Blog note: I can't actually attach the Word documents here in the blog. Email Wendy or Maureen if you need the attachments.
You are invited by the Wide is God's Welcome Reconciling group from Kansas UMC to submit individual Petitions to Amend the book of Discipline in the UMC at General Conference next spring in Tampa, Florida : instructions attached and deadline is Sept 27. SEE ATTACHMENTS!
Some UMC Annual Conferences have submitted Petitions to General Conference, some churches and UM Groups have - and now individuals can also submit Petitions to 2012 General Conference in Tampa, FLORIDA -- to change the Discipline to be more inclusive for persons of all sexual orienations and gender identities participating fully in the UMC!
Remember SING A NEW SONG in your prayers - we have a few people going from NE - see info on this Convo sponsored by MFSA and RMN : www.RMNetwork.org
Remember Summer Email Offerings can be given to support our commitment yearly to RMN by our Nebraska Statewide Reconciling network of friends, volunteers and supporters -
Make checks to RMN and send to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake Lane, Grand Island, NE 68801 this summer!
Our goal as an offcial community as the Nebraska statewide reconciling network is $250 for 2011 and hopefully we can EXCEED that amount with General Conference coming next spring - we will acknowledge all the donors this fall - be a GIVER to Reconciling ministries through our NE network of Friends : check our new Facebook: Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network and become a FRIEND and check out our new blog : www.Nebrasakrum.blogspot.com
give to RMN to support the UMC becoming fully inclusive through their offices staff, ministries and convos like this summer telling our stories, resources and more!
Events: Aug 1, memorial service for Garnett Bond, long time supporter of Reconciling work, RMN, Rumola at Christ UMC Lincoln, NE - 10:30 AM
Sept 18 : AIDS walks in NE www.nap.org get a team together
Sept 19 : Alliance, Hastings Pflag and Open Hearts Potluck at hastings college : GRAND POTLUCK - bring food to welcome back students in the alliance group at hastings college!
Oct 11 : Coming out day and week - be watching for events coming -
Get together with Reconciling friends - have a BBQ this summer, fall - have a coffee support group, book group, Birthday party coffee meetup and give gifts to RMN rather than cards and gifts to each other - share books, movies, fundraisers, AIDS projects, walks and more!
Reconciling folks in NE - contacts, volunteers and friends ! SEE ACTION BELOW -
-------- Begin forwarded message --------
Subject: petition to amend 161.B
Date: 7/21/11 11:57:11 AM
From: "wigw-kc" <wigw-kc@hotmail.com>
To: wigw-kc@hotmail.com
The members of the WIGW-KC Steering Committee have decided to individually submit copies of a petition to General Conference regarding amending Paragraph 161.B in the Book of Discipline. We invite you to submit your own copy if you wish and to share it with as many friends as possible. The petition and instructions are attached to this email. Note that petitions must be submitted by September 27!
Please reply to this message if you have questions.ThanksJeanette Grenz, Communication Chair
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of Wide Is God’s Welcome - KC is to strengthen the Body of Christ through the full inclusion in the United Methodist Church of persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
VISION STATEMENT
This mission will be fulfilled as we unite Kansas City area United Methodists for education, advocacy, and empowerment.
Showing posts with label summer offering. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network : Actions in NE: The Trial of Amy DeLong Has Begun : LOVE ON TRIAL
NE Statewide Reconciling United Methodists and friends: '
This is a time of pain and change, LOVE ON TRIAL - let's respond through our faith that gives us strength to know we are all CHILDREN OF GOD and we are ALL loved by God even during painful church trials, messiness and change!
We can get through this by our faith actions, responses - and becoming proactive - as givers, signers, activists and missionaries!
Actions: Send prayers, Sign Petitions, Give offerings, Write friends, Send love!
With the Trial of Amy DeLong this week and info below we have a few actions to send along with PRAYERS Daily this week ------- FOR ALL THOSE INVOLVED in the trial in Wisconsin -
1) Rev Gil Caldwell sent us the info on the Petition by Church Within A Church and the link to sign on TODAY- let's grow the list of names from Nebraska and beyond:
Colleagues for your information; The 592nd signature on our statement is that of my long-time
friend and colleague; The Rev. Dr.Yap Kim Hao, former Bishop of the Methodist Church in
Singapore and Malaysia. It would be great if you could secure additonal signatures from the USA,
or international, gay and straight, regardless of faith or non-faith perspective and inclusive of all races.
Share with your friends and colleagues the following link for their signature:
Gil Caldwell
ps Would be great if persons at the Amy DeLong trial would sign (or others too)
2) Give to the Summer Email Offering for Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network -- as all of our gifts to directly to RMN for their ministries at the trial and SING A NEW SONG CONVO this summer - on behalf of our NEBRASKA Statewide Reconcliling network of friends!
Just make your love gift and check to RMN and then send it to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake Lane, Grand Island, NE 68801 - She will send it on to RMN on behalf of our network of friends in NE - We are at $120 sent in to Chicago offices for RMN - and hoping for $250 to send in for our yearly commitment. Last year we sent in over $500! We will list the donors in our email news -
3) Write friends about these actions and grow the circle of friends in Nebraska and beyond! WE have about 380 RUM"s in Nebraska and we want to get to 400 this summer! Go towww.RMNetwork.org to become a Reconciling United Methodist - do this action -
Send prayers of love and see the info below about LOVE ON TRIAL - from Reconciling Ministries Network - we are hoping that we can keep making change even through the deep pain and sadness of church trials for persons in loving committed relationships and doing loving ministry~
Check out our blog : www.Nebraskarum.blogspot.
