Thanks to all who made Friday’s SaraCare Celebration a great success! Money raised – approx. $15,000! – helps provide assistance and comfort to young patients affected by serious illnesses and their families.
We want to celebrate our graduates!! We will recognize our high school graduates on May 12. Please let us know if you are graduating so we can be sure to honor you! (Contact Laura: joyfulsun flowergmail.com or 859-358-0106 — call or text).
Wednesday Nite Live is a POTLUCK this week for the first Wednesday of the month! May 8 is the last WNL before a summer break.
The Properties Board thanks Donna Abner and Mary Lou Wiese for their time and effort in beautifying the flower bed outside the Office Entrance. The Board has also had the southeast entrance and stairwell repainted and replaced a thermostat for the water heater.
Tupperware Birthday Bash, May 2,5:30 pm, Community Room. Quarter Auction, games, drawings, product demos, yummy samples, and exclusive Fundraiser products to benefit Union Church. Starts at 530. You’re invited! See Sara Murphy for details.
Memory Keepers May 7, 7:30 pm, Wayside Room. Pls note switch to Tuesdays. Memory Keepers is a support group for those caring for loved ones with memory loss. They now meet on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month at 7:30 pm in the Wayside Room. For more information or resources call Doug Hindman at 582-5806 or Carla Gilbert at 985-1144.
May 8 Author Talk and Lunch with Derek Penwell. Outlandish: An Unlikely Messiah, A Messy Ministry and the Call to Mobilize. May 8, 11am-1pm. First Christian Church, 206 Chestnut Street, Office wing, basement level. RSVP to 859-986-4533 to order lunch or bring your own brown bag.
Rev. Derek Penwell is a colleague and friend of Rev. Mark and Lisa Caldwell-Reiss from seminary days. With his congregation, Douglas Boulevard Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Louisville, KY, he engages in activist and prophetic ministries that fight injustice in their city and in our state. He speaks and writes in plain language while working from an extensive academic foundation.
Harvesting Hope: Drivers needed to pick up women in Richmond and bring them to Berea for the Harvesting Hope Opioid Addiction Job Training Program with Sustainable Berea. Morning trips are at 11:30 am on Mondays & Wednesdays, and 8:30 am Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays. Afternoon return trips are around 3:30 and 4:00 pm. If you can do one or two trips per week, (or more!) that would be a great help! Contact Cheyenne at: 859-893-4590 or email: cheyenne@sustainable berea.org.
The Census Bureau is hiring now and up to the 2020 Census. You must be 18 years old or older, a US citizen, have transportation, an email address, internet access to apply (you can use a computer here). Pay is $14 an hour + 58 cents a mile driven for the job. Part time, flexible hours. Paid training for 3-5 days. 2020census.gov/jobs.
Your Mission Dollars at Work! Union Church’s contribution to the One Great Hour of Sharing offering, received on Palm Sunday, was $3424.40!
Funds directly support flood relief in the Midwest and anti-poverty initiatives around the world in a time of desperate need. Thank you!
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