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Faith, Finances, and the Future
Dear Church Family & Friends, Our Financial Situation Seems Critical Our year has been filled with great faith, great planning, and hopes for a future of service to God and God’s people, all embodied in our recent year-long planning process. We have pledged ourselves to three great loves (support for families, creating relationships of depth and more »
Information About The Proposed By-law Change to Establish a Union Church Endowment Fund And December 16th Vote
December 12, 2018 Dear Church Family, On Sunday, December 9 we had significant and detailed discussion of a proposal from the Finance Board to create a Union Church Endowment Fund by adding a by-law to our constitution establishing the fund, defining the accounts, and creating an investments oversight committee. The proposal is endorsed by Church more »
Proposed Amendment to By-laws to Establish An Endowment Fund “Version 2”
On December 16th the congregation will vote on establishing a Union Church Endowment Fund. After previous discussion at a congregational meeting on December 9, the Finance Board proposes the following “Version 2″ of by-law additions for your consideration. The vote will be taken on December 16, immediately following worship. [embeddoc url=”https://union-church.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Draft-Endowment-By-Laws-12-11-18-Google-Docs.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google”]
Go Forth, Rev. Rachel!: A Letter from The Moderator and Pastor
Dear Friends, As you will have read or heard, Associate Pastor Rev. Rachel Small Stokes has accepted a call to become Designated Interim Pastor at Immanuel United Church of Christ in Louisville, KY. She will serve here until February 11, 2018 then assume her new duties as head of staff at church of her own. more »
Double Your $, Drop the Deficit!
Double Your $, Drop the Deficit! We’ve got a budget gap for next year. Generous members have come forward with matching funds that will double any increase or new pledge for 2017. One time gifts, too! $100 becomes $200! $500 becomes $1000! $2000 becomes $4000! And every dollar is a child getting to go to more »
2017 Proposed Budget
Budgets are a form of prayer: a sacred trust to steward our resources for the blessing God calls us to be. Here is the 2017 Proposed budget to be considered by the membership December 11, 2016, 12:30pm. (Meeting follows worship and an 11:45 soup lunch). Both summary and detailed budgets are available below along with more »
We’re Pledging Too! Can you?
“Why do we support Union Church? A significant part of the reason is because of the extent to which the Church historically and under current leadership has pursued the truth of what our founder famously said: ‘God hath made of one blood all peoples of the earth.’ All people – as they find themselves having more »
Church Council Registers Protest over Spoonbread Festival Merchandise
Over 50,000 people attended the 19th annual Spoonbread Festival in Berea over the weekend of Sept 19-20. The Festival is presented by the Berea Chamber of Commerce (of which Union Church is a member), and supported by a number of sponsors, including the City of Berea Tourism department. We were dismayed to see vendors selling more »
Celebrate Naomi’s Ordination!
Naomi Schulz, Union Church member and recent intern has graduated seminary at Pacific School of Religion, and accepted a call to the Congregation for Reconciliation in Dayton, OH. She will celebrate her ordination to ministry in the United Church of Christ, Saturday, September 19th in Dayton. We want to get her a gift from the more »
