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Communion Sunday
IN-PERSON WORSHIP AND LIVE STREAMING
Belong. Believe. Be love.
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February 5, 2023 @ 9:30 am.
- Masking is encouraged for in-person worship.
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If you have any symptoms that are not usual, regardless of severity, please worship from home.
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We strongly recommend being fully vaccinated and up to date with boosters, as gathering indoors for an hour comes with risk.
We trust that you will prayerfully consider the best worshiping option for your household, and want to assure you that worshiping from home continues to be an option for those who choose to do so. We love you all!
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Click the link below to go to our channel, click "Subscribe," and click on the notifications bell to receive alerts when we post a video.
University UMC Irvine YouTube Channel
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Bulletin:
Bulletin (all words are on our worship video):
Worship Bulletin - February 5, 2023
Please have bread (or crackers) and juice (or wine) ready to partake in Holy Communion.
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A bleeding emergency can happen anywhere and severe bleeding can lead to loss of life in as little as 5 minutes.
The good news is anyone can save a life if they have the skills and resources to control bleeding until more advanced care is available.
With that in mind, Health Ministries will be purchasing bleeding control kits for the sanctuary, Fellowship Hall, the Education Building, and the youth room. Once kits have arrived, training will be offered to congregants and then later to those who rent our facilities.
It is estimated that the kits will cost around $1200.00, so if anyone would like to donate to this project, please click on the following link:
Stop The Bleed Control Kit
Donations can also be made via personal check. Make sure you indicate in the memo of your check: "Stop The Bleed Kit"
| Valentine's / Heart Health SHINE Success! | |
With 102 registered participants, our February SHINE celebrating Heart Health Month was a true success! Many thanks to our UUMC Health Ministries Team, student nurses from Biola and Vanguard, Irvine Fire Department Station 4, Tanaka Farms, CIFT Counseling, Troop 606, and all the UUMC members who made this event a success!
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UUMC Hosts Missions & Outreach Luncheon
for Mission Area
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Sue Harriss, UUMC Missions Chair and Cal-Pac UMVIM Coordinator, along with members of the missions team hosted a luncheon for clergy and laity from churches in the Orange County Central Mission Area (including Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Tustin Aldersgate, and UUMC). Our District Superintendent, Rev. Sandy Olewine, attended and encouraged us to collaborate in mission and service to the world, including the introduction of an Impact Sunday event on May 21st.
| UUMC Represented at Bishop Dottie Escobedo-Frank's Installation Service | Pastor Cathie, Deaconess Sharon McCart, Dale McCart, and Annelle Arthur traveled to Pasadena FUMC to participate in the Installation Service for our new Bishop, Dottie Escobedo-Frank. It was a wonderful worship with the richness of our Annual Conference diversity reflected in song (Holman UMC Choir and Tongan Choir from Pomona UMC), and a powerful sermon sending us into the world to show that we love Jesus through our actions of love, justice, and mercy. | |
Please register using the link highlighted below.
Registration For Online Interfaith Circle
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Brunch Bunch
Weds, 9:30 am, Center of Warmth
Join us in 2023 as we start our new book, "Seeing in the Dark: finding God's Light in the Most Unexpected Places"
by Nancy Ortberg.
Readers will discover afresh how God always finds a way to pierce even the darkest night of the soul with His redeeming presence and grace. Ortberg specifically helps Christians see the light when death occurs, disease takes hold, children suffer, depression oppresses, and simple discouragement from life’s hard knocks threatens to overtake faith, hope, and love
SEEING IN THE DARK is a terrific book to buy and refer back to as needed, as well as one to give to a friend.
Make sure you join us in the New Year!
Brunch Bunch is Open to All.
Contact Cathy Boragno at 949.689.7731 or Mickey Chase at 949.422.1082 for more information.
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Or, you can contact Michael Demeure of UUMC for more detailed information:
Michael.demeure@hoag.org
520-977-9074
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Sisters Book Club List
SISTERS have decided to read the following books next. Please join us!
- Feb 28 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Mar. 28 Fast Girls by Elise Hooper
- April 25 Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
- May 23 The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
If you are not already on the Sisters mailing list, please email
me at lindadressler46@gmail.com and I will send you the link to join us on Zoom. I look
forward to seeing you at Sisters!
