Mid-Week, January 23, 2008

 

Wednesday Night Live -

A New Class Offering for all Ages!

 

Would you like to be more physically fit? 

Interested in strengthening your heart, mind and your spirit?

Are you looking for a fun way to do these things, while creating more self-discipline, confidence, and integrity within yourself, and peacefulness within and around you?

 

Brian Sturgill is offering to teach a free class in Tae Kwon Do, with a strong spiritual foundation, to add to the richness of our Wednesday night activities.

The techniques of this defensive art cover the spectrum from beautiful and exciting lightning-quick movements to meditative and precise motions, all emphasizing control, balance, and strength.  Safety, respect, positive ness, and good humor are the hallmarks of Brian’s approach.

 

All ages from 8 to 120 are welcome to participate.  No prior skills are necessary.  Come find out what it’s about after dinner at 6:30pm this Wednesday night!

 

Other classes being offered now include:

The Workbook of Living Prayer  with Larry Snow

Knitting with Lynda

Mom’s Time Out

Junior High Youth with Karyn Dix

Junior Youth with Dan & Chris McFarling

Thrilling Threes with Emily Dewey

(reading & crafts for the younger children)

Nursery Care with Jenn

(Note:  Bell Choir rehearsal is canceled for the next six weeks while the bells are in for service)

 

Menu for this week is:

Meat Loaf and Mashed Potatoes

 

Dinner is at 5:45 and all classes start at 6:30

 

 

MHCC

Valentine Pie Social

Saturday, February 9, at 6:30 p.m.

 

Once upon a time, there was a church Valentines Day Pie Social.  The ladies were asked to bake a pie and the men were to bid on the pies to raise money for the Mission Fund.

 

On the day of the social, a very shy pretty young lady named Val, came with a fabulous looking cherry pie.  A very thin young man named Tiny saw her and immediately fell in love!  He realized the only was to impress her was to bid high on her cherry pie.

 

When the bidding was over, Tiny had won and was very happy to be able to sit with Val and share his great love for her.  To this very day we honor this love story and call it Val and Tinys Day!

 

So, come to the church on Saturday night, February 9th at 6:30 and help celebrate this special day with a pie baking contest.  It will be complete with professional judges – Judy Meneghin and Pat Green, Home Economics Majors from Oregon State and Sandy Ahl, Home Economics Major from San Jose State.  There will be prizes for the Best Fruit, Best Cream and for the Best Crust!

 

As special entertainment, there will be a Jr. High kids Cherry Pie Eating Contest!  Greg White, the owner of Davidson’s Restaurant in Tigard will sponsor this event in honor of their Cherry Pie Month by providing us with 10 Cherry Pies and gift certificates as prizes!

 

Don’t miss this fun and very romantic Val and Tinys Day event!

 

Jim Ahl, Pie Social Chair

 

 

 

The Foot Clinic has been rescheduled

Come on Monday morning, January 28 between 10:00 and 12:00 noon.

Sign up in the narthex or call the church office!

 

 

 

MHCC Publicity

Leigh Havelick will begin doing outreach to local newspapers sharing the good work of MHCC.  If you have news or information to share, please email her at leigh.havelic75@comcast.net.  Please remember timeliness and newsworthiness are important factors in submitting press releases.  Ask yourself, “why should other people care?” and make sure she has those details when providing information.  Thanks for your help in spreading the word!

 

 

 

About Week of Compassion

The ministry of Week of Compassion is a faithful and effective way for Disciples congregations, members and friends to channel their resources and concerns to the humanitarian needs of suffering people in the world.

Through Week of Compassion, North American Disciples reach out in the name of Christ to:

  1. provide emergency and long-term assistance to people in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, droughts, civil war and other natural and human catastrophes. In a typical year WOC responds to a disaster about once every two days.
  2. respond with help, hope and hospitality to people who have been uprooted and displaced from their homelands by war, environmental catastrophe, famine and natural disaster. There are more than 30 million uprooted and displaced people in the world. Many of them are children.
  3. support programs of sustainable development and rehabilitation that empower people and communities to stand against and rise above hunger, poverty, disease, illiteracy, and other forces of injustice that deny and destroy human dignity. WOC supports projects in nearly 100 countries on every inhabitable continent of the earth.
  4. encourage and support volunteer groups in "hands-on" mission and service opportunities.

Annually, WOC partners with more than 50 Disciples work groups in mission projects in North America and abroad.

Through partnerships with Church World Service, Action by Churches Together, Interchurch Medical Assistance, Foods Resource Bank, Heifer International, Global Ministries, the Office of Disciples Volunteering, Refugee and Immigration Ministries, Bread for the World, Souper Bowl of Caring, Habitat for Humanity, the Ecumenical Church Loan Fund (ELCOF), and hundreds of local church partners around the world, Week of Compassion shares in a remarkable network of service and caring that is efficient, effective and faithful. WOC’s administrative costs are typically less than eight percent annually. All designated gifts to WOC go in their entirety as the donor directs.
Through Week of Compassion, Disciples also participate with Christians in nine other Protestant denominations in One Great Hour of Sharing, thus multiplying the effectiveness and extent of our witness many times over.

Of course, the partnership we share with more than 3000 Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregations across North America is where this remarkable ministry of connecting Disciples to the world and sharing compassion with all God’s children truly begins. Disciples annually channel more than 2.5 million dollars through Week of Compassion for humanitarian needs in the world.

WEEK OF COMPASSION: Around the World - Around the Year

 

We will be receiving our Week of Compassion special day offering the weeks of February17 & 24

 

 

 

 

 

Three Cups of Tea

A Day to Play & Pray

February 9 at Aloha Christian Church, March 8, Keizer Christian Church

 

The Regional Women’s Circle of the Christian Church in Oregon invites the women of the congregation to a 3-hour pray and play experience together.  You know the value of spending time in prayer and play with your sisters in Christ.  Now is the time to plan to come to the pray and play day for 2008 and bring a friend.  This year’s event will include 3 crafts (simple ones), some good spells of laughter, and time for worship together.  The cost is only $20 per person. 

Registration materials are in the church office.