Open hearts folks : here are a few dates to get on your calendar for fall - see you then if not before - support pride events and other GLBT events, diversity events this summer!
Sept 18 : AIDS walks in NE (www.nap.org ) Get a team together to walk at Hastings college and U of NE at kearney in the AIDS Walks across NE - get friends together, colleagues, families, church friends, neighbors etc!
Sept 19 : MONDAY NIGHT - We are JOINING with Hastings PFLAG for our Sept gathering on a MONDAY NIGHT this year!! - This will be our Sept get together for Open hearts as we join with the Hastings PFLAG folks and the Hastings College alliance!
Get this on your calendar early as we will be providing the POTLUCK food for the Hastings College Alliance returning to Hastings College this fall! Our two groups are providing the food for that evening - I think the dinner will start about 5:30 PM but we watching for details - also a unique program too and often it is at the Student Union on the Hastings college campus - at the Hazellrigg union - be watching for details on this EVENT - this is the first time we are joining with HASTINGS PFLAG for an event other than supporting events together!
Coming out week : Oct 11 is Coming out DAY! Be watching for Special events in Nebraska! Get this week on your calendar as there are special events being planned at Hastings College chapel and around NE.
DIVERSITY SUMMER in Nebraska : Pride events in Omaha and Lincoln pride is in July!
1) Reading Challenge for Hassan this summer at TUMC, support Hassan one orphan at the UMC Orphange in Jalingo, Nigeria : read and get pledges or pledge yourself - bring in pledges by Aug 7 to Trinity UMC : Read CHANGE THE WORLD by Mike Slaughter (through cokesbury press) for $10 at our special price this summer at TUMC and discussions in July and Oct for Book share - dates and times TBA JOIN US in reading this book and any others you choose
2) Getting Active 4 AIDS 4 an AIDS Free world : get pledge forms at TUMC, G Island - canoe ride for most pledges by Labor day weekend : do by yourself or as a group
3) Ethnic Festival Grand island : this weekend! Art in the Park in July in Grand island! Support community!
4) FROGS store in Wolbach this summer : First Rural Organic Grocery store, Wolbach days this weekend!
5) GI YWCA Garden Tour day : july 7 The YWCA's goal is Eliminating Racism! Get tickets at Ace or call the YWCA in G Island for info
6) Grain Place Organic Farm Tour day July 9, Marquette, NE (see website) Support Locally grown foods, farmers markets, grocery stories : also NE FOOD coop online - check out events at PPRI or Praire Plains Resource Center, Aurora and their Ed programs : www.prairieplains.org
7) Read GLBT movies, books, have meetups, Rainbow Art shows and more : "Adam's Gif" by Jimmy creech is published! Find it online today - Read it and others renewing, enlightening books this summer - share books, movies for our Open Hearts Rainbow Crate this fall -
8) Give to the Summer Email offering for Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network as our yearly commitment as a Statewide EMAIL network of friends - all gifts go directly to RMN offices in Chicago for their many ministries this summer and with General conference coming next spring.
Write checks to RMN and send to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake lane, Grand island, NE 68801 - she will send them in for the statewide network of friends -we are to $220 and our goal is $250 or more this summer for GLBT ministries and giving support at the Amy DeLong trial, SING A NEW SONG convo coming and more!
Our Open hearts group is FIVE years old this Nov and our statewide group is SIX years old as an official network this fall - RUMOLA in Lincoln is 14 years old this summer and Omaha first umc has been a Reconciling congregation for 11 years - General Conference for the UMC is next April in Tampa, Florida - thanks to all volunteers in all of our groups and those doing emailing to get out info for events, meetups, gatherings! Give to your local Reconciling support group so that we can all send in our commitments to RMN each year!
9) Info on SING A NEW SONG CONVO is on the RMN website: www.RMNetwork.org Send prayers to Amy DeLong and all affected by the recent church trial in WI - for the story : www.umc.org or go towww.RMNetwork.org and future flashnets - sign up today as a Reconciling United Methodist online and sign onto the petitions, statements we have been sending out! Take action, tell your stories, take reconciling on the road to events and have a summer of spiritual awakenings!
10) Let's celebrate NY marriage equality about to become law in six states now! Let's celebrate Becca Preisendorf being the recipient of the Jimmy Creech Profile of Justice Scholarship this year - she is the 12th recipient so the witness of Jimmy lives on as it encourages students to be active in justice work! If you have a gift for the new GSA at GISH - make your check to GSA, GISH and get it to Becca or Cindi McDowell her mom.
Have a GREAT summer - Maureen vetter and Mena Sprague, Open Hearts contacts, email
PS SPECIAL THANKS TO MENA FOR HELPING OUT WITH EMAIL THIS SUMMER and Early fall!
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