Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
GIVING IS CONTAGIOUS! THX for Gifts, offerings! Spiritual Awakenings and a few dates!
thanks everyone for the birthday lunch fundraiser for RMN this summer below! helped us get beyond our goal! maureen
one more gift came in today too! i think we might reach $500 now! that is great!
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Reconciling friends in NE, Welcome to FALL but let's still enjoy some summer too!
Remember the Rainbow things we called for a year ago for a Rainbow Giveaway in the spirit of the Native American tradition of Giveaway?
That is an amazing story -- as we put out the word slowly wondering if people would send me rainbow things or what would happen? In emails we kept naming various RAINBOW things people could create or find to giveaway in emails.
Slowly the idea started to sink in -- and we started to hear from some of you who were finding things and creating things Rainbow (they have lasted for two annual conferences by the way! rather like the loaves and fishes!)
We started getting emails from folks that they were making Origami Cranes from Rainbow paper, folks who were crocheting stoles, bags and afghans of rainbow yarn, folks who were finding rainbow fans and rainbow crosses for necklaces and bookmarks. They even started coming to my home in the mail!
We received a beautiful story that some friends were working together as a team to make Hanging Sun and Wind Catcher Rainbows! They were doing it as a healing project -- as they have family and friends with HIV AIDS or who had died of HIV AIDS!
We received Rainbow pencils, Rainbow mugs, Rainbow stuffed animals. Rainbow hawaiian leis, ribbons, pins and bookmarks, We gave away homemade Rainbow heart bags and rainbow pop bead bracelets and more! We even needed some Rainbow umbrellas before the week was over! Thanks to everyone for the generous contagious spirit of giving!
The response was heartwarming to say the least! Thanks to everyone and to everyone who has given to Rainbow Tables at local churches, Rainbow trunks, Rainbow fundraisers and bake sales -- those who have made meals to raise funds for Reconciling commitments and folks who have sold CLAB calendars -- and our Birthday LUNCH fundraiser this summer!
Now with the Summer Email offering we have raised $425 from friends across NE! I am sending in the last check for our Summer email offering of 2010 to RMN ministries today!
If you were not able to give to the Summer Email offering (all checks are made to RMN and go directly to RMN by the way) then we have a few options for you this fall or start saving for next summer! Or do a Birthday Lunch with your friends to raise money for RMN for your local reconciling group or for RMN (3801 N Keeler Ave, Chicago IL 60641-3007).
We will list the generous donors this summer BELOW and a few major dates coming this year! Get your local info from your local Reconciling email contacts and send the emails on to friends who might be looking for HOPE.
Giving is CONTAGIOUS and a spiritual awakening for each one who gives -- as we are all giving our gifts of time, money and energy in HOPES of a more INCLUSIVE UMC and faith groups for our friends, our children, our daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, parents and neighbors - as we give to justice ministries directly and feel a part of the spiritual awakening happening in ourselves and our communities as we particpate in change through giving!
BELIEVE OUT LOUD -- the theme for RMN currently challenges us to: 1) GIVING to RMN ministries as individuals and groups, 2) signing up RUM's at gatherings.. all kinds of gatherings: picnics, support groups, homes, churches, coffeetimes and coffee shops and 3) Telling our stories in our groups, in homes, in gatherings so we can all understand better our journeys.
In harmony with this theme, in NE we want to focus as well on Spiritual AWAKENINGS and ways to seek spiritual renewal in our lives to take care of ourselves and find the energies and passion to reach out to all God's children and change the world even if it means finding some rainbows in our lives to giveaway. ....
and also notice God's spirit moving in our lives and among us through talking to a neighbor, writing a friend, calling a friend, Rainbow Giveaways, Birthday fundraiser lunches, and cooking wed meals to gather our gifts and offerings through food.. food is always good!
Here is a listing of the generous DONORS for the Summer email offerings this summer of 2010. We will also incude a few others ways to give this fall as it is CONTAGIOUS when we see it making a difference in our lives!
