FIRST WEDNESDAY POTLUCK & PROGRAM! Yay! Every First Wednesday of a month is a potluck, 6:00 pm! Please bring a dish to share. There will be a program about Jubilee Partners (http://www.jubileepartners.org/), along with the regular choirs/Youth group schedule.
Rev. Kent will be away this week, returning, February 9th. He is returning to the congregation in Boise, ID where he served as Intern Associate Pastor, 1989-1990, and where he was ordained in 1991. They are celebrating their 125th Anniversary where Rev. Kent will be a featured guest.
Help in the office—if you have some time on Wednesday about 1 pm, we could use some help preparing the Lent brochure for mailing. We offer snacks, good company and all the tea you can drink!
Remembrance Service at Danforth Chapel Tuesday noon, February 2nd A time to remember and celebrate the lives of our loved ones who have passed on. If you have lost a loved one, are grieving over other losses, or are supporting friends who are hurting, you are invited to this special service of remembrance, healing, and hope. If you have a poem, artwork, pictures, etc. you would like to display in the service, please bring them with you.
Want to Help Usher? Read? Light Candles? Wash Dishes? Help with Food? VOLUNTEER SPOT! Signing up for service is easy using volunteer spot at Union Church. Here’s the link to the new page for Volunteering! Sign-ups on VolunteerSpot: https://www.volunteer spot.com/group/737396918047
Let’s Do Lunch! Lunch after church begins next week, Feb. 7. The Youth Group will hold its annual pancake & fixin’s brunch fundraiser! Directly after church, and everyone is welcome. Suggested donation of $7 per person, or $5 for families over 3 people. There will be hat making for adults and children and wonderful pancakes (gluten free options available), sausages, and grits. Funds raised will go toward sending member of the youth group to summer camp this year.
Lenten lunches start Feb. 14! You may have noticed the Line Item “Lenten Lunches” in the Income section of the Church Budget. Each year the Boards work together to provide lunch for the five Sundays of Lent (through March 13, which is our ANNUAL MEETING!) and the income from these lunches helps to fund the budgets of our Boards — suggested donations of $5.00/single or $15.00/family.
But more important is the fellowship shared, and especially the opportunity to get to know some of our newer members. Mark your calendars now!
Tax-prep Help! Eastern Kentucky Asset Building Coalition & Berea College VITA offer free tax preparation for those who make under $54,000 by IRS certified volunteers Thursday Evenings 5:30 to 8:00 pm, Union Church Community Room. For information Call: 800-378-3778
Woman’s Creative Sewing and Crafts is making quilts.! They’re nearly out of quilt fabric. If you have extra scraps, yards, etc. of cotton fabric, please bring it to church.
Donations of blue jeans sought: Berea Community Elementary School No Child Cold/No Child Hungry in Berea is seeking donations of jeans in all sizes — between size 4 and 16 for girls and boys, and also women’s sizes 0-2. Contact Dodie Murphy at dodiemurf @yahoo.com or call 859-200-7277.
Baking Skills Needed! Union Church members’ baking skills are needed for a surprise Valentine’s Day party at Liberty Place in Richmond at 2:00 pm Friday, Feb. 12. Wanted are cakes (okay to use a mix), cupcakes, cookies or brownies. Also needed are bags of “fun size” candy bars. The event is open to Union Church members. Contact Dodie if you want to participate by baking, attending or both — 859-200-7277 or dodiemurf@ yahoo.com.
A Memorial Service for Sallie Gailey will be held at the Berea Friends Meeting House at 300 Harrison Road, Berea, KY, at 2:00 pm on February 6, 2016. Sallie died peacefully in her sleep on December 25, 2015 after a short illness, aged 91. During her time in Berea she was active in the leadership of Union Church and was a founding member of the Berea Friends meeting. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests any contributions be sent to the Phoenix Institute (PO Box 12963, Lexington, KY 40583), or to the charity of your choice.
Michelle Hayden in an Exhibition: “Turn up the Heat” is an encaustic art invitational exhibit at M. S. Rezny Studio/Gallery, (Lexington Distillery District, 903 Manchester Street) . You can support Michelle and enjoy this lovely artform of beeswax and pigments with mixed media through Feb. 20.
We need a new church directory! We’re coming up with a plan for taking photos BUT if you’ve got one you’d like to use, please send it to the office. Also — if there’s a chance we don’t have your address, phone, email address, birthday(s)—please send that info on as well. office@union-church.org.
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