NE Statewide Reconciling friends: Spiritual Awakenings are all around us! Enjoy the Beauty and Wonder of Spring!
Get together with friends and make new friends.. Reconciling goes on the ROAD: www.nebraskarum.blogspot.com
May 5 Mayor's Interfaith Prayer Breakfast Lincoln SEE INFO BELOW ------ Encourage Diversity and story telling!
May 11 : 12:15 PM, Birthday fundraiser Lunch Meetup : The EGG and I Restaurant in Lincoln, Clocktower Mall (70th and A Street) : Birthday Fundraiser Lunch for NE Statewide Reconciling Network, jumpstarting the Summer Email offering at THE EGG AND I with friend over lunch! Instead of giving gifts and cards, give to RMN and go to lunch with friends! Bring your calendar to write down birthdays -- enjoy lunch and friendship!
May 31 : NE MFSA Dinner, Lincoln : info coming - special guest Dr Don Messer, Chair of UM Global AIDS fund and author of 15 books, former President of Iliff Seminary, Denver -- Director of the Center for Church and Global AIDS, Denver too! MFSA : METHODIST FEDERATION FOR SOCIAL ACTION founded over 100 years ago nationwide! Tell friends! www.mfsaweb.org UM Global AIDS fund and task force in NE www.umglobalaidsfund.org in NE: www.umcneb.org/AIDS
Website for the Center for the Church and Global AIDS, Denver co: www.churchandglobalaids.org
June 1 - 4, Lincoln Annual Conference, ST Marks UMC : Volunteers needed for the Reconciling INFO Table, contact betty : bobcdorr@cox.net , bring rainbow things and info to share locally & UM Global AIDS fund INFO table : Contact maureen mvetter@charter.net or Bill biobb@bellsouth.net with Don Messer coming May 31 & Special offerings will be taken for UM Global AIDS fund on Friday morning, june 3 at the morning worship service!
If you want to do a Birthday Fundraiser Lunch during Annual Conference and raise money for NE Statewide Reconciling Network Summer Email offering, just let us know! mvetter@charter.net and wsmith28@gmail.com
Summer : PRIDE Events in Lincoln and Omaha and SING A NEW SONG Event is coming in Aug : early bird special is coming soon for registration : www.RMNetwork.org and www.mfsaweb.org For Progressive and inclusive United Methodists to gather to reach out!
Jimmy Creech's new book : "ADAMS GIFT a memoir.... " is out now through Duke U press.. see Jimmy's FACEBOOK to get more info on his upcoming speaking engagements and events telling his story. Other books and resources are available through www.RMNetwork.org and go to Church Within a church as well for books, new awakenings: www.cwac.us
Create a RAINBOW CRATE with books and movies for your local church or support group, friends, Sunday school class! Do Rainbows of HOPE through art shows, children's art, rainbow tables, bake sales, lunches, meetups, movies, suitcase or basket with pins, stoles, ribbons and more! Do Rainbow service projects -- missions and outreach! Collaborate with PFLAG groups, other faiths and NAP in your area www.nap.org
Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, Lincoln, NE :
“Welcome the Stranger” is the theme of the Thursday, May 5, Mayor’s
Interfaith Prayer Breakfast. The October 10, 2010, Parade section of the Sunday
paper featured several Lincoln Mideast refugee families and referred to Lincoln’s
designation as “refugee friendly” by the U.S. State Department in the 1970’s.
Do our cities, towns, communities and state continue to be "refugee friendly"?
The featured speaker will be Amir Azimi, a native of Iran who received his
college degrees from UNL and has been involved with diversity and crosscultural
communication training since 1982. Mr. Azimi is currently the
Administrator of Support Services for the Nebraska Department of Health and
Human Services. His message is “Everyone Has a Story, and This is Mine.”
Tickets to this event can be purchased in the church office for $20 per person.
The 7:30 a.m. breakfast will be at the Embassy Suites, with doors opening at
7:00 a.m. For more information, please call the office, or Donna Lightbody at
(402) 435-3662.
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Group FACEBOOK: for Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network - Grow the number of friends!
Become a Reconciling United Methodist Today: go to www.RMNetwork.org and go to SIGN UP!
Tell your stories as you are Called to Witness through stories - Believe out LOUD, Take Reconciling on the Road and do lunches, meetups, plan ways for reaching out to others....
Create SAFE PLACES and SUPPORT Groups for GLBT's and allies as reconciling communities and book groups, coffee groups, mission groups, outreach groups -- as we discover another GREAT YEAR of SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS! Seek out spiritual partners and persons different from us this Holy Week coming!
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