Thanks so much to each person -- as our commitment to RMN is $250 a year as an official reconciling community and we went beyond that.. it feels good! Giving always does feel good!
SUMMER EMAIL OFFERING GIFTS for 2010, $425 to RMN for their many Rainbow ministries ---- www.RMNetwork.org :
Bob and Betty Dorr, Omaha, NE for registration and copies at the Reconciling table
Gifts and offerings at Annual Conference
Maureen and Jay Vetter, G Island, NE, honor of Karl Skinner & Larry Pankoke for Telling their story at Open Hearts in April
Wendy and Eric Smith, Brian and Jenna (who love ice cream), Lincoln NE
RMN Birthday Lunch Fundraiser, Lincoln: Donna Lightbody, Betty Newhouse, Liz Bady, Bill Black, Laurie Witters Churchill and Maureen Vetter, Lincoln, Hickman and Grand Island, NE (we found out our birthdays and gave to RMN as birthday gifts!)
Linda Kastning, Ponca, NE
Marta Wheeler, Giltner and Phillips, NE
Dave and Jean Harris, Grand Island, NE
Did we forget anyone? If we did let us know : mvetter@charter.net
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UPCOMING Dates to remember this year:
SEPT 12 AIDS walks in 6 cities the same day this year Sept 12 get a team together! Info at www.nap.org
Don Messer Chair of UM Global AIDS fund will be the speaker at UNK, Fine Arts Building at 1 PM, Sept 12 before the AIDS walk! He will also preach at Faith UMC in the park at 10:30 am Sept 12, at Harmon Park!
Oct 14 - 16, Lighten the Burden III, Dallas Texas, Oct 14 - 16.
If you want to give towards Bill Black, Trinity UMC Lincoln and Maureen Vetter, Trinity UMC, G Island attending you can this fall.
We are registering this week to go from NE! Send your gifts to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake Lane, G Island, NE 68801 and we will split the gifts to help us go. We are both on the new NE UMC HIV AIDS Task Force to promote this offering etc.
It will cost about $700 each for this HIV AIDS Conference in Dallas Texas sponsored by UM Global AIDS fund, UMCOR with the Tour of AIDS Ministries in Dallas and driving about 10 hours each way!
Go with them in spirit too!
They might even come and visit with your group when they get back -- about the HIV AIDS Pandemic and how you can get involved & UM Global AIDS fund Special offerings in NE Dec 5 (FREE offering envelopes now through cokesbury too!)
Bill Black has received $200 from Risk taking Mission and Justice Team as a Scholarship and Maureen Vetter has received $100 for Registration Scholarship from Prairie Rivers District to go so far.
For Info write Maureen Mvetter@charter.net or go towww.umglobalaidsfund.org
Oct 22, 23, INSPIRING COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE, Hastings College, this conference is coming out state for the first time! Be sure to let folks know and come join us in Central NE from the cities and rural areas!
Nov 14, INCOMPATIBLE WITH Chrisitian Teaching the MOVIE, at Saint Paul UMC, Lincoln, 2:30 PM, Rev Steve Griffith contact. We are hoping the movie creator will be there too with discussion after!
Dec 1 and Dec 5: World AIDS Day Dec 1 and Special offering in NE for all local churches for UM Global AIDS fund, Dec 5. You can do other fundraisers too for this fund that needs our help to help others! Get a World AIDS Day Task Force together! Give to this Special offering as a faith response to the pandemic of HIV AIDS.
Become an AIDS Ambassador today in the UMC or in your local church and promote this offering in your faith group and church. Send prayers to those battling HIV AIDS! To become an AIDS ambassador write to Mvetter@charter.netor to Andrew Brackett at : casemanager-2nap@
March 25 - 27. Horizons of Faith Weekend with Bishop John Shelby Spong, Omaha First UMC, more infowww.horizonsoffaith.com
ANOTHER RMN CONVO is coming TOO! www.RMNetwork.org
Giving is Contagious and can be a Spiritual Awakening. Give to RMN ministries online, or through your local RMN group and their yearly commitment or send in a gift yourself. Give to our Summer Email offering each year too! If you give $100 and send it to RMN offices you can become an ANGEL (or guessing you are an angel already).
