TheOutlook. chalk talk. Dr. Chalker Recognized for Visionary Leadership. Greater Cleveland Congregations Addresses Social Justice

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1 TheOutook University Circe United Methodist Church A are wecome. A the time. June 2015 chak tak BY DR. KENNETH W. CHALKER On May 7, 1915 one hundred years ago a German U-boat intentionay fired a torpedo into the side of a commercia ocean iner, the Lusitania. The ship the argest passenger iner of its time sank in 300 feet of water in ess than 25 minutes, sending 1,959 peope into the water and resuting in ony 764 survivors. Of the 1,195 peope who drowned, were crushed or died from exposion injuries from the torpedo, 27 were itte babies babies! How does a submarine commander who gives such an order to fire on such a ship, or the crew that carries the order out, ive with INTENTIONALLY kiing innocent chidren and babies? In the past 100 years, a great evi has been growing among us. In war, in any kind of confict, peope with guns, airpanes, ships, submarines, tanks, bombs and a manner of weapons who are trained in miitary tactics, maneuvers and organized vioence, have targeted civiians unarmed peope, itte chidren and babies to make their point or achieve their goas. Coatera damage has been taking pace for centuries as nation has risen against nation, as revoution or insurgency or rebeion or riot has taken pace in our word. What a great tragedy the reaity of coatera damage has aways been. But, in the ast 100 years, a great, cowardy evi has taken the tragedy of coatera damage to perverse, cod-booded dimensions. Unarmed civiians civiians who aways incude women, chidren and itte babies have become targets of peope with guns targets of gun-carrying fok and the poitica groups that fund, resource, equip and train them. It is a monstrous reaity. By the time these words are being read, uchak tak continued on page 6 Jeff Day, Administrative Counci Chair, reads procamation of appreciation to Dr. Chaker as Roger Schute, Co-Lay Leader, ooks on. Dr. Chaker Recognized for Visionary Leadership In a historic moment in the ife of University Circe United Methodist Church, the congregation rose to its feet during the church s May 17th worship service to recognize Dr. Ken Chaker s visionary eadership throughout the renovation of our church s expanded chance space, dedicated on October 19, Dr. Chaker was presented a framed photograph of the new chance area, taken by Greater Ceveand Congregations Addresses Socia Justice In an expression of a committed interest in socia justice issues within our community and beyond, a group of 40 peope from our congregation gathered on May 17 to earn more about Greater Ceveand Congregations a powerfu, non-partisan coaition of faith-based groups and partner organizations in Cuyahoga County working together to buid an empowered base for socia justice. Nationa organizer Rob Engish and oca organizer Khaiah Worey presented an informative in-depth expanation of the history of both GCC in Ceveand and the nationa parent organization, Industria Areas Foundation (IAF). u Dr. Chaker continued on page 5 GCC unites peope across ines of race, cass, reigion and geography to promote pubic-, private- and civic-sector actions u Greater Ceveand continued on page 5

2 2 University Circe United Methodist Church June 2015 OUTREACH REACHING OUT We need vounteers on Saturday, June 6, from 9am to 2pm to hep with a service project sponsored by our Outreach Committee. Partnering with Famicos Foundation, the oca community deveopment corporation ( ), our vounteers wi be rebuiding six garden beds at Park Viage in the Hough neighborhood, ess than a mie from the church. We have committed to being Famicos source of vounteer abor for this project by oading soi into beds and spreading much, and we are excited to get back into the community to perform handson work! Pease consider participating in this meaningfu service opportunity by contacting the church office ( ) to sign up; or contact Doug Bank, Outreach chair, at UCUMCOutreach@gmai.com, DuffyLit Studio Recita Reserve Saturday, June 6, for a 7pm recita in our church, featuring the chidren studying dance and voca music at our DuffyLit Studio and their sister studio, Move It, ocated in Lorain. This year s theme is Peace, and we hope you eave this UCUMC event with the spirit of peace and harmony as expressed in music and