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 are the roster for the Church Council and all other boards.

 

 

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

 

WE INVITE OUR VISITORS TODAY to join us in Fellowship Hall after the service for coffee, refreshments and conversation.  Just follow the crowd down the hallway (west).

 

PLEASE SIGN THE FELLOWSHIP PAD when it comes down the pew.  Members please sign and update any changes in your contact information.  If you are a guest, please sign the pad so that we may thank you for worshipping with us.

 

 

THIS SUNDAY

 

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE TODAY are given Dorothy and Ted Blankenship in anticipation of Fall.

 

 

THIS WEEK

 

THE CHURCH OFFICE will be closed Monday, September 1, for the Labor Day Holiday.

 

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

 

NEXT SUNDAY

 

WE WELCOME MICHAEL HANAWALT OUR NEW DIRECTOR OF MUSIC AND OUR UCC CHANCEL CHOIR BACK FROM SUMMER BREAK!

 

ROBIN BEGIN’S A NEW SERMON SERIES on “Where is God? Finding Spiritual Pathways”.

 

 

 

PLEASE CONSIDER becoming a student choir member sponsor for the 10 months the choir is a part of the worship service. The sponsorship is $1,500 per student or $150. per month OR contribute what you can and join in with other families. The campaign will continue through September but the sooner we know how many sponsors we have, the sooner we can include those students in our choir.  A huge thank you for all of you who are supporting this wonderful program.
 

W.O.W.–THE WEDNESDAY EVENING PROGRAM is starting September 10 and runs through November 19 offering you additional opportunities for fellowship, worship, and education during the week.

Food will be available to purchase at a reasonable price and everyone will eat together at 5:30.  Classes taught by Robin and Dr. Jim Rhatigan will start at 6:00.  A special music class will be taught by choir member Alyson Golloday (who is a Music Ed. Student at WSU) will be available for kids also at 6:00. Then a brief worship/meditation will be at 6:50 and the evening program ends at 7:00.You probably have noticed signs around the church with Worship, Wisdom, and Welcome to invite you to join in and since it’s on Wednesday, we are calling it WOW.

 

FALL FELLOWSHIP DINNERS signup sheets are in Fellowship Hall on the PIC board. The dinners will be in October and November.  For those of you who have not participated, this is a fun way to get to know UCC members and meet other people you may not know. The host furnishes the entrée, and all the guests bring a dish. All members and nonmembers are welcome to participate.  If you are willing to host, please indicate the number of people you can accommodate for dinner, including yourself.

 

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE WOMEN’S GUILD BRUNCH Saturday, September 13, 9:30-11:30 in Fellowship Hall.  Kathryn Page-Hauptman of the Forum Theatre will be the guest speaker. A

signup sheet is up in Fellowship Hall. Bring a friend and join the fun.

$7.00 p.p.

 

 

 

PLEASE BE AWARE of the new storm warning diagrams for direction of travel to shelter that have been mounted on the walls at strategic locations throughout the church. The main level diagrams indicate the direction of travel to the basement shelter.  The basement diagrams indicate areas of refuge.

Also, the Emergency Egress Procedures call for everyone to locate the exit sign nearest them and immediately leave the building at that location.

  REVELATIONS

 

Sunday, September 21, Prairie Pines

 

6:00 Dinner (The Guild ladies are cooking)

 

7:00 The roast begins for our beloved Bob Scott

Emcee: Bucky Walters

 

Sign up in Fellowship Hall or call the office to make a reservation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Traditional Word:                            Proverbs 1:1-10

 

These are the wise saying of Soloman, David’s son, Israel’s

king—

Written down so we’ll know how to live well and right,

to understand what life means and where it’s going;

A manual for living,

for learning what’s right and just and fair;

To teach the inexperienced the ropes

and give our young people a grasp on reality.

There’s something here also for seasoned men and women,

still a thing or two for the experienced to learn—

Fresh wisdom to probe and penetrate,

The rhymes and reasons of wise men and women.

 

Start with God—the first step in learning is bowing down to

God;

only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and

 

Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you;

Never forget what you learned at your mother’s knee.

Wear their counsel like flowers in your hair,

Like rings on your fingers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contemporary Word: 

Wisdom is the Biblical term for everyday living.  Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.  It has virtually nothing to do with mere information or knowledge.

