HELPFUL CHURCH INFORMATION

 

A NURSERY AND TODDLER ROOM are available downstairs for babies and toddlers during the church service.  Grace Kneil will be there to greet you and your children. A multiage SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS meets in the lower level following “A Time for all Children”.  Anna Duxler and Megan Lovely teach the class.

 

BABY MONITORS are available for those of you who leave your children in the nursery or toddler room during the church service.  To check one out, please see Grace in the nursery.

 

BE SURE TO CHECK OUR WEB SITE ww.ucchurch.org each week for updates and new pictures! A preview of the Order of Service, Sunday announcements and Sermon Titles are posted each week!  An archive of sermons, newsletters, and up-to-date calendar are all readily available on the website too.

 

HEARING ASSISTED RECEIVERS are available for your use during the church service.  Please see an usher if you need one.

 

WANT A CD of a worship service?  Please sign up on the CD Form on the information board in Fellowship Hall.  You may pick-up your CD in the library.  $2 per CD may be put in “Deposit Box” in the office.

 

WOMENS’ GUILD BOOK EXCHANGE New books come in every week for this Women’s Guild outreach project.  Please bring books you have read and think others would enjoy to add to our bookshelves.  We like to keep our inventory interesting and inviting!   

 

CHECK OUT THE BULLETIN BOARDS IN FELLOWSHIP HALL.  The minutes of all the UCC Boards are posted on the bulletin boards as is the roster for the Church Council.

 

UCC HAS A FACEBOOK PAGE! You can link to our Facebook page by clicking on “Facebook” on any page of our church website, www.ucchurch.org

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

 

 

TODAY

 

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE are given in appreciation for the projects undertaken over the decades by the UCC Women’s Guild including Old English Teas.

 

 

THIS WEEK

 

YOGA CLASSES meet on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. ($5.00) and Friday at 10:00 a.m.in Fellowship Hall.

 

MUNCH AND MUSE LENTEN SERIES begins Wednesday, March 5, 6:00 in Fellowship Hall. More information on the next page.

MUNCH AND MUSE LENTEN SERIES

 Each Wednesday a chapter from the book “The Last Week” written by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan in which a day by day account of Jesus’s final week of life beginning on Palm Sunday will be presented and discussed. Reading the book before the class is preferred but not required. There are 10 copies of “The Last Week” in the church library.  You may check out one of these books or they are $10.00 on Amazon if you want to purchase one.

The final chapter ending the series will be on

Thursday, April 17, Maundy Thursday.

A light dinner will be served each Wednesday.

 

BOB SCOTT IS INVITING anyone in the congregation who cares to join the UCC Chancel Choir (especially the ladies) to please contact him if you are interested. His email is infoprpi@aol.com or see him after the service.

 

292014 COMMUNION TABLE FLOWER SCHEDULE is on the PIC board in Fellowship Hall. May 1, June 29, and a few dates in Aug. and Sept. are available plus Nov. 16. Sign up early to get the date you want!

 

PARTNERS FOR WICHITA—FILL-THE-GAP PROGRAM

this Spring will be March 17 through March 21 from 11:30 to 1:30 at the Urban League site at 9^th and Grove. Lunches will be distributed during these Spring Break dates and we are looking for volunteers to help pass out these lunches.  We also will be collecting the following items at the church to supplement the meals that are served to the children each day:  Kid- size boxes of raisins or dried fruit, Goldfish cheese snacks, and wrapped healthy snack bars.  There is a signup sheet in Fellowship Hall if you would like to volunteer to help.

 

 

WG COOK’S NIGHT OUT IS THURSDAY MARCH 20.  Our own Wayne Roberts will be the speaker along with Pat Gallagher who are both members of the Friends of McConnell Executive Committee and will present a video history of McConnell Air Force Base, explain the role Friends of McConnell plays in supporting airman, and discuss the basing of the new tanker. The ladies of the Guild will be preparing the meal. Mark your calendars, note the day change (from Wed. to Thurs.), and sign up in Fellowship Hall. Adults $15.00 p.p. Children (Ages 4-10) $5.00. Let us know if you need childcare.                            

ATTENTION KNITTERS, CROCHETERS, ALL OTHER NEEDLEWORK PEOPLE AND “WANT-TO BES” on March 11, 10:00 a.m., come to Fellowship Hall to spend some time working on your own projects or learn (or relearn) the type of needlework you are interested in.  If you can stay a while, bring a sack lunch.  This group will meet each month on the second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 so join in when you can.

 

        Total Purchase                 Earnings                      UCC Earns

                 $5,000                      5%                                $250

If we haven’t reached $5,000, the money will carry over into the next 4-week cycle.

