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Together
TOGETHER Newsletter
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Albany, NY 12205-2526
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A Quarterly Publication of Church Women United in New York State
Volume 5 Issue 4
October - December
2014
Table of
Content
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President’s Message
Officers
Condolences & Prayers
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Quadrennial Priorities
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Celebrations
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CWU Publishing
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News Around the State
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Holidays
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Partners
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Celebration Remittance
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Loving Hands
Loving hands, we all need loving hands,
For the sea and the sands cannot hold all the rain,
All the tears and the pain.
Where is God’s loving hand? Where is God’s loving hand?
Loving hands left a sign in the sand;
Strong his call; Jesus’ hands reach to all,
Reaching out, teaching all, looking up
To see God’s loving hand, To be God’s loving hand.
Giving hands, will there be giving hands?
Healing hands, when we’re hungry or cold,
People sick, people old can all hold
Onto God’s loving hand.
State Biennial this April!!
We are making plans for a two day informational, prayerful overnight event. We can’t do it without you.
Watch this page for more information!! Stay tuned!!
October - December
TOGETHER
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National Officers
From Your President
Greetings! As the cold weather and holidays approach we get involved with our everyday task
and sometimes things get left undone.
During this time we need to remember the work
we set out to do. “God’s work. Our hands.” We
are together for the sake of the world. Our lives
have been changed by our relationship with God
through Jesus Christ, and it’s that encounter
with Jesus that frees us to make a difference. We
need to continue our witness for the love of God,
who knows and loves each one of us.”
As we continue on this journey we need to be
mindful that young willing hands are needed as
well. As the old hymn writer writes “I am tired, I
am weak, I am worn…” Yes, we need to pray
and ask the Lord to lead us onto the light, guiding us to what we have to do to attract the young
women in our lives to join us in the mission.
With 2014 drawing to a close we must continue
Renewing, Reviving, and Refreshing our interest
in the Church Women United movement.
“We Are In God’s Hands and We Are God’s
Hand.” “We are Companions on a Journey.”
Grace and Peace
Barbara Williams
Marilyn Lariviere, President
Louise Ballard, Northeast Reg’l
Coordinator
For complete list see ChurchWoman News
or visit the national website:
http://www.churchwomen.org/home/
2013-2015 Officers
Barbara Williams, State President
[email protected]
Mira Washington, Vice President
[email protected]
Shelia Davis, Ecumenical Development Coor.
[email protected]
Joan Johnson, Ecumenical Action Coor.
[email protected]
Mary Smith, Communication Coor
[email protected]
Helene O’Clair, Recording/
Corresponding Secretary
[email protected]
Mary Jo Selmer, Treasurer
[email protected]
Nancy Hooper, Assistant Treasurer/
Celebrations Coordinator
[email protected]
Vacant
Finance Committee Chair
Audrey Davidson
Nominations Committee
[email protected]
Antonia Daniels
Bylaws Chairperson
[email protected]
* * * * * Area Chairpersons * * * * *
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Our Condolences and Prayers to those
who have sustained a lost, those in need of healing
grace, those under a doctors care; especially for each
other.
Capital Area – Nancy Bellamy
[email protected]
Central – Joyce Jewell
Metropolitan – Inez Grant & Ella Hodges
[email protected]
Long Island South – Tellora Downes
[email protected]
Niagara – Vacant
Ontario (Fingerlakes) – Vacant
Southern Tier West – Reverend Ann Taylor
Southern Tier East – vacant
Westchester – Earnestene Dixon
[email protected]
October - December
Together
A Quarterly Publication of
CWU in New York State
Editor
TOGETHER
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SAVE THE DATE!!!
75th Birthday Celebration
of Church Women United
October 14-16, 2-16
Louisville, KY
Barbara Williams
(518) 869-8812
Contributors:
CWU members at large
Church Women United
in New York State
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CHURCH WOMEN UNITED
REMITTANCE INFORMATION SHEET
& CELEBRATION REPORTS
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(607) 732-6788
October - December
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VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO FILL THE VACANCIES
WE HAVE ON OUR STATE BOARD!!
2012 – 2016 Quadrennial Priorities
The Quadrennial Priorities presented here represent the accumulated wisdom and concern of women across the movement. These priorities are offered as general guideposts for this quadrennial as they allow a variety of specific actions to be taken in support of them according to the interests, knowledge, and skill set of each unit within CWU. The Action/Global Concerns
Committee is in the process of creating an accompanying document that will
offer specific actions for each of the priorities listed below. This document
will be available sometime later this year.
