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Community of ChristChurch
Faith News Update for August 27, 2020
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Online Interactive Worship
with Holy Communion
Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 9:30am
If prompted enter password: 080114 |
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Online Worship Logistics:
- The online doors to our Zoom worship will open at 9:00am.
- From 9am to 9:30am, the worship space will be open for folks to gather and get settled in. Our worship service will begin at 9:30am.
- Holy Communion is part of our online worship. We encourage you to prepare by putting together your own communion set from whatever you have handy in your kitchens and pantries. Please have these items nearby when you join us online.
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Joining by phone:
If you are not able to join worship via your personal computer, tablet or smartphone you are welcome to join using your phone.
- Call this number: 1-669-900-6833
- Use the meeting ID: 669 927 281
- Enter password 080114
You will find yourself in our Zoom worship space. |
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Wrapping up the Forgotten Books of the Bible Preaching Series:
This Sunday is the last Sunday in our Summer Preaching Series.
The five festival scrolls of the Hebrew Bible— Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Song of Songs, Ruth and Esther— have given us some unique biblical perspectives on many of the challenges of being human beings in community.
Together over the summer months, we have wrestled with what the Bible has to say about sex and sexuality, about immigration, about protest, about death and dying, and about ethnic nationalism. Now, we wrap up the series with Mordecai’s challenge to Esther… and perhaps to us… nudging us to consider that all we have been experiencing together as a church and as a people, might have been preparing us… for just such a time as this.
See you this Sunday,
Pastor David
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Join us as we continue our tradition of worshiping and fellowshipping together over Labor Day weekend. This year we will be gathering together LIVE via Zoom, at 10 am on Sunday, September 6th.
Join us for a lively, eclectic, bilingual (Spanish/English) service of worship - as we reflect on the story of the Good Samaritan told in the Gospel of Luke.
Participating Hillsboro-Area Congregations:
All Saints Episcopal
Aloha United Methodist
Calvary Lutheran (ELCA)
Community of ChristChurch (ELCA)
Hillsboro First Congregational (UCC)
Hillsboro Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)
Hillsboro United Methodist Church
Las Naciones IMU
Old Scotch Presbyterian (PCUSA)
Special Offering:
We encourage participants to continue to support their local congregations and consider making a special donation to Bienestar of Oregon - Find out more at http://www.bienestar-or.org.
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WA County Ecumenical Church Potluck Cookbook
As part of the Ecumenical Zoom Worship service on Labor Day Weekend (September 6th @ 10am) we want to put together an Ecumenical Church Potluck Cookbook.
We are asking you to submit a recipe for your favorite potluck dish (along with a story or a memory)for the cookbook.
Go here to submit a recipe.
Please submit your recipe by end of day Tuesday, Sept 1.
A PDF containing all the recipes will be shared via email before the service. Thank you for participating! |
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Donations are still being accepted in memory of
Marjorie Ann Ehlen
Sept. 27, 1941 – Feb. 10, 2020
A memorial service was originally planned for Marjorie in April 2020, but the pandemic made an in-person gathering impossible. Instead, Eileen Gross and Chris Moore have organized a community service project in her honor to support people in need in our area. Project Homeless Connect Washington County is a collaborative effort to help individuals and families get critical care, services, and information. It is part of a nationwide movement to increase access to services for the homeless and engage the community in finding a solution for homelessness.
In Kind clothing, shoes, blankets, first aid kits: contact Eileen Gross by September 15 for pick up.
Monetary donations: please mark “in Memory of Marjorie Ehlen” on the form.
“Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.” — Proverbs 19:17
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The collection ends this Sunday, August 30!
ChristChurch is collecting donations to the nonprofit organization PERIOD, whom we have helped in past years with donations of feminine hygiene products for care packages. PERIOD helps those who are in need of feminine hygiene products, and do not have access to them or cannot afford them. This is an issue in many countries across the world, but also in our own community.
Where are the supplies going?
These items are needed in PERIOD’s Seattle, Washington chapter. They are being distributed to those in need, as well as those helping with the pandemic and Northwest People's Aid, which is supporting people of color in the Seattle area.
