Feeding Team Pantry
Our Yellow Feeding Team Box is being used a great deal. Take what you need and give what you can. Please help us keep the box stocked and provide non-perishable items for our community. Donate canned goods, canned fruit, boxed mac & cheese, small jars of peanut butter, jelly, spaghetti sauce, pasta, and baby food. Simply draw a line through the UPC code and place the items in the box. Thank you!
Prayer School
Friday, September 11, 7:00 – 8:30 PM & Saturday, September 12, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Do you feel comfortable and confident when it comes to prayer? Do you enjoy praying? Do you understand why, as Christians, we pray? Have you experienced the transformative effect of prayer?
Prayer School, a video course, gives you the opportunity to learn and actively engage in the prayer liturgy that pastor and author Brian Zahnd has developed during a lifetime of pastoral ministry. Prayer School will help you gain a fresh perspective on the purpose of prayer and will provide you with a sustainable framework for personal prayer.
Please register below to join us on September 11 and 12 as we learn together from Brian Zahnd.
Serve at Soup’s On Ministry
Sunday, September 13 | Roberts Park UMC
Our next opportunity to help serve a meal at the Soup’s On Ministry at Roberts Park UMC is September 13. We need people to serve and clean up the meal. Fruits, veggies, and homemade desserts are also needed. Click the button below to see all the ways to serve. supply items will be greatly appreciated. Visit crestview.ltschools.org/ and skilestest.ltschools.org/ and scroll down to “Supply List.” Please drop off supplies in the tubs located in the church Narthex or inside Door 12 at the church office by August 23.
New Worship Series: Good and Beautiful and Kind
Begins September 27
We live in a world that is, sadly, broken, fractured, divided, ruptured. Yet, we know that’s not how things are supposed to be, or were created to be. Additionally, as followers of Jesus, we understand that we have a role to play in God’s restoration of this world. This will require us to be healthy and whole ourselves.
Thankfully, God is already at work in each of us. In our final series for our year of Joy & Justice, we’re going to go through the book Good And Beautiful And Kind: Becoming Whole in a Fractured World, by pastor and author Rich Villodas. We’re going to learn how to cooperate and collaborate with God in the renovating work of the Spirit within us, and how to participate with God in the ongoing renewal of this world beyond us.
This series will start on September 27, in worship services and table groups, and take us to the beginning of Advent. Books will be on sale beginning September 13 for $10. As a reminder, if you’re not in a Table Group, the start of a new series is always a good time to check one out, as we learn, discuss, and grow together.
Habitat for Humanity Multifaith Build
Saturday, October 17 | 2 Shift Options: 8:30 – 11:30 am or 10:30 am -1:30 pm | Second Presbyterian Church
For years, we have worked alongside the faith community of Greater Indianapolis to embody the power of unity in diversity with the hope of further enriching our neighborhoods. The Habitat for Humanity Multi-faith Build aims to put faith and love into action to make them real, to make them come alive for people. Join fellow churches, mosques, and synagogues, investing in affordable homeownership in our community.
To sign up, click the blue button below and enter Castleton United Methodist Church as your Faith Group.
Guns to Gardens
Saturday, September 19 | 10:00 AM -12:00 PM | Allisonville Christian Church (7701 Allisonville Rd.)
Allisonville Christian Church is hosting Indianapolis’s first Guns to Gardens event, a program that gives firearms a second life as garden tools instead of weapons.
Guns to Gardens is a nationwide, faith-rooted initiative offering a safe way to surrender unwanted firearms. Once a professional confirms a weapon is unloaded, it’s dismantled on-site, and a blacksmith forges the metal into gardening tools. Those who’d rather not have their firearm repurposed can opt to have it destroyed or turned into art instead.
Please share this information with gun-owning friends and family. Find details from Allisonville Christian Church at the button below.
Save the Date & Special Announcements
- What If Jesus Was Serious About Justice | Current Worship Theme | Find study guides HERE
- Still Waters Adult Day Center Fall Mum Sale | Order HERE by September 25
- Castleton UMC Art & Craft Fair | Saturday, October 3
- Blood Drive | Sunday, October 4 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Sign up HERE
- Big Family Dinner | Sunday, October 4 | 5:00 PM | Pastor Matt speaking
- Annual Charge Conference | Wednesday, November 4 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM | Southport UMC (1947 E. Southport Road, Indianapolis)