Wisdom has to do with:

• becoming skillful in honoring our parents and raising our children,
• handling our money,
• going to work and exercising leadership,
• treating our friends kindly,
• eating and drinking healthfully,
• cultivating emotions without ourselves and attitudes toward others that make for peace.

 

 

 

 

 

​

 

 

 

 

 

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 are the roster for the Church Council and all other boards.

 

 

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

 

WE INVITE OUR VISITORS TODAY to join us in Fellowship Hall after the service for coffee, refreshments and conversation.  Just follow the crowd down the hallway (west).

 

PLEASE SIGN THE FELLOWSHIP PAD when it comes down the pew.  Members please sign and update any changes in your contact information.  If you are a guest, please sign the pad so that we may thank you for worshipping with us.

 

 

THIS SUNDAY

 

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE TODAY are given by N.J. and Chuck Roush in honor of YOU, the members and visitors at UCC.

 

 

THIS WEEK

 

THE CHURCH COUNCIL will meet on Monday, August 25, at 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.

 

NEXT SUNDAY

 

IT’S “WEAR YOUR UCC POLO SHIRT TO CHURCH DAY”!

(Not required—if you don’t have a UCC polo shirt, you know you are welcome to come in your usual Sunday clothes)  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE CHOIR WILL RETURN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.  Please consider becoming a student choir member sponsor for the 10 months the choir is a part of the worship service. The sponsorship is $1,500 per student or $150. per month OR contribute what you can and join in with other families. We need your sponsorship soon so we know how many students we can select.

 

THE WEDNESDAY EVENING PROGRAM starts September 10 and will include an additional worship opportunity, classes for people for all ages, and a chance for us to break bread together. You probably have noticed signs around the church with Worship, Wisdom, and Welcome to invite you to join in. More details coming soon.

 

FALL FELLOWSHIP DINNERS signup sheets are in Fellowship Hall on the PIC board. The dinners will be in October and November.  For those of you who have not participated, this is a fun way to get to know UCC members and meet other people you may not know. The host furnishes the entrée, and all the guests bring a dish. All members and nonmembers are welcome to participate.  If you are willing to host, please indicate the number of people you can accommodate for dinner, including yourself.

 

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE WOMEN’S GUILD BRUNCH Saturday, September 13, 9:30-11:30 in Fellowship Hall.  Kathryn Page-Hauptman of the Forum Theatre will be the guest speaker. A

sign up sheet is up in Fellowship Hall.

 

ALSO SAVE THE DATE FOR REVELATIONS Sunday, September 21, at Prairie Pines which will be a tribute to our beloved Bob Scott for the 27 years of service to UCC providing us with magnificent music.  Bucky Walters will be the emcee.More details soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLEASE BE AWARE of the new storm warning diagrams for direction of travel to shelter that have been mounted on the walls at strategic locations throughout the church. The main level diagrams indicate the direction of travel to the basement shelter.  The basement diagrams indicate areas of refuge.

Also, the Emergency Egress Procedures call for everyone to locate the exit sign nearest them and immediately leave the building at that location.

Traditional Word:  Jeremiah 29:11

 

I say this because I know what I am planning for you,” says the Lord. “I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you hope and a good future.

 

Contemporary Word:  Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

 

 

 

 

 

​

 

 

 

 

 

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 are the roster for the Church Council and all other boards.

 

 

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

 

WE INVITE OUR VISITORS TODAY to join us in Fellowship Hall after the service for coffee, refreshments and conversation.  Just follow the crowd down the hallway (west).

 

PLEASE SIGN THE FELLOWSHIP PAD when it comes down the pew.  Members please sign and update any changes in your contact information.  If you are a guest, please sign the pad so that we may thank you for worshipping with us.

 

THIS SUNDAY

 

WE WELCOME JIM AND PATTI WHITE to our church service today!

 

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE TODAY are given by Anita Jones in honor of our returning college choir members.

 

THE C.E. BOARD will meet in the Science and Exploration Room.

 

THE BOARD OF DEACONS will meet in the area off the kitchen downstairs.

 

THE MUSIC BOARD will meet in the choir room.

 

THE OUTREACH BOARD will meet in the office meeting room.

 

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES will meet in the conference room.

All meeting start 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.

 

MEN’S GROUP LUNCH will be Thursday, August 21, 11:30 at Lakeside Club located at Webb and 21^st St. behind Walgreens.

Sign up in Fellowship Hall. Sign up in Fellowship Hall.