choreography. A bountifu reception wi foow. Tickets are $15. Ca to reserve your tickets, or purchase them at the door. New Members Wecomed Sunday, Apri 26, our Church-in-the- Circe famiy experienced a springtime growth spurt as five new members joined in membership with us. Their Faith Friends introduced them to the congregation during worship, and they were warmy wecomed by everyone there. Joining our congregation were these wonderfu peope: Jeremy Bowing attended UCUMC for a whie before joining, drawn to our church because of its incusiveness. He is a mortgage banker with Quicken Loans and ives on the west side of Ceveand. He enjoys being we-dressed, especiay sporting snappy bow ties! He has aready become a member of our Wecome Team. James Jake Parr ives in Chagrin Fas and is sef-empoyed as a carpenter/painter. He and his fiancée, Anne Schecke, had visited UCUMC frequenty at the invitation of member Mark Parr, Jake s brother. Anne ives in Brookyn, has worked in chid care and enjoys cooking. They appreciate the open and friendy peope in the congregation and Dr. Chaker s sermons. Harry Seabright, Jr. was invited to church by feow new member, Jeremy Bowing, and immediatey fet the incusiveness, friendiness and ove of the congregation. He ives on Ceveand s west Front L-R: Harry Seabright, Jr.; Jeremy Bowing; Beatrice Thompson. Back L-R: Jake Parr, Anne Schecke, Dr. Chaker side and is currenty working for Invacare, anticipating a return to his ongtime prior empoyment in the hote and hospitaity industry. Harry has aso joined the Wecome Team. Beatrice Thompson had aready found UCUMC s website and istened to Dr. Chaker s sermons onine before she moved to Judson Park from Coorado. She was ooking for a reconciing, muti-cutura church and, after visiting just a few times, decided to become a member. She grew up in Lakewood, is retired and has served as a icensed oca pastor and as a hospita, poice and fire chapain. Ruach Resumes Ruach, a 45-minute contempative meditation, incorporates spiritua texts, music, breathing and sience to quiet the mind and perhaps create a space for experiencing something of the sacred. Led by church member Juiette Regnier, Ruach happens Saturday, June 6, at 11am in the Narthex (or as posted). Pease fee free to extend an invitation to famiy or friends who you fee woud benefit from such a practice. Great Fun! Summer camp is a wonderfu opportunity for kids to experience nature, community, adventure, friendship, discovery and faith deveopment. Five youth, ages from our congregation wi attend United Methodist Church Camps this summer. Aong with Bibe study and worship, their weekong camping experiences incude River Squad a seven-mie canoe trip with swimming, a mudside and a giant swing; Harry Potter Week with skit night, seep-out and morning poar bear swim; and Adventure Week with teamwork on a ow-ropes course, a padde trip on the river and a day of caving! This year, a famiies were abe to receive financia assistance to cover the cost of a week at camp, thanks to the annua giving of our church members and a generous gift from the United Methodist Women of UCUMC.

3 June 2015 ALL ARE WELCOME. ALL THE TIME. 3 UMW Supports Caring Efforts Standing with Dr. Chaker, The Very Reverend Tracey Lind, Dean of Trinity Cathedra, Ceveand, addressed our May 10th congregation about dynamicay Converting the Conversation concerning human rights and socia justice. Appreciation Luncheon for Kay Hogg Foowing worship June 7th, the Staff-Parish Reations Committee is hosting a FUN appreciation uncheon to ceebrate Kay Hogg s 22 years of ministry at Church in the Circe. There is no charge for the uncheon, but in order to have an accurate count, TICKETS ARE REQUIRED and are avaiabe in the church office. There are a imited number of tickets, and the deadine is May 31; pease know that, due to arrangements for food and dining space, you wi not be abe to attend uness you have a ticket, so make your commitment as soon as possibe. With Dr. Chaker, Rabbi Richard A. Bock, Senior Rabbi at Tempe-Tifereth Israe in Ceveand offered his perspective on the chaenges facing the Midde East today. The University Circe United Methodist Women have been initiating and participating in a variety of activities this year. On Sunday, Apri 26, the group invited Jim Szackas, Executive Director of Nehemiah Mission in Ceveand, to speak and share a video about the mission