Welcome To
  

 “From a Distance”

 Saturday, March 31, 2007

A Benefit “Taco” Dinner (5:00 – 6:30 p.m.)
&
A Celebration of Talents (7:00 p.m.)

Freewill Offering

Community United Presbyterian Church
315 North Vine Street
Hartford, Iowa

This special evening of fun and fellowship is an event being held to support two of our own Hartford youth who will be representing Community United Presbyterian Church at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium “HOPE is in Our Midst” to be held July 17 – 22, 2007 at Purdue University in  West Lafayette, Indiana.

Matt Nesler, son of Randy & Bonnie Nesler, is a sophomore at Carlisle High.

Chris Walker, son of David & Debbie Walker, is a junior at Carlisle High School.

Tax deductible contributions may be made payable to:
Community United Presbyterian Church. (CUPC)

All contributions mailed to the church or received at the event will be divided evenly between Matt & Chris!

Please plan to join the fun and support these young men.

Rev. Theron (Tom) Conrey (former pastor of Community United Presbyterian Church in Hartford, Iowa) is currently serving as a military chaplain at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.  In his capacity, Tom has had the opportunity to visit other bases—one with a hospital in Afghanistan.  This hospital is opened to villagers a few times a week.  Those who normally come are women with their children to be treated for various illnesses and sometimes are they are even hospitalized.

As the villagers leave the base, they are given items that have been donated by various groups in the United States.  Most of these items come from churches.  Although there are no references to Christianity, the hearts of the children and their mothers are definitely touched—this is a good place to begin in ending the war and all the tragedy that goes with it.

The types of items needed are:

 Clothing—Any size, Any sex

• Coats
• Gloves
• Pants
• Rubber boots
• Scarves
• Shirts
• Shoes
• Socks
• Sweaters

• Stuffed animals—Beanie Baby type
•  Dolls
• Cars—Hot Wheels type

• Backpacks
• Crayons—small boxes for children, large boxes for teachers
• Erasers
• Paper
• Pencils
• +Plastic rulers

Community United Presbyterian Church of Hartford is receiving donations for OPERATION CARE!  If you would like to arrange to make a delivery or for information how you may donate directly to OPERATION CARE, please contact the CUPC project chairperson, Ann Polito.  Financial donations for postage or for the purchase of items may be made by making your check payable to CUPC with a memo notation of OPERATION CARE.  Funds may be mailed to:

Community United Presbyterian Church
Attention:  OPERATION CARE
PO Box 903
Hartford, IA  50118-0903

For further information, please contact Ann Polito at (515) 681-9519.

All-You-Can-Eat…

Spaghetti Supper

Everyone Invited

When:  Tuesday, March 13, 6:30pm

Where:  Community United Presbyterian Church, 315 N. Vine St. Hartford, Iowa  50118

Why?

          to help our sister congregation:

Many learned in the Des Moines Register that Cottage Grove Church may need to close its doors due to severe funding problems. Since each congregation depends solely on its members to underwrite the finances of the church, and since Cottage Grove’s members are among the poorest in our Presbytery, it makes for an almost impossible situation.

But they try and try hard.

Many in their church family are Christians from the Sudan who fled religious persecution and are trying to begin a new life in a new country – not an easy task.

It seems they need a little help from their friends.

So we will take a…

FREE WILL  OFFERING

special program guests:

                Rev. David Madsen,   Pastor  of Cottage Grove

                Roberta Victor,   Director of C.R.O.S.S. Ministries