Sunday, October 3rd, 2021

Neighbors in Need (NIN) is a special mission offering of the United Church of Christ that supports ministries of justice and compassion throughout the United States. One-third of NIN funds support the Council for American Indian Ministry (CAIM).

Two-thirds of this offering is used by the UCC’s Justice and Witness Ministries (JWM) to support a variety of justice initiatives, advocacy efforts, and direct service projects through grants. Neighbors in Need grants are awarded to UCC churches and organizations doing justice work in their communities. These grants fund projects whose work ranges from direct service to community organizing and advocacy to address systemic injustice.

This year, special consideration will be given to projects focusing on serving our immigrant neighbors and communities. 

Neighbors in Need helps make a ‘Just World for All’ possible. For this to occur we need your support.   You can contribute in two ways:

• 1)    You can write a check payable to Desert Palm UCC and make a note on the memo line for NIN.
• 2)    Or you can use the ‘Give’ feature on our DPCC website.  There will be a ‘Donation’ option and a drop-down box where you can select NIN.

Please send in your contributions by October 15th, so we can send our check to the conference in a timely fashion.   Thank you.

Neighbors in Need needs our support.  Please give generously.

Pastor Tom would like to share this link to a NYC-based interfaith gathering marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11.  https://fb.watch/7Z6vCecxaw/

Many of you know this is the fund for Tom to offer help to those who most need it. If you would like to donate to the replenishment of the fund please put “PDF” in the memo section of your check or alert Pat Quinnett if you prefer to give electronically.

A memorial service for Don Beaver will be held at Desert Palm on Saturday, Oct 23rd, at 10 a.m.

Top Line Items

• Single-serving snacks and breakfast items needed for the Welcome Center.
• An amazing donor brought 7 cases of toilet paper.   No more needed for a few months.  But we can use towels!
• Please see “What can you or your worship community do to help?” below.   

Phoenix Welcome Center (WC)

Maricopa County has stopped the Welcome Center from preparing meals or snacks.  Two meals a day, from outside commercial kitchens (St Vincent de Paul and others) are served.  However, for breakfast and for new arrivals that come hungry, the Center can only offer commercially prepared prepackaged single-serve items. Over 100 people are being dropped off every day.  On three days last week, over 200 were dropped off.  So, a call has gone out to all worship communities and nonprofits for single-serving items, such as granola bars, squeeze applesauce, nuts, Vienna sausages, packaged tuna/chicken salad, single-serving cereal, crackers with cheese or peanut butter, etc.  Refrigeration is available, so yogurt, string cheese, single-serving milk/juice boxes, lunchables, commercially pre-made PBJs, or similar items are also possible.  If you want to bring your donations to me, I will transport to the Welcome Center. Or you can deliver directly -call Holly for the address.

Sonoyta Shelters/ New Resource Center (RC)

The Resource Center is up and running with some initial services and gearing up for more.  A small miracle happened- I heard that the UCC Conference office was moving into the Methodist Center so asked if they might have some extra furniture to donate.  They did!  A ton!  So last week, the Ajo Samaritans came up with two trailers, two pick-ups, and two SUVs and loaded up 25 tables; 100 chairs; several side tables; lamps; a futon; bookcases; office supplies; rugs; a BBQ; and a full kitchen of plates, glasses, mugs, pots and pans, pitchers, serving dishes, utensils, etc.  As the caravan of donations went to the border, the Mayor of Sonoyta came up to ease its passage into Mexico.  There was quite the celebration as it all was unloaded at the RC.  Funds designated for these items can now be used to set up the kitchen and outside patio cover.

If you want a visual, please go to www.sheltersforhope.com/videos.  The video is a month old but helps you see the facility and catch the spirit of the place.  It was a run down 4-sided compound that has been (and is being) extensively repaired.  Soon, it will do the cooking of two meals a day for both the men’s shelter and the family shelter, and will provide medical attention, legal assistance, job referrals, temporary housing options, clothing, showers, English classes, and other programs.  All this is offered to residents of both shelters as well as other refugees passing through the city.

What can you or your worship community do to help?

• Immediately put out a plea for prepackaged single-serving food items for the WC. (List is above).  You can deliver directly to the Welcome Center or take to Holly for delivery. 
• Both the Resource Center and the Welcome Center are always in need of  new/used men’s jeans (waist sizes 28-36, shorter lengths), t-shirts (S, M, L), or tennis shoes (sizes 8-11).   It is so easy to shop the thrift stores.  And you would be amazed at how much $100 will buy.  Sign up online at Goodwill and get a monthly 20% discount coupon. 
• Volunteer at the Welcome Center- ask Holly for information.  All asylum seekers are Covid-tested at arrival.  You can also ask for jobs that do not require direct contact.
• University Presbyterian is supplying 100 hygiene kits a month to the Welcome Center.  Each item in the kit has a sponsor that provides it.  Your worship community could do it, too.  Call Holly for information.
• The Resource Center can always use towels and washcloths.  Ask your members to clean out their linen closets.  Soon we will be asking for lightweight jackets and twin blankets.

