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Penn Northeast Conference UCC, 431 Delaware Ave., Palmerton, PA 18071
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Call to the Fall Annual Meeting of the Penn Northeast Conference
Saturday, November 3, 2018
Faith UCC, 22 Faith Drive, Hazleton, PA
Theme: Transforming
Guest Preacher: Rev. Bill Worley, Pennsylvania Southeast Conference Minister
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Friends,
We, as a conference, have been enrolled in Mission Insite, a demographic information site, for some moths now. Congregations involved in pastoral searches have received copies of reports from the Conference Office. Now we are providing you with individual congregational access to this powerful tool for assessing communities. Please refer to this
information to register
. The information can also be found on our website under the
Links
tab. - Bonnie, Bates
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Allentown Mutual Ministry - Calling all clergy and lay members of Allentown Area UCC Churches
- Jim Byrnes will speak about the mission of Family Promise on August 26 from 2 to 3:30PM at UCC Greenawalds, Allentown.
Details
OPTIC, UCC’s Office of Philanthropy, Technology, Identity and Communication
is kicking off a series of free webinars to help churches and stewardship committees meet their challenging goals of increasing funds and membership. The first of these roundtables will be held the evening of August 28.
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Pennsylvania Academy of Ministry 3-part educational series called Consistory/Council 101
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PNEC Sleep Out for Homelessness
- September 29-30, Forks UCC, Stockertown
Pastoral Leadership in Congregational Systems
- Three Sessions of Learning to Improve Pastoral
Leadership for Authorized Ministers - 3 days of experiential learning - October 10; February 27, 2019;
May 1, 2019 - 9AM to 5PM each day at Faith UCC, Center Valley - COST: $350 including lunch.
Understanding Addiction and Older Adults
- October 11 at DeSales university - online registration will
PNEC Ministry Day
- Saturday, October 13 from 9AM to 4PM, Faith UCC, 5992 Route 378, Center
Valley -
more details later
Greater Allentown CROP Hunger Walk
- October 14 at 1:30PM beginning and ending at St. Timothy's
Lutheran Church, 140 S. Ott St., Allentown - registration starting at 1PM - for sponsor form, info about
2018 Boundary Training Workshops
- "Essential Boundaries for Wise Leaders" - sponsored by NE PA
2018 "Widening the Welcome Conference - Living, Learning, Leading"
- November 1-3 at the
Sheraton Niagara Falls and the Niagara Falls Convention Center - Also, a Mental Health First Aid
class, November 1 - certified course with cont. ed. credit upon completion -
Detailed Flyer
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The Disaster Response Ministry Team has been undergoing some significant changes over the last months. We are currently without a Disaster Response Ministry Team Coordinator and need to reform and reenergize our group.
We are gathering for an information and re-organization meeting at the Conference Office, 431 Delaware Avenue, Palmerton on Monday evening, September 10 at 6:30PM. We anticipate the meeting will last no longer than 90 minutes. If you have an interest in this ministry or know of someone who does, please join us!
Thank you for your continuing efforts to express God’s love to our neighbors. -Bonnie
UCC Disaster Ministries Champions
Who are they and what do they do?
But they don't need to...
- Carry the message - Have knowledge of Disaster Ministries or Response
- Serve as our local eyes and ears - Always be available
- Are Committed - Make a financial commitment
- Show Up - Be a certain age/be our peers
- Organize Others - Be a UCC member or be a pastor
So who are the people we should engage?
- 'People of peace,' not necessarily pastors
- However it is powerful when the pastor asks other congregants to be involved
- This is all about creating relationships
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Back to school around the world, updates from Venezuela, Sierra Leone, Gaza
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Children's Sermon from Rev. David Quinn
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For August 26 (based on John 6:56-69)
Item needed: kangaroo doll, or picture of a kangaroo. Ask for a volunteer. Ask him/her to walk backwards. Ask kids to guess what animal can NOT go backwards. Let them make several guesses, then give answer--a kangaroo! (show picture, or stuffed animal.) A kangaroo cannot go backwards because of its long legs and long tail in the back. In today's Bible reading, some of the people who are following Jesus leave him--like they are walking backwards, away from Jesus. Jesus then asks His friend, Simon Peter, and some of the others, if they will leave, too. Simon says, "Where else would we go? We believe You are God's Chosen One." Simon and these others are like a kangaroo--they won't go backwards, away from Jesus.
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PSEC, PNEC planning rebuild Puerto Rico mission trip
A group of members of Pennsylvania Southeast Conference and Penn Northeast Conference met on Aug. 6 to discuss the possibility of the two conferences sponsoring a rebuild mission trip to Puerto Rico in 2019. The dates that we have requested are April 28 to May 4, 2019. PNEC Associate Conference Minister Gilberto Garcia-Rodriquez will be the group leader. Costs will be made available in a few months as we learn more about airfare and other related costs. You can learn more about the on-going UCC work in Puerto Rico by
clicking here
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The next planning meeting will be held Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 6:30 pm at St John's U.C.C.- Mickleys, 2918 MacArthur Rd, Whitehall, PA 18052. If you would like to be on the list of potential participants and receive the trip information directly, please send and email to Gilberto at
gilbertor@pnec.org
and copy Karl Jones at
kjones275@comcast.net
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Protect Refugee Resettlement
The UCC calls congregations, conferences and ecumenical partners to a Week of Prayer for Refugees because of the government’s still shrinking limits on the number of refugees allowed into this country every year.
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Fall Crossroads Lay Leadership Program Moravian Theological Seminary, Bethlehem
All courses are offered in Zoom, a real time, distance learning format
For detailed class information go to
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UCC Environmental Justice
Webinar: What Faith Communities Need to Know about Carbon Pricing
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