s programs not ony in Ceveand but in Ganta, Liberia. The Mission receives annua support from our UMW group. On Saturday, May 2, our UMW sponsored a deightfu Spring Luncheon in the Great Ha for a the women of our church to get together and share food, fun and feowship. Over 30 women attended. Our UMW s saes of Equa Exchange products, ike coffee and tea, and of braceets made by women in Nepa via AidthroughTrade enabe our UMW to donate to over 23 organizations ocay, EMPTY TANK? There are a number of opportunities for you to fi up spirituay during the week: Tuesday mornings at 8:30, a sma group meets at Panera at I-480 and Tiedeman to preview the ectionary passage for the week and chaenge ourseves to discern where the sermon might go on Sunday. Thursdays at 6:45am a oving group meets at Einstein s Bages at St. Chares & Detroit Rd. in Lakewood to study a passage of scripture and offer prayer requests for one another. See if one of these might hep you get through the week. Contact Heidi Denman McDouga with any questions. Parents, teachers, guardians and youth group eaders are encouraged to bring their chidren out to this important conversation about Community, Race and the Poice: Just Get Home, Thursday, June 25, from 7 8:30pm at University Circe United Methodist Church. Our goa for this specia event is to educate young peope in our community about how to dea with any encounters with aw enforcement, with a singuar goa to JUST GET HOME. Our confirmed paneists thus far are Former Senator Nina Turner, Ceveand Municipa Court Judge Pauine Tarver and OPS Administrator Damon Scott (additiona paneist pending). This event is sponsored by University Circe United Methodist Church and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc., Kappa Gamma Sigma Chapter. nationay and around the word, with specia attention to the needs of women, chidren and youth. Our UMW unit has aso made an Emergency Reief donation to the Nepa earthquake disaster through UMCOR. Be a part of these positive efforts by supporting your UMW with your contributions and vounteer time. You be hard pressed to find a more efficient way to make a difference. (Reported by Cathy Day) Sacred Sience 101 A 24-hour sient retreat Juy 10 11, 2015 OR October 4 5, 2015 Have you been seeking a deeper connection with God? Do you ong for stiness amid the hubbub of your daiy ife? Are you simpy weary and coud use some time away to rest? Gift yoursef with time away to nurture your spirit at Sacred Sience 101: a 24- hour sient retreat. You wi be introduced to a variety of contempative prayer practices, meaningfu worship and ampe time for sient rest and refection. The cost of the retreat is $175 and incudes a materias, a singe overnight room at the Jesuit Retreat House in Parma and three homemade meas. Check out the Bey of the Whae website (beyofthewhaeministries.net) for more information and registration detais. Contact Sharon Seyfarth Garner, Director of Bey of the Whae Ministries, for more information at spirituadirection@att.net.

4 4 University Circe United Methodist Church June 2015 GRACENOTES ~Nathan Motta, Music and Arts Director What a wonderfu time we ve had in these weeks foowing Easter. Among the many specia moments in worship was the powerfu moment when the Gospe and Chance Choirs came together to offer a stirring arrangement of Lord, Make Me an Instrument with Lavert Stuart on piano. And, the Sunday when the Gospe Choir sang He s An On-Time God, the whoe Sanctuary reverberated with praise and gory! De Ron McDanie (eft), Lavert Stuart, and Acee Chriss III Just a few weeks ago, we were privieged to host an organ recita given by Acee Chriss III, a superb organist and recent graduate of Oberin Conservatory. The program incuded pieces by Vierne and Durufé, a series of spiritua settings on organ and piano with guest baritone De Ron McDanie from Oberin Coege, and a set of pieces by Hande on harpsichord. Acee is an extraordinariy taented young musician, and we offer a huge thank you to him, to the Greater Ceveand Pan-Heenic Choir for co-sponsoring the concert and to Lavert Stuart, Kay Hogg and Aaron Coier for their work in making this and future organ recitas a reaity. With summer upon us, ook forward to bes, dancers, intriguing instruments, od hymns, new hymns and popuar and gospe music. There are a variety of things happening during these summer Sundays. The sanctuary on a sunny