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Angels of Hope MCC
PO Box 672
Green Bay WI 54305-0672
920-983-7453 (GB)
Meeting Location - 3607 Libal St in Allouez (Green Bay)
www.angelsofhopemcc.com
Pastor – Rev. Elaine Thomas
AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, Positive Voice and Angels of Hope MCC
are hosting a World AIDS Day Vigil and Awareness Day on Saturday
December 1, 2007. The event will be held at 3607 Libal Street at
the Angels of Hope MCC church from Noon to 7:00pm. I have attached
the flyer for the day with more information.
Cornerstone MCC
PO Box 6311
Mobile, Alabama 36660
251-476-4621
www.cornerstonemccchurch.com
Pastor – Rev. Lee Carlton
Cornerstone MCC will participate in World Aids Day with South Alabama
Cares. Pastor: Rev Lee Carlton will address the gathering and comment on
Leadership in our time as well as lead prayer while lighting the Candle
of Hope. The event will occur at 12:00 noon on Friday, November 30th
directly in front of the Historic 1702 Roman Catholic Cathedral in the
park setting of Cathedral Square downtown Mobile, Alabama.
Exodus MCC
1933 S. 27th Street
Abilene, TX 79605
325-699-2827
www.ExodusMCC.org
Pastor - Rev. Margaret Walker
Associate Pastor - Rev. Connie Mangin
Exodus MCC will be joining Big Country AIDS Resource (BCAR) and other
AIDS support groups to provide a community service with luminaries on
World AIDS Day. The names of those who have died of AIDS will be read
each day of the week at noon downtown in one of the city parks. Friday's
list will include those from the Big Country who have died of AIDS. The
names will be read by BCAR staff and volunteers. Exodus MCC is also
hosting a panel of the Quilt and will have a special viewing and
memorial prayer time Friday Evening that will be open to the
community.
Healing Spirit MCC
507-252-5016
http://www.hsmcc.org
Rochester, Minnesota
Pastor - Rev. Nancy J. Horvath-Zurn
Healing Spirit MCC in Rochester, Minnesota is hosting an interfaith
World AIDS Day service on Dec. 1st. This service will include a
candle lighting memorial along with a love offering for the Professional
AIDS Network. Participating group for this year include: People of
Hope Lutheran church, First Unitarian Universalist church, and Peace
United Church of Christ. Musical guests for the evening are: "Just
Us." The event will be held at 7 PM on Dec. 1st at Healing
Spirit's worship space. A representative from First Unitarian
Universalist church, Mr. Darrel Waters, will be the speaker.
Living Springs MCC
PO Box 3426
Bath BA1 2ZP England
www.mccbath.org.uk
Pastor – Rev. Kieren Bourne
kowahi45@hotmail.com
44 (0) 1225 851676
A community-wide candle-lighting gathering and torchlit procession for
World AIDS Day
Bath - A community-wide gathering will be held at 7.30pm on Thursday 29
November at Holy Trinity, Queen Square, Bath.
According to Rev Kieren Bourne, a member of the organising committee,
"This annual World AIDS Day event is an opportunity for our community to
remember the lives of our family members, friends and neighbours claimed
by HIV and AIDS and to support those living with HIV and their friends,
relatives and carers."
The event will feature candle-lighting, readings and music.
Following the candle-lighting gathering a torchlit procession will start
at 8.00pm at Green Park Station, Bath making its way through city
streets, accompanied by the Sulis Samba Band as a means of raising
awareness.
Rev Bourne went on to say that, " At this point, worldwide, more than 39
million adults are living with the HIV virus. This year, 2.9
million people will die from HIV-related complications and 4.3 million
will contract the virus, including 2.3 million children. With all
the advancements we have made, we need to be reminded that for millions
of people around the world, the AIDS crisis is not yet over."
Holy Trinity and Living Springs MCC are Christian churches and members
of Churches Together in Bath.
For additional information contact 01225 851676 or kowhai45@hotmail.com.
