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 Sermons are posted each week!  An archive of sermons (select the speaker), newsletters, and up-to-date calendar are all readily available on the website too.  Also check out our Facebook page by clicking on “Facebook” on any page of our church website, www.ucchurch.org

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.

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

TODAY

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE are given by Kathryn Langrehr in remembrance of her mother who passed away last year.

THE DILLION’S REWARD PROGRAM CARDS  YOU ORDERED ARE IN! Please see Kim Carraway in Fellowship Hall after the church service.

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 is Wednesday, April 2, 6:00 in Fellowship Hall. More information on the next page.

*WG WOMEN’S GUILD LUNCH is Wednesday, April 2, at 12:00 in Fellowship Hall. Signup sheet in Fellowship Hall. See more info on the next page.

NEXT SUNDAY

*DRESS FOR SUCCESS clothes and accessory collection begins. More info further in the bulletin

IT’S EASTER LILY TIME! If you are interested in donating for our Easter floral display, please mail $12.00 to the church office by April 13 or put your check in the offering plate.  Please note “Easter flowers” on the memo line of your check and include if the donation is in honor of or in memory of someone.

*MUNCH AND MUSE LENTEN SERIES continues each Wednesday through the next two Wednesday’s in April, concluding on Maundy Thursday, April 17. You are welcome to join in at any time. 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’ final week of life beginning on Palm Sunday will be presented and discussed. Reading the book before the class is preferred but not required.  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. A few dates in Aug. and Sept. are available plus Nov. 16. Sign up early to get the date you want!

ARE YOU ARTSY OR CRAFTSY?  Do you have a hobby that you’ve wanted to teach to others?  The UCC Arts Camp is June 9-13 and a perfect way to share your hobby or talent.  Sign up on the PIC board so we can incorporate your class into our curriculum.  See Paul for more details.

COMING SOON! On April 13, Palm Sunday, St. Petersburg String Quartet will be here to play during the church service and with the Chancel choir. On April 20, Easter Sunday, Gloria, by Karl Jenkins, will be presented during our church service including symphony musicians and our UCC Chancel Choir.

During May and June, our friend, Keith Williamson will offer a series of classes based on the book “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” by Reza Aslan.  More information in the April newsletter.

TWO RECITALS THIS WEEK FOR TWO MEMBERS OF OUR CHOIR:  Faculty Artist Series presents a recital with Randolph Lacy, tenor and Lynne Davis, organ/piano.  Songs by Debussy, Faure, Hahn, Langlais, and Bachelet. Solo organ works by Durufle and Langlais. Special guest, Luis Salazar Avilia, violin.  Tuesday, April 1,

Wiedemann Recital Hall on the WSU campus, 7:30-9:00. Tickets $7.00.  More information on the PIC board in Fellowship Hall.

Luke Walker is having his senior recital at WSU’s Ulrich Museum, Beren Gallery @ 7:00pm on Friday April 4^th. See the poster on the PIC board in Fellowship Hall. $5.00 suggested donation.

*THE OUTREACH BOARD will be taking donations of Women’s Spring/Summer clothing and accessories such as shoes, belts, and purses in Fellowship Hall, April 6 and 13.  This clothing will be given to our local Dress for Success program which provides clothing and training for women entering the workforce.

THE NEEDLEWORK GROUP meets the second Tuesday of each month so mark your calendar for April 8 at 10:00 a.m. if you want to work on your own project while visiting with others. If you have always wanted to learn to knit, crochet, or any other type of needlework, the ladies are glad to teach you and will be there to help you learn. If you can stay a while, bring a sack lunch. You are welcome to join in at any time.

   *  When bees thrive, we all thrive

WOMEN’S GUILD LUNCHEON

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

              12:00 noon

$7.00 p.p.

The theme for our lunch                                presenters for this year is    “A Little Less Traditional”  and our speaker is our own

LINDA CROWE

who is a beekeeper!

Lunch will be honey related.

First Anthem    “O Jesu Christe”

O Savior Jesus, Lord have mercy on us,

In pain I grieve, hear my plea,

Oh my Lord, I give you my trust,

Lord help me, I pray

Have mercy, Lord, on us.

