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Summer Celebration

Mark your calendars for this year’s Churchwide Summer Celebration on August 11 after worship. Dessert bar, bounce houses, music and games. Bring money for the food trucks! This free event will be fun for all ages.

Night to Shine/Three B’s Fundraiser

Grab a flyer from the Welcome Center and make plans for lunch or dinner at Three B’s Bar & Bistro (314 NJ 70, Lakehurst, NJ) on August 19th. A percentage of each meal will be donated to support PCTR’s 2025 Night to Shine, a prom for Special Needs Students 14 yrs and up sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation. This is the first of three upcoming opportunities to dine well and raise funds for Night to Shine! Keep your eyes out for future dates at other eateries.

Contemplative Prayer Experience

How can contemplative prayer help you connect more fully to full life in Jesus Christ? Join us on August 19 at 7 pm to find out. We’ll explore what contemplative prayer looks like and how it can help you deepen your relationship with God, Scripture, each other and life in faith.

Handbells 101

Want to learn to make beautiful music with handbells? Learn at Handbells 101 on 8/22 at 7:00 pm. We'll have some fun learning the basics and trying our hand at a few simple songs.

Summer Book Club!

Join us for a Summer Book Club! We’ll meet meeting on August 25th to discuss “Raised” by Margaret J Cotton as told by Charlie and Flori Mada. This book is a modern Lazarus account of the cascade of divine interventions that bring a family of non-believers to the foot of the cross. We'll be sharing lunch and a conversation a Facetime visit with the Mada family. Click the button to register or swing by the Welcome Center to let us know you'll be coming.

Family Fun Night

Let’s kick off the new season & school year with an evening of food & fun at Family Fun Night on Sept 6 at 6 pm! Grab yourself a walking taco, play games with us, try some hands-on science experiments, and check out a couple of live science demos (at 6:30 and 7:30pm.) Bring a gently used kid’s book for a book exchange - add yours to the pile and take a new one home with you! Bring the whole family for this special kick-off event!

Group in Groups

We have small groups meeting every day of the week and they’re all about to kick-off their fall studies! Stop by the table and talk to our Adult Discipleship team in the Welcome Center after worship to a group you can grow in or visit Register here for more information.

Fall Kick-off Weekend!

The countdown to autumn is on and we’re getting ready for a new year of groups and activities. Join us the weekend of Sept 7 & 8 for Kick-Off Weekend and a chance to learn more about what’s coming up. Kids & students, wear your team jersey, uniform, or school shirt! We’ll take a moment during the service to pray for you in this new school year.

PW Kick-off

Presbyterian Women is kicking off a new year and a new study! Join us for PW's Fall Kick-off on September 8 from 2 - 4:30 pm. We'll enjoy some refreshments and a chance to catch up, then explore this year’s study on “Generous Justice.” All women are welcome! Childcare is available for children aged 3 years to 5th grade. RSVP by emailing [email protected] or here: Kick-Off (Click the headline PW Kick-off to reach the full listing and registration link) $5 donation at the door to defer the cost of lunch.

Grief Share

As we try to navigate life after the death of a loved one, we can feel isolated and alone. This is the space Grief Share steps into. This weekly group offers support to people grieving the death of a loved one. It’s a place where you can be around others who understand the pain of your loss and how you feel as you come to terms with it.

Next Gen Student Kick-off

Next Gen Students (grades 6-12), let’s kick this new school year off with a bash! Climb inside a human-sized soccer ball and let’s race! Bring your friends and let’s get this new school year off to a great start! We’ll “get the ball rolling” on September 12 at 5:00 pm.

Special Needs Ministry Teen/Young Adult Group

Growing in groups is core to who we are and that includes our friends with special needs and their families. On the second Friday of each month, teens and young adults with special needs and disabilities gather for an evening of pizza, fun, and friendship.

Monday Night Groups

Our Monday Night Groups are getting started this week, 9/16 at 6:30 pm! We’ll gather for snacks and coffee as one large groups and then break down into several smaller groups for discussion around a variety of topics. Join us this week to learn more and get started!

Kid Min Tuesday Returns!

View Event We pack a bunch into Tuesday afternoons with our elementary-aged friends. We start with time to play together, then we get into smaller groups to talk with our friends and leaders about Jesus. And of course, there’s snack time, too!

Veteran’s Ministry BBQ

If you served in any branch of the US Military, this one’s for you! Bring a friend. Bring your family. We’re going to have a BBQ complete with burgers, hot dogs, live music, and games (cornhole, anyone?).

