Welcome to Fall!
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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Directory Update Needed
Recently, our webmaster, Christine Wilke, has been contacted with updates and corrections to a church’s information on the SEA website. To ensure that every church’s information is correct please go to
http://www.wcucc.org/associations/southeast-association/churches/
, click the district for your church and check all of the information, including church name, pastor, contact info, email link, website, Facebook page, and photo. Send any updates to Christine at
christine.wilke@garrett.edu
Thank you!
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Great Event at America's Black Holocaust Museum
New matching grant offered - up to $100,000! Donate now!
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America’s Black Holocaust Museum – ABHM – had an open house for members and friends of the UCC on Sunday, October 21, from 3-5pm. About 120 people attended, representing 12 UCC churches. ABHM provided a wonderful variety of coffee and goodies along with great live saxophone music from 3 to 3:30. The President of the Board and the Interim Executive Director each gave a short talk followed by a presentation by Head Griot Reggie Jackson. Reggie Jackson then led a tour of the exhibits that have already been installed (perhaps a third of the total). All of the ABHM representatives who were present were very friendly, open, and willing to talk to people. We are more than a little excited to see all the exhibits when the museum opens to the public, hopefully in Spring 2019.
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Gathering for a quick bite while being serenaded
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We are now moving to the phase of encouraging churches and individuals to raise money for the museum. The museum has received a promise from a private individual to match any donations, up to a total of $100,000, that are received by the end of the year. So, any donations given by then will by matched equally from that promised gift. Also, the UCC committee coordinating this UCC fundraiser has raised its own matching grant of $4,000. So, anything that churches and individuals give by the end of 2018, up to $4,000, will be quadrupled, which means that $4,000 in donations becomes $16,000 for ABHM!
Donations for ABHM can be sent directly to our financial agent. Make checks payable to Plymouth UCC, write ABHM in the memo line, and mail them to Plymouth UCC, 2717 E. Hampshire St., Milwaukee, WI 53211.
Thanks to all who have already donated and to all who will donate! Together, we can support the vital history preserved and taught at ABHM.
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Peace UCC - Kewaskum's Annual Holiday Bazaar
Saturday, November 17 form 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
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Crafts, Granny's Attic, Bake Sale, and Cafe.
New this year!!! Granny's Attic Preview/Purchase Night - Friday, November 16th, 6-8 p.m.
$10 entry charge gets you first choice on all the items for sale!
Peace United Church of Christ
343 First Street
Kewaskum, WI 53040
262-626-4011
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Wearing God: Discovering New Images from Everyday Life
An Advent Retreat
Friday, December 14 from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM
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Based on Lauren Winner’s groundbreaking book,
Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God
— we will explore intimacy with God through ordinary experience. Come! Prepare for Advent by wearing God and discovering your own new images of God’s faithfulness and love.
Our retreat leader: Rev. Holly Whitcomb, Director of Kettlewood Retreats, is a widely traveled speaker and spiritual director. She is the author of four books and will soon publish her fifth:
The Practice of Finding.
The deadline for registering is December 8.
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Youth are invited Plymouth UCC - Milwaukee's UWM Planetarium and Advent Retreat - Dec 7-8
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Youth from SE Churches are invited to join Plymouth UCC (Milwaukee) for an evening at the UWM Planetarium.
Friday, December 7, show at 8:15 PM
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2018 Changing Lives Mission Grants Available!
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This year the SEA Mission Team is offering two separate Changing Lives Grant opportunities.
Changing Lives Mission Outreach Grants of up to $250 are available for programs and projects connected to your congregation’s local community such as a food pantry, community meal, after school program, or work you do with a local non-profit. For more information or to apply, please see the
attached document
or get the application online at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y5J85LG
. Past grant recipients may apply again this year.
Changing Lives Race and Privilege Grants of up to $100 are available for congregations engaging in conversations about race and privilege to print or copy curriculum, purchase books, rent movies, or host speakers. For more information or to apply, please see the
attached document
or go to
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2LCGR3X
for the online application.
The SEA Mission Team’s goal is to support congregations who seek to change lives, their own and others. If your congregation would like support for something not covered in one of these grants, please contact chairperson Christine Wilke at
sewaucc.missionteam@gmail.com
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Southeast Wisconsin Association UCC
Crystal Stinemates, editor
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