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Reverend Lupita Alonso,
Pastor
Myron Wingfield, Superintendent of San Diego
District
Mary Ann Swenson, Resident Bishop
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Sunday Services
“One Wonderful Worship Service”
each Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
Come worship with us this summer in the Fellowship Hall!
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What's New
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Who
are we?
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Click here to
view the website for the Interfaith Council of Imperial Valley. The
Interfaith Council is a non-profit organization comprised of clergy and lay
people from the different faith communities in the Imperial
Valley. We are dedicated to education and peacemaking in the Imperial Valley. This blog
will help to inform you of events and activities that are forth coming. We
also hope to write articles that will bring to light, both distinctive and
similar attributes of all of us.
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For all
the latest, please check
Our Church, our church newsletter.
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Check here to
see an important source of healing, wholeness and hope in times of personal
darkness that could help you or someone you know. Mental Health Mininstries :
to erase the stigma of mental illness
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Fire update:
United Methodist families are among
those who have lost homes in the raging wildfires that have consumed large
portions of Southern California since Oct.
21. Two families in the Fallbrook
United Methodist
Church congregation and three
families from Hope
United Methodist
Church in Rancho
Bernardo have lost their homes, according to early reports from the United
Methodist San Diego District. "The good news is that we have heard
from all of our pastors and none of them have lost their parsonages,"
said the Rev. Myron D. Wingfield, superintendent
of the district. "All our church structures and camps are
secure." Donations to help the area recover can be placed in your
local United
Methodist Church
offering plate or mailed to UMCOR,
P.O. Box 9068, New York,
NY 10087.
Write "UMCOR Advance #901670, Domestic Disaster Response," on the
memo line of your check. Call (800) 554-8583 to give by credit card over
the phone or give online www.umcor.org. One hundred percent of
every donation to any appeal, including appeals for California wildfires, goes to support
the designated program.
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From the
American Red Cross, San
Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter
We would like
to thank you for the generous effort your church put forward in putting
together the comfort kits -- we are happy to share that these were
delivered to the fire house enroute to the
Borrego Springs & Campo shelters that same evening. The
firefighters were most appreciative for your kind thoughtfulness and
generosity and asked that we convey their gratitude on their behalf.
Rich blessings,
Sylvia Elia
Preciado
Imperial Valley
Service
Center
American Red Cross
San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter
781 Broadway
El Centro,
CA 92243
Direct Line (760) 352-4541 Ext 6221
Fax (760) 352-6378
sylvia.preciado@sdarc.org
www.sdarc.org
You can help
the victims of thousands of disasters across the country each year,
disasters like the San Diego Wildfires, by making a financial gift to the
American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, which enables the Red Cross to
provide shelter, food, counseling and other assistance to victims of
disaster. The American Red Cross honors donor intent. If you wish to
designate your donation to a specific disaster please do so at the time of
your donation.
Sign up for
our monthly eNewsletter at: www.sdarc.org/newsletter
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The San Diego
district is assembling a team for Next District Mission Trip to Mississippi
(April 19-26, 2008) It was this past April that the San Diego District sent
a team of 25 to Waveland, Mississippi to help rebuild a devastated
community as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The work was hard, but
well worth the sweat and tears. Relationships were built both within
the team and with the community there, and God was truly working through
the hands and hearts of those who participated and supported this
team.
We are looking
forward to sending another team of 25 to team up with a team from Durango, Colorado,
to return to this area and offer support again. If you are interested
in participating in this unique mission opportunity scheduled for April
19-26, 2008, please contact your church office, or e-mail Rev. Christian DeMent at Foothills UMC
(christiandement@foothillsumc.org) for more information and to
register. This will be an excellent opportunity for you to
respond to God's gentle nudging for you to get out and be an example of
Christ's love in the world. Please consider answering that
call. There will be a role for everyone, no matter what skill level,
age, or experience.
Click here to see
the brochure for more information.
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Check out these
new links:
The
Imperial Valley Islamic Center and MOPS : Mothers of PreSchoolers
For more links, check Our
Favorite Links
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After more than two years of development, United
Methodist Communications is proud to announce the launch of the newly
redesigned UMC.org, the Web site of the people of The United Methodist
Church. United Methodist Communications invites you to visit www.UMC.org today and take a look at the
new resources and features available to you.
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We've got some
new photos up for you to see. Check out our photo page. For more photos,
check this site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fumcec
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312 So. 8th Street,
El
Centro, California
92243
(760)352-2942
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