summer Sunday is an upifting pace to be, pus, when we move downstairs to the Great Ha in Juy and August, the intimacy of that space makes for specia moments and a spiritua connection that is unique to the services hed in the Great Ha. We hope that you join us and decide against taking the summer off! You coud even participate in worship in a arger way by signing up to present an anthem during a summer service. Be it poetry, dance, soo seections, instrumenta music or another gift you have, summer worship services are a great way to share your taents with your church famiy. From everyone at UCUMC Music and Arts, have a restfu, reaxing, exciting and invigorating summer! Annua East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church Lakeside, Ohio Monday, June 15 Thursday, June 18 Each year an equa number of cergy members and ay members attend their Annua Conference session for worship, feowship and to conduct the business of the conference. Tues., June 16: Ordination of Jared Gadomski Litteton, UCUMC member 7:30pm Hoover Auditorium Wed., June 17: Methodist Federation for Socia Action (MFSA) 11:30am 2:30pm Luncheon and Worship, Lakeside UMC Chett Pritchett, Director of Nationa MFSA, speaker Reconciing Ministries Network (RMN) 5:00pm 5:30pm Joyfu Parade from Lakeside UMC to Paviion 5:30pm 8:00pm Open Tabe Worship Service, Lower Paviion Jacob Nash, Transgender activist, Independent Diversity Trainer and Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve Univ., speaker Thurs., June 18: North Coast District Picnic 12 noon 1:45pm, Centra Park Gazebo No reservations are required for either the MFSA or RMN events. In this eection year, we are in need of more vounteers than usua in order to pass out voting guides, bow up baoons, and other sundry things to make justice fow. If interested, pease contact Jared Litteton at jareditteton@gmai.com or Second Sunday Lunch... returns to the Market Garden Brewery on Sunday, June 14, foowing worship. The restaurant, ocated at 1947 West 25th Street next door to the West Side Market in Ohio City, was estabished in 2011 and features Ceveand s first American Beer Garden. They offer beautifu spaces and a Sunday brunch that incudes French toast, pressed waffe sandwich, breakfast burrito, pastrami hash, fruit waffes, assorted omeets, fried chicken waffes, Ohio beef burgers and more, with prices ranging from $6 $12. Betz Richards is accepting RSVPs through June 9 at or chefbetz1@ao.com. *** First-Sunday Potuck wi resume next October. Newest Exhibit The haways around the church office feature various texties from our own coection of banners and paraments. Pease take a few moments to see everything up cose, from a musica banner to the coorfu paraments used throughout the iturgica year in our worship services. A heart-fet thank you goes to John Wheeer for so artfuy preparing this dispay. UCUMC OUTLOOK Dr. Kenneth W. Chaker, Senior Pastor University Circe United Methodist Church 1919 E. 107th St., Ceveand, OH Outook Editor: Jim Hogg hoggwriter@gmai.com Photographers: Jeff Day, Jim Hogg, David Hughes, Brian Misch Editoria Staff: M. Abee, C. Day, E. Prince

5 June 2015 ALL ARE WELCOME. ALL THE TIME. 5 Greater Ceveand Congregations Addresses Socia Justice ucontinued from page 1 designed to strengthen and improve the quaity of ife in our neighborhoods. Currenty, there are more than 30 member congregations, which incude Jewish, Isamic and Christian faith communities. Whie Protestant denominations Baptist, Lutheran, United Church of Christ (UCC), Episcopa, Presbyterian and American Methodist Episcopa (AME) are represented, there are currenty no United Methodist churches in the coaition. GCC has identified six major areas of ongoing concern/action: education, jobs, heathcare, crimina justice, food accessibiity and gun vioence. Because of recent community events invoving citizen-poice reationships, GCC has focused much of its current effort on addressing the consent decree submitted by the Department of Justice to the City of Ceveand. The May 17th presentation represented a first step in the process of determining whether our church shoud join GCC, with those in attendance earning about the requirements of membership and what the next steps woud be. There was a consensus of opinion among those present that we as a congregation shoud, in fact, join the organization; a sma group of individuas wi meet to draft a