally responsible all year long.
