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Weekly Update
Friday, July 5, 2024
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Summer Services
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Remember, there will be no worship service this Sunday, July 7th.
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Beginning Sunday, July 14th, we will gather on the stage downstairs for summer services at 10:00 a.m. on Sundays. These services will be lay-led and will focus on the parables of Jesus. Jeannie Martin will lead us in a discussion of the Parable of the Good Samaritan for our first gathering. Be sure to come and worship together in summertime joy!
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Loving God, hear the prayers
of your people gathered in this community,
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- We pray in gratitude for the safe return home of all of our youth and mentors who are served on our mission trip in Puerto Rico.
- We pray for Tony and Sandra DaDalt and their family as they grieve the sudden loss of Tony’s beloved cousin.
- We pray for Bart Kelso and for Phil Rounseville, that they may be surrounded by healing grace, comfort, and support as they recover from recent surgeries.
- For all in our community who are traveling this summer: for traveling mercies, joy, and a safe return home.
- 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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A Request from our HR Team
It's that time again in the church year when the HR team seeks to give our staff useful and meaningful feedback in their reviews. We welcome any feedback either in writing or by having a phone conversation with an HR team member. Please send along any comments that would be useful for Pastors Megan or Amy, Aidan or Mijin. If you would like to speak on the phone please let us know that as well.
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With appreciation,
HR team
Diane, Molly, Brita and Anne
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Beloved, have you gotten and decorated a