proposa that wi be presented to the Administrative Counci for approva. Subsequenty, during a May 26th march to the Justice Center, GCC member demands, as presented to Prosecutor McGinty in front of 1,000 members ast May and to Mayor Jackson and US Attorney Dettebach in front of 1,154 members this February, incuded these: Shift ow-eve, non-vioent drug offenses to Municipa Court; increase aternative dispositions; expand Drug Court; and treat a juvenie offenders the same across the county. Compete the Consent Decree with these recommendations: constitutiona poicing (bias- free poicing; use of force; and stop, searches and seizures); reorganization of interna accountabiity (review and revision of poicies, procedures and practices within the Ceveand Division of Poice); community engagement (permanency, transparency, accountabiity); and financia sustainabiity. Dr. Chaker Recognized for Visionary Leadership Estabish a permanent and independent Community Poice Commission. For more information about GCC or how you can become invoved, pease contact Daniee Gadomski Litteton at dgadomski218@ gmai.com or Jared Gadomski Litteton at jareditteton@gmai.com. ucontinued from page 1 member Brian Misch, presented by Administrative Board Chair Jeff Day and Co-Lay Leader Roger Schute, who were accompanied by Co-Lay Leader Barbara McEachern and members of the Trustees, Finance, Staff-Parish and other committee chairs. A paque affixed to the wooden facade adjacent to the marbe steps states that the chance was competed under the vision and enthusiastic eadership of Rev. Dr. Kenneth W. Chaker. The congregation stood in enthusiastic appreciation for Dr. Chaker s steadfast effort to open up the chance to afford additiona fexibe uses and provide for handicapped access. The design aso aows for movement of the organ consoe for concert/recita presentations. The renovation was part of our church s pan to create a space that refects the open and incusive nature of the merger of First Church and Epworth- Eucid Church in January Athough not initiay prepared for this worship service surprise, Dr. Chaker shared his sincere appreciation for this expression of gratitude for his roe in the competion of the chance transition. The congregation s appause was foowed by a group photo commemorating this momentous occasion in the evoving ife-cyce of our Church in the Circe. LEFT: Dr. Chaker stands by the bronze paque honoring his guidance during the chance renovation. BELOW: an impromptu photo of an appreciative congregation behind Dr. Chaker.

6 6 University Circe United Methodist Church June 2015 chak tak ucontinued from page 1 another Memoria Day wi have been ceebrated. We wi rightfuy be honoring and remembering a those who have ost their ives in defending this nation and its singuar freedoms. This is right. This is nobe. Honoring those who have made the utimate sacrifice and served our country in this way is so very, very important. However, what is happening these days that causes civiians of one nation to become targets of another? What has occurred that civiian popuations are intentionay targeted by terrorists itching to set off a dirty bomb? What has happened that armed men and women can imbed themseves with civiians and give themseves a sick permission to conduct terrorist acts? What has occurred that protests have ost the nobe goa of highighting injustice and become, for far too many, vioent occasions to oot, burn and target civiian businesses and shops? What has We have been targeted for abundant ife, not the terror of random destruction. taken pace that civiians and, therefore, chidren, have become targets? The responses to these questions and a that is behind them coud go on for pages. Responses coud incude the horror of Jihad and the demonic perversion of power at any cost or reigious sef-righteousness gone mad. Such responses woud resove nothing. What is so necessary for iving in such a mad reaity of evi is that we remember this: God makes us and has aways made us the focus of ove, mercy, redemption and grace. God instis within us courage, hope, meaning and a sou of unconquerabe power. We have been targeted for abundant ife, not the terror of random destruction. If we are going to thrive in a vioent word of evi that targets us for strategic destruction or thrive in a secuar word that woud reduce us to being nothing more than targets of commercia vaue and