January 2010
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PHOTOS: Cleveland's Newest Faith Community...
University Circle United Methodist Church See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from OneCoolGod at UCUMC | Comment »
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Dr. Ken Chalker Invites YOU to Worship at the NEW...
Dr. Kenneth Chalker, Senior Pastor, University Circle United Methodist Church, Located at 1919 East 107th Street & Chester Avenue, Cleveland, OH Posted via web from OneCoolGod at UCUMC | Comment »
Thoughts and Prayers of Hallie Christian & Libby...
Dear Friends,The birth of a new church “University Circle United Methodist Church” is about to happen ! ! New births are anticipated with joy - - and apprehension. This birthing of a church is something like a birth of a baby in the family. 1. This will be something new in my life. It could be very exciting. But (with a baby) it will mean many nights I get no sleep- -...
Fleischman firm gets the point - Reporters'...
Despite a recession that has been deadly for architects, the firm remains busy; current jobs range from a $27 million updating of a University of Cincinnati dormitory complex to a redo of the landmark Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church at University Circle. via crainscleveland.com Posted via web from OneCoolGod at UCUMC | Comment »
Kids Load Camel on Trolley, Ride to Church: New...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Kids Load Camel on Trolley, Ride to Church: New University Circle Congregation Celebrates CLEVELAND, Ohio – Saturday, January 30, at 3:30pm, the children of First United Methodist Church will hoist their beloved classroom camel on their shoulders and walk out of their “Sunday school” for the very last time, climbing aboard Lolly the Trolley – camel and all – for...
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Kay Hogg Preview of University Circle UMC...
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A New Beginning in Cleveland...The Temporary Sign...
where all are welcome all the time join us for worship Sundays at 11:00am Posted via email from ::OneCoolGod at UCUMC:: | Comment »
Future Connections » The Future Connections...
What are the four words you never want to hear? YOU NEED MORE EXPERIENCE. The Future Connections Program at University Circle Inc. offers a paid, eight-week internship to selected rising senior high school students in the Greater Cleveland area. The program introduces youth to museums, the arts, and professional environments. Build life and personal development skills at world class...
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For God's sake, blog!, pope tells priests - Yahoo!...
Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources — images, videos, animated features, blogs, websites — which, alongside traditional means, can open up broad new vistas for dialogue, evangelization and catechesis,” he said. via news.yahoo.com Looks like Dr. Chalker was way ahead of the curve. Posted via web ...
VIDEO: Children of First Church going where God...
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University Circle United Methodist Church Parking...
Download now or preview on posterous UCUMCdirections.pdf (639 KB) Download and print out these PDFs and handout to your friends to help spread the word about the new University Circle UMC. Posted via email from OneCoolGod | Comment »
University Circle United Methodist Church Parking...
Click here to download: UCUMCdirections.indd (1536 KB) Posted via email from OneCoolGod | Comment »
UCUMC Saturday, January 30, 2010 Potluck...
Download now or preview on posterous UCUMCpotluckinfo.pdf (76 KB) Posted via email from OneCoolGod | Comment »
Donate to the Jim Whitney Windows Memorial Fund...
Dear UCUMC Congregation:All windows were designed by Kathleen Akers, who designed with Jim for ten years and was a dear friend. These photos are from our ceremony to finish Jim’s window. My son, Chris and son Jeff were there to cement the window with me and the members of the studio. Peter Billington, owner, Janet Lipstreu and David Smith, all who were trained by Jim. The first and second...
13 New Members Join First Church Before Becoming...
Front row: (L to R) Trish Belkin; Jim Kennon; Ben+Della Magee; Tom Yanks; Anna Jones, Doug Craver. Second row: (L to R) Brian+Margaret Misch; Lalene+David Kay; Cory Brightharp II; Melvin Jones. Posted via email from OneCoolGod | Comment »
Order Your "ASK ME" about "UCUMC?" Buttons and...
To order CLICK HERE or visit: http://zazzle.com/OneCoolGod Posted via email from OneCoolGod | Comment »
HAITI Health Kit Assembly & Shipping Instructions
Download now or preview on posterous sbdhealthkitv02.pdf (77 KB) Health kits provide basic necessities to people who have been forced to leave their homes because of human conflict or natural disaster. Health kits are also used as learning tools in personal hygiene, literacy, nutrition and cooking classes.
CLICK HERE for complete details.
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How can you help HAITI? Provide UMCOR Health Kits
via umc.org UMCOR’s two relief supply warehouses are asking United Methodists to provide health kits that can be sent to earthquake-devastated Haiti. “For people who are feeling powerless in being able to help those in Haiti, providing health kits is a tangible way they can make an immediate difference,” said Kathy Kraiza, director of UMCOR’s relief supplies. She estimates that hundreds of...
Our World > News > The Rev. Sam Dixon, UMCOR...
via umc.org The Rev. Sam Dixon came to Haiti to make life better for the poor and afflicted. As the leader of the United Methodist Committee on Relief, Dixon traveled the world assisting Indonesians whose homes were washed away by the tsunami, Africans whose crops had withered under unrelenting drought and Americans needing shelter after tornadoes destroyed their neighborhoods. So it came as a...
