CONNECTIONS • Made in God’s Image, Adult Sunday School class begins Sunday, January 6, 11:45am, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Education Committee meets Sunday, January 13, 12:45pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Administrative Council meets Monday, January 14, 7:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • Outreach Committee meets Sunday, January 20, 12:45pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. • All-Church Potluck, Sunday, January 27, 11:30am, Errol Stephenson Hall, followed by film. • Mardi Gras Sunday, worship, clean-up, and pancake feast, Sunday, February 3, 10am-1:30pm, all over the church. • Ash Wednesday Service, Wednesday, February 6, 7pm, Sanctuary.
THE LARGER CHURCH • Catholic tradition worship service, Second Saturdays, 5pm, Sanctuary, UPUMC. • Nuts and Bolts: Metro District Training for Leaders and Members of Local Church Administrative Committees, 9am-Noon, Saturday, January 19, Portland First UMC.
THE COMMUNITY • Game Days, First and Third Sundays, 2-5pm, University Park Coffee Shop. • Portsmouth Neighborhood Association Board meets Tuesday, January 22, 7pm, Errol Stephenson Hall.
FUTURE EVENTS, FOR YOUR CALENDAR • The Care and Feeding of the Gay and Lesbian Soul, Dr. Martin Brokenleg, February 8 and 9, 2008. • Reaching Out in Love, 9am-3pm, Saturday, February 23, Portland First UMC. • General Conference of the United Methodist Church meets April 23-May 2, 2008 in Fort Worth, TX. • Western Jurisdiction Conference of the United Methodist Church meets July 16-19, 2008 in Portland, OR.
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 for Children and Families, Thursdays, 5-8:30pm, Errol Stephenson Hall. STAYING IN TOUCH Edna Riddle, Sunrise Adult Care Center, 11945 SW Butner Rd., Portland OR 97225; 503-841-1295.
Harriet Bonhorst, 870 4th Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95818-3302; 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. MADE IN GOD’S IMAGE 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 God’s grace and abundance.—We proclaim those words on our bulletin each Sunday, but do we really know what the words “gender identity” mean? Stephen Hicks has made a gift to UPUMC of copies of a wonderful short book, Made in God’s Image, which explores the experiences of people with a variety of gender identities. We will use the books for our January adult Sunday School class, which Jeanne will teach.
WHERE IN THE WORLD? January 13, 2008. In Maua, Kenya, some of the Maua Methodist Hospital staff put the finishing touches on the home they had just built for a woman and her teenaged son. They had no home, so Bill and Jeri Savuto, United Methodist missionaries at Maua, along with Stanley Gitari, who received his advanced nurse training at Emory University, decided to build her and her son a small, modest home. However, the son suffered a traffic accident and has to rely on a wheel chair for the rest of his life. No matter! They built the home, and they all gathered to bless it! They laid hands on the house, prayed and then gave the new residents the keys to their new home. Big problem. In a nation where handicapped accessibility is not commonplace, the door was not large enough for the son’s wheelchair. The collective sigh of disappointment was palpable. But you know what? Rather than take a saw and make the door larger, which would have threatened the structural integrity of the home, Stanley, Bill and Jeri gathered the volunteers together anew over the next few weeks. They gave the first home to another family who also needed housing, and then built a new home with a door wide enough for the young man and his wheelchair. This time, the prayers were spoken, and cheers went up as the two Kenyans, formerly homeless with little hope for a better life, found a piece of that hope, and entered their new home. Your hands were on that home during the prayer of dedication. You support the Savuto’s through your apportionments. Stanley Gitari was educated through your gifts to the Ministerial Education Fund and its support of United Methodist colleges and universities. The hospital where they all work has several Advance Special projects you are a part of. Because of your gifts, you took hammer and saw and paintbrush in hand and made a future for a young man in a wheelchair and the mother who cares for him. Wow! Good work!—Jim Monroe
ATTENDANCE, JANUARY 6, 2008: 45 ATTENDANCE, JANUARY 7, 2007: 35 KEEP IT UP! THE CARE AND FEEDING OF THE GAY AND LESBIAN SOUL University Park UMC is joining with The Institute for Progressive Spirituality , a ministry of United Methodist Micah’s Village, and with Ainsworth United Church of Christ and Portland Metropolitan Community Church to co-sponsor a conference on spirituality for LGTBQ people and their allies on Friday-Saturday conference on February 8 and 9. The conference will feature Dr. Martin Brokenleg, an openly gay, Native American Episcopal priest who is a professor at the Vancouver [B.C.] School of Theology. On Friday, he will speak at 7pm on “The Care and Feeding of the Gay and Lesbian Soul.” On Saturday, he will offer a workshop on Reading the Bible from a Gay Perspective from 9am-2pm. Suggested donations are $10 for Friday and $25 for Saturday. UPUMC has three scholarships for folk who would like to attend. The events will take place at The Courtyard by the Marriott Hotel, 9300 SE Sunnybrook Drive, Clackamas. Talk to Jeanne if you would like one of the scholarships.
DISTRICT EVENT, NUTS AND BOLTS This Metro District Training event is designed to train members of the Trustees, Finance Committee, Staff-Parish Relations Committee, and Lay Leaders. It will take place on January 19, from 9am-Noon. If you are the Chair or a member of any of these administrative committees, especially if you are a new member of one of them, I encourage you to sign up by talking to Jeanne today or by calling 503-249-1851 or e-mailing
Registration officially closed yesterday, but act quickly and I’m sure we can get you in. CORRESPONDENCE My name is Christa May and I am currently the Treasurer for the Credit Union Workers Association, also known as CUWA. We are a group of Credit Union employees and various vendors who support the Credit Union Movement. We strive to further our education by meeting monthly for dinner and a presentation.
Each month at our CUWA meetings we have a speaker. Our topic for our December meeting had to do with charitable giving. In the spirit of the holidays we will be donating $100 on behalf of our Speaker, Jennifer Herbach, from Rivermark Credit Union, who chose “University Park United Methodist Church Children’s Sunday School” as her charity of choice. Please accept the enclosed check for $100 on behalf of CUWA.
We appreciate all that you do!
The money will buy Bibles to use in the Sunday School class.
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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