3 ways to donate:
1) There is a box on our doorstep for donations. Leave items there. Our address is 1154 NE Alexandria St., Hillsboro OR, 97124.
2) If you have supplies to be donated to PERIOD, email me and let me know. Then leave the supplies on your doorstep, and I will pick them up.
3) Alternately, if you would like to order supplies online, you can have the package shipped to our house.
Hopefully, this will make it easier to donate supplies.
Once the collection is over, I will deliver the supplies to PERIOD, so they will make it to the Seattle chapter and those who are in need of these supplies. .
Thank you all for your continued support and donations! If you have questions please feel free to reach out to me directly via email.
-Elsa Buchholz
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Pandemic Emergency Economic Relief (PEER)
In the midst of this pandemic, many families who were already marginalized and pressured are now facing acute economic and food insecurity. At the same time, most of us are feeling isolated and longing to act. What if we could GROW connection during this time and ACT together to relieve pressure in our communities?
How it works:
ChristChurch has received a $500 matching gift grant from the Oregon Synod (ELCA). We are combining that with funds dollars from our benevolence fund and the pastor’s compassion fund for a total of $2,000. We will then buy grocery gift cards and deliver them to counselors at Evergreen Middle School, who will in turn get these grocery gift cards to families.
What can you do:
Help us double these funds by clicking on the PEER category in our online GIVE button so that we can purchase even more grocery gift cards to impact local families in need.
Thank you to everyone that has already donated!
To date, we have raised $2,150 raised so far, for a total of $4,150!
If you have questions about the program please contact Rachael Jans or Pastor David Eppelsheimer. a total of $4,150!
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Opportunities to stay connected online are listed below: |
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Crafting, Gardening and Creativity Share (online gathering)
Saturdays @10am
https://zoom.us/j/226185003?pwd=b0tzLzBDaTJlc1RvVEV2dFQyRTZ2QT09
Meeting ID: 226 185 003
Password: 012822
Our Saturday Crafting and Gardening online meetings have been going well. We’d like to get more of you involved by asking you to share your creative talent. We want to hear what your hobbies and interests are.
You are more than welcome to invite a friend or relative to share their creative talent as well.
If you’d like to share with the group please contact Violet Thetford.
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ChristChurch
Online Coffee/Tea Hour Open House
Every Wednesday 10am to Noon
Save this Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/301147732?pwd=OHdrNDJDVC9pNkZKVnI5eFRzZXNhQT09
Meeting ID: 301 147 732
Password: 005805
Need a mid-week pick me up!?
Visit on Zoom every Wednesday morning.
The meeting room will be open from 10am -noon on Wednesdays and hosted by Violet Thetford.
This will be an open house format for folks who want to drop in any time during the 2 hours. Feel free to come and go as you like.
Thank you to Violet for hosting!
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Community of ChristChurch
This is Christ's church. There is a place for you here.
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Online Office Information
As of August 2020 Community of ChristChurch operates as an online office with staff working remotely.
Currently, all gatherings are online, using Zoom.
Staff contact information:
Pastor David Eppelsheimer
pastordavid@comchristchurch.org
Administrative & Communications Coordinator
Rachael Jans admin@comchristchurch.org
Prayer Requests
admin@comchristchurch.org
Our mailing address:
Community of ChristChurch
3300 NW 185th Ave #224
Portland, OR 97229
If you are mailing donations (thank you!) please note the change...or help us save our resources and sign up for online giving. Online giving reduces staff and volunteer processing time. How to sign up for online giving....
Electronic Giving
Since we can't pass our offering basket during virtual worship, we encourage you to automate your giving. Electronic giving also offers an easy way to give on a recurring basis.
THANK YOU to everyone that has signed up!
We are so grateful for the response.
Go to https://app.easytithe.com/App/Giving/comchristchurch and select the checkbox ‘Make this gift recurring’.
You will be walked through the steps for setting
up an account with Easy Tithe.
Submissions for Faith News:
Do you have an article or piece of news to
share with the congregation?
Email your submission for Faith News by 2pm on Wednesday via email.
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Mailing address:
Community of ChristChurch
3300 NW 185th Ave #224
Portland, OR 97229
(503) 617-9526
www.comchristchurch.org
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