This same gift card should be kept and reloaded each time.  When a supporter uses their gift card to pay for their groceries, the card must be reloaded at the Service Desk prior to being used as a payment for the purchases—BEFORE THE GROCERIES ARE RUNG.

To track the balance on your card after a purchase, the balance will be printed on the bottom of your cash register receipt.

This is an Outreach program with the proceeds going to the Head-to-Toe Hygiene Pantry.

Traditional Word:

Matthew 5: 27-28

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5: 33-34

“Again, you have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but carry out the vows you have made to the Lord.’ But I say to you, Do not swear at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,

Matthew 5: 38-39

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also;

Matthew 5: 43-44

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

 

Contemporary Word:

The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death

of all that is alive.

 

I am a mayfly metamorphosing

on the surface of the river.

And I am the bird

that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.

I am a frog swimming happily

in the clear water of a pond.

And I am the grass- snake

that silently feeds itself on the frog.

 

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,

my legs as thin as bamboo sticks.

And I am the arms merchant,

selling deadly weapons to Uganda.

 

 

I am the twelve-year-old girl,

refugee on a small boat,

who throws herself into the ocean

after being raped by a sea pirate.

 

And I am the pirate,

my heart not yet capable

of seeing and loving.

 

My joy is like spring, so warm

it makes flowers bloom all over the earth.

My pain is like a river of tears,

so vast it fills the four oceans.

 

Please call me by my true names,

so I can wake up

and the door of my heart

could be left open,

the door of compassion.

by Thich Nhat Hahn

 

SOLO        “Lamb of God”    by Twila Paris

 

Your only Son, no sin to hide,

But You have sent Him from Your side

To walk upon this guilty sod

And to become the Lamb of God

 

Your gift of Love they crucified,

They laughed and scorned Him as He died.

The humble King they named a fraud

And sacrificed the Lamb of God.

 

O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God,

I love the holy Lamb of God.

O wash me in His precious blood,

My Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God

 

I was so lost, I should have died,

But You have brought me to Your side

To be led by Your staff and rod

And to be called a lamb of God

 

O Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God,

I love the holy Lamb of God.

O wash me in his precious blood,

Until I am a lamb of God.

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Anthem    “The Paper Reeds By the Brooks”  from the “Peaceable Kingdom”, by Randall Thompson, text from Isaiah 19:7

 

The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,

shall wither, be driven away, and be no more, and be no more.

The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,

and everything sown by the brooks, shall wither ,

be driven away, and be no more

 

Second Anthem “Have ye not known/Ye shall have a song” from the Peaceable Kingdom, by Randal  Thompson, text from Isaiah 40:21 and  Isaiah 30:20

 

Have you not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning?

Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

 

Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept.

and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe,

to come into the mountain of the Lord.

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HELPFUL CHURCH INFORMATION

 

A NURSERY AND TODDLER ROOM are available downstairs for babies and toddlers during the church service.  Grace Kneil will be there to greet you and your children. A multiage SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS meets in the lower level following “A Time for all Children”.  Anna Duxler and Megan Lovely teach the class.

 

BABY MONITORS are available for those of you who leave your children in the nursery or toddler room during the church service.  To check one out, please see Grace in the nursery.

 

BE SURE TO CHECK OUR WEB SITE ww.ucchurch.org each week for updates and new pictures! A preview of the Order of Service, Sunday announcements and Sermon Titles are posted each week!  An archive of sermons, newsletters, and up-to-date calendar are all readily available on the website too.

 

HEARING ASSISTED RECEIVERS are available for your use during the church service.  Please see an usher if you need one.

 

WANT A CD of a worship service?  Please sign up on the CD Form on the information board in Fellowship Hall.  You may pick-up your CD in the library.  $2 per CD may be put in “Deposit Box” in the office.

 

WOMENS’ GUILD BOOK EXCHANGE New books come in every week for this Women’s Guild outreach project.  Please bring books you have read and think others would enjoy to add to our bookshelves.  We like to keep our inventory interesting and inviting!   

 

CHECK OUT THE BULLETIN BOARDS IN FELLOWSHIP HALL.  The minutes of all the UCC Boards are posted on the bulletin boards as is the roster for the Church Council.

 

UCC HAS A FACEBOOK PAGE! You can link to our Facebook page by clicking on “Facebook” on any page of our church website, www.ucchurch.org

 

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

 

 

TODAY

 

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE are given in appreciation for the eighty years Anita Jones has graced our green earth.

 

THIS WEEK

 

THE CHURCH COUNCIL will meet Monday, 6:30, in the conference room.

 

YOGA CLASSES meet on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. ($5.00) and Friday at 10:00 a.m.in Fellowship Hall.

