Mission and Service Board

Our intrepid crew of Habitat for Humanity volunteers is hard at work despite below-freezing temps.  Here are some snapshots from the morning’s work.  Keep cheering them on!

Wednesday Nite Live Program this Week:  Charlie Wilton of the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Action Team to Abolish the Death Penalty will speak at this week’s WNL about the importance of this issue in the upcoming Legislative Session. WNL Programs brought to you by the Mission & Service Board. Supper at 5:45pm (donation if able),… Read more.

Zoe Wilcher, member of our youth group discovered that because of the riots in Ferguson, the schools were closed. She learned that this meant that thousands of children who rely on the lunch and breakfast programs at those schools were going to go hungry and that several churches in the area were banding together to… Read more.

From the Mission and Service Board: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — or Advent, anyway. Union Church will once again have the opportunity to help with the St. Clare Christmas Basket project. At Wednesday Night Live this week we will have two special guests, Ellen Burke and Dennis Jacobs from St. Clare… Read more.

Mark your calendars for a chili lunch celebration at 12:00, November 30th. We’ll have several kinds of chili to choose from, including vegetarian and gluten free, desserts, salad and bread. Quilts and crafts will be available to purchase or order. We will also be teaching the classic version of sewing. Live music and even livelier… Read more.

Below is a link to an interview with Berea College graduate and current Deputy Chief of Staff to Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Gyude Moore, about the Ebola epidemic. Our Mission Board has sent $1,000 to Doctors Without Borders for Liberian assistance. http://www.npr.org/2014/09/20/350155808/it-is-hell-out-here-says-liberian-official Transcript: ARUN RATH, HOST: The Ebola epidemic in West Africa keeps getting scarier…. Read more.

Our Mission and Service Board introduces this opportunity to help build prosperity in coffee farming communities: Sam Hawes, recent Berea College Grad – is working with Project Alianza out of Boston – a program that offers agricultural education and access to fair markets for coffee farming families in underserved communities, beginning in Jinotega, Nicaragua. As… Read more.

Dozens of Union church members joined Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and representative Rita Smart has he signed House bill 175 into law today. HB 175 supports affordable housing and the Kentucky Housing Authority. Gov. Beshear signed the bill at Silver Creek senior housing. Mayor Connelly, Rev. Kent and Rev. Rachel, and many union church members… Read more.