A need: Betty Sarafin is moving and her car is out of commission. She needs to borrow a vehicle (van, pickup, car) for a couple of weeks. Can you help? Call her at 412-498-7598. There will be a Berea visitation for Dr. Janice Blythe on Wednesday, 4-9 pm, at Davis & Powell Funeral Home. In… Read more.
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Lent activities this Week (March 11-17) and Ongoing
Tuesday, 4:00 pm. Psalm Study. Meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month in the Classroom to read and reflect upon the Psalms. Wednesday, 8:30 am. Settle Into Scripture! Sundays at 4:00 pm & Wednesdays at 8:30 am in Cowan Chapel. For thirty minutes, Rev. Kent will lead the traditional Benedictine practice of… Read more.
From Rev. Kent
Dear Church Family and Friends, Have you noticed how hard it is to pay attention to the things that give you life? We are bombarded by the trivial, the urgent-but-unimportant, and too often the difficult-challenging-soul-numbing events that keep us from deepening. Lent, these 6 weeks prior to Easter, is the Christian season of creative resistance… Read more.
March 10, 2019, First Sunday of Lent, Worship Bulletin, Prayer Concerns, Announcements and Events
Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union First Sunday of Lent March 10, 2019 10:30 am Meditation No Christian escapes a taste of the wilderness on the way to the Promised Land. —Evelyn Underhill, The Fruit of the Spirit From there to Here:… Read more.
In Memoriam, Bernice Allen Parsons
Friends, Delores Carpenter’s mother, Bernice Allen Parsons, passed away on Wednesday. A visitation will be held tomorrow, Saturday, 11-1, at Dowlin and Martin Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon and a service will be held at 1, also at Dowlin & Martin. The link to the obituary is below. Let us hold Delores and all the… Read more.
Every Week—you’re invited!
Zen Meditation every weekday, 8:00 am. Join us for 20 minutes of unstructured quiet meditation in beautiful Cowan Chapel, on the Scaffold Cane Road side of the church. Mondays at 6:30 pm, Cowan Chapel. David Parks will offer Zen teaching: Meditation, Koans, Conversation, 6:30 – 8:00 pm, Cowan Chapel. Wednesday Nite Live.The Union Church community… Read more.
Pie Charts from Pastoral Survey in Annual Report
Union Church's Annual Meeting Report
At the Annual Meeting yesterday, March 10, Board Members & Officers were elected, the 2019 Budget was adjusted to correct an error, the Pastor’s Sabbatical Plan was approved for July 1-October 31 and the Annual Report for 2018 was accepted. After the installation of Board Members & Officers and a closing hymn, Rev. Kent dismissed… Read more.