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Next Week: new members welcomed! As a family of faith committed to boldly and creatively embodying the life and ministry of Jesus, we would like to join with YOU. We’d like to be a context and inspiration for your own spiritual path, and work with you to make your heart, your world, your life more… Read more.

A Service of Word and Sacrament for the Ordination of Les Small Stokes January 6, 2019 Union Church 4:00pm Meditation May you grow still enough to hear the small noises earth makes in preparing for the long sleep of winter, so that you yourself may grow calm and grounded deep within. May you grow still… Read more.

A Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving For the Life of Ruth Oakes Butwell January 5, 2019, 2:00 pm Rev. Kent Gilbert, Pastor Union Church Prelude                  Selections Ruth’s Musical Friends Ringing of the Peace Bell Kim and Raylon Bingham Welcome  Rev. Kent Gilbert Opening Prayer ¨ Hymn Be Thou My Vision Slane Be Thou my Vision, O… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Epiphany Sunday   January 6, 2019  10:30 am Meditation When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of… Read more.

A Memorial Service in celebration of Ruth Butwell’s life will be held on Saturday, 2 pm. Reception to follow. Special Epiphany Service Next Week. Also called Three Kings’ Day, Epiphany celebrates the revelation of God incarnate as Jesus Christ. The feast commemorates the visit of the Magi to the Christ Child, and thus Jesus’ physical manifestation to the Gentiles. Epiphany… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union First Sunday of Christmas December 30, 2018           10:30 am Meditation Year’s end is neither a beginning nor an end but rather a going on, with all the wisdom experience can instill in us. —Hal Borland An invisible red thread… Read more.

Prelude with Sounds of the Season Divinum Mysterium (Fred Gramann)  Pearl Marshall, Handbells In the Bleak Midwinter (Rosetti/Holst)   Emma White, Soloist He Is Born (French Carol, arr. A. Sherman) Union Church Choir and Handbell Ensemble Beautiful Star of Bethlehem (R. Fischer Boyce) Al, Alice & Ruth Alleluia! The Angels Sing (Dana Mengel) Union Church Choir Ain’t… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Fourth Sunday of Advent December 23, 2018          10:30 am Meditation Advent is the waiting season, hoping to be rediscovered. She is seasoned waiting, wishing wisdom and pregnant with promised life. She is a season conceived each day. —Joseph… Read more.