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coordinator, Celeste Cron at cmaiacron@aol.com or 304-5534, to see if she can set you up with a ride from our list of drivers.
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group of folks who are committed to praying for any need brought to their attention. To request prayers for yourself or someone (or something) you care about, contact coordinator Courtney Diedesch at courtney_ed@yahoo.com
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The deadline for the monthly Crossection newsletter is the 20th of the previous month. Submissions may be edited for clarity, accuracy, or length.
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A "LOVE" NOTE... (from your pastor)
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Dear DUMC friends,
You are invited to shape the ministries you love most!
What have been your best experiences at Davis UMC? What do you want more of?
The Church Council has approved a plan initiated by the Pathway Guiding Team to deepen and strengthen the work of our church by capitalizing on those areas of activity the church is most energized by. These areas, according to the interview responses from our Pathway interviews of 116 church participants, are:
- worship
- service and justice
- small groups
The current stage of our work calls for the creation of three working groups: one for each of these three work areas. The first task of each working group is to develop a bold vision for that work area in the life of our church.
YOU are invited be part of a one-time gathering to develop a bold vision for the area - or areas - you feel most passionate about. Feel free to sign up for more than one!
Signing up for this stage of the process means signing up for this visioning. After the development of bold visions, next steps will be to develop concrete plans out of these visions, and we hope people will join in the planning and implementation processes as well! But for now we are simply asking for involvement in this first step.
If you sign up for one or more working groups, we will work with you when scheduling the visioning sessions, and will make an extra effort to make sure you are in the loop on all communications about the upcoming visioning sessions. (Sessions will also be open to all and advertised in the weekly e-newsletter.)
If you'd like to brush up your understanding of the current work of the Pathway process, here are some resources you can check out:
Or, talk to any member of the Guiding Team: Carol Jewell, Janice Morand, John Knight, Louanne Horsfield, Margot Clark
See you in church!
In Faith,
p.s. Thank you so much for all your very thoughtful comments and emails after my announcement about taking time off next year. I am slowly responding to every email, so, if you haven't yet heard back from me - you will! (And if you missed the announcement and email, you can find it here.) |
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Pastor Kelly on vacation
Pastor Kelly will be on vacation February 1st - 7th. While Kelly is away, the Rev. Clay Ballard and Stephen Leaders Jerry Beaman and Jean Becket are all available for any emergency pastoral care needs. Contact information for all three is in the church directory or is available from Anna (Office Manager) in the church office. For other needs, you can contact Anna at 756-2170 or davisumc@davisumc.org. Anna can help with many things, or can connect you with the person who can. Office hours are Tuesday through Friday, 9:30am-2:30pm. Kelly will return to the office on Wednesday, February 10th.
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| Pancake Dinner hosted by UM Men | February 9th,
6:00 pm | | Ash Wednesday Service | February 10th, 7:00 - 8:00 pm | | Palm Sunday | March 20th | |
Maundy Thursday Service
Taize Style Service
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7:30 -8:30 pm | |
Good Friday Service
Seven last word of Christ
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7:30-8:30 pm
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Easter Sunday Services
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March 27th,
8:30 and 11:00 am
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Adult Sunday School
Meets between services on Sundays
9:45-10:45 am
Adult Bible Study - Rothe Room
Feb. 7th Passover
Feb. 14th Feast Of Weeks
Feb. 21st Day Of Atonement
Feb. 28th The Feast Of Booths
Contemporary Issues Form - Walker Room
Feb. 7th "Waking Up White" Book Study
Feb. 14th "Waking Up White" Book Study Feb. 21st "Teaching During a Period of Educational Transition"
Feb. 28th "Merchants of Doubt" Part 2
Detailed information on this month's Forum topics can be found here.
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Godly Play Topic
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"Baptism"
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"The Holy Family"
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VACATION BIBLE CAMP June 20th-24th 9:00am - 12 noon Ages 4 through those entering 5th grade God's Love Is Everywhere! Mark your calendars 'cause we're going places during this great week of singing, playing, learning, sharing and so much more! Do you have items to use for props? Do you have pictures, recipes, music, clothing ?? to share for any of these countries and/or bible story lesson emphases? Or any general travel props such as flags? Ideas? India China Nicaragua Congo Turkey CELEBRATING LENT AT HOME: FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN (up through 5th grade) An email will be going out to households with children this age. There will be a simple Ash Wednesday service that you can do at home at a time that fits your family. We hope to have ashes available to take home Feb. 7th. It will also include a suggestion for marking the days with an opportunity to put aside coins for One Great Hour of Sharing. There will also be suggestions for marking the Sundays and for un-decorating your home. As with Advent, practices and rituals can be helpful tools connecting us with God and one another during this season. Some are new and some are ancient. Watch for the email.
