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Archived Events and News Previously Posted on the CMA Website
in, for or through SEPTEMBER 2005
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1: IN CARE BOUNDARY TRAINING
A Boundary Training Workshop for those In Care with CMA has been scheduled for
September 30 - October 1, 2005. The program will begin on Friday at 12:30 pm and run
through 8:30 pm that night. The Saturday program will begin at 9:30 am and end at 4:30
pm. The cost for In Care boundary training will be $10. The training will take place
at the CMA office in downtown Chicago.
If you wish to reserve a place for this training, please call Bertha at CMA
to have your name put on the reservation list.
The next In Care boundary training after this will be Friday and Saturday, March
17 and 18, 2006.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1: ILLINOIS CONFERENCE WOMEN'S RETREAT
The annual UCC Illinois Conference Women's Retreat will be held September 30 and October 1,
2005 at Pilgrim Park. This year's retreat, entitled "And Sarah Laughed!" will be led by
Rev. Dr. Keran Olm-Stoelting.
God will fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy! --- Job 8:21.
Come laugh, play, dance, sing and explore the seasons of your life thru humor.
Sponsored by Illinois Conference Women in Church and Society. Call Linda for more
information at 815-478-4900.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2: CTS PRESENTS COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES
Chicago Theological Seminary in Chicago presents COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES, a weekend
program of arts-ministry-justice-theology on Friday, Saturday & Sunday, September 30,
October 1 & October 2, 2005
On-line registration is NOW AVAILABLE at:
www.ctschicago.edu/coloring
Come:
Sculpt a new future for CTS
paint a just and vital community
draw bridges across difference
sing a new humanity
Share:
a night of open mic performance & exhibition
a day of retreat and renewal
a morning envisioning next steps
With:
Rev. Bliss Browne
Ken Medema
Valerie Tutson
CTS artists and friends
Friday, September 30, 7-10 pm: Celebrating the Artists Among Us
Come at 7pm for a gallery opening and reception featuring local artists who work
at the intersections of community, spirituality, and activism.
At 8pm we'll gather for open mic music, poetry, and performance. Reserve a seat
or a performance slot by registering online.
Saturday, October 1, 9am to 9pm: The Art of Community All Day Retreat
Registration Required
On this day of retreat and renewal we will build community through the arts and
create art in collaboration with one another. Facilitators Bliss Browne and Valerie
Tutson will guide us in story gathering and ritual, joined by visual and performing
artists committed to transforming community through vision, imagination and action.
Participants will work in large and small groups, exploring a wide range of artistic
and facilitative processes. The stories we bring will activate the vital links among
creativity, social action, and belonging. We will practice deeper forms of communication,
forge new connections, and find spiritual practices that sustain and challenge us.
Our meals will feature international cuisine prepared by communities connected to CTS
through our student body. We'll enjoy a lunchtime concert by renowned social justice
story telling musician Ken Medema. MDiv students Rachel Bahr Attanasie and Tiffany Trent
will help us rehearse our future with the revolutionary process of Forum Theater.
In the evening we'll offer up the labors of our day in vespers worship.
Sunday morning, we'll prayerfully name next steps. Our work will be our play.
The student and alum planning team offers this event as a faithful attempt to engage
the gifts and needs of our beloved communities. For this reason, we seek to strengthen
the community that gathers while exploring ways that the arts can help us confront and
undo racism, homophobia and related social injustices.
To help us with this charge, we invoke the question of Augusto Boal in his literacy
experiment with People's Theater of Peru, as described in Theatre of the Oppressed (1979):
Where do you live?
Boal's question calls forth images, memories, sounds, tastes and smells that are at
once intimate, communal, economic, racial, environmental, bodily, and deeply spiritual.
We will ask this question of one another and dare to hear, see, and touch the answers.
Sample activities:
The storytelling game
Rehearsing Against Racism
Psalm Writing
Painting meditation
Registrants are encouraged to submit any activities, skills, or interests you would
like to share in the space available on the online registration form.
Sunday, October 2, 9am to 12pm: Creating Our Future: What's Next?
This time is set aside for those who wish to continue the work of Saturday forward
to the next levels in the places where we live and work. We'll worship, envision,
and plan next steps. Specific attention will be given to the life of the CTS community,
and our hopes for the next 150 years.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
For more information, contact Lydia York at CTS at 773-322-0274 or at:
coloring@ctschicago.edu
Installation of Rev. Stephen Schuette
Sunday, September 25
You are cordially invited to attend the Installation Service for Rev. Stephen H. Schuette
as Senior Minister of Bethel United Church of Christ in Elmhurst. The service will be held
at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at the church at 315 East St. Charles
Road, Elmhurst, IL 60126 (630-279-4040).
The Rev. Dr. Jane Fisler Hoffman, Illinois Conference Minister, will deliver the sermon.
