August 2013 Consider
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Prayer For the Week: July 21, 2013
In the reading for this week, we enter the house of Mary and Martha. One of them is doing the exact right thing in the wrong way, and the other is doing the wrong thing in the right spirit. We find ourselves in both of these situations, seeking to balance competing goods, competing needs. Here more »
July 21 Bulletin, Prayer Concerns and Announcements
A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Ninth Sunday after Pentecost July 21, 2013 When we are really honest with ourselves, we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of more »
July 14 Bulletin, Announcements and Prayer Concerns
A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Eighth Sunday after Pentecost July 14, 2013 Welcome to this service of worship. We are glad that you are here today. You are invited to rise in body or in spirit as you are able and willing at points in the more »
July 7 Bulletin, Prayer Concerns & Announcements
A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Seventh Sunday after Pentecost July 7, 2013 Meditation “God is persistently knocking at those closed doors of our lives behind which we have imprisoned ourselves in our spiritual hunger and thirst, behind which we cower in the nakedness of our horribly more »
United Church of Christ Denounces Mountain Top Removal, Affirms Urgent Call to Carbon Neutrality
Today the United Church of Christ General Synod (the national setting of the church Rev. Rachel and Rev. Kent are ordained to), passed a resolution decrying the use and effects of mountain top removal in Appalachia. A second resolution forcefully committed the denomination to carbon reduction and a call for immediate global action to reduce more »
Union Church Member Naomi Schulz Addresses PSR gathering at UCC General Synod
Naomi Schulz addressed a gathering of Pacific School of Religion alumni (where she is currently a 3rd year seminarian) at the United Church of Christ General Synod in Long Beach, CA. She inspired and challenged those present with her experience of transformative work and vocation, and mentioned how Union Church was among her inspirations and more »
Update on the El Salvador team
Hi, everyone. Our hopes for technological reporting were not realized in El Salvador, so we weren’t able to update as much as we’d like to have. We have all made it safely home, though, and have recovered from our various travel-related illnesses. It was an amazing and powerful trip. We’re planning now for ways to more »
June 30 Worship Bulletin, Prayer Concerns and Announcments
A Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union Sixth Sunday after Pentecost June 30, 2013 Meditation “I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, more »
Union Church celebrates the Supreme Court’s ruling on DOMA
We rejoice with our lesbian and gay brothers and sisters whose rights were upheld today by the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act. We continue to pray for equal rights for all people, in marriage and tax law on the state level, as well as in voting rights laws for people of more »
