Announcements 2/5/2012

We are pleased that you are here! We invite you to join with others in Fellowship Hall after the service for coffee, refreshments, and conversation. Just follow the crowd down the hallway (west).

When the fellowship registration pad comes down the pew, please complete it and, if you are a member, update contact information. If you are a guest, please sign the pad so that we may thank you for worshipping with us.

AMONG OUR OWN Judge Wesley Brown’s memorial service will be at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 11 at College Hill United Methodist Church with a reception to follow hosted by UCC.

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE are given today by Kim and John Carraway in loving memory of our friend, Bob Meyers.

TODAY

THE BOARD OF DEACONS will meet in the downstairs conference room after the church service.

THIS WEEK

KEITH WILLIAMSON’S CLASS, “The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition” will be on Monday, Feb. 6, from 6:15-7:30 or Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 2:00-3:15 in the downstairs conference room. More information further in the bulletin.

YOGA CLASS meets Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Fellowship Hall.

NEXT SUNDAY

THE C.E.BOARD will meet in the office wing conference room after the church service.

THE MUSIC BOARD will meet in the choir room after the church service.

THE OUTREACH BOARD will meet in the downstairs conference room after the church service.

VALENTINE REVELATIONS

Sunday, February 12,

6:00.dinner 7:00 show

Prairie Pines Playhouse

4055 N. Tyler

Bob Scott and the UCC Chancel Choir invites

you all to join them for a Lasagna dinner and

lively show by the UCC choir members

Free will offering for

dinner and wine

Please sign up in

Fellowship Hall!

THE 2012 FLOWER SIGN UP SHEET is in Fellowship Hall on the PIC board. There are several open spaces coming up from February 5 to March4, several in June, and in August. If you have an occasion to be remembered by bringing flowers, sign up today.

MEN’S GROUP LUNCH meets on Thursday, February 16, at 11:30. Dwayne Green “persuaded” the manager at Louie’s Bar and Grill, 21^st and Webb, to give us the big meeting room again so all lunch meetings will be there.

ARTS ON BROADWAY is a non-profit organization recently established at First United Methodist Church, Wichita, Kansas. Their mission is to promote fine arts opportunities in the Wichita metropolitan area. For their inaugural event they are bringing the Vienna Boys Choir in concert on February 17, at First United Methodist Church, 330 N. Broadway. For ticket information go to artsonbroadwaywichita@gmail.com

HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT BEING IN THE UCC CHOIR? Bob Scott is looking for new members. Please see Bob if you have any questions.

THE ADULT DISCUSSION GROUP, which meets each Sunday morning in the downstairs conference room at 9:00 a.m. The group covers a wide range of subjects and you are welcome to join in. If you would like to be on the email list for upcoming Discussion Group topics, contact Leigh Aaron Leary at asmallchange@yahoo.com.

OUTREACH NEWS

FOODBANK --The need continues and most needed items are canned meats, tuna, spam, chicken, and ham, macaroni and cheese, canned soup, spaghetti sauce. A full list is in Fellowship Hall by the collection baskets.

FAIRVIEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH HOMELESS PROGRAM We have been told that your donations of unwanted shirts, jeans, caps, shoes, sweaters, coats, gloves, and blankets have helped so much in filling the need of the homeless men who come on the first Saturday of each month Fairview Christian. After the church serves them breakfast, the men have a chance to look through the donated items. Two items in particular that are most needed are packages of underwear and socks.

CHECK OUT THE PIC BOARD IN FELLOWSHIP HALL.

The thank you notes from the Angel Tree families you helped at Christmas are posted. There is no doubt that you made so many adults and children happy on Christmas morning as they opened the gifts they had asked for. Communities In Schools is also very grateful to you as well as they expressed in their kind notes to you.

January at the Panty started the year off with a bang. 598 families received items from the Pantry which is an average of nearly 300 per Saturday. On January 21, it was hard to tell those in need that we had run out of most items by 10:30. It is the committee’s hope that with your help, we can increase the number of items placed on the Pantry shelves each week so that we don’t have to tell folks that what they need the most is gone. It is an ongoing need and your help is greatly appreciated.

