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Retired Clergy Spring Fling

The Retired Clergy Association of the California-Nevada Conference will host its Spring Fling May 1 to 2. The theme for the event is "Where Are We Headed?" Speakers will be retired United Methodist Bishops Roy Sano and Melvin Talbert. The Rev. Don Lee, pastor of First United Methodist Church Sacramento, will be the song leader, and John Auer, will serve as the worship leader. Cost for persons who stay on campus is $115 by April 1 and $130 after April 1. Cost for first time attendees...

Senior New Ways Older Adult Groups and Activities, Late-April Through May, 2009

         Older Adult Groups and Activities for Late April - May 2009       Senior Health Chat at Los Altos UMC, 1st and 3rd Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon. Los Altos UMC is located at 655 Magdalena Ave., Los Altos, CA. Call Dona Smith-Powers (650.494.3093). Donation suggested.   Senior Health Chat at Los Altos Public Library, 2nd Tuesdays, 1-2:30 p.m.  May 12, "Finding Meaning in Retirement: Making a Plan" with Cathy...

RCA Spring Fling Retreat Planned for Late April

The Spring Fling Retreat - an annual event sponsored by the Retired Clergy Association of the California-Nevada Annual Conference - will take place Wed.-Thurs., April 22-23, at Christ the King Retreat Center in Citrus Heights, California.   The Rev. Dr. Eugene Lowry, renowned author and lecturer, will be the featured speaker.   The Spring Fling also will feature a dialogue with Bishop Warner H. Brown, Jr., resident Bishop of the Cal-Nevada Conference.   Other persons...

RCA members are blessed by UMVIM trip to New Orleans

By Rev. Dick Corson   In what many hope will become an annual event, thirteen members of the Retired Clergy Association (RCA) of the California-Nevada Annual Conference headed to New Orleans to participate in the ongoing effort to rebuild the Katrina-devastated city.   Under the leadership of Nadine DeWitt, the team of VIM volunteers spent a week installing insulation and hanging, taping, and mudding sheetrock in a home in the Gentilly area of the community.   Guided by a...

Chuck Myer reports on his progress

Oct. 28, 2007   Greetings to all in the Conference who have been so helpful to me!   I am now beginning my third week of medical leave, continuing to recuperate quickly at home, with doctor’s visits on Monday, October 29 to scope out radiation procedures, and on Tuesday, October 30 to do a PET-Scan (to see if there was any other problem besides the tumor). The tumor was, by sight anyway, removed by a marvelous physician to whom I will always be grateful. Once the surgery portion...