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Archived Events and News Previously Posted on the CMA Website
in, for or through JULY 2006
JULY 29: Sisters of the Spirit Prayer & Praise Breakfast
Rev. Mary J. Fairley, Pastor of Resurrection UCC in Chicago, invites all Women
in Ministry to S.O.S.(Sisters Of the Spirit) Monthly Prayer & Praise Breakfast:
a time of fellowship and refreshing for Women in Ministry!
Saturday, July 29, 2006 at 8:16 AM - 10:16 AM; Old Country Buffet(banquet room),
16731 Torrence Ave, Lansing, IL (adjacent to Walmart). Cost: $8.62 per person.
A love offering will be received to help defray expenses.
R.S.V.P. to 773-835-4844
JULY 27-29: MISSIONAL CHURCH CONVOCATION
The Center for Parish Development will hold its annual Missional Church
Convocation for clergy and lay leaders in Chicago, July 27-29, 2006.
This year's theme is: Incarnational Witness: Embodying God's Love for
the World.
Featured speaker is Dr. Darrell Guder, editor of Missional Church:
A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America.
Stimulate your imagination, hope, and vision for the church you serve.
$235 before April 28.
For more information, schedule, and registration, go to
www.missionalchurch.org
The MISSIONAL CHURCH CONVOCATION is an annual gathering of church leaders
across the wide spectrum of North American churches to worship, learn,
renew, and equip for the missional church journey. A 48 hour conference
within walking distance of Lake Michigan in Chicago's Lincoln Park,
the Center's staff joins with key note speaker, Bible study and worship
leaders, and participants to practice the patterns of missional
faithfulness in community.
Participants are clergy and lay from local church, seminary faculty and
judicatory leader, emergent or traditional, house church or congregation.
You are invited to explore, learn, question, and participate in the
journey of missional transformation!
JULY 26-28: CRS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING WORKSHOP
Plan to Attend the next Community Organizing Workshop sponsored by Community
Renewal Society Wednesday through Friday, July 26th, 27th, and 28th, 2006
in Chicago.
The workshop will be held in the CRS office at 332 S Michigan Av, Suite 500,
Chicago, IL, from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. each day.
Why would you want to come to the CRS Community Organizing Workshop?
Because its time you learned how to be more effective in addressing community
social justice issues.
Because its time you learned what the possibilities really are in recognizing
and living your call to do justice as individuals and as a community.
Because its time your community heard a prophetic voice.
Because its time.
You’ll experience thought provoking sessions that will challenge your presumptions, confront your priorities, and move you to reflect on who you are capable of being as a community builder.
Sessions will include:
The Melian Debate: You’ll experience the 3000 year-old dilemma of Melian islanders as they are forced to confront Athenian domination of the Aegean Sea. Join the negotiations and experience how power works.
History and Principles of Organizing: Discover the origin of organizing and how change occurs.
Self-interest and a moral center: Reflect on where your values come from and the role they play in shaping who you are and the world in which we live.
One-on-Ones: Acquire the skills of active, empathic listening in order to unlock the gifts of others and build trusting relationships with them.
Effective meetings: Learn to never have another meeting where nothing good happens.
A Call for Transformation: Explore the transformative power of faith and how to tie it to real world activism.
Power and Power Analysis: You will discover both how power works and how to build it to defend your values and work for a better world.
Base Building and Communication: Experience how to identify who to organize and how to reach them.
Cutting Issues and Taking Action: Learn how to pick targets and tell the difference between a problem and an issue.
The Analysis Session: Experience an organizing challenge and shape a response to it within a small group.
The Meaning of Social Justice: Reflect on what it means to be a prophetic voice, opportunities for redemption, and how values, without relationships have no power.
REGISTER TODAY! The registration fee is $150 per person for the three-day
workshop (no meals included). Each day runs from 9am to 5pm. Call Sonya Willis at
at CRS at 312-427-4830 (ext. 2006) to let us know who will attend.
JULY 26: GLOBAL WARMING TOWN HALL MEETING
Global Warming Is An Inconvenient Truth
Now That You Know, What Will You Do?
Come To a Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 7:00 PM, at
Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, 615 W. Wellington, Chicago
(near the corner of Broadway and Wellington, three blocks south of Belmont).
Download a PDF flyer here.
The United Church of Christ has adopted a resolution to keep the global warming
issue as a high priority in their educational and advocacy efforts.
See the resolution here.
The National Council of Churches has also made this a priority through the work of
their Eco-Justice Program.
Many people now have seen Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, and they are
asking questions. Do we really have so little time to avert disaster? If so, what
can we meaningfully do to curb global warming?
The July 26th Town Hall meeting co-sponsored by Eco-Justice Collaborative and
Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ is intended to provide a forum for
discussion around how we might work together to create a more just and sustainable
energy policy. This includes conservation, energy independence, clean renewable
energy, and improved fuel efficiency. And it includes personal lifestyle choices
that we can make not only to become more carbon-neutral, but also to influence
policy at the local, state and national levels. Come to learn more, share ideas,
collaborate, and commit to action!
Why should the faith community be concerned about global climate change?
It’s a matter of justice: (adapted from Interfaith Climate Change Network)
Justice for the poor, who are most severely affected by changing weather. This
includes drought and famine in some regions and storms, flooding and rising seas in others.
It is the poor and marginalized among us who have the least capacity to adapt.
Justice for future generations who, unless green house gas emissions are
immediately reduced, will inherit: an unstable climate; migration of tropical diseases;
disrupted agricultural production; and the chaos that will emerge as people compete
for basic needs.
Justice for all of Creation, whose wondrous ecology teems with plant and
animal life, but which may be brought to extinction.
The Town Hall Meeting will feature:
Rebecca Stanfield, Executive Director, Environment Illinois;
Colleen Sarna, Conservation Organizer, Sierra Club;
Pam and Lan Richart, Eco-Justice Collaborative.
For more information call Pam or Lan Richart at 773-989-3346 or
visit Eco-Justice Collaborative
JULY 25-28: PAAM NATIONAL CONVOCATION
The National Convocation of the UCC's Pacific Islander & Asian American Ministries
will be held July 25-28, 2006 at the University of California in Berkeley.
Contact Midwest PAAM Chairperson Nozomi Ikuta at:
cnikuta@yahoo.com.
JULY 18-22: UNITED BLACK CHRISTIANS 18th BIENNIAL CONVOCATION
In Cleveland, Ohio; for information, contact: Carol A. Brown, the
National President of United Black Christians of the United Church of Christ
at: auntie0214@sbcglobal.net
or Charles Carpenter at the Congregational Church of Park Manor in Chicago
at: aannut@aol.com.
July 2006
NOTE:
Rev Edward Goode will be on vacation for the month of July
Rev Michael Denton will be on vacation for the last week of July
JUNE 29 - JULY 2, 2006: GREAT LAKES REGIONAL YOUTH EVENT
The UCC Great Lakes Regional Youth Event will be held Thursday, June 29 through
Sunday, July 2, 2006, at Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan for youth in grades
6 - 12 from the Great Lakes Region. Contact Marcia Beer, Vision Program Director,
at 517-332-3511 ext 209 or by email at:
marcia@michucc.org.
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