 

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT  Starting Friday, February 28, 6:00 p.m. there will be a movie night in Fellowship Hall with popcorn and snacks!

 

NEXT SUNDAY

 

 

MUNCH AND MUSE LENTEN SERIES

Beginning Wednesday, March 5, 6:00 in Fellowship Hall

Each Wednesday a chapter from the book “The Last Week” written by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan in which a day by day account of Jesus’s final week of life beginning on Palm Sunday will be presented and discussed. Reading the book before the class is preferred but not required.

There are 10 copies of “The Last Week” in the church library.  You may check out one of these books or they are $10.00 on Amazon if you want to purchase one.

 

The final chapter ending the series will be on

Thursday, April 17, Maundy Thursday.

A light dinner will be served.

 

 

292014 COMMUNION TABLE FLOWER SCHEDULE is on the PIC board in Fellowship Hall. May 1, June 29, and a few dates in Aug. and Sept. are available plus Nov. 16. Sign up early to get the date you want!

 

 

NEW ADDRESS FOR BILL PARK good until May.

Bill Park

c/o Christina White

11301 W 125^th Terrace

Kansas City, Kansas 66213

Keep the cards and notes coming he loves to hear from you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROBIN IS MAKING BANNERS FOR EASTER this coming Thursday, February 27 at 9:00 in Fellowship Hall.  She has the design and just needs your help mostly cutting material.

 

FEBRUARY FINAL FRIDAY ART CRAWL at Inter-Faith Ministries will feature faith leaders.  Our own Robin McGonigle was photographed and asked questions about her personal and professional goals. These photos and responses are being made into artwork by Newman students and will be for sale at Interfaith.  The Art Crawl is this Friday, February 28 6:00- 9:00 pm located at Inter-Faith Ministries, 829 N. Market.

 

PARTNERS FOR WICHITA—FILL-THE-GAP PROGRAM

this Spring will be March 17 through March 21 from 11:30 to 1:30 at the Urban League site at 9^th and Grove. Lunches will be distributed during these Spring Break dates and we are looking for volunteers to help pass out these lunches.  We also will be collecting the following items at the church to supplement the meals that are served to the children each day:  Kid- size boxes of raisins or dried fruit, Goldfish cheese snacks, and wrapped healthy snack bars.  There is a signup sheet in Fellowship Hall if you would like to volunteer to help.

 

WG COOK’S NIGHT OUT IS THURSDAY MARCH 20.  Our own Wayne Roberts will be the speaker along with Pat Gallagher who are both members of the Friends of McConnell Executive Committee and will present a video history of McConnell Air Force Base, explain the role Friends of McConnell plays in supporting airman, and discuss the basing of the new tanker. The ladies of the Guild will be preparing the meal. Mark your calendars, note the day change (from Wed. to Thurs.), and sign up in Fellowship Hall. Adults $15.00 p.p. Children (Ages 4-10) $5.00. Let us know if you need childcare.                            

 

 

Traditional Word:  Genesis 17:1-10 from The Message

^1-2 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, God showed up and said to him, “I am The Strong God, live entirely before me, live to the hilt! I’ll make a covenant between us and I’ll give you a huge family.”

^3-8 Overwhelmed, Abram fell flat on his face.

Then God said to him, “This is my covenant with you: You’ll be the father of many nations. Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, meaning that ‘I’m making you the father of many nations.’ I’ll make you a father of fathers—I’ll make nations from you, kings will issue from you. I’m establishing my covenant between me and you, a covenant that includes your descendants, a covenant that goes on and on and on, a covenant that commits me to be your God and the God of your descendants. And I’m giving you and your descendants this land where you’re now just camping, this whole country of Canaan, to own forever. And I’ll be their God.”

 

 

Genesis 17:15-19 from The Message

^15-16 God continued speaking to Abraham, “And Sarai your wife: Don’t call her Sarai any longer; call her Sarah. I’ll bless her—yes! I’ll give you a son by her! Oh, how I’ll bless her! Nations will come from her; kings of nations will come from her.”

¹⁷ Abraham fell flat on his face. And then he laughed, thinking, “Can a hundred-year-old man father a son? And can Sarah, at ninety years, have a baby?”

¹⁸ Recovering, Abraham said to God, “Oh, keep Ishmael alive and well before you!”

¹⁹ But God said, “That’s not what I mean. Your wife, Sarah, will have a baby, a son. Name him Isaac (Laughter). I’ll establish my covenant with him and his descendants, a covenant that lasts forever.

(over)

 

 

Romans 4:16-25 from The Message

¹⁶ This is why the fulfillment of God’s promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does. God’s promise arrives as pure gift. That’s the only way everyone can be sure to get in on it, those who keep the religious traditions and those who have never heard of them. For Abraham is father of us all. He is not our racial father—that’s reading the story backward. He is our faith father.