Another Year of Great spiritual awakenings! Believe Out Loud! Called to Witness! SING A NEW SONG! Take Reconciling on the Road in Nebraska!
Maureen Vetter and Wendy Smith, Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network contact, PRN contacts, local contacts and Email contacts! Recruit youth and young adults in local reconciling groups!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
NE Statewide Reconciling Network Summer: REJOICE with us! Another year of Great spiritual awakenings!
We REJOICE in all of the RUMs in NE (Reconciling United Methodists) and friends around the globe!
We say thanks to YOU for being a part of Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network!
We REJOICE that some of you are AIDS Ambassadors too! -We have about Sixty AIDS Ambassadors now in NE ! T
Thanks so much for all the volunteering hours and energy!
www.RMNetwork.org www.umcneb.org/AIDS www.umglobalaidsfund.org
Facebook : Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network Blog: www.Nebraskarum.blogspot.com
WE REJOICE in the RAINBOWS of Hope ART SHOW at Christ UMC Lincoln in June - we hope you can view this show in the GREAT Hall or do one in your church! View it in June before it goes down this summer.
We REJOICE that nearly 200 Rainbow Stoles were given out at the RMN table and three boxes of info with lots of hugs! Thanks to Betty Dorr and friends again!
We REJOICE in the offering of $8,306.07 for UM Global AID Fund at the NE Annual Conference June 3 at morning worship! This is a MIRACLE to help others and help us be transformed! Thanks Bill Black for introducing the offering and all who worked at the UM Global AIDS fund task force table and organized it !
25 % will stay in NE to help with local AIDS projects (see www.umcneb.org/AIDS)
WE REJOICE in Becca Preisendorf, Grand Island Trinity UMC, being the 12th recipient of the NE MFSA Jimmy Creech Profile of Justice Scholarship!
We REJOICE in the news from the Presbyterians, USA on Gay Ordination! (along with UCC (former Congregational) , ELCA Lutherans, and the Episcopal Church!
We REJOICE IN the HEARTLAND STATEMENT of INCLUSION has been signed by 100 clergy in NE and the surrounding area with the Event at the Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge Bridge this Wed -- including River City chorus at 6 PM June 15 in Omaha! Contact Rev Jane Florence Pastor : janeflorence@gmail.com
She has a posting about this event our new Facebook about it : go to Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network and Add friends too!
We REJOICE in the two statements to sign affirming Gay ordination as Clergy and laity : RMN has one on their website www.RMNetwork.org and Church Within a Church has one ( www.cwac.us )
Google the following for the one with CWAC: "End UMC discrimination against Gays and Lesbians": An Unprecedented Statement drafted and shared by 9 black clergy and scholars -- now they want ALL persons to sign on! They have 576 Signatures and invite YOU!
REJOICE : in Don Messer, Chair of the UM Global AIDS Fund, coming to NE last week to share his moving stories on Stigma and HIV AIDS at the NE MFSA Annual Dinner ~!
We REJOICE in Pride events and SING A NEW SONG CONVO this summer - www.RMNetwork.org Go to HRC as they need volunteers : www.hrc.org
We REJOICE in persons who volunteer to keep the Reconciling email going, meetups, support groups! We invite you to give to the Summer Email Offering!
We REJOICE in the UM Global AIDS Fund Task Force nearly two years old this September in NE!
We REJOICE in the 70 UMC Clergy in MN who have signed a Statement to do same sex unions recently (see links in recent reconciling emails or go online)
We REJOICE in the news from Jeanette Grenz from KS East and "Wide is God's Welcome" Reconciling Communicator that all GLBT Petitions to General Conference in KS East Conference passed with an overwhelming Majority! Way to go KS East folks! Did you know that KS UMC has eight Reconciling Communities?
We just received word that the FREEDOM TO MARRY Organization has events planned all over the USA this week and weekend - Evan Wolfson the leader of Freedom to Marry spoke at the RMN CONVO last year on a panel on marriage and spoke at NWU once during the DOMA discussions in NE. See his interviews and about the events planned across the USA June 18 and this week more:
http://freedomtomarry.org/lush
We REJOICE in the showing of the movie TWO SPIRITS this week on June 16 at NET with sharing after by Rev Stephen Griffith:
*/Two Spirits/* will be shown on Thursday, June 16, at 6 p.m. CT at NET,
1800 No. 33rd Street in Lincoln, as this season’s final offering of
NET’s “Coffee and Conversation in the Community” film and discussion
series. A discussion will follow the screening, led by Reverend Stephen
Griffith, Minister to the Community, Saint Paul United Methodist Church
in Lincoln.
*//*
*/Two Spirits/* tells compelling stories about traditions that were once
widespread among the indigenous cultures of North America. Through the
tragic events Fred Martinez, a /nádleehí/, male-bodied person with a
feminine nature, the film explores the contemporary lives and history of
Native two-spirit people — who combine the traits of both men and women
with qualities that are also unique to individuals who express multiple
genders.
http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2011/06/two-spirits-story-of-murdered-navaho-teen-to-air-nationally-on-pbs-independent-lens/
We REJOICE in the UNITY Walk planned in Grand Island June 25 Saturday along with the ETHNIC FESTIVAL: celebrate diversity! Registration is at 9:45 am at 1306 W 3rd Street - the first 100 people receive a t shirt!
WE REJOICE that RUMOLA (Reconciling United Methodists of the Lincoln Area) is 14 years old this summer in Lincoln as an official Reconciling community! Thanks to Liz Bady for doing the email for RUMOLA the last six years - their hope is to attend as many events as possible to support GLBT persons and rights: to take RECONCILING ON THE ROAD and attend events, give support and create safe places!
