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We got this message from the Berea Food Bank today.  Please help if you can! Thanks!   — Union Church   Hello, all, Thanks to many of you who recently assisted with items for the Berea Food Bank.  According to Jerry Workman, twenty-seven families sought assistance from the Food Bank this past Monday so the needs… Read more.

Several members of Union Church were interviewed and recorded in their demonstrations for Marriage Equality yesterday on the capitol grounds in Frankfort, KY.  View the clips below to see interviews with our Pastors, Rev. Kent Gilbert and Rev. Rachel Small Stokes, as well as Rachel’s wife, Leslie Small Stokes.  Look behind them and in crowd… Read more.

Where Shall We Lay Our Coats? A Sermon for Palm Sunday © Rachel Small Stokes, March 24, 2013 Text: Luke 19:28-40   Happy Palm Sunday! This is one of Leslie’s favorite two favorite holidays.  The other is Halloween.  She loves it because of all the frolicking and children and singing and palm waving  — and… Read more.

God who endures all suffering, we lift up to you all those who are sick and hurting in our community.  We lift up to you, who challenged the powers that be, all those who are in power, that they may be guided by love and compassion toward peace with justice. We lift up to you,… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of Church of Christ, Union Palm Sunday      March 24. 2013 Meditation “Like splendid palm branches, we are strewn in the Lord’s path.”                                                                                                       —Latin antiphon Gathering to Worship Welcome and Announcements    Prelude     Meditation on “All Glory, Laud and Honor”           Paul Manz *  Gospel Lesson                 Luke… Read more.

In the gospel of John we remember the story of Mary pouring a whole jar of nard over Jesus’ feet, causing all manner of mixed reactions: from Judas criticizing the waste of a year’s salary on the act, to Jesus proclaiming that she was making an annointing for his burial. In our own life, how are… Read more.

Congratulations to Rev. Steve Sherman, Union Church intern 2010-2011, who preached his first Sunday as the newly called pastor of First Christian Church of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Steve was ordained in June of 2012 and while searching and discerning has been living with his family in Florida. They are all newly moved to Tennessee and… Read more.