Stewardship Update: Many, many thanks to the 26 early pledgers, who have committed to directing $105,000 toward our 2019 budget of $450,000. Later this week you’ll get a pledge card in the mail, or you’ll find them in the pews on Sunday, Consecration Sunday, October 28. Thank you for your gifts to the work of the church, and for your generous hearts!
“Do One Thing Different” Special Wednesday Nite Live October 24, 5:45 pm supper & 6:30 presentation. Get important financial strategies from a membership organization of Christians that’s been helping members be wise with money and live generously for more than 100 years.
Everybody’s talking about one thing they can do differently to improve some aspect of their financial life. Even one change can make a big impact. Get facts to help you make more informed decisions. Then choose to do one thing differently to positively affect the way you share, save or spend. This session is hosted by Thrivent Financial representatives Joseph R Volpi and Rachel A Hooker, CLTC (No products will be sold at this event).
Saturday, Oct. 27: The Markesberry Symposium on Aging & Dementia, free at the Lexington Convention Center, registration required – call 859-323-5474 or paula.thomason@uky.edu.
October 28, 3-5, Community Room. Planned Parenthood of Indiana & Kentucky invites everyone to an afternoon of refreshments and conversation about reproductive justice and the importance of increasing access to care in the community. Please join the staff and President & CEO, Christie Gillespie to discuss the growth of tele-medicine and contraceptive access and how that affects Berea. RSVP to Heather Bruner (heather.bruner@ppink.org or 502-400-2302) by October 24.
Church member David Parks will offer Bluegrass Zen: Meditation, Koans, Conversation on Mondays beginning Oct. 29, 6:30 – 8:00 pm, Cowan Chapel. No experience necessary, all welcome. Experience the beauty of zen, hearts opening to life just as it is.
The Berea College Christmas Concert will be Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 here at Union Church. Tickets are $5 each, maximum of 4 per person, available online only. We will share the link when we receive it on Nov. 1.
Two Hundred Strong: a Choral-Orchestral Collaboration. November 4, 3:00 pm In Honor of the Spring, 2019, Retirement of Dr. Stephen Bolster.
Five musical ensembles from three regional colleges/universities will be joining the Berea College Concert Choir in a collaborative performance in Union Church.
The Asbury University Chorale, Vicki Bell, conductor; and the Centre College Choir, Johann Van Niekirk, conductor will form a 140-voice choir along with the Berea College Concert Choir, Stephen Bolster, conductor. The Asbury University Orchestra, Nathan Miller, conductor, and the Centre College Orchestra, Robert J. Seebacher, conductor will join forces to form a 60-member orchestral ensemble to perform sections of the Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky, conducted by Nathan Miller, and will also accompany the choirs on the centerpiece of the program, the Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Song of Destiny) of Johannes Brahms, conducted by Stephen Bolster.
Professor Bolster, who is being honored in the concert for his 39 years of teaching vocal and choral music at Berea College, will also conduct the massed choirs on “I’m gonna sing ‘til the spirit moves in my heart,” a stirring African-American spiritual arranged by Moses Hogan. Collaborative pieces conducted by the other conductors include Laudate pueri from the Vesperae
solemnes de confessore by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, David Pegel’s anthem “Keep watch, Dear Lord,” Ecce sacerdos magnus by Anton Bruckner, and Indondana, a South African song. The five ensembles will be performing an identical program at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, November 3 on the main stage at Norton Center in Danville.
You may have noticed some mobiles of piano hammers hanging around the church! These mobiles have been made from the hammers taken out of our grand piano during its renovation this past summer. If you are interested, please take one. We are asking for a donation of $25 that will be credited to account Organ Fund. Make a note on any donation that it is for the mobile and checks can be made out to Union Church. Thanks, and enjoy!
Pick up your Directory in the vestibule or the office. PDFs available for the asking.
Betty Wray is having a birthday (11/11) and we want to celebrate her! Come to a special birthday coffee hour after worship on Nov. 11.
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 MealTrain 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 (the link will be live in the emailed Monday announcements).
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.
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