RUMOLA started with a gathering of a few folks on a hot summer night the summer of l997 and six emails were taken that night -- our whole network springs from these six emails - it was held at Cornerstone the summer of l997 with a small group of folks and a POTLUCK! If you were there that night contact Maureen mvetter@charter.net
We REJOICE that OPEN HEARTS Reconciling Community is five years old this Nov!
We REJOICE that Omaha First UMC has been a Reconciling Congregation for 11 years! They had their 10th anniversary Celebration last summer!
We REJOICE that now we have a Reconciling Main Emailer again in the North Platte Area for RUM's! Thanks to Robert Wheeler for giving time and energy to get set up and start emailing info -- with support from Jo Macintosh! THANKS!
REJOICE WITH US:
1) that we have over 300 RUM's in NE now - Betty and others signed up new RUM's last week : ( Betty do you mind checking to see if our numbers have grown this summer and get a new updated list for a few of us from RMN? ) If you are not an RUM, go to www.RMNetwork.org today and sign up! check out the website too!
2) Betty Dorr, Omaha First umc, PRN contact (parents reconciling network) and friends gave away almost
200 Rainbow Stoles last week at the Reconciling table and created a safe place at the table for questions, support and God's love -- they gave out 3 boxes of info and lots of hugs! Thanks to Bob and Betty for donating the cost of the table and copying for many years! I would guess there has been a reconciling table(s) for fifteen -TWENTY years now - it is time for change in the UMC!
3) We signed up about five or six new AIDS Ambassadors at the UM Global AIDS fund table so we have almost sixty AIDS Ambassadors in local congregations now in only two years! We invite you to sign up as an AIDS Ambassador by emailing Andrew Brackett : andrewb@nap.org or maureen vetter mvetter@charter.net
You mainly 1) promote the offering Dec 4 and other times 2) give to offerings yourself 3) send prayers!
Check out our new URL at the conference website : www.umcneb.org/AIDS
4) We had great offerings for UM Global AIDS Fund with a Special offering Friday morning $8306.07 --Thanks Bill Black, Lincoln Trinity UMC - for introducing the offering! We also had a spontaneous offering after Don Messer spoke at the MFSA dinner totally $900 that is part of the total a week ago - you will hear more about the 20/20 campaign - giving $20 whenever you can : Visioning an AIDS free world by 2020 www.umglobalaidsfund.org
5) Lighten the Burden IV the HIV AIDS conference is coming April 23, 2012 to Tampa, FL and organized totally by volunteers -- it was in Dallas last Oct and we had two people from NE attending - bill and maureen - we would love to have a TEAM go from NE this time! www.umglobalaidsfund.org
6) Sing a NEW SONG Convo is coming this summer organized by MFSA and RMN ! Check it out at www.RMNetwork.org We have THREE people going from NE that we know about : Bob and Betty Dorr, Zach Anderson LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE GOING! Some us went last time and will never forget the singing and spirit of inclusiveness!
7) Steve Griffith, Saint Paul UMC attended the RMN SUMMIT meeting this past year and is reflecting after the movie TWO SPIRITS this Thurs evening at NET!
8) We have collected $120 so far for our SUMMER EMAIL OFFERING in NE : as our yearly commitment of $250 to RMN ministries. Our Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network (the email network of friends) is an official RECONCILING COMMUNITY in NE along with one in G Island, two in Lincoln and Omaha First umc!
Donors : Lloyd and Joan Byerhof, Cathy Denman for Maureen Vetter's birthday, Wendy and Eric Smith, Jenna and brian, Jim and Donna Lightbody, Maureen and Jay Vetter for birthdays of friends
We invite you to make your checks to RMN and send to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake lane, G Island, NE 6880l Maureen will record them and send them on as our NE Statewide yearly gift together as an email community!
9) Becca Preisendorf is the 12th Recipient of the MFSA Jimmy Creech Profile of Justice Scholarship in NE. Becca is a member of Trinity UMC, G island and is headed to Hastings College this fall - she has been taking college credit classes and started the First GSA in G Island this past year with many challenges along the way!
You can see Becca on the Jimmy Creech Adams Gift Facebook - go to - Jimmy Creech Adam's Gift!
This $1000 yearly Scholarship honors a student active in Justice ministry each year and honors Jimmy Creech and his witness among us for GLBT Justice - was given May 31 at the Annual MFSA Dinner in Lincoln at Trinity UMC - We rejoice in the new GSA that was started in Grand Island by Becca! She shared at our February meeting for Open Hearts and was nominated by the Open Hearts Reconciling Community in Grand Island, NE.
10) Go to our new FACEBOOK and ADD Friends! Search : Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network
11) Go to our new blog for info, Annual conference recap and comments, Events this summer in the Archives to the right, sign onto statements of inclusion, gay ordination : www.nebraskarum.blogspot.com
12) in Pride events this summer, AIDS Walks are coming Sept 18 across NE www.nap.org Coming out Day is Oct 11 - do a meetup with friends, form a support group, do a book share, have a Rainbow ART SHOW
13) in building collaborations with students at NWU this summer for HIV AIDS work
14) in four Reconciling communities in NE, one congregation, email contacts, local contacts and growing a circle of Friends across NE who care about a fully inclusive UMC and creating SAFE PLACES for all God's children!
15) a nearly two year old UM Global AIDS fund Task force that meets again Sept 19, 1 PM at Central Health Center, Grand Island (let us know if you are an AIDS Ambassador and have an interest on the task force or if you can be an AIDS ambassador in your local church, let us know! We need YOU!
