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Written by Jeanne Knepper
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Sunday, 08 July 2007 |
UP-words for 7-8-2007
CONNECTIONS
UPUMC
• Unbinding the Gospel, Adult Sunday School meets Summer Sundays, 11:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
• Jeanne’s Birthday Party, Monday, July 9, 7pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
• Short Administrative Council Meeting, if needed, Monday, July 9, 8pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
• No choir on Tuesday July 10.
• Finance Committee meets Wednesday, July 11, 7:30pm.
• UMW Bake Sale, Sunday, July 15, after church.
• Volleyball Camp for Mariah Herbach, July 15-20, Suttle Lake Camp.
• Lunch Bunch, Old Spaghetti Factory, Tuesday, July 17, 12:30pm. See Bev Read for reservations.
• Trustees meet Tuesday, July 17, 6:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
THE LARGER CHURCH
• Sing Across the Walls: 2007 Oregon-Idaho School of Christian Mission, July 12-15, George Fox University, Newberg, OR. Registration Deadline is June 29.
• UMW Young Women’s Event, July 13-15, George Fox University, Newberg, OR.
• Oregon-Idaho Reconciling United Methodists [RUMS] Summer Picnic, Saturday, July 14, Champoeg State Park, 11:30am.
THE COMMUNITY
• Game Days, First and Third Sundays, 2-5pm, University Park Coffee Shop, including today.
• Portsmouth Neighborhood Association Event, Walking the Neighborhood, Tuesday, July 24, 7pm, Clarendon Elementary School.
FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR
• Orientation meeting for Cruise, Wednesday, August 1, 7pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
• Nature Detectives Camp for our Sunday School Children, August 8-11, Suttle Lake Camp.
• Third Annual North Portland Pride Festival, Sunday, August 12, Noon-4pm, UPUMC.
• UPUMC FUNd-raising Cruise, September 16-23, 2007. Talk to Betty Cruson to sign up.
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, Thursdays 5-9pm, beginning June 21.
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; phone: 1-916-446-4863.
Erica Martinez, 182 E Nevada St. Ashland, OR 97520. Cell phone: 1-503-791-3680.
Jeanne Pulliam, 8603 SE Causey Ave, Apt 202; Happy Valley, OR 97086-2604, Telephone 503-594-2539.
Aleena Sologar, Clackamas Rehab, 220 E Hereford, Gladstone, OR 97027, no phone number.
HOLDING IN PRAYER
Dana Brandt—cancer, chemo—at home.
Jerry Culver—medical testing—at home.
Carolyn Hammett—cancer, surgery on 7/11—at home.
Bev Heginbotham—chemo—at home.
Phil Herbach—awaiting hip surgery on 7/17—at home.
Aleena Sologar—recovering from a fall—Clackamas Rehab.
PENCILS FOR KIDS
Do you remember the excitement of getting your new school supplies each fall to start the new school year? Do you know that buying school supplies is a challenge for many of the families of school children in North Portland? There are 4,384 children enrolled in North Portland Public Schools in the Roosevelt cluster, the area UPUMC is in. We are part of a neighborhood effort to make sure that every one of those students starts school with the school supplies they need. Our own Lisa Horne is chairing the collection of school supplies. Our part of that grand adventure is to collect as many pencils as we can. Watch for the back to school sales and start to collect those pencils. Bring them to the altar as our gift to God and to the kids of our community. Let’s show ourselves, once again, that we are the church that can, and does. We will collect through July and the first part of August.
THANK YOU MARIAH
Have you noticed that Mariah Herbach has been preparing the coffee for our fellowship time? Thanks, Mariah!
SUNDAY CONCERTS IN MCCOY PARK
During July, there will be free Sunday concerts at the park, 6-8pm, with activities for children beginning at 5:30pm. The schedule is:
July 8—Jacob Michael, blues
July 15—Son Trio, traditional Cuban
July 22—The Fabulous Essentials, classic rock
July 29—Portland Festival Symphony Orchestra
WALK AND WIN AN IPOD
The Portsmouth Neighborhood Association will host a Neighborhood walk on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 7pm. Residents will walk through the neighborhood to discuss our community assets and what we’d like to see improved. Walkers will be joined by City Commissioner Sam Adams, Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder, County Commissioner Jeff Cogen, State Representative Tina Kotek and Crime Prevention Coordinator Havilah Ferschwilder. Afterwards, there will be a drawing for an IPOD Nano for a Portsmouth resident. For more information, talk to Scott Jensen.
PICNIC WITH O-I RUMS
It’s a tradition, the annual summer picnic of Oregon-Idaho Reconciling United Methodists. This year, we will gather at Champoeg State Park between Portland and Salem at 11:30am on Saturday, July 14 for a potluck picnic lunch, fellowship, stories and activist activities.
A BIRTHDAY PARTY
Everyone is invited to gather for cake and ice cream to help Jeanne celebrate her 60th birthday, Monday, July 9, 7pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. Please, no presents, although a donation to UPUMC in honor of the occasion would be much welcome. And, by happy coincidence, it’s also Barbara Herbach’s birthday, same day, different number.
A CUP OF COFFEE
Thanks to Scott Jensen for this.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired.
During their visit the conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in their work and lives.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite -telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the alumni had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "Notice that all the nice looking; expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups ... and then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life. The type of cup one has does not define, nor change the quality of Life a person lives. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God makes the coffee, man chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Enjoy your coffee!
PLEASE DON’T GO HUNGRY. WE HAVE FOOD IN OUR PANTRY, LOCATED IN THE HALLWAY LEADING TO ERROL STEPHENSON HALL. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED.
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