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School’s starting soon! Berea Community School needs socks for kids ages 5-12and underpants for girls/briefs for boys, sizes 4/5, 6, 8, 10,12 Please drop off at church office, or leave money and Dodie Murphy will do the shopping. If paying by check please make it out to Union Church with No Child Cold/No Child Hungry in… Read more.

The broad front porch of Union Church has hosted countless wedding receptions, class reunion pictures, candlelit vigils and gatherings for prayer and protest.  Now it’s getting a makeover to seal cracks and keep it useful and beautiful for the years to come. The project involved chiseling out the nearly 100 year old aggregate bed, as… Read more.

You will see elsewhere in “Consider” a letter from our Director of Music Ministries, Gabriel Evans, concerning his newly-announced move to New York City. Gabe has been our choir director and organist for four years and in that time has brought us not only beautiful music to uplift our worship, he has brought his good… Read more.

Dear Congregation of Union Church, It is with heavy heart that I inform you that I have resigned as Director of Music Ministries effective August 12, 2018.  My fiancé, Joseph, and I have had a wonderful opportunity for  both of us to move to New York City, and have chosen to take it.  He will… Read more.

We’re trying for a print date of earliest September. If you will send us your photo and info (names, addresses, birthdates & anniversaries, email addresses and phone numbers), you can save us a phone call! Maybe the number in your household has changed? Kiddo gone off to school? Gotten hitched? Maybe you’d like to opt… Read more.

The Children’s Church Team is looking for teachers for the upcoming year! No teaching experience necessary —  just a good sense of humor, a bit of patience, and the willingness to sit on the floor with small humans and explore the values of our faith while making cool stuff. The commitment is from September to… Read more.

Worship photos by Rachael White

Especially in our Prayers: Cheyenne Olson and family, at the death of her sister, in Manhattan, Kansas. Pool Party Wednesday! 7-9 at the Berea Pool. Pizza and drinks provided, bring a side or dessert if you can.  Office Help Needed, August 6-8, possibly 9: Joan English, Office Admin, will be away  picking up her parents,… Read more.