Also, don’t forget that there is a jar in Fellowship Hall for your “pocket change” that will all go toward purchasing any of the 15 items offered to those in need. It is amazing how quickly the pocket change adds up when there are many contributing.

It has come to the attention that there may be members who would prefer to give a monetary gift instead of shopping for items and carrying them into Fellowship Hall. If you aren’t sure what kind of diapers to buy or where the best “deal” can be found, the committee keeps up to date on where those best deals are and can spread your money a little further. And, your contribution and expenditure is tax-deductible. Merely list the pantry on the memo line of your check. Just food for thought.....

There is still need for Sunday newspaper sleeves, as well as grocery sacks. Also, there is still a need for a couple of card tables.

If you have any questions about the pantry, please feel free to contact Debbi Green, Kim Carraway, Jane Phares, Christi Triplett, or Anne Duncan.

A Contemporary Word:

The Shaking of the Foundations by Paul Tillich

The Prophet Isaiah … “saw history as it is, but at the same time he looked beyond history to the ultimate power and meaning and majesty of being. He knew two orders of being: the human, political, historical order, and the divine, eternal order. Because he knew these two orders, he could speak as he did, moving continually between the depth of human nothingness and the great height of divine creativity.

Let us look at these orders, these different natures, and their interrelation. In speaking of them we speak of ourselves, because we belong to both of them in every moment of our life and, history.”

Self Renewal,

The Individual and the Innovative Society (1965)

by John W. Gardner

“(Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949) has written: “Only birth can conquer death. … Within the soul, within the body social, there must be --- if we are to experience long survival --- a continuous “reoccurrence of birth” to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death.”

“We smother our values in ritual and encrust them with social observances that rapidly become meaningless. But while some are losing their faith, others are achieving new insights; while some are growing slack and hypocritical in the moral dimension of their lives others are bringing a new meaning and vitality to moral striving.

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”

Robert Schuler

CLASS ON JOSEPH CAMPBELL

You are cordially invited to join Keith Williamson in viewing and discussing famed mythologist Joseph Campbell’s DVD talks on “The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition.” This five-session class will be offered at each of these times:

Mondays 6:15-7:30 p.m.

or

Tuesdays 2:00-3:15 p.m.

You may attend which ever class fits into your schedule.

Topics addressed by Joseph Campbell (listed sequentially by week) include:

This week: The Spirit Land—How a living myth imbues the world with meaning.

Next week; On Being Human—The emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies.

Feb. 20 or 21:From Goddesses to God—Ancient personifications of divinity

Feb 27 or 28:The Mystical Life—Mythic strains that helped shape the Western spirit.

Plymouth Congregational Church

Word and Note

Bishop John Shelby Spong

February 17-19, 2012

Information and Ticket Reservation Forms are on the book counter in Fellowship Hall.

HELPFUL CHURCH INFORMATION

A NURSERY AND TODDLER ROOM are available downstairs for babies and toddlers during the church service. Grace, Megan and Anna will be there to greet you and your children.

BABY MONITORS are available for those of you who leave your children in the nursery or toddler room during the church service. To check one out, please see Grace in the nursery.

BE SURE TO CHECK OUR WEB SITE ww.ucchurch.org each week for updates and new pictures! A preview of the Order of Service, Sunday announcements and Sermon Titles are posted each week! An archive of sermons, newsletters, and up-to-date calendar are all readily available on the website too.

HEARING ASSISTED RECEIVERS are available for your use during the church service. Please see an usher if you need one.

WANT A CD of a worship service? Please sign up on the CD Form on the information board in Fellowship Hall. You may pick-up your CD in the church office. $2 per CD may be put in “Deposit Box” in the office.

WOMENS’ GUILD BOOK EXCHANGE New books come in every week for this Women’s Guild outreach project. Please bring books you have read and think others would enjoy to add to our bookshelves. We like to keep our inventory interesting and inviting!

CHECK OUT THE BULLETIN BOARDS IN FELLOWSHIP HALL. The minutes of all the UCC Boards are posted on the bulletin boards as is the roster for the Church Council.