MCC of Albuquerque
1103 Texas NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
505-268-5252
www.mccabq.com
Pastor – Rev. Judy Maynard
Saturday, December 1 at 7:00 pm Metropolitan Community Church of
Albuquerque is hosting a World AIDS Day Interfaith Service which
includes area clergy, congregations, AIDS organizations, and others who
are interested. People have been invited to bring picture/pictures of
those who have passed from HIV/AIDS complications.
Our Worship Theme is:
A Time To Remember
A Time to Hope
A Time to Promise
The New Mexico Gay Women's Chorus will be joining us for the evening
worship service.
MCC Elizabethtown
119 Brooks Street
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
270-737-4404
www.mccetown.com
Pastor – Rev. Cathy Porter
MCC Elizabethtown KY will once again be inviting the community to
participate in a World AIDS Day Service and Candlelight vigil on
December 1. We have held a world AIDS Day service every year since our
Church was started in 1996, however despite good local media coverage,
very few others in the community usually join us. The World AIDS Day
services have been an important outreach tool as it is often the way
people living with HIV or AIDS or their families have heard about us and
been able to contact us for assistance and support.
In addition to the Service at our church on Dec. 1 this year, we are
very excited that the local community college is offering a month long
series on HIV and AIDS awareness which will hopefully be able to reach
people we have not been able reach up to this point. People in our
Congregation are supporting the events at ECTC (Elizabethtown College
and Technical College), which include a display of 7 blocks of the AIDS
Memorial Quilt from the Names Project, an all day information fair, and
a candlelight vigil on Nov. 29.
As usual at our service on Dec. 1, we will take up a love offering, with
1/2 of it going to meet the needs of persons living with HIV and AIDS
locally and the other 1/2 being sent to help with broader, national or
international HIV/AIDS Ministry (such as Our mother of peace orphanage,
or another MCC recommended AIDS Ministry). We are hoping and
praying that the new priest at the Episcopal Church as well as some
contacts we've made through pflag will increase the number of churches
that participate with us this year.
MCC Melbourne
271 Burnley St
Burnley, Victoria, Australia
61394214219
www.MCCMelbourne.com
Pastor - Rev. Heather Creighton
Here in Melbourne over the years we participate in the community
ceremony, where we gather with community organisations, guest speakers,
lighting candles in remembrance, presenting any new quilts made for
someone who has died with AIDS. Panels of quilts hang in the room for
all to see.
On the Sunday of World AIDS Day weekend, our worship service is
dedicated to HIV/AIDS. We have a guest speaker who shares their
spiritual experience and hope about HIV/AIDS. We set the altar with red
cloth and candles and invite people to come forward, light a candle and
tell us who they want to remember. Rev. Heather arranges two large
panels of quilts to hang in the church each year. She is also a member
of the committee that protects the quilt panels so they are always
available to community groups.
MCC Omaha
819 S. 22nd Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68108
(402) 345-2563
http://www.mccomaha.org
Pastor – Rev. Tom Emmitt
MCC Omaha is bringing 12 blocks of the quilt to Omaha and will include
five days of programming. Please see our special website at: www.aidsquiltomaha.com
MCC of the Redwood Empire
P.O. Box 1055,
Guerneville, California 95446-1055
707-869-9882
Meeting Location: Odd Fellows Hall, 16219 First St.
www.mccre.org
Pastor – Rev. Elisabeth Middleberg
MCC of the Redwood Empire (Guerneville) is the only location hosting the
AIDS Quilt panels in Sonoma County, California. MCC has been a
part of the Sonoma County World AIDS Day Task Force and is a partner in
a two day long series of events. MCCRE will host the panels for
two days.
Saturday, Dec 1st will begin with an opening service with Rev.
Middelberg. Monitors and name readers will be present all day; a
visiting bell choir will play midday; a special area has been set aside
for those needing meditative space.
Sunday will be the Closing World AIDS Day service, and The Russian River
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will have a closing ritual with the
panels.
