Dear Reconciling Friends in NE and beyond:
Another Year of Great Spiritual Awakening!
Here is the LINK for the NPR Radio interview with Jimmy Creech this morning! .. His new book ADAM'S Gift is out now through Duke U Press through amazon and other online sources. The NE MFSA Scholarship in Jimmy's name will be given at the NE MFSA Dinner May 31 in Lincoln .. you do not have to be a member of NE MFSA to attend (see below)
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/netradio/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1793114
Read about Jimmy's spiritual and justice journey in this book or find other inclusive and awakening books for a book group with friends this summer -- Telling our stories! Remember to : 1) Give to RMN for the many ministries and 2) become a Reconciling United Methodist in a group by signing the card and plegde -- or by going online : www.RMNetwork.org
Support for Resolutions, Petitions : Be watching for the Annual Conference Workbook that will be coming out in May that will have Petitions for General Conference on Inclusiveness -- and Resolutions for our Annual Conference on UM Global AIDS fund, being fully inclusive as a UMC!
Note for Support: Rev Dave McCreary has gathered signatures on a Resolution to have all of our churches study the retired bishops' statement of counsel to the church regarding eliminating references to homosexuality in the Discipline. I hope you can get the word out to support it at the AC. Thanks Dave!
SUMMER EMAIL OFFERING IS COMING IN MAY! Support our NEBRASKA STATEWIDE RECONCILING NETWORK and our yearly commitment to RMN for their many ministries! We are an Email group and an official Reconciling community or an EMAIL CHURCH of sorts! All the persons who send out email are volunteers and doing this on their own time and their own computers! Be sure to thank them for keeping our email lists up to date, sending out email and info as a faith commitment! To give to Summer Email offering : send checks made to RMN and then mail them to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake Lane, Grand Island, NE 68801 .. i will record the gifts and send them in entirety to RMN.. we have no bank account and we do all of our statewide email work with no budget or memberships per se.. just folks who care! thanks! Our May 11 Birthday fundraiser lunches will be our kickoff for SUMMER Email offering!
May 5 : Mayors Prayer Breakfast Lincoln : Celebrate Diversity: contact Donna Lightbody or Christ UMC Lincoln for info
May 11, Wed, 12:15 PM noon: BIRTHDAY PARTY FUNDRAISER LUNCH : The Egg and I, Clocktower Plaza, corner of 70th and A Street, Lincoln : TWO MISSION causes this year: rather than giving cards and gifts to friends during the year for birthdays -- bring a calendar to record birthdays of friends and your gifts for causes! You can do this too - support your local group, NE Statewide Reconciling Network Summer Email Offering by giving to RMN through our NE group -- and UM Global AIDS fund! *
May 14, 15: CHANGE THE WORLD Sunday and Weekend in the UMC! Do Actions to Change the world! Purchase the book by Mike Slaughter : Change the World -- through Cokesbury Publishing, go online for info! Do a book study!
May 31 : Tuesday, NE MFSA Dinner at the new Trinity UMC, Lincoln, 6 PM :
Dr Don Messer Speaking: "Stigma, Human Rights and the Battle Against AIDS" - also Learn more about General Conference 2012, resolutions, petitions, and candidates, other social justice issues, Jimmy Creech Profile of Justice Scholarship will be given for the 12th year
Come be inspired to do more social justice and missions outreach! Tell your friends.. you do not have to be an MFSA member to attend!
For tickets contact Susan Davies Omaha, Steve Griffith Lincoln or request the E news from MFSA by writing Stephanie Ahlschwede: revsteph@bigmuddyumc.org or revsteph@cox.net More info coming after Easter!
MFSA is over 100 years old doing social justice as a caucus group in the UMC! Go online to read about Methodist Federation for Social Action: MFSA and RMN are working together for the CONVO SING A NEW SONG this summer! Go to: www.RMNetwork.org for the latest FLASHNET on the upcoming trial in June of Amy DeLong!
Send prayers!
June 1 - 4, 2011 : NE UM Annual Conference, St Marks UMC Lincoln, 84th street south: www.umcneb.org
We will have 2 INFO tables, VOLUNTEERS needed at TWO tables :
1) Reconciling table contact Betty @ bobcdorr@cox.net &
2) UM global AIDS fund table June 1 - 3 noon : mvetter@charter.net
June 3, 8:30 AM Worship, Special Offering for UM Global AIDS fund, St Marks UMC, Lincoln
Make checks for the Special offering June 3: to Conf Treas - in the memo put :
NE Advance # 578, Global AIDS so that 25% stay in NE for local AIDS projects!
* TWO MISSION and JUSTICE Causes for the Birthday Lunch Fundraiser May 11 in Lincoln at the Egg and I, 12:15 PM:
1) Summer Email offering for RMN as our yearly commitment for NE Statewide Reconciling Network (we are an official reconciling community through RMN) www.nebraskarum.blogspot.com or our facebook for groups!
2) UM Global AIDS fund: the new 20/20 Campaign to give $20 as often as you can to eliminate HIV AIDS by 2020! Info about Don Messer coming May 31 for MFSA dinner in Lincoln too! Our other challenge is $1 per member each year (2006) go to our new URL: www.umcneb.org/AIDS or www.umglobalaidsfund.org
(Checks to: RMN -- for Summer Email offering for NE Statewide - for UM Global AIDS: give to your local church in the check with NE Advance #578 Global AIDS in the memo area, make sure your local churches sends it to the Conf Treas in Lincoln so that 25 % stays in NE for local aids projects in NE or write the check to Conf Treas and we can send directly )
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Pride events this summer: Omaha Pride or Heartland Pride: June 25 is the parade, deadline to register June 15. Events scheduled for about a week around the June 25 date:
http://www.heartlandpride.org/ for details. The festival to 10th and Pacific for this year's event, halfway between Soul Desires and the Blue Flamingo, and just a few blocks from Dietz Memorial UMC.
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The Lincoln pride (Star City PRIDE) is always in July. This year here is the schedule:
Saturday, July 9 @ 9 pm Mr & Ms Star City PRIDE 2011 Pageant
Thursday, July 14 Comedy Kick-off @ Club Blue featureing Lyp Schtick (a comedy improve troop - depends are recommended)
Friday, July 15 Street Dance @ 18th & N (outside The Panic) with Alexandra St. James as the guest MC, Kristie Stremel doing an accoustic set and Boss Philly rocking the block down. Food vendors and beer garden will be open from 6 - midnight.
Saturday, July 16 Pride Festival @ 18th & N (outside The Panic) speakers/vendors/ performers starting at 2 pm and going through mid-night. Evening headliners = Alexandra St. James as the guest MC, Kristie Stremel and the 159ers, DJ Spence Love
Sunday, July 17 Post Pride Party @ The Q
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Do Rainbows of HOPE in your local churches with art shows, children's rainbows, make ribbons, stoles, find pins and leis to wear or take to the Reconciling table at Annual Conference! God's promise of HOPE came through the Rainbow in the sky after the rain!
Perhaps the rain is God's tears and God is crying with us -- and then come the Rainbows of hope and the flowers -- God is crying with us as a country comes from : the book, "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series, Morality for Beautiful girls, by Alexander McCall Smith p 209.
www.RMNetwork.org for Reconciling news and info, sign up today for Flashnet, etc SING A NEW SONG is coming!
www.cwac.us for info on Church Within a Church Movement in the UMC!
www.nebraskarum.blogspot.com for our new NE blog for NE statewide! we are an official Reconciling community as a statewide network.. support this work with our SUMMER Email offering starting in May!
Facebook groups: Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network Maureen and Wendy, NE RMN contacts
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