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 AnnouncementsThis page contains the announcements and prayer concerns from the weekly Underwood program distributed at church. If you would like any announcements or prayer requests added to the bulletin and website, please email the office at Underwood. September 13, 2009 September 6, 2009 Envelopes $1047.00 Loose Offering $355.00 WMO to date $140.00 Last Week’s Attendance Underwood’s incoming pledges are low. This is a gentle reminder to keep your pledge up to date. Thank you. FLOWERS on the altar are given by Margretta Rosenow’s family, in memory of her birthday. AN UNDERWOOD OPPORTUNITY The choir season is gearing up to begin again this September. Underwood’s choir practices every Sunday morning. Rehearsals are twice a month before the church service from 9:00-9:50, and twice a month for an hour after church. If you would like to learn more, feel open to talk to any choir member or Emily. RINGERS The 2009-2010 Bell schedules can be found on the literature table in the foyer, next to the office. CAN YOU FIX THIS? Underwood has an A/C unit in need of repair. We are looking for someone interested in fixing it. We also have a small concrete/masonry job that needs an expert! WOMEN RAISE THE ROOF! On September 14th, women from the Milwaukee area will gather together on behalf of Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity, to start the third Women Build Home. Women Build is a nationwide initiative that enables women from all walks of life to address the housing crisis facing millions of women and children, both here in Milwaukee and worldwideThis year, Grace Morgan is serving as Co-Chair of the 2009 Milwaukee Habitat Women Build. Part of her responsibility is to help raise the $60,000 needed to help cover the construction costs to build each of the Habitat homes. Homeowners make their down payments in sweat equity, but make monthly mortgage payments just like the rest of us who own homes. There is still time to contribute! July 26, 2009 Envelopes $2,313.12 Loose Offering $62.00 Last Week’s Attendance 67 Underwood’s incoming pledges are low. This is a gentle reminder to keep your pledge up to date. Thank you. FLOWERS on the altar are given by Heidi Masch. PLEASE PICK UP YOUR 2ND QUARTER STATEMENTS. THEY CAN BE FOUND IN THE BOX IN THE FIRESIDE ROOM. SEPT TIDINGS COMING SOON Please submit your articles for the September Tidings by August 11th. ANNUAL BRAT FRY Mark your calendars now and sign up on the pew pad. The annual brat fry will be held on next Sunday, August 9th, 2009 right after church. We will serve brats, hamburgers, veggie burgers, hotdogs, potato salad, coleslaw, beans, dessert and drink. CAN YOU FIX THIS? Underwood has an A/C unit in need of repair. We are looking for someone interested in fixing it. We have a small concrete/masonry job that needs an expert! COMMUNION SUNDAY REMINDER On the first Sunday of each month, Underwood holds a collection for the Wauwatosa Food Pantry and the Fellowship Fund. Today, the Fellowship Offering will be collected for the Hunger Task Force. THE SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER is in need of meal and women, days, evenings and weekends, to volunteer on the Domestic Violence Hotline, with battered women and their children, with children at Belle Resource Center, with men and women in our Beyond Abuse program and in the Domestic Violence Unit at the Milw. District Attorney’s Office. Please read the details on the bulletin board. July 5, 2009 June 28, 2009 Envelopes $1,460.00 / Loose Offering $73.00 / OGHS to date: $703.00 Last Week’s Attendance 58 Underwood’s incoming pledges are low. This is a gentle reminder to keep your pledge up to date. Thank you. THE FLOWERS on the altar are given by Pat Ransom, her sister, Terry Fletcher and her niece, Avis Bray; in memory of their mother/grandmother, Jeanette Ransom, whose birthday was June 30th. SAVE YOUR TABS! Remember to save your pop can tabs for the collection “house” in the Fireside Room. They are collected for the Ronald McDonald House, and used to help defray costs in running the House.LET’S MAKE SOME CHANGE! The children of the church challenged the rest of the congregation to make real change this summer. Bring your week’s worth of pocket change and drop it in their change jar each Sunday. At the end of the summer, the children will decide who to share their collection with. Don’t miss this chance to make real change! MUSICIANS, SINGERS, DANCERS & READERS WANTED If you have a special song, a special poem, a piece of music, or a liturgical dance, that you would like to perform, please speak with Emily Rohde-Terrien. She is making a schedule of special performances during the summer worship services, and would love to include as many people as possible. COMMUNION SUNDAY REMINDER On the first Sunday of each month, Underwood holds a collection for the Tosa Food Pantry and the Fellowship Fund. Today, the Fellowship Offering will be collected for Underwood’s own Fellowship Fund.June 14, 2009 June 7, 2009 Envelopes $2,655.00 / Loose Offering $83.00 / Last Week’s Attendance 55 Underwood’s incoming pledges are low. This is a gentle reminder to keep your pledge up to date. Thank you. THE FLOWERS on the altar are given by Joe and Carolyn Sanders in honor of their 55th wedding anniversary. DON’T MISS IT! After worship on June 21st, Marcorel Lisius, of Haiti, will give a presentation regarding the work he is involved with there. Marcorel is a part of SOL/SOIL, a nonprofit working towards better sanitation. He also works with children and youth. Make a point to stay after church, and find out how you can be involved in the good working taking place in Haiti. SAVE YOUR TABS!
