Bread for the World 2019 Offering of Letters to Congress “Better Nutrition, Better Tomorrow” will be at Wednesday Night Live March 20. Union Church is a Covenanted Member of Bread for the World and each year we participate in the Offering of Letters, along with churches and organizations throughout the United States, to lobby Congress more »
A need: Betty Sarafin is moving and her car is out of commission. She needs to borrow a vehicle (van, pickup, car) for a couple of weeks. Can you help? Call her at 412-498-7598. There will be a Berea visitation for Dr. Janice Blythe on Wednesday, 4-9 pm, at Davis & Powell Funeral Home. In more »
Tuesday, 4:00 pm. Psalm Study. Meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month in the Classroom to read and reflect upon the Psalms. Wednesday, 8:30 am. Settle Into Scripture! Sundays at 4:00 pm & Wednesdays at 8:30 am in Cowan Chapel. For thirty minutes, Rev. Kent will lead the traditional Benedictine practice of more »
Dear Church Family and Friends, Have you noticed how hard it is to pay attention to the things that give you life? We are bombarded by the trivial, the urgent-but-unimportant, and too often the difficult-challenging-soul-numbing events that keep us from deepening. Lent, these 6 weeks prior to Easter, is the Christian season of creative resistance more »
Gathering in Worship Offered by the People of the Church of Christ, Union First Sunday of Lent March 10, 2019 10:30 am Meditation No Christian escapes a taste of the wilderness on the way to the Promised Land. —Evelyn Underhill, The Fruit of the Spirit From there to Here: more »
Friends, Delores Carpenter’s mother, Bernice Allen Parsons, passed away on Wednesday. A visitation will be held tomorrow, Saturday, 11-1, at Dowlin and Martin Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon and a service will be held at 1, also at Dowlin & Martin. The link to the obituary is below. Let us hold Delores and all the more »
Zen Meditation every weekday, 8:00 am. Join us for 20 minutes of unstructured quiet meditation in beautiful Cowan Chapel, on the Scaffold Cane Road side of the church. Mondays at 6:30 pm, Cowan Chapel. David Parks will offer Zen teaching: Meditation, Koans, Conversation, 6:30 – 8:00 pm, Cowan Chapel. Wednesday Nite Live.The Union Church community more »
Try mightily though we did, we couldn’t get the pie charts to print legibly in the Pastoral Survey in the Annual Report. They are attached here. [embeddoc url=”https://union-church.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2018-2019-Pastoral-survey-graphs.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google”]
At the Annual Meeting yesterday, March 10, Board Members & Officers were elected, the 2019 Budget was adjusted to correct an error, the Pastor’s Sabbatical Plan was approved for July 1-October 31 and the Annual Report for 2018 was accepted. After the installation of Board Members & Officers and a closing hymn, Rev. Kent dismissed more »
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
