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Who Are We?
Do you know that the CWF is open to all women to help us in Christian living and service and to enjoy eahc other's company in an informal social setting?  No longer are we designated by individual Circles.  We are now Christian Women of Franklin Circle meeting the 1st Saturday of each month at 1:00 p.m. at the church, except for the September meeting which always be held on the 11th in memory of 9-11 heroes and victims.

Here's What We Do:
Worship & Bible Study.
Support world missions
Get involved in Chrisitan social relations and local church concerns.
Encourage personal donations.
Sponsor church events.
Have fun together, too!

So come on!  Join our CWF.  We need YOU!
Jean Borrelli, President.

Fellowship Of The Least Coin

Our jar, painted with the logo of the Fellowship Of The Least Coin, is on the table in the back of the sanctuary ready to collect your pennies.  The Fellowship Of The Least Coin is a global ecumenical movement of prayer for peace, justice, and reconciliation.  This is not a fundraiser, but rather a commitment to spend time in prayer and to fund grants to strengthen ecumenical solidarity, and to aid in disaster relief and rehabilitation.

For more information, click on the logo or go to: http://www.churchwomen.org/least-coin-history.asp
 

2007-2008 Study Topic: A Time Of Prayer

 

News:

March 7, 2008

World Day of Prayer

Christ United Methodist Church

3625 W. 138th St.

10:00 a.m. -- Continental Breakfast, followed by a worship service

Theme:  "God's Wisdom Provides New Understanding"

New Officers Elected For 2007-2008
President: Jean Borrelli
Vice President: Jane Cheiky

Secretary: Michelle Brown
Assistant Secretary: Patty Groetsch
Treasurer: Eleanor Eyring

Assistant Treasurer: Mary Hardison

Sunshine Chair: Brenda Torrey

Flowers: Jane Cheiky
Historian: Patty Groetsch

Christian Women's Fellowship 2007-2008 Calendar:
Most regular meetings are held on the second Saturday of each month, 1:00p.m. p.m., usually at the church. Special events are marked with an *

 

2008

January 12 - CWF Meeting at Church, hosted by Mary Brogan.

January 18 - C.W.U. Near & Far West Districts meeting at Castelwood Apt., on Detroit, in Lakewood

*February 4 - Interfaith Day at St. Michael's Woodside.  More info below, or click HERE

February 9 - CWF Meeting  at Church, hosted by Brenda Torrey.

*March 7 - World Day Of Prayer - Details to follow.

March 8 - CWF Meeting at Church, Colleen Munley hosting.

April 12 - CWF Meeting at Church, Nancy Ward hosting.

*April ? - Bus Tour - Details to follow

*May 2 - 10 a.m. - May Friendship Day - Details to follow.

May 10 - CWF Meeting at Church, Michelle Brown & Mary Hardison, hosting

*Saturday, May 26 - Plant Swap at FCCC

*June 28 - CWF General Business Meeting & Picnic at FCCC, with Andrea King and Brenda Torrey, hosting (Historian's Report & Installation of Officers)

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Upcoming Events:

Soup & Salad Luncheon March 30th (Rescheduled!)

The Christian Women's Fellowship is having a Soup & Salad Luncheon on March 30th following worship.

The prices are $10 for a family, $6 for adults, $2 for 12-18 year olds, and $1 for 11 years and younger.

Soups: home-style tomato, vegetable, and, of course, chicken noodle.

Salads: garden, broccoli/cauliflower, and Jell-O.

We hope to see you there!

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Church Women United News

Church Women United has only two "ways & means" projects each year: they stay-at-home tea and the bus tour of churches.

Reservations are now open for the bus tour scheduled for Monday morning, April 28, 2008.  Churches featured on the tour are: Fields United Methodist Church in North Ridgeville, the Olmsted Falls Community Church in Olmsted Falls, Our Lady Of Angels Church in Cleveland, and Bay Presbyterian Church in Bay Village.  The cost is $30 and includes lunch.  The bus seats 55.

Pick up a registration form at the church or call Norma Stearns at 216-661-3769.

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Ohio Women's Ministries Convocation

Christian Church in Ohio (Disciples of Christ)

April 19, 2008

8:30 a.m. -- 3:00 p.m.

Special Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. Brenda Webster

Regional Program Minister

Gender Road Christian Church

5336 Gender Rd.

Canal Winchester, OH  43110-9796

More information soon to come!!!

Past Projects:
 

Church Women United
Interfaith Fellowship Day
Monday, February 4, 2008
St. Michael's Woodside Party Center
5025 Mill Rd.
Broadview Heights, OH 44147

9:30 a.m. - Coffee & Registration
10:00 a.m. - Program:
     Rabbi Rona Shapiro, Congregation Bethanyu
     Rev. Stephanie Allen, Associate Pastor, First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland
     Sister Corita Ambro, S.J., Program Director to Person's With Disabilities, Parish Ministry, Catholic Charities
     Suna Aziz, Representative of Islamic Center of Cleveland
     Linda Peters, Volunteer Coordinator, Ronald McDonald House
Noon - Lunch

Proceeds from the lunchon and voluntary donations will benefit the Ronald McDonald House.

