HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN is seeking help with posting resources people have written! see below! Pass this on to friends! Check out Human Rights Campaign and their work .. they have a Religion and Faith Program and Work area!
www.hrc.org Collaborate with other groups, other faiths, PFLAG, NAP (Ne AIDS Project) in your town or area!
To become an AIDS Ambassador in your local church, contact Maureen Vetter today : mvetter@charter.net Go to the website to learn more about UM Global AIDS fund started in 2004 in the United Methodist Church and 2006 in NE! $1 a member is the goal for each church and a new campaign is going to give $20 a year per person .. 20 X 20 Visioning for an AIDS Free world! go towww.umglobalaidfund.org for more info and an upcoming conference on African American Women and AIDS early March in SC.. we would love to hear someone from NE is going! Totals for NE offerings in 2010 are coming!
Maureen and Wendy, NE RMN Email contacts .....
PS check out www.RMNetwork.org and sign up as a Reconciling United Methodist today online -- go to Sign up on the home page and our new NE blog: www.nebraskarum.blogspot.com or go to our GROUPS page for facebook -- Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network --- let's grow the number of reconciling friends around NE and beyond for inclusive church :
Remember it is : ANOTHER GREAT YEAR OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING -- Seek ways to awaken your spiritual life in your personal actions and in your faith community.. seek our spiritual partners to share joys and concerns, laments .. remember lamentations?
We invite you to seek a faith group or reconciling group! Believe OUT LOUD and take Reconciling on the Road.. carpool to events, read Bishop Spong books for March and Horizons of Faith or even if you cannot go! Share with some local friends, meet at a coffee shop and keep the conversations going! Tell your sacred stories to friends, each others, in groups as a witness to others!
Send Gifts to RMN - Reconciling Ministries Network through local groups and offerings, fundraisers or send directly to RMN in Chicago either online or snail mail! RMN operates through our gifts / offerings as many grants are gone!
We will have a Summer Email Offering again this summer for our NE Statewide group of friends since we are an "official" Reconciling community! We send all gifts to RMN in statewide network and groups!
Keep warm! Be watching for Rainbows of HOPE this spring!
Try to find a Bishop John Shelby Spong book to read this winter/spring! STRETCH YOUR THINKING!
He is the featured speaker / theologian at Horizons of Faith Tenth Anniversary march 25 - 27 at Omaha first umc.. www.horizonsoffaith.com for registering and info! Or Do your own Bishop Spong read or get a few folks together to reflect..
he has written 20 books of new thinking and openness to awakening our spiritual senses! His new book is Eternal life .. others are : Why Christianity must change or die and more! Go online and he has a website for daily inspiration!
----- Original Message -----
From: Religion
Cc: Joanna Blotner ; Sharon Groves
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 12:15 PM
Subject: Seeking Sermons, Spiritual Reflections and Other Inspirational Resources
Greetings!
I hope this message finds you well. HRC’s Religion and Faith Program is in the process of updating itsSermons & Spiritual Reflections archive and we’re asking for your help with this undertaking. If you have given a sermon recently (within the last year) on issues relating to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender equality – becoming an affirming congregation, LGBT public policy issues, responding to youth suicides and bullying, inviting LGBT sisters & brothers to the table, overcoming oppression, etc – we’d love to feature your words of wisdom as a resource for others in the community seeking inspiration.
Please send sermons, spiritual reflections, speeches, op-eds, liturgical resources, blessings, etc toreligion@hrc.org. In that email please include your title, name, congregation/organization, date the sermon was delivered, and any other information you deem necessary so that we may properly cite and attribute the content provided. All submissions for our Sermons and Spirituals Reflections resource page will be vetted prior to posting and due to volume constraints we cannot guarantee our ability to post all materials submitted.
Thank you very much for your contributions and assistance,
~ Joanna
Joanna Blotner | Religion & Faith Program Coordinator | Human Rights Campaign Foundationjoanna.blotner@hrc.org | 202.572.8973 | 866.892.7459 (fax)
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