Consider

Rev. Rachel will be away in Arizona January 3-9 as part of her Next Generation Leadership Initiative fellowship program. She’ll be learning about guiding churches through mission planning and visioning, and will happily share her learnings when she returns. Please note that she will not be available for calls and will likely not have much… Read more.

Dear Friends, As you will have read or heard,  Associate Pastor Rev. Rachel Small Stokes has accepted a call to become Designated Interim Pastor at Immanuel United Church of Christ in Louisville, KY. She will serve here until February 11, 2018 then assume her new duties as head of staff at church of her own…. Read more.

December The Season of Advent: Light in the Darkness Our First Stephen Ministers! Commissioning, Dec. 3! Update on 2018 Budget & Congregational Meeting December 10. Re-occuring Giving in easyTithe Give Gifts that Matter: Alternative Christmas Market continues online From Rev. Kent – Watch for the Light Music in December! News of the Family, Birthdays &… Read more.

News of the Family Congratulations to former church member Kent Pugh who successfully defended his thesis at the University of Louisville for his doctorate in applied sociology! Congratulations, Dr. Pugh! Prayers and Blessings for Ellison Eugene Groth, son of Chloe and Ben Groth and brother to John Henry. Ellis was baptized on Nov. 26 in… Read more.

Advent affirms two essential elements of Christian faith: how things look does not always reveal their ultimate nature, and God is moving, restlessly and sometimes erratically, toward a new vision. The scriptures we will encounter this season admonish readers “to watch!”, “keep awake!”, and “be ready” for “no one knows the day or the hour”… Read more.

One way to help the church is your regular offering received in worship, but if you are like me you can’t always make it to church on Sunday. If you would consider setting up a re-occurring donation through our church website here is how to do so. If you already do so, have you updated… Read more.

In November of 2016, Church Council approved expenditures to develop a new kind of caring ministry for our congregation: a Stephen Ministry of trained lay caregivers. After a year of trainings, workshops, seminars, planning, and prayer we are ready to commission our first 8 Stephen Ministers in worship on Sunday, December 3. In this program… Read more.