^17-18 We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn’t that what we’ve always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, “I set you up as father of many peoples”? Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!”

^19-25 Abraham didn’t focus on his own impotence and say, “It’s hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child.” Nor did he survey Sarah’s decades of infertility and give up. He didn’t tiptoe around God’s promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said. That’s why it is said, “Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right.” But it’s not just Abraham; it’s also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless. The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.

 

 

 

 

 

First Anthem          “He Watching Over Israel”

 

 He watching over Israel, slumbers not nor sleeps.

shouldst thou ,walking in grief languish, He will quicken thee,

He slumbers not, nor sleeps.

 

Second Anthem       “In Remembrance” 

 

In remembrance of me, eat this bread. In remembrance of me, drink this wine,

In remembrance of me pray for the time when God’s own will is done.

In remembrance of me heal the sick, In remembrance of me, feed the poor,

In remembrance of me, open the door and let your brothers in,

 

take eat and be comforted, drink and remember , too,

that this is my body and precious blood, shed for you, shed for you.

In remembrance of me, search for truth, In remembrance of me, always love,

In remembrance of me, don’t look above , but in your heart for love.

Do this in remembrance of me.

 

 Contemporary Word:  “Puzzlement”  from “The King and I” written Rogers and Hammerstein

When I was a boy, world was better spot
What was so was so, what was not was not
Now, I am a man, world have changed a lot
Some things nearly so, others nearly not

There are times I almost think
I am not sure of what I absolutely know
Very often find confusion
In conclusion, I concluded long ago

In my head are many facts
That, as a student, I have studied to procure
In my head are many facts
Of which I wish I was more certain, I was sure
Is a puzzlement

When my father was a king
He was a king who knew exactly what he knew
And his brain was not a thing
Forever swinging to and fro and fro and to

Shall I, then be like my father
And be willfully unmovable and strong?
Or is it better to be right?
Or am I right when I believe I may be wrong?

Is a danger to be trusting one another
One will seldom want to do what other wishes
But unless someday somebody trust somebody
There’ll be nothing left on earth excepting fishes

There are times I almost think
Nobody sure of what he absolutely know
Everybody find confusion
In conclusion, he concluded long ago

And it puzzle me to learn
That tho’ a man may be in doubt of what he know
Very quickly he will fight
He’ll fight to prove that what he does not know is so

Oh, sometimes I think that people going mad
Ah, sometimes I think that people not so bad
But no matter what I think, I must go on living life
As leader of my kingdom, I must go forth
Be father to my children and husband to each wife
Etcetera, etcetera and so forth

If my Lord in Heaven Buddha, show the way
Everyday I try to live another day
If my Lord in Heaven Buddha, show the way
Everyday I do my best for one more day

But is a puzzlement

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HELPFUL CHURCH INFORMATION

 

A NURSERY AND TODDLER ROOM are available downstairs for babies and toddlers during the church service.  Grace, Megan and Anna will be there to greet you and your children.

 

BABY MONITORS are available for those of you who leave your children in the nursery or toddler room during the church service.  To check one out, please see Grace in the nursery.

 

BE SURE TO CHECK OUR WEB SITE ww.ucchurch.org each week for updates and new pictures! A preview of the Order of Service, Sunday announcements and Sermon Titles are posted each week!  An archive of sermons, newsletters, and up-to-date calendar are all readily available on the website too.

 

HEARING ASSISTED RECEIVERS are available for your use during the church service.  Please see an usher if you need one.

 

WANT A CD of a worship service?  Please sign up on the CD Form on the information board in Fellowship Hall.  You may pick-up your CD in the library.  $2 per CD may be put in “Deposit Box” in the office.

 

WOMENS’ GUILD BOOK EXCHANGE New books come in every week for this Women’s Guild outreach project.  Please bring books you have read and think others would enjoy to add to our bookshelves.  We like to keep our inventory interesting and inviting!   

 

CHECK OUT THE BULLETIN BOARDS IN FELLOWSHIP HALL.  The minutes of all the UCC Boards are posted on the bulletin boards as is the roster for the Church Council.

 

UCC HAS A FACEBOOK PAGE! You can link to our Facebook page by clicking on “Facebook” on any page of our church website, www.ucchurch.org

 

 

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

 

TODAY

 

WE ARE HAPPY TO WELCOME OUR NEW MEMBER TENA ROSKAM to our UCC family! Please read her profile in the insert.

 

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE are given by Tena Roskam in memory of her father, Jack Bickhard who died February 12, 2012.

