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Ten-Pin BowlingHave Fun at the Bowl-a-Rama

Help raise support for DuPage PADS while having fun by registering a team for the Bowl-a-Rama, in Fox Bowl, Wheaton. Teams compete for fun and prizes.

Team registration is $500, or raise $500 online at http://www.dupagepads.org. You can register online now.

For more information, check the website or call Sammie at 630.682.3846 x 252.

Location: 
Fox Bowl, Wheaton, 1101 Butterfield Rd Wheaton, IL 60187
Date: 
Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 12:00pm

Dine Away Hunger

Dine Away HungerOn Wednesday, April 13, Braxton Seafood Grill in Oakbrook Center will participate in Dine Away Hunger by donating 10% of their sales that day to the People's Resource Center's food pantry.

Come for lunch or dinner and help fight hunger in DuPage County.

Location: 
3 Oakbrook Center, Oak Brook, IL 60523-1809
Date: 
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 12:00pm

Guatemalan Crafts Are Back!

April 1, 2011 - 9:46pm

UPAVIM crafts

There’s another chance to buy beautiful handmade crafts made by the women from our hermanamiento, UPAVIM, who live on the outskirts of Guatemala City.  There will be colorful bags, scarves, kitchen items and, for the first time, jewelry.  Stop by our table in the Parlor on Sunday, April 17th and Sunday, May 1st to pick up a gift for Mother’s Day, teacher appreciation, birthdays and graduations, or treat yourself!

The sale of these crafts helps the women to build better lives for themselves and their community funding a school, a clinic, a bakery and soy milk production. The profit we make will help fund a visit to the women in July this year. We have seven people interested in forming a delegation to visit Guatemala City from July 6-14th. Contact Ina and Ray Osborn (630.515.8418) if you are interested in joining us on this mission trip in July.

As part of our continued commitment to be in relationship with the women of UPAVIM, we exchange monthly letters to share what is going on in our lives and in the life of the church.  The following is a recent reply from one of the delegates who visited us in November 2009:

We send a warm greeting from ALL THE WOMEN OF UPAVIM.  Our hearts are filled with joy when we hear that you are well.  How good to know that winter has passed.  It fills us with enthusiasm to know that you support our project with the laboratory.  We trust in God that we can open it to the community soon.  Thank you.  We are here in very hot weather working for our community and our families.  Let’s keep praying together that peace will not cease in the world-- in all that is happening in it.

One Great Hour of Sharing

March 27, 2011 - 9:00pm
One Great Hour of Sharing

On Sunday, April 3rd, FUMC will join with millions of other Christians through One Great Hour of Sharing to share God’s love with people experiencing need. Our gifts support ministries of disaster response, refugee assistance and resettlement, and community development that help people find safe refuge, start new lives and work together to strengthen their families and communities.

With this offering, The United Methodist Church rebuilds lives and communities around the world by helping the United Methodist Committee on Relief keep its promise that 100% of your designated gift goes to specific causes.

So much of what UMCOR does is about restoration: giving sight to the blind, building up farming communities, helping workers to become self-sufficient and reconstructing places destroyed by disaster.  UMCOR has helped to rebuild war-torn Sudan, famers in Indonesia, families in Pakistan, relief in Haiti, and most recently, coordinate help for Japan.

Mision Fronteras Information Session

Chani, Bolivia

To learn more about the mission to Lake Titicaca before Jeff and Deb fly to Lima on April 10, please attend one of the information presentations in room 213 on Wednesday, March 30, either from 9 to 9:45 a.m. or 7:30 to 8:15PM. They'll present a PowerPoint presentation on the extreme poverty and dire needs of the people near Lake Titicaca. There is more information on the Mision Fronteras website, including how to donate to their mission.

