[Oe List ...] Wanda's trip

Sat Dec 2 14:58:23 EST 2006

Just to add my vote for the relevant actions going on in the U.  
Methodist Church. The University Temple UMC here in Seattle is involved  
in many progressive actions and study (have you heard of the Living the  
Questions video series?). We have been a "Reconciling Congregation" for  
10 years, are pursuing building an ecumenical center for worship and  
outreach with other university area progressive churches, hosting  
countless public meetings ranging from spiritual renewal to protests on  
the  Middle East injustices, esp. Iraq and actively supporting the  
Masai Environmental Resource Coalition in Kenya.
I have chaired and cochaired the Church & Society team for about 9  
years. Much of what happens in this UMC is due to such O.E. stalwarts  
as Michael and Molly Shaw, Sharon Fisher, Jean Poole ( and until 2004,  
Mark Poole) and to 14 years of progressive pastors who are also  
biblical scholars. Church renewal is going on....
Marian and Fred Karpoff

On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Suzanne Heilman wrote:

> I, too, can vouch for the United Methodist Church as still being  
> relevant in "today's society". I speak from the standpoint of one who  
> feels on the edge of where the church is moving with momentum now. As  
> an active local and district member, who is also aware of our tendency  
> to clutch at what we've always done which resists our own vision to  
> change, I know that we still manage to stay relevant.  I will be going  
> to Moss Point, Ms. (I wonder if they had a Town Meeting back in the  
> seventies when I was assigned to Memphis Region?) with a Volunteers In  
> Mission Team officially sponsored by our local church, to help rebuild  
> from last years devastation. This is the first VIM team sponsored by  
> Pine St. UMC here in Williamsport, PA.  Our Global Ministries  
> Committee spearheaded this trip; I am cochair of the committee (for 9  
> years, would you believe!).  We are staying for 1 week in a large  
> local church nearby. Also, our denomination's mission arm is always  
> starting new initiatives wherever in the world the opportunity pops  
> up. The United Methodist Church has a deep understanding (thanks to  
> John Wesley) of Social Holiness and manages to keep its edges  
> well-honed! Where do you think we the Order came from???
>
>
>
>
> <emrose.gif>Suzanne K. Heilman
>>  From: "Lynda Cock" <llc860 at triad.rr.com>
>> Reply-To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>> To: "'Order Ecumenical Community'" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
>> Subject: [Oe List ...] Wanda's trip
>> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:31:39 -0500
>>
>> The United Methodist General Board of Church and Society has a write  
>> up about the trip Wanda Holcombe is on. 
>> Check this site:   
>> http://www.umc-gbcs.org/site/apps/nl/content.asp? 
>> c=fsJNK0PKJrH&b=2252807&content_id={0C5680A8-C25C-48AA-BCD4- 
>> E2965853557A}&notoc=1&tr=y&auid=2161134
>>  
>> If that doesn't work, go to www.umc-gbcs.org and scroll down to Holy  
>> Land Tour-Peacekeeping mission.  Also note that there is a blog  
>> connection.      Looks like they are returning today.    
>>  
>> Thank you, Wanda and team!   Lynda Cock
>>  
>>
>> From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On  
>> Behalf Of George Holcombe
>> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:23 PM
>> To: Order Ecumenical Community
>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Witness
>>
>> Dear Jim, you and Wanda were in Jerusalem at the same time. She is  
>> leading a team of Muslims, Jews and Christians and has been holding  
>> conversations with Israelis and Palestinians as part of her work with  
>> the General Board of Church and Society.
>>
>> Re: the Local Church: Local religious institutions around the world  
>> are doing very well. As institutions they never look real good, they  
>> just keep bumping along, in spite of all our incompetence.
>>
>> George Holcombe
>> 14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
>> Austin, TX 78728
>> Home: 512/252-2756
>> Mobile 512/294-5952
>> geowanda at earthlink.net
>>
>>
>> On Nov 16, 2006, at 4:55 PM, James Wiegel wrote:
>>
>>> So, I am outside Jerusalem attending a workshop and spent the day  
>>> walking around the old city, saw the Dome of the Rock, the Western  
>>> Wall and the Church of the Sepulchre and was surprised at my  
>>> interior reaction. It was chrystalized in reading a brochure about  
>>> the western wall (where Abraham went with Isaac, where the temple  
>>> was built, the wall where people of the Jewish faith go to pray) and  
>>> it talked about the sense of awe that is there, and I could not find  
>>> it, not in any of the 3 places. So I wondered, where is the local  
>>> church, now, almost to the end of the 40 years of practical renewal  
>>> . . .
>>>
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>>>
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