CONNECTIONS UPUMC • Unbinding the Gospel, Adult Sunday School meets Summer Sundays, 11:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • All church Potluck, Sunday, July 29, after worship. • All-church Beach Retreat at Camp Magruder, Friday-Sunday, August 3-5. See article and sign up.
THE LARGER CHURCH • Nature Detectives Camp for our Sunday School Children, August 8-11, Suttle Lake Camp.
THE COMMUNITY • Game Days, First and Third Sundays, 2-5pm, University Park Coffee Shop. • 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. • 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, 775 Cascade St. #1316, Oregon City, OR 97045, her son Jonathan’s home. Phone, 503-387-3813.
HOLDING IN PRAYER Dick Burdon—recovering from surgery on 7/16—at home. Jerry Culver—medical testing—at home. Carolyn Hammett—recovering from surgery—at home. Phil Herbach—recovering from surgery on 7/17—at Emanuel Hospital.
PLEASE DON’T GO HUNGRY. WE HAVE FOOD IN OUR PANTRY, LOCATED IN THE HALLWAY LEADING TO ERROL STEPHENSON HALL. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED.
SUNDAY CONCERTS IN MCCOY PARK During July, there will be free Sunday concerts at the park, 6-8pm. The schedule is: July 22—The Fabulous Essentials, classic rock July 29—Portland Festival Symphony Orchestra
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 a big 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 coordinating 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.
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.
ALL CHURCH BEACH RETREAT AUG 3-5 Camp Magruder had some time available to groups, and several people asked if it would be possible for us to plan an all-church retreat on short notice. I spoke with the office manager at the camp and have reserved the weekend of Friday, August 3 to Sunday, August 5. Beutler Hall has two big sleeping rooms with bunkbeds, a large central room, a kitchen, two bathrooms and a shower. All of the rooms are on one level. The cost for the retreat is $100 per person, which includes all food and lodging. There will be scholarship help available, so do not let the cost deter you. We do all of our own cooking and we provide our own bedding, towels and toiletries. This is a time away to rest, relax, play and get to know one another better. There is a sign-up sheet on the Narthex bulletin board. Please sign up now. There is some scholarship assistance available. Let me know if you could use some help.—Marcia
CHANGED E-ADDRESS Claudia Webster, who moved to Hawaii, has a new e-address:
THE LIVING BIBLE
Bev Read submitted this piece to UP-words. If you like readings like this, you can find them on the internet at: http://www.promiseofgod.com/.
His name is Bill. He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it, jeans, and no shoes. This literally was his wardrobe for his entire four years of college. He is brilliant, with a potential to go far. He also became a Christian while attending college. Across the street from the campus is a well-dressed, very conservative church. They want to develop a ministry to the students but are not sure how to go about it.
One Sunday Bill decided to go across the street to attend church. He walks in with wild hair, no shoes, jeans and one of his T-shirts on.
The service had already started, so Bill quietly starts down the aisle looking for a seat. The church is completely packed and he can't find a seat. By now, people are really getting a bit uncomfortable, but no one says anything. Bill gets closer and closer and closer to the pulpit. When he realizes there are no seats, he just squats down right on the carpet next to a row.
By now the people are really uptight, and the tension in the air is thick. Trying hard to concentrate on his sermon, the minister realizes that from way at the back of the church, a deacon is slowly making his way toward Bill. Now the deacon is in his eighties, has silver-gray hair, and a three-piece suit. A well dressed man, very elegant, very dignified, and walks with a cane. As he starts walking toward Bill, everyone is saying to themselves that you can't blame him for what he's going to do. How can you expect a man of his age and of his background to understand some college kid on the floor?
It takes a long time for the man to reach the boy. The church is utterly silent except for the clicking of the man's cane. All eyes are focused on him. You can't even hear anyone breathing. The minister hasn't been able continue with his sermon until the deacon does what he has to do.
As all eyes watched, they saw this elderly man drop his cane on the floor, and with great difficulty, lower himself down and sit next to Bill.
Everyone is struck with emotion. And as the minister regains control, he starts by saying... "What I'm about to preach, you will never remember. What you have just seen, you will never forget. Reach out a welcoming hand. Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible, some people will ever read".
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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