Consider

The broad front porch of Union Church has hosted countless wedding receptions, class reunion pictures, candlelit vigils and gatherings for prayer and protest.  Now it’s getting a makeover to seal cracks and keep it useful and beautiful for the years to come. The project involved chiseling out the nearly 100 year old aggregate bed, as… Read more.

You will see elsewhere in “Consider” a letter from our Director of Music Ministries, Gabriel Evans, concerning his newly-announced move to New York City. Gabe has been our choir director and organist for four years and in that time has brought us not only beautiful music to uplift our worship, he has brought his good… Read more.

Dear Congregation of Union Church, It is with heavy heart that I inform you that I have resigned as Director of Music Ministries effective August 12, 2018.  My fiancé, Joseph, and I have had a wonderful opportunity for  both of us to move to New York City, and have chosen to take it.  He will… Read more.

We’re trying for a print date of earliest September. If you will send us your photo and info (names, addresses, birthdates & anniversaries, email addresses and phone numbers), you can save us a phone call! Maybe the number in your household has changed? Kiddo gone off to school? Gotten hitched? Maybe you’d like to opt… Read more.

The Children’s Church Team is looking for teachers for the upcoming year! No teaching experience necessary —  just a good sense of humor, a bit of patience, and the willingness to sit on the floor with small humans and explore the values of our faith while making cool stuff. The commitment is from September to… Read more.

Worship photos by Rachael White

Birthday celebration! Amy Williams is hosting a concert on July 7 at 7 pm at the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center to celebrate her 50th birthday! Come hear Sam Gleaves, Deborah Payne and Judith Ann Anderson and join her friends and family from near and far for this wonderful occasion. Greg Lakes has been appointed as… Read more.

by Betty Hibler A part of our twice-monthly meetings with our Stephen Ministers who have completed the Training and been “Commissioned” is devoted to considering what are called “Focus Questions.”  This past week, one of these Questions was: How are you learning to value your ministry for what it is rather than what it does?”… Read more.