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Important This Week
- Flooding preparedness webinar with Karl Jones tomorrow
- PSEC churches support migrant youth at Bethany Children's Home
- Register for a preaching workshop with Rev. Cean James
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PSEC churches support migrant youth Bethany Children's Home
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Carversville Christian Church collects for Helping Hands
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Carversville Christian Church dropped off some gifts for Helping Hands and Bethany Children's Home! We're so grateful for their generosity! The Conference office continues to be a place to drop donations for migrant children at Bethany. Drop off items during our walk-in hours (they don't need to be wrapped). "
We want to put smiles on every child’s face," the church Facebook page shared.
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Collenbrook's collection for Bethany featured in newspaper
The Delaware County Daily Times printed an article on Sunday, July 28 about groups in the community that are supporting immigrant children. Collenbrook United Church's pastor, Rev. Melanie Lawrence-Caldwell, was interviewed was interviewed for the story: "Collenbrook is progressive theologically but mission and serving the wider community and the world is a really important part of who we are." Click here to read "
Groups take a stand to support immigrant children
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Drop off donations for unaccompanied youth at PSEC
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Helping Hands is a humanitarian program that reunites unaccompanied youth from Central America with family that already resides in the USA. Bethany Children's Home provides them with a safe place to live and grow until they are reunited with their families.
Click here
for a list of the items they are currently in need of, as many of the youth, aged 5-14 years
, arrive with just the clothes on their backs.
If your church is collecting items for Helping Hands and is unable to get them to Bethany Children's Home, you can drop items off at the Conference Office, 1441 Laura Lane, Pottstown, during regular office hours (Monday-Thursday from 9:00a-3:00p and Friday from 8:00a-12:00p).
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Group from Pleasantville holds luau at Bethany Children's Home
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Wednesday evening a group from Pleasantville UCC traveled to Bethany Children's Home to have luau fun with the youth staying there. Great fun and great ministry!
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Cean James leading preaching workshop in Schuylkill
"Preaching Like the Choir: How to prepare and present sermons with rhythm, melody and prose with Rev. Cean James" will be held Thursday, Oct. 17 from 9:00-3:00 at First UCC, Schuylkill Haven. For more info and to register,
click here
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Two Schuylkill churches join for day of mission work
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These pictures are from a day trip to Mission Central in Mechanicsburg. Mission Central is a ministry of our Methodist siblings. This groups was made of up folks from St. Peter’s UCC and Salem Hetzels UCC both of Pine Grove. They spent the day preparing 400 school kits and sorting through several hundred books.
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Child Abuse Prevention symposium set for Sept. 18
On Sept. 18 the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance is hosting a Child Abuse Symposium at the Harrisburg Hilton Hotel. This day-long event is for professionals and volunteers who work with children and will feature nationally acclaimed speakers who are experts in child abuse prevention. Attendees receive a copy of Liz Murray’s memoir and lunch will be provided.
Click here
for a pamphlet that contains further details and breakout session topics.
Registration
is required. Cost is $150.
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Webinar on the Youth Climate Movement as a Moral Force
On Fridays throughout the world this past year, students walked out of classrooms and went into the streets to compel action in addressing the climate crisis. What started as a one-person protest by Greta Thunberg has grown to a movement of millions in over 160 countries and at least 2000 locations. Youth are now calling upon adults to join them for a week of action in September. This month’s
Creation Justice Webinar
will prepare us for action by featuring Jamie Margolin, the 17-year-old who has been at the forefront of the youth climate movement in the United States. She led the call for last year's youth climate march, and she is a co-founder of the youth organization Zero Hour. The webinar will be held on Aug. 15 at 1:00p, but a recording will be sent out to all who register.
Register today!
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Flooding preparedness webinar offered tomorrow
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Localized flooding has in the last year been a real danger to communities across Eastern Pennsylvania. A webinar on July 31 from 9:30a–11a, presented by Julia Menzo, Lutheran Disaster Response Coordinator and Karl Jones, UCC Disaster Coordinator, will give info for congregations to help strengthen their communities:
- Learn Steps for a congregation to be better prepared for emergency weather and natural disasters
- Resources to share with community residents and members when property damage occurs
- How to make your community stronger: early response and long term recovery
- How Lutheran Disaster Response and UCC Disaster Ministries help communities when natural disasters like flooding happen
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Spots filling up for Oct. 8-10 Men's Clergy Retreat
"God, Guts and Guys: from Vulnerability to Vitality" will be the theme of the 2019 Men's Clergy Retreat being held at Kirkridge Retreat Center in Bangor, PA. The event, taking place Oct 8-10 (Tues-Thurs), will be a mixture of worship, small group discussions and relaxation! The facilitator of the group will be Rev. Felix Villanueva, Conference Minister of Southern California-Nevada. For more info and to register,
click here
. Spots are limited; register now!
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Intentional Interim clergy training offered in Malvern
The Interim Ministry Network will offer a three-day, self-contained "Fundamentals of Transitional Ministry: The Work of the Leader" course, introducing foundational theories to interim ministry. The time is devoted to experiential learning through the use of case studies and sacred story. The work of the interim leader is presented and discussed along with tools and resources that facilitate the work of the transitional leader. The workshop will be in Malvern August 27-29 for $740 plus room/meals.
Click here
for more information and to register.
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Registration is open for PSEC 2019 Fall Meeting at Ursinus
- How do your OCWM contributions benefit your Pastor, your members and your youth?
- What were the Resolutions at General Synod all about and how do the effect your church?
These are just a few of the questions that we will answer at the Fall Meeting. Join us and learn what is happening in PSEC and how your church benefits! The meeting will be held Sunday, Nov. 17 from 3:00-5:30 at Ursinus College. Registration starts 2:30. For a flyer,
click here
. For more info and to register,
click here
.
Childcare is available from 3:00p to meeting end. (Please register the child and bring the completed Child Care Medical Release form with you to the meeting.
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Have a book to recommend for other clergy and lay leaders? Send an email to
brea@psec.org
with a 100-200 word description of the book and why you're recommending it and we'll add it to the PSEC summer reading list and share your recommendation in eNews.
Check out all of the books that have been recommended in recent weeks at
psec.org/booklist
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Support DMin student in PSEC by taking online short survey
My name is Rev. Kimberly Stryjak and I was ordained in the PSEC and work as a hospice chaplain in Delaware and Chester counties. I am a Doctorate of Ministry student at Lancaster Theological Seminary and am in the process of writing my Major Project and wanted to seek out the help of you, our faith leaders, through a survey.
This project seeks to engage how the church can help break the silence around death and dying in our society today. It sheds light on how intentional conversations in our United Church of Christ faith communities can help to normalize death within our society. Through this project I will look at how faith leaders can help initiate conversations around mortality in our faith communities and seek to answer the question: how can the church have a meaningful presence in helping individuals and their families prepare for the end of life?
So if you would please take about 15 minutes to fill out this survey, I would greatly appreciate it!
This link
will take you to the survey in google forms. Thank you for your time and assistance in my research project.
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