Remember to send your $250 commitment as local official Reconciling groups for RMN ministries this fall.
Be looking for ways to Believe out loud and find ways to renew your spirit this fall.. you might want to get a few friends together and tell them about RMN and start a coffee or tea group or on Sunday mornings do a coffee group and welcome new people. Start a support group or book group, Bible study, Sunday school class or biking, walking group!
Think about the book "Tranformation Journal: A One Year Journey through the Bible" or the book "CHANGE THE WORLD." Or the book VOICES OF THE KINGDOM through the RMN website.
Get involved and find ways to give in your life!
God's spirit is moving for another Great Spiritual Awakening!
www.RMNetwork.org for more resources and info for RMN
Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network is on Facebook groups!
INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! Share info with each other!
INVITE YOUR FRIENDS! Share info with each other!
We also have a new blog so check it out! We hope to have stories and awakenings on it this fall! www.nebraskarum.blogspot.com
Get together in person and through the internet as reconciling persons in NE can feel isolated in a small town or even in a large town! Have a great fall and see you at events! Believe Out Loud and get together when you can!
Maureen Vetter and Wendy Smith, Email Main Contacts for NE
along with local contacts, PRN contacts and youth, young adults in our local groups now! mvetter@charter.net wsmith28@gmail.com
We sent a list of all the local reconciling contacts this summer and we will do the same again later this year!
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What are your spiritual awakenings for your life, support groups and for a fully inclusive faith community?
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If you want to be off this email group list let us know or if you have someone who wants info as part of this network of friends let us know! We are trying to diversity our email more with more Main local email contacts!
Thanks to all who volunteer and send out email on their own personal time to get out info to others! Giving at it's best!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Gay Marriage (something to make you smile)
Borrowing this from a friend who posted it on facebook:
10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong (reposting Mitchell Sturges)
01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong (reposting Mitchell Sturges)
01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.
09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
OPEN HEARTS RECONCILING COMMUNITY and FRIENDS in Central NE and beyond:
Where did summer go? We hope you had some good things happening in your lives this summer and we come together again this Sat at Blue moon coffee shop downtown GI to catch up a bit! Join us at 11 am at the coffee shop across from the GRAND THEATER in G island, NE! Thanks Mena for doing summer group email and planning this!
Here are the upcoming dates and learn more in person sat at 11 am or call someone you know in Open hearts if you have questions:
Ongoing TUMC Diversity Mission Project: Sudanese Children's ed time, give service and help with this program each Sunday from 1 - 2 PM, Call Jan Coghlan, Family Ministries at TUMC if you can help with snacks, subbing, teaching a small group of children, youth, music or art, library or games, confirmation program on Wed etc.
Believe OUT LOUD: 1) Sign up to be a Reconciling U Methodist today (RUM) by going to the website www.RMNetwork.org or get a card at our sept meeting
2) Give offerings to RMN at our meetings and Summer Email offering for NE Statewide Reconciling Network
3) Tell and write our SACRED stories! We will Tell our stories, write our stories, share our stories in our group --
Facebook Group: Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network and tell your stories and info on our NEW blog for NE statewide Reconciling Network: http://nebraskarum.blogspot.
LOTS OF GOOD STUFF on the movie NOV 14 and articles, upcoming events, stories!
Thanks Wendy SMITH, lincoln Christ UMC for starting up this new blog!
Remember Hastings PFLAG events and coffeetimes nearby in Hastings! Go to their website for more info and the Sept gathering is with the GSA at the college and a potluck! http://hastingspflag.org Rev Scott Taylor music events coming too! i will send another email if you can join Scott for some of his singing and fun! Scott does our HIV AIDS benefit concert and is pastor at the UCC in G Island!
Fall 2010 - 2011 OPEN HEARTS Reconciling Community, GI area Events and Dates:
Aug 21: Blue moon, Coffeetime for Open Hearts folks, 11 am, join in the conversations!
