Wednesday Nite Live starts its new season Sept.11! Y’all come!

Mark your calendars now for a new season of Wednesday Night Live.  We gather each week for dinner at 5:45 p.m. in the Community Room.  This is a family friendly event, volunteers sign up to help with meal preparation and cleanup, and donations to help cover the food costs are appreciated, for those who are able to contribute.

Youth groups meet before and after dinner, the Bell Choir rehearses, and throughout the year there may be other groups that meet following dinner.  We also have programs immediately following dinner on some Wednesdays, planned by our Mission and Service Board, to keep us all informed about some of the good work going on, funded in part by the Mission and Service portion of our Union Church budget.

Programs already scheduled for fall:

September 18 Deborah Payne and David, entering Berea College student from Uganda, whose family offered much hospitality to Deborah while she was in the Peace Corps in Uganda.

September 25  Newcomers and Prospective Members meeting, hosted by Community Life and Growth – all are welcome.

October 2 Duncan Blount and Sarah Clark, Berea College students, who had summer Internships in a Federal Prison in Eastern KY, speaking about their experiences. Willie Dodson introduced us last year to a program that helps families from as far away as NYC and DC come for occasional visits with incarcerated family members.

October 16 Sonam Yangzom, Berea College student from Tibet, who was the 2013 participant in the Caux Scholars Program in Conflict Resolution and Peace Building in Caux, Switzerland in July. Read her inspiring testimony at:  www.berea.edu/psj/2013/ 08/02/sonam-yangzom  You will want to hear more!!

October 30  report from the Kentucky Council of Churches

November 6 Annual Witness For Peace speaker and Pot-Luck with St. Clare and the Friends Meeting.

November 13 Sune Frederiksen and representatives from the Red Cross Disaster Relief Program in Richmond, KY.

November 20 Ivan Villasboa, Executive Director of CoCoDa, the organization with whom our El Salvador group traveled in July