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Jottings 9/25/2023
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What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
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"What We Remember Will Be Saved"
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First Church UCC Phoenix hopes that some of their friends from other UCC churches who help out at the Welcome Center (and also those who don't) will join this event!
Journalist and scholar, Stephanie Saldana, is going to be in the Tucson/Phoenix area. She wrote a beautiful book What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry.
She follows the lives of six refugees from Syria and Iraqi, describing what they saved and how they rebuilt their lives in other countries.
Read MoreJottings 9/18/2023
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
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Church of the Beatitudes served Labor Day lunch at Justa Center
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From Gayle Lawson:
Annually, Church of Beatitudes serves up Labor Day lunch to the seniors, who experience food insecurities, at the Justa Center. It was fantastic to be back in this great facility.
A great time was had by all!
Read MoreJottings 9/11/2023
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
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Desert Palm invites UCC-area teens and adults to storytelling workshop
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Sunday, September 17, 2 – 5 pm at Desert Palm UCC
UPDATE: The storytelling event has been expanded to become intergenerational because we received some parent/adult interest. So anyone -- adults and teens --can participate.
Tempe’s Desert Palm is hosting an open invitation to Phoenix-area sister campuses to participate in a free storytelling workshop. The interfaith workshop in Desert Palm’s sanctuary will be led by master storytellers, Rev. Doug Bland and Storytelling Institute Faculty Director Liz Warren. Students ages 12-18 will learn how to brainstorm, craft and share at least a 5-minute story on stage. (Pizza, drinks and dessert will be served after the workshop.)
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Drum Circles, Story Circles & Befriending Death at the Healing Project
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Rev. Shea Darian invites you to these fall programs at Doing Grief ™ Community Healing Project at the Interfaith Chapel for Healing at The Church of the Palms.
Read MoreJottings 9/5/2023
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
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Jottings 8/28/2023
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
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Read MoreJottings 8/21/2023
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
If you’d like us to share your Facebook posts, tag us! @swcucc is our handle.
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Luther House ABQ Welcome Back BBQ
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See the invitation below from Rhonda Newby-Torres of Luther House in Albuquerque (Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College):
Join us on Wednesday, August 23
from 5pm-8pm to kick off the Fall semester!
We will have food, fun, games, and lots of new swag!
All are welcome at Luther House,
so bring a friend!
We are a Chrisitan faith community
attempting to live out
God's LOVE, justice, and mercy
for all creation.
Church of the Beatitudes gathered supplies for Maryland School
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The kiddos are back in school and Church of the Beatitudes coordinated with Maryland School again.
Church of Beatitudes provided backpacks, colored pencils, markers, student and teacher incentives, lots of tissues and bottled water and so much more!
Church of Beatitudes wishes all the students and teachers of Maryland School a successful school year!
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"Oppenheimer" didn’t include the confirmation of African American scientists
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The movie Oppenheimer is big news these days. Unfortunately, they didn’t include the confirmation of African American scientists. Because of that:
First Congregational Albuquerque will highlight the lives of five of the nine Black scientists who participated in the Manhattan Project over the next several weeks. A photograph of one of the five scientists along with pertinent facts about their lives will be shown on screen during announcements and displayed on a bulletin board in Fellowship Hall.
Read MoreJottings 8/14/2023
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
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My UCC church’s listening experiment with our evangelical neighbors
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“I hoped our shared faith would provide enough common ground. I was a bit naive.
“As our last meeting of an inter-congregational experiment in dialogue was drawing to a close, I felt pleased. The atmosphere was warm and congenial. We’d talked about important subjects and about our most deeply held values in a way that seemed promising for further conversation. The experiment had been conceived as an exercise in listening between members of my very liberal congregation, First Congregational United Church of Christ in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and those of an evangelical congregation in the same town, and we had done just what we hoped.
“Then came the written evaluations and several private follow-up conversations. The experiment was not as rosy as I had perceived it.”
Read this Christian Century article about an experiment involving First Congregational United Church of Christ in Albuquerque.
Read MoreJottings 8/7/2023
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
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Read MoreRev. Dr. Gloria Smith's 30-year ordination anniversary celebration
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From Encanto Community Church:
On Sunday, August 20, Encanto Community Church will host a celebration of the 30-year anniversary of our Pastor Gloria’s ordination with the United Church of Christ. We at Encanto are so fortunate to benefit from her years of experience, study, and ministry! We invite you to join us for cake and fellowship following Sunday worship, honoring this very special occasion!
Read MoreJottings 7/31/2023
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
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Read MoreJottings 7/24/2023
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What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
If you’d like us to share your Facebook posts, tag us! @swcucc is our handle.
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