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Jody Heskett Flara August 3, 1956 — August 3, 2020   August 16, 2020, 2:00 pm Rev. Kent Gilbert Union Church  Bernardo Scarambone, Organist   Welcome Rev. Kent Gilbert Prelude Opening Prayer Music I Can Only Imagine Faith Hill Readings Psalm 46:1-3,10-11 Soliloquy from “Cymbeline” by William Shakespeare Romans 12:1-2, 9-18, 21 Reflections from Family… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Celtic Sunday! August 16, 2020        10:30 am   Meditation We were born into an unjust system. We are not prepared to grow old in it.   — Bernadette Devlin From there to here: we Gather Welcome As the… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Tenth Sunday after Pentecost August 9, 2020  10:30 am Meditation The religious contradiction: To be joyful out on 70,000 fathoms of water, many, many miles from all human help–yes, that is something great! To swim in the shallows in the company of… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Ninth Sunday after Pentecost August 2, 2020   10:30 am   Meditation May we realize that God’s blessing upon us—that for which we have wrestled, some of us for so long and so fiercely—is that we be empowered to welcome and bless those… Read more.

We, as a church community and a nation, have focused on issues of poverty and race this summer with the assistance of Black Lives Matter and the Poor People’s Campaign (nationally and in Kentucky). This documentary aims to heighten our awareness of how climate change has a larger impact on poor communities than on more… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Eighth Sunday after Pentecost July 26, 2020     10:30 am Meditation God longs for God  and uses us,  rises in us… Becomes in us. Let us be silent,  a quiet dough where God moves  into every pore… where God lives as God pleases. … Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Seventh Sunday after Pentecost July 19, 2020     10:30 am Meditation Up until the parousia, the church will always be a mixed bag of good and evil; it should not play God by trying to justify itself completely through purges and Inquisitions…… Read more.

The Mission and Service Board would like to introduce the congregation to KIVA ,  “an international nonprofit  with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.”  Kiva makes microloans to entrepreneurs in distressed areas of the world.    The lender (you)  loans as little as $25.00 toward a project of your choice.  When… Read more.