Various representatives and clergy from local agencies, Elmhurst College, local churches,
the Chicago Metropolitan Association, as well as Bethel friends will be in attendance.
A reception will follow in Schiffman Hall. Join us as we celebrate the beginning of
ministry together.
TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 - 21: SUPPORT TEAM LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Advocate Health Care will sponsor a program for support team leadership development
on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 20 and 21, 2005, from 8:30 am - 4:00 pm at The
Moorings of Arlington Heights, 811 East Central Road, Arlington Heights, IL
AUDIENCE
This training is for persons who want to start, train, and sustain Support
Teams in the community. This is a train-the-trainer training.
Training is of special interest to clergy and lay leaders from
congregations, senior centers, hospice programs, nursing homes, hospitals,
and other organizations who utilize volunteers to reach out to persons in
the community.
We encourage each congregation/organization to send a team of people who are
excited about the Support Team model to the training. When a team of three
or more attends, it is more likely that your Support Team initiative will be
successful.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
To register, call 1-800-3-ADVOCATE (1-800-323-8622). Mention code SX01.
For more information, contact Shirley Garrison at 847-255-8700 x315 or by
email at sgarrison@oursaviours.org.
Registration Deadline: Friday, Sept. 16, 2005
Fee: $75 per person or $60 per person for three or more from the same
congregation registering at the same time. Includes refreshments, lunches,
training materials and manual.
WHAT IS A SUPPORT TEAM?
A Support Team is a group of volunteers working together to provide
practical, emotional, and spiritual support to individuals and families with
health concerns or other special needs.
WHAT DOES A SUPPORT TEAM DO?
A team's activities may include transportation to the doctor or grocery
store, household or yard chores. Some people enjoy running errands,
preparing meals, or providing social outings. Others prefer to visit, make
phone calls, or provide a break for caregivers.
Team Members simply do what they enjoy doing for others, when they are able,
in an organized way, with a built-in support system.
WHY ARE SUPPORT TEAMS NEEDED?
People are more isolated these days. In general, people are living longer
with fewer resources. Improved medical treatments help people live longer
with certain illnesses, but not always with the quality of life desired.
Young families often need assistance with a crisis, such as a high-risk
pregnancy, or with a child with special needs. Families are also more
geographically dispersed and two-income families create new caregiving
challenges.
TRAINER
Carol Padgett, Ph.D. has been a National Trainer with The Support Team
Network for many years, bringing her expertise in Psychology and End-of-Life
Care to this training. She has served on and developed Teams for over a
decade for multiple needs in the church as well as in healthcare settings.
Her natural sense of humor and warm facilitation skills will enhance the
participant's experience in learning how to develop Support Teams for almost
any need.
(Posted 06/16/05 - 9/20/05)
PART TIME CUSTODIAN, BETHANY UCC, CHICAGO
Bethany United Church of Christ in Chicago is continuing to search for a
part-time custodian. The position involves cleaning and maintenance work
including yard work and amounts to approximately 18 hours per week.
Scheduling is flexible. Some Sunday morning work is required. Please contact
the church for more information.
Bethany United Church of Christ, 4250 N. Paulina (at Cullom), Chicago 60613;
773-472-0729; www.bethanychicago.com
(Posted 06/13/05 - 9/20/05)
DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN'S MINISTRY, GLENVIEW COMMUNITY CHURCH
Glenview Community Church is seeking a Director of Children's Ministry:
The successful candidate is a person who understands the ages and stages of child
development, and has education and experience working with children. The
position calls for twenty hours of work per week from mid-September through
mid-June. Please send resume and a cover letter stating briefly your philosophy
of children’s ministry to Glenview Community Church, 1000 Elm Street, Glenview,
IL 60025, attention Dr. Howard W. Roberts.
(Posted 06/8/05 - 9/20/05)
CHOIR DIRECTOR/ORGANIST, ST JOHN UCC, ARLINGTON HEIGHTS
Downtown Arlington Hts. church seeks part-time organist and/or choir director.
The church currently has active choral and handbell choirs for all ages. The
organ is a new Rodgers digital pipe-enhanced instrument. Salary negotiable
based on skills and experience. Specify which responsibility you are applying
for. Send resume to St. John United Church of Christ, 308 N. Evergreen Av,
Arlington Hts, IL 60004; fax 847-255-6388;
email: stjohnoffice@att.net;
web: www.churchonthepark.com
(Posted 05/18/05 - 9/20/05)
PART-TIME DIRECTOR OF MUSIC, FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, FOREST PARK
First United Church of Christ in Forest Park, Illinois, seeks a part-time musician
as director of music. The church is looking for a candidate who is proficient on
piano and organ; has experience with choirs and in planning and coordinating worship
services; and will work with the pastor in preparing music appropriate for worship
and other special services. Salary is negotiable. For further inquiry call 708-771-8456
or send a resume to First United Church of Christ, 1000 Elgin Ave, Forest Park, IL
60130, attention Patrick Oberg.
