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Congratulations! It was an award trifecta for Union Church as members Paul Smithson, Cheyenne and Richard Olson, and Sandy Bolster, swept the faculty and community service awards for 2013 at Berea College commencement, Sunday, May 5. Winning the Paul Hagar Award for Excellence in Advising was Paul Smithson, professor of Chemistry at the college, who was cited for… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Sixth Sunday of Easter     Celebration of the Lord’s Supper   May 5, 2013 Meditation To be converted is to commit oneself to the process of the poor and oppressed, to commit oneself lucidly, realistically, and concretely. It means to commit oneself… Read more.

Hear the climate “wake up story” of these nationally recognized authors and educators who have spent the last 10 years traveling North America addressing more than 1,700 religious and non-religious groups about some of the most important issues of the 21st century. Global Warming: A Climate “Wake Up” Story with Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow… Read more.

Please bring non-perishable food donations to church on May 5 & 19. More info on the labyrinth to come!

Peter’s vision of all the unclean animals suddenly being placed ‘on the table’ of what God calls “clean,” opens him to visiting the gentile Cornelius. While there, the Holy Spirit falls on Cornelius and his family just as it had on the Jewish disciples, and Peter asks himself, “who am I to hinder God?” The… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Fifth Sunday of Easter          April 28, 2013 Meditation For what’s the use of a utopian dream if we’re stuck with the same old men and women? …Unless we can be changed we’ll dream a Holy City but end with death and… Read more.

In the bible readings appointed for Sunday, we read of the grief of the widows at the death of Tabitha, we also read in Revelation of the care and gratitude of the multitude who had come through “great ordeal.” In a week of much ordeal we realize how much we have to be grateful for… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Good Shepherd Sunday April 21, 2013 Meditation ““Living in the power of the resurrection means refusing to accept that anything that is broken will remain broken.”   –Robert Bondi Gathering to Worship Welcome and Announcements    Prelude     Paean on Hyfrydol (Praise to the… Read more.