The Fred Moyer Jazz Trio

Our Ocean Classic Concert Series will kick off the 2024-2025 season on September 22. The Fred Moyer Jazz Trio will perform standards from the Great American Songbook. It’s a great opportunity to invite friends and family to something at the church!

Book Discussion Group

We’ve picked out some great titles for this year’s Book Discussion Group! Bring a lunch and join us to talk over our first book, The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray.

Hospitality Team

We are striving to make sure every person who joins us for worship feels the warmth of God’s love for them through us. To facilitate a warm and welcoming place each weekend, our hospitality team has a variety of roles that will need to be filled and your smiling face may be just the right one to fill some of them! Stop by the Welcome Center for details. There will be a training for new volunteers on October 9 at 7 pm.

Special Needs Ministry Volunteers

Can you be a friend? We’re looking for volunteer buddies to help at Champions Club and our Special Needs Teen/Young Adult Group. You can serve weekly, once a month, or as you’re available. Champion’s Club, a small study group for individuals with special needs meets on Saturdays during our 5 pm worship. The Young Adult Group meets the 2nd Friday of each month. See Lori Tomenchok for more info or to volunteer.

Jobs @ PCTR

Our mission is to connect people to full life in Jesus Christ. That mission guides everything we do and it takes a strong team of volunteers and staff to make it happen. We currently have two staff positions open - Director of Children's Ministry and Nursery Childcare Attendant. If you have the skills and a calling to serve God in this community in this way, we encourage you to review the information at pctr.org/jobsatpctr and then submit your resume to [email protected]. (Click on the image to open a window with active links)

Generous Justice Small Groups

What does it look like to live a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace: a generous, gracious justice? This fall, we’re going to explore that topic together. Stop by the Welcome Center to pick up your copy of Timothy Keller’s book “Generous Justice” ($15/book) and sign-up for one of our small groups to discuss the sermon series and the book. Groups will meet Sundays at 10:30 am, Mondays at 6:30 pm, Friday’s at 10 am, Fridays at 6:30 pm (Family Small Group), and Saturday at 10 am (Family Small Group).

New Member First Gathering

Curious about what it means to be a member of PCTR? Find out at our next cycle of new member classes. At the end of this 3 part class, you’ll have the opportunity to join the church as a member. Sessions will take place October 12, October 19, and October 26. (Dinner provided) Click the image or headline for more details and a link to register.

One to One Volunteers

One to One is a friendship ministry intended to share the love of Jesus with those in our congregation who are unable to attend worship and activities at the church and, as such, may be feeling isolated, out of touch, and undervalued. Volunteers will be paired with a care recipient and will “visit” by phone or in person once a week or once every other week. Stop by the Welcome Center for more information or to volunteer.

Eat Well. Raise Funds.

Grab a meal at The Four Seasons Diner on October 23 & a percentage of each meal will be donated to support PCTR’s 2025 Night to Shine, a prom for Special Needs Students 14 yrs and up sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation.

Coat Drive

The leaves are changing color and the weather is getting cooler. That means it’s time to clean out your closets ahead of winter! Gather those gently used warm coats that you’re no longer using and donate them to our Coat Drive on October 26 and 27. Donated coats will be given to our neighbors in need through the Hope Center’s Gifts of Warmth distribution the following week.

Gifts of Warmth

The Hope Center will be distributing coats, hats, gloves, and scarves to our neighbors in need on November 2nd. Volunteers are invited to pitch in and help them with organizing the items to be given away, as well as to serve the day of the event. Interested? Contact Ashlee at [email protected] or call the Hope Center at 732-341-4447.

Kids’ Choir

Kids grades K - 5th, come sing with us! We’ll be rehearsing November 3-17 and December 8-22. Then we’ll share our songs in worship on November 24 at our combined 10 am service and December 24 at our 4 pm Family Worship. Grab a postcard at Church School or the Welcome Center with time and details.

Veteran’s Breakfast

If you served in any branch of the US Military, this one’s for you! Join us for our Veterans Breakfast on November 9, 9 am - 12 pm. Grab a postcard invite (or two or three) in the Welcome Center to share with a friend!

Surviving the Holidays (Grief Share)

No matter how long it has been since your loved one(s) died, grief can make the holidays a painful time. Surviving the Holidays is a special Grief Share seminar that will help you get through the holidays and discover new reasons to enjoy them again. Join us on November 9 at 10 am for this one session event. Grab a postcard invite from the Welcome Center to share with someone else who may benefit from this gathering.

