All told, we ordered 45 copies of Get Over Yourself; God’s Here! As of today there is only one left.
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From United Methodist News Service:
Through individual gifts, special offerings and innovative fundraising activities, United Methodists have donated $11 million for Haiti through the United Methodist Committee on Relief. In addition, the UMCOR Sager Brown Depot distribution center in Baldwin, La., has received 350,000 health kits.
Thanks for your contributions to this great work of the United Methodist Church.
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A memorial service for Tracy Alban will be held this morning (March 1, 2010) at 11:00 am in the sanctuary. Apologies for the late notice. His obituary can be found online here.
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The Discussion Group for Get Over Yourself: God’s Here! will meet in Room 102 over the lunch hour. Jenny will be leading the discussion today.
A side note: a member of the Aldersgate Experience Group told that they noticed a marked difference between Kate Moorehead’s interpretation of Mary’s behavior at the Wedding in Cana with that of the other biblical commentaries we had read on that passage a while back. I noticed it to and I also disagree with Moorehead’s interpretation of Mary as meddling. But Moorehead makes a good point that we sometimes have the most to learn from people who push our buttons.
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The Coffeyville Ministerial Alliance will be hosting four Lenten Luncheons this year at First United Methodist Church in the Fellowship Hall. Doors will open at 11:30 am and the Luncheon proper will start at 12:00 pm. The schedule is as follows:
Wednesday, March 3, 2010: Diane Massey of First Presbyterian will be preaching, Katherine Riley of First Christian will be providing special music and First Christian will be providing the meal.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010: Lee Passwater of Trinity UMC will be preaching, Mike Clark of First Southern Baptist will be providing special music and First United Methodist Women will be providing the meal.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010: Jerry Adinolfi of St. Paul’s Episcopal will be preaching, Gerald Morris of Grace Fellowship will be providing special music and Grace Fellowship will be providing the meal.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010: Mark Wilson of First Church of God will be preaching, Linda Beever of First Church of God will be providing special music and First Baptist will be providing the meal.
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Coffeyville Regional Medical Center has tightened enforcement of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) rules for privacy. When checking at the hospital, Jenny and I now only receive a list of people who have indicated that they are Methodist when they were admitted. In our experience the list is not always complete. If you are admitted to the hospital the only truly reliable way to let us know that you are there is to have someone contact us and let us know.
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We’re getting ready for Lenten Luncheons in March but there is a lot of clutter in the kitchen and a lot of left over food in the refrigerators. We need to tidy up. If you have something personal in the kitchen that might be accidentally thrown out please pick it up (Non-perishables will be put in a box and kept for six months). If you have food in the refrigerator that needs to be kept, please mark it as such (I’ll leave sticky notes in the kitchen for this purpose).
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From a television commercial I just saw: “No one knows Easter like Hersheys.” Really? No one? Really?
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The 2010 budget, as approved by the Church Council, is now available online on the downloads page of the church website. Copies are also available in the church office.
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Via Sojourners:
“Not only is the Bible extensive in its teaching on wealth and poverty, but it is uncomfortably clear and plain. There is not the ambiguity and complexity that one finds in some other subjects, as in the ‘tension’ and dynamic balance of apparent opposites that one finds in such doctrines as the New Testament view of the state. The Bible is clearly and emphatically on the side of the poor.”
— Bob Sabath, in a 1974 article for Sojourners.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about our social safety net and about the way that many “abuse” the system. And I can’t get away from the idea that our social safety net is designed to be the least we can do at the lowest possible cost. To create a system that puts people to work in exchange for what they receive, to nurture them and hold them accountable for growth, to help them learn job skills and personal responsibility, to work for justice so that all employment is compensated by a living wage, all these things would require a much greater commitment on our part (as individuals, as communities, and as a country) than what we currently do. It is far easier to stick to our current band-aid system and complain when people “abuse” it then to truly help them. I remember a line from a movie or TV show: “No it’s literally the least I can do.” Our current system is literally the least we can do, it is not what God calls us to do.
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