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Taize Worship Service this Sunday. The Music of the Taizé Community, France, is used in the beautiful meditation-style services for which this small ecumenical monastic order has become famous. Very short melodies (usually only a line or two long) are sung in repetition like musical mantras, supported by instruments and sometimes by a cantor singing… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Easter Sunday March 27, 2016 10:30 am     Meditation Wring Out My Clothes “Such love does the sky now pour that whenever I stand in a field I have to wring out the light when I get home.” ― St…. Read more.

NO WNL supper tonight, see you next week for a Bread for the World POTLUCK! These groups ARE meeting — 6:30 pm   Youth Group meets — filling Easter eggs! 6:30 pm Book Study, with Rev. Kent & Rev. Rachel, Classroom 7:00 pm Handbell Ensemble, 3rd floor Choir Room  

Maundy Thursday, March 24, 7:30 pm service in the sanctuary. “Maundy” comes from the Latin “mandatum,” meaning “commandment.” On this night when Jesus met with his disciples for his last supper, he gave them a new commandment, “that you love one another.” During this special service we will share communion and recount the story of… Read more.

Maundy Thursday in Music, Prayer, Reading and Holy Silence: “The word “Maundy” comes from “mandatum novum,“ the Latin translation of John 13:34, “I give you a new commandment…that you love one another” Jesus spoke these words to the disciples on the evening when the First Supper was celebrated, just before he was betrayed and taken… Read more.

Crowds shout, palms branches wave, the heralded candidates enter the city! Political rally AND the scene in first century Jerusalem as we remember Jesus’ entry into the holy city. Jesus and the disciples, staging a counter demonstration to the corrupt and oppressive rule of Herod and the Roman occupying forces, uses symbols drawn from the… Read more.

In this fifth week of Lent, we retell the story of Mary’s costly gift of precious nard ointment she used to annoint Jesus. Her act enrages Judas who demands to know why the perfume wasn’t sold to help the poor. Jesus defends Mary by making theological space for the need to respond in generosity, but… Read more.