Book Discussion Group

We’ve picked out some great titles for this year’s Book Discussion Group! Bring a lunch and join us to talk over our next book, Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger.

Pop The Trunk Volunteers

Every Friday morning we host “Pop the Trunk,” a drive-through FulFill food bank. On November 22, Pop the Trunk will be giving away nearly 1,000 turkeys and other components of a Thanksgiving meal! Volunteers are needed to help pack and distribute! Join us in the parking lot on 11/22 (or any other Friday!) at 7:30 am to help sort food and distribute bags. Bring warm gloves (those frozen turkeys can make your hands cold!).

Celebrating Freedom! Worship & Lunch

We are now confident that our mortgage debt will be paid IN FULL by Thanksgiving and we want to celebrate with you the way God’s been at work in our midst across the Freedom campaign. Join us on November 24 at 10 am for worship to celebrate FREEDOM with great joy and gratitude. Stay for a delicious catered lunch and continued festivities! (Please note, there is only one worship service this weekend.)

Human Trafficking Awareness Session

Did you know in 2023, the National Human Trafficking Hotline identified 170 cases of human trafficking in New Jersey, the highest total since 2019. Join us on November 25 at 6:30 pm for presentation from NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking to learn more about this growing problem in our state. This is part of our Deacons efforts to better understand the problem and consider how God may be calling us to serve those at risk.

Contemplative Prayer

How can contemplative prayer help you connect more fully to full life in Jesus Christ? Join us on November 25 at 7 pm to find out. We’ll explore what contemplative prayer looks like and how it can help you deepen your relationship with God, Scripture, each other and life in faith.

Christmas Food Drive

We want to help our friends at the Hope Center ensure families in our community can celebrate Christmas with a delicious meal. We'll are collecting non-perishable food items in support of their holiday meal give away on December 18, Please pick up a list of specific items needed in the Welcome Center. Donations can be brought to the cart in the Welcome Center anytime between November 16 and December 1. * Canned sweet potatoes * Cranberry sauce * Boxed instant mashed potatoes * Stuffing & stuffing Mix * Canned fruit * Canned vegetables * Jars...

Angel Choir

Women / Treble Voices in 4th grade and up, come make a joyful (Christmas!) noise with us! Our "Angel Choir" will be singing at the 8pm Christmas Eve (12/24) worship service and we'd love to you have sing with us. Rehearsals will be on Sundays (10:50 - 11:10 am)  and Thursdays (6:25 - 6:45 pm) throughout December - come to one (or both) each week starting December 1. There's no audition or experience needed - just a desire to sing with joy for Christ's birth! Questions?  Please contact Karin Gargone at [email protected]

Confirmation Orientation

We invite prospective parents and students (8th grade and older) to join us for lunch and a mandatory Confirmation Orientation on December 1 at 12 pm as we unpack the vision for the 2025 confirmation experience and spend some time answering the question, “What is Confirmation?”  Got questions or want to RSVP? Contact Kevin at [email protected] or call the office at 732-349-1331. 

Eat Well. Raise Funds

Grab a meal at Outback Steakhouse (2770 Hooper Ave, Brick) on December 4 & 5 and a percentage of each meal will be donated to support PCTR’s 2025 Night to Shine. Night to Shine is a prom for Special Needs Students 14 yrs and up sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation. Funds raised will support the Presbyterian Church of Toms River’s event celebrating our special guests and their families on 2/7/25!

PW Christmas Tea

Presbyterian Women’s Christmas Tea is a great way to kick-off the season with lunch, tea, and dessert. All women are welcome to attend. A $10 suggested donation will be accepted at the door to defer the cost of the meal. RSVP to [email protected].

Parent’s Night Out

Parents, kick off your holiday season with a few hours to yourselves. We've got a great night of fun planned for your kids (potty-trained 3 year olds through 5th grade.) We’ll share a pizza dinner and tons of fun with games and crafts! Help us make sure we have enough pizza & pre-register at pctr.org/parentsnight

Go & Serve: Hospitality Team

We want every person who joins us for worship to feel the warmth of God’s love for them through us. Our weekend hospitality team is a big part of making that happen - from greeters, to ushers, to Welcome Center hosts and parking lot attendants, our hospitality volunteers are an essential part creating a welcoming worship environment. We’re looking for some new, friendly faces to part of our team. Is that you? Stop by the Welcome Center for more info or call us in the office at 732-349-1331!