FROM LOIS
" WOW!!! What an Spirit-filled experience! Met 5 amazing women for the first time and in 3 1/2 days picked theme, scripture, music, possible logos, new lyrics for one hymn and paired off to work on specific celebrations. My new friend, Jan from Connecticut, and I will be writing May Friendship Day 2012. Our hostess, Carolyn McCullough, knows how to roll out the red carpet, for sure. We attended a prayer breakfast at her AME Zion Church Saturday morning which was really great, too. Thank you Church Women United for letting me be part of something so totally cool. Lois"
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Exciting News and Reminders
Exciting News
Lois LaFon has agreed to serve on the CWU National Ecumenical Celebrations Committee. Margurite Carter remembered Lois from her visit to our State Assembly in 2010 and asked her to fill a vacancy on that committee. Lois will be traveling to Dallas TX on January 13 for a planning retreat. Please congratulate Lois and keep her in your prayers as she travels to Dallas.
Who are our past Celebrations Committee members from Nebraska?
Reminders
January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. The Omaha World Herald reported finding 155 Internet ads in Nebraska promoting girls and women for sex. There is a need to strengthen and enforce anti-trafficking and child victim laws in NE.
January 15 is the registration deadline for the January 22 dinner
At the Celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. See previous entry.
January 25 is the registration deadline for the 2012 Ecumenical Legislative Briefing Day. Email me at cwune@mail.com or call 402-463-7615 if you do not have a flyer.
February 11 is the 2012 Ecumenical Legislative Briefing Day.
February 15 is the deadline for the Nebraska Church Woman
Judy Dunson, Chair National CWU Communications conducted a workshop at the 70th Anniversary Celebration and asked for input and feed back on communications between national and state. I look for enhanced communications this next year and encourage you to subscribe to the ChurchWoman News. Six issues for $15. Contact me for an order for or let me know of any difficulty you have in receiving your issues.
Lois LaFon has agreed to serve on the CWU National Ecumenical Celebrations Committee. Margurite Carter remembered Lois from her visit to our State Assembly in 2010 and asked her to fill a vacancy on that committee. Lois will be traveling to Dallas TX on January 13 for a planning retreat. Please congratulate Lois and keep her in your prayers as she travels to Dallas.
Who are our past Celebrations Committee members from Nebraska?
Reminders
January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. The Omaha World Herald reported finding 155 Internet ads in Nebraska promoting girls and women for sex. There is a need to strengthen and enforce anti-trafficking and child victim laws in NE.
January 15 is the registration deadline for the January 22 dinner
At the Celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. See previous entry.
January 25 is the registration deadline for the 2012 Ecumenical Legislative Briefing Day. Email me at cwune@mail.com or call 402-463-7615 if you do not have a flyer.
February 11 is the 2012 Ecumenical Legislative Briefing Day.
February 15 is the deadline for the Nebraska Church Woman
Judy Dunson, Chair National CWU Communications conducted a workshop at the 70th Anniversary Celebration and asked for input and feed back on communications between national and state. I look for enhanced communications this next year and encourage you to subscribe to the ChurchWoman News. Six issues for $15. Contact me for an order for or let me know of any difficulty you have in receiving your issues.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Welcome to the CWU NE Blog. I plan to use this site to communicate with you and to keep you updated on CWU news and information.
From Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska: an invitation to join in
WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
You are invited to dinner and worship at the Celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This special event will be held will at All Saints Episcopal Church, 9302 Blondo Street, Omaha, on Sunday, January 22, 2012. Dinner will be served at 5:00 pm followed by the Unity Worship Service at 7:00 pm.
“As a worldwide observance seeing “unity in diversity,” the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity focuses upon the shared yearnings of all Christians “that all may be on” (John 17:21) according to the will of Christ. The theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2012 comes to us from the churches in Poland, who have reflected upon their own experience as a nation, and in particular how, as a nation, they have been changed and transformed by the many upheavals of their history, and sustained by their faith.
Change is also at the heart of the ecumenical movement. When we pray for the unity of the church we are praying that the churches that we know and which are so familiar to us will change as they conform more closely to Christ. This is an exciting vision, but also a challenging one. Furthermore, when we pray for this transforming unity we are also praying for change in the world.
Bishop David defreeze, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Nebraska Synod and Bishop Ann B. Sherer-Simpson, United Methodist Church, Nebraska Conference will bring the message during the ecumenical worship service.
The dinner will feature recognition of those named to the Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska People of Faith Wall of Honor."
Reservations are required for the dinner at $20.00 each payble to Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska Send your check along with your name, address, phone no. and email address to Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska, 215 Centennial Mall South, Suite 300 68508 before January 15, 2012.
Welcome to the CWU NE Blog. I plan to use this site to communicate with you and to keep you updated on CWU news and information.
From Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska: an invitation to join in
WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
You are invited to dinner and worship at the Celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This special event will be held will at All Saints Episcopal Church, 9302 Blondo Street, Omaha, on Sunday, January 22, 2012. Dinner will be served at 5:00 pm followed by the Unity Worship Service at 7:00 pm.
“As a worldwide observance seeing “unity in diversity,” the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity focuses upon the shared yearnings of all Christians “that all may be on” (John 17:21) according to the will of Christ. The theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2012 comes to us from the churches in Poland, who have reflected upon their own experience as a nation, and in particular how, as a nation, they have been changed and transformed by the many upheavals of their history, and sustained by their faith.
Change is also at the heart of the ecumenical movement. When we pray for the unity of the church we are praying that the churches that we know and which are so familiar to us will change as they conform more closely to Christ. This is an exciting vision, but also a challenging one. Furthermore, when we pray for this transforming unity we are also praying for change in the world.
Bishop David defreeze, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Nebraska Synod and Bishop Ann B. Sherer-Simpson, United Methodist Church, Nebraska Conference will bring the message during the ecumenical worship service.
The dinner will feature recognition of those named to the Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska People of Faith Wall of Honor."
Reservations are required for the dinner at $20.00 each payble to Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska Send your check along with your name, address, phone no. and email address to Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska, 215 Centennial Mall South, Suite 300 68508 before January 15, 2012.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
New BLOG/WEB ADDRESS!
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