Go to our new URL for more info : www.umcneb.org/AIDS for info on NE and www.umglobalaidsfund.org
16) that we have a new Email contact in the North Platte area :
Thanks to Robert Wheeler with help from Jo Macintosh and the Way West folks too : Carolyn Dickinson Scottsbluff and Mary Ellen Kilmer Harrison, NE
REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAYS - AGAIN I SAY REJOICE!
Maureen Vetter and Wendy Smith, NE Contacts for NE Statewide Reconciling Network of friends
PRN Contacts, Email contact, local contacts and recruit youth and young adult RUM's locally!
COLLABORATE with other GLBTgroups, GLBT Faith groups for Reconciling work, other faith traditions -- Health groups for HIV AIDS : become an AIDS Ambassador, start a task force locally: do a project with NAP in your area, start a testing site at your local church, learn where testing sites are in your area, contact NAP offices and collaborate with them --- GROW the circle of reconcilingfriends doing MISSIONS and reaching out to All of God's Children!
We say thanks to YOU for being a part of Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network!
We REJOICE that some of you are AIDS Ambassadors too! -We have about Sixty AIDS Ambassadors now in NE ! T
Thanks so much for all the volunteering hours and energy!
www.RMNetwork.org www.umcneb.org/AIDS www.umglobalaidsfund.org
Facebook : Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network Blog: www.Nebraskarum.blogspot.com
WE REJOICE in the RAINBOWS of Hope ART SHOW at Christ UMC Lincoln in June - we hope you can view this show in the GREAT Hall or do one in your church! View it in June before it goes down this summer.
We REJOICE that nearly 200 Rainbow Stoles were given out at the RMN table and three boxes of info with lots of hugs! Thanks to Betty Dorr and friends again!
We REJOICE in the offering of $8,306.07 for UM Global AID Fund at the NE Annual Conference June 3 at morning worship! This is a MIRACLE to help others and help us be transformed! Thanks Bill Black for introducing the offering and all who worked at the UM Global AIDS fund task force table and organized it !
25 % will stay in NE to help with local AIDS projects (see www.umcneb.org/AIDS)
WE REJOICE in Becca Preisendorf, Grand Island Trinity UMC, being the 12th recipient of the NE MFSA Jimmy Creech Profile of Justice Scholarship!
We REJOICE in the news from the Presbyterians, USA on Gay Ordination! (along with UCC (former Congregational) , ELCA Lutherans, and the Episcopal Church!
We REJOICE IN the HEARTLAND STATEMENT of INCLUSION has been signed by 100 clergy in NE and the surrounding area with the Event at the Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge Bridge this Wed -- including River City chorus at 6 PM June 15 in Omaha! Contact Rev Jane Florence Pastor : janeflorence@gmail.com
She has a posting about this event our new Facebook about it : go to Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network and Add friends too!
We REJOICE in the two statements to sign affirming Gay ordination as Clergy and laity : RMN has one on their website www.RMNetwork.org and Church Within a Church has one ( www.cwac.us )
Google the following for the one with CWAC: "End UMC discrimination against Gays and Lesbians": An Unprecedented Statement drafted and shared by 9 black clergy and scholars -- now they want ALL persons to sign on! They have 576 Signatures and invite YOU!
REJOICE : in Don Messer, Chair of the UM Global AIDS Fund, coming to NE last week to share his moving stories on Stigma and HIV AIDS at the NE MFSA Annual Dinner ~!
We REJOICE in Pride events and SING A NEW SONG CONVO this summer - www.RMNetwork.org Go to HRC as they need volunteers : www.hrc.org
We REJOICE in persons who volunteer to keep the Reconciling email going, meetups, support groups! We invite you to give to the Summer Email Offering!
We REJOICE in the UM Global AIDS Fund Task Force nearly two years old this September in NE!
We REJOICE in the 70 UMC Clergy in MN who have signed a Statement to do same sex unions recently (see links in recent reconciling emails or go online)
We REJOICE in the news from Jeanette Grenz from KS East and "Wide is God's Welcome" Reconciling Communicator that all GLBT Petitions to General Conference in KS East Conference passed with an overwhelming Majority! Way to go KS East folks! Did you know that KS UMC has eight Reconciling Communities?
We just received word that the FREEDOM TO MARRY Organization has events planned all over the USA this week and weekend - Evan Wolfson the leader of Freedom to Marry spoke at the RMN CONVO last year on a panel on marriage and spoke at NWU once during the DOMA discussions in NE. See his interviews and about the events planned across the USA June 18 and this week more:
http://freedomtomarry.org/lush
We REJOICE in the showing of the movie TWO SPIRITS this week on June 16 at NET with sharing after by Rev Stephen Griffith:
*/Two Spirits/* will be shown on Thursday, June 16, at 6 p.m. CT at NET,
1800 No. 33rd Street in Lincoln, as this season’s final offering of
NET’s “Coffee and Conversation in the Community” film and discussion
series. A discussion will follow the screening, led by Reverend Stephen
Griffith, Minister to the Community, Saint Paul United Methodist Church
in Lincoln.
*//*
*/Two Spirits/* tells compelling stories about traditions that were once
widespread among the indigenous cultures of North America. Through the
tragic events Fred Martinez, a /nádleehí/, male-bodied person with a
feminine nature, the film explores the contemporary lives and history of
Native two-spirit people — who combine the traits of both men and women
with qualities that are also unique to individuals who express multiple
genders.
http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2011/06/two-spirits-story-of-murdered-navaho-teen-to-air-nationally-on-pbs-independent-lens/
We REJOICE in the UNITY Walk planned in Grand Island June 25 Saturday along with the ETHNIC FESTIVAL: celebrate diversity! Registration is at 9:45 am at 1306 W 3rd Street - the first 100 people receive a t shirt!