Checks to support the Sonoyta Resource Center can be mailed to University Presbyterian Church or dropped through the church office mail slot. Indicate "Refugee acct" on the memo line.  These cash donations allow volunteer shoppers to purchase clothing, underwear, shoes, and other items requested by the Resource Center and then relayed to the Ajo Samaritans for delivery.  Donations of "stuff" can be brought to my house, or call for a pick up. If you have questions about what we need, please call me.

Coffee Hour is a time after the church service for people to get together and talk about whatever is on their mind. Get to know people you may not know very well. You can talk or just listen; it’s up to you. Whether you’re in the Phoenix area or across the country, join us and share some good conversation and fellowship time. 

Topic: New Coffee Hour

Time: Sep 12, 2021 11:00 AM Arizona

        Every week on Sun, 7 occurrence(s)
         Sep 19, 2021 11:00 AM
        Sep 26, 2021 11:00 AM
        Oct 3, 2021 11:00 AM
        Oct 10, 2021 11:00 AM
        Oct 17, 2021 11:00 AM
        Oct 24, 2021 11:00 AM
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Topic: Supportive Conversations
Time: Sep 20, 2021 07:00 PM Arizona
    Every week on Mon, until Nov 1, 2021, 7 occurrence(s)
    Sep 20, 2021 07:00 PM
    Sep 27, 2021 07:00 PM
    Oct 4, 2021 07:00 PM
    Oct 11, 2021 07:00 PM
    Oct 18, 2021 07:00 PM
    Oct 25, 2021 07:00 PM
    Nov 1, 2021 07:00 PM
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Tom Martinez is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Joys and Concerns Zoom
Time: Every week on Wed. at 11:00 AM Arizona, until Mar 30, 2022

September 22, 2021, 11:00 AM

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Thursday Group

"Women's Book Group: Denial is My Spiritual Practice"

Note that the zoom link will be the same for each meeting AND I will send it every week on Tuesday prior to the Thursday meeting (assuming that Rene will remind me if I fail to do so? - Thanks in advance Rene!)

Please feel free to invite others to join us, this is a great introduction to our wonderful church community. 

Sue Henderson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Desert Palm Thursday Morning WBS

Time: Oct. 7, 2021 09:30 AM Arizona

        Every other week on Thu, until Dec 16, 2021, 8 occurrence(s)

        Oct 7, 2021 09:30 AM

        Oct 21, 2021 09:30 AM

        Nov 4, 2021 09:30 AM

        Nov 18, 2021 09:30 AM

        Dec 2, 2021 09:30 AM

        Dec 16, 2021 09:30 AM

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  Sunday Group

Sunday Women’s Bible Study group will meet via ZOOM until further notice.  Our next meeting is Sunday, September 19 at 11 am. We will be discussing  from the book “Bible Women—All their Words and Why They Matter,” page 410, “The Woman in the Crowd.” 

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Saturday, September 25th at 4 PM-5:30 PM
Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World, by John Philip Newell
zoom link:
 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82696357463?pwd=T3E3UnNnWWlrTVBwRWZScXNMcDMwZz09

This gorgeous book extends and deepens Newell’s celebration of Celtic Christianity, which affirms God’s presence in all things (nature, people, our bodies, matter, the Earth…) while avoiding the idolatrous worship of “power over” characteristic of imperial Christianity since Constantine. Eco-Activist and scholar Bill McKibben says, “as this book makes clear, the Celtic spiritual tradition is a clear-flowing stream that can help us in this hot and thirsty moment. There are deep lessons to be learned from these remarkable women and men.” Newell draws from the lives of St. Brigid of Kildare, John Muir, Teilhard de Chardin, and others. He also offers a nine-day cycle of short meditative prompts with a prayer.

Thursday, October 7th at 7 PM
The Overstory, the (2019) Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Richard Powers.
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84451648350?pwd=bFZYR0RtVE5aYmFiaTc5ZVVHSCttUT09

“The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’ twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.”

Stay tuned as we will soon be launching our new partnership called The Circuit Ministry, which will be a nationwide online community for college students.  This is a special opportunity for us to engage with students who do not live on a university campus.

For ASU specific ministry we are looking forward to offering on-campus/in-person ministry later this Fall based on the status of the pandemic.