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What's Happening

Friday, August = 1

6:= 30 pm –Family Game Night with You= th Group

Saturday, Augus= t 2

5:= 30 pm—N/A - Youth Room

Sunday, August = 3

10= am - Worship

Monday, August = 4

6:= 15 pm—Committee Meetings

7 = pm—Boy Scouts

7:= 40 pm—Administrative Council

Wednesday, Augu= st 6

7 = pm - Women’s A/A-Youth Room

Friday, August = 8

11= am—Free lunch program @ JB = Thomas

Saturday, Augus= t 9

10= am—Coffee Klatch @ Ins= omnia Coffee

Yo= uth Leave for Xplosion

5:= 30 pm—N/A - Youth Room

Sunday, August = 10

10= am - Worship

Monday, August = 11

7 = pm—Boy Scouts

7:= 30 pm—Women’s Evening Fel= lowship

Wednesday, Augu= st 13

10= am—UMW Executive Meeting

7 = pm - Women’s A/A-Youth Room

Yo= uth Return from Xplosion

Friday, August = 15

10= am—4 pm—Brown Bag

11= am—Free lunch program @ JB = Thomas

6:= 30 pm—Youth Group

Saturday, Augus= t 16

5:= 30 pm—N/A - Youth Room

This is YOUR newsletter.

Deadline for August 15

Edition is Thursday, August 7 =

at Noon. &= nbsp; E-mail articles to: laura@hillsboroumc.org

$crip Team, Ready to Go

The new $crip season = begins with Labor Day Weekend. That’s when we make an important shift in $crip sponsorship. Beginning August 31, all monies ear= ned from $crip sales will go directly to the United Methodist tradition of = Shared Giving. What does this= mean? Each $crip purchase ma= de Sunday morning supports United Methodist connections.

Who are we talking about?

• People you know, like Rev. Kate Conolly, Bishop Robert Hoshi= bota. John and Vivian Hiestand.

• People like children in Nicaragua, students in Old Mutare, Z= imbabwe, and missioners in Asia.

Want to see were the = money goes? Take a look at th= e bulletin board in the narthex – just as you enter for worship each = Sunday. Then come to the $cri= p table in the Fellowship Hall after worship to make your purchases. . Using $crip is an easy way to do = your personal shopping while helping people all over the world – near= and far away.

Any questions? Ask anyone on the $crip Team! That’s Janica Stewart, Dick = Gatke, Loretta Milnes, Bill and Evelyn French, Kristi Proctor, Sandy Verhul= st, Carla Harris, or Susan Jensen.

New Address

Gay & Steve Enyeart

2709 NE 102nd St.

Vancouver, WA 98686

360 718 8350 Home

503&nb= sp; 799 1099 Gays cell

503 453 9438 Steves cell

new e-mail address s.enyeart@comcast.ne= t

Ed Warmoth reports from Oregon City.

I'm stay= ing with son Woody and wife Linda, and pleased to be back on my feet, = eating well, and gaining weight. The new heart valve June 2 went smoo= thly, but a loss of appetite and overload on Potassium during recovery land= ed me in Tuality for six days. Lefty Shultz came by to check on = me. It was back to Oregon City last Wednesday. Many thanks again for = all the cards, messages, and prayers! I hope to get back for ch= urch service some Sunday in coming weeks. The phone number here is 50= 3-631-2776.

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Office Open

Monday-Thursday -

8:30 am to 3 pm

Closed on Friday

How To Reach Us

Phone: 503-640-1775

Email: office@hillsboroumc.org

Web site: www.hillsboroumc.org

Adult Education Classes Beginning

"Poetry To Nourish Your Soul"=

9 AM Sundays, beginning January 7<= /o:p>

10 weeks

Led by Rev. Barbara Schultz<= /span>

Book: "Twenty Poems to Nourish You= r Soul" selected by Judith Valente and Charles Reynard.

"Good poetry has the power to star= t a fire in your life. Great poetry can alter the way we see ourselves.&nbs= p; It can change the way we see the world. Poetry at its best calls f= orth our deep Being, bids us live by its promptings; it dares us to break f= ree from safe strategies of the cautious mind; it calls to us, like the wil= d geese from an open sky". (from Ten Poems to Change Your Life b= y Roger Houseden).

Contact Barbara if you are interested s= o she can order books. Ok to drop in but contact Barbara so she can tell yo= u which poem the class will be reading

"Living the Questions"

Led by Rev. Gwen Drake

Beginning January 7

9AM, Sunday

Discover the relevance of Christianity = in the 21st Century and what a meaningful faith can look like today. = This DVD study will expose you to ideas and concepts that have been taught = and discussed for generations in seminaries.

Gwen's Notes

It'= s a brand new year! It is a time when some people make new year's res= olutions and some refuse to make new year's resolution. What ever you= do when the year changes, there is definitely a feeling of beginning again= , starting over, doing things different whether you acknowledge it or not.&= nbsp; And that is what we are doing at Hillsboro UMC. I hope that you= will consider making it a goal to participate in something you have never = participated in at church--whether that be a Sunday School class, singing i= n the choir, ringing bells, helping with many of the volunteer jobs, inviti= ng someone new to church, or use your imagination. Be bold. Do = something new. Scare yourself a little!

After saying that, there are a few of y= ou that may need to practice saying "no" as your new thing. = We all need to take good care of ourselves. It is important to love = ourselves as well as our neighbors and God. That sounds a lot like th= e Great Commandment, doesn't it? It is. So, when you think of s= omething new to do this year, also consider doing less if you are one of th= ose people who like being a "human doing" instead of a "huma= n being."

Happy New Year! I'll see you in c= hurch.

Blessings, Gwen