We would like to  invite the community to “COMPASSION Day Camp.”  This camp adventure will be held Monday-Friday, June 12 - 16, 8:30 a.m. until 11:30AM at NSUMC.  It is open to all children in preschool through fifth grade (ages 4-12).  The fee is $70 per child for the full week program.
 
Compassion Day Camp is a week-long program that will focus on developing compassion, empathy, and connection with the natural world. Through a combination of fun songs, games, crafts, activities, snacks, lessons, and reflection time, children will explore what living things need to survive, including shelter, food, water, air, and community. They will also learn how to become co-sustainers and participants in the work of God's creation. This program will help children develop important skills like gratitude, wonderment, and reciprocity. 
 
In today’s fast-paced, overstimulating world, it can be hard for children to connect with the world around them and develop empathy. The goal of Compassion Camp is to teach children to be understanding, empathetic, and loving towards one another and their environment.
 
Additionally, NSUMC will celebrate the campers and their newly acquired skills during the 10AM worship service on Sunday, June 18th.  Campers will enjoy a special activity, see videos of their camping week and share the songs that they learned with the congregation. 
 
Contact the church office at 480-948-0529 or office@nsumc.com to request more information or register online <<<HERE>>>.
 
https://scottsdalecompassioncamp.com/

North Scottsdale United Methodist Church offers an amazing selection of   Holy Week  (April 2-9) experiences for all ages.  The activities span from children’s Egg Hunt to an Easter Art Walk.  NSUMC invites families to join in where they feel the spirit calling them.

Holy Week is preceded by a   Palm Sunday worship experience   as Pastor Christopher continues with the Lenten study of “In the Wilderness” @ 10:00am, April 2nd in the NSUMC sanctuary.
 
The Palm Sunday service is followed by an extravagant   Bake Sale    hosted by the United Women in Faith ministry. A delectable selection of cakes, pies, cookies, even canned jams, pickles and soups!  Start shopping for your family’s Easter brunch! 10-11:30am April 2nd in the NSUMC Fellowship Hall.
 
Guests are invited to   Journey through Easter  with an Art Walk that includes scripture, paintings and settings that help you meditate through the stories of Jesus’ last week. Open to the public daily, April 2-9, 10-11:00am in the NSUMC Fellowship Hall.
 
NSUMC continues the Lenten experience with a  Maundy Thursday service. The heaviness of this day moves us into the wilderness and the Spirit of journey brings us closer to Easter Sunday. In this journey, we are reminded of the boundlessness and boldness of the Spirit. April 6th @ 7:00pm in the NSUMC sanctuary.
 
NSUMC will visit our sister church,   Paradise Valley UMC for our Good Friday Experience. This service will  NOT  be held on our campus. April 7th @ 7:00pm @ PVUMC.
 
Easter morning will be heralded in at the break of dawn with our Sunrise Jazz Worship Experience on the NSUMC patio @ 6:30am.  A Jazz quartet, pianist and the lead pastor will orchestrate a resurrection experience outside in the freshness of this welcomed morning.
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The sunrise service will be followed by a   Pancake Breakfast    by the NSUMC youth group as a fundraiser for their United Methodist conference in Florida this summer.  Support their ministry in the Fellowship hall 8-10:00am Easter Sunday and fill your tummies.
 
The Easter Sunday Celebration will conclude with a brass band and timpani as they set the stage for NSUMC’s traditional   Easter Sunday Service.   The service will include scripture, sermon experience and the amazing voices of the Chancel choir. Worship will begin @ 10:00am in the NSUMC sanctuary.
 
An  Easter Egg Hunt  will be offered during the 10:00am service for children (ages 3-12 years old) in the in the Fellowship Hall. This activity will include scripture and an egg hunt.
 
All events are open to the public. The services are offered in-person and online.

The Easter Season is the most joyous and celebrative season of the Christian year. We celebrate the good news that in Christ’s death and resurrection we, and all creation, are continually being made new by God’s love and saving grace.   

