UCHP

Sermons

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:32:42 -0700

Sermons by
the Rev. Larry E. Turpin, D. Min.
(unless otherwise noted)

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Easter Week

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:58:37 -0800

Palm Sunday Services
March 16th
10:30 a.m.

Maundy Thursday Services
March 20st
7:30 p.m.

Easter Egg Coloring
TBA

Easter Breakfast
March 23rd
9:30 a.m.

Easter Sunday Services
March 23rd
10:30 a.m.

Lenten Dinners

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:51:31 -0800

Wednesdays, February 28th, March 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Fellowship Hall

Our Lenten dinners and discussions are focusing on our stewardship of our environment. This is an opportunity for us to share a meal and enjoy good discussion with one another. We will provide dinner and a speaker for the evening, and we leave the discussion up to you. The last night will be an "action" night to put into practice some of our ideas.

Topics:
March 7th
Martha Boyd from Angelic Organics will speak on local and organic food.

March 14th
The Rev. Clare Butterfield from Faith in Place will speak on the moral component of caring for the earth.

March 21st
Mike McNamee from the Resource Center will speak on recycling.

March 28th
Our own leaders will help us focus on what actions we might want to take.

Offering for March

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:33:38 -0800

Each Sunday in addition to the regular offering, the Outreach Committee highlights a special offering to support needs that go beyond our budget priorities.

The special offering this month will go to The United Methodist Committee on Relief for One Great Hour of Sharing. UMCOR responds to natural or man-made disasters; UMCOR's mission is to alleviate human suffering with open hearts to all religions and open doors to all people. UMCOR is a humanitarian, non-proselytizing agency of the United Methodist Church.

UMCOR NGO (Non-governmental Organization Field Offices) provides transitional development and relief assistance internationally by working collaboratively with local revitalizing community structures, and empowering their members to retake control of their lives.

Please specify on your donation envelope that your donation is to go toward the "Special Offering".

Look Who's Blogging!

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:01:25 -0800

The church website now has a blog! Blogs – shorthand for weblogs – are online journals. Contributors share thoughts on topics and allow readers to post comments.

We will be able to discuss, collaborate and commiserate online about issues such as our stewardship of the environment, the church's future, and vision--whatever you would like to share about the life of the church.

The UCHP blog is private, closed to the Internet public. Topics and comments on the blog can only be added and read by invited UCHP members and friends. The entire congregation is invited to join the blog!.

17th Annual Quilt Show

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:30:39 -0800

For the Love of Quilts! …
Mark your calendar now!

The 17^th Annual Quilt Show will be

Saturday, April 21, 2007!

Proceeds for organ and capital repair.

Meet our Youth Minister Gracie Bates-Davis

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:48:14 -0800

Hello United Church of Hyde Park! I am thrilled to be your new youth minister as of late October 2006. As someone who is new to the staff of UCHP I would like you to know a bit about me. For starters, I am originally from Smithville, Texas which is a small country town. I went to Texas State University (formerly known as Southwest Texas State University) in San Marcos which is located in the hill country of Texas. I double majored in Political Science and Philosophy. I have a Master of Arts degree in Theology and am currently pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Chicago Theological Seminary. In October of 2006 I married my best friend David and we enjoy living here in Hyde Park!

I am excited to work with the youth and all has been blessed thus far. The youth ministry is blessed beyond measure to have your support and ideas. Please feel free to contact me with ideas, joys, blessings, and eagerness to volunteer to further enhance the youth program. My e-mail address is as follows:
gracie.bates@gmail.com

Thank you UCHP for this opportunity!

Global Warming

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:38:26 -0800

Global warming is irrevocably destroying the world’s environment. Not only is it threatening the survival of numerous plant and animal species, it is also resulting in severe flooding, storms, and drought. The US leads the world in contributing to global warming through carbon emissions. Sure, it can be expensive to change our ways, but the side-effects of global warming seem too disastrous (economically as well as environmentally) to ignore.

Do you believe we have a moral obligation as Christians to do something about it?

For the next few months, the church would like to consider what we as a congregation might do. Can we recycle? Use reusable plates and glasses? Buy only recycled products? Educate our congregation? Write letters to politicians and church organizations?

Please join us in this conversation in the fellowship hall, your committee, the church website (we are hoping to start a blog!), the January Monthly Gathering, and our Lenten dinners.

Also, check out these websites for more information:

www.eco-justice.org
www.climatecrisis.net (An Inconvenient Truth’s website—TONS of good info and
ideas!)
www.realclimate.org (a University of Chicago site to answer questions about global
warming and other atmospheric science issues)
www.treehugger.com
www.shalomctr.org

Image: NASA/NSSDC

What is God calling this church to be and do?

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:54:11 -0800

That is the question for us in 2007. The Church Council in recent months has acknowledged that our church has some issues we need to work on. Since the members of the Council are already working hard just to keep our programs running, I invited some other gifted and talented members to begin working on a plan for how our whole congregation can be involved in considering the question. In worship on New Year's Eve I announced what we were doing and invited others to join. The next meetings of this team will be on Tuesday January 23rd and Tuesday February 6th, both at 6:30 pm in the Hashimoto Library. We are working with Ray Schulte from the Center for Parish Development. If you are interested in joining this team or have other questions please talk to one of the members of the team, June Porter, Janice Kates, Rachet Hall or me, the Rev. Larry Turpin.