Interfaith Business Builders | Creating Employee...
via interfaithbusinessbuilders.org We are an organization of people and congregations from the Cincinnati religious community. We are conducting a community economic development campaign by creating employee owned cooperative businesses. Co-ops, as they are called, offer people a dramatic opportunity to exercise new control in their lives. Posted via web from OneCoolGod | Comment » ...
PHOTO: A Winter Afternoon in the Brecksville...
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Information About Interfaith Fellowship Day...
Interfaith Fellowship Day sponsored by representatives of Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Sikh congregations. Here are the particulars: Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 from 9:30 am till about 1 p.m. Location: St. Michael’s Woodside Party Center, 5026 Mill Road, Broadview Heights - (behind St. Michael’s Orthodox Church) Topic: “Bet You Didn’t Know” -...
Angel Food Ministries - Angel Food is at $30 per...
Angel Food is available in a quantity that can fit into a medium-sized box at $30 per unit. Each month’s menu is different than the previous month and consists of both fresh and frozen items with an average retail value of approximately $60. Comparison shopping has been done across the country in various communities using a wide range of retail grocery stores and has resulted in the same...
Our World > News > Families rejoice as mission...
As relatives and friends rejoiced, rescue workers freed the last of three United Methodist officials trapped in the rubble of a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, since the Jan. 12 earthquake. Some 55 hours after the Hotel Montana collapsed, the Rev. Clinton Rabb, head of Mission Volunteers for the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, was lifted out from under a concrete slab that fell...
News for Families of Children and Youth
This Sunday is the final day of Sunday School and Youth Group at First Church There will be NO Sunday School or Youth Group next Sunday 1/24 or the following Sunday, 1/31. All children and youth are invited to join their families for the final worship service in the First Church sanctuary on January 24th and for the first worship service at University Circle United Methodist Church on January...
UCUMC Pre-Grand Opening Jan. 30th Potluck...
Download now or preview on posterous Jan30Potluck.pdf (25 KB) Saturday, January 30th In the Great Hall 4-6:30pm University Circle UMC 1919 East 107th & Chester Posted via email from OneCoolGod | Comment »
United Methodist Haiti Response TV Ad Currently...
via youtube.com In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, The United Methodist Church will air a specially produced television spot on CNN Headline News starting today and continuing through Monday, January 18. The 15-second spot will air 17 times during general news programming during the 4-day period. Banner advertisements will also appear online on CNN’s home page. ...
Amen Me! - Favorite Web Sites for Christians
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Our World > News > United Methodists rescued in...
Two United Methodist mission leaders have been rescued from the rubble of the Hotel Montana, and workers are close to extracting a third church leader pinned under a concrete beam after the massive earthquake rocked Haiti Jan. 12. The Rev. Sam Dixon, top executive of the United Methodist Committee on Relief, was taken out of the debris Friday morning, said Bishop Bruce Ough, president of the...
Ohio Man Spreads Kindness Message Nationwide -...
Reaching 1 million kindnesses over a lifetime requires 50 acts of kindness a day for 55 years, performing good deeds such as picking up trash, holding open a door or giving a hungry man a sandwich. “It’s a big, big number and totally obtainable, with kindness in the heart,” Votruba says. via bulletin.aarp.org Thanks @PositivelyCleve for highlighting this great story. Posted via web ...
How to Donate to Haiti Relief Efforts Through...
RE: UMCOR Advance 418325 for the Haiti Emergency Members of either coongregation can make checks payable to “Epworth-Euclid” or “First Church” and memo them UMCOR Advance (or simply Haiti Relief) the Church Office will in turn forward the contributions to the East Ohio Conference office in North Canton. Posted via web from OneCoolGod | Comment »
How to Donate to the Red Cross for Haiti Relief...
What: Donate $10 to the Red Cross’s earthquake relief efforts by texting “HAITI” to 90999 (you’ll see the charge on your next cell phone bill). Why: At press time, an estimated 3 million people needed help. When: Immediately. Where: Here, there, and at twitter.com/redcross. Posted via email from OneCoolGod | Comment »
Bishop Hopkins urges prayers and support for the...
My heart aches for the people of Haiti and I know yours does too. By now, most of us have heard numerous news reports addressing the utter devastation that has happened as a result of a 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on January 13. Our prayers and financial support are needed to help our brothers and sisters of Haiti begin to recover from this tragedy. As you know, 100 % of the...
The Haiti quake must not be dismissed as an ‘act...
The disaster that struck Haiti, in the form of an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, has delivered death and devastation, ruin and suffering, on a deeply tragic scale. But this was not an “act of God”, in that it was not an event that could not have been foreseen. While earthquakes are not as frequent as hurricanes in the Caribbean, they are common. Today it is well known...
Quake Means More Misery for Haiti
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East Ohio Conference of The United Methodist...
