Happy Snowy January!
Crystal
All submissions are due the first and third Wednesday of the month. This email is sent the second and fourth weeks of the month.
Send pulpit supply updates to
Terri Allen
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Save the Date! - January 27, 2019
Reggie Jackson will speak at Emanuel Church in Hales Corners
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Emanuel Church Hales Corners is pleased to announce that Reggie Jackson, of Nurturing Diversity Partners and the American Black Holocaust Museum, will be offering a presentation and Q&A session on Sunday January 27, from 10:30 AM to 11:15 AM, with an appetizer reception to follow.
As a follow up to our Appreciative Inquiry process, we intend to have an annual event on or around the Martin Luther King Day holiday each year, focusing on how we as a congregation can be more involved in our community by working toward improving social justice and reducing fear and hatred. Dr. King believed progress toward racial equality could be achieved through nonviolent resistance to social injustice.
You are invited to join us for this informative event, and bring your friends. Please let our church office know how many of you plan on attending so we can adequately prepare the reception.
Sponsored by the Good News Committee of Emanuel Church.
Emanuel Church
10627 W. Forest Home Ave.
Hales Corners, WI 53130
414.425.1515
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Marriage in The Bible
February 15-17
Marriage in the Bible: What Is and Is Not in the Bible
Individuals, churches, and communities across the country are struggling to know what their faithful response should be to potentially difficult subjects, including matters related to the LGBTQ+ community, such as whether or not to affirm same-sex marriages and whether or not to ordain such members. How do we discuss our beliefs in productive faithful conversations when our perspectives might differ from those of other persons?
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Dr. Jennifer Bird
knows what it is like to be uncertain about what the Bible says on important issues such as marriage. The Bible is quite complex on this (or any other) topic. Wanting a simple, clear-cut answer is understandable, but is not quite fair to expect of Scripture.
Part of the solution is to be careful and honest about what is and is not in the Bible that relates to this conversation.
Dr. Bird is eager to give persons some space and time in which to read and wrestle with what is and is not in the Bible on this topic, guided by her award-winning teaching style and compassion. Her goal is to educate.
Questions? Call Angela 262-246-6710
Redeemer United Church of Christ
W220 N4915 Town Line Road
Menomonee Falls
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Dr. Jennifer Harvey comes back to Milwaukee!
February 22-23
A writer, teacher, and speaker,
Dr. Jennifer Harvey
focuses much of her work on the intersection of religion, ethics, race, gender, and spirituality. A professor of religion at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, she has become a sought-after speaker on the topic of racial justice.
This engagement with Dr. Harvey is another step in Immanuel's commitment to continuing conversation and action around the realities of racial injustice and white privilege in church and culture. Immanuel Church is pleased to offer this opportunity,
free of charge
, through a special gift. We warmly invite friends and colleagues from neighboring congregations and judicatories to join us!
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A Saturday afternoon program and workshop (1:00 - 4:00) will engage important learnings from Dr. Harvey's racial identity work from
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation
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She will be the guest preacher for Sunday morning worship at Immanuel (10:00 a.m.) and then lead a post-worship conversation for parents and adults about "Talking with Children About Race" based on her recently published:
Raising White Kids: Bringing up Children in a Racially Unjust America
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The weekend will conclude with a lunch for both adults and children. Copies of her books will be available through
Boswell Book Company
on Saturday afternoon.
Please share this invitation widely with colleagues, congregations, church members, and friends! PDF invite attached.
In shared ministry,
Rob Ater
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Immanuel Presbyterian Church
1100 N Astor St
Milwaukee
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Bi-Vocational Ministry Incubator
April - November, 2019
Are you a pastor serving a vital congregation where you know there is an imminent financial crunch? You’d like to remain there, but how can you afford to?
Are you a pastor already serving in a part-time capacity by choice or not, who might want encouragement and tools for setting realistic expectations and boundaries?
Are you a licensed pastor wanting to find a way to blend and value your work both within the church and outside the church?
Are you an interim pastor who wants to develop skills in helping congregations consider their options going forward within a missional framework and transition into other pastoral arrangements?
Are you a pastor with more energy and interest than your congregation can handle and are looking for another outlet for ministry and discipleship?
Then the Bi-Vocational Ministry Incubator might be just for you! April - November, 2019
Increasingly, congregations can no longer afford a full-time, fully-supported pastor. And pastors are needing to wrestle with tough questions about how to sustain themselves while being faithful to their sense of call. The Bi-vocational Ministry Incubator provides a safe space where pastors can dig deeper into these questions, hone skills for doing ministry in a different way, develop tools to guide a congregation into making a transition into a more shared model of ministry, and find the courage to explore options.
Monthly day-long gatherings over the course of 8 months will offer skill-building, peer support and coaching/mentoring. The program is offered inter-denominationally and designed for both ordained and licensed/commissioned pastors, for those who want to explore this option and for those who have already made the transition and want additional support and tools, for those who seek additional income and for those who seek part-time arrangements in order to juggle home and care-giving responsibilities. Offered by Sand Bur Consulting, LLC. Brochure and application available at
www.sandburconsulting.com
. For more info, contact
dave@sandburconsulting.com
. Registration is limited and deadline is March 22, 2019.
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Pastoral Transitions
- Rev. Stephen Gifford has been called as interim pastor at St. Paul's UCC in Menomonee Falls and at Calvary Memorial UCC in Wauwatosa, effective Jan. 2, 2019
- Ms. Christine Wilke has been called as interim pastor at New Horizon UCC in Kewaskum (Farmington), effective Jan. 1, 2019
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Annual Meeting 2019 will be held on April 5th – 6th
at the Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells.
This will be a combined meeting of all four Associations as well as the Conference Annual Meeting. This unusual format is in response to our hosting of General Synod in June of 2019.
The intention of holding combined conference and association meetings is to most efficiently transact the business of both entities of the church in this year of hosting General Synod. This really is only 1 meeting, as opposed to viewing it as two separate meetings on the same weekend. The vision is for church delegates to represent their church in the necessary work of both entities. Therefore, there will be one registration fee for the entire meeting, which will cover Friday evening and Saturday. (Note: Churches that regularly send delegates to the conference annual meeting will see their overall costs lower in 2019 than in 2018, due to the 2019 meeting only requiring one overnight stay, and fewer meals.)
The meeting registration fees will cover the meeting and meals. It will NOT include your hotel room.
Hotel rooms will need to be booked by each church. Here is information about the room rates that may be helpful in your budgeting for 2019.
- Double queen w/sofa - 6 per room $154.94 a night includes resort fee
- 2 bedroom deluxe - 7 per room $214.94 a night includes resort fee
- 3 bedroom deluxe - 13 per room $324.94 a night includes resort fee (One double queen and one 2-bedroom make up the three bedroom)
People can stay Friday night only. If people want to stay Saturday night, it is a two-night minimum either Friday and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday.
>> Please note that neither the Conference nor Associations are planning to provide childcare during the meetings. <<
Your congregation will receive further information as the meeting gets closer but we wanted you to have some information for your 2019 planning.
Rev. Mary Jane Huber
Moderator, SEAWCUCC
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2018 Changing Lives Mission Grants Still Available!
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Southeast Wisconsin Association UCC
Crystal Stinemates, editor
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