[RMC News] Bloodpressure Screening Clarification; Stats FAQ; Black History Month; Extension Ministers; Food Shortage

[Roe, Ben]

Contents
	Blood pressure Screening Volunteers Needed
	Statistics Reporting Hints
	Black History Month TV Coverage
	Extension Minister News
	Food Shortage Crisis at Denver Urban Ministries
	

Blood pressure Screening Volunteers Needed
Blood pressure checks will be provided at Annual Conference this year, Thursday and Friday, June 19-20, 2008, beginning at 6:30 to noon. If you can do blood pressure checks and would like to volunteer for even a part of this time please contact Donna to let her know. 303-325-7050 or 800-536-3736x150 or at donna at rmcumc.com
 

Statistics Reporting Hints
Bruce Maxwell, Conference Statistician, has collected some "Frequently Asked Questions" as churches have been entering their data into the new "EAGLE" statistical reporting package on the Web.  Find instructions and the FAQ at this web address:  http://rmcumc.org/CR/stats/.  If you don't know your 6-digit church number, call Netta, Ben, or Nancy C at the Conference office, 800-536-3736.


Evaluation Tools On RMC Web
Clergy evaluations (self-evaluation and the S/PPRC evaluation) are due to each district office by May 1. The clergy evaluation tools are on the RMC web site at http://rmcumc.org/CR/effectiveness.htm.
 
Congregational evaluations are to be competed every three years.  Those congregations which did not complete theirs in 2007 must complete one in 2008.  That tool is available on the RMC web site at the same page, http://rmcumc.org/CR/effectiveness.htm.


Black History Month TV Coverage
John Thompson, pastor at Park Hill UMC in Denver, has just learned from Channel 9 that the station will be covering their 11 a.m. service for the 24th of February in celebration of Black History Month.  Note these resources for Black History Month:  GBGM: http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/annual/blackhistorymonth/ and GBOD:  http://tinyurl.com/yra5wx 


Extension Ministers News
Extension minister George Dunn from Health Care for All Colorado will present a talk at the UM Social Justice Center at 1630 E. 14th Ave. in Denver on February 24 from 3:30 to 5:30.  For those of you not in the metro area, we lift up George and Health Care for All Colorado at www.healthcareforallcolorado.org as a good resource for information about this complex issue.  We'll be happy to send you any information that is handed out if you let us know.
 
George's presentation, "Reality Check on Healthcare" will include a video slide presentation which offers a comparison of all the health care plans submitted by the 208 Commission to the Colorado Legislature.  He'll also include a  short clip from the movie Sicko.  The Center is in in Warren UMC, 14th and Gilpin. 

Also, Rebekah Simon-Peter, Director of BridgeWorks, an Extension Ministry of the Rocky Mountain Conference, will be the homilist at the Legislative Prayer Service on the opening day of the Wyoming Legislative Budget Session, February 11,  in the Capitol Rotunda in Cheyenne at Noon.  The Prayer Service is sponsored by the Wyoming Association of Churches of which Simon-Peter is a board member.

Adams County Detention Center Chaplain Yong Hui McDonald was interviewed along with Laura Nokes Lang from Westminster UMC about the Transformation Project Prison Ministry by AM Radio Station KLTT, 670.  The interview will be broadcast on Saturday Feb.9th at 12:30pm, 6:30pm and on Sunday 8:30 am.


Neighbors Don't Let Neighbors Go Hungry:
Food Shortage Crisis at Denver Urban Ministries
DENVER, CO-Without immediate action on the part of Denver area companies and citizens, thousands of struggling local families are going to feel the pangs of hunger.

Denver Urban Ministries, a multi-service agency located in the heart of Denver, asks the community to donate food to the agency as soon as possible, as families are being turned away. Requests for food have increased 31 percent from the same period last year. The agency needs a supply of more than 25,000 pounds of food each month to meet the current need. 

"We're seeing an increase in food requests at the same time we're seeing a decrease in food donations," said William Lewis, Program Director. He continued, "The need isn't being met by government commodities or Food Stamps, and it's challenging our ability to respond. At DenUM, our sense of community, our sense of who we are as Americans, tells us to give food to people who are hungry." 

Donations of food can be brought to DenUM at 1717 East Colfax Ave between 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. M/T/Th/F or 9:00 a.m. to noon on Wed. For more information, please call 303-350-5067.   More: http://rmcumc.org/Community/YaBB.pl?num=1202511362/0#0

Tammy Mulligan, Denver Urban Ministries
1717 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO  80218
303-350-5060, 303-355-3495 (fax)						
tammy at denum.org | www.denum.org


Ben Roe
Information Administrator
Rocky Mountain Conference, The United Methodist Church
ben at rmcumc.com  303-325-7046  800-536-3736x146 
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