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by Mary Lou Wiese Reason number one is Kent Gilbert. Our pastor has supported Stephen Ministry from the beginning of the project. He took five days to go to St.Louis and be trained with Betty Hibler, Jeff From, and myself. He also kept Union Church going while putting in ten hour days in St. Louis…. Read more.

I’ve just returned from the Wild Goose Festival, an eclectic mix of Music, Art, Spirituality and Justice…and people! This is my fifth year attending this Festival in Hot Springs, NC where this year 4000 people gathered…quite a few more than the couple of hundred the first couple of years.  It is a gathering of folks… Read more.

On August 29, at 5:45 pm, our /CoCoDA Salvadoran friends, Ivan Villasboa and Yunior Gomez are coming to Union Church and the Berea community for an unofficial Wednesday Nite Live.  They will bring their wonderful expertise and slides to catch us up on what is going on in El Salvador and Nicaragua, the two regions… Read more.

School’s starting soon! Berea Community School needs socks for kids ages 5-12and underpants for girls/briefs for boys, sizes 4/5, 6, 8, 10,12 Please drop off at church office, or leave money and Dodie Murphy will do the shopping. If paying by check please make it out to Union Church with No Child Cold/No Child Hungry in… Read more.

The broad front porch of Union Church has hosted countless wedding receptions, class reunion pictures, candlelit vigils and gatherings for prayer and protest.  Now it’s getting a makeover to seal cracks and keep it useful and beautiful for the years to come. The project involved chiseling out the nearly 100 year old aggregate bed, as… Read more.

You will see elsewhere in “Consider” a letter from our Director of Music Ministries, Gabriel Evans, concerning his newly-announced move to New York City. Gabe has been our choir director and organist for four years and in that time has brought us not only beautiful music to uplift our worship, he has brought his good… Read more.

Dear Congregation of Union Church, It is with heavy heart that I inform you that I have resigned as Director of Music Ministries effective August 12, 2018.  My fiancé, Joseph, and I have had a wonderful opportunity for  both of us to move to New York City, and have chosen to take it.  He will… Read more.

We’re trying for a print date of earliest September. If you will send us your photo and info (names, addresses, birthdates & anniversaries, email addresses and phone numbers), you can save us a phone call! Maybe the number in your household has changed? Kiddo gone off to school? Gotten hitched? Maybe you’d like to opt… Read more.