~ Linda Dressler
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Want to see where Methodism is Heading?
Hacking Christianity publishes an article on
"The Success of Methodism 2.0"
An Inclusive Approach To The Transformation of the
United Methodist Church
Click the link below to read:
The Future of Methodism
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Greeters Needed For 2023
We need greeters for the coming year 2023. Please sign up with Leah Tsang
(email: leahfong@gmail.com / Cell# 626-823-9019).
Thank you!
final 1st Qt
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FLOWER DONATIONS FOR 2023
Remember or Honor a Loved One!
Express Your Gratitude!
Many dates are available in 2023 for your flowers to grace the altar. We specifically need your immediate help for April 30, May 14, 21, 28, July 9,16, 23, 30. Please sign up with Roxane Fowler
You can honor departed family members or celebrate important milestones such as a family member’s birthday. At the same time, you will be beautifying the church!
Contact Roxane Fowler for more info. She can be reached at 949 697-8088 or iwasuna@sbcglobal.net.
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UUMC MEMBERS IN ACTION
TRACKING VOLUNTEER HOURS
Being the Church is not something that just happens on Sunday mornings for about an hour, but it is a way of life. Discipleship is the journey of living not solely for self, but out of love for God and neighbor. As the many members of Christ's body, the Church, we are invited to be "all in," committing our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness.
The many hours we spend in service to God at the local church and throughout the community on an individual level is impressive; yet, our collective efforts reach even farther and reflect the true vitality of our Church.
Beginning in 2022, we will be tracking volunteer hours done at church and in the community on a monthly basis. These hours will be reported to the Conference in our annual report, and we want to be able to celebrate the collective impact our church has in making the world a better place.
Prizes will be offered at our Quarterly Conferences to individuals who have submitted their hours and guess closest to the number of hours of service given in total by our UUMC members!
Allow your work to be counted collectively by filling out our tracking sheet TODAY!
(Volunteer hours at church include those in the office, counting, ushering, greeting, singing, decorating, cleaning, painting, teaching, serving on committees, calling our members, etc. Volunteers hours in the community include all those given to organizations supporting needs or helping individuals in the community.)
Click on the link below and submit it once you have filled it out. Thank you!
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Restorative Yoga @ UUMC (via Zoom)
This yoga class is a moving meditation. Each sequence aims to increase the flexibility of your muscles and widen the mobility of your joints. We use gentle stretches to open the body and breathing techniques to calm the mind. This class is great for all levels, no prior yoga experience is necessary.
Tools you'll need a yoga mat and a chair.
If you have any questions about the class; feel free to email Matt at mattmirshaf@gmail.com , he would be happy to answer.
<3 TheYogaMatt
The $10 fee can be paid online, Matt will walk you through the process, it's painless!
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February 1- February 8, 2023
Happy Birthday to those celebrating birthdays this week. Wishing you a day filled with precious memories and a year filled with numerous reasons to be thankful.
Ann Adams (02/07)
We would also like to extend birthday greetings to any other February babies, not on our list.
If you would like to add your birthday (or a family member's), please email Marcel at marcel@uumcirvine.org.
Thank you!
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Please pray for healing and restoration for those in our UUMC family: Cathy Evans (knee surgery), Linda Brougher, Karen Rhoads, Roy Caffrey, Jeanne Lovgren, Tammy Rice, Ruth Bales, Paul Tonkovich, Jun Eun Lee, Kyoko Nakahara, and Vill Calicdan.
We pray and grieve for the family of Barbara Albers as she passed into life eternal.
Please pray for friends and family of UUMC: Pray for Sharon McCart’s mother, Virginia Gollery (who is experiencing several health problems).
For our district churches: Normal Heights (Brent Ross, Molly Lorden); Samoan Mission Congregation Normal Heights (Joe Samuela).
We also pray for those homebound long before the stay-at-home order: Muriel Dameron and Jan Taylor.
(Prayer requests may be sent to Mickey Chase: wmchase@cox.net).
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GIVE ONLINE
Your generosity is making a difference.
We believe in the power of generosity, what it does for the individual doing the giving, and for the purpose that the giving supports.
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