CONNECTIONS UPUMC • All-Church potluck and forum, Sunday, September 30, potluck at 11:30am, forum on the proposal for a Peace Tax, Pam Alee, at Noon. • Outreach Committee meets Sunday, September 30, after potluck. • World Communion Sunday, October 7, 2007, with Festival of Breads. • Education Committee meets Sunday, October 7, 2007, 12:45pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Staff-Parish Relations Committee meets Monday, October 15, 6:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Administrative Council meets Monday, October 15, 7:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Lunch Bunch meets at Madison Bar and Grill, on Madison, between 11th and 12th, Tuesday, October 16, 12:30pm. Bev Read makes reservations. • Trustees meet Tuesday, October 16, 6:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
THE LARGER CHURCH • Catholic tradition worship service, Second Saturdays, 5pm, Sanctuary, UPUMC. • George Baldwin speaks at Micah’s Village, Sunday, September 30, 2-4:30pm. • Church Women United meet Thursday, October 4, 9am-Noon, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Three Pastoral Events in Pendleton October 8-11: Healthy Boundaries, Healthy Ministry; Sacred Spaces Conversation; Bishop’s Symposium. • Fall Connectional Ministries Convocation, Saturday, October 20, 8:30am-4pm, Portland First UMC.
THE COMMUNITY • Game Days, First and Third Sundays, 2-5pm, University Park Coffee Shop. • Morrison Center Training Event, Wednesday-Friday, October 10-12, 8am-5pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR • Women’s Beach Trip, October 19-21, 2007, 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. 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.
PLEASE DON’T GO HUNGRY. WE HAVE FOOD IN OUR PANTRY, LOCATED IN THE HALLWAY LEADING TO ERROL STEPHENSON HALL. TAKE WHAT YOU NEED.
THE NURSERY IS STAFFED DURING WORSHIP FOR CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN SCHOOL AGE. 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!
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.
WHERE IN THE WORLD? September 30, 2007 Jeanetta already has her Christmas lights up. Can you believe it? It is not even October yet, and the colored, blinking lights are up. She has them hanging on an inside wall of her home, a small, inner city apartment. Oh she knows it is early, but she keeps hoping that with the coming season someone might come and visit and share in the cheer. Sure it is three months away, but Jeanetta reasons, it is never too soon to find joy in the twinkling lights. Maybe, just maybe, those little orbs of color will push back the loneliness she feels as summer moves into fall. Since she turned 90, no one comes to visit her much, anymore. Her walks down to the corner grocery take longer than they used to take, and she gets more nervous about going out in public. Her heart and soul long for days gone by when tinsel and family gatherings marked her life. Sure it is too early for Christmas, but her hope knows no calendar. What Jeanetta does not know is that you have been busy the past few months setting up the visit she is going to get later this afternoon. She has no idea that your financial support of World Service has funded a young woman in ministry who is going to knock on her door today at three and sit down with Jeanetta and look at old photos, and admire the twinkling lights, and ask her how it is with her soul. Christmas in September? Too early! Companionship, prayer and a warm embrace in the name of Jesus? Very, very timely. Thank you for arranging the visit. The United Methodist Church funds ministry in every corner of the world. Even in that tiny little corner where a Christmas light twinkles in a lonely woman’s apartment just down the street. Thank you for caring for Jeanetta, no matter what the season!
WESTERN JURISDICTION MEETS HERE The Oregon-Idaho Conference will host the 2008 Western Jurisdictional Conference from Wednesday, Jul. 16 to Saturday, Jul. 19, 2008. We need at least 100 willing volunteers from congregations in the Metro area and throughout our region to set up, assist with registration, be available for other tasks as needed, and for "breaking down" the conference. If you can help or find others to share these duties, please contact Jaime Hurst, Metro District Office,
or 503-249-1851.
FESTIVAL OF BREADS Sunday, October 7 is World Communion Day, the one time of the year when Protestant churches all over the world choose to remember that we are one church, celebrating one communion, no matter where we are in the world. Since bread is a mainstay of communion, we choose to follow worship with a Festival of Breads. Please plan to bring and share a bread—or staple grain dish —from your heritage, so that we might taste and see the goodness of our diversity in the midst of unity.
CORRESPONDENCE Jeanne— Hope all is well with you and the gang. I am plugging along. The church we have been attending, First Congregation Church of Lincoln City (First UCC) has begun the process of becoming an open and affirming congregation! It would appear that God has a plan for the Moseley's--indeed, we cannot outrun God. God's love and grace will find us. Give my love and blessings to everyone. --Deb Moseley
Jeanne & Marcia, I bought the following books from Amazon. Over time I‘d like to read all of them but I want to donate them to the church. So maybe we can pass them around a bit.—Scott Jensen 1 “Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community" Diana Butler Bass 1 "Asphalt Jesus: Finding a New Christian Faith Along the Highways of America" Eric Elnes 1 "The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old Church" Diana Butler Bass 1 "Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation" Carol Howard Merritt
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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