Volunteers from at least six different United Methodist annual (regional) conferences are in Haiti on mission trips. An email from two Kansas East volunteers reports they are safe in the guest house and, “We have a bunch of refugees in the front had have been giving first aid to those who were hurt, but we cannot get them anywhere at this time. There will be many deaths but it happened...
GBGM-UMC - Donations - Haiti Emergency
United Methodists have had a long-standing relationship with Haiti through the Methodist Church of Haiti. The strong ties between the Methodist Church of Haiti and The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) helped in facilitating the opening of the UMCOR Haiti field office in 2005. via secure.gbgm-umc.org Posted via web from OneCoolGod | Comment »
East Ohio Conference of The United Methodist...
A specific number for Haiti Disaster Response has been posted this morning on the UMCOR Website. Use it or the International Disaster number, either will work, but the Haiti Disaster Response #418325 is preferred. You can also give online on the UMCOR website. You will also find news of the disaster and how we are responding as United Methodists. There is a new release pertaining to...
‘Dire situation’ in Haiti calls for generous...
United Methodists jumped into action as soon as a massive earthquake reduced most of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince to rubble Jan. 12. The United Methodist Committee on Relief immediately pledged to send teams, material resources and funding to Haiti as soon as possible. Special online-giving options went up, and church leaders throughout the world encouraged congregations to take up...
This Makes All The Difference...
I knew a man once who was often fond of pointing out that he believed too many people in the business enterprise – where he also was an employee – had 10 or 15 years of service in the company but only one year of experience. This was not a very pleasant opinion of his co-workers. To him it was clear that folks had a first year experience and then just subsequent years of doing the same thing....
What do you "see" during our long Winter months?
Thanks to Steve Cadwell for contributing this interesting perspective on our current Winter weather. What do you “see”. Snap a pic and email it to ask@onecoolgod.com so we can share it with the OneCoolGod community. Posted via email from OneCoolGod | Comment »
Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at...
University Circle is proud to offer a variety of events and activities in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. UCI will provide a free shuttle bus on Monday, Jan. 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. to escort visitors to the multitude of attractions. via universitycircle.org Posted via web from OneCoolGod | Comment »
Cornel West to speak in Berea at Baldwin-Wallace...
Lifting Candles of Hope: 20 Years of Passion & Purpose Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration 2010 Twenty years ago, Baldwin-Wallace College and the Berea community joined efforts to offer a week-long celebration, MLKing Week, in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Faculty and firefighters, personnel and policemen, clerks and clergy, students and servicemen all combined their...
CARNIVAL! Saturday, January 30th at University...
This event is for parishoners of all ages. Entertainment, games, information booths representing groups in our churches, an open house to view the work-in-progress in the Sunday School area, and a yummy potluck are all being planned. More details will keep coming, so… …SAVE THE DATE! Posted via web from OneCoolGod | Comment »
"Thank You" to Our SUPER Volunteers for...
University Circle UMC is much brighter and cleaner, thanks to the overwhelming efforts of devoted volunteers who answered our call for help. Offices are being prepared for Dr.Chalker and Kay Hogg. A wall has been demolished to allow for the resurrection of a nursery. A double-classroom, formerly a music room, has been emptied of its contents to make room for the bell choir and other musical...
News About Children's Ministries at First Church...
Next Sunday, January 17th is the final day of Sunday School (grades K-6) and Youth Group (grades 7-12) at First Church. All children and youth are invited to join their families for the final worship service in the First Church sanctuary on January 24th and for the first worship service at University Circle UMC on January 31st. Sunday School classes (grades K-6), Confirmation Program (grades 7-8)...
Hellos and GoodByes
Dear First Church Families,I hope your children will join us this Sunday, January 10th and next Sunday, January 17th, as we say goodbye to First Church and prepare to say hello to University Circle United Methodist Church. We will look back and remember happy times at First Church, which has been “home” to many of our children since they were babies. And - we will look forward to new...
Goodbyes and Hellos
Dear First Church Families,I hope your children will join us this Sunday, January 10th and next Sunday, January 17th, as we say goodbye to First Church and prepare to say hello to University Circle United Methodist Church. We will look back and remember happy times at First Church, which has been “home” to many of our children since they were babies. And - we will look forward to...
Epworth-Euclid #OneCoolGod Email Newsletter for...
JOIN US TOMORROW, JANUARY 3RD @ EPWORTH-EUCLID, 11AM TO HEAR JUDY CRAIG’S COMMUNION MEDITATION “Now what?” Celebrate Epiphany Sunday and start this exciting New Year off where all are welcome, all the time. Click here for the complete issue. Posted via web from OneCoolGod | Comment »
First Church #OneCoolGod Email Newsletter for...
JOIN US TOMORROW, JANUARY 3RD @ FIRST CHURCH, 11AM TO HEAR KEN’S COMMUNION MEDITATION “Now what?” Celebrate Epiphany Sunday and start this exciting New Year off where all are welcome, all the time. Click here for the complete issue. Posted via web from OneCoolGod | Comment »