CONNECTIONS UPUMC • Unbinding the Gospel, Adult Sunday School meets Summer Sundays, 11:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Third Annual North Portland Pride Festival, Sunday, August 12, Noon-4pm, UPUMC. • Staff-Parish Relations Committee meets Monday, August 13, 6:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Administrative Council meets Monday, August 13, 7:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Finance Committee meets Tuesday, August 14, 7:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • UMW Bake Sale, Sunday, August 19, after church. • Education Committee meets Sunday, August 19, 12:45pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Lunch Bunch meets Tuesday, August 21, 12:30pm, Su Casa. • Outreach Committee meets Sunday, August 26, after the potluck, Narthex.
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, today. • Pack school supplies for North Portland children, Wednesday, August 29, 1-6pm, Weir’s Cyclery, 8621 N Lombard.
FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR • UPUMC FUNd-raising Cruise, September 16-23, 2007. Talk to Betty Cruson to sign up. • All-church Charge Conference, Sunday, November 18, 4pm.
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.
Phil Herbach, Care Center East, 11325 NE Weidler, Portland, OR 97220.
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 Carolyn Hammett—living with cancer—at home. Phil Herbach—recovering from hip surgery on 7/17—in rehab.
PLEASE DON’T GO HUNGRY. WE HAVE FOOD IN OUR PANTRY, LOCATED IN THE HALLWAY LEADING TO ERROL STEPHENSON HALL. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED. 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. We have two parts in this grand community adventure. The first is to collect as many pencils as we can. The second is to help pack the school supplies for distribution to the children. Volunteers will gather at Weir’s Cyclery, located at 8621 N Lombard, from 1-6pm on Wednesday, August 29. Last year we gathered 4,564 pencils. As of August 1, we have gathered 2,356 pencils. We have almost another month. How many pencils will we gather this year? Watch for the back to school sales. 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 Tuesday, August 28 before taking them to Weir’s.
CHANGED E-ADDRESS Claudia Webster, who moved to Hawaii, has a new e-address:
THE NURSERY IS STAFFED DURING WORSHIP FOR CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN SCHOOL AGE.
BIRTHDAYS FUND-RAISER A July birthday fund-raiser brought in gifts of $410. Beginning with the first Sunday in August, we will have a birthday bank to celebrate our own and each other’s birthdays with gifts of pennies, dimes, quarters, dollars or ? to mark the number of years. We will celebrate birthdays in the Narthex right after worship, while people are visiting and getting coffee. Let’s make it fun!
CORRESPONDENCE To My Church Family,
Thank you for the kind words and condolences for the passing of my sister Elmina Jane. She was not only my sister but also my friend. We took care of each other and kept in touch. I miss her very much but I know she is now in god’s loving hands with no pain and He will take care of her.
Love and regards, Aleena
CHILDREN’S TEACHERS Isn’t it wonderful to have so many children at UPUMC? Do you know that Jennifer Herbach started the ball rolling to provide weekly children’s Sunday School during the worship service and taught the classes, mostly by herself, for over a year? Last year, we began to use a new Sunday School curriculum, Live B.I.G.. This program has many wonderful features. It comes in one-month modules, each with its own theme. There are printed teaching materials, pages to copy for the children, a CD of videos and music for each month, and lots of fun activities, all well explained. In addition, there are materials that appeal to children of different ages all in one class. It is a very good program, and very easy for even inexperienced teachers to use.
And that is where we come to you. Last year, these people taught one or more months of Children’s Sunday School: Jennifer Herbach, Deb Moseley, Barbara Herbach, Dana Brandt, Judy Griffen, Bev Read, and Stephen Hicks. Some of them taught in teams of two. Some of them taught more than one month. All of them gave something wonderful to our children, a sense that they are important and loved here. Now it is time to sign up for the next year. We have the materials already on hand, so you will have as much time as you would like to prepare. Do you wonder if you can do it? Talk to one of the ones who have. Do you think maybe you are too new at this church business? Sign up for a month later in the year and talk to others who are teaching—some of them were newcomers just a year ago.
It is one of our great privileges, as a community of faith, to witness to our children, by our love and presence and service, that they are all most wonderfully beloved children of God and dear members of our family of faith. And never doubt it—60 years from now there will be adults in the world who still remember, fondly and with much gratitude, that YOU were their Sunday School teacher who taught them lessons that have stayed with them for their whole lives. What a legacy! Do dare to say “Yes!” and sign up.
NORTH PORTLAND PRIDE FESTIVAL It’s a festival; it’s a picnic; it’s a concert; it’s a neighborhood gathering; it’s a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Pride events occur across the nation and around the world each summer, all commemorating the nights in June 1968 when some gay men and drag queens in New York City said “NO!” to routine police harassment and discriminatory laws, refused to be ashamed of themselves, and reclaimed pride in their identity. Our festival is special: it is perhaps the only Pride event that is sponsored by a local church. Sunday August 12, Noon-4pm. Free food, music by Donna Jose, words from Sam Adams, a great gathering, with everybody welcome. It’s our gift to the neighborhood and the community. Reconciling worship at 10am.
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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