Thanks to Antje Anderson, Faculty at Hastings College and Sponsor for the Alliance GSA at Hastings College for the informative email BELOW with historical summary and encouragement to go hear Jimmy Creech next week on Oct 12 in Central NE at Hastings College at 10 am and 7 PM both in French Chapel - during Coming Out week! Coming Out Day is Oct 11.
Jimmy Creech will be at other events in Omaha for Coming Out Day and week that were sent out recently (or go to Omaha PFLAG newsletter online) - let's welcome him back to Nebraska in Christian love.
We hope you can go either in the morning or evening to hear him or do the reading / signing / reception at 7 PM also in French Chapel. It is on the semi circle on campus and you cannot miss it. Google Hastings college for a campus map. Your life will be enriched spiritually if you go! Take Reconciling on the Road to Hastings!
Join us in welcoming Jimmy and Chris back to NE to hear Jimmy's story of courage and witness -
peace maureen and mena, Open Hearts Reconciling Community, Grand Island, NE -we gather every other month during the school year at Trinity UMC as a support group of reconciling friends of various faith traditions.
NOTE: Nov 12 there will be a special LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR Event coming to Trinity UMC G Island from 10 am to 3 PM sponsored by RMN *Reconciling Ministry Network, MFSA (Methodist Federation for Social Action over 100 years old address important social issues of our day) and Affirmation!
Be watching for registration and details on Nov 12 - you are invited to join us for this event as well! * www.RMNetwork.org Open Hearts Reconciling Community is an OFFICIAL Reconciling Community along with four others in NE : AWE and RUMOLA in Lincoln, Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Community and Omaha First umc!
We have over 300 Reconciling United Methodists in NE - let's get to 400 RUM's this year! Sign up online: www.RMNetwork.org
You can start a reconciling group with two or three people in your area sharing your faith journeys. Contact us about ways to go through this process or to just gather folks around coffee, book study, Sunday school, choir, going green, missions or rainbow art / crafts!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anderson, Antje" <aanderson@hastings.edu>
To: "Faculty and Staff" <FacultyandStaff@hastings.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 6:24 AM
Subject: GLBT History Month Speaker Jimmy Creech, October 12, 10 am and 7 pm in French Memorial Chapel
One more notification on behalf of the Alliance:
Please mark your calendars for next Wednesday, October 12, when Jimmy Creech is coming to campus as our GLBT History Month speaker.
Jimmy Creech is here for Chapel service at 10 am and for a reading and book signing for his new book, Adam's Gift, at 7 pm (also in the Chapel). Many of you were here when he came about a dozen years ago to speak on campus, after having just been ousted as a pastor for uniting a lesbian couple in 1997.
The website of the organization he founded, Faith in America, provides the more detailed back story:
Creech was appointed senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Omaha, Nebraska, in July of 1996. Charges were brought against him for violating the Order and Discipline of the United Methodist Church after he celebrated a covenant ceremony for two women in September of 1997. He was acquitted during the church trial but charges were again filed against him by the Methodist Church in 1999 after he celebrated the holy union of two men in Chapel Hill, N.C.. The jury in that trial declared Creech guilty of “disobedience to the Order and Discipline of The United Methodist Church” and withdrew his credentials of ordination.
Since the summer of 1998, Creech has traveled around the country preaching in churches and speaking on college and university campuses, as well as to various community and national gay rights organizations. He recently completed writing a book, entitled Adam’s Gift, about his experiences of the Church’s struggle to welcome and accept lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons.
Source: http://www.faithinamerica.org/
We are thrilled to have Jimmy, who comes to us from North Carolina, come for another campus visit, and hope you will attend and spread the word to your students, colleagues, and friends. Of course the events are free and open to the public.
Antje Anderson, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Languages and Literatures
Hastings College
710 N. Turner Avenue
Hastings, NE 68901
U.S.A.
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