New Email Newsletter Format

 

We are now using an online newsletter editor for the Fairlawn West Email News.  In the process of loading up the addresses, we came to realize that close to half of you were not on the address list of the previous format we were using.  Somehow in the process of moving from hosting the newsletter on our server to doing it through Yahoo, a number of addresses were inadvertently dropped.  So for this renewed new format, we are sending it to a wide list and you can respond it you want to receive it.  In the future this newsletter will have a variety of features that will be beyond simply sharing Fairlawn West news (which is important), but also links and articles that you will find helpful in your journey in the everyday world.

 

Grace and peace.

 

 

This Sunday, June 17th, in the 9:30 a.m. service we will host the Rev. Seth Agidi of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana.  He is being hosted for three months by churches in the Eastern Ohio Association of the United Church of Christ.  Rev. Agidi is the Principal (president) of the EPCG seminary and is also a major leader in providing better social and economic living conditions for the vulnerable people in his region of Africa.  This will be a unique opportunity to meet and hear someone of Seth's caliber and experience.

The Thursday Night Group will meet in the kitchen for the summer and will use the books The What Would Jesus Eat Cook Book and What Would Jesus Eat? The Ultimate Program for Eating Well, Feeling Great and Living Longer both by Don Colbert.  The group meets at 6:30 p.m.  It is led by David Loar and Mary Austin.  If you would like to be part of the group for the summer, contact David Loar deloar@yahoo.com  .

 

In September a new group will start focused around personal financial management stewardship.  We will use the Good$ense materials.  Like all of our groups, this will be open to people who are not directly part of the Fairlawn West Community.  More information will be shared in August on this group.

 

The SOAP Bible Journaling Group is meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Music Room.

 

Sunday, June 24 following the 9:30 a.m. service a group of us from Fairlawn West will travel to Wooster to visit the environmentally friendly building of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne County.  In fall of 2006, they received LEED gold certification from the Green Building Council, the first of its kind for a place of worship in the U.S.  You can visit their web site at http://www.uufwc.org/leed.htm.  Feel free to join us right after the service for the trip and tour.  Out of this we will develop a team to look at how we as a congregation can make our bldg fit more into our values and vision of our mission. 

We are starting a new Bible study similar to the one that we have had for 7 years in the food court at Summit Mall.  This is as much a mission outreach as it is a nurtuing for ourselves.  We will host the study at Miller Ave UCC in south Akron in the neighborhood between South Main Street and Summit Lake.  We will be helping the UCC mission to the neighborhood by hosting and leading the study.  It will be on Mondays at 2:30 p.m.  Exit I-76/77 at South Main.  Travel about 1/2 mile to the first stoplight and turn right on Miller Ave.  The church parking lot will be at the corner of Miller and Edison. 

 

We have also been invited to become part of the support community for the Miller Ave mission.  That community is presently made up of Trinity UCC in Wadsworth, Bath UCC, First Congregational in Hudson, and the Eastern Ohio Association.  Their next gathering is July 5th in the evening.  If you are interested in helping us in this relationship, contact deloar@yahoo.com.  One of their outreach missions for the neighborhood is called Lunch on Us which provides meals at the end of the month.  This month it is June 23 and 30th.  It you would like to help with either of these meals, contact David.

 

The Sitko family welcomed Max David on May 19th.  Blessings on Mark and Joleen and also the grandparents, Bruce and Ellen Beckle (as well as the wider Beckle clan).

 

We celebrated the earthly life and the resurrection to life of George Jirsa on Friday.  It was a wonderful time! 

 

In Akron General Hospital are Jim Fisher and Teryl Gregor.

 

Our prayers go with Kate and Martha Loar as they leave Monday, June 18th for the 10 day concert tour with the Summit Choral Society Touring Choir.  Kate sings and Martha is a (volunteer) choir manager.  They will be in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.