LA Now! Jan. 9, 2009
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VOL.
10, NO.
1 JANUARY 9, 2009BATON ROUGE, LA
NON-PROFIT
U.
S.
POSTAGE
PAIDBATON
ROUGE,LA
PERMIT#575
527NorthBlvd.
BatonRouge,LA
70802-5700
Circle Up
Sevier UMC / 6
Scholarship Insert / 3-5
Walker UMC / 7
“Go quickly into the...
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VOL.
10, NO.
1 JANUARY 9, 2009BATON ROUGE, LA
NON-PROFIT
U.
S.
POSTAGE
PAIDBATON
ROUGE,LA
PERMIT#575
527NorthBlvd.
BatonRouge,LA
70802-5700
Circle Up
Sevier UMC / 6
Scholarship Insert / 3-5
Walker UMC / 7
“Go quickly into the streets and alleys
of the city and invite the poor, the crippled,
the lame and the blind.
” Luke 14: 21
MLT
As Bishop William W.
Hutchison has
said, “God did not say, ‘Open the church
doors and let them come in’.
Instead he
said, ‘Go out and bring them in.
’”
A good example of “go out into the
streets and bring them in” can be found at
University United Methodist Church in
Lake Charles.
This mission was started
two years ago when the director of the
Calcasieu Parish Samaritan Counseling
service, Mickey Shannon, got tired of seeing so many depressed, lonely, and anxiety
-prone people who were not getting the
help they needed.
“Most of the ones I saw,” said Mickey,
“have been diagnosed with a mental disability like bi-polar, depression, anxiety.
Others just knew they had a mental problem and that something was not quite right
with their lives.
”
Circle Up, a faith-based group, grew
out of the need presented by these people.
Shannon chose the name because she
observed most of these people were being
“circled out” of churches and society - just
generally ignored because no one was sure
what to say or do for them.
Mickey was
more prone to see the need, because she,
too, had gone through a grueling anxiety
experience, caused by a work related
experience in her life.
And God seemed to
be pushing her to do something for the
Lake Charles church serves adults with special needs
See University UMC, page 6
Bishop William W.
Hutchinson, resident
Bishop of the Louisiana Conference, has
called a special session of the Louisiana
Annual Conference for the purpose of consideration of a conference-wide property
and liability insurance program.
The session is slated for Saturday, Feb.
28 at Louisiana College in Pineville, La.
Delegates will gather in the Guinn
Auditorium, 1140 College Dr.
, from 10
a.
m.
-12 noon.
Those expected to attend the called session are clergy and lay delegates to the
2009 session of the Louisiana Annual
Conference slated for June 7-10 at the
Ponchartrain Center in Kenner, La.
“A challenge that has been on our list of
needs as a Conference is the issue of adequate property and liability insurance covSpecial session called for conference Feb.
28
See Called Session, page 6
Circle Up, a faith-based group sponsored through University United Methodist Church in Lake Charles, serves the
needs of adults diagnosed with mental disabilities.
The name of the group was selected because the ministry serves
those men and women who are “circled out” of churches and society.
Church member Mickey Shannon, director of
the Calcasieu Parish Samaritan Counseling Service, organized the group and started dinners for the group each
Tuesday night.
Church members have stepped in to supply food supplies and meal preparation.
For the latest
information regarding disaster recovery efforts, visit
the La.
Conference web
site at
www.
la-umc.
org
or contact the UM
Disaster Recovery Center
at (225) 346-5193
BY NOLA MAE ROSS
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