DON’T FORGET JIM WHITE will be teaching a class at 1:00 in Fellowship Hall today. His latest book “Brief Christian Histories-Getting a Sense of Our Long Story” will be discussed. He will have books available at the class if you would like to purchase one.

 

THE CHOIR WILL RETURN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.  Please consider becoming a student choir member sponsor for the 10 months the choir is a part of the worship service. The sponsorship is $1,500 per student or $150. per month OR contribute what you can and join in with other families. We need your sponsorship soon so we know how many students we can select.

 

PUT SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 ON YOUR CALENDAR—it’s wear your “UCC Polo Shirt to Church Day”!

 

PLEASE BE AWARE of the new storm warning diagrams for direction of travel to shelter that have been mounted on the walls at strategic locations throughout the church. The main level diagrams indicate the direction of travel to the basement shelter.  The basement diagrams indicate areas of refuge.

Also, the Emergency Egress Procedures call for everyone to locate the exit sign nearest them and immediately leave the building at that location.

Traditional Word:       Matthew 9: 35-36

 

“Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness among the people.  But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered.”

 

 

 

​

Contemporary Word: Anne Lamott

 

“In all barbarity and suffering, in Robin’s death, on Mount Sinjar, in the Ebola towns, the streets of India’s ghettos, and our own, we see Christ crucified. I don’t mean that in a nice, Christian-y way. I mean that in the most ultimate human and existential way. The temptation is to say, as cute little believers sometimes do, Oh it will all make sense someday. The thing is, it may not. We still sit with scared, dying people; we get the thirsty drinks of water.

This was at theologian Fred Buechner blog today: ‘It is absolutely crucial, therefore, to keep in constant touch with what is going on in your own life’s story and to pay close attention to what is going on in the stories of others’ lives. If God is present anywhere, it is in those stories that God is present. If God is not present in those stories, then they are scarcely worth telling.’

Live stories worth telling! Stop hitting the snooze button. Try not to squander your life on meaningless, multi-tasking bull*%$#. I would shake you and me but Robin is shaking us now.

Get help. I did. Be a resurrection story, in the wild non-denominational sense. I am.”

 

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK

Crisis Text Line: www.crisistextline.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 are the roster for the Church Council and all other boards.

 

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

 

THIS SUNDAY

 

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE TODAY are given by Jan Deering, Eric Deering, and Emilie Deering Hartwig in loving memory of Bert Deering.

 

WE WELCOME BROOKE AND BRIAN FINAN AND PAT SNYDER AS OUR NEW MEMBERS TODAY! Please read their profiles in today’s bulletin.

 

THIS WEEK

 

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

 

THE NEEDLEWORKERS will meet in Fellowship Hall on Tuesday, August 12 at 10:00.

 

NEXT SUNDAY

 

THE C.E. BOARD will meet in the Science and Exploration Room.

 

THE BOARD OF DEACONS will meet in the area off the kitchen downstairs.

 

THE MUSIC BOARD will meet in the choir room.

 

THE OUTREACH BOARD will meet in the office meeting room

 

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES will meet in the conference room.

All meeting start at 11:45.

 

JIM WHITE will lead a class at 1:00 in Fellowship Hall. More information on the next page.

 

 

 

WE INVITE OUR VISITORS TODAY to join us in Fellowship Hall after the service for coffee, refreshments and conversation.  Just follow the crowd down the hallway (west).

 

PLEASE SIGN THE FELLOWSHIP PAD when it comes down the pew.  Members please sign and update any changes in your contact information.  If you are a guest, please sign the pad so that we may thank you for worshipping with us.

 

THE NEEDLEWORKERS will get together Tuesday, August 12, at 10:00 in Fellowship Hall.  If you have wanted to learn how to knit, crochet, or any other type of needlework, here is the place to come and get free lessons.  If you already are a needleworker, join the group and bring your own project or work on some of the projects that are being done to help kids while they are in the hospital.  If you plan to stay a while, bring a sack lunch.

 

JIM AND PATTI WHITE will be visiting UCC on Sunday, August 17! Jim has written a new book “Brief Christian Histories-Getting a Sense of Our Long Story” which he will talk about in a class that will meet at 1:00 p.m. in Fellowship Hall that afternoon. There is information on the PIC board about the book which we have for sale in the church office for $25.00 if you would like to read it before the class. “Brief Christian Histories” has gotten some good reviews from Walter Brueggemann, John Shelby Spong and our own Paul Jackson.  Jim will also speak in the Christian Life spot during the church service. See insert.