Second Anthem    “Sanctus”

Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, God of Sabaoth

Heaven and earth show thy glory,’ are full of thy glory.,

Hosanna, Hosanna,
Amen

Traditional Word : Mark 14:22-26

While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”

Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

“This is my blood of the[a] covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Contemporary Word:

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

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 Sermons are posted each week!  An archive of sermons (select the speaker), newsletters, and up-to-date calendar are all readily available on the website too.  Also check out our Facebook page by clicking on “Facebook” on any page of our church website, www.ucchurch.org

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.

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

TODAY

WE WELCOME DEANN SMITH executive director of United Methodist Open Door, as our guest speaker from the pulpit today.

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE are given by TABLE are given by Stephen Taylor in memory of his wife, Jane Vanderlip Taylor, and his father-in-law Herbert D. Vanderlip, in remembrance of their March birthdays.

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 is Wednesday, March 19, 6:00 in Fellowship Hall. More information on the next page.

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT is Friday, March 28, 6:00 in the downstairs movie room.  The movie is “Frozen” loved by both kids and parents that won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song this year. Pizza, popcorn, and pop will be served

NEXT SUNDAY

DUSTIN PETERSON will be here as our guest soloist.

COMMUNION will be served.

IT’S EASTER LILY TIME! If you are interested in donating for our Easter floral display, please mail $12.00 to the church office by April 13 or put your check in the offering plate.  Please note “Easter flowers” on the memo line of your check and include if the donation is in honor of or in memory of someone.

*MUNCH AND MUSE LENTEN SERIES continues each Wednesday through March and the first two Wednesday’s in April, concluding on Maundy Thursday, April 17. You are welcome to join in at any time. 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’ final week of life beginning on Palm Sunday will be presented and discussed. Reading the book before the class is preferred but not required.  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. A few dates in Aug. and Sept. are available plus Nov. 16. Sign up early to get the date you want!

ARE YOU ARTSY OR CRAFTSY?  Do you have a hobby that you’ve wanted to teach to others?  The UCC Arts Camp is June 9-13 and a perfect way to share your hobby or talent.  Sign up on the PIC board so we can incorporate your class into our curriculum.  See Paul for more details.

COMING SOON! On April 13, Palm Sunday, St. Petersburg String Quartet will be here to play during the church service and with the Chancel choir. On April 20, Easter Sunday, Gloria, by Karl Jenkins, will be presented as our church service including symphony musicians and our UCC Chancel Choir.

During May and June, our friend, Keith Williamson will offer a series of classes based on the book “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” by Reza Aslan.  More information in the April newsletter.

THE OUTREACH BOARD will be taking donations of Women’s Spring/Summer clothing and accessories such as shoes, belts, and purses in Fellowship Hall, April 6 and 13.  This clothing will be given to our local Dress for Success program which provides clothing and training for women entering the workforce.

DILLON’S NEIGHBORHOOD REWARD PROGRAM Last day today!! Orders are being taken for the initial purchase of the $5.00 gift card in Fellowship Hall today and next Sunday in Fellowship Hall.  Before your first purchase of groceries, the card should be loaded with an amount up to $500.  The card can be loaded with cash, check, or major credit card.  When UCC participants have reached $5,000 with its initial order ($5 card) plus reloads in a 4-week cycle, Dillon’s will send a check to UCC for 5% of the total.

        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.

  When bees thrive, we all thrive

WOMEN’S GUILD LUNCHEON

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

              12:00 noon

$7.00 p.p.

The theme for our lunch                                presenters for this year is    “A Little Less Traditional”  and our speaker is our own

LINDA CROWE

who is a bee keeper!

Lunch will be honey related.

First Anthem         “O Sacrum Convivium”

Giovanni Croce  (1557-1609)

O Sacred and Holy Feast

Where Christ is now received

and we recount the memory of his bitter passion

Minds are filled with  heavenly grace

and the  promise we are given of a future glory.

alleluia

Second Anthem   “The Last Words of David”

Randall Thompson

He that ruleth over all must be just, ruling in the fear of God,

And he shall be as the light of the morning,

when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds:

As the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining. —after the rain, — alleluia,—– amen

Traditional Word                                 Luke 10:25-37

Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.” But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.’ Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”  

Contemporary Word

“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”  Martin Luther King Jr.