Remember to save your pop can tabs for the collection
“house” in the Fireside Room. They are collected for the
Ronald McDonald House, and used to help defray costs in
running the House TOSA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY Thank you to everyone
who has contributed to the Tosa Community Food Pantry. The
serious economic problems have resulted in more families
than ever making use of the pantry and we have found it
challenging to keep the shelves filled. Your generosity
enables us to help all of the families who turn to the
pantry for food and with your support; we hope to continue
to provide food to these families during the coming summer
when children are out of school. In addition to food, there
is another need at the pantry. We have a short supply of
the large paper grocery bags in which we distribute food.
If any one has surplus bags to share, they can be brought to
the pantry during regular pantry hours; Mondays, 1:00 pm to
3:00 pm and Saturdays, 9:00 am to 11:00 am. Thank you for
your help LET’S MAKE SOME CHANGE! On Sunday, May 17th, the children of the church challenged the rest of the congregation to make real change this summer. Bring your week’s worth of pocket change and drop it in their change jar each Sunday. At the end of the summer, the children will decide who to share their collection with. Don’t miss this chance to make real change! MUSICIANS, SINGERS, DANCERS & READERS WANTED If you have a special song, a special poem, a piece of music, or a liturgical dance, that you would like to perform, please speak with Emily Rohde-Terrien. She is making a schedule of special performances during the summer worship services, and would love to include as many people as possible. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY “RELAY FOR LIFE” JUNE 19-20
April 5, 2009 Envelopes $3,447.59 /
Loose Offering $43.00
/ American for Christ to
date: $1,027.10 Underwood’s incoming
pledges are low. This is a gentle reminder to keep your
pledge up to date.
Thank you. Sixth Annual Peace Conference Scheduled for April 19thFeaturing Philip Chard and Robert Ricigliano“Cultivating Global Peace: Nurturing the Seeds Within” is the theme of the sixth annual peace conference presented by the Candlelight Coalition, Catholics for Peace and Justice and Unitarian Universalist Church West (UUCW). The conference will feature presentations by local columnist Philip Chard and international mediator Robert Ricigliano, Director of the Institute of World Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The free conference will run from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 19th, at the Unitarian Universalist Church West, 13001 W. North Avenue in Brookfield. March 15, 2009 March 8, 2009 Envelopes $3,613.45 / Loose Offering $47.00 / American for Christ to date: $832.10 Last Week’s Attendance 72 FLOWERS on the altar are given by the Rosenow family in celebration of Hanie Lykins’ birthday! PLEASE CONSIDER ALTAR FLOWERS AND GREETER DUTIES.PARKING PRACTICES Underwood’s parking lot spaces closest to the building are reserved for older and handicapped people. If you are able, consider parking out of the lot on Sunday mornings. Thank you. LENTEN SERIES We have a remarkable series lined up for this year’s Lenten Study. We invited people from different religious traditions to come and share with us how their faith shapes their understanding of and responsibility to care for creation. Make plans to attend, be enriched, and expanded! A simple meal will be served at 6 pm, followed by the program at 7 pm. Please let us know if you plan to attend, so we can prepare food accordingly. All are welcome to attend. March 18th Janan Najeeb Islam March 25th Dan Kaemmerer Buddhism April 1st Rabbi Roxanne Shapiro Judaism SILENT AUCTION
We are seeking items
suitable for our Silent Auction that will take place in the
Fireside Room, March 22nd &
March 29th. All monies received
become Camp Tamarack Scholarships for campers in our church.
For more information or to arrange for a pick up, contact
Sarah Torbenson at 414-333-3144 or
sarahtorbenson@hotmail.com
. See list in Fireside Room. Put your thinking cap on!