Aug 22: All God's Children Forum, TUMC, 10 am, Gollagher Chapel: TENNIS SHOE Sunday so wear your T shoes and hear about Walking and Reading to help others!
Sept 7: Meeting at 7 PM with melanie, TUMC: Transformational Journal: A One year journey through the Bible and Journalling! The book is $24 and let Melanie know so she can order enough books!
Sept 12: AIDS walks in six cities this year the same day! Get more info Sunday at the All God's children forum or at www.nap.org Get your pledge sheet at TUMC, online or print one out from the email i sent yesterday! Get some friends together and go to hastings college or come hear Don Messer at UNK, 1 PM Rally and Walk to help others.
Aug 22 - Oct 15: Reading Challenge for Hassan the orphan we support at TUMC, get your pledge sheet today and pledge yourself or pledge others!
Sept 19 : Open Hearts Sept Meeting for fall: 3 PM, 2:30 Fellowship so bring a snack to share and come early to welcome new folks. New persons come at 2:30 to read Support group Guidelines. Program: Summer Reflections and Upcoming Events, Inspiring Communities in OCT at Hastings college, Brian whitecalf -- come and welcome others!
Sept 19: 10 am Gollagher Chapel: All God's children Book group: EAT PRAY LOVE with Cathy denman and friends
Sept 21: NE UMC HIV AIDS Task force, TUMC at 1:30 PM
Oct 10 : FAIR TRADE FESTIVAL, TUMC 10 am, Gollagher All God's children forum, video and Fair trade products for sale! If you are a fair trade artist (you derive your living from your art) and you want to share some of your art, contact Maureen or Susan Stoppkotte at the church offices in early sept.
Oct 14 - 16: LIGHTEN THE BURDEN III Conference, Dallas Texas, UM global AIDS fund and UMCOR, Conference on HIV AIDS, www.umglobalaidsfund.orgor contact maureen mvetter@charter.net There are two of us thinking to go from NE and driving! 10 hrs! REGISTRATION is due Sept 20 so let Maureen know ASAP.
Oct 22, 23: INSPIRING COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE, Hastings College, Brian Whitecalf is our rep for the planning of this event! Find out more info from Brian and this fall! Tell your friends as this is the first time this event has come OUTSTATE from Lincoln and omaha!
Nov : Celtic Light Service (Date coming) All God's Children forum with Debz Bartlett and friends, 10 am, Sunday morning before Thanksgiving!
Nov 14: Incompatible with Christian Teaching Movie and filmmaker, 2:30 PM, Saint Paul UMC, Lincoln downtown, contact Rev Steve Griffith, Saint Paul UMC, tell your friends!
Nov 20: OPEN HEARTS Reconciling Community on a SATURDAY, 1 - 3 PM,
Thanksgiving Gathering: Bring a snack to share at 1 PM, Sacred stories project, upcoming events, Thanksgiving Offerings for RMN, Fundraising and CLAB calendars for 2011 (NE for peace sells them to us at a special rate so we can do a fundraiser with them! Unique calendars for holiday giving!
We are trying TWO saturday meetings this year for folks who cannot come on Sundays!
Deb 5: World AIDS Day offerings and LIGHT FOR THE JOURNEY service, Baskets of LOVE for TUMC Emergency HIV AIDS fund and UM Global AIDS fund~ More info coming! If you want to be a part of this planning contact maureen vetter, cathy denman or carole denton. Celebrate HIV AIDS testing at TUMC Parish nurse offices twice a month now! TUMC is an official testing site!
January coffee get together, Blue moon, date to be determined: Winter book : Voices of the Kingdom, Bishop Spong book for Horizons of Faith in march, catching up!