“When elephants fight, the grass suffers.”  Author unknown

UCC is excited to announce that Rev. Dr. Keith Williamson will be leading a class on “Zealot–the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” by Rez Aslan, during our May-June Monday night class.

The class will be every Monday night (except for memorial Day, May 26) of May and June 2014–starting Monday, May 5.

Find a full class schedule right below Keith’s brief biography:

Rev. Dr. Keith Williamson served as one of the interim co-pastors at UCC during 2012.

An ordained minister (now retired) in the United Methodist Church, he has served as Teacher-in-Residence at College Hill UMC for more than twenty years, teaching classes on progressive theology and biblical scholarship.  From 1977-2008 he was a member of the faculty of the Elliott School of Communication at W.S.U.  A native Wichitan, he is a graduate of Wichita High School East, and Wichita State University (English and History).  His seminary degree is from S.M.U (Perkins School of Theology), and his doctorate from Temple University (speech/communication).

SCHEDULE:

A Series Exploring Zealot:

The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

by Reza Aslan, internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religion

University Congregational Church

Mondays, May & June of 2014, 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Rev. Dr. Keith Williamson, Instructor

Copies of the best-selling book—Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (NY:  Random House, 2013)—are available in the UCC Library to check out.  Not required reading but preferred.

5/5—   Introductory material (pp. xiii-xxxiv);

Part I:  Prologue: A Different Sort of Sacrifice;  &

Chap. 1:  A Hole in the Corner

5/12— Chap. 2:  King of the Jews;

Chap. 3:  You Know Where I Am From;  &

Chap. 4:  The Fourth Philosophy

5/19— Chap. 5: Where Is Your Fleet to Sweep the Roman Seas?  &

Chap. 6:  Year One

5/26—Memorial Day; no class

6/2—   Part II: Prologue: Zeal for Your House;

Chap. 7:  The Voice Crying in the Wilderness;  &

Chap. 8:  Follow Me

6/9—   Chap. 9:  By the Finger of God;  &

Chap. 10:  May Your Kingdom Come

6/16— Chap. 11:  Who Do You Say That I Am?  &

Chap. 12:  No King but Caesar

6/23— Part II: Prologue:  God Made Flesh;  &

Chap. 13:  If Christ Has Not Been Risen

6/30— Chap. 14:  Am I Not an Apostle?

Chap. 15:  The Just One;  &

Epilogue:  True God from True God

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 Sermons are posted each week!  An archive of sermons (select the speaker), newsletters, and up-to-date calendar are all readily available on the website too.  Also check out our Facebook page by clicking on “Facebook” on any page of our church website, www.ucchurch.org

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.

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

TODAY

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE are given by Anne and Tim Duncan in celebration of their two new granddaughters, Vivian (5 months old) and Soren (3 months old).

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

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

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 is Wednesday, March 19, 6:00 in Fellowship Hall. More information on the next page.

MEN’S GROUP LUNCH is Thursday, March 20, 11:30 at Lakeview Club. Some changes and improvements are in store for the church building and John Carraway will give you the latest plans. Sign up in Fellowship Hall on the PIC board.

*WG  COOK’S NIGHT OUT is Thursday, March 20, at 6:00. More information further in the bulletin.  Please sign up today in Fellowship Hall or call the office Monday.

NEXT SUNDAY

DEANN SMITH FROM OPEN DOOR will be our guest speaker. Deann is the executive director of United Methodist Open Door whose facility on N. Market is the home of our Head-To-Toe Hygiene Pantry.

*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.

*MUNCH AND MUSE LENTEN SERIES continues each Wednesday through March and the first two Wednesday’s in April, concluding on Maundy Thursday, April 17. You are welcome to join in at any time. 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.  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. A few dates in Aug. and Sept. are available plus Nov. 16. Sign up early to get the date you want!

