July 21-25
9:00am-12:30pm
Children 4yrs – 5th grade are welcome to VBC. (Children must be 4 before July 21. )
$25/child
$60/family of 3 or more
VBC 2025 – Road Trip
ERT Training
Saturday, March 29 | Register by March 24
7:00 am to 5:00 pm
Cost $40
Community UMC in Huntington Beach
7:00 Registration, ID Photo, Background Check, Morning Goodies | 8:00 Session begins
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) Early Response Team (ERT) training program prepares United Methodists to respond to disasters. The training covers disaster stages, safety procedures, and tech- niques for helping survivors.
About the Class:
This course will be conducted by UMCOR trainer Ken Ellis. The UMCOR mission is to be a caring Christan presence in the wake of disaster. We will learn how to help make the home safe, secure and sanitary.
About the Course: Early Response Teams (ERT) support conference preparedness and immediate response efforts in the aftermath of a disaster. Key activities for conference ERT and other response teams are supplying survivors with food, water, shelter and help with mucking out and cleaning up.
Learning includes:
- Disaster stages: Learn about the stages of a disaster, including preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation
- Safety procedures: Learn how to work safely on-site
- Early response techniques: Learn how to tarp roofs, clean out homes, and remove debris
- Spiritual and emotional care: Learn how to provide hope and compassion to survivors
- Team protocols: Learn how to work as part of a team
- The class is open to participants from all districts, but this one will be held in the South District.
- Attendance is required for the entire length of the class. To register click here.
For more information contact Suzanne Morgan at Suzanne@cumchb.org
Lenten Sermon Series
Modern Sins – Timeless Virtues
One hundred years ago, in March, 1925, Frederic Lewis Donaldson, Canon of Westminster Abbey delivered an address on “Seven Social Sins.” This was something like the “Seven Deadly Sins” updated for the modern age.
On October 22, 1925, a young newspaper publisher named Mohandas K Gandhi republished this list in his newsweekly Young India, commenting, “Naturally, the friend does not want the readers to know these things merely through the intellect but to know them through the heart so as to avoid them.”
On February 1, 1995, Arun Gandhi, profiled in the Christian Science Monitor, “Gandhi grandson pursues peace.” (P.14) shared that “The last time Arun saw his grandfather, the old man slipped the boy a piece of paper with a list of what have come to be known as Gandhi’s ‘Seven Blunders of the World’ that lead to violence.”
In this season of Lent, we will review these manifestations of evil in the world, even more obvious and pronounced now than when they were first listed 100 years ago. At the same time we will lift up seven timeless virtues which resist and lead us away from these blunders into a life of meaning and peace. Join us in worship beginning March 2 as we lift up and celebrate God’s gifts and call to Temperance, Justice, Prudence, Fortitude, Faith, Hope, and Love.
Ash Wednesday – March 5
Drive Thru Ashes 8:00-8:45 am
We offer prayer, reflection , ashes and a blessing while you are in your car. Stop by as you start day. All are welcome.
Ash Wednesday Service 7:00pm
Through the service of ashes on the first day of Lent, we come before God recognizing our humanity, repenting of our sin, remembering who are, whose we are and who we can be.
Messy Christmas
Messy Church is Saturday, December 7th from 4:00-6:30 PM. Please note this is one week earlier than we usually meet. We will be exploring Jesus’ birth through activities, crafts and the retelling of the story during celebration. We will end the evening with a pizza dinner and a birthday cake for Jesus and our Messy Church’s 11th birthday. Dinner will be outside so dress in layers and bring your jacket. Please feel free to share this email with your friends if you think they might like to join us. Messy Church is for everyone! Scroll down to let us know you are coming.
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