Announcements

Christmas Eve services at Union Church will be at 5:30 pm and 11:00 pm. For the early service, special gathering music will begin at 5:10 pm, with Larry Brandenburg on the organ, with bluegrass specialists Al, Alice and Emma White, Ruth Smith, and a host of other musicians! Come early to get great seats and… Read more.

You are welcome to attend the Long Night Service for Prayers of Healing tonight at 7:00 pm, in the Sanctuary. This special quiet service is for anyone who is suffering in body, mind, or spirit during the holidays: Those who have lost loved ones, who are divorced or widowed, suffering depression, lost their jobs, or… Read more.

First Christmas Pageant Rehearsal is Wednesday, December 5, after Wednesday Nite Live Supper!! Berea College Christmas Concert is 7:30 pm December 7 & 8 in our very own Sanctuary. December 9 – We are Home for the Holidays!! First worship service back in our Sanctuary! 10:30 am as usual! Poinsettias Needed for Christmas! If you would… Read more.

Join Bereans for Fairness next Tuesday, November 20th for the Berea City Council meeting to show your support for the ongoing effort for a local Fairness ordinance in Berea, which would prohibit discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression. Meet between 5:30-6:00pm at Berea Coffee & Tea (124… Read more.

At Wednesday’s construction progress meeting we learned what we need to do get into the sanctuary in early December. We need help to make this happen. Basically we need to get our belongings in the sanctuary moved out. We’ll start Monday, November 12th and need to be done by Wednesday, November 21st, or sooner. We… Read more.

Each year we take time to remember those in our lives who have made a difference. On All Saint’s Sunday (always the Sunday close to November 1) we particularly remember those from our congregation, our families, and our wider relationships who have died. Our Christian faith affirms that though their loss is heart-rending and changes… Read more.

YOU are welcome to Wednesday Nite Live! tomorrow for supper and fellowship at 5:45 pm (donation if able).  At the Freinds Meeting House, 300 Harrison Rd.  Youth Groups and Bob Berger’s study class for adults are at 6:30.  If you come, Grace McKenzie would greatly appreciate it if you brought some newspapers and magazines for a collage.

In the spring of 2010, our congregation voted to try out, for 18 months, a new governance structure, temporarily suspending some of the stipulations of our constitution. It is now time for us to see how this new structure is working and to make changes to the constitution, if necessary. Therefore, at its Sept 17… Read more.