Items are still needed. They can be placed in the office
marked "Silent Auction". Or feel free to call 414-333-3144
Sarah Torbenson questions. BAPTIST PEACE FELLOWSHIP “Arms for the Poor” will be shown at First Baptist Church, Waukesha on Friday, March 20th. The evening begins with a potluck supper at 6:00 p.m. and the program will begin at 6:45 p.m. This film exposes the present-day influence of the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower cautioned about when he left office. “Arms for the Poor” goes beyond politics and economics to ask whether the arms trade might be killing America’s national soul. While the poor need housing, education and health care, U.S. taxpayers support an immense military budget that is growing larger day by day. The Peace Fellowship of First Baptist Church, Waukesha, sponsors this program. Everyone is invited to attend. First Baptist is located at the corner of Wisconsin and Grand in downtown Waukesha. Please contact Sandra Cope at 262-549-9711 for more information. RUMMAGE SALE HEADS UP This year’s rummage sale will be Saturday, May 2nd from 8 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. That’s less than seven weeks away, folks! It’s time to think about how you can help besides bringing in items for sale. Rummage items can be brought in and placed on the stage of Fellowship Hall (behind the curtain) any time until Wednesday, April 29th. As in the past years, no clothing, please. We may have an area for children’s clothing and toys like last year, but that is still being decided. Please sign up for when you can work and what you can bring for the Bake Sale. We will work three evenings (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) before the sale in addition to every day that week. The sign-up sheets are on the sofa table in the Fireside Room. Let’s plan ahead! PUT PEACE INTO EACH OTHERS HANDS Put peace into each other’s hands and like a treasure hold it, protect it like a candle-flame, with tenderness enfold it. Put peace into each other’s hands with loving expectation;be gentle in your words and ways, in touch with God’s creation. Put peace into each other’s hands like bread we break for sharing;look people warmly in the eye; our life is meant for caring. As at communion, shape your hands into a waiting cradle; the gift of Christ receive, revere, united round the table. Put Christ into each other’s hands, he is love’s deepest measure;in love make peace, give peace a chance and share it like a treasure.
February 22, 2009 February 15, 2009 Envelopes $2,896.00 Loose Offering $35.00 Last Week’s Attendance 81 PLEASE CONSIDER ALTAR FLOWERS AND GREETER DUTIES. SIGN UP SHEETS ARE EMPTY!!! NEW BLUE TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES are available in the church office. PARKING PRACTICES
Underwood’s parking lot spaces closest to the building
are reserved for older and handicapped people. If you are
able, consider parking out of the lot on Sunday mornings.
Thank you. SOJOURNER TRUTH HOUSE has volunteer opportunities for you. Please read full notice on bulletin board. FAT TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER Many people fast during Lent. Before this starts, please join us for the 4th annual Pancake Supper, on Fat Tuesday, February 24th. Supper starts at 6 p.m. (until 7:30 p.m.) in Fellowship Hall. The suggested cost is $5 per person, with a $10 maximum per family. The menu includes pancakes, sausage, fruit, dessert, coffee and milk. Proceeds will be given to Hunger Task Force. Please sign up on the pew pads or call the church office. COMMUNION SUNDAY REMINDER On the first Sunday of each month, Underwood holds a collection for the Tosa Food Pantry and the Fellowship Fund. Next Sunday, the Fellowship Offering will be collected for Underwood’s own Fellowship Fund. ASSOCIATION MEETING: The American Baptist Churches in our area (ACTS Missional Association) are holding their annual meeting and worship time at Underwood Church! Plan to attend at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 1st. Ronald Charles, pastor of the Chin Baptist Church of West Allis, will speak. This exciting church is growing rapidly and its roots reach back to the work of our own American Baptist missionaries in Burma. Contact Sandy Sherry if you'd like more details.LENTEN SERIES We have a remarkable series lined up for this year’s Lenten Study. We invited people from different religious traditions to come and share with us how their faith shapes their understanding of and responsibility to care for creation. Make plans to attend, be enriched, and expanded! A simple meal will be served at 6 pm, followed by the program at 7 pm. Please let us know if you plan to attend, so we can prepare food accordingly. All are welcome to attend. March 4th Lakshmi K. Bharadwaj Hinduism March 11th Amelia Sperier Baha’i March 18th Janan Najeeb Islam March 25th Dan Kaemmerer Buddhism April 1st Rabbi Roxanne Shapiro Judaism February 8, 2009 February 1, 2009 Envelopes $1,481.35 Loose Offering $33.00 Last Week’s Attendance FLOWERS on the altar were given by Beth and Joe Gleesing in honor of daughter, Jessica’s birthday. HEART SISTERS VALENTINE TEA - Saturday, February 14th, 2:30 pm in the Fireside Room Please bring your own special tea cup and you may dress up if you’d like. We will continue the Secret Heart Sisters!! Please R.S.V.P. to Mary Ann Hand, Virginia Wick or Robin in the church office. NEW BLUE TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES are available in the church office. YEAR END STATEMENTS Please stop and pick up your year-end statement, found in the box in the Fireside Room. PARKING PRACTICES Underwood’s parking lot spaces closest to the building are reserved for older and handicapped people. If you are able, consider parking out of the lot on Sunday mornings. Thank you. SOJOURNER TRUTH HOUSE has volunteer opportunities for you. Please read full notice on bulletin board. January 4, 2009 December 21 & 28,
2008 /
Envelopes $8,919.00 / Loose Offering $110.22 /
RMMO to date $1240.40 BUSINESS MEETING Underwood Church will hold a brief Business Meeting immediately following the worship service, on Sunday, January 11th. Please plan to attend this important meeting. COFFEE HOSTS NEEDED each Sunday. Speak with Marilyn Carrington or Mary Ann Hand, if interested. REMINDER: Altar Flowers and Greeters are needed. Please consider these ministries of Underwood.HOLIDAY DE-DECORATING: Next Sat, 1/10, we will meet at the church at 10am to "de-decorate." A light brunch to follow. |