Rev. Kent will be away at a family wedding next week. Rev. Emily Miller will bring us the Word. Rev. Miller is the Director of Spirituality & Religious Life at Transylvania University. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a native of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, she has previously served churches in Michigan and Virginia, and worked for the PC(USA) and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In 2018, she and her husband, Rev. Dr. Jake Hofmeister, relocated to Berea with their then 2 month old daughter, Harriet.
Spring Caroling Practice at WNL! We will be choosing a few songs and practicing after supper on Wednesday so that we will be ready to sing to our friends in care facilities on Palm Sunday. Bring your ukulele, your kazoo, your friend who hums, and join us in a corner of the community room after we eat!
Can you help Grace McKenzie with this survey? It’s about how we use our public spaces and parks:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/OurBerea.
Narcan training here at Union Church March 26, 6 pm.
Thursday – Come to a Tupperware party and shopping spree! Free gifts, fun & games, tasting, learning and sharing. Hosted by Sara Murphy, all welcome!
Next Sunday (3/24), we are going to become a LOVE FLASH MOB for our young neighbors in the dorms nearby. Children’s Church kids will decorate boxes for an extra-special delivery. You can drop cookies and treats in the community room before or after service next week, and then come after Lenten Lunch at 2:00 to deliver the cookies and love.
Want to keep your hands busy during service? There’s a basket in the back of the church with knitting projects started by the knitters among us. You can knit a few rows and pray for the person who will receive the finished item, and then return it to the basket after service for someone else to add their stitches and prayers.
Bread for the World 2019 Offering of Letters to Congress “Better Nutrition, Better Tomorrow” will be at Wednesday Night Live March 20.Union Church is a Covenanted Member of Bread for the World and each year we participate in the Offering of Letters, along with churches and organizations through-out the United States, to lobby Congress on behalf of the world’s malnourished children and adults. Please plan now to come to WNL on March 20 and write to your Senators and Representative. All materials will be provided, along with information on this year’s campaign. In 2018 our Offering of Letters helped win bi-partisan passage of the Global Food Security Reauthorization Act and the Farm Bill.
Also, on March 20 we will have locally-made and donated pottery bowls for sale as part of the campus “Empty Bowls” event that same evening. The proceeds from the annual sale of the bowls support local Food Banks.
You can read more about Bread for the World and the 2019 Offering of Letters by visiting the website: bread.org.
Around Town and Notes & Notices
April 4-10: Host families needed for Danish High School visit! This is a great opportunity to create international friendships. Individuals and families of any size are needed to host Danish students visiting Berea. Responsibilities are mostly the bed-and-breakfast type, with morning drop-offs and evening pickups, and one afternoon of “free time with hosts.” No prior hosting experience is required and all students speak fluent English. Jennifer Escobar is coordinating. Please call 859-582-7014 for more info and to volunteer!
Sustainable Berea’s Victory Garden Blitz April 5 and 6! Each year, the Victory Garden Blitz seeks to boost local food security by installing raised garden beds at discounted cost to low-income families, or beds for families who don’t have the ability to build their own. It also offers education to new gardeners. We need 5-gallon buckets to transport soil for the Victory Garden Beds. Drop them at the Berea Urban Farm or at Union Church where Sustainable Berea can collect them. Scribble your name on the bucket if you want the bucket back! We need volunteers to help install beds and we need trucks and trailers. 859-985-1689.
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