 

YOU ARE INVITED

to an open house reception for Jim and Patti White

on Saturday, August 16, form 5:00-9:00 p.m.

at the home of Mike and Leigh Aaron Leary, 7233 Oxford, 67226. Food and drinks provided.  Casual. Please RSVP by signing up in Fellowship Hall on the PIC board or calling the  church office by Friday, August 15.

VICTORIA RATCLIFFE our guest violin player today, attended UCC as a young girl and is the daughter of Martin Ratcliffe. She is now a sophomore at Rockhurst College in Kansas City majoring in pre-med and plays violin there as well.

 

THE CHOIR WILL RETURN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.  Please consider becoming a student choir member sponsor for the 10 months the choir is a part of the worship service. The sponsorship is $1,500 per student or $150. per month OR contribute what you can and join in with other families. We need your sponsorship soon so we know how many students we can select.  See insert.

 

MEN’S GROUP LUNCH will be Thursday, August 21, 11:30 at Lakeside Club located at Webb and 21^st St. behind Walgreens.

Sign up in Fellowship Hall.

 

PUT SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 ON YOUR CALENDAR—it’s wear your “UCC Polo Shirt to Church Day”!

 

PLEASE BE AWARE of the new storm warning diagrams for direction of travel to shelter that have been mounted on the walls at strategic locations throughout the church. The main level diagrams indicate the direction of travel to the basement shelter.  The basement diagrams indicate areas of refuge.

Also, the Emergency Egress Procedures call for everyone to locate the exit sign nearest them and immediately leave the building at that location.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brooke and Brian Finan

Brooke and Brian Finan were married at University Congregational Church in 2001 by Dr. Robert Meyers. Before that, Brooke grew up in Colorado and then moved to Wichita during fifth grade.  She graduated from Wichita Collegiate School in 1991 and attended Manchester College in Indiana where her grandfather was a professor.  She spent her senior year abroad studying in France and then earned a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in France during the year after she graduated.

 

Upon Brooke’s return to the States she took a job teaching French at Forman School in Litchfield, CT.  It was there that she met Brian, a fellow teacher at that school and a native of Litchfield.  In the years leading up to when Brooke and Brian met, Brian studied at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire and the University of Connecticut.

After Brian and Brooke had worked together for a few years in Connecticut they became engaged and returned to Kansas to begin their life as a married couple.  They both attended graduate school at The University of Kansas.  They then lived in Nashville for a few years where their daughter, Clare, was born.

Finally, they returned to Wichita in 2007 and have both taught at the Wichita Collegiate School ever since.  Brooke is the upper school French teacher and Brian is the sixth grade science teacher.  Their son Liam will be starting pre-kindergarten this year and Clare will be in second grade.  Brian and Brooke are delighted to become members of UCC and appreciate all that this church has already given them and their children.

Patricia Snyder

Pat was born in Beaver, Oklahoma and moved with her parents to a farm near Mahaska, KS following World War II.  She graduated from Kansas State University where she met her husband, Jim.

 

The Snyder family traveled extensively while Jim spent 30 years in the Air Force.  Some exciting times were had while living in Bangkok, Thailand and also Stuttgart, Germany.  Of course, there were many more moves than that mostly in the Southeast part of the U.S.  After retirement from the Air Force they moved to Overland Park where they lived for 23 years before moving to Wichita in December of 2012.

 

The move to Wichita was motivated to be near their daughter, Deborah and her family.  The move was just at the right time since Jim died in February 2014 and Deborah was a great support during the last month.  Pat keeps busy some of the time being chauffeur for her two grandchildren who live here.

 

Pat has always enjoyed volunteering, early on with all the activities their 3 children were involved in such as Boy and Girl Scouts as well as various athletic activities and later the Red Cross after the children were leaving for college.  She enjoys reading, sewing, music, and being with friends.

 

Pat started attending UCC after being invited to attend one of the ladies’ luncheons. She is inspired by the wonderful music and the feeling of giving and outreach provided by the church.

 

 

Traditional Word:     Matthew 2: 13-15

 

The Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”  Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod.  This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, “Out of Egypt I have called my son.” 