marketing, we must hear, take in and share the truth that we are far more than targets. We are instead the focus of God s ove. We are indeed God s chidren. If we are to ive and utimatey triumph over evi of any kind, what other truth and understanding wi set us and keep us free?! MarketingMatters ~Aaron Coier, Creative Marketing Strategist With the new year comes a significant increase in our efforts to make our community, our city, our country and the word aware of who we are at Church in the Circe and what we stand for, beieve and support. These are just a few of our marketing focuses, incuding some in which you can become personay invoved: Expand our Facebook reach In May, from 5-15 through 5-21, our Facebook Page Posts reached over 10,000 news feeds! That s the argest digita reach we ve ever had at Church in the Circe. This was our most popuar post for the month of May: Congrats to Dr. Chaker on receiving the 2015 Judson Smart Living Award for Phianthropy! * #churchinthecirce Increase member interaction with our Facebook page Liking and Sharing our daiy Facebook posts means you support our Church and its greater visibiity here and throughout the United States! When on Facebook, search: University Circe United Methodist Church. OR, go to UnitedMethodistChurch. Cick LIKE and start sharing and commenting! Increase member interaction with our new website You can go onine and visit our new version of our website at It s the Centra Digita Hub for a information about Church in the Circe. You can view new pictures, watch a ivestream of our Sunday Service, earn about our programs and opportunities, find out about an upcoming event, donate onine and more! More importanty, you can et others know about who we are by teing them to visit us onine! Create a wecoming video about our church We are editing three hours of taping with Dr. Chaker to produce a 1-minute high-quaity wecome video for our new website. Offer a mobie giving app for church smartphone users Barry Bennett and I have coaborated to introduce a free giving app for our members to downoad, enabing them to donate to the church via their smartphones. More info to come! Offer socia media casses for members This summer, we wi introduce free socia media training casses at the church, designed to enabe members to easiy access and utiize Facebook, Twitter and other formats, aong with our website. With simpe instructions, your digita roe as a church member wi become cear, aowing you and others to hep promote who we are as University Circe United Methodist Church. *** These actions and others have heped and wi continue to hep our membership and the word beyond our doors know us better and create an open environment that wi attract new attendees as we as onine foowers. Be sure to check out our website for ways in which you can pug in to and support these dynamic marketing efforts.

7 June 2015 ALL ARE WELCOME. ALL THE TIME. 7 Opportunities to Vounteer and Support OUTREACH As announced esewhere in this issue, we need vounteers for a oneday service project on Saturday, June 6, 9am 3pm, to rebuid garden beds at Park Viage, an apartment compex ess than a mie from our church. This wi invove moving soi and spreading much. To sign up, pease contact the church office ( ) or Doug Bank (UCUMCOutreach@gmai.com; ). Susan Achberger with UMCOR Reief Kit Truck at Lakeside, Ohio Buckets of Hep When disaster strikes our country or another part of the word, the United Methodist Committee on Reief (UMCOR) provides practica hep by, among other things, immediatey distributing Reief Suppy Kits and other resources to those ocations. One of these kits is a ceaning bucket, simiar to the one the Outreach Committee wi have on dispay in our church. It incudes basic needs ike a cothes ine, detergent, a-purpose ceaner, bug spray and other necessities, a packed into a 5-gaon bucket. These buckets enabe disaster victims to cean up their homes as they rebuid their ives on a priority eve. Other UMCOR Reief Suppy Kits incude: Heath kits, which incude a washcoth, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste and other hygiene necessities Schoo kits, which incude paper, pencis and a sma sharpener, a ruer, crayons and other basics that enabe a chid to continue their education and deveopment. A compete ist of these kits and their contents is avaiabe at Starting on Sunday, June 14 and continuing throughout the