CONNECTIONS UPUMC • Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, 11pm, December 24. • Christmas Morning Lessons and Carols, Rev. Dick Burden, 10am, December 25. • No children’s Sunday School on December 25 or January 1. • No Supper and Movie on Wednesday, December 27. • New Year’s Day Food and Games, Sunday, January 1, Noon, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Communion will be celebrated on Sunday, January 8.
THE LARGER CHURCH • Metro District Leadership Event, Saturday, January 21, 9am-3pm, Portland First UMC, 1838 SW Jefferson.
THE COMMUNITY • Portsmouth Neighborhood Association Forum, Tuesday, January 3, 7pm, Columbia Cottage.
FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR WEEKLY AT UPUMC • Choir practices Sundays at 9:30am, Tuesdays at 6:00pm, Sanctuary. • Men’s Group, Tuesdays, 10am, Narthex. • Alcoholics Anonymous, Narthex, Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays at 8pm, weekly. • Morrison Child and Family Center, Wednesdays, 4-6, weekly. • Supper and Movie, Joan of Arcadia episodes, Wednesdays, 6:30pm, weekly. • Overeaters Anonymous, Wednesdays at 7pm, Saturdays at 3pm.
THE NURSERY IS STAFFED DURING WORSHIP FOR CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN SCHOOL AGE. SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN ARE INVITED INTO THE SANCTUARY UNTIL THE PASSING OF THE PEACE; THEN THEY GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL.
CONNECTIONS UPUMC • Supper and Movie, Joan of Arcadia, Wednesday, December 21, 6:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Caroling and Cocoa, Thursday, December 22, 6pm. • Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, 11pm, December 24. • Christmas Morning Lessons and Carols, Rev. Dick Burden, 10am, December 25. • No children’s Sunday School on December 25 or January 1. • No Supper and Movie on Wednesday, December 27. • New Year’s Day Food and Games, Sunday, January 1, Noon, Errol Stephenson Hall.
THE LARGER CHURCH • Metro District Leadership Event, Saturday, January 21, 9am-3pm, Portland First UMC, 1838 SW Jefferson.
THE COMMUNITY • Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, Holiday Serenade, Sunday, December 18 at 2pm. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College. Call 503-226-2588 or www.pdxgmc.org for more information. • Portsmouth Neighborhood Association Forum, Tuesday, January 3, 7pm, Columbia Cottage.
FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR WEEKLY AT UPUMC • Choir practices Sundays at 9:30am, Tuesdays at 6:00pm, Sanctuary. • Men’s Group, Tuesdays, 10am, Narthex. • Alcoholics Anonymous, Narthex, Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays at 8pm, weekly. • Morrison Child and Family Center, Wednesdays, 4-6, weekly. • Supper and Movie, Joan of Arcadia episodes, Wednesdays, 6:30pm, weekly. • Overeaters Anonymous, Wednesdays at 7pm, Saturdays at 3pm.
THE NURSERY IS STAFFED DURING WORSHIP FOR CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN SCHOOL AGE.
SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN ARE INVITED INTO THE SANCTUARY UNTIL THE PASSING OF THE PEACE; THEN THEY GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL.
CONNECTIONS UPUMC • Supper and Movie, Joan of Arcadia, Wednesday, December 14, 6:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Staff-Parish Relations Committee, 6:30pm, Monday, December 12, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Administrative Council meets Monday, December 12, 7:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. Includes adoption of budget for 2006. • Outreach Committee meets Tuesday, December 13, 7:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Caroling and Cocoa, Thursday, December 22, 6pm. • Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, 11pm, December 24. • Christmas Morning Lessons and Carols, Rev. Dick Burden, 10am, December 25. • New Year’s Day Food and Games, Sunday, January 1, Noon, Errol Stephenson Hall.
THE LARGER CHURCH A Victorian Christmas With John Doan, sponsored by Christ the Reconciler UMC. 7:00 PM, Saturday, December 17, 2005, Sunnyside Grange Hall, 13289 SE 132nd Adults $15, Seniors and Children $12.
THE COMMUNITY • Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, Holiday Serenade, Saturday, December 17 at 8pm or Sunday, December 18 at 2pm. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College. Call 503-226-2588 or www.pdxgmc.org for more information.
FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR • Metro District Leadership Event, Saturday, January 21, 9am-3pm, Portland First UMC, 1838 SW Jefferson. WEEKLY AT UPUMC • Choir practices Sundays at 9:30am, Tuesdays at 6:00pm, Sanctuary. • Men’s Group, Tuesdays, 10am, Narthex. • Alcoholics Anonymous, Narthex, Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays at 8pm, weekly. • Morrison Child and Family Center, Wednesdays, 4-6, weekly. • Supper and Movie, Joan of Arcadia episodes, Wednesdays, 6:30pm, weekly. • Overeaters Anonymous, Wednesdays at 7pm, Saturdays at 3pm.
