CONNECTIONS UPUMC • Education Committee meets Sunday, September 2, 12:45pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Trustees meet Tuesday, September 4, 6:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Staff-Parish Relations Committee meets Monday, September 10, 6:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Administrative Council meets Monday, September 10, 7:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • UPUMC FUNd-raising Cruise, September 16-23, 2007. • Outreach Committee meets Sunday, September 30, after potluck.
THE LARGER CHURCH • O-I RUMS meet Saturday, September 8, 10am-2pm, Montavilla UMC, Portland. Potluck lunch. • Catholic tradition worship service, Second Saturdays, 5pm, Sanctuary, UPUMC.
THE COMMUNITY • Game Days, First and Third Sundays, 2-5pm, University Park Coffee Shop. • Morrison Center Training Event, Tuesday-Thursday, September 25-27, 8am-5pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR • Women’s Beach Trip, October 19-21, 2008, Neskowin. • All-church Charge Conference, Sunday, November 18, 5:30pm. • Celebration Sunday, November 25, 2007
WEEKLY AT UPUMC • Choir practices Sundays at 9:30am, Tuesdays at 6:30pm, Sanctuary. • Alcoholics Anonymous, Narthex, Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays at 8pm, weekly. • Overeaters Anonymous, Wednesdays at 7pm. • Morrison Center Program, Thursdays 5-9pm, 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.
THE NURSERY IS STAFFED DURING WORSHIP FOR CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN SCHOOL AGE.
MISSION: PENCILS FOR KIDS The big project: to provide school supplies for all the kids in North Portland, packaged and distributed through the schools. Our part: to collect 4,384 pencils Final Count Collected: 4,722 pencils Collected last year: 4,542 pencils On Wednesday, August 29, 5 volunteers packed large boxes of school supplies for the 15 public and private schools located West of I-5. Each school received more than 300 pencils to distribute to children in need. You did good!
WOMEN’S BEACH TRIP For over a decade, women of UPUMC have been going to the beach together each October and April. The trips started as a part of a Women’s spirituality Group that first met when Dee Dee Walters was the pastor and have continued ever since. The house in Neskowin, Oregon will sleep 10. What do we do? Walk the beach, talk, watch movies, talk deep and long, support one another, share cooking and care, refresh ourselves and grow closer to one another and to our faith. The next trip will be October 19-21. Talk to Judy Griffen, 503-283-4331, for more information or to sign up.
SHARED WORSHIP SPACE UPUMC will host a worshipping community in the Catholic tradition on second Saturdays at 5pm in our sanctuary. The services will be led by Rev. Toni Tortorilla. People from UPUMC are welcome to attend the new service if they are interested.
PLEASE DON’T GO HUNGRY. WE HAVE FOOD IN OUR PANTRY, LOCATED IN THE HALLWAY LEADING TO ERROL STEPHENSON HALL. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED.
DIRECTORY CORRECTIONS Scott Jensen has moved to 4777 N. Drew, Portland, OR 97203.
Dick Burdon’s e-address has been changed to
NEW NAME AND ADDRESS Andrew Thurman, 341 NE Bryant, Portland OR 97211; telephone: 503-459-3270
CELEBRATIONS FUND-RAISER It’s a new thing. Each Sunday, after church and during the coffee and fellowship time we will celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and other celebrations by putting pennies, dimes, quarters, dollars or whatever you choose into a Celebrations bank. Let’s make it fun!
July celebrations: $470.00 August celebrations: $318.20 Total: $788.20
WE REMEMBER CHRISTIE JOHNSON WHO DIED ON AUGUST 24, 2007 YOUR FAVORITE HYMNS Survey of favorite and least favorite hymns of UMs The General Board of Discipleship (GBOD) invites every UM to participate in a survey of favorite and least favorite hymns. This information will help in planning future resources in congregational singing. To take the survey, go on-line to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JqqQD9anWCmmPk9oc6QApg_3d_3d.
WHERE IN THE WORLD? With today’s UP-words we return to the “Where In The World?” spotlights on United Methodist missions written by Rev. Jim Monroe.
September 2, 2007 Labor Day! Labor Day weekend! Kind of the traditional end of summer. Last shot at a camp out! Last day at the state fair! Not the last chance to watch politicians work the crowd, but from here on out it is back to school and back to the church’s program year. Summer breaks are great, but some things never take a vacation. Mission work never takes a vacation. It does not matter whether it is July, September, December or May; the work of our missionaries in the field is 24/7. In a day care center in New York, or at a worship service in an isolated community in Alaska, or in a clinic in Ecuador, or delivering earthquake relief supplies in Peru, or at a school in Zimbabwe, Mission work goes on in the name of Jesus Christ ‘round the clock; ‘round the world! Your regular gifts to World Service keep our missionaries hard at work, making the world a better place. If you want to make a difference all the time...and not just on vacation…then support The United Methodist Church’s apportionments: World Service. It is where in the world we make the difference!
SPIRITUAL TYPES AND WORSHIP Have you ever wondered why we include repeated prayers, lots of music, a time of silence, a formal doxology, joys and concerns, passing the peace, and collecting pencils in our worship services? The answer lies in spiritual types—the ways that people worship differently, depending on their personality and spirituality types. When 14 of us took a test to determine our spiritual types, we discovered that the distribution of types is different at UPUMC than at “typical” churches. When church members are divided into a head/heart/mystic/kingdom typology, the typical distribution is 40/29/24/7 per cent. At UPUMC, the distribution is much more even. It is our practice of including elements of worship that are meaningful to different types of people that enables us to be a worshipping community that actually fosters diversity. So, the next time you wonder, “Why is this a part of the worship service?” look to your neighbor.
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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