Feb 20 Telling OUR STORIES, Open hearts gathering, 2:30 fellowship time, 3 PM program
HIV AIDS Benefit Concert, date to be determined, proceeds to TUMC HIV AIDS Emergency Fund
March 25 - 27, Horizons of Faith, Omaha FUMC, Bishop Spong, march 25-27,www.horizonsoffaith.com for info and registering
April 16, SATURDAY, 1 - 3 PM, Open HEARTS Reconciling Community: Telling our stories with Marta Wheeler, sharing her story of her brother TIM and HIV AIDS
May and summer: BBQ and Summer coffeetimes, pride events, MFSA dinner Lincoln etc
Anyone want to show the movie FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO in their home sometime this year? See you all this year! You are welcome to our worship services at TUMC or other places of faith in the area! We Celebrate our Diversity as persons of faith!
Invite your friends to our gatherings and remember the AIDS walk and Crop Walk for Hunger coming in October to G island! Get involved in service and missions to your neighbors!
For more info on RMN: www.RMNetwork.org for Flashnet, info on convos, news, resources and more! Believe out loud, be called to witness and renew your spirit! Welcome others!
Thanks Mena Sprague for doing Open Hearts Group email this summer! We will both be sending email in Sept I hope. Watch for her name and my name on emails~
Action: This is not the UM Global aids fund but the ONE campaign & Global fund, the needs are great!! - No Child Born With HIV
ONE Campaign put this out today!
Also give to the UM global aids fund through the website or through local offerings at your church this year.. www.umglobalaidsfund.org
(send to all AIDS ambassadors if possible Andrew)
1) Articles on www.umc.org about HIV AIDS and how to help in local churches. Become an AIDS Ambassador today and promote the UM Global AIDS fund offering Dec 5 near World AIDS day! See below...
2) NE UMC HIV AIDS Fund Task force Meeting, Tues, Sept 21, 1:30 PM, Gathering place, Trinity UMC, 511 N elm street, grand island, NE. Let marta and andrew know if you are coming as i will be out of state now. I hope to be around for our next meeting if possible! mwheeler@hamilton.
3) AIDS walks in six cities on the same day this year - Sept 12. Don Messer, Chair of UM Global AIDS fund will speak at the rally at 1 PM at UNK, Fine arts building, registration noon to 1 pm for the walk! www.nap.org for more info and Hastings College in hastings is another site of the AIDS walk in Central NE.
Pledge yourself or others, get a team together or come with a friend or your family! Make a faith response to AIDS today. If you cannot be there, make a pledge or walk somewhere else and still get the pledges there with a friend. Contact person for the AIDS walk in Central NE is Rev Marta Wheeler, Giltner and Phillips:
Get involved and get a team together for the AIDS walks Sept 12 (proceeds to NAP or NE AIDS project in NE for the five agencies that help those with HIV AIDS in NE.. www.nap.org ) from your local church, Sunday school class, Christ Care group, support group, office or work colleagues or group!
4) Don messer will also preach at Faith UMC, Kearney at 10 am, Harmon park that morning sept 12 for their outdoor service ahead of the AIDS walk and rally!
5) Bill Black, Trinity UMC, Lincoln and Maureen Vetter, Trinity UMC, G Island, NE are planning to attend the LIGHTEN THE BURDEN III Conference in Dallas Texas Oct 14 - 16, 2010. If any of you still want info on this or can go let me know! mvetter@charter.net
Registrations to the LIGHTEN THE BURDEN III Conference are due sept 20 and we want to have our registrations in by next week if possible ----- go to www.umglobalaidsfund.org
maureen and marta, Co chairs of NE UMC HIV AIDS fund task force mvetter@charter.net and mwheeler@hamilton.net
ps PASS this info on and we need more AIDS ambassadors in NE.. we have 30 in NE and we need over 300 so we have one in each local church.. write to Andrew Brackett to become an AIDS ambassador in NE: casemanager2-nap@charter.net
Monday, August 16, 2010
Save the date: Movie--Incompatible with Christian Teaching
Nov 14 is the movie Incompatible with Christian Teaching, Saint Paul UMC in Lincoln 2:30 pm
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Annual Conference Report from Betty
Report on Nebraska Methodist Church
Fortunately, Reconciling Ministries Network had a good location this year for its information table in a hallway just outside the Nebraska Annual Conference meeting room on the Nebraska Wesleyan University Lincoln
We were so busy at the table we didn’t move around much to see other table displays. The only quiet time came when conference delegates left the building to go to 40 sites in Lincoln
We also used as talking points five pages consisting of four General Conference Resolutions and one page from the Social Principles: Equal Rights Regardless of Sexual Orientation. This material was prepared by Rev. Stephen Griffith of Lincoln
Also this year, we had 100 youths in attendance, the largest number in recent years, and they visited our table a lot. Most were wearing stoles and pins by the end of the conference. We all felt excitement and joy for all the conversations we had this year and hope to continue that Reconciling journey.