WE REJOICE that RUMOLA (Reconciling United Methodists of the Lincoln Area) is 14 years old this summer in Lincoln as an official Reconciling community! Thanks to Liz Bady for doing the email for RUMOLA the last six years - their hope is to attend as many events as possible to support GLBT persons and rights: to take RECONCILING ON THE ROAD and attend events, give support and create safe places!
RUMOLA started with a gathering of a few folks on a hot summer night the summer of l997 and six emails were taken that night -- our whole network springs from these six emails - it was held at Cornerstone the summer of l997 with a small group of folks and a POTLUCK! If you were there that night contact Maureen mvetter@charter.net
We REJOICE that OPEN HEARTS Reconciling Community is five years old this Nov!
We REJOICE that Omaha First UMC has been a Reconciling Congregation for 11 years! They had their 10th anniversary Celebration last summer!
We REJOICE that now we have a Reconciling Main Emailer again in the North Platte Area for RUM's! Thanks to Robert Wheeler for giving time and energy to get set up and start emailing info -- with support from Jo Macintosh! THANKS!
REJOICE WITH US:
1) that we have over 300 RUM's in NE now - Betty and others signed up new RUM's last week : ( Betty do you mind checking to see if our numbers have grown this summer and get a new updated list for a few of us from RMN? ) If you are not an RUM, go to www.RMNetwork.org today and sign up! check out the website too!
2) Betty Dorr, Omaha First umc, PRN contact (parents reconciling network) and friends gave away almost
200 Rainbow Stoles last week at the Reconciling table and created a safe place at the table for questions, support and God's love -- they gave out 3 boxes of info and lots of hugs! Thanks to Bob and Betty for donating the cost of the table and copying for many years! I would guess there has been a reconciling table(s) for fifteen -TWENTY years now - it is time for change in the UMC!
3) We signed up about five or six new AIDS Ambassadors at the UM Global AIDS fund table so we have almost sixty AIDS Ambassadors in local congregations now in only two years! We invite you to sign up as an AIDS Ambassador by emailing Andrew Brackett : andrewb@nap.org or maureen vetter mvetter@charter.net
You mainly 1) promote the offering Dec 4 and other times 2) give to offerings yourself 3) send prayers!
Check out our new URL at the conference website : www.umcneb.org/AIDS
4) We had great offerings for UM Global AIDS Fund with a Special offering Friday morning $8306.07 --Thanks Bill Black, Lincoln Trinity UMC - for introducing the offering! We also had a spontaneous offering after Don Messer spoke at the MFSA dinner totally $900 that is part of the total a week ago - you will hear more about the 20/20 campaign - giving $20 whenever you can : Visioning an AIDS free world by 2020 www.umglobalaidsfund.org
5) Lighten the Burden IV the HIV AIDS conference is coming April 23, 2012 to Tampa, FL and organized totally by volunteers -- it was in Dallas last Oct and we had two people from NE attending - bill and maureen - we would love to have a TEAM go from NE this time! www.umglobalaidsfund.org
6) Sing a NEW SONG Convo is coming this summer organized by MFSA and RMN ! Check it out at www.RMNetwork.org We have THREE people going from NE that we know about : Bob and Betty Dorr, Zach Anderson LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE GOING! Some us went last time and will never forget the singing and spirit of inclusiveness!
7) Steve Griffith, Saint Paul UMC attended the RMN SUMMIT meeting this past year and is reflecting after the movie TWO SPIRITS this Thurs evening at NET!
8) We have collected $120 so far for our SUMMER EMAIL OFFERING in NE : as our yearly commitment of $250 to RMN ministries. Our Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network (the email network of friends) is an official RECONCILING COMMUNITY in NE along with one in G Island, two in Lincoln and Omaha First umc!
Donors : Lloyd and Joan Byerhof, Cathy Denman for Maureen Vetter's birthday, Wendy and Eric Smith, Jenna and brian, Jim and Donna Lightbody, Maureen and Jay Vetter for birthdays of friends
We invite you to make your checks to RMN and send to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake lane, G Island, NE 6880l Maureen will record them and send them on as our NE Statewide yearly gift together as an email community!
9) Becca Preisendorf is the 12th Recipient of the MFSA Jimmy Creech Profile of Justice Scholarship in NE. Becca is a member of Trinity UMC, G island and is headed to Hastings College this fall - she has been taking college credit classes and started the First GSA in G Island this past year with many challenges along the way!
You can see Becca on the Jimmy Creech Adams Gift Facebook - go to - Jimmy Creech Adam's Gift!
This $1000 yearly Scholarship honors a student active in Justice ministry each year and honors Jimmy Creech and his witness among us for GLBT Justice - was given May 31 at the Annual MFSA Dinner in Lincoln at Trinity UMC - We rejoice in the new GSA that was started in Grand Island by Becca! She shared at our February meeting for Open Hearts and was nominated by the Open Hearts Reconciling Community in Grand Island, NE.
10) Go to our new FACEBOOK and ADD Friends! Search : Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network
11) Go to our new blog for info, Annual conference recap and comments, Events this summer in the Archives to the right, sign onto statements of inclusion, gay ordination : www.nebraskarum.blogspot.com
12) in Pride events this summer, AIDS Walks are coming Sept 18 across NE www.nap.org Coming out Day is Oct 11 - do a meetup with friends, form a support group, do a book share, have a Rainbow ART SHOW
13) in building collaborations with students at NWU this summer for HIV AIDS work
14) in four Reconciling communities in NE, one congregation, email contacts, local contacts and growing a circle of Friends across NE who care about a fully inclusive UMC and creating SAFE PLACES for all God's children!
