Community United Methodist Church of Chestertown
A small church doing big things.
11 Church St. Chestertown, NY 12817
Worship Service – Sundays @ 11 am
We would love to have you join us.
We serve communion on the first Sunday of each month. Sunday, May 4 is our next communion service to be followed by a free community lunch. All are welcome to join.
On Communion Sundays we collect food and monetary donations for the Chestertown Food Pantry. Click on the button below for more information.
Community Lunch
Sunday, May 4
12 noon in Fellowship Hall
All are welcome at this free event. No need to bring food. You may bring a dish to share if you’d like or bring just yourself and your loved ones. Our goal is to being members of our community together in joy and love.
Bible Sharing
Wednesdays
in May and June
10 am – 11 am
. . devote yourself to the public reading of scripture . . . 1 Timothy 4:13
Join us in fellowship hall of the church for a relaxed time chatting about favored Bible verses. This is not a Bible study. What verses speak to you? Choose a Bible passage special to you and share with our group. All are welcome.
Bible Collection
We collect new and gently used Bibles to donate to Bible Believers Fellowship. This is a prison ministry that distributes Bibles to inmates. Do you have a special Bible you are no longer using? Feel free to drop it in our donation box in our Fellowship Hall.
Covenant Discipleship Group
You then, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus . . . 2 Timothy 2:1-2
Go back in time and take a look at John Wesley’s Class Meetings. Members met once a week to hold themselves accountable to the principles of holy living and growing as a disciple of Jesus Christ. Currently, members of UMC Chestertown are starting to form a local Covenant Discipleship Group. We will create a covenant to hold ourselves accountable to acts of compassion, justice, worship, and devotion. Consider joining our group and revisit an important method John Wesley used to strengthen discipleship.
Interested? Send an email to our church office to learn more or join a Covenant Discipleship Groups. office@chestertownumc.org
Strawberry Festival
Saturday, July 5
9 am – 2 pm
New Plaques for our Church Building
157 years old
The Historical Society of the Town of Chester wanted to do a project recognizing the older buildings in the villages of Chestertown and Pottersville. As a result it was decided that plaques would be given to the owners of buildings built before 1900. A list was made of those buildings; the owners were notified; and plaques were ordered for those who wanted them. The plaques were then given to the building owners.
The cross and flames, symbols of the Methodist tradition, were given to our church.
Drive around The Town of Chester. How many plaques showing off the older buildings can you find?
Building Projects
Check out the Share Center next to the church. Thank you to Lyle Penistan and Oxyoke Construction for replacing the roof.
Randy Miller from Miller’s Masonry & More in Chestertown, constructed a new chimney at the Share Center.
Ongoing World & Community Missions
Share Center
Saturdays
10 am – 2 pm
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7
An important mission of our church is running our Share Center, a place for people to donate items no longer needed and to find needed items for free. All people from the community are encouraged to come in and browse every Saturday between 10 am – 2 pm.
Living for Others
Tarime, Tanzania
Then Jesus told them this parable: Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? Luke 15:3-7
Pastor Anna from Tarime, Tanzania
Pastor Anna Migera Chacha has visited her friends at the Chestertown Church three times in the past ten years. Following God’s call in 2023, Anna has continued her ministerial journey and is now the pastor of Gamasara UMC in Tarime, Tanzania. Anna has created a new project called Living For Others under the established NGO Smiles of Hope to address the extreme poverty within the community at large. God is working through Pastor Anna to lead us all on a journey of faith in action as we support her work to touch lives with love and address basic needs of food, water, housing and education.
I’m alive. I’m healthy. I can see. I can go. -Anna Migera
Fresh water! Among the construction crew pictured above are Anna and some of her staff of Living for Others. They are celebrating a new well provided to them through donations.
Church Traditions
Friendship Garden
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 19:14
Everyone is welcome to enjoy our garden behind the church. Come and sit for awhile for prayer or meditation.
Community United Methodist Church of Chestertown is located at 11 Church Street, between State Rte 9 and Riverside Drive.
Methodist Church
We are part of the Adirondack District of the Upper New York Conference of the United Methodist Church. Click on the buttons below to learn more.