Congregational Family Conversations postponed. Our Strategic Planning Group needs more time to distill input and make plans!
Next Week: new members welcomed! 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. 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.
Do you like snacks? Do you like helping your friends enjoy snacks? If so, you’re in luck. We are looking for two more people to join the Sunday Morning Hospitality Team to set up / clean up the coffee and treats in the parlor. There are openings the first and third Sunday of the month. It would be a great opportunity for a family to serve together — snacks are fun! Contact Laura Nagle for more information. (Call or text: 859-358-0106 or joyfulsunflower@gmail.com)
Worship is work we do together! You Can Help! If you can read, or carry, or welcome you are helping! If you have suggestions for names we might light the Justice Candle for, you are a gift! If you can help straighten the pews and hymnals after service, or share the names of those who need prayer, or sing with joy, you are lifting our work together to a new level. Sharing on facebook or twitter might be a good way to bring someone a little inspiration! To volunteer, or submit names for prayer or justice work, please call the office or email Rev. Kent. You can also submit these on the church website, a great place to stay connected.
Beyond: Encaustic Sculpture. Exhibit by Michelle Hayden at Mill & Max Contemplative Arts Gallery, 385 S. Mill St. Lexington. The show closes on the 14th. Gallery is open Feb. 2 & 9, from 12-3 or by appointment. Email gallery director Karl Lindstrom at millandmaxgallery@gmail.com.
Union Church is participating in Room in the Inn! Union Church will participate as one of the “Inns” every Sunday night until the end of the season (likely March 10) and we are looking for volunteers who can help with things like
- cooking a meal or cleaning up afterwards;
- moving supplies from one location to another;
- doing laundry;
- spending the night at church with our guests on the nights they are here.
Whether it’s just once, once a month or once a week, we can use your help. Call Joan Moore 859-302-5582 for laundry and other tasks or Mary Lou Wiese 260-571-4959 for food and meals. You can sign up here to bring a meal — MealTrain for Room In the Inn – Union Church: https://mealtrain.com/vwoklw
The Census Bureau is hiring now and up to the 2020 Census. You must be 18 years old or older, a US citizen, have transportation, an email address, internet access to apply (you can use a computer here). Pay is $14 an hour + 58 cents a mile driven for the job. Part time, flexible hours. Paid training for 3-5 days. 2020census.gov/jobs
Read Psalm 71:1-6. The psalm speaks to us of God being with and in us from our birth. In what way do you experience that in your life? In what ways are you leaning on God now? In what ways would you like more support?
Read Jeremiah 1:4-10. God said, “I put my words within you.” How is that living in you today? What word will you take with you as your strength? God has placed it within you…how can you draw on it?
Take a moment to inventory the shape of your love: the love you give, the love you receive. What are the characteristics of your love language? What love will you put into the world when you leave the building today?
The Call from 1 Corinthians 13
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies.
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