Reservation Deadline: January 25, 2008 -- No refunds after deadline.
All tickets are to be picked up at the door.
$21 per person (not tax-deductible)  Make checks payable to: Interfaith Fellowship Council.
Mail check and form to: Bertha Jaffe, 26600 George Zeiger Dr., Suite 803, Cleveland, OH 44122-7529
Any Questions?  Call Bertha at 216-831-2321

Interfaith Fellowship Day is presented by:
Eastern Orthodox Women's Guild
Islamic Center of Cleveland's Women's Committee
The Women's Division of the Jewish Community Federation
Catholic Women Cleveland
Church Women United

Christmas Tea

Friday, December 7, 12:00 noon

Church Women United in Greater Cleveland invite you to attend our annual Christmas Tea

Friday, Dec. 7, 2007, 12:00 noon

Church of the Saviour, 2537 Lee Rd., Cleve. Hts OH

Featuring Gwen Price-Yates, pianist,

highlighted by an assortment of holiday music and a sing-along.

Please bring cookies or sandwiches to enjoy and gifts to present to Community Head Start, Transitional Housing, Inc., Zelma George Shelter, Domestic Violence Center, and the Cleveland Christian Home.  The latter is the agency to which our district has been assigned.

A list of suggested gifts is available from C.W.F. members or gift cards would allow the Home's staff to shop for the children.

Norma Stearns, CWU Representative

Church Woman's Day: Friday, October 5, 2007

Fairview Grace United Methodist Church, 22420 Lorain Ave., Fairview Park, Ohio

Theme: Embracing Justice Under God's Tent

Bible Study Leaders: Norma Bean & Judith Young

Registration: 9:30 a.m.

Worship: 10:00 a.m.

Workshops: 10:15 a.m.

Lunch: 12:15 p.m.

Workshop Recap & President's Time: 1:15 p.m.

Deadline for reservation is September 26th.  Parking lot on side street - you can drop off passengers at curb, but cannot park there.  There are 4 or 5 steps to enter the building.  We will stay on the sanctuary level.

To register, send your name and phone number and a check for $9 to: Church Women United In Greater Cleveland, 1540 Rydalmount Rd., Cleveland Hts., OH 44118

September 2007

Key Chain: Did you get your keepsake of our church?  We have a nice key chain with a picture of your church and information for just $2.00.  Ask any CWF member, or Jean Borelli, for yours.

Health Kits: We still need travel size toothpaste, shampoos, & hand towels.  Please see any member of the CWF if you can help fill our needs.

Meeting: Our CWF meeting on September 11 will be a potluck hosted by Norma Stearns at her home in Brooklyn.  Please see Jane Cheiky if you have any questions.  Hope to see you there.

WORLD COMMUNITY DAY
November 2, 2007 “Embracing Justice Under God’s Tent”
This World Community Day worship lifts concerns of homelessness, immigration, and responses to disaster with an emphasis on the Psalms. Writers Kristina Peterson and Kathleen Clark, members of the national CWU Celebrations Committee, invite you to stretch yourself and join with others to learn and pray and act for a just and peaceful world community for all humanity. The worship service focuses on a meditation, “We Have Names,” which describes those who have been resident aliens in strange lands, wanderers throughout history, those exiled and uprooted and remnants in society -- then and now.

The offering taken at World Community Day is sent to the National Office to help the Church Women United movement with operating funds .
 

June Meeting

June 30 is the year-end meeting of the FCCC Christian Women's Fellowship and annual Potluck.  Meet at the church at 1:00 p.m. 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!  Saturday, June 2 - 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. - Neighborhood Plant Swap at FCCC

3rd Annual!

Saturday, June 2, 2007 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Franklin Circle Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Parking Lot (gym if it's too rainy)
1688 Fulton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113
216-781-8232
Cost: $1 per person;
 

This is a real swap. Bring a plant, take a plant, bring bulbs, seedlings, rootings and get to know your neighbors. Thin your garden. You cannot refresh, revamp, or start a garden space with less money or more fun! Come join us and THINK SPRING!

Over $200 Raised In Blessing Boxes!

Over $200 was raised this winter with the special Blessing Boxes project of the Christian Women's Fellowship.  A check for $101 was given to the Women's Outreach Center housed in our church building and one for $102 was sent to the Regional Office for Camp Christian.  Way to go, church!

May Friendship Day ~ May 4, 10:00 a.m.

May 4 is May Friendship Day at First United Methodist Church of Bedford at 10:00 a.m..  The address is 79 Center Rd. and the cost is $10.  See Norma Stearns for more information.

April 2007

Spring Tour Of Churches! [More details soon!]

~ Monday, April 23, 2007 ~

~ $30 (price includes lunch) ~

Tour includes: Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church of Brecksville, Independence Presbyterian Church of Independence, lunch at Ponderosa Steakhouse, Brecksville United Methodist Church, and St. Joseph Byzantine Catholic Church (both of Brecksville.

