Pick up your Directory at WNL, and thereafter in the office or vestibule. PDFs will be available for the asking as well. We didn’t include the skill share section—though it’s a terrific idea, we didn’t get a lot of participation. We’ll ask again at Stewardship season. Thank you!
CoCoDA Lunch next Sunday! Fundraiser lunch after worship September 30th. Our development partner CoCoDA has several projects underway in El Salvador and Nicaragua, to provide clean piped water to villages, and even more ambitiously, to run the water pumps with solar-produced electricity. We are partnering with CoCoDA to help raise the needed funds to complete these projects, and will kick off the effort with a Salvadoran-themed lunch next Sunday. There will also be a short informational presentation on the project by Deborah Payne.
World Communion Sunday October 7, at First Christian. Each year churches around the world celebrate World Communion Sunday as a deliberate way to recognize God’s work in all its many forms. Union Church and First Christian Church have a long tradition of celebrating our unique common heritage (both churches were founded by Rev. John G. Fee) by holding a joint worship service on this day.
We will worship together and celebrate communion with our sister church, First Christian Church, as we pray for and with Christians all around the world. This year, our brothers and sisters from First Christian, and their pastors, Mark and Lisa Caldwell-Reiss will host us. The vocal choirs and handbell ensembles from both churches will sing & play together as well.
Another tradition: loose plate offering will be given to Berea Faith Community Outreach (BFCO) to assist their vital work. Contributions to the Food Bank especially welcomed, as well.
Welcome to Dr. Bernardo Scarambone, who will begin this week as our Interim Director of Music! Dr. Scarambone is professor of piano and keyboard at Eastern Kentucky University and has a long history with church music. Originally from Brazil, Bernardo lives in Richmond with his wife and 3 children.
Sermon Series “All In” All This September. Union Church wants you to be “In”: In for work that matters, and In for transformative living. This month we’ll be exploring what’s “In” as we build a beloved community with the very people who may have thought they were “out.”
Meals for Jennie Kiteck. Friends, if you or your children ever played strings with Jennie Kiteck, now might be a nice time to reconnect briefly. She’s not doing much cooking these days and Union Church has set up a Meal Train to provide a home-cooked meal for her once a week on Friday evenings. She is an adventurous eater and does a great job washing up your containers! Use this MealTrain link: https://mealtrain.com/dwkg44
Come to Wednesday Nite Live! All welcome for supper at 5:45 pm ($5 donation if able). Youth Group at 6:30, Handbell rehearsal at 7.
The nursery and children’s church are both in need of volunteer substitutes for those rare occasions when our amazing nursery worker and children’s church teachers aren’t here. If you’re called to this way of serving the church family, please contact Laura Nagle (358-0106) or Jenny Hobson (893-1075) and we’ll get the process started.
Friends of the Madison County Public Library is a non-profit group that supports the programing and staff of Madison County Public Library. This library has more than 65,000 active library card holders. Funds raised by the Friends come from book sales, small quilt auction and annual membership fees. Become a member today or renew your annual membership by picking up an application in the narthex, at the library or go online to our website, Friends of the Madison County Public.
Please Sign up to Read Scripture or to Help Greet and Usher! Please use our electronic sign up system, http://signup. com/go/xkdVtB, where you can pick a date that works for you and get reminders! OR you can also call the office and we’ll get you on the lists.
LifeLine is coming to Union Church October 5. Info in the vestibule. There are three ways to register for this event and to receive a $10 discount off any package priced above $129, please call 1-888-653-6441 or visit www.lifelinescreening.com/or text the word circle to 797979.
Witness for Peace Southeast Speaker and Program on October 17 at Wednesday Nite Live We are fortunate that Berea, KY is once again on the Witness for Peace Southeast Fall Speakers Tour. Union Church will be privileged to host Alicia Sevila Hidalgo from Havana, Cuba on Oct. 17 at WNL.
She will also be speaking at a luncheon event on campus that day, sponsored by the Peace and Social Justice Program.. Alicia Sevila Hidalgo from Havana, Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center lives and works in Matanzas, Cuba as a pastor, ecumenical leader, popular educator and prison educator focusing on gender and liberation theology. She will be accompanied by a WFP Team from Raleigh, NC.
Union Church has been privileged to serve as a host for the Fall Speakers Tour for a number of years, thanks to Michelle Tooley’s involvement as a Board Member and arranging for Berea to be a stop on the Tour while she was on the Berea College Faculty. Mark October 17 on your calendar now!!
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