MCC San Jose
65 S 7th St.
San Jose, CA 95103
(408) 279-2711
www.mccsj.org
Pastor – Rev. Michael Ellard
For the third year in a row, MCC San Jose will be coordinating the World
AIDS Day Observances in Santa Clara County (population 1.7 million
people).
We will have a civic ceremony at San Jose's City Hall at 1:30pm,
followed by an interfaith gathering at 3:00pm. We are expecting a
variety of representatives from local governments to attend, as well as
leaders from a variety of faith traditions and several local
choruses.
River of Life MCC
2625 West Bruneau Place, Suite A,
Kennewick, WA 99336
509-542-8860
www.riveroflifemcc.org
Pastor – Rev. Janet Pierce
River of Life MCC is hosting the World AIDS Day Interfaith worship
service in the Tri-Cities, WA. It will be at 7PM on Dec 1,
2007. There is a spaghetti Supper at 5PM as a fundraiser for TEAMS
of Tri-Cities (the newly formed HIV/AIDS Support group formed after the
other agency closed in Sept). TEAMS of Tri-Cities is currently a
ministry of River of Life MCC, with the plan that it will be the first
program of a new organization called the Diversity Pride Center (which
will be housed in our facility). River of Life MCC and TEAMS will
be participating in other HIV/AIDS activities in the WSU Tri-Cities
area.
Sunshine Cathedral MCC
1480 SW 9th Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33315-1375
954-462-2004
877-750-6390 Toll Free
www.sunshinecathedral.org
Contact – Rev. Dr. Kathleen Bishop
Kathy@sunshinecathedral.org
WORLD AIDS DAY INTERFAITH SERVICE
TO BE HELD IN WILTON MANORS, NOVEMBER 20, 2007
Congregation Etz Chaim and the GLBT Clergy and Friends will host a World
AIDS Day Interfaith Service on Friday evening, November 30th at 8:30
PM. Everyone is invited to participate in the Friday night Shabbat
Service in memory and support of our family and friends who have died or
who are living with HIV/AIDS in our community and around the world.
This is a very important service for all of South Florida. Rev.
Dr. Kathleen Bishop of the Sunshine Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale reminds
us that “It is a time for people of all faiths to join together to
support everyone in need in our community. Banding together to help
those who are ill and challenged with HIV/AIDS gives us an opportunity
to live together as God has mandated us to do as brothers and sisters in
humanity.”
The list of participants in the Interfaith Service include Congregation
Etz Chaim, Church of Our Savior MCC Boynton Beach, Discovering God,
Inc., New Hope First Community Church, Boynton Beach, Sunshine Cathedral
MCC, Fort Lauderdale, Parish of Sts Francis and Claire, Spiritus
Institute, The Sanctuary, Inc., Unitarian Universalist Churches in
Weston and Fort Lauderdale
The GLBT Clergy and Friends is an interfaith community that ministers to
people of all lifestyles without discrimination. The group
actively supports and encourages cooperation between people of all
faiths, genders, and cultural-ethnic heritages to work together to
ensure peace and justice in our communities and around the world.
Wichita Falls MCC
1401 Travis St.
Wichita Falls, TX 76301
940-322-4100
www.WichitaFallsMCC.org
Pastor - Rev. Lea Brown
We are organizing an event called "AIDS? In Wichita Falls?" The event
will include a panel presentation made up of four people from our No Day
But Today! AIDS/HIV ministry who are living with HIV, one nurse from the
Wichita Falls Public Health Department, and one student from MSU who has
been conducting focus groups for a recent HIV study here. The event is
co-sponsored by Circle of Hope (AIDS Food Pantry), WFMCC, the Sociology
and Psychology Departments at MSU, and the Wichita Falls Public Health
Department. It is being held at MSU. Following the panel presentation
there will be time for questions and answers. Everyone in Wichita Falls
is invited, especially students at MSU. There is no charge to
attend.
Date: November 30, 2007, noon.
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