Friends, we’re in a bit of a bind. We’re seeking someone to run the sound system for the SaraCare concert Friday (April 26) at 7:30, sound check Thursday at 5. Our usual folks are unavailable. Do you have a hidden tech talent you’d like to share, or know someone I might call? Pay is $100 AND we’ll buy you dinner. Thanks in advance, Joan (859-582-8419) call or text, or email the church office office@union-church.org
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! To all who helped make this Easter Sunday such a joyous celebration! We are so grateful for the balloon inflating, reading, singing, playing, cleaning, banner-hanging, and other jobs too numerous to mention!!
Learn more about the church next week! Come One, Come All! Each fourth Sunday of the month anyone wanting to know more about Union Church or wanting to explore church membership, are invited to come to the Classroom, past the office at the end of the hall, and join in conversation with the Community Life and Growth Board after worship.
We want to celebrate our graduates!! We will recognize our college graduates on April 28, and our high school graduates on May 12. Please let us know if you are graduating so we can be sure to honor you! (Contact Laura: joyfulsunflowergmail.com or 859-358-0106 — call or text).
April 22: Memory Keepers Support Group, 7:30 in the Wayside Room. Memory Keepers, a support group for care partners of those with memory loss, meets every 2nd and 4th Monday. Plan to attend and learn how we can best minister to each other – whether we are the person suffering memory loss, a care partner, or a caring member of our congregation and community. Call Doug Hindman at 859-582-5806 for more info.
April 23, 6:30 pm. RITI Volunteer celebration! All volunteers who contributed their time, resources, and/or gave financial support to Room in the Inn Berea this season are invited! At Berea Baptist Church’s Fellowship Hall, 310 Chestnut St.
WNL Speaker on April 24 – “Pay As You Save” Energy Efficiency Programs For Berea – Now Is The Time (Steve Wilkins) On-bill financing is an innovative strategy that allows both businesses and households of ALL income levels to vastly improve the energy effic-iency of structures by financing upgrades through their electric utilities. With this strategy, which some refer to as “pay-as-you-save,” investments in energy efficiency are funded through very low-cost loans from the utility. The upgrades are paid back on electric bills via the energy savings realized through the improvements. Steve’s presentation will explore this strategy in more detail. He will also describe next steps for bringing pay-as-you-save programs to Berea.
Friday, April 26: SaraCare Celebration SaraCare is a memorial fund in honor of Sara Elizabeth Kennedy, the daughter of Eddie and Norma Kennedy who, with tremendous hope, fought Rhabdomyo-sarcoma (an aggressive childhood cancer) from June 16, 2004 until March 23, 2005 when the battle was lost. This fund was established in order to support the work of her wonderful health care providers (Kentucky Children’s Hospital and The Pediatric Oncology Clinic). The SaraCare Fund is also dedicated to providing assistance and comfort to young patients and their families. Spaghetti supper starting at 5:30 pm in the Community Room ($5) with raffles all evening, followed by a concert in the sanctuary at 7:30 (donations accepted).
The Properties Board thanks Donna Abner and Mary Lou Wiese for their time and effort in beautifying the flower bed outside the Office Entrance. The Board has also had the southeast entrance and stairwell repainted and replaced a thermostat for the water heater.
May 8 Author Talk and Lunch with Derek Penwell. Outlandish: An Unlikely Messiah, A Messy Ministry and the Call to Mobilize. May 8, 11am-1pm. First Christian Church, 206 Chestnut Street, Office wing, basement level. RSVP to 859986-4533 to order lunch or bring your own brown bag.
Rev. Derek Penwell is a colleague and friend of Rev. Mark and Lisa Caldwell-Reiss from seminary days. With his congregation, Douglas Boulevard Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Louisville, KY, he engages in activist and prophetic ministries that fight injustice in their city and in our state. He speaks and writes in plain language while working from an extensive academic foundation.
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