Building God’s Shalom to Our World
HEALTH: Promote the health and well-being of all people.
ENVIRONMENTAL CARE: Promote personal, communal and governmental decisions that express care for all God’s creations.
PEACE AND JUSTICE: Promote shalom through understanding, education, confession, forgiveness, reconciliation, and non-violence.
ECONOMIC JUSTICE: Promote the dignity, safety and economic opportunities of
all peoples.
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The overall theme is “Companions
on a Journey” with the underlying
text from Psalm 139:1-3. In some
Bibles the heading is “The Inescapable God.”
The AIM packet and Celebrations
materials are available through
CWU publishing.org!
You can also place your order by
calling Janina at CWU Publishing at
(212)870-1197
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 243
New York, NY 10115
News Around the State
October - December
The CWU of Macedon
helped to host a Tasha Tudor
Museum First Chapter in
New York Celebration. My
husband and I have been
asked to create this first
Chapter in New York State,
and along with many others
CWU "went out of their way
to invite the people in, and
taking Jesus with us" responded to the need for a
Valiant Celebration of Joy in
this area. Fifty one people
attended - twenty-four from
other areas other than Macedon, and a magnificent time
was had by all. Tasha Tudor
was a Caldecott Honor artist
with over 100 books to her
credit. She spent all of her
life in New England, and
celebrated the plants, animals, landscapes and history
of her home in her artwork. Her appreciation for
the beauties of nature and
the traditions of the past
have made her warm, delicate and detailed watercolors
a favorite of readers everywhere. CWU Macedon was
privileged to be a part of this
wonderful celebration.
The Rochester local unit
hosted the Fall Sectional on
Saturday, September 20th.
Their theme “We are in
God’s hands and we are
Gods’ hands.” The gathering started with refreshments, tracing our hands on
construction paper and writing something about what
our hands have done as a
servant. We opened with a
TOGETHER
song “He’s Got the Whole
World in His Hand followed
by the welcome and greeting
of our State officers. There
was a brief devotion and a
poem “Sights and Sounds of
Harmony” sung to the tune of
“The Church is One Foundation,” which was written by
our musicians’ husband, Paul
Hammer. The speaker was
Stephanie Sauvé , Vice President of Academic Life, Dean
of Faculty, Director of Supervised Ministry and Associate
Professor of Practical Theology at the Colgate Rochester
Crozer Divinity School. Her
message “hands” was interactive and concludes with the
blessing of the audience’s
hands with oil. Ms. Sauvé emphasized that hands are used
for many things; hugs handshaking, waving, assisting but
most of all to “connect one to
another.” She mentioned that
there are several places in the
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Bible that refers to “hands,”
1,117 to be exact. It was a
good day and we arrived
home safely.
Farmington
Friends
Meetinghouse, 187 County
Road 8, Farmington, NY will
host Sally Roesch Wagner
from the Matilda Joslyn Gage
Center On November 8th at 2
PM. She will be speaking to
the public regarding the
Haudenosaunee women's effect and influence upon the
dominant culture's 19th Century women's rights movement.
October - December
TOGETHER
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There is always a season for being thankful
and Giving; especially now
May the beauty and blessings of Thanksgiving bring
warmth and peace to your home this season.
Holiday Blessings from the Church Women United State Board
This is being co-sponsored ;by
The Ganondagan Historic
Site.
For information contact Carol Elaine Deys, Paradeysacres @aol.com or (315) 9862302.
About Ignite Your Life The
Ammerman Center for
Creative Aging launched
the Ignite Your Life initiative in order to serve and
educate people 50 and
Church Women United Inc Brooklyn Unit at 1st International
Day of Friendship with Brooklyn Borough President Eric L
Adams, Aug 3, 2014. They continue to work with the young
women, by involving them in all their get-togethers; i.e., annual prayer breakfast, volunteering at shelters, etc.
CWSBESTGIFT.ORG
beyond by celebrating the
aging process. The program
is designed to create a national network supporting
baby boomers as they leverage their skills and talents
to create meaningful personal growth. We’re hoping
to inspire people to find
that special calling that will
enrich their lives in their
encore years. - See more at:
http://www.Ignite
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