CONNECTIONS
UPUMC
• Thinking About Joining UPUMC? Adult Sunday School Class [with food], 11:30am, Errol Stephenson Hall.
• Lunch Bunch, Tuesday, May 16, The Orient, 12:30pm. Tell Bev Read if you plan to attend.
• UMW Bake Sale, Sunday, May 21, after worship.
• Finance Committee meets Sunday, May 21, 12:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
• All Church Potluck Grill and Games, Sunday, May 28, Noon.

THE COMMUNITY
• Portsmouth Neighborhood Association Board Meeting, Tuesday, May 23, 7pm, Columbia Cottage.
• Home Buying Basics Workshop, Wednesday, May 31, 6-8pm, Errol Stephenson Hall

THE LARGER CHURCH
• Pioneer UMC Style Show/Luncheon/Tea, Saturday, May 20, 1pm. Tickets $8. Reservations: 503-286-2105
• Sing Out, Speak Up for Justice, Christ the Reconciler UMC, Sunday, May 21, 2:30pm, Sunnyside Grange Hall, SE 132nd and Sunnyside Drive.

FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR
• The Laramie Project at Southridge High School, May 26 and 27 $7. www.southridgetheatre.org
• Children’s Sunday School goes to Camp, Wednesday-Saturday, August 16-19, Suttle Lake Camp.
• Third Annual All-Church Retreat at Camp Magruder on the Oregon Coast, Friday-Sunday, September 15-17, 2006.

WEEKLY AT UPUMC
• Choir practices Sundays at 9:30am, Tuesdays at 6:30pm, Sanctuary.
• Men’s Group, Tuesdays, 10am, Narthex.
• Alcoholics Anonymous, Narthex, Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays at 8pm, weekly.
• Overeaters Anonymous, Wednesdays at 7pm, Saturdays at 3pm.
PLEASE DON’T GO HUNGRY. WE HAVE FOOD IN OUR PANTRY, LOCATED IN THE HALLWAY LEADING TO ERROL STEPHENSON HALL, TAKE WHAT YOU NEED.

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.

MAY FOOD DRIVE
Twice each year, in November and May, UPUMC collects non-perishable food for the Good Samaritan Food Bank of North Portland. For the rest of this month, we will gather offerings of food at the altar because we are called to care for our neighbors as an act of worship. Please remember those who are hungry as you do your shopping and contribute as you can.
Eternal and Compassionate God, remind us in the midst of plenty, that there are many all around us in urgent need of food. Many in our towns and cities go hungry this day. And more go hungry as each month passes. Help us to learn how to care deeply. Show us ways Lord, to respond as Jesus would, and bless us as we feed and serve the hungry. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.
OUR ATTENDANCE IS GROWING!
Attendance, May 7: 36
Attendance, May average: 36
Attendance, 2006 year average to date: 43
Attendance, 2005 year average: 37

OUR BUDGET, IN BRIEF
Budget, 2006, total: $ 112,469.00
Needed monthly, all sources: $ 9,373.00
Received May, to date: $ 2,595.00
Received 2006, to date:
donations $ 21,408.00
building use $ 5203.34
investments $ 3,190.83
fund-raisers $ 137.06
Conference support $ 3,830.00
other $ 845.52
Total received to date: $ 34,614.25

STAYING IN TOUCH
Edna Riddle, Sunrise Adult Care Center, 11945 SW Butner Rd., Portland OR 97225; 503-841-1295.

Harriet Bonhorst, Pioneer Tower, 515 P Street #202, Sacramento, CA 95814; cell phone: 503-330-6915.

Elmina Nath is staying with her son. She can be reached at her previous phone number, 503-285-1973, which will ring there.

Ethel Smith, a previous member, 2803 H St #5, Vancouver, WA 98663. Telephone is 1-360-695-3242.

SING OUT, SPEAK UP FOR JUSTICE
Christ the Reconciler, a new inclusive and progressive New Church Start in the Sunnyside area presents its Spring Event on Sunday, May 21, at 2:30 PM at the Sunnyside Grange Hall, SE 132nd and SE Sunnyside Drive in Clackamas. Doors will open at 2:00 PM.

The program is entitled "Sing Out, Speak Up for Justice". It features the Community Chautauqua Choir singing "Freedom", a tribute to Harriet Tubman, FOUR JUSTICE, a quartet from Ainsworth UCC singing songs of justice, and
Thom Hartmann of KPOJ Progressive Radio who will speak and respond to questions. A donation of $10.00 is suggested. Persons under 12 are free.

Members of UPUMC who would like to carpool to the concert will leave from the UPUMC parking lot at 1:45pm.

ENGAGED ENCOUNTER OFFERED
Planning a wedding in the coming year? This could be the most important step of all for you and your fiancé. This summer and fall, Alton L Collins Retreat Center near Sandy, Oregon, will host Engaged Encounters. If you are reading this on the web site, click on the date that's best for you to read more about the event: May 12 -14, June 2-4, June 23-25, July 14–16, Aug 11-13, Sept 15-17, Oct 20-22, Nov 10-12.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
On Apr. 5, 2006 42 national religious leaders from around the country declared violence against women as intolerable and pledged their commitment to its eradication. The National Declaration by Religious Leaders to Address Violence Against Women will be distributed to every battered women's program in the U.S. Women will see this list and determine whether their faith community supports them in seeking safety for themselves and their children. When people of faith join with other community leaders to address domestic violence, we will see ancient roadblocks turn into resources that save lives and bring healing.
We proclaim with one voice as national spiritual and religious leaders that violence against women exists in all communities, including our own, and is morally, spiritually and universally intolerable.
We acknowledge that our sacred texts, traditions and values have too often been misused to perpetuate and condone abuse.
We commit ourselves to working toward the day when all women will be safe and abuse will be no more.
We draw upon our healing texts and practices to help make our families and societies whole.
Our religious and spiritual traditions compel us to work for justice and the eradication of violence against women.
We call upon people of all religious and spiritual traditions to join us.


YARD SALE
Spring is the perfect time to go through your belongings and get rid of those things you just don’t need anymore. Peninsula Community Development Corporation, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing quality, affordable housing and building community in North Portland invites you to join in our Spring Clean Yard Sale in partnership with Astor Elementary School PTA. Come and share your unwanted household items or shop the bargains. The event will take place on Saturday, May 20 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Donated items can be dropped off or picked up anytime between now and Saturday, May 20th. Please call Susie Law Godat for more information, 503-283-1096 ext.*21.

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