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Weekly Update
Friday, June 21, 2024
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This Sunday
June 23 at 10:00 a.m.
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
(Hybrid)
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Outgoing Co-Moderator Jaap van Reijendam will bless us with his preaching and worship leadership this week! Please note there will be no Sunday School this week while Pastor Amy and 20 members of our church are on our service trip to Puerto Rico. Read more about their trip below!
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Meeting ID: 826 8730 1128
Passcode: 386028
Dial in: 1 646 558 8656
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The bulletin is available HERE
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Loving God, hear the prayers
of your people gathered in this community,
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- We pray for the 20 members of our community preparing to serve in Puerto Rico, June 22-29, on behalf of the church. For traveling mercies, fun, relationship-building, and seeing you in the faces of all whom they meet, we pray, O God.
- We pray for Phil Rounseville and Bart Kelso as they both prepare for surgery this week. Bless them with your healing grace, and guide their medical teams and loved ones who are caring for them.
- For all in our UCW community who are ill, or who are caring for loved ones. For all who grieve, God, we ask for the comfort of your presence.
- We pray for peace for your people all throughout the world. Teach us to beat our swords into plowshares, O God, and to sow wisdom and reap peace, justice, and joy.
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If you have other prayers of concern or celebration you
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would like lifted up in community, please email
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There was great news at Tuesday's GBIO Action Team meeting regarding public housing in the bond bill: the House’s version increased the capital funding from $1.6 billion to $2 billion. If passed, this money will certainly help to bring our state housing up to a better standard. We are still waiting to see what will happen with our budget asks around public housing and rental assistance for the formerly incarcerated, as well as with the ID bill for formerly incarcerated individuals.
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The end of the session is fast approaching (June 24), but there is still a GBIO Housing Justice Campaign ask that needs support, particularly from residents of towns like Newton. Though Speaker Ron Mariano initially supported the real estate transfer fee, he changed his mind after the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB) began intense lobbying against it Let’s remind our legislators how much real estate transfer fees could do for housing in MA. Statewide legislation allowing municipalities to collect real estate transfer fees on high value property sales is a sound -- and GBIO would argue moral -- way to generate funds for affordable housing development.
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Join the campaign by either calling or texting your legislators to urge them to vote for a one-time, small fee on real estate sales over a certain transaction amount, whose proceeds will go into that community’s affordable housing trust fund. Or, contribute to GBIO’s social media push by tweeting and tagging @gbinterfaith on Twitter/X and GBIO will repost your tweet to amplify your voice. Simply submit a short (no more than 1 minute and 30 seconds) video explaining why you, from _____ town, care about the transfer fee and urge lawmakers to support it. You can also email this short video to [email protected].
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Sharing from the Heart
2024 - 25 Pledge Drive
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Stewardship season is still going strong. Our theme is "Sharing from the Heart." When we share from our hearts, freely, the gifts with which we have been blessed become the foundation for life-giving ministry. Your pledging allows this church to boldly claim our covenant and plan for services within this congregation and out into the world in inclusive, mission-minded, and intergenerational activities.
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We ask you to SUBMIT your PLEDGE HERE
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by filling out a pledge FORM This Sunday
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Intergenerational Community
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Children, Youth and Families
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| Click on the Image above to see our Puerto Rico Orientation Presentation with videos and photos about our upcoming service trip |
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Please pray for the 20 members of our congregation - mostly high school and college youth - who will be traveling to Puerto Rico from June 22-29 to build relationships and serve with the people of Vega Baja. We will partner with the American Baptist Churches of Puerto Rico, the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, and the NPO The Happy Givers, repairing houses, growing and serving food to hungry neighbors, and building new friendships across language and culture. While 20 of us are traveling, we go as one part of the whole body of the church, and are grateful for all of the ways those who will stay in MA are supporting this mission.
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Please click on the image in the sidebar to see two videos about our partner organization, learn more about Puerto Rico, and see the full orientation presentation we shared with travelers. Then, please plan to join us later in July, as we report back and share all we saw and learned in the travels.
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Sunday School - Summer
No Sunday School this Sunday
Pastor Amy and Ileana are traveling in Puerto Rico this week! On June 23 and 30, kids will be invited to stay in worship, where we will have special activities prepared for them in the prayground.
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UCW Volunteer Opportunities
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Reception This Sunday
Thank you to our Wellspring Women’s group for providing reception this week.
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We still need hosts for
Next Sunday, June 30, if you are available.
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Sign up below to support one of the most impactful ways we build connections and community with each other after worship.
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(Simple guidelines listed here also.)
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Scripture Reader Sign-Up
If you are joining our Sunday worship, please consider signing up as a Scripture Reader for any of our upcoming services.
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Scripture Reader Sign-up: HERE Thank you!
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Pastoral Care Connections
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Please don't hesitate to reach out to Senior Pastor, Rev. Megan Berkowitz, or Associate Pastor for Youth & Families, Rev. Amy Clark Feldman for prayer or pastoral support.
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and her phone is 617-965-3893
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Most weeks, Friday is a day of Sabbath for Pastor Megan; Monday is Pastor Amy's day of Sabbath. With a pastoral emergency, please don't hesitate to reach out to either pastor.
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We, the members of The Union Church in Waban, true to our founding principle of being an inclusive church, covenant together to nourish and to sustain in our common life and practice a fully welcoming and affirming church for all persons. Welcoming all persons who seek to join with us in a commitment to love God and our neighbors, affirming the inclusive love of Jesus, we are open to all, without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, nationality, ability or economic circumstance. We invite all to full participation in our worship, membership, leadership and life of this church.
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