Eureka Christian Church seeks a full-time Administrative Assistant to join our team. This position provides secretarial, financial, and administrative assistance to the ministerial staff, elected officers, and team leaders of the church congregation. Experience using Microsoft Office and managing accounts payable/receivable is strongly preferred. Resumes may be sent to Jim Wilson at [email protected] or mailed to 302 S. Main, Eureka, IL 61530 by May 10 or until the position is filled.
During the first half of 2018, the Maya Kaqchikel University (UMK) was focused on preparing for a conference on Mayan culture, skills, economy, and thought. This conference, titled “0th Mayan Science and Philosophy Congress” took place over three days, April 6-8, 2018, and included 175 participants. The purpose of this conference was to gather contemporary Mayan practitioners to protect and preserve the ancestral knowledge of the Mayan community. UMK writes, “The Science Congress among our Mayan community...Read More
When Rebecca Anderson attended a Moth storytelling event some ten years ago, she arrived three hours before it was slated to start—and still couldn’t get a seat. “The room was packed with twenty-, thirty-, fortysomethings,” recalled Anderson.That experience gave the Disciples of Christ pastor an idea. “The evangelist part of me thought, ‘Do we not have a true story to tell in community?’” The former stand-up comic did her booming preacher impression when describing that epiphany. The insight eventually led to Anderson joining with her friend Vince Amlin, a United Church of Christ pastor, in starting a church in which telling stories is central...Read More