We pray that Lent brings you to  the grace found in the cross!
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 We invite the community to come prepare for the Lenten season at our 2023   Mardi Gras Jazz Luncheon and Lenten Reflection on Sunday, February 19th, 11:00 am – 12 30 pm located at the church, 11735 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ, 85254. This event is free to the public.
 
As attendees enter the Mardi Gras Jazz Luncheon & Lenten Reflection, they will be welcomed by a jazz band quartet.  The attendees will begin the Lenten Reflection by literally donning a mask.  This mask will represent the figurative mask that people wear. Lead pastor, the Rev. Christopher Wurpts, will offer up a Lenten Reflection that will suggest that everyone take off their masks.  These are the figurative masks of self-deception, self-control, as well as the literal masks people are wearing. The reflective prayer will ask people to lay down the things that keep them from connecting to God.
 
After the opening reflection the attendees will enjoy live jazz music and partake in a traditional New Orleans’s meal of homemade gumbo and Popeye’s chicken.  The meal will end with King’s cake, New Orleans style.
 
Lent is the period of 40 days which precedes Easter in the Christian calendar. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. By observing the 40 days of Lent Christians replicate Jesus Christ's sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days.

Come celebrate with pre-Lenten merriment!

​Isn’t the gratitude season is over?  Don’t we embrace the concept of gratitude in the last quarter of every year during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays?  It’s JANUARY for goodness sake and shouldn’t we be moving onto the all-dreaded resolutions?  2023 just began and we should be creating an elaborate mastermind schedule that includes resolutions to fix our personality quirks, lose weight, exercise more, focus on mental toughness or _______________ (you fill-in the blank).   Or does the resolution mindset just end up depressing us and basically setting us up for failure?
 
Could our spiritual approach for the entire 2023 year be on gratitude as an alternative to resolutions?  Our lead pastor at North Scottsdale UMC, the Rev. Christopher Wurpts, shared in his sermon series that “Gratitude gives us a perspective on the past and our future.  This view gives us more hope and optimism for our future.”  I personally would fully welcome hope and optimism in this post-COVID era. 
 
Rev. Wurpts suggested that we could consider adopting a gratitude mindset.  Focusing on the gifts we have received from God.  That is, how you see God working, providing and showing up in your life.  If we begin this New Year focusing on His gifts of love, kindness, faithfulness and forgiveness in us, then it would make it easier to offer that gratitude to others as well.
 
One of our members once shared that one of his daily prayers was to offer-up 10BEFORE10.  Basically he thanks God for ten things that he is grateful for before 10:00.  We asked him if that was 10:00am or 10:00pm and his reply was “God would be happy with either!”  Not only did that work in his life but current research also supports living with an “attitude of gratitude” for a healthy mindset.
 
Why not shake up your new year and ditch the resolutions and focus on gratitude.  I invite you to offer-up a 10BEFORE10 daily gratitude prayer for a healthier 2023.

North Scottsdale United Methodist Church  invites the community to have the option of three Christmas Eve worship services this year.  We are hosting a family service at 5:00pm, a candle light service at 7:00pm and communion service at 11:00pm.  NSUMC will all host a Christmas morning service @ 10AM. All are free and open to the public.
 
The first service is family friendly and will begin at 5:00pm.  It offers the birth of the Christ child scripture reading and Christmas carols. All children will receive  glow sticks and Christmas goodie bags.
 
The second service will begin at 7:00pm.  This worship service follows the traditional Methodist liturgy and offers Christmas hymns, scripture and sermon.  It will feature the NSUMC adult Chancel choir.  This service will end with the darkening of the sanctuary and the lighting of candles by all attendees.
 
The last service of Christmas Eve will begin at 11:00pm.  The pastors will offer communion.  It also includes the traditional liturgy with scripture, instrumental accompaniment and sermon. This service will end with the darkening of the sanctuary and the lighting of candles by all attendees.

But wait that's not it! If you can break your  littles away  from their gifts, you are invited to our 10AM Christmas Day Service.   It will be a family friendly service and all children will remain in the sanctuary for the entire service (Sunday school will not be offered).