The ordination and commissioning service at Annual Conference was special this year for First United Methodist Church-Omaha. Rev. Debra McKnight, FUMC associate pastor, became an ordained United Methodist minister along with five others. Family members and friends, including some from FUMC-Omaha, stood in support during the traditional “laying on of hands.”
Submitted by Betty Dorr,
For the Nebraska State
More rainbow giveaway
Know of someone who may appreciate a rainbow/heart blanket? Contact Wendy to get one of these 2 blankets. The first one has squares that are approx 1 foot on each side, and have hearts on them (hard to see in the picture); the other is about 2 1/2 feet by 5 1/2 feet and has rows of hearts. Wendy still has a few rainbow stoles/scarves left from last year as well. If you have a request for something else (rainbow bag, hat, etc.) just ask!
Nebraska AIDS walk for 2010: 6-1-1
6-1-1 Nebraska AIDS walk for 2010.. six cities, one walk, one purpose, Thousands helped!
NE AIDS Walks this year.. for more info www.nap.org
It is six cities all the SAME DAY this year.. omaha, lincoln, hastings, kearney, scottsbluff, norfolk!
Registration at noon in all cities, 1 pm for all Rallies, 3 PM closing ceremonies in all six cities!
Kearney, NE Rally at 1 PM with Don Messer as speaker! Don Messer the Chair of UM Global AIDS fund will be the speaker at the Kearney event! Come and welcome Don and send this to your friends! Meet at 1 PM for the Rally at the Fine ARTS building at U of NE at kearney. See brochure attached for more info!
Sept 12, Faith UMC Kearney Worship with Don Messer preaching, 10 am Harmon Park, 5th AVE and 29th Street, kearney
Sunday Morning, Sept 12, at Faith UMC: Don Messer will preach at the 10 am OUTDOOR service at Harmony Park, Kearney. Don has travelled the world advocating for those struggling with HIV AIDS and he has written several books on HIV AIDS ---his latest is "52 Ways for an AIDS- FREE World". Let's welcome Don to NE! Don is the former President of Iliff UMC Seminary in Denver, CO
Get a team together from your church or group, family or friends and drive to kearney after getting pledges! See brochure for more info orwww.nap.org
NE AIDS Walks this year.. for more info www.nap.org
It is six cities all the SAME DAY this year.. omaha, lincoln, hastings, kearney, scottsbluff, norfolk!
Registration at noon in all cities, 1 pm for all Rallies, 3 PM closing ceremonies in all six cities!
Kearney, NE Rally at 1 PM with Don Messer as speaker! Don Messer the Chair of UM Global AIDS fund will be the speaker at the Kearney event! Come and welcome Don and send this to your friends! Meet at 1 PM for the Rally at the Fine ARTS building at U of NE at kearney. See brochure attached for more info!
Sept 12, Faith UMC Kearney Worship with Don Messer preaching, 10 am Harmon Park, 5th AVE and 29th Street, kearney
Sunday Morning, Sept 12, at Faith UMC: Don Messer will preach at the 10 am OUTDOOR service at Harmony Park, Kearney. Don has travelled the world advocating for those struggling with HIV AIDS and he has written several books on HIV AIDS ---his latest is "52 Ways for an AIDS- FREE World". Let's welcome Don to NE! Don is the former President of Iliff UMC Seminary in Denver, CO
Get a team together from your church or group, family or friends and drive to kearney after getting pledges! See brochure for more info orwww.nap.org
Summer update: Statewide Reconciling Network
SHINE THE LIGHT ON EACH OTHER THIS SUMMER as you renew yourselves spiritually many ways -- and as you reach out to each other with God's unconditional love for all persons far and wide!