summer, our Outreach Committee wi ask for your support of UMCOR s Midwest Mission Distribution Center, which purchases the suppies needed to assembe these Reief Suppy Kits and make them avaiabe for UMCOR reief efforts. You can make your checks payabe to our church and write UMCOR Kits on the memo ine or on the enveope containing your gift. Because UMCOR s operationa costs are supported by the United Methodist Church, every penny you donate to UMCOR goes to support peope who need hep. Pease enabe UMCOR to compete its bucket ist by donating your extra doars to this honorabe mission! And thank you. O R N E R FEEDING THE GROWING NEED A new and ongoing Outreach Committee project serving our neighborhood begins May 31, as our Church in the Circe coects nonperishabe food items to be taken to the Cory United Methodist Church food pantry a distribution center for The Hunger Network of Greater Ceveand that serves the Genvie neighborhood where that church is ocated. Our committee s goa is to have the members of our church famiy add at east ONE item to their grocery ists every week and bring it to church on Sunday to pace in the coection bin in the Narthex. A ist of grocery needs from the Hunger Network is avaiabe in the church office, in the Narthex and on the buetin board in the office haway. This project is the brainchid of member Say Harper, who is ooking for vounteers wiing to hep with transporting the food to Cory. Pease contact Say at sayharper@netacc.net or if you woud ike to participate in this very important community project. Nepa Reief a Priority With more than 8,000 of its citizens kied during the recent earthquake and a mutitude of destruction to cean up, Nepa needs a vast amount of trained hep from other countries around the word in order to have any hope of recovery. Reief for disasters ike this and others occurring in our country and internationay can be funded through the United Methodist Committee on Reief (UMCOR), which provides critica, practica aid as soon as possibe foowing such terribe events. Offerings given through University Circe UMC are noted on your giving statements and aso provide credit to our church for apportionments (financia responsibiities to the United Methodist Church). If you wish to contribute, pease mark your donation enveope for UMCOR or Nepa.

8 University Circe United Methodist Church 1919 E. 107th St. Ceveand, OH University Circe United Methodist Church June 2015 What s Happening May 31 Guest speaker Tammy Kuntz, Yoder Room, 9:30am Worship, Sanctuary, 11am Neighborhood Lunch, 1pm, Great Ha June 4 Gospe Choir Rehearsa, Choir Room, 7pm 6 Outreach project with Famicos, 9am 2pm Ruach, Narthex, 11am DuffyLit recita, Great Ha, 7pm 7 Worship and Communion, Sanctuary, 11am Appreciation uncheon for Kay Hogg, Great Ha, reserved ticket hoders ony 9 Postpone Staff-Pastor Parish Committee meeting 10 Trustees, Reception Room, 6pm 14 Labyrinth, Paror, 9am Outreach Committee, Reception Room, 9:30am Worship, Sanctuary, 11am Administrative Counci Meeting, Yoder Room, foowing worship Second Sunday Lunch foowing worship, Market Garden Brewery 15 Annua East Ohio Conference begins, Lakeside 16 Neighborhood Basketba resumes, Gym, 4 8pm Finance, Reception Room, 6pm Ordination of Jared Gadomski Litteton, Lakeside, 7:30pm 17 Methodist Federation for Socia Action (MFSA) uncheon, Lakeside, 11:30am Reconciing Ministries Network (RMN) parade at 5pm Open Tabe Communion and speaker, Lakeside, 5:30pm 18 North Coast District Picnic, Lakeside Centra Park Gazebo, 12 noon 1:45pm 21 Fathers Day Worship, Sanctuary, 11am 25 Just Get Home discussion, Great Ha, 7pm 28 Worship, Sanctuary, 11am Neighborhood Lunch, Great Ha, 1pm 30 Ladies Lunch Bunch, Reception Room, noon Juy 5 Communion Sunday Worship, Great Ha, 10am 8 Trustees, Reception Room, 6pm 12 Worship, Great Ha, 10am Second Sunday Lunch, foowing worship 14 Postpone Staff-Pastor Parish Committee meeting 15 UMW Leadership, Reception Room, 11:45am 19 Worship, Great Ha, 10am 21 Finance, Reception Room, 6pm 26 Worship, Great Ha, 10am Neighborhood Lunch, Great Ha, 1pm 28 Ladies Lunch Bunch, Reception Room, noon Sundays... Invitation to Journey (Heidi s Cass) meets in the Paror at 9am Dr. Chaker eads a cass at 9:30am in the Yoder Room Chidren s Sunday Schoo Casses begin at 10:45am Midde Schoo and High Schoo Youth meet during worship Worship at 11am, Sanctuary Liturgica Dance Rehearsas