First United Methodist Church of Eugene would like to invite you to this community-wide event. It will be at 1376 Olive St in our sanctuary on Sunday, April 10th from 11:30- 12:30 pm. Admission is free!

Bob Welch is a beloved writer in Eugene and a wonderful and humorous speaker. We hope you can join us as he speaks about his new book, "Cross Purposes", his memoir. "One believer's struggle to reconcile the Peace of Christ with the rage of the Far Right."

FB Event Link:

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Amazon Link to Purchase the Book:

https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Purposes-believers-struggle-reconcile-ebook/dp/B09NT5P8KX/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Bob Welch is an award-winning columnist, speaker, and author whose books are distinguished by heart, humor, and hope. As head of Pebble in the Water Inspiration, Welch has keynoted conferences across America. “Forget the hyperbole,” said Julie Zander, organizer of the Association of Personal Historians conference in Portland. “Our 261 participants scored Welch a 4.81 on a 5.0-scale.”

A storyteller by nature, Welch mines much of his speaking fodder from his books and the nearly 2,000 columns he’s written for The Register-Guard, Oregon’s second-largest newspaper. He has twice won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ highest award for writing. In addition, he has won dozens of other journalism awards, including the 2010 and 2011 Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s “Best Writing” awards. He's also the winner of the Seattle Times C.B. Blethen Award for Distinguished Feature Writing.