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A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union  First Sunday of Christmas 10:30 am Meditation    We humans have spent a lot of time focusing on the fear.Don’t forget: God is also in the joy. ~ Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed from “Holy & Unhindered” From There to Here: We… Read more.

Welcome to Christmas Country Dance School Friends and Guests… Each year Berea hosts the annual Christmas Country Dance School with dancers, musicians, and craftspeople from around the country and the world. We are delighted to welcome participants to Union Church, including the many who have agreed to lend their talents to our service this morning…. Read more.

Prelude Music                               Portuguese Hymn                                     Sacred Harp                                                              Berea Shapenote Singers                                                                                                                                    Still, Still, Still                                      Austrian Carol                                                              Union Church Orchestra                                                                                                                          In the Bleak Midwinter                     Christina Rossetti                                                  Al, Alice & Ruth; Emma White, soloist                                                                                                 Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus                 Robert Powell                                                                Kim Kobersmith, flute                                                                      O Holy Night                                    Cappeau, Adam                                                            Whitney… Read more.

About tonight’s Compline Service: The Sabbath Compline at 6:30 pm in Cowan Chapel is a night prayer of psalm, silence, and song — a creative hush with God at the end of the day at the beginning of the week.      Cowan Chapel is adjacent to Union Church on the Scaffold Cane Rd. side. Christmas… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Fourth Sunday of Advent 10:30 am  Meditation    But despite it all, the bell that wouldn’t stop tolling, the words that won’t stop clanging through my heart, are, so much. There is so much left to love. ~ Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed… Read more.

December 21, 2024 Rev. Kent Gilbert, Pastor     Bernardo Scarambone, Organist                          Prelude                        Welcome ¨  Call to Worship One:      O God, so many voices sound within and around, weighing us down with burdens too great to bear, surprising us with memories, tears, anger, ache. We are reminded daily of the ways we have… Read more.

A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Third Sunday of Advent 10:30 am  Meditation   People say the problems of the world are too big to make a difference, but surely those people have forgotten the fruit that grows from one little seed.   ~ Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed… Read more.