The Service and Mission Team is a multi-generational network of service-minded individuals (~50 people in total) that provide communal options for, and service to, NUMC members and community members who have unmet needs for landscaping, gardening, cleaning, building, repairing, and similar work involving some manual labor or physicality.

Meeting held on an as needed basis, In-person only at the job site

Contact Bruce Yost or Pat Hammond at bbryost3@gmail.com/302-528-7775 or pathamm809@comcast.net/302-593-0643 for more info.

NUMC offers weekly small gropus modeled as a re-traditioning of the early Methodist “band” meetings initiated by John Wesley. These are called Covenant Discipleship (CD) groups. Groups of between four and seven craft their own aspirational covenant document, which includes acts of compassion, justice, worship, and devotion. Each CD group meets for one hour each week to engage with one another, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, in sharing how each member has attended to these four acts. Also available is a one-on-one mentoring relationship with a UMC Discipleship Ministries-certified coach. During flexible regular sessions, a discipleship coach will help the one who is being coached 1) identify ways in which that person can grow through specific actions, then 2) set a plan for follow-through, and 3) report back and discuss during the subsequent session. This method is meant to help individuals identify and implement their own unique discipleship-growth pathway and become intentional in living it out.

Meets quaterly, Zoom only

Contact Catherine Rounsley-Maxwell or Mark Deshon at crounsleymaxwell@gmial.com/610-742-7106 or deschon@udel.edu/302-373-9593 for more info.

The Worship Team’s mission is to assist in implementing plans for worship services and other services as requested, in support and collaboration with the Senior Pastor and other staff (music, Christian Ed, etc.). Subteams include: Acolytes/Crucifers, Altar Guild, Communion Stewards, Liturgists, Music, Ushers, Visual/Creative. Membership also includes a (lay) representative for 8am and 11am services as well as representatives of the Christian Education and Lay Leaders teams.

Meets monthly, as well as two half-day retreats in preperation for Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter, Zoom and/or In-person

Contact Lysbet Murray or Darrel Sparks at lysbetj@gmail.com/302-983-9390 or dcsparks14@comcast.net/302-383-3499 for more info.

We are a group of women who want to foster friendships with other women of faith in our church by meeting monthly and sharing a meal every other month at a different time. We also work with Outreach to organize collections (hygiene items, school supplies) to help others in the community and with other Church Ministries as we are able and available.

Meets first Wednesday of the month, shared meals vary in time as determined by the group, Meetings are Zoom only, meals are in-person at the chosen restaurant

Contact Charlotte Hanna at hannacharlotte798@gmail.com or 302-893-0963 for more info.

Volunteers needed to serve the homeless community with emergency shelter and meals when the temperature or wind chill is predicted to be 20 degrees or below. Shelter is provided at the church. Volunteers are needed for shift times between 4:30pm to 6am. Shifts consist of 2 church volunteers per shift and shifts can range from 2 to 3 hours.

Meetings as determined by the weather, In-person only

Contact Nancy Bransfield at nmbransfield@comcast.net or 302-521-1875 for more info.

Outreach supports, donates to, and coordinates with other team mission efforts. Some include food, timen and financial support to Hope Dining Room, Newark Empowerment Center, Go-Bags, NAWC Food Cupboard, and school uniforms/gift cards for students. We donate each year to causes and places on our budget list. We sponsor the 6 Special Giving Sundays throughout the year, provide Upper Room magazine and the Home Touch weekly/monthly letters for our homebound members, and send cards to homebound 4-5 times through the year. Many of our activities coordinate with work of other teams such as Sally’s Friends (formerly UMW/UWF), with the collection/distribution of health items and school supplies, as well as the Environmental Justice Team’s collection of old shoes, socks, plastics to save from landfill, and Bags2Mats saves plastic bags that are transformed into mats for the homeless, giving protection from the cold/wet ground. Each December we sponsor the Angel Tree program, and the Youth Sunday School helps us to erect the Mitten Tree. We sponsor the Lenten Offering effort each year. We also maintain 2 bulletin boards, one with information about our various missions and another outside the office with emergency information and an available up-to-date list of area Food Cupboards (English/Spanish).

Meets the second Monday of the month at 7pm, Zoom and/or In-person

Contact Peter Schmalz at schmalzpb@gmail.com or 484-883-8902 for more info.

The Trustees supervise and maintain all property belonging to the congregation so that the ministries of the congregation can be effective. The Trustees together have several basic legal and administrative functions. They oversee, maintain, and supervise all local church property and the operations of the building and grounds, manage the design and construction of property improvement capital projects, maintain the building upkeep and custodial practices, receive and administer all gifts made to the congregation making certain that all endowment funds of the congregation are invested properly, maintain building information technology systems, and are responsible, in conjunction with the pastor, for all use of the church buildings and grounds.

Meets the second Monday of the month at 7pm, Zoom and/or In-person