Contemporary Word:  Tātās

 

 Our grandmothers walked the banks of the River Nile

Balancing on their heads alabaster jars.

Our tātās beat clothing on the banks of the River Nile

Ringing and rolling the precious drops against limestone rock.

They dried the dates of palm on the banks of the River Nile

Adding to their sweetness a kiss of peace.

They carried the weight of the River Nile

The weight of us all, on their backs, all the while bracing earth with

their toughened feet.

Matthew Shenoda is a Coptic American Professor in the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts, the San Francisco State University

 

 

 

 

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 are the roster for the Church Council and all other boards.

 

Good Morning! Welcome to University

Congregational Church!

 

WE INVITE OUR VISITORS TODAY to join us in Fellowship Hall after the service for coffee, refreshments and conversation.  Just follow the crowd down the hallway (west).

 

PLEASE SIGN THE FELLOWSHIP PAD when it comes down the pew.  Members please sign and update any changes in your contact information.  If you are a guest, please sign the pad so that we may thank you for worshipping with us.

 

THIS SUNDAY

 

THE FLOWERS ON THE COMMUNION TABLE TODAY are given today by Maxine and George Morrison in memory of their dear friend Bert Deering.

 

THE UCC POLO SHIRTS ARE IN so if you placed an order for a shirt, you can pick it up in Fellowship Hall after the service today!

 

THIS WEEK

 

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

NEXT SUNDAY

 

WE WILL WELCOME BRIAN AND BROOKE FINAN, AND PAT SNYDER who will be joining our beautiful church.

 

PLEASE BE AWARE of the new storm warning diagrams for direction of travel to shelter that have been mounted on the walls at strategic locations throughout the church. The main level diagrams indicate the direction of travel to the basement shelter.  The basement diagrams indicate areas of refuge.

Also, the Emergency Egress Procedures call for everyone to locate the exit sign nearest them and immediately leave the building at that location.

THE NEEDLEWORKERS will get together Tuesday, August 12, at 10:00 in Fellowship Hall.  If you have wanted to learn how to knit, crochet, or any other type of needlework, here is the place to come and get free lessons.  If you already are a needleworker, join the group and bring your own project or work on some of the projects that are being done to help kids while they are in the hospital.  If you plan to stay a while, bring a sack lunch.

 

JIM AND PATTI WHITE will be visiting UCC on Sunday, August 17! Jim has written a new book “Brief Christian Histories-Getting a Sense of Our Long Story” which he will talk about in a class that will meet at 1:00 p.m. in Fellowship Hall that afternoon. There is information on the PIC board about the book which we have for sale in the church office for $25.00 if you would like to read it before the class. “Brief Christian Histories” has gotten some good reviews from Walter Brueggemann, John Shelby Spong and our own Paul Jackson.  Jim will also speak in the Christian Life spot during the church service.

 

MEN’S GROUP LUNCH will be Thursday, August 21, 11:30 at Lakeside Club located at Webb and 21^st St. behind Walgreens.

Sign up in Fellowship Hall.

 

PUT SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 ON YOUR CALENDAR—it’s wear your “UCC Polo Shirt to Church Day”!

 

Traditional Word:                                     John 19:17-20, 41-42

 

So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.  There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them.  Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross.  It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”  Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. 

Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.  And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.   

Contemporary Word:   A timeline for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

·        In 614, a Persian army destroyed the church, but it was rebuilt.

·        In the 900’s, the entrance to the church was converted to a mosque and the dome was destroyed by fire during anti-Christian riots.

·        In 1009, the destruction of the church was ordered, but just 40 years later, it was rebuilt by the Byzantines.

·        During the 11^th century, the Muslim rulers allowed Christian pilgrims to visit the church and treated them well.

·        The First Crusade between 1096 and 1099 had the liberation of the holy places as its top goal.  The first and foremost important place was the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

·        The Church was reconsecreated on July 15, 1149, 50 years to the day after the capture of Jerusalem by the first Crusade. Although renovated over the years, the church claimed by the Crusaders is essentially the building that is there today.

·        Since then, even when the Muslim’s reconquered the city, Christian pilgrims have still been admitted to the Church.

 

Greek Orthodox, the Armenian Apostolic and Roman Catholic churches are the custodians of the building and in the 19th century, the Coptic Orthodox, the Ethiopian Orthodox and the Syrian Orthodox acquired lesser responsibilities, including shrines and other structures within and around the building.