April 13 – One Great Hour of Sharing Offering Palm Sunday. Since 1949, millions of Christians have joined, through One Great Hour of Sharing, to share God’s love with people experiencing need. Our gifts support ministries of disaster response, refugee assistance and resettlement, and community development that help people find safe refuge, start new lives and work together to strengthen their families and communities. Recognizing that the hope we have in Christ is lived out in our hope for one another, we respond with gifts that help our siblings around the world find the hope for a better future.
About Sunday Compline Service: The Sabbath Compline at 6:30 pm in Cowan Chapel is a night prayer of psalm, silence, and song — a creative hush with God at the end of the day at the beginning of the week.
Cowan Chapel is adjacent to Union Church on the Scaffold Cane Rd. side. On this fifth Sunday of Lent, we’ll continue our chant with the supplicant of Psalm 86 and add the Taizé song Adoramus Te Domine. Cantor: David Duffee; Instrument-alists: Susie Ritchie, Charles Hoffman
Community Meals Every Wednesday 5:30pm-6:30pm: “Open Table” is a “pay what you can” ($0-$$) catered meal open to anyone. Chef Deb Beishline and a wonderful crew of volunteers prepare the menu each week always with GF and Vegetarian-friendly options (other needs can be accommodated on request!). Our hope is to remember the gifts of connection with great food the chance to “rub elbows” with neighbors. The food is great, the company is better, the hungry are fed, and we pray the love Jesus will be shown!
April 9 Menu:
· Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup
· Vegetarian Minestrone Soup
· Rolls and Butter
· Carrot Cake
· Fruit Salad
Help Needed – organizing donated treasures Help is needed organizing the numerous donated items that have been haphazardly stored for sale. Tennant Kirk will be arriving early for dinner on Wednesday night, April 9, to make sense of the chaos. Please contact her (859-200-0179 or tykirk53@ gmail.com) if you are available to help. Mission and Service Board invites suggestions for succes-sful ways to turn these donated treasures into cash for our charitable giving.
Old Time Music Jam April 12, 10 –noon, Parlor. All welcome!
Extreme Weather Preparedness 101April 12, 11-noon All are invited to a 1-hour workshop and receive a bag to make your “Go Bag.” Where? Madison County Public Library – Berea Branch Meeting Room. Sponsored by First Christian Church, Berea, KY Preparedness & Response Empowers People (PREP) Team.
Mending Services needed. Do we have anyone in the congregation who’s willing and able to provide some mending services (for pay)? Let us know in the office and we’ll make the connection.
Lilies to beautify the sanctuary! Order an Easter Lily to beautify the sanctuary for the Easter season! We’ll pick them up and keep them watered. You may dedicate your lily in honor or memory of loved ones. Pls order by noon Wednesday, April 16, for inclusion in the Easter bulletin – tks! Use the form in the bulletin or the QR code.
Name tags. We’ve gotten behind on making our reusable lanyard nametags. Would you like one? Let us know in the office.
Did you miss your chance to buy a Berea College student made ceramic bowl at Wednesday’s Empty Bowls event? Do not despair—there are several left in the Community Room, $15 to be donated to the Food Bank.
IDEA! Union Church’s 175th anniversary is coming up in a couple of years (‘28). Would anyone be interested in exploring the notion of creating a bound yearbook of photos?
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