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- 2008 Leadership Team
- Activities this Month
- Women’s Bible Studies
- Church Women United
- WELCA Triennial Gathering
- Mother's Day Banquet
- Lutheran World Relief
- More From Our Quilters
2008 Leadership Team
Alyson Ashford
Jeannie Fortier
Shirley Glass
Margaret Swanson
Gerri Licke
Jeannie Fortier
Pauline Gruenler
Margaret Swanson
Carol Hartman
Janet Fink
Kim Clay-Ramos
TBA
Melanie Zimmers
Rachel Gregory
Lori Bruns
Kristen Cameron
Our Mission is to mobilize women to act
boldly on their faith in Jesus Christ.
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Activities this Month
Monday Quilters:
Mondays at 9:00AM - We will meet on each Monday in the Fireside Room.
Ladies of the Evening Circle:
See you on Tuesday, May 6th, @ 7:00PM. See article on this page for more information.
Dora Ott Circle:
1st Thursday of each month - Come on Thursday, May 1st @ 12:30PM as we meet in the Fireside Room for Bible Study.
Bridge:
2nd Wednesday of each month at 7PM - If you are interested in playing bridge, call Janet Fink at 909-307-9778 or Brenda Bean at 909-793-4454. This month we meet at the home of Bryan Pace.
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Women’s Bible Studies
LADIES OF THE EVENING CIRCLE …this month will meet on Tuesday, May 6th @ 7:00PM in the home of Brenda Bean. This women's group meets monthly on the first Tuesday, in the evenings, and welcomes ALL WOMEN of the congregation! They are usually discussing a chapter each month of BAD GIRLS OF THE BIBLE by Liz Curtis Higgs.
May's meeting will be for fellowship and brief study. Bring a friend and any ideas that you have for a book to read and study. Contact Brenda Bean @ 793-4454 for more information & directions to her home. For our ladies who don’t drive at night: don’t forget our Dial A Ride program works for all church activities! Brenda’s address can be found in the directory.
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Church Women United
Church Women United (CWU) celebrates Friendship Day on May 2 at 10 AM at Redlands United Church of Christ, 168 Bellevue Ave. Program: God's Wisdom Inspires Hospitality. An offering for Fellowship of the Least Coin and a regular offering will be collected. Bring a salad or $3 donation for lunch.
For further information, please contact Carol Hartman @ 794-4540.
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WELCA Triennial Gathering
July 10-13, 2008, @ Salt Lake City, Utah. Registration needs to be accomplished prior to June 15. Limited scholarship funds are available from Pacifica’s WELCA.
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Mother's Day Banquet
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Lutheran World Relief
LWR needs quilts, kits
Thanks to the generosity of women's groups throughout the church, Lutheran World Relief is able to provide quilts, kits, and soap to people in need around the globe. Now LWR is asking women, youth, Sunday school classes, and entire congregations to go an extra mile to help meet the current and anticipated needs in the global community, especially in Mauritania, Peru, Azerbaijan, Uganda, and Thailand.
Quilts, health kits, school kits, soap, layettes, and sewing kits are among the needs, Then drop a note to Women.ELCA@elca.org to let us know how you are responding.
Last year showed a significant increase in the number of quilts requested by our partners — 452,870, the most we distributed in a year since 1999," said Trevor Knoblich, LWR's program associate for material resources. Knoblich manages the warehouse inventories of quilts, kits, and layettes, and works with LWR's partner organizations in shipping the items to their final destinations.
"In 2008, requests have increased even further for quilts and kits of all types," Knoblich said. "So our current inventories are not able to meet the needs expressed by our overseas partners. We'll need many more quilts and kits to fulfill the requests we've received already, plus the other requests that are sure to come."
"When it comes to making quilts and assembling kits and layettes, the generosity of U.S. Lutherans is un-stoppable," said Brenda Meier, LWR's director for parish and community engagement. "That's why we're putting out the call for more quilts and kits, confident that they will respond."
"Even a few more quilts or kits from each congregation already making them would be significant," said Meier. "Even better, if congregations not already involved would start a group to make quilts or kits, our inventories would increase to meet the demands from our partners,"
"Assembling school, health, or sewing kits is a great activity for youth groups, confirmation classes, Sunday school classes," said Meier. "It's a great way to nurture community within a congregation, and also strengthen a connection to the global community. Making kits and quilts can even be a great family project; it's a good lesson in compassion and sharing for children," she added.
Currently, LWR has several shipments requested from partners responding to humanitarian needs in Africa, Latin America, and Asia:
Mauritania is expecting refugees who were expelled in 1989-1990 to Senegal and Mali, to begin returning; quilts, health kits and school kits will help families reintegrate into their lives in their homeland and continue with their children's education. Uganda is bracing for an influx of refugees due to the ongoing violence in Kenya. Health kits, school kits, sewing kits, and soap will equip refugee camps with supplies to respond to the needs of the newly arriving refugees.
Thailand receives an annual shipment of quilts and layettes for camps housing Burmese refugees. Cold, damp conditions in the camps, located in remote mountainous regions of Thailand, make the warmth of a quilt comforting and life-saving. Azerbaijan struggles with supporting large populations of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who live in cold conditions with limited access to food and water. Quilts will help keep people warm and provide a handmade gift they can cherish. Sewing kits provide an opportunity to make clothes to wear or sell. Peru's impoverished families will be comforted and encouraged by quilts, health kits, and school kits as part of an annual shipment from Lutheran World Relief.
Instructions for making quilts, kits, or layettes are available on the LWR Web site at www.lwr.org/parish. Please consider helping us meet this growing need around the world!
The complete 2007 quilts and kits shipping report is available online at www.lwr.org/parish or by calling the LWR Resource Center at 1-800-LWR-LWR-2. Also available from the Resource Center is "Ordinary to Ex-traordinary," a 12-minute video chronicling the distribution of a shipment of quilts, kits, layettes and soap throughout Mali. West Africa.
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More From Our Quilters
From Margaret Swanson... ”Being in charge of our quilting group, I would also like to add that since we no longer have evening or Sunday quilting, we have made up bundles of quilt tops (for those wishing to do so) to take home and sew. The bundles are located in the middle right-hand cupboard, closest to the outside door, in the Fireside Room. We will try to have a sign-up sheet there for people wishing to do them at home. This will increase the number of quilts that we are able to make.
We thank all of the people who have contributed fabric to make our quilting effort a success. Quilters are welcome to join us on Monday mornings, in the Fireside Room, on a “come as you can—leave when you must” basis. We generally take a break over summer. Also the Dora Ott circle assembles health and school kits each year and willingly accepts donations of items for these kits. It there are other groups in the church that also wish to do this, we encourage them to do so.
“The quilts and kits are boxed up annually, in October after Apple Butter Fest, and transported to a designated pick-up spot where they are then taken by a “semi” to the warehouse in Minnesota for further distribution by Lutheran World Relief around the world.”
Anyone interested in any of the above can contact Margaret Swanson for further information or to sign-up to help out.
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