God Talk At Home: A Six-Week Lenten Series
3:30 to 5:30 Sunday, February 14th and continuing through March 20th in the Walker Room
Do you have children or teens in your life that you want to be able to talk more comfortably with about God and matters of faith? This will be an opportunity to do some in-class reading and discussion of some of the challenges, tools, and pathways for God talk at home or in the car or while on a hike or whenever the moment is right. No matter your comfort level, Pastor Kelly will create a safe space for all to share and support one another as each one finds their way way forward. Child care will be provided.
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Feb. 21st Special Offering:
Yolo Crisis Nursery and Citizens Who Care
Our special offering this month will support two local agencies that provide services to the most vulnerable in our community. They are Yolo Crisis Nursery and Citizens Who Care.
Yolo Crisis Nursery provides a 24-hour free, safe environment where families can take young children ages 0-5 when a family is facing hardship and stress. Families are also supported by being connected with community resources. It costs over $400,000 per year to operate YCN, but much pain and suffering is averted and many more thousands of dollars in child protective service costs and legal fees are saved.
Citizens Who Care provides services to improve the quality of life for the elderly and their caregivers through an in-home respite program and a convalescent hospital visiting program. Now the organization has a CWC Saturday Club program at the Davis Senior Center.
As our social safety net shrinks with tightening budgets, our support of these agencies is more important than ever.
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From Your Finance Ministry
Thank you to all who responded to the appeal from your pastor in December! We received some pledge increases and some special gifts to help avoid budget cuts - and we are very grateful to those of you who stepped up!
When planning for 2015, the Finance Ministry had anticipated a budget shortfall which would require us to dip into surplus funds from prior years; however, that did not happen. As a result, those surplus funds were still available, and the 2016 budget is a balanced budget with the expectation that we will need to draw on those funds in 2016 in order to balance the budget; the income we anticipate for 2016 is still lower than our anticipated expenses. While this is not ideal, it is good to have a balanced budget, good that we had funds available to make this happen, and great that we didn't have to cut salaries or other valuable ministry expenses for 2016!
A big thank you to the Finance Committee for working so hard and thoughtfully to develop a budget, along with the Church Council for thoughtfully considering and approving the budget.
And a big thank you to all of you who give so faithfully on an ongoing basis to support the valuable ministries of Davis UMC!
- Pastor Kelly
| | DECEMBER ACTUAL | YEAR TO DATE ACTUAL | | | | | | INCOME | 47,996.94 | 361,338.81 | | | | | | EXPENSE | 44,522.04 | 337,007.72 | | | | | | NET | 3,474.90 | 24,331.09 |
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Grace Garden Monthly Update
Happy New Year! We're starting another growing season at Grace Garden and enjoying the rain.
The hoop house has been organized and Jim Tischer built new tables to hold all the plants. We will be starting seedlings in the hoop house soon, getting ready for the annual plant sale April 9, and for planting in the garden here.
Other projects are ongoing - pruning fruit trees, composting last year's leaves and plant debris, adding manure to the beds and checking our irrigation system before spring. If you have any time to help out, come to one of our work times. Mondays and Saturdays 9:00-11:00 a.m. and Thursdays 1:30-3:30 p.m.
We also invite you to attend free Master Gardener classes at Grace Garden.
January 23 Tool Care & Pruning
February 13 Tree Care & Droughts
April 30 Complimentary Planting
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IRWS Reflections
by Rita Lundin
Thank you all for your part in helping to offer a week of warm meals and shelter to our homeless guests. There are so many hands involved in this ministry, we had over 80 volunteers. It truly speaks to the spirit-filled, welcoming & affirming, justice & service-oriented church that we are. Read More | 
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Book Study: "Waking up White"
Beginning January 31 and continuing on Feb 7, Feb 14, Mar 6, Mar 13, April 3, and April 10, Carol Holmes and Susie O'Bryant are leading a series of forums on the book, "Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race" by Debby Irving.
 "With honesty and humility, Debby Irving shares her own story of transformation - a journey of opening herself to learning about the realities of racism and the unintended impacts of white privilege. By confronting her own fears and mistakes, she gleans many useful lessons and tips that can help move others from confusion and avoidance to constructive engagement, authentic connection, and courageous action."
-Terry Keleher, Thought Leadership and Practice Specialist, Race Forward
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Interfaith Meeting on Syrian Refugee Crisis
On Sunday February 7th at 7 pm folks wishing to collaborate on helping Syrians refugees (or those wanting to find out more about the issue) will meet in the Walker Room at Davis United Methodist Church (1620 Anderson Road, Davis).
At the meeting we will share what congregations have done on their own and discuss how we might work together to aid the Syrian refugees. In addition, Rev. Kristin Stoneking from the Fellowship of Reconciliation's will introduce the #GiveRefugeesRest advocacy campaign. The advocacy campaign has a simple request: send a pillowcase with the message #Give RefugeesRest.
