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Here is the time for telling. Here is its home. Speak and make known: more and more The things we could experience are lost to us, banished by our failure to imagine them.  Old definitions, which once set limits to our living,  break apart like dried crusts.  — Rainer Maria Rilke (from the Ninth Duino… Read more.

Welcome to Barbara Wade, who has made her long association with Union Church official by becoming an Associate Member! It’s a joy to worship and serve together. Mercury transit, 2019! Our own astronomer, Jeff Hutton, will be doing guided viewing 10 -2 today (Nov. 11) at Indian fort Theater and will present a short talk at… Read more.

Despite rain and chill, our intrepid young people finished out collecting bags for the hunger hurts food drive at the end of October. We discovered that trying to carry wet paper bags full of canned food makes for great comedy! We went bowling that same weekend (not with cans but with actual bowling balls) and… Read more.

Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost November 10, 2019   10:30 am Meditation The heart can think of no devotion greater than being shore to the ocean. Holding the curve of one position, counting an endless repetition. —Robert Frost From there to here: we Gather Welcome &… Read more.

First-Wednesday-of-the-Month Potluck Wednesday, Nov. 6. Let’s share a meal and fellowship! Gather at 5:45 pm in the Community Room.  Laurie White, Chair of the Community Board of Room In The Inn, will be our guest speaker. She has data to share from last year — the inaugural year of RITI in Berea — as well… Read more.

Berea College’s Christmas Concert will be held here at Union Church December 6 & 7, 7:30 pm. Tickets are only available online, $5 each, limit of 4. Use this link to purchase – $5 each, limit 4: https://bereacollegechristmasconcert2019.eventbrite.com  

Dear Church family and our Many Friends, Beloved office staff beagle Murphy died this afternoon at home after a brief but devastating illness. For the last 11 years Murphy has spent nearly every work day and every Sunday morning traipsing between meetings, sleeping under conference tables and consoling the hurts of those who came for… Read more.