CONNECTIONS
UPUMC
• UMW Bake Sale, Sunday, August 20, Narthex, after worship.
• Farmers’ Market, West covered walk outside Errol Stephenson Hall, Sundays, 11am-1pm, through the growing season.
• All Church Pot-luck and Forum, Sunday, August 27, 11:30am. Forum with Vision PDX, thinking about how we’d like Portland to be in the future.
• No choir rehearsals on Tuesdays August 29 or September 5.
• Rummage Sale, preparation day on Friday, September 1, sale on Saturday, September 2. Plan to attend and assist. See Judy Griffen for details.

THE LARGER CHURCH
• Oregon Idaho Reconciling United Methodists will meet Saturday, September 9, 12:30-4pm at Montavilla UMC. Potluck meal at 3:30pm.
• Linnea Good Concert, Saturday, September 9, Tigard UMC, 7:30pm.

THE COMMUNITY
• Portsmouth Neighborhood Association Board meets Tuesday, August 22, 7pm, Fountain Room, 4610 N Trenton, New Columbia.
• Readiness Fair, Saturday, August 26, Roosevelt High School.

FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR
• UPUMC Yard Sale and BBQ, Saturday, September 2, 10am-4pm.
• Third Annual All-Church Retreat at Camp Magruder on the Oregon Coast, Friday-Sunday, September 15-17, 2006.
• Interfaith Transgender Conference, October 21-22, 2006 at Corvallis First United Methodist Church.
• Celebration 2006: 115 years of UPUMC, Celebration dinner, and Charge Conference, Sunday, October 29. Plan to attend!

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.
• Morrison Center Program, Wednesdays at 4:30pm, Thursdays at 3:30pm.

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.

PLEASE DON’T GO HUNGRY. WE HAVE FOOD IN OUR PANTRY, LOCATED IN THE HALLWAY LEADING TO ERROL STEPHENSON HALL. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED.

OUR ATTENDANCE IS GROWING!
Attendance, August 13: 41
Attendance, 2006 year average to date: 41
Attendance, 2005 year average: 37

OUR BUDGET, IN BRIEF
Budget, 2006, total: $ 112,469.00
Needed monthly, all sources: $ 9,373.00
Received August to date $ 4,142.00
Needed through August $ 74,984.00
Received 2006, to date: $ 65,211.00
Annual shortfall, to date: $ 9,773.00

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, 5525 NE 15th, Portland, OR 97213, phone: 503-285-1973.

Erica Martinez, 176 S Mountain Ave Apt A,
Ashland, OR 97520. Cell phone: 1-503-791-3680.

Jeanne Pulliam, 8603 SE Causey Ave., Apt 202; Happy Valley, OR 97086-2604.

A CHURCH YARD SALE AND BBQ
Mark your calendar and start cleaning out the garage, basement, guest room or storage room. On Saturday September 2, UPUMC will hold a combination yard sale and BBQ, offering good quality used goods for sale along with pulled pork sandwiches, beverages and all the fixings. It will take three ingredients to make this a stunning fund-raiser: lots of clean, usable good stuff to sell; volunteers to prepare, sell, serve and clean up; and good publicity to bring out lots of people from the community. Together, let’s plan a stunningly wonderful community-building and fund-raising event. Sign up today, with promises to bring goods, cook, serve, set-up, sell, and/or clean up afterwards.

One more thing: plan to bring your clean items for sale on Friday, September 1. We will plan to have people here all day to receive and set up for the Saturday sale.


BIG CHANGES FOR CHILDREN’S SUNDAY SCHOOL
Starting in September, there will be changes to the Children’s Sunday school program. University Park will be starting a program known as “Live BIG.� New this fall, the Live BIG program is tailored to help children learn about God and themselves. Each month has a different theme, with materials that include crafts, scripture, worksheets and a weekly DVD segment. The program University Park will be using is tailor-made to a one-room school with multiple age levels. The program is easily adapted if a substitute is needed.
The second change involves Sunday school teachers. Jennifer Herbach will no longer be able to teach on a full time basis. Her last day will be Sunday September 24. Since the new program is based monthly, the education committee would like to rotate the position of teacher monthly. We encourage you to help keep this wonderful program running by signing up to teach. It is only for four Sundays, so it’s not too big of a time commitment.
A sign up sheet is available in the narthex.--Jennifer
FUNd-RAISING CRUISE, SEPTEMBER 07
Mark your calendars, start dreaming! On September 16, 2007, up to 32 people from UPUMC will embark on a 7 day Alaska Cruise from Seattle. We will sail aboard Holland Cruise Line’s ship Noordam, where we will rest, recreate, build memories and connections, reflect, and generally vacation together and apart—all on the same ship, but free to spend as much or as little time as we wish with each other. We have 16 staterooms reserved, at four levels: inside [$1,099.69], ocean view [$1,429.69], balcony [$1,589.69], and balcony suite [$1,849.69]. All prices listed are per person, double occupancy. Check with Betty Cruson for single, three or four persons per stateroom.

The cruise is intended to be a FUNd-RAISER. If we fill 5 rooms, the church will earn at least $1,050, with amounts going up according to how many people participate. We will be advertising the cruise to Reconciling United Methodists beyond UPUMC beginning on September 7, so speak up quickly to Betty Cruson to save your slot.

MISSION: FRESH ORGANIC FOOD University Park United Methodist Church has joined forces with Mercy Corps Northwest and Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon to open a farmers’ market on church grounds after church on all the Sundays remaining in the summer. The market will be on the covered walkway immediately West of Errol Stephenson Hall, from 11am-1pm. Families of refugee Meskhetian Turks who are starting a truck farming business in Beaverton will bring fresh, organic vegetables to sell. The Turks are political refugees from Uzbekistan who arrived in Portland last year. Over the past 60 years, the families were subjected to ethnic violence and many attempts at relocation within the former Soviet Union. They are receiving business training from Mercy Corps Northwest.

UPUMC is the only church in North Portland offering this service, which will bring fresh organic food to the neighborhood and help Muslim neighbors to support themselves doing what they have done for generations: raise healthy and tasty food. Check it out!

MEET PARIS IVORY
Paris Ivory has agreed to be our child care provider for the nursery during church and adult Sunday School. She has about seven years of experience as a childcare worker with Portland Public Schools, Portland Park and Rec, and the Morrison Center. She met our children last Sunday and enjoyed the experience. Paris wants to go to school for training in child development and business so that she can open her own child care center someday. She will be in the nursery from 9:45 to 11:15 every Sunday and will continue on to 12:45 on those Sundays when there is need.

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