You are invited  to  experience Christmas  with the NSUMC community!

North Scottsdale United Methodist Church invites the community to a “Christmas Ornaments,Caroling & Hot Cocoa” Event on Sunday, Dec. 4th at 11:00AM (following the 10:00AM service).   The event will host the music of NSUMC Christmas carolers while attendees design their personal Christmas Ornaments and sip hot cocoa.  This event is FREE and open to the public.

NSUMC artist-in-residence; Janet Flournoy, will share her skills and artistic direction in assisting families in creating nativity silhouette make-&-take" ornaments for their Christmas tree.   Some of the materials that will be supplied include: clear ornaments, decals, labels,   glitter, poly-foam snow and pearls to help make each ornament into your family's Christmas 2022 ornament masterpiece!

NSUMC Chancel choir members, UWF ladies and children will lead attendees in traditional Christmas songs as folks design their holiday ornaments.    Some of the  seasonal favorites will include: Jingle Bells  and Silent Night by our children and youth,  Winter Wonderland  by our  Adult Chancel choir and  Santa Claus is Coming to Town  by our United  Women in Faith.
 
While attendees are creating an ornament for their tree and singing carols, NSUMC will also be hosting a Hot Cocoa Bar.  The bar will include hot cocoa, marshmallows, peppermint sticks, whipped cream and Christmas cookies. To add a twist NSUMC will have “To-Go” hot cocoa and holiday cards for everyone to take home and share with friends and family.  NSUMC is offering a fun way to share the holiday cheer!
 
The four weeks prior to Christmas is the season of Advent, a time when people prepare for the coming of the Christ child.  NSUMC would like to help you and your family prepare for the season by providing art elements to inspire creativity to help decorate the bough of your 2022 Christmas evergreen!  This is a perfect time for families to join in on the excitement of the season.  NSUMC will supply all of the crafting necessities and BONUS parents will enjoy that the mess will be left at church not on their kitchen floor! 

NSUMC invites you to craft, carol, sip cocoa and  share the spirit of Advent!

North Scottsdale United Methodist Church invites the community to the “Giving Plate & Pie Make & Take” event on Sunday, November 13th at 11:00AM.  NSUMC would like to help families prepare for the giving season with a “Giving Plate.”  The ceramic plates and materials will be supplied to assist folks in making a Giving Plate.   Home baked cookies will also be available and can be added to the plate before it leaves as a gift!  Families that attend can create a design on their own plate with the assistance of our Artist-in-Residence, Janet Flournoy, or use their personal creativity to make the design. This event is FREE and open to the public   

The month of November reminds us that we are in a season of gratitude.  We all have someone to be grateful for and NSUMC would like to offer a helping hand in giving a gift from the heart.  The concept behind the Giving Plate, is that you create it, and fill it with seasonal goodies.  Then gift this full plate to someone that you are grateful for.  The only thing you ask in return is that they fill it and gift it to someone that made them smile.  The Giving Plate ends up being a gift that keeps giving and keeps delighting others throughout the season.

The NSUMC will be also serving a wide selection of pies to accompany this artistic event. .

We would be grateful if you would  join in on the creativity and gifting!

Join NSUMC for a Chili Cook-Off with a pumpkin decorating craftivity on October 23rd at 11:00am following the 10:00am worship service.  The event is open to the public. Free chili taste testing and pumpkins!
 
We have invited amateur chili chefs to create their masterpieces for a friendly competition of taste testing.  All in attendance will have the opportunity to taste test the chili delicacies that come through those fellowship hall doors. The winner will claim bragging rights for 365 days and a special Chili Cook-Off trophy!
 
While friends and families devour the chili, NSUMC will also hand-out pumpkins and crafting items so families can decorate their pumpkin for the autumn holidays. 
 
Your taste buds, crafting skills and friendly conversations are invited to help welcome the season of autumn! 

We would be honored if  you would bring your family !