Econnection: October 10, 2024

EConnection

Oct 10

Written By Renee Moreno

HTML Econnection - October 10, 2024

Featured Events

Lunch & Learn

Faith & Politics: Christian Witness in Turbulent Times

October 27 | 12 - 1:30 pm

Fellowship Hall

How does our faith have an impact on our voice and vote? Should it have an impact? This Lunch and Learn, lead by Dr. David Jensen, will focus on the variety of ways Christians can engage in politics and suggest some ways of navigating disagreements in our broader society.

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October Parents’ Night Out

October 12 | 5 - 8:30 pm

LAST DAY TO REGISTER!!

Treat your kids to a fun night out with friends at UUMC! We'll have Halloween-themed crafts, recreation, STEM, pizza, movie and dessert. This is the perfect time to do something fun by yourselves or join other parents for community time together. We can't wait to see you there! Fifth grade and under!

Fall Festival

October 20 | 12 - 2:30 pm

Join us for our annual Fall Festival in the Courtyard and Fellowship Hall! We have fun planned for everyone. There will be games, photo booth, and all kinds of yummy food! Wear your costume to church and then head to the Fellowship Hall for Stewardship lunch. Looking forward to celebrating the Fall season with you!

Service of Worship

Sunday | 11 am

Scripture: Matthew 19:16-22

Join us for worship as we continue our Sermon Series for the Stewardship Season, “People of Possibility.” Pastor Teresa is preaching and the sermon text will be read from the First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of The New Testament.”

Our stewardship speaker this Sunday is Jeremy Selvidge. Jeremy serves in many ways in the life of the church including the Sanctuary Choir, young adult ministries and attending Annual Conference as a lay delegate.

“One day, we will go be with the ancestors. We will become the ancestors. When that day comes, what will those left in this reality say of us? What we choose to do, or not do, makes a difference.”

- Steven Charleston,

retired Episcopal bishop and member of the Choctaw Nation

Stewardship

Stewardship Campaign sets goal for 2025

Our stewardship campaign for 2025 culminates Oct. 20 with Commitment to Giving Sunday, and I am confident our congregation will respond positively to the updates our Finance Committee has been sharing this year.

We’ve set a goal of $810,000 in stewardship commitments for 2025 — a 14% increase. This will allow us to meet rising costs for property insurance, utilities and apportionments, to keep our outreach, educational and worship ministries going strong and to continue to dream of what might be next.

Our stewardship theme, “People of Possibility,” speaks to this aspiration. But we will not budget to spend more than we expect to receive in the year ahead. To do all that is possible in 2025, we need to make commitments now.

We hope you will prayerfully review your commitment to UUMC or consider making a commitment for the first time. We are grateful for every gift and for all the ways that you sustain our church.

— John Bridges,
finance chair

P.S. If you can’t be in church on Oct. 20, you can mail or hand in a commitment card to the church office or contact finance director Cindy Reeves at finance@uumc.org.

If you missed it last week, John also shared a

video message about why we give.

A Video Message from John Bridges

Stewardship Cartoon

Thank You from
Jillian and Natasha

You’re Invited: Stewardship Lunch

October 20 | 12 pm

Fellowship Hall

We’ll conclude our Stewardship season on October 20 by giving thanks for the life of UUMC and our ministries during worship. After worship, all are invited to a Stewardship Lunch catered by various microloan recipients “food truck” style lunch – we’ll have Sonoran Hotdogs, Tamales of multiple flavors, cakes and more. Everyone’s invited!

News

NO Crossing Guard THIS SUNDAY

Due to ACL, we will not have our crossing guard this Sunday, October 13. Please use 24th Street lights to safely cross Guadalupe when parking in the Platinum Lot and leave the UUMC Lot for those with limited mobility.

UUMC Votes

This past Monday our ministry, UUMC Votes, wrapped up their effort of registering students to vote. They have been on the corner of 24th and Guadalupe almost every day for the past 2 weeks helping students find polling places, change addresses, and register for the first time. This is a bipartisan effort to help our UT neighbors exercise their fundamental right this election season, and we couldn’t be more proud of the work they are doing. In total they registered 467 students!

Stolen Lives Art Display

UUMC is currently working with Texas Impact on a state-wide installation campaign called “Vidas Robadas” or “Stolen Lives.” Every year lives are lost to gun violence through homicide and suicide. Vidas Robadas seeks to raise awareness by representing the names of those lost on a shirt that will be displayed here at the church. To learn more about this initiative and the work Texas Impact is doing visit their website here.

Habitat for Humanity Build

Pastor Earl, and UUMC community members joined with other local university churches to help build a house with Habitat for Humanity last Saturday!

Welcome Event for
Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey

Our new bishop, Cynthia Fierro Harvey, will be at a series of Bishop’s Gatherings across the conference. There will be an opportunity to learn more about Bishop Harvey, and for her to learn more about the people of the Rio Texas Conference. Everyone is welcome to attend, but they ask that you register ahead of time. The Austin gathering will be October 24 at Bethany UMC.

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