Mission and Service Board

There is still time to order your Lily for Easter morning! Fill out the form by Wednesday, March 27! Easter morning flowers are a glorious way to celebrate the joy of resurrection. Now you can order sanctuary lilies in honor or memory of loved ones for just $15 and a click or call! Sales of… Read more.

Due to the weather, we’ll start work on the Community Garden plots in front of the church NEXT week, March 9 at 9:00 am. Join us if you can, wear your grubbies and gloves, bring tools if you have them.  Call Doug Hindman, 582-5806 for more info.

Several Union Church families and members joined Kentuckians for the Commonwealth on Thursday for their annual I ♥ Mountains Day march against mountaintop removal.  Union Church encourages all its members to stand up where they see injustice, and this is a place in which many of our members have found that voice. One of our youngest… Read more.

Lara Mack from the Central Appalachian Prisoner Support Network addressed our Wednesday Night Live supper crowd with a great report of the work they’ve been able to offer in connecting dislocated prisoners to distant family. Working with member Willie Dodson, Lara reported that the powerful prison industrial complex supports many state and private prisons in central… Read more.

Michelle Tooley was featured twice on KET in the past week, once as a panelist on KET Presents: The Price of Poverty in Kentucky, a panel that also included Reid Livingston.  And Michelle was interviewed separately by Renee Shaw on her Connect program on the topic of global violence against women and the relationship with… Read more.

Peace on Earth, Good Will to All!  Wonderful sentiments for Christmas, but how do we work to bring those sentiments to life in today’s time?  How do we bring the true meaning of Christmas to our friends and family?  Christmas with a Conscience is the perfect place to do your shopping for gifts that reflect… Read more.

As we mentioned in our post a few weeks ago, the Central Appalachian Prisoner Support Network is hosting a Barn Dance and Cake Walk to raise money for their great work.  Come on out TONIGHT  at 8pm at Woods-Penniman Commons to support them, get your groove on, and eat some cake!  It’s a win-win!  See… Read more.

Union Church member Willie Dodson presented to Wednesday Night Live on Nov. 14th about his work with the Central Appalachian Prisoner Support Network in Wyse County, VA.  CAPSN, which began after prisoners in an Appalachian prison staged a hunger strike to protest inhumane treatment, seeks to support both prisoners (who often come from urban areas… Read more.