 

THE C.E. BOARD will meet in the Science and Exploration Room at 11:45.

 

THE BOARD OF DEACONS will meet in the area off the downstairs     kitchen at 11:45.

 

THE MUSIC BOARD will meet in the choir room at 11:45.

 

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES will meet in the conference room at 11:45.

 

 

THIS WEEK

 

LIVING THE QUESTION CLASS will meet tomorrow night, February 17, at 6:30 in the conference room. See additional information about the class on the following page in the bulletin.

 

TOUR OF WSU’S JUVENILE IN JUSTICE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT is Thursday, February 20 at 6:00.  Meet at the Ulrich Museum. Details about the tour further in the bulletin.

 

YOGA CLASSES meet on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. ($5.00) and Friday at 10:00 a.m.in Fellowship Hall.

 

MEN’S GROUP LUNCH is Thursday, February 20, 11:30 at Lakeside Club located at the corner of Webb and 21^st behind Walgreens.  This month Gail Goetz, Director of Operations of Goodwill Industries will be the speaker. Goodwill is a whole lot more than the Thrift Shops you see, come and hear about all the good work they do with the money raised in those Thrift Shops.

 

 LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR THE SPRING FELLOWSHIP DINNERS.  It’s always a lot of fun to get together and not too much work for anyone as the host furnishes the entree, and all the guests bring a dish.  We welcome both members and non-members.  Sign up today for a great time!  If you are willing to host, please indicate the number of people you can accommodate for dinner, including yourself. Signup sheets are on the PIC board in Fellowship Hall.

 

 

NEW ADDRESS FOR BILL PARK good until May.

Bill Park

c/o Christina White

11301 W 125^th Terrace

Kansas City, Kansas 66213

MUNCH AND MUSE LENTEN SERIES

Beginning Wednesday, March 5, 6:00 in Fellowship Hall

Each Wednesday a chapter from the book “The Last Week” written by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan in which a day by day account of Jesus’s final week of life beginning on Palm Sunday will be presented and discussed. Reading the book before the class is preferred but not required.

 

The final chapter ending the series will be on

Thursday, April 17, Maundy Thursday.

A light dinner will be served.

*Please use the email column of the Fellowship Pad to mark if you plan to come and the number coming.

 

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT  Starting Friday, February 28, 6:00 p.m. there will be a movie night in Fellowship Hall with popcorn and snacks! The name of the movie will be announced next Sunday.

UCC IS SPONSORING A TOUR of WSU’s photography exhibit, Juvenile In Justice, being shown at the Ulrich Museum of Art on the WSU campus Thursday, February 20 at 6:00 p.m.  California photographer Richard Ross turns his lens on the dramatic increase of detention among our young Americans. We will be given a tour by museum staff and then hold a discussion on the exhibit and social justice led by Rev. Dr. Robin McGonigle. Here is a link to the photographer’s website: http://richardross.net/juvenile-in-justice

There is also a flyer about the tour on the Welcome Table in the foyer or contact Paul Jackson at paul@box2384.temp.domains or 634-0430.

 

FEBRUARY FINAL FRIDAY ART CRAWL at Inter-Faith Ministries will feature faith leaders.  Our own Robin McGonigle was photographed and asked questions about her personal and professional goals. These photos and responses are being made into artwork by Newman students and will be for sale at Interfaith.  The Art Crawl is Friday, February 28 6:00- 9:00 pm located at Inter-Faith Ministries, 829 N. Market.

 

 

Traditional Word: Isaiah 34: 8-14

For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of vindication by Zion’s cause.

And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch. Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and ever. But the hawk and the hedgehog shall possess it; the owl and the raven shall live in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plummet of chaos over its nobles. They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing. Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches. Wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat-demons shall call to each other; there too Lilith shall repose, and find a place to rest.

 Contemporary Word: from The Alphabet of Ben Sira, written prior to 1000 C.E.

Soon afterward the young son of the king took ill. Said Nebuchadnezzar, “Heal my son. If you don’t, I will kill you.” Ben Sira immediately sat down and wrote an amulet with the Holy Name, and he inscribed on it the angels in charge of medicine by their names, forms, and images, and by their wings, hands, and feet. Nebuchadnezzar looked at the amulet. “Who are these?”

“The angels who are in charge of medicine: Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof (in English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof). While God created Adam, who was alone, He said, ‘It is not good for man to be alone’ (Genesis 2:18). He also created a woman, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. She said, ‘I will not lie below,’ and he said, ‘I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.’ Lilith responded, ‘We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth.’ But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air. Adam stood in prayer before his Creator: ‘Sovereign of the universe!’ he said, ‘the woman you gave me has run away.’ At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent these three angels to bring her back.