15) a nearly two year old UM Global AIDS fund Task force that meets again Sept 19, 1 PM at Central Health Center, Grand Island (let us know if you are an AIDS Ambassador and have an interest on the task force or if you can be an AIDS ambassador in your local church, let us know! We need YOU!
Go to our new URL for more info : www.umcneb.org/AIDS for info on NE and www.umglobalaidsfund.org
16) that we have a new Email contact in the North Platte area :
Thanks to Robert Wheeler with help from Jo Macintosh and the Way West folks too : Carolyn Dickinson Scottsbluff and Mary Ellen Kilmer Harrison, NE
REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAYS - AGAIN I SAY REJOICE!
Maureen Vetter and Wendy Smith, NE Contacts for NE Statewide Reconciling Network of friends
PRN Contacts, Email contact, local contacts and recruit youth and young adult RUM's locally!
COLLABORATE with other GLBTgroups, GLBT Faith groups for Reconciling work, other faith traditions -- Health groups for HIV AIDS : become an AIDS Ambassador, start a task force locally: do a project with NAP in your area, start a testing site at your local church, learn where testing sites are in your area, contact NAP offices and collaborate with them --- GROW the circle of reconcilingfriends doing MISSIONS and reaching out to All of God's Children!
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
NE Statewide Reconciling Network: Stigma of HIV AIDS: Don Messer's Witness, Daily Messenger, June 4
See the Daily Messenger links BELOW from the last day of Annual Conference with a story about Don Messer's moving speech on Tues night, May 31 on the STIGMA of HIV AIDS! A spontaneous offering that night yielded $900 with an additional offering Friday -- and all totalling $4000 for Ministries directly through UM Global AIDS Fund around the globe and NE !
Let's double these June offerings in 2011 to $8000 by years end or better yet $10,000 with fundraisers all year and offerings Dec 4 weekend! Our initial challenge from General Conference in 2004 was $1 per member a year - that would be $78,000 a year in NE!
Thanks Don for coming to NE to ENLIGHTEN US and thanks for initiating the UM Global AIDS Fund in 2004 to start helping us to see persons we have never seen before and respond in faith!
Our new challenge: 20/20 Visioning an AIDS Free world by 2020 : giving $20 whenever possible!
Thanks to Bill Black for Introducing the Special Offering Friday June 3 for UM Global AIDS Fund at Worship 8:30 am at Annual Conference last week in Lincoln - we hope to share his opening words later this summer via email or blog - with fundraising ideas for UM Global AIDS Fund www.umcneb.org/AIDS for NE info and www.umglobalaidsfund.org
Give to the Summer Email Offering for NE Statewide Reconciling Network today : gifts to RMN and send to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake Lane, G island, NE 6880l Our goal is $250 !
We have a NEW Statewide Reconciling FACEBOOK that is more public -- Facebook archived our old one recently - Search Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network and add FRIENDS today - that is how we will grow the list of Friends by adding friends! Check out recaps of Annual Conference and summer events on our new blog : www.Nebraskarum.blogspot.com
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER! SING A NEW SONG CONVO is coming this summer : www.RMNetwork.org Send prayers, gifts and go yourself! Believe out loud!
Open hearts, open minds, open doors! Another year of GREAT spiritual Awakenings!
PS See Becca Preisendorf, Grand Island, Trinity UMC : the recipient of the 12th MFSA Jimmy Creech Profile of Justice Award and Scholarship in NE on Jimmy Creech's Facebook for Adam's Gift his newly released book! Search on Facebook: Jimmy Creech, Adam's Gift
----- Original Message -----
From: Kathryn Witte
To: mvetter@charter.net
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 10:35 AM
Subject: Daily Messenger, June 4
Attached below are the Saturday, June 4 editions of the Daily Messenger and the Youth Daily Messenger.
Please note that all of the Daily Messenger editions will be archived on the 2011 Annual Conference Web page, www.umcneb.org/AC2011. Petition and Resolution results will be posted on this same page within the next day. Selected worship services and presentations that were streamed live will be archived on UMtube in the near future.
Daily Messenger, June 4 (PDF)
Youth Daily Messenger, June 4 (PDF)
Contact us
3333 Landmark Circle
Lincoln, NE 68504-4760
Phone: (402) 464-5994
Fax: (402) 464-6203
Let's double these June offerings in 2011 to $8000 by years end or better yet $10,000 with fundraisers all year and offerings Dec 4 weekend! Our initial challenge from General Conference in 2004 was $1 per member a year - that would be $78,000 a year in NE!
Thanks Don for coming to NE to ENLIGHTEN US and thanks for initiating the UM Global AIDS Fund in 2004 to start helping us to see persons we have never seen before and respond in faith!
Our new challenge: 20/20 Visioning an AIDS Free world by 2020 : giving $20 whenever possible!
Thanks to Bill Black for Introducing the Special Offering Friday June 3 for UM Global AIDS Fund at Worship 8:30 am at Annual Conference last week in Lincoln - we hope to share his opening words later this summer via email or blog - with fundraising ideas for UM Global AIDS Fund www.umcneb.org/AIDS for NE info and www.umglobalaidsfund.org
Give to the Summer Email Offering for NE Statewide Reconciling Network today : gifts to RMN and send to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake Lane, G island, NE 6880l Our goal is $250 !
We have a NEW Statewide Reconciling FACEBOOK that is more public -- Facebook archived our old one recently - Search Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network and add FRIENDS today - that is how we will grow the list of Friends by adding friends! Check out recaps of Annual Conference and summer events on our new blog : www.Nebraskarum.blogspot.com
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER! SING A NEW SONG CONVO is coming this summer : www.RMNetwork.org Send prayers, gifts and go yourself! Believe out loud!
