RECONCILING UM's in NE and friends:
www.RMNetwork.org 400 RUM's in NE : Sign on!
We have 73 AIDS Ambassadors in NE : let's get to 75!
We need one or more in every local church in NE!
Thanks to all who have given to the Spring Email Offering as our yearly commitment from Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network to RMN or Reconciling Ministries Network!
We have gathered $240 so far for this SPECIAL Email offeringbefore and after General Conference 2012 in Tampa this spring!
Our Goal of this Special Email Offering is $300 to $500 this spring and summer : to help support the COMMON WITNESS at General Conference through RMN, MFSA and other groups: and the many expenses to have a tabernacle tent air conditioned in the heat, meals each day at noon, speakers each day, tables, chairs, media, newspapers daily, the common witness each day and a protest for justice in the UMC!
Thanks to all persons who went to General Conference and for many who paid their own way to attend the Common Witness for a week, a few days or the whole eleven days : or Lighten the Burden IV Conference on HIV AIDS just ahead of GC 2012 in tampa.
We are looking for HOPE FOR TOMORROW again and turning our frustrations and heartbreaks into actions and telling our stories! Start a Reconciling Support group or become an AIDS Ambassador today : contact andrewb@nap.org . As AIDS Ambassadors we promote offerings for UM Global AIDS fund and other fundraising if possible, we send prayers and we give ourselves! www.umglobalaidsfund.com andwww.umcneb.org/AIDS
Become part of the 2020 Campaign to eliminate HIV AIDS by 2020 : www.2020AIDSfreeworld.org We have 73 AIDS Ambassadors in NE now and we would love to get to 75 by Annual Conference with one or more in each local church advocating for persons living with HIV AIDS and UM Global AIDS fund!
Thanks for all the prayers of SUPPORT!
The folks who have given as DONORS to this Special Email offering thus far for a total of $240 :
Bob and Betty Dorr : Reconciling Table Reservation and copies for Annual Conference in June
Linda Kastning, Ponca NE
Maureen and Jay Vetter, Lincoln NE in memory of Rev Nye Bond
Emogene and John Whitten, Omaha First UMC
Ruth and Lowen Kruse, Omaha First UMC
Joan and Lloyd Byerhof, Omaha First UMC and Florida
Loren and Iola Mullins, Omaha First UMC
Send your gift today by writing your check to RMN and then sending it to : Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake Lane, Grand island, NE 68801 Maureen will send all the checks to RMN then as our gifts this spring from Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network!
Actions : You can help at the Reconciling Table at Annual Conference June 6 - 9 in Lincoln at St Marks UMC : bobcdorr@cox.net
You can help at the UM Global AIDS fund table : contact Sarah Ashleysashley@nebrwesleyan.edu or Bill Black co chairs starting march 15 : biobb@bellsouth.net
You can be on a new District HIV AIDS team in each District or become and AIDS Ambassador!
Contact the same persons!
June 5 : NE MFSA Dinner : info just went out via email : contact Susan Davies, Omaha, Soul Desires Bookstore
June 7 : Special Offering for UM Global AIDS fund at 8:30 am worship
June 8 : NOON, Reconciling Birthday Lunch : Dino's on 84th ST in Lincoln south of A Street near St Marks UMC : RSVP to Liz Bady to attend : lizabethjoan@aol.com The party room holds about 20 people so beyond 20 people folks can eat in the main restaurant : all will order off the menu : celebrate birthdays of persons (bring your calendar) and birthdays of our groups : 15 years this summer for RUMOLA! It started summer of l997 at Cornerstone UMHE at a potluck with about a dozen people! Give gifts to RMN rather than cards and gifts to friends for the work or RMN through our Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network of friend! Let's keep growing our circle of friends : we have about 400 RUM's in NE! Sign up today: www.RMNetwork.org
June 9 : Queen's Birthday Party, MONA Kearney for NAP kearney as a fundraiser : starts with tea at 3 PM and silent ART AUCTION at Museum of NE ART and more! join in the fun in central NE after Annual Conf!
July : School of Christian Mission Kearney : if you can volunteer at an INFO Table for UM Global AIDS fund and Reconciling (one table we are hoping) please contact Andrew Brackett in Kearney : andrewb@nap.org or Evie Gulachi Johnson
Pride Events this summer in Lincoln and Omaha! Go and participate or have a table with info!
Event in KS in August for NE and KS Reconciling folks : more info coming
AIDS walks in the fall and Coming OUT Day in Oct : find friends to start a Reconciling support group, a book group or coffee group! contact Maureen or Wendy if you are interested! mvetter@charter.net and wsmith28@gmail.com
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Here is a LETTER we received up on returning from General Conference in Tampa : from Rev Carolyn Dickinson, pastor at Community Presbyterian Church, Minatare NE : thanks for sharing Carolyn and helping in our way west reconciling work! We celebrate with you in the final vote this week to replace the non inclusive language with inclusive language out west in the Plains and Peaks Presbytery!
My deepest sympathies for the lack of progress and the animosity of the General Conference. That is certainly not the Methodist Church in which I was raised. (Or maybe it is. I don't remember the battle over the ordination of women.) It seems to be more like the political division this country is experiencing, not the way followers of Christ behave.
On the other hand, this particular presbytery (Plains and Peaks) finally voted (I hope for the last time) to be more inclusive. You remember that the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted last fall to remove the ordination ban on gays and lesbians, and we were part of the positive vote. Our Presbytery followed that with a complete reversal, adding the "fidelity and chastity, marriage between a man and a woman" stuff to the sexual abuse policy.
In October we tried to rescind that amendment. The leadership finally decided to allow some time for discussion (not that 40 years is not long enough). In February we had small group conversations, and today we had the final vote. (At least, I hope it's the final vote.) After a series of votes leading up to the climax, they voted 62 to 49 with 1 abstention to replace the bad language with good language. A long sigh of relief!
Carolyn Dickinson
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”—Alvin Toffler, futurist
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Become a Reconciling UM today : go to www.RMNetwork.org and sign on! We have about 400 RUM's in NE and FIVE Reconciling communities along with our Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network of friends!
The five official communities are : Omaha First umc (official Reconciling congregation), RUMOLA Lincoln, AWE Lincoln at Christ UMC, Open hearts Reconciling Community at Trinity UMC G Island along with our Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network as an email community of friends and an OFFICIAL Reconciling community!
Celebrate our groups and birthdays June 8 at noon in Lincoln during Annual conference : at Dino's party room on 84th st during Annual conf! RSVP to Liz Bady today : lizabethjoan@aol.com The party room holds 20 people so RSVP today and others can sit in the restaurant : we will all order off the menu! They have great sweet potato french fries!
Start a reconciling support group of friends at your church or group : choir, UMW, SS class, youth group, book group, coffee group, smoothie group or hiking group, movie group, a friendship group today!
Facebook page: Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network
Facebook : Nebraska UM Global AIDS fund
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