“Said the Holy One to Adam, ‘If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. If not, she must permit one hundred of her children to die every day.’ The angels left God and pursued Lilith, whom they overtook in the midst of the sea, in the mighty waters wherein the Egyptians were destined to drown. They told her God’s word, but she did not wish to return. The angels said, ‘We shall drown you in the sea.’

“‘Leave me!’ she said. ‘I was created only to cause sickness to infants. If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days.’

“When the angels heard Lilith’s words, they insisted she go back. But she swore to them by the name of the living and eternal God: ‘Whenever I see you or your names or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over that infant.’ She also agreed to have one hundred of her children die every day. Accordingly, every day one hundred demons perish, and for the same reason, we write the angels names on the amulets of young children. When Lilith sees their names, she remembers her oath, and the child recovers.”

 

 

   First Anthem   “Fold To Thy Heart”

Lyrics by John Greenleaf Whittier

Lyric Alterations Courtesy of Marla Flentje

Music by Katherine Falk

 

John Greenleaf Whittier’s beautiful poem “O brother man, fold to thy heart” speaks to the importance of recognizing the humanity of others. In that recognition should inherently be empathy and kindness. This kind of love for every other is the birth of peace, not just a collective peace, but peace within our own hearts.

 

Musically known to some as a hymn, others as Gwyneth Walker’s “The Tree of Peace”, I chose to set this poem for chorus alone without listening to either. In my perception, such a powerful text deserved a simple setting to let the words speak for themselves. I hope they do.

Katherine Falk

 

 Oh my sister, Oh my brother: fold to thy heart the other;

where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;

to worship rightly is to love one another,

each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

 

For God whom Jesus loved has truly spoken:

the holier worship which God deigns to bless

restores the lost, and binds the spirit broken,

and feeds the widow and the fatherless.

 

Follow with reverent steps the great example

of him whose holy work was doing good;

so shall the wide earth seem our Maker’s temple,

each loving life a psalm of gratitude.

 

Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor

of wild war music o’er the earth shall cease;

love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,

and in its ashes plant the tree of peace.

Second Anthem  “Cantique de Jean Raciine”  

Gabriel Faure, 1865  (translated from French)

 

O divine Word above, our hope and consolation , Eternal light of the heavens and the earth, our voices greet the morning , Look down O Lord and hear thy peoples prayer.

 

Inspire us Lord, we pray with the power of thy Spirit that hell may flee before thy mighty word.

 

From slumber waken us, our souls reviving, that we may never forget all thy laws, Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on thy congregation now gathered here in the sight of thy throne.

 

Receive the hymns they offer to thy endless glory, renewed by thy gifts, may they go forth in peace.

 

 

  

 

 

TENA ROSKAM

 

Tena was born in Ft. Wayne Indiana but grew up in Wichita.  Her Father worked for Boeing Aircraft Co. and had been transferred here from Seattle.  After graduating from Southeast High School, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) at Southern Methodist University.  She taught ballet to children in Columbia, Mo, and then became an instructor of dance at Columbia College. After moving back to Wichita, she taught dance at the Center for the Arts and at Kansas Dance Foundation.  She still loves to “boogie” on the dance floor.

 

Tena was confirmed in the Lutheran church but moved from Wichita when she got married. When she and her husband returned to Wichita, they joined Plymouth Congregational Church.  Tena was also the wedding coordinator for many years at Plymouth.

 

You may recognize Tena in her choir robe when singing with the altos in the UCC Chancel Choir.  Besides singing, she enjoys gardening, bird watching, hiking, playing bridge, and traveling.  Her parents retired at their home on Grand Lake in Oklahoma so water skiing and swimming have also been long time interests.

 

Traveling has been a big part of Tena’s life. The most exotic places she has been are Peru, boating up the Amazon for a week, then up in the Andes for a week where they visited Machu Picchu.

 

These days Tena is having fun with her grandchildren. She also will start a new job this coming week as an English Language Learner in the elementary schools in Andover.  Her birthday is July 14^th, Bastille Day.

 

We welcome you to our UCC family!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HELPFUL CHURCH INFORMATION

 

A NURSERY AND TODDLER ROOM are available downstairs for babies and toddlers during the church service.  Grace, Megan and Anna will be there to greet you and your children.

 

BABY MONITORS are available for those of you who leave your children in the nursery or toddler room during the church service.  To check one out, please see Grace in the nursery.

 

BE SURE TO CHECK OUR WEB SITE ww.ucchurch.org each week for updates and new pictures! A preview of the Order of Service, Sunday announcements and Sermon Titles are posted each week!  An archive of sermons, newsletters, and up-to-date calendar are all readily available on the website too.

