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Due to the weather, we’ll start work on the Community Garden plots in front of the church NEXT week, March 9 at 9:00 am. Join us if you can, wear your grubbies and gloves, bring tools if you have them.  Call Doug Hindman, 582-5806 for more info.

Blood on the Cedars addresses the imperial conquest of nature and connects the feral theatricality of the Hebrew prophets to contemporary resistance movements. Combining storytelling, song, movement and music- integrating the scholarship of Ched Myers with the brazen poetry of Jim Perkinson- the call of the wild comes alive in this theatrical depiction of an… Read more.

Union Church members made a trip to Cincinnati to view the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit on Saturday, February 24.  The exhibit traces the history of these important biblical texts found in 1946 by a Palestinian shepherd where they had been hidden for nearly 2000 years. Considered among the world’s greatest archaeological discoveries, the Dead Sea… Read more.

Several Union Church families and members joined Kentuckians for the Commonwealth on Thursday for their annual I ♥ Mountains Day march against mountaintop removal.  Union Church encourages all its members to stand up where they see injustice, and this is a place in which many of our members have found that voice. One of our youngest… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union First Sunday of Lent February 17, 2013 Meditation The merit of a fast day is the charity dispensed then.                                                                                                          —The Talmud Gathering to Worship Welcome and Announcements Prelude     Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)        David N. Johnson ¨  Call… Read more.

Ash Wednesday Service Union Church, February 13, 2013 Meditation Would you become a pilgrim on the road of Love?  The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.                                                                                                         —Ansarit of Herat Bell Introit                      Call to Worship                     from Seasons of the Spirit One:     We meet… Read more.

As we ramp up to Lent, we haven’t forgotten the most important pre-Lenten tradition: Mardi Gras!  Fat Tuesday is usually a time to eat up all the goodies before the Lenten fast, so in good style we had pancakes with fruits and syrups, sausage, and cheese grits! We also had hat-making (thanks to our friends… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Transfiguration Sunday February 10, 2013 Meditation O Lord, refresh our sensibilities.  Give us this day our daily taste.  Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in, and sauces which are never the same twice,  Raise up among us stews… Read more.