Open hearts, open minds, open doors! Another year of GREAT spiritual Awakenings!
PS See Becca Preisendorf, Grand Island, Trinity UMC : the recipient of the 12th MFSA Jimmy Creech Profile of Justice Award and Scholarship in NE on Jimmy Creech's Facebook for Adam's Gift his newly released book! Search on Facebook: Jimmy Creech, Adam's Gift
----- Original Message -----
From: Kathryn Witte
To: mvetter@charter.net
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 10:35 AM
Subject: Daily Messenger, June 4
Attached below are the Saturday, June 4 editions of the Daily Messenger and the Youth Daily Messenger.
Please note that all of the Daily Messenger editions will be archived on the 2011 Annual Conference Web page, www.umcneb.org/AC2011. Petition and Resolution results will be posted on this same page within the next day. Selected worship services and presentations that were streamed live will be archived on UMtube in the near future.
Daily Messenger, June 4 (PDF)
Youth Daily Messenger, June 4 (PDF)
Contact us
3333 Landmark Circle
Lincoln, NE 68504-4760
Phone: (402) 464-5994
Fax: (402) 464-6203
Thursday, June 2, 2011
NE Statewide Reconciling Network : Summer Giving just like fruit trees! Nine + ways to give!
If you have ever had a fruit tree or a rhubarb plant or a garden, you know how they give in abundance if you care for them or even if you don't care for them sometimes - you can give this summer for a more inclusive world -
Giving opportunities this summer: Spiritual Awakenings!
1) Star City PRIDE, Lincoln is rapidly approaching and we need your help to make it an amazing event. We want to continue to make this a free event, but in order to make this happen we need your donations. If every friend of SCP on Facebook gave $10 we would be able to fully fund the event and continue the tradition of having a bigger and better PRIDE each year.
Please submit your donation to the PO Box 6549 Lincoln, NE 68506 or bring it to The Panic.
Give to Heartland Pride in Omaha this summer - visit their website! Find ways to help support Pride events, NAP and other groups that help others to be affirmed. www.nap.org - AIDS walks are coming sept 18 in NE!
2) Summer Email Offering for our NE Statewide Reconciling network of friends : for our yearly commitment to RMN which is $250 minimum. Our Email network is an OFFICIAL RECONCILING COMMUNITY of friends sharing info and news -
All Giving goes directly to RMN as we do not have a Budget per se and we have no account - we do all of our Inclusive work IN HOUSE and with FOLKS WHO LOVE JUSTICE and EQUALITY for all persons -Thank your email volunteer today by Giving to this Summer Email offering ! We have $95 so to get it started!
Write checks to RMN and send them to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake lane, Grand Island, NE 68801 - Maureen will record the donations, donors and send them on to RMN this summer! With General Conference coming in 2012 there are many needs at the RMN offices and ministries like SING A NEW SONG CONVO this summer!
To learn more about SING A NEW SONG Convo in August sponsored by MFSA and RMN - go to www.RMNetwork.org So far we have ONE person going from NE that we know about - Zach Anderson!
Let us know if you are going! mvetter@charter.net wsmith28@gmail.com
Thanks for giving like fruit trees - we all want to bear good fruit with justice and mercy for others!
3) Sign on as a Reconciling United methodist on the website : www.RMNetwork.org
Become a member of Church Within a Church and other groups that bear fruit for others : www.cwac.us Sign the statements of inclusion!
4) Become an AIDS Ambassaor and promote the UM Global AIDS Fund at your church or as a faith community leader! Give yourself to UM Global AIDS Fund during the year : Send all gifts to Advance # 578 Global AIDS to the Conference Treas, UM Conference Offices, 3333 Landmark Circle, Lincoln, NE 68504 Contact: Andrew andrewb@nap.org to sign up as an AIDS Ambassador in NE! For info: www.umcneb.org/AIDS
Send giving to Lincoln: 25 % of gifts/offerings stay in NE for local AIDS projects!
5) Plant something and watch it grow : tomatoes, a fruit tree, rhubarb..... a garden, think about a community garden or community orchard! (Christ UMC Lincoln just planted thirty trees for a Community garden! congratulations!)
6) Giving through Service and Rainbows of HOPE: Do some service, share Rainbows and music with others, or organize a RAINBOWS OF HOPE art exhibit! Christ UMC Lincoln is putting up a Rainbows of HOPE Art Show this weekend - see it all of June at 4530 A Street, Lincoln, NE - special thanks to the CUMC ART EXHIBIT COMMITTEE with Betty Newhouse as Chair.
7) Visit the Reconciling and UM Global AIDS Fund tables and booths this week at Annual Conference June 1 - 4 in Lincoln, St marks UMC on S 84th Street - Volunteer for an hour - Bring UMCOR health kits -- go to www.umcor.org to learn how you can help with the latest storms in the SE and MO, OK and other places in the world!
To GIVE your time and volunteer at the tables/booth : Betty at RMN table : bobcdorr@cox.net or the UM Global AIDS fund table - contact Bill : biobb@bellsouth.net Take Reconciling on the Road this week and to events this summer!
8) Get a ticket for the NE MFSA Dinner Tues May 31, Lincoln, Trinity UMC : susansouldesires@aol.com Don Messer speaker, awards, scholarships, info!
9) Give to the new GSA (Gay Straight Alliance, GISH, G Island)
Make Love Gifts / Checks to :
GSA, Grand Island Senior High : send to Maureen Vetter 4422 Drake Lane, Grand Island, NE 68801 We have a lunch June 4 noon as a fundraiser too!