 

HEARING ASSISTED RECEIVERS are available for your use during the church service.  Please see an usher if you need one.

 

WANT A CD of a worship service?  Please sign up on the CD Form on the information board in Fellowship Hall.  You may pick-up your CD in the library.  $2 per CD may be put in “Deposit Box” in the office.

 

WOMENS’ GUILD BOOK EXCHANGE New books come in every week for this Women’s Guild outreach project.  Please bring books you have read and think others would enjoy to add to our bookshelves.  We like to keep our inventory interesting and inviting!   

 

CHECK OUT THE BULLETIN BOARDS IN FELLOWSHIP HALL.  The minutes of all the UCC Boards are posted on the bulletin boards as is the roster for the Church Council.

 

UCC HAS A FACEBOOK PAGE! You can link to our Facebook page by clicking on “Facebook” on any page of our church website, www.ucchurch.org

 

 

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

 

 

TODAY

 

WE ARE HAPPY TO INTRODUCE MARILYN AND DON KILLIAN

as our new members today. Please read their profile further in the bulletin and welcome them in Fellowship Hall after the church service.

 

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE were given by the family of Nancy Cochener  and were used in Nancy’s memorial service which was yesterday here at UCC.

 

THE OUTREACH BOARD will meet in the office meeting room at 11:45.

 

THIS WEEK

 

LIVING THE QUESTION CLASS will meet tomorrow night, February 10, at 6:30 in the conference room. See additional information about the class on the following page in the bulletin.

 

YOGA CLASSES meet on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. ($5.00) and Friday at 10:00 a.m.in Fellowship Hall.

 

A REMINDER-THE WG VALENTINE TEA is next Saturday February 15 at 2:00 in Fellowship Hall.  Please be sure and bring your ticket to enter for the door prizes. Thank you for your support of this fun event.

NEXT SUNDAY

 

THE C.E. BOARD will meet in the Science and Exploration Room at 11:45.

 

THE BOARD OF DEACONS will meet in the area off the downstairs kitchen at 11:45.

 

THE MUSIC BOARD will meet in the choir room at 11:45.

 

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES will meet in the conference room at 11:45.

 

 

WG WOMEN’S GUILD VALENTINE TEA was moved to next Saturday, February 15 to allow for Nancy Cochener’s memorial service held yesterday.  A few ticket holders are not able to attend next Saturday so if you are interested in attending, please contact Leigh Aaron Leary at asmallchange@yahoo.com or call the church office.

 

 THE SPRING FELLOWSHIP DINNERS are a great way to become better acquainted with other UCC members and to meet people you may not know.  It’s always a lot of fun to get together and not too much work for anyone as the host furnishes the entree, and all the guests bring a dish.  We welcome both members and non-members.  Sign up today for a great time!  If you are willing to host, please indicate the number of people you can accommodate for dinner, including yourself. Signup sheets are on the PIC board in Fellowship Hall. Last day to sign up is next Sunday, February 16.

 

292014 COMMUNION TABLE FLOWER SCHEDULE is on the PIC board in Fellowship Hall. There are some dates in February, March and April still open! Sign up early to get the date you want!

 BILL PARK had his bone marrow transplant last Tuesday, February 4 at K.U. Med. Center in Kansas City.  If you would like to send him and Diane a card, newest address for is Bill Park, c/o KU Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd. Kansas City, Kansas 66160.

 

 

UCC IS SPONSORING A TOUR of WSU’s photography exhibit, Juvenile In Justice, being shown at the Ulrich Museum of Art on the WSU campus Thursday, February 20 at 6:00 p.m.  California photographer Richard Ross turns his lens on the dramatic increase of detention among our young Americans. We will be given a tour by museum staff and then hold a discussion on the exhibit and social justice led by Rev. Dr. Robin McGonigle. Here is a link to the photographer’s website: http://richardross.net/juvenile-in-justice

There is also a flyer  about the tour on the Welcome Table in the foyer or contact Paul Jackson at paul@box2384.temp.domains or 634-0430.

 

MEN’S GROUP LUNCH is Thursday, February 20, 11:30 at Lakeside Club located at the corner of Webb and 21^st behind Walgreens.  This month Gail Goetz, Director of Operations of Goodwill Industries will be the speaker. Goodwill is a whole lot more than the Thrift Shops you see, come and hear about all the good work they do with the money raised in those Thrift Shops.

Sign up in Fellowship Hall on the PIC board.

 

2014 HOLY LAND TRIP brochures are on the Welcome Table for anyone interested or if you have friends who might be interested in the trip scheduled for next March.  There is also trip insurance information, as well.  Please call Robin at 634-0430 or email her at revdocmom1@gmail.com with any questions.