THE NURSERY IS STAFFED DURING WORSHIP FOR CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN SCHOOL AGE. SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN ARE INVITED INTO THE SANCTUARY UNTIL THE ‘PASSING OF THE PEACE’; THEN THEY GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Here We Stand P.O. Box 15750 Washington, DC 20003 tel: 202.546.8806 fax: 202.546.6811
www.herewestandumc.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2005
Washington, DC - Church leaders call on the United Methodist Church to “embody God’s love†by ending discrimination against homosexual persons and reversing alarming Judicial Council decisions.
In a statement released today, a group of United Methodist church leaders, call on the United Methodist Church to “embody God’s love and justice.†Specifically they call on the United Methodist Judicial Council to reconsider and reverse a recent decision (#1032) in which a United Methodist pastor was allowed to refuse membership to a gay man in his congregation.
The group expresses concern that the Judicial Council ruling removes the denomination’s constitutional guarantee of open membership, deprives lay persons of their rights, and further puts minorities in the church at risk of discrimination and exclusion.
“Whenever history, tradition, practice and culture declare in deed or word that some category of persons are less than others, there will be those who feel they have been given impunity to separate, segregate, exclude and sometimes harm those persons,†according to declaration signer Rev. Gilbert Caldwell of United Methodists of Color for a Fully Inclusive Church.
The leaders contend that the recent ruling cannot be viewed in isolation. Decisions in recent years have served to “enshrine discriminatory policies†in United Methodist church law, they claim, ultimately threatening the United Methodist heritage of openness. Decision 1032 is the next step, say the leaders, on a “slippery slope†that began with claiming that “homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching†and policies that bar the ordination of “self-avowed practicing homosexuals.â€
“The fact that the church has singled out one group of people and discriminated against them on the basis of their status, in this case their sexual orientation,†says statement signer Jeff Spelman, Chair of the Reconciling Ministries Network board of directors and lay delegate to General Conference in 2000, “was bound to lead to the situation in which we find ourselves today.â€
“I am confident that a large majority of United Methodists are stunned and outraged that a ruling by the Judicial Council gives pastors total authority to grant or deny membership in local congregations,†said Rev. Kathryn Johnson of the Methodist Federation for Social Action. “It is imperative that we move back from the precipice on which we find ourselves if we are going to move into the future as a church which extends God’s hospitality and healing grace to the world around us.â€
The statement ends with a challenge to the United Methodist Church including a call for Judicial Council Decision 1032 to be reversed, a call for United Methodist Bishops to advocate for a “fully inclusive church†and a call for “all discriminatory language†to be removed from the Book of Discipline at General Conference 2008.
The full statement, signatures can be viewed below and at: http://www.HereWeStandUMC.org
JUSTICE AND JOY, EMBRACING December 4, 2005 Rev. Dr. Jeanne Knepper Isaiah 40:1-11; Psalm 85; Mark 1:1-8
It was in a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, this week, that six-year-old Calvin began to think about the “Big Picture.†In billions of years, he told his faithful tiger friend, the sun is going to burn out; the earth will cool to ice; everyone will die; and nothing will matter. So why, if that is our fate, should he go to school or study for tests when he could instead go sledding? What’s the point of striving if it’s all for naught, in the “Big Picture?â€
Do we ever really grow up? It was also this week when I read an article on some of the latest in that part of theoretical physics called cosmology, the study of the laws governing the ends of time, beginning and end. Some recent measurements have led to the necessity of modifying predictions that follow from Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, leading to at least three different views of where we might be going, in “The Big Picture.â€
Do you know, once upon a time, when I was a physicist, my focus of study was General Relativity? I learned enough to manipulate Einstein’s equations and to imagine what they might bode for the long run. I was fascinated by cosmological questions—in fact, it was probably a conversation about the beginning of the universe, a conversation with Dr. John O’Keefe of the Goddard Space Institute, that convinced me, at the age of 17, that I wanted to be a physicist. So I was intrigued to read about recent theories that we might be headed towards the “Great Crack-up.â€
You see, there used to be two general thoughts about the ultimate fate of the universe. One held that it will expand forever, with stars growing progressively farther and farther apart, as you might imagine by thinking of dots drawn on a deflated balloon. As you blow it up, the dots move farther and farther apart from each other. So it would be with the universe, expanding like an unpoppable balloon until we could no longer even conceive that there could be any other galaxy than the one we know, until no star would be close enough to provide the energy upon which life depends. Life would end in a great chill, alone in an unreachable cosmos. The other, perhaps just as dismal, is that the gravitational pull of matter will slow and then reverse the expansion, energy left over from the Big Bang of creation, so that at some point in the future, the universe would begin to collapse, matter pulled closer and closer together until we exited through a black hole and into the incomprehensible moment of another “Big Bang,†another moment of eternal beginnings.
University Park United Methodist Church (UPUMC) is located at 4775 N Lombard, Portland Oregon 97203. UPUMC is small, diverse, growing, laughing, committed, caring, serious, warm and REAL! We are a community that encourages each other as we grow in faith, in knowledge, in service, and in love of self, God and neighbor. At University Park we not only respect but welcome diversity in race, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical and mental ability, economic status and profession. We believe all people are equal before God and entitled to Gods grace and abundance. Pastors: Rev. Dr. Jeanne Knepper & Rev. Marcia Hauer http://www.upumc.net
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