(Find your church home with us at Chebeague Island United Methodist Church. Join us on Sunday mornings for worship, or learn more about the ways you can connect with us. Read our most recent email newsletter, check out Pastor Melissa's most recent sermon, or find out what's going on in our church community!
For Pastor Melissa's response to the recent Special General Conference held in St. Louis on Feb 23rd - 26th, please read her pastoral letter to the Chebeague UMC community.
For information about CUMC's discernment process around our welcome statement and becoming a Reconciling Congregation, please read this letter from our Reconciling Congregation Team. For more about what becoming a Reconciling Congregation means, please read our FAQ.
Our proposed Welcome Statement (to be voted on May 26th, 2019):
You are welcome to this sacred space; our doors are always open. Join us as we at the Chebeague United Methodist Church embrace God’s gift of diversity and welcome people of every age, race, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation, socio-economic condition, family structure, and physical or mental ability into the full participation of this congregation. No matter who you are or where you are on your journey, you are loved and a child of God. Our passion for a wide welcome of all God's children moves us to continue to educate ourselves and others about issues in the wider church and world that seek to divide us, so that we might truly be a congregation with open minds, open hearts, and open doors.
Also to be voted on May 26th: to become a Reconciling Congregation. (Information about what that means is available in our FAQ or at www.rmnetwork.org.
All members and those who feel connected to the church community are encouraged to vote following worship on May 26th. Absentee ballots can be requested by writing the church office (chebeagueislandumc@gmail.com or at 258 North Road, Chebeague Island, ME 04017) and be returned to the office no later than May 25th to be counted.
For Pastor Melissa's response to the recent Special General Conference held in St. Louis on Feb 23rd - 26th, please read her pastoral letter to the Chebeague UMC community.
For information about CUMC's discernment process around our welcome statement and becoming a Reconciling Congregation, please read this letter from our Reconciling Congregation Team. For more about what becoming a Reconciling Congregation means, please read our FAQ.
Our proposed Welcome Statement (to be voted on May 26th, 2019):
You are welcome to this sacred space; our doors are always open. Join us as we at the Chebeague United Methodist Church embrace God’s gift of diversity and welcome people of every age, race, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation, socio-economic condition, family structure, and physical or mental ability into the full participation of this congregation. No matter who you are or where you are on your journey, you are loved and a child of God. Our passion for a wide welcome of all God's children moves us to continue to educate ourselves and others about issues in the wider church and world that seek to divide us, so that we might truly be a congregation with open minds, open hearts, and open doors.
Also to be voted on May 26th: to become a Reconciling Congregation. (Information about what that means is available in our FAQ or at www.rmnetwork.org.
All members and those who feel connected to the church community are encouraged to vote following worship on May 26th. Absentee ballots can be requested by writing the church office (chebeagueislandumc@gmail.com or at 258 North Road, Chebeague Island, ME 04017) and be returned to the office no later than May 25th to be counted.
