Archives for October 2012

  Berea College senior Sai Thiha reported on his experience as a summer Caux Scholar in Caux, Switzerland, studying conflict transformation in an international setting. The Union Church Mission and Service Board helped support his trip which focused on understanding the root causes of escalation in order to devise intervention strategies to arrive at mutually… Read more.

Here are some pics of the latest work at the church. Best guess now is that we’ll get temporary occupancy around November 20, allowing us to start moving in desks and boxes. We are hoping that our first worship service back in the space will be December 2, but everything is subject to satisfactory inspections… Read more.

In 2012 Union Church partnered with Restoring Agriculture and Investing in Sustainable Enterprise in Jamaica (RAISE) and sent a delegation of members to provide partnership and some technical support for the farm and infrastructure. Below is an excerpt from an email received from Teri Mehler’s sister Lisa, who is serving with RAISE in Jamaica. She is… Read more.

As our construction continues in full swing, we took some time out to pray for the work that these bricks and mortar will do. In two separate tours, groups of church members wrote prayers on the walls of the fellowship hall and offices.  You can read a few of them here, and we encourage you… Read more.

YOU are welcome to Wednesday Nite Live! tomorrow for supper and fellowship at 5:45 pm (donation if able).  At the Freinds Meeting House, 300 Harrison Rd.  Youth Groups and Bob Berger’s study class for adults are at 6:30.  If you come, Grace McKenzie would greatly appreciate it if you brought some newspapers and magazines for a collage.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost                       October 21, 2012 Meditation Each year, churches and private charities provide thousands of tons of food to hungry people around the world. Here in the United States, thousands of soup kitchens staffed by church volunteers serve hot… Read more.

On this very rainy Wednesday, we took the bullet train from Kyoto to Hiroshima. After so many years of exposure to the documenatries, images, and reflections on the detonation that killed over 140,000, I was still unprepared for the impact of the site and city. In the intervening years, Hiroshima has rebuilt and regrown into… Read more.