At the end of the meeting, folks will decorate pillows as part of the FOR campaign, so please bring a pillowcase if you can. We can then send them to our Facebook, twitter and Instagram accounts to spread the word.
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Refugee "Welcome Kits"
The Church and Society Ministry understands this congregation's desire to do something to help the thousands of Middle Eastern people displaced by war and ISIS. At present we are waiting for responses from other local churches regarding a large joint project to help resettle arriving refugee families. In the meantime, we are launching a smaller project within our church to create "Welcome Kits."
Refugees often flee their homes at a moment's notice, and arrive at our airport with only a few suitcases in hand. Welcome Kits provide families with the basic household items they need for their new start.
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Beginning January 31, we will be collecting items for 4 different "Welcome Kits" - Kitchen, Bathroom, H ousehold, and Cleaning. We will have sign-up sheets after each service, and you can choose which items you would like to contribute. The following Sun day, we will have plastic tubs labeled for each kit for you to put the items in. If you prefer, you can donate money, which we will use to buy any remaining items on the lists. The Welcome Kits will then be given to Opening Doors, one of three agencies approved to help resettle refugees in the Sacramento area. |
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Great Decisions 2016
The Great Decisions will again be offered this year in collaboration with International House Davis. The program will begin on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm in the Davis UMC Sanctuary and offered each Tuesday in March through April 5, 2016.
Capable speakers have already been engaged for the following topics;
- Mideast Alliances
- Islamic State
- The Koreas
- Climate Change
- The Kurds
- Cuba and the U.S.
The non-partisan Foreign Policy Association in New York City offers the Great Decisions program. Their website is: www.fpa.org.
To sign up here for the joint I-House/DUMC program and reserve a Great Decisions study guide. The cost for the study guides is $25.
Please reach out and invite your friends and neighbors who would enjoy and be challenged by the excellent Great Decisions 2016 study materials. The program is a ministry of Davis UMC and we have been blessed with an array of fine speakers over the last seven years.
Please contact Jim Tischer, Ron Hoppes or Bob Medearis for more information.
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Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice
Davis Community Church
An interfaith Group in Davis will host a series of sacred and respectful conversations surrounding the issues of race in our society today. The goal of these conversations is to help participants better understand the racial tensions facing us and provide insight into how we can respond in an informed way. Discussions are based on information provided on webcasts, so no outside reading is required. However, the facilitators will provide references for those who wish to delve deeper into topics.
The first session is Monday, February 8th. Subsequent meetings will be on Wednesday evenings (February 17th to March 16th). Each session will begin with snacks at 6:30 pm. The webcast will start at 7 pm. After the webcast we will break into small groups for facilitated discussion. Sessions will end at 8:30. For more information contact Helen Roland (hroland2@gmail.com 756-3973)
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New Coordinator of Youth Programs: Ji Hyun Song
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John Philip Newell is Coming to Davis, Feb. 12th and 13th
Internationally acclaimed poet, peacemaker and scholar John Philip Newell will present a weekend of events at Davis Community Church focused on Spirituality and Justice: Cultivating the Inner Courage to Change the Outer World. Newell, an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, is best known for his expertise on Celtic spirituality, having done extensive historical research and written 15 books on the topic. Incorporating the wisdom of many faith traditions, Newell has a passion for justice, interfaith understanding, meditative discipline and prayer.
Sessions on Friday evening, February 12th and Saturday morning, February 13 at the DCC Fellowship Hall at 421 D Street, Davis will include lecture, music and guided meditation. Tickets and details are available on the church website at dccpres.org. Please call (530)753-2894 for additional information.
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UM Summer Camps
A week at camp can be a life-changing experience for children and youth. The Summer Camp Programs of the California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church are about meeting the hopes and dreams of parents, and creating lifelong, life-changing memories for young people in a safe, fun, and caring environment.
Your child will discover an ever-greater love for God in their hearts - while growing in self-confidence, resourcefulness, and gratitude as they encounter a spiritual awakening that will unfold over a lifetime.
The camp brochure can be found here. Registration info can be found here.
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Davis Community Meals 25th Anniversary Celebration
When: Wednesday February 17th, 2016
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Where: St. Martin's Episcopal Church Hall
Appetizers and Beverages Will be Served
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Feb. 7th
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Phil Bachand
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Feb. 7th
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Alice Harvey
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Feb. 10th
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Carol Carter
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Feb. 11th
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Marilyn Hoppes
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Feb. 12th
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Sherrill Futrell
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Feb. 17th
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Evelyn Raski
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Feb. 18th
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Julie Kulmann
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Feb. 18th
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Tim Mangum
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Feb. 23rd
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Kathy Schinski
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Feb. 24th
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Georjean Stoodt
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Feb. 25th
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Bev Ballard
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Jan. 28th
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Janellyn Whittier
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