A blessed Advent to all.
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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America’s Black Holocaust Museum - donations matched through 12/31
120 people from 12 UCC congregations had a wonderful event at America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 21. And now we in the Southeast Association have the wonderful opportunity to financially help the museum re-open. A $4,000 UCC matching grant has been raised for the museum, the purpose of which is to match any money given to ABHM by UCC people or churches. So far, $1715 has been raised from the UCC for the museum. We are asking other UCC individuals/churches to give as you are able and willing. Plymouth UCC is the financial agent for this offering. Any checks should be made out and sent to Plymouth UCC, 2717 E. Hampshire Ave., Milwaukee, 53211. Please make sure to put ABHM in the memo line of the check.
Some churches are having an offering during worship for the museum. Other churches have taken money from special funds. Some individuals have donated on their own. And some are waiting until 2019. Every dollar helps, and every gift up to $4000 will be equally matched by our matching grant. And one special thing we learned recently. The museum has been told by a private individual (not UCC) that he will match every gift given to the museum by the end of 2018 up to $100,000. Yes, that’s $100,000. So anything churches or individuals can do by the end of the year will be great for the museum.
Take advantage of the two matching grants before the end of 2018!
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Save the Date! - January 27, 2019
Reggie Jackson will speak at Emanuel Church in Hales Corners
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 11:45 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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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 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 or 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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Mission Possible
First Congregational UCC Watertown has been participating in Summer Sandwiches in the Park along with two other churches for 10 years. This program offers bag lunches, complete with a sandwich, fruit, veggies, a special snack/treat, and milk, water, or juice. The lunches are taken to a local park and handed out to anyone that wants or needs one. The program is able to offer lunch to families that may not be able to have lunch otherwise. It is also a fun family time, as the families can eat together and then go play at the park. Many families make it a play date and meet friends there to socialize as well. This program has grown from a few families in the first year, to handing out over 80 lunches every week to children, parents, elderly, and a few homeless people as well.
Each church does a different day of the week, at a different park each day. This way we can accommodate more people based on availability and location. On our assigned day, Wednesday, a crew meets in the morning and begins to prepare the lunches. We have a designated shopper that purchases all of the items needed each week. Peanut butter and jelly and cheese sandwiches are offered every week. There is also a “sandwich of the week” that varies each week.
Funding for the Summer Sandwiches in the Park program is funded by donations, including a $250 Changing Lives Mission Outreach Grant, and all of the helpers are volunteer. This program would not exist without all of this kindness and generosity.
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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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