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Welcome to Crescentville UMC

412 Sentner Street, Philadelphia, PA 19120

Phone: 215-745-7115

email: crescentvilleumc@gmail.com

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We welcome you to

worship with us in our sanctuary.

 Sunday's 10:30 AM

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Our worship service is recorded and the video is available on Facebook, YouTube,

and our website by late Sunday afternoon.  

A Changing Church for Changing Times

We describe our congregation as a changing church for changing times.  We celebrate our multicultural, multi-generational Church family.

Our church family includes people from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Vincent Island, Romania, Pakistan, and Hungary,

as well as some who grew up in the Crescentville neighborhood and others who are new to the area.

Please know you are welcome to be a part of the change! We invite you to join with us as we seek God’s leading us to be a welcoming place in our community.

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Pastor Rev. Randy Brubaker

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS IN MINISTRY WITH US!

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Sunday, June 4th – Our current confirmation class will be confirmed during worship. 

                               We will have a potluck luncheon after worship.

Sunday, June 25th – This will be Pastor Randy’s last Sunday as our Pastor.  After worship a Retirement Party for Pastor Randy will be held at The Philadelphia Protestant Home.  

Sunday July 9th – Friday  July 14th - MUSIC & DRAMA CAMP “The Go Tour”

                                  Performances Friday July 14th and Sunday July 16th

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TO ORDER TICKETS PLEASE EMAIL

CRESCENTVILLEUMC@GMAIL.COM

YOU MUST INCLUDE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION

 SO WE CAN CONFIRM YOUR ORDER.

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                                                    Meet our future Pastor, Brendan Van Gorder

                                            Pastor Brendan prays for God to bring healing, liberation, and

                                       unity. He was born in Ireland, grew up near Harrisburg PA, and

                                       attended the University of Pennsylvania for his BA in Political

                                       Science and Princeton Theological Seminary for his

                                       Masters of Divinity.

                                                                Pastor Brendan has done ministry through chaplaincy at

                                       Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia and Bordentown Youth

Correctional Facility in New Jersey. He has also served as a pastoral minister at St. Paul's Baptist Church in North Philadelphia, and has gotten a ministry grant and helped run a youth program at Calvary United Methodist Church in Flint, Michigan, where his grandparents live. He enjoys building relationships with people and connecting communities. He plays guitar, saxophone, and loves to dance. He is married to Gina, a Philadelphia high school English teacher, and they have a beautiful daughter named Zoramya. He believes Luke 17:21 when it says that the kingdom of God is within us all.

     Pastor Brennan will begin his ministry with us on July 2nd. Please pray for our congregation as we move forward with joyful anticipation of these new beginnings.

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