THE EASTER LILY TIME! If you are interested in donating for our Easter floral display, please mail $12.00 to the church office by April 13 or put your check in the offering plate.  Please note “Easter flowers” on the memo line of your check and include if the donation is in honor of or in memory of someone.

ARE YOU ARTSY OR CRAFTSY?  Do you have a hobby that you’ve wanted to teach to others?  The UCC Arts Camp is June 9-13 and a perfect way to share your hobby or talent.  Sign up on the PIC board so we can incorporate your class into our curriculum.  See Paul for more details.

THE OUTREACH BOARD will be taking donations of Women’s Spring/Summer clothing and accessories such as shoes, belts, and purses in Fellowship Hall, April 6 and 13.  This clothing will be given to our local Dress for Success program which provides clothing and training for women entering the workforce.

DILLON’S NEIGHBORHOOD REWARD PROGRAM Orders are being taken for the initial purchase of the $5.00 gift card in Fellowship Hall today and next Sunday in Fellowship Hall.  Before your first purchase of groceries, the card should be loaded with an amount up to $500.  The card can be loaded with cash, check, or major credit card.  When UCC participants have reached $5,000 with its initial order ($5 card) plus reloads in a 4-week cycle, Dillon’s will send a check to UCC for 5% of the total.

        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.

First Anthem   “Lamb of God”

Lamb of God most holy and lowly, Thyself to scorn didst offer.

Our sins by thee were taken, hope had us forsaken,

Have mercy, oh Jesu!

Second Anthem   “Tantum Ergo”

Traditional Word   Mark 12:28-34 New International Version (NIV)

The Greatest Commandment

28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”

29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[c] There is no commandment greater than these.”

32 “Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. 33 To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

34 When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.

When bees thrive

                  we all thrive

WOMEN’S GUILD LUNCHEON

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

              12:00 noon

$7.00 p.p.

The theme for our lunch                                presenters for this year is    “A Little Less Traditional”  and our speaker is our own

LINDA CROWE

who is a bee keeper!

Lunch will be honey related.

Contact Ann Brady at 733-1064 or call the office by April 1 to make your reservation.

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 Sermons are posted each week!  An archive of sermons (select the speaker), newsletters, and up-to-date calendar are all readily available on the website too.  Also check out our Facebook page by clicking on “Facebook” on any page of our church website, www.ucchurch.org

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.

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

TODAY

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE are given by Tebogo and Melodi Mosinyi in celebration of Bao’s 40^th birthday.

THIS WEEK

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

NEEDLEWORKER’S are getting together in Fellowship Hall on Tuesday, March 11, 10:00. More information further in the bulletin.

MUNCH AND MUSE LENTEN SERIES is Wednesday, March 12, 6:00 in Fellowship Hall. More information on the next page.

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

MUNCH AND MUSE LENTEN SERIES started last Wednesday and continues each Wednesday through March and the first two Wednesday’s in April, concluding on Maundy Thursday, April 17. You are welcome to join in at any time. 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  copies of “The Last Week” in the church library to check out. 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!

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:  Mark 11:12-19

On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.

Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves; and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written,

‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?
But you have made it a den of robbers.”

And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him; for they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching. And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.

Contemporary Word:

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.

HEAD-TO-TOE HYGIENE PANTRY SPECIAL REQUEST: We are in need of volunteers to help with the pantry on Saturday, March 15.  If you are interested, please sign up on the PIC board in Fellowship Hall.

DILLON’S NEIGHBORHOOD REWARD PROGRAM Orders are being taken for the initial purchase of the $5.00 gift card in Fellowship Hall today in Fellowship Hall.  Before your first purchase of groceries, the card should be loaded with an amount up to $500.  The card can be loaded with cash, check, or major credit card.  When UCC participants have reached $5,000 with its initial order ($5 card) plus reloads in a 4-week cycle, Dillon’s will send a check to UCC for 5% of the total.

        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.

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.

THE OUTREACH BOARD will be taking donations of Women’s Spring/Summer clothing and accessories such as shoes, belts, and purses in Fellowship Hall, April 6 and 13.  This clothing will be given to our local Dress for Success program which provides clothing and training for women entering the workforce.

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.