We celebrate Ten Years of being a Reconciling Congregation at Omaha First UMC! We hope to hear about your weekend in July!
Dear NE Reconciling United Methodists ( RUM's ) and friends, neighbors:
We hope you are having a good summer! Find ways to make faith responses!
See and celebrate our new blog for sharing info and stories -http://nebraskarum.blogspot.
Facebook Group: Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network Thanks wendy!
We could use you on our group Facebook and visit our new blog!
RMN Facebook Group : Reconciling Ministries Network
RMN Facebook Group : Reconciling Ministries Network
The new Inclusive Group in North Platte is having a month of gatherings in August and then going to once a month meetups! Congrats to this new reconciling group in Western NE! We are glad to have new local reconciling contacts this year around NE!
Summer reads: Voices of the Kingdom, Would Jesus Discriminate? The Eye of the Storm Marcus Borg has a new novel out in hardback, Bishop Spong is coming to NE so find some of his great books too! I have been reading Michael Pollan for our Going Green group! We are watching the movie SAVED tonight at our Methodist Movie night with popcorn! Eat Pray Love is coming out in August -- a new movie on the RMN website www.RMNetwork.org
Here is the latest news on the Summer Email offering : We have $400 now to send in to RMN offices in Chicago from our NE Statewide Reconciling network! Our minimum commitment is $250 yearly as an official reconciling community of RMN. Thanks everyone!
Last year we sent in $355 total so thanks for helping us go beyond this summer!
Donors will be listed later this summer. Write checks to RMN and send to: Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake Lane, Grand Island, NE 68801. Gifts to RMN keep Reconciling work alive! We are grateful for your support for our statewide group, our local groups, contacts.
Inspiring Communities Conference is coming to central NE Oct 22, 23 at Hastings college! Get it on your calendars as they are bringing this to Central NE!
Bishop Spong is the theologian for Horizons of Faith at Omaha First the end of March
Go to www.horizonsoffaith.com
Lighten the Burden III Conference is in Oct in Texas - www.umglobalaidsfund.org for info Contact Maureen Vetter if you can attend. See the toolkit of info on this website too!
All AIDS walks in NE are Sunday Sept 12 this year in six cities! Go to www.nap.orgGet a team from your church to go or ask some friends to walk with you. Make a faith response!
Don Messer Chair of UM Global AIDS Fund will speak at the AIDS Walk Rally Sept, Fine Arts Bldg UNK, kearney @ 1 PM - He preaches at Harmon Park, Kearney,10 am, Faith UMC
We have 30 AIDS Ambassadors in NE UM churches now. We could use 300 more or one in each local church. If you can promote the UM Global AIDS fund Special offering Dec 5 contact Mvetter@charter.net or send your info to Andrew Brackett on our NE UMC HIV AIDs Task force: caseworker-2nap@
Attached is the list of RMN contacts in NE for 2010 - 2011. Print it out and have an info table at gatherings or in your local church. Help start a local reconciling support group in your church or your part of Nebraska - help us grow the circle of friends!
Find a friend who can be a SPIRITUAL PARTNER - renew yourself and advocate for others
Our reconciling groups will be having gatherings and actions as fall comes with AIDS walks, meetups!
Be watching for local reconciling news from your area Reconciling Main contact.
BE BOLD: Believe out loud!
Become an RUM, give offerings to RMN,Tell your stories!
For more info on RMN or Reconciling Ministries Network go to www.RMNetwork.org
NE Statewide Reconciling Network, Main contacts Maureen Vetter mvetter@charter.net and Wendy Smith wsmith28@gmail.com - Email Main Contacts, PRN contacts, Local Reconciling Contacts and Reconciling groups across NE
If you do not wish to receive NE statewide reconciling network emails, let the main email contact know in your area know! If you want to add a name let us know too! Become an RUM today online : www.RMNetwork.org and go to JOIN US!
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