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Diaper Drive
The Wesley Evening Food Pantry will be conducting a special Diaper Drive during February. Diapers are increasingly hard to come by and the agencies that used to make them available have had to stop distribution or limit their availability to a small amount for only their current clients. If you can pick up a package – or a case – when you are out shopping, you can help a young family conserve their funds for other necessities. All sizes are welcome. You may leave them outside the food pantry door near the east kitchen.
Lenten offering benefits Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center
The Wesley Social Action Ministries designates Wi’am, the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center, and our partner districts in Liberia as recipients of this year’s Lenten offering. Please give generously to support these vital outreach efforts.
Wi’am (http://www.alaslah.org) is supported in part by The Advance (# 14910A), the official designated giving arm of the United Methodist Church, which ensures that 100% of each gift reaches its intended mission or ministry. In their own words, “People in Palestine are living under the shadow of stress, violence, political upheaval, hopelessness, and lack of human security. The Center helps to resolve disputes within the Palestinian community by implementing the traditional Arab form of mediation, known as Sulha, as well as Western models of conflict resolution. We provide services for women and children and seek to educate the local community on human equality and basic rights. We have been involved from the ground up in workshops, seminars, and conferences that deal with civic education, women’s issues, gender issues, democracy and human rights, dialogue of cultures and religions, nonviolence, reconciliation, and conflict resolution.”
Some of their goals include: providing healing, hope, and restoration of relationships through mediation and counseling for community and family conflicts; providing children with trauma coping skills, crisis intervention, and summer camps; providing training for 80 beneficiaries over a span of one year, who then become trainers themselves in fields of democracy, human rights, gender equality, conflict transformation, etc; and empowering and training women in gender equality and counseling.
In the next issue of the Spire, we will highlight the rebuilding work being done in Liberia, the second designee of this year’s Lenten offering.
Feb. 22nd Spire newletter available
World Day of Prayer
Friday March 2 Champaign Public Library Rm. A&B 9:30 a.m. sponsored by Church Women United.
Church Women United of Champaign-Urbana will celebrate World Day of Prayer from 9:30 to 11:00 am Friday , March 2, 2012 in Rooms A&B of the Champaign Public Library. The celebration is written by the women of Malaysia based on the theme “Let Justice Prevail”. For more information contact Evelyn Denzin through the Wesley office 217-344-1120.
UMW February Birthday Luncheon
Please Join us for
The UMW February Birthday Luncheon
Wednesday, February 22nd
11:30 a.m.
at Milo’s Restaurant in Urbana.
If you need a ride please call the church office at 217-344-1120.
The Prodigal God Lenten Study
Examining the Parable of the Prodigal Son
Thursdays, Feb. 23rd – April 5th, 10:30 a.m.
Join us this Lent as we spend six weeks studying one of the most significat parables in the Bible, the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
Contact Pastor Miriam (msnider@wesleyui.org or 217-344-1120) for more info or to get a book ($10).
Said of Prodigal God, “Taking his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity, Timothy Keller uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable. Within that parable, Jesus reveals God’s prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. This book will challenge both the devout and skeptics to see Christianity in a whole new way.”
Join us for this Lenten Small Group for a journey to rediscover the heart of the Christian Gospel.
Lenten Daily Devotionals
Free printed daily devotionals are available in Wesley’s front office starting Ash Wednesday. This year we are using Henri Nouwen’s “From Fear to Love–Lenten Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son.”
Alternatively, you can sign up for our daily emails that follow the same biblical verses as the print devotions with an image to reflect on. To sign up for the emails please click here, enter your email, click the box for Daily Lenten Devotional and click join.
Ash Wednesday
The students of the Wesley Foundation are putting on an Ash Wednesday service at 6:30pm on Wednesday, February 22nd.
Come and start your journey to the cross with us in an experimental worship experience.
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Potluck Sunday
THIS SUNDAY
All are invited!
Wesley’s Delicious Potluck!!
Sunday, February 12th, 12:30 PM
Wesley’s Great Hall
Students and visitors are our guests—no need to bring anything. If Wesley families could bring 2 food dishes and single persons one dish, that would be great! Table service will be available if you need it. Join us in the Warmth of Fellowship!
Contact the Wesley office for more information. 217-344-1120.