East Side Pickup @ 9 a.m. First Baptist Church of Cleveland, 3630 Fairmount Blvd. (4:00 p.m. drop off)

West Side Pickup @ 9:30 a.m. Christ The Redeemer Lutheran Church, 9201 Brecksville Rd. (3:30 p.m. drop off)

For a registration form, please call Carole at the FCCC Office: 216-781-8232 or e-mail her at CaroleSauer@sbcglobal.net

March 2007: World Day of Prayer

World Day Of Prayer 2007 will be hosted by the women of Franklin Circle Christian Church on Friday, March 2 at 10:00 a.m. All women of the church and community are invited to this event.

For more information, please go to the World Day Of Prayer/USA website by clicking on the logo to the left, or by going to: http://www.wdpusa.org/index.html

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER (WDP) is a worldwide ecumenical movement of women of many faith traditions who come together to observe a common day of prayer each year on the first Friday in March.

Throughout the entire day, we collectively pray all over the world, beginning with the first sunrise and ending at the last sunset. Our prayers follow the sun’s path around the globe.

WDP’s motto is “Informed prayer leads to prayerful action.” Through World Day of Prayer, women affirm that prayer and action are inseparable and that both have immeasurable influence in the world.

Interfaith Fellowship Day, Monday, February 5, 2007
"Kaleidoscope Of Faith"
St. Michael's Woodside Party Center
5025 East Mill Rd., Broadview Heights, 44147
 

Attended by: Jane Cheiky, Pastor Allen Harris, Norma Stearns, Leila Streidl, Sharon Thomas, and Nancy Ward.

Reservations need to be received by January 26, 2007
$20 per person (not tax deductible)
For more information, call Joan LeFavour at 216-320-1640 or 216-481-3598.

Schedule:
9:30 a.m. - Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m. - Morning Session
Christian Viewpoint – Brian Fry, Justice Coordinator, Sisters of St. Joseph
Jewish Viewpoint – Anita Gray, Representative, Ishmael and Isaac Dialogue Group
Muslim Viewpoint – Imam Mohamad Altabaa, Imam, Islamic Center of Cleveland

Noon – Luncheon

1:00 p.m. – Afternoon Session
Gwendolyn Yates, Pianist, “…songs featuring the word ‘heart’”

Proceeds from the luncheon & voluntary donations will benefit The American Heart Association.

February 2007

The CWF has decided to try a different day of the week and time of day for our meetings.  Starting in February we are going to meet on Saturdays at 1 p.m.  More information will follow.

~ Jean Borrelli, President

December 2006

Near West and Far West Park District World Community Day service was held at West Park United Church of Christ November 3 with 32 in attendance representing 8 churches.

The Rev. Mr. Craig welcomed all.  The program "Signs of Healing" featured the scriptural accounts of the flood illustrated by rainbow badges and a living rainbow.

An Offering of $173  was collected and 82Health Kits were dedicated, w.  The health kits were delivered to the domestic violence center of Cleveland.

186 dozen cookies were delivered to the USO in Broadview Heights on November 15.

Least Coin Offering Counted May 2, 2006: $67.65 will go around the world to serve God's children.

PLANT SWAP - 2nd Annual!
Saturday, May 27, 2006 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Franklin Circle Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Parking Lot (gym if it's too rainy)
1688 Fulton Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113
216-781-8232
Cost: $1 per person
This is a real swap. Bring a plant, take a plant, bring bulbs, seedlings, rootings and get to know your neighbors. Thin your garden. You cannot refresh, revamp, or start a garden space with less money or more fun! Come join us and THINK SPRING!

World Community Day, November 4, 2005

The Christian Women's Fellowship delivered health kits on World Community Day November 4, 2005. You may wish to collect the following items for next year:
Large to medium size hand towels, small tooth paste, emery boards, band aids.
Bring any of the above to the church Deacons’ room and place them in a box labeled “C. W. F. Health Kits” by the end of October.
 

Blessing boxes were distributed and have been received.
 

Cookies for the U. S. O. were collected on Sunday, November 12 and delivered on November 16.
 

Church Women Unity: World Community Day - Friday, November 4, 2005
"A Light To The Nations" Friday, November 4, 1:00 p.m.
Brookpark Community Church of the Brethren.


The 2006 World Day Of Prayer was hosted by Franklin Circle Christian Church
Friday, March 3 - 10:00 a.m. The theme was: "Signs Of The Times" and the Guest Speaker: Sharon Thomas. For more info, go to:www.wdpusa.org


Standing Committees
Church Women United ~ Norma Stearns, District Chairwoman
Jane Cheiky, Leila Streidl
Finance ~ Eleanor Eyring
Flowers ~ Eleanor Eyring
Program ~ Jane Cheiky
Nominating ~ Norma Stearns
Historian ~ Norma Stearns
Sunshine ~ Brenda Torrey (NEW! as of April 2007)

CWF Benediction
God be merciful unto us and bless us
And cause His face to shine upon us
That Thy ways may be known upon the earth
Thy saving health among the nations
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Helpful Links For Women's Ministries:

Ohio Women's Ministries: http://www.ccinoh.org/ministries/discipleswomen.aspx

Church Women United:  

www.churchwomen.org