(Posted 08/30/05 - 9/20/05)
DIRECTOR OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND YOUTH MINISTRY PILGRIM FAITH CHURCH, OAK LAWN
Pilgrim Faith Church is seeking a Director of Christian Education and Youth Ministry.
The candidate will demonstrate the ability to engage children and youth in exploring
and living their faith. The primary focus of this position will be to continue and
strengthen programs in children and youth ministries. Full time candidates preferred,
but would consider dividing responsibilities into two part time positions. If
interested, send your resume and a brief description of your faith journey and
philosophy of Christian Education to
p_f_church@hotmail.com.
Pilgrim Faith United Church of Christ
9411 S. 51st. Avenue
Oak Lawn, Illinois 60453
Contact Person: Louise Baldwin
Phone: 708-422-5458
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10: ORDINATION OF JANET MACLEAN
Janet MacLean will be Ordained by CMA on Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 3pm at
Pilgrim Congregational Church, 460 Lake Street, Oak Park (708-848-5860).
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11: ORDINATION OF EDWARD DAVIS
Edward Davis will be Ordained by CMA on Sunday, September 11, 2005 at 5pm at
God Can Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1100 Greenwood, Ford Heights, IL
(708-757-5550). He will also be installed as Executive Pastor of God Can Ministries.
(posted through 9-12-05)
UCC takes leadership role in Dear Sudan
This article comes from the
UCC website
UCC takes leadership role in Dear Sudan humanitarian campaign;
congregations urged to participate
Written by J. Bennett Guess
Tuesday, 26 July 2005
The UCC is offering its financial and technical support for Church World
Services' "Dear Sudan" campaign, a growing interfaith effort to increase
awareness of the inhumane conditions faced by Sudanese refugees and to raise
resources to support humanitarian relief.
The expanding movement - dubbed "Dear Sudan" by Church World Service - asks
each local community in the United States - through ecumenical, interfaith
cooperation - to sign a "Dear Sudan" letter that recognizes the suffering of
Sudanese refugees. In so doing, communities make a commitment to raise
enough money to feed for one day the number of refugees equivalent
to that community's population.
A gift of 16 cents will provide one day of nutritional support for a single
refugee, CWS says. Ideally, communities will multiply the 16-cent figure by
their town's population and then commit to raising that dollar amount in
support of humanitarian relief, explains Susan M. Sanders, the UCC 's
minister for the global sharing of resources.
The concept began with Tim Nonn, a UCC member in Petaluma, Calif.
(population 55,000), where Nonn organized his local church -- in partnership
with ecumenical and interfaith partners -- to raise enough money to feed
55,000 Sudanese refugees for one day.
Starting with a fundraising goal of $8,800, the Petaluma effort eventually
netted more than $10,000 in 2004, enabling the community to support 65,000
displaced refugees for one more day.
The UCC's General Synod, which met July 1-5 in Atlanta, passed a resolution
on peace in Sudan that included support for the "Dear Sudan" movement. "UCC
congregations and members have been encouraged by General Synod to support
this campaign," Sanders says.
An advance gift of $5,000 from the UCC's One Great Hour of Sharing special
mission offering has been contributed. Church leaders also are asking local
congregations to take a leadership role in promoting the "Dear Sudan"
concept in their respective communities.
Church World Service has long been active in calling for the international
community to act to stop Sudan's ongoing violence. A January 2005 peace
agreement ended the 21-year north-south war that killed at least two million
people. However, more than 4 million displaced people are now traveling from
encampments in the north back to the south at a rate of about 1,500 a day,
most without any means of assistance or support. Food supplies are
inadequate, and the infrastructure was decimated.
A national website www.dearsudan.org
was launched on July 19.
Tamil UCC Launches Tsunami Relief Project. Read about this new program created
by one of our own member churches with direct ties to the people hardest hit by the tsunami.
Renewal in the Wilderness: Trips and Dates For 2005
UCC Polity Course to be Offered at Garrett:
The Rev. Melbalenia Evans, Executive Minister for Trinity United Church of Christ
in Chicago, will teach the United Church of Christ History and Polity course at
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, 2121 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois
60201 during the fall 2005 semester.
The once-a-week course begins on September 8, 2005 and meets from 6:15 - 9:15 pm.
Information can be requested by phone (847-866-3900) or by email addressed to:
Seminary@Northwestern.edu.
Though now the Executive Minister for the largest congregation in the United Church
of Christ, The Rev. Ms. Evans's once worked in the world of computer technology
and served for a number of years with the UCC in its national setting.
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