Location: 
Room 213
Date: 
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 9:00am

How to Support the Lake Titicaca Border Mission

March 26, 2011 - 7:10pm

Mision FronterasThe United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries last week announced the new Lake Titicaca Border Mission Advance project number: 3021288. FUMC Downers Grove members Jeff Wasilevich and Debbie Rissing will serve as site hosts and coordinators of this mission site for 18 months, starting in May. All gifts made in support this mission are 100% tax deductible; those made through the church will receive Advance credit for the church and the Annual Conference, and will help the church achieve its Rainbow Covenant goals.

If you'd like to support this mission, checks may be made payable to: Advance GCFA. On the memo line, write: L. Titicaca Border Mission 3021288. Checks may be dropped in the collection basket, given at the church office, or mailed to: Advance GCFA, P.O. Box 9068 GPO, New York, NY 10087-9068 (if you mail your check, please note church number 51918 on your check to ensure FUMC gets Advance credit). To make a credit card gift by phone, please call The Advance at 888-252-6174. To make an online gift, please visit the Mision Fronteras donate page.

To learn more about this mission before Jeff and Deb fly to Lima on April 10, please attend one of the information presentations in room 213 on Wednesday, March 30, either from 9 to 9:45 a.m. or 7:30 to 8:15PM. They'll present a PowerPoint presentation on the extreme poverty and dire needs of the people near Lake Titicaca. To receive electronic newsletters from Deb and Jeff, please send your email address to jeffandeb@gmail.com. There is more information on the Mision Fronteras website.

Pacific Emergency

March 23, 2011 - 9:53pm

UMCORUnited Methodists and friends are urged to pray for the people of Japan during this crucial hour and support the emergency effort through giving. If you would like to make a donation via check, please make the check out to FUMC and in the memo line put Japan/Pacific Emergency. If you would like to donate via credit card, visit UMCOR's website.

PADS Help Needed For April 5

March 18, 2011 - 11:25am

We are in need of someone to help out with the 11pm-3am shift for PADS on the evening of April 5. If you are available and willing, please contact Diane Kerr in the church office (630.968.7120).

THANK YOU!!

Calling all Stephen Ministers

Stephen MinistryThe commitment to being a trained Stephen Minister is a great one. We would like to honor your efforts, both past and present, by having a Stephen Minister Reunion lunch on Sunday, March 20, in Chapel Hall around 12 noon immediately following the 11am Worship Service. Come break bread with other fine Stephen Ministers, catch up with one another and remember what it feels like to be in fellowship together. Significant others are welcome, of course.

Following lunch, there will be a short meeting for all Stephen Ministers to discuss the future direction of the program, and then a supervision meeting for active Stephen Ministers only. RSVP by March 18 to the chief cook and bottle washer, Claire Marich.

Location: 
Chapel Hall
Date: 
Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 12:00pm

Guatemala Mission 2011

March 4, 2011 - 10:18pm

Guatamala 2008We are excited to announce that we plan to send a delegation from our church to visit the women of UPAVIM in Guatemala City this summer. The visit will take place from July 6th through the 14th. Ray and Ina Osborn, who participated in the 2008 delegation, will be leading the group and we hope to encourage anyone who is interested in developing our relationship with these remarkable women to join us. Under-18s need to be accompanied by a parent and we already have a family considering this; you do not need to know Spanish as a translator is provided. Most of the cost of the trip is covered by fundraising that we’ve already done, but participants will be asked to fund their own airfare and some expenses, which will amount to around $550.

This is a different kind of mission trip where we offer ourselves and our friendship rather than our building skills and material wealth. During our time in Guatemala, we will spend a few days living in the homes of some of the women, discovering the delights of their culture and the hardships of living on the margins of society. We will witness their courage, strength and faith in God and we will be changed! In the past few years, we have begun to share how we can work together to build a better world and we are working on a joint project to help the women reopen their medical laboratory at the clinic within UPAVIM.

Please give prayerful consideration to the idea of joining us in July. A meeting to share further information for those who are even a little interested will be held on Sunday, March 6th at noon in room 213. Or contact Ina or Ray for more information.

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