 

Traditional Word:  Genesis 3:6-7

 

  So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

 

Contemporary Word:

 

“It is time that the church acquitted women of Eve’s ‘sin’, since it has even forgiven the Jews for their ‘crime’.

Elizabeth Gould-Davis

 

When Eve bit into the apple, she gave us the world as we know the world—beautiful, flawed, dangerous, full of being.  She gave us smallpox and Somalia, polio vaccine and wheat and Windsor roses; she gave me the computer I am writing on, and planted in my blood and bones and flesh a variable human love, the intoxication of the body.  She (not Mary) is the mother of my children, born in travail to a world of suffering their presence may refresh.  She is my sister. Even the alienation from God we feel as a direct consequence of her Fall makes us beholden to her: The intense desire for God, never satisfied, arises from our separation from him.  In our desire—this desire that makes us perfectly human—is contained our celebration and our rejoicing.  The mingling, melding, braiding of good and mischief in every human soul—the fusion of good and bad in intent and in act—is what makes us recognizable (and delicious) to one another; without it—without the genetically transmitted knowledge of good and evil that Eve’s act of radical curiosity sowed in our marrow—we should not desire to know and to love God, we should have no need of him.

We should have no need of one another… of a one and perfect Other.  Eve, the occasion of our fall from grace, is also the occasion of our salvation.

                                                                                                            Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

 

       

 

First Anthem    “In This Very Room”–Ron and Carol Harris

In this very room there’s quite enough love for one like me,

and in this very room there’s quite enough joy for one like me,

and there’s quite enough hope and quite enough power

to chase away any gloom, for Jesus, Lord Jesus, is in this very room.

 

And in this very room there’s quite enough love for all of us,

And in this very room there’s quite enough joy for all of us,

And there’s quite enough hope and quite enough power,

to chase away any gloom, for Jesus , is in this very room.

 

And in this very room there’s quite enough love for all the world,

And in this very room there’s quite enough joy for all the world,

And there’s quite enough hope and quite enough power to chase away any gloom for Jesus , Lord Jesus, is in this very room.

 

Second Anthem—“O my Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose”

O my luve’s like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June.

O my luve’s like a melody that’s sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou my bonnie lass so deep in luve am I,

I will luve thee still my dear, till all the seas gang dry.

 

I will luve thee still my dear, while the sands of life shall run,

till the seas gang dry , my dear, and rocks melt with the sun.

As fair art thou my bonnie lass, so deep in luve am I,

I will luve thee still my dear, tho’ it were ten thousand mile

 

MARILYN AND DON KILLIAN

     Marilyn grew up in Ironton, MO, and graduated from Ironton High School.  She holds degrees in music education from the University of Missouri and the University of Illinois with postgraduate work at Illinois and Wichita State University.  Marilyn began her teaching career in 1958 for USD 259 Wichita with a position in elementary instrumental music.  A variety of musical opportunities during her career included the following:   organizing /directing boy choirs/children’s choirs for performance with the Wichita symphony Orchestra; directing Children’s Choirs at First United Methodist Church and College Hill United Methodist Church; teaching flute at WSU, Bethel College, and High Plains Band Camp; and teaching music Education Methods classes at WSU and Friends University.  Marilyn was a frequent presenter at professional conferences and University workshops.  She retired from USD 259 in 1991.  Marilyn is the founding Director Emeritus of the Wichita Community Children’s Choir, 1992-2006.  She received the Governor’s Arts Award for Art Educator in 2005.  Marilyn was the first female to receive the Harry Robert Wilson Award for distinguished work in choral music from the Kansas Chapter of the American Choral Directors Assoc.(1992) and was inducted in to the Kansas Music Educators Hall of Fame in 1995.

Marilyn and Don have been married for 56 years. Their son, Steve, lives in Seattle.  Her interests are concerts, symphony, choral groups, reading, wildlife/nature, shopping, and Sigma Alpha Iota (international professional music fraternity for women).

 

Don grew up on a small farm in southeast Missouri near Dexter.  He attended a one-room country school.  At an early school age, he discovered he could do arithmetic well and enjoyed reading whenever he had the chance.  Don graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau in 1952 with majors in mathematics and business. He did graduate work in mathematics at the University of Missouri and the University of Illinois.  Don had a rewarding career teaching mathematics.  He taught at Ironton High School in Ironton MO. for 5 years and WSU for 38 years, retiring in 1994 as Associate Professor Emeritus, Mathematics.  His interests are reading (mostly history), playing blackjack in casinos, studying and investing in the stock market.

We welcome Marilyn and Don to our UCC family!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choir rehearsal is cancelled tonight–we will be rehearsing at 9:30 AM Saturday morning.