Regional Reminders
October 17, 2014
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Fall Fest 2014  Saving the World or How there is a Superhero in all of us. "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it is a cup of blessing." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
| What: | Fall Fest 2014, A Regional Event for 6 - 12 graders | | When: | Saturday, Nov. 8 starting at 12:30pm and ending Nov. 9 after morning worship. | | Where: | Christian Church of Pacific Grove
442 Central Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
831-372-0363 | | Time: | Check-in begins at 12:30 pm | | Other: | This is an overnight event.
Registration due by Nov. 4
| | Cost: | $20.00 per person, no early bird special, includes a field trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Saturday afternoon, dinner on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday. | | Download: | Registration Form | Medical Form |
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 Women's Action Web
POSTPONED ... New dates: Feb 4-8, 2015
Ladies, have you ever heard that song by Joan Osborne "What if God was one of us", well what if God WAS? What are you going to do about it? I can help you with just a small part of that then I will need your help. Join me, work with me, help me, walk with me and mission with me. What I am talking about is our CCNCN-DOC/UCC region and the regions of the WWOW (Wild Women of the West) coming together as one, working, designing and implementing a Women's Action Web, happening in N. CA.
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 2014 MLK Award and Scholarship Please Note: APPLICATIONS for MLK Nominations and MLK scholarship are available. A firm DEADLINE for both: October 30, 2014 To nominate an individual from this region for the annual MLK Award, fill out the form from this link: ญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญญMLK Nomination Form. (Recent award winners include JoAnne Kagiwada, Clarence Johnson, Jim Mutulski and Vy Nguyen.) To apply for the MLK Scholarship, please fill out the form from this link: MLK Scholarship Application . (Recent scholarship winners include Lisa Smith, Micah Love, and Taulau Tupua.) Please address questions to Jan Warren at 925-934-3134 or jxwarren1947@yahoo.com. Please mail the nomination form and/or scholarship application to CCNC-N, attn.: Jan Warren at 9260 Alcosta Blvd, Ste. C-22, San Ramon, CA 94583-4143 Learn More
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CHURCHES TO HOLD IN PRAYER
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Please consider incorporating these congregations into your congregational prayers each week during worship or in your newsletter, so we can grow together in prayer.
Congregation to pray for this week: First Christian Church Wheatland; Denis O'Connor, Pastor
We feature two congregations in each edition of Regional Voices. Please pray for their vitality, spiritual and numerical growth, their commitment to serving their neighborhood and their openness to the Spirit of God calling them into ministry in the 21st century.
PLEASE PRAY FOR CHURCHES CURRENTLY IN TRANSITION:
First Samoan Congregational Christian Church of Reno
United Christian Church, Livermore
First Christian Church, Watsonville Lafayette Christian Church, Lafayette First Christian Church, Redding United Congregational Christian Church, Lodi United Christian Church, Fresno Vacaville Christian Church
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JOYS & CONCERNS & PRAYER NEEDS
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We seek to update these prayers appropriately, knowing that the region lifts them up to God with great reverence. Please email enews@ccncn.org with any prayers you would like to make sure are included or continued next week and beyond. Particularly, please e-mail the names and addresses of new members so we can celebrate them here and also send them a letter of welcome from the region!
With a Grateful Heart:
To all of my Church Family of the Region, I certainly appreciate your heartfelt prayers for my son Harold II and grandson Harold III who are doing so much better after that weird accident. My son is now in rehab-surprising the physicians, and grandson is enduring his fractured leg which limits his activity. Thank God for giving him life. Rehabilitation is working and he is determined to continue his life despite a missing foot and three fingers. My son is still so far at UC Davis Medical in Sacramento. Grandson in Oakland. We thank all for prayers sent and or given. Blessings. -- Rochon B. Hemmans, Mills Grove CC Oakland.
With a Prayerful Heart:
Violet Fields for cancer treatment Nancy Lee
NEW MEMBERS:
Sierra Christian Church, Loomis welcomed four new members.
Mills Grove Christian Church, Oakland welcomed one new member.
Cottage Way Christian Church, Sacramento welcomed two new members.
Mayfair Christian Church, Stockton welcomed one new member.
Pacific Grove Christian Church, Pacific Grove welcomed one new member.
REMINDER: Pastors and church secretaries, the region wishes to acknowledge and congratulate those children, youth and adults who make the decision to join a church by transfer or baptism, as well as the names of any child and the parents' names of a dedicated child. Please send names, addresses, type of membership, child, youth or adult and church name to Cliff Cole (23mcc24x@comcast.net) whenever this occurs.
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Per requests around the region, here is a listing of regional meetings and events over the next 30 days or so.
We do not put the dates of local church events here as we never could get them all and we would always miss some!
Oct 17
| Disciples Mens' Retreat, First Christian Church, Selma
| Oct 27
| 2014 Clergy Retreat, San Damiano, CA
| Nov 8
| Fall Fest 2014
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 All I Really Want - Devotional Listen up, people - this just might be the best darn Advent and Christmas devotional book (and book trailer!) ever!
If you're looking for seasonal readings for the harried, the hurried, and/or the spiritually hungry - look no further than Quinn Caldwell's newest book, "All I Really Want." Learn More
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 Voter Information The California League of Women Voters provides excellent non-partisan resources for each election. Their guide on How To Evaluate Ballot Propositions can be found at https://cavotes.org/vote/elections/how-to-evaluateAs you know, many issues are difficult to determine due to the misleading ad. One of the best ways of determining the truth and who benefits most is by following the money. Voter's Edge is a website that summarizes what your vote means, financial effect, campaign arguments, campaign information, and Funding Info. Check the Funding Info to see who is bankrolling the campaigns for and against for insight into who really benefits at votersedge.org We have created a chart comparing recommendations from several non-partisan groups and political parties you can download here: PropChart
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 Mary Jacobs Called to Week of Compassion
Week of Compassion has called the Rev. Mary Jacobs as interim resource development director. Jacobs comes to continue the important work begun by Johnny Wray in building the Circle of Compassion and the Week of Compassion Endowment Program with Disciples congregations. She is a third generation Disciple and ordained clergywoman. She has served congregations in California and Arizona, including one new church start that she shared with her husband, Bill. Jacobs has visited Church World Service's sustainable development program in Africa as well as living in Bossey, Switzerland at the Graduate Institute program of the World Council of Churches. She has served in various capacities within the General Church and the Regions where she has been pastor, which included being First Vice-Moderator of the General Assembly and Moderator in Arizona. She recently completed her ministry as the transitional interim regional minister in Northern California/Nevada and as the president of the International Disciples Women's Ministry. Jacobs will begin her new role on Nov. 1.
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