Fairlawn
West Church email newsletter
Sat, May 5, 2007
2095 W Market St, Akron, OH 44313
Our theme
for Sunday is Pushing the Envelope
Acts 11:1-18
Peter has a vision which challenges all the
basic assumptions he has had about the practice
of his religious life. He is to associate with
people that in the past he understood would
religiously be unacceptable. But there is a
major reason...he is being sent by God on a
mission to share the love of Jesus Christ with
the world around him. If he prior self selects
who he will associate with, he won't be going to
the world that God has sent him too. What about
us?
Canoe Trip
Pictures of the Fairlawn West
Canoe Group April 30-May 2 trip on
Pine Creek
in the
Grand Canyon of the East in northern PA.
Women
Standing for the world -
Mother's Day
Sunday, May 13,
1:00 pm here at Fairlawn West
The women of
Ohio call upon the women of the world,
from the day-old babies to our most senior elders,
to stand with us to save the world.
Sharon Mehdi wrote a wonderful short story for her
five-year old granddaughter, The Great Silent
Grandmother Gathering that has inspired us.
A quick summary of the
story. You can help host
this by contacting
liseib@sbcglobal. net Linda
Seibert
New
Members/Partners in Ministry
We have two groups
of folks joining as members of Fairlawn West on
May 6 and May 20. If you are interested in
being part of the covenant of Fairlawn West as a
Partner in Ministry, let David Loar know
david@loar.org
From Bruce
Beckle - I will once again be “sleeping
in the street” to raise money for
BACM’s (Barberton Area Community Ministries)
homeless fund. This is monies that are used by
the organization to help people in need of
temporary housing or help them keep their
current place. I am looking for pledges from
folks here at Fairlawn West. Last year I raised
$1,800 and this year my goal is $2,000. I
appreciated your support last year and thank you
in advance for your support this year.
The
Core@4
is discussing
God's Politics
by Jim Wallis on Sundays at 4 pm. The group
will be visiting in the future the building of
the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne
County in Wooster.
http://www.uufwc.
org/index. htm Their
bldg received a gold award from the Green
Building Council last year for their new energy
efficient and earth friendly bldg. If you would
like to be part of the group to visit the bldg,
let David Loar know
david@loar.org
We want to learn from them how they went about
this which could lead to us seeing how to do
similar things with our bldg.
Taize worship
service of
prayer, meditation and song is Fridays 6:00 to
6:40 pm in the parlor.
Congregational Meeting Sunday, May 13
at 10:50 am in the sanctuary to elect members of
the Trustees/Administra tive Team. Nominees
are: Linda Seibert, Becky Gossett, Meredith
Morgan and Dave Herbster and Jim Fisher as
treasurer.
Want Ads:
Servants
to be part of the Sunday Nursery Team.
Please contact Kathy Sasowsky
k@sasowsky.com, to
learn more about this mission role which you
could help fulfill once a month. The care of
children is as Jesus said the major vision of
the kingdom of God.
Flowers
Team. Help beautify the northside of
our building with planting and maintaining the
four beds. Contact the office
office@fairlawnwest
.org . This is also a mission.