Join the Church Next Week!
New Members Welcomed Next Week! As a family of faith committed to boldly and creatively embodying the life and ministry of Jesus, we would like to join with YOU. We’d like to be a context and inspiration for your own spiritual path, and work with you to make your heart, your world, your life more peace-filled and joy-full.
Next Sunday there will be an opportunity to covenant together — whether you are a member of the community who worships online, in-person, or both! No prior action on your part is required, but if you have any questions at all, we’d like to help. Working together, we want to make God’s love visible and real to all.
The Nominating Board is seeking candidates to serve on Union Church’s Worship Board, and as Moderator. You are invited to consider serving our Church community for a term of one, two, or three years.
Worship Board: Purpose: To guide and support the worship experiences for the beloved community of Union Church.
Responsibilities and Duties
¨ Create passionate worship experiences, in collaboration with Pastor(s) and music staff;
¨ Encourage aesthetic/visual qualities of the church conducive for worship;
¨ Prepare and serve communion; arrange for ushers to welcome worshippers and collect offering; arrange for acolytes; schedule lay readers;
¨ Arrange for pulpit supply, as needed.
¨ Monitor the expenses of the Worship Board in the budget and designated accounts.
Moderator: cooperate with the Pastor(s) by providing broad lay leadership for the Congregation and serve on each Board as ex officio member without vote.
Specific duties
¨ to preside at all regular and special meetings of the church,
¨ participate with the pastor(s) at the reception of new members
¨ moderate Church Council meetings in the absence of Church Council Chair.
If neither the Moderator, nor Church Council Chair (as provided for in sec. 5.2.1), is able to perform these duties, the Moderator may appoint an officer to serve in his or her place. Failing this, the officers present shall select an officer to serve.
Please contact the Church Office or Rachel Lakes for more information about the boards and to self-nominate or recommend someone.
Book Study on Wholehearted Faith! Small Group meets Tuesdays, 6pm, Union Church Conference Room, till March 28. If you prefer to Zoom in, Zoom invite will be sent to those who register. Registration link will be live in Monday Announcements tomorrow or use: bit.ly/Wholehe artedFaithatUnion
Interested in a different kind of Lenten devotion? How about singing with the choir for a few weeks? Wednesdays at 6:30 in the 3rd floor Choir Room. No huge commitment necessary AND on Easter Sunday, April 9, anyone who would like to will be welcome to sing the Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah. Choir will rehearse the piece at every Weds. rehearsal so you’ll be prepared to make a joyful noise!
Mark your Calendar! March 23, 7 pm. An evening with Steve Rhodes, poet, in Cowan Chapel.
March 25—Star Gazing Party!! 7 pm at Lazy Eight Stock Farm (GPS will get you there if you enter the name) or call Carla Baumann for more information or directions – 859.200.4831. Rain date TBD if necessary. Jeff Hutton will guide viewing of the crescent moon, which will sit right next to the pretty star cluster called the Pleiades. Also Venus and Mars are up! Light snacks provided. Read more from Jeff about the skies above us here: https://forestryoutreach.berea.edu/skies-over-the-pinnacles/
Climate Change Berea at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21
Please plan now to attend the March public meeting of Climate Change Berea at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21 in the Fellowship Hall of First Christian Church, 206 Chestnut Street.
It promises to be personally helpful and relevant to all and also provide a deeper overall understanding of the causes of climate change.
Kristen Davis, a compliance officer at the University of Kentucky Federal Credit Union will present on “Credit Unions and Your Opportunity to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint.”
We will have hand-outs on options for Bereans who want their financial arrangements to be consistent with their values.
On this date – 3-21- TH1RD ACT – https://thirdact.org/national-day-of-action/ – is sponsoring programs and actions all over America to encourage people to publicly or privately cut up credit cards and boycott the four banks that invest most heavily in fossil fuels – Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, and Wells-Fargo. 3-2-1 Time to Take Action for the Climate!
Our Berea meeting is an informative program, not a protest, but in solidarity with those who are taking action.
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