A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Second Sunday of Lent March 17, 2019 10:30 am Meditation Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ― Rumi Spirituality is… Read more.
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We're Making an Offering of Letters to End Hunger! Join In!
Urge Congress to Advance Global Nutrition We have the tools to move toward our goal of ending hunger. Good nutrition during the 1,000-day period from the beginning of a woman’s pregnancy to her child’s second birthday is critical to a child’s health and future well-being. To accelerate progress on nutrition, we must scale up what… Read more.
Bread for the World 2019 Offering of Letters will be at Wednesday Night Live March 20.
Bread for the World 2019 Offering of Letters to Congress “Better Nutrition, Better Tomorrow” will be at Wednesday Night Live March 20. Union Church is a Covenanted Member of Bread for the World and each year we participate in the Offering of Letters, along with churches and organizations throughout the United States, to lobby Congress… Read more.
Announcements – Game Night At Wednesday Nite Live! Pie Auction Thursday! SongFarmers Friday! And more!
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.
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.