Place: 313 Cafe and Cream, 313 3rd Street, Grand Island (old blue moon cafe)
Have a GREAT SUMMER Growing and Giving - planting things and watching them grow!
Read books, make music, paint and draw, make new friends, write Awakening Stories to share, start a movie group, start a reconciling coffee group or discussion group with the book -"Adam's Gift" by Jimmy Creech or other social justice books on the RMN website : www.RMNetwork.org
Maureen and Wendy, NE contacts
ps Become a friend on our new public Facebook this week : Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network is the Facebook name and our new blog : www.Nebraskarum.blogspot.com (see the archives to the side)
Sing a new song ! Believe out loud www.RMNetwork.org
Giving opportunities this summer: Spiritual Awakenings!
1) Star City PRIDE, Lincoln is rapidly approaching and we need your help to make it an amazing event. We want to continue to make this a free event, but in order to make this happen we need your donations. If every friend of SCP on Facebook gave $10 we would be able to fully fund the event and continue the tradition of having a bigger and better PRIDE each year.
Please submit your donation to the PO Box 6549 Lincoln, NE 68506 or bring it to The Panic.
Give to Heartland Pride in Omaha this summer - visit their website! Find ways to help support Pride events, NAP and other groups that help others to be affirmed. www.nap.org - AIDS walks are coming sept 18 in NE!
2) Summer Email Offering for our NE Statewide Reconciling network of friends : for our yearly commitment to RMN which is $250 minimum. Our Email network is an OFFICIAL RECONCILING COMMUNITY of friends sharing info and news -
All Giving goes directly to RMN as we do not have a Budget per se and we have no account - we do all of our Inclusive work IN HOUSE and with FOLKS WHO LOVE JUSTICE and EQUALITY for all persons -Thank your email volunteer today by Giving to this Summer Email offering ! We have $95 so to get it started!
Write checks to RMN and send them to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake lane, Grand Island, NE 68801 - Maureen will record the donations, donors and send them on to RMN this summer! With General Conference coming in 2012 there are many needs at the RMN offices and ministries like SING A NEW SONG CONVO this summer!
To learn more about SING A NEW SONG Convo in August sponsored by MFSA and RMN - go to www.RMNetwork.org So far we have ONE person going from NE that we know about - Zach Anderson!
Let us know if you are going! mvetter@charter.net wsmith28@gmail.com
Thanks for giving like fruit trees - we all want to bear good fruit with justice and mercy for others!
3) Sign on as a Reconciling United methodist on the website : www.RMNetwork.org
Become a member of Church Within a Church and other groups that bear fruit for others : www.cwac.us Sign the statements of inclusion!
4) Become an AIDS Ambassaor and promote the UM Global AIDS Fund at your church or as a faith community leader! Give yourself to UM Global AIDS Fund during the year : Send all gifts to Advance # 578 Global AIDS to the Conference Treas, UM Conference Offices, 3333 Landmark Circle, Lincoln, NE 68504 Contact: Andrew andrewb@nap.org to sign up as an AIDS Ambassador in NE! For info: www.umcneb.org/AIDS
Send giving to Lincoln: 25 % of gifts/offerings stay in NE for local AIDS projects!
5) Plant something and watch it grow : tomatoes, a fruit tree, rhubarb..... a garden, think about a community garden or community orchard! (Christ UMC Lincoln just planted thirty trees for a Community garden! congratulations!)
6) Giving through Service and Rainbows of HOPE: Do some service, share Rainbows and music with others, or organize a RAINBOWS OF HOPE art exhibit! Christ UMC Lincoln is putting up a Rainbows of HOPE Art Show this weekend - see it all of June at 4530 A Street, Lincoln, NE - special thanks to the CUMC ART EXHIBIT COMMITTEE with Betty Newhouse as Chair.
7) Visit the Reconciling and UM Global AIDS Fund tables and booths this week at Annual Conference June 1 - 4 in Lincoln, St marks UMC on S 84th Street - Volunteer for an hour - Bring UMCOR health kits -- go to www.umcor.org to learn how you can help with the latest storms in the SE and MO, OK and other places in the world!
To GIVE your time and volunteer at the tables/booth : Betty at RMN table : bobcdorr@cox.net or the UM Global AIDS fund table - contact Bill : biobb@bellsouth.net Take Reconciling on the Road this week and to events this summer!
8) Get a ticket for the NE MFSA Dinner Tues May 31, Lincoln, Trinity UMC : susansouldesires@aol.com Don Messer speaker, awards, scholarships, info!
9) Give to the new GSA (Gay Straight Alliance, GISH, G Island)
Make Love Gifts / Checks to :
GSA, Grand Island Senior High : send to Maureen Vetter 4422 Drake Lane, Grand Island, NE 68801 We have a lunch June 4 noon as a fundraiser too!
Place: 313 Cafe and Cream, 313 3rd Street, Grand Island (old blue moon cafe)
Have a GREAT SUMMER Growing and Giving - planting things and watching them grow!
Read books, make music, paint and draw, make new friends, write Awakening Stories to share, start a movie group, start a reconciling coffee group or discussion group with the book -"Adam's Gift" by Jimmy Creech or other social justice books on the RMN website : www.RMNetwork.org
Maureen and Wendy, NE contacts
ps Become a friend on our new public Facebook this week : Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network is the Facebook name and our new blog : www.Nebraskarum.blogspot.com (see the archives to the side)
Sing a new song ! Believe out loud www.RMNetwork.org
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Summer Offering
We are pleased to report that we have raised $250 for our summer email offering. Our statewide email group is an "official reconciling community" through RMN so we want to support RMN financially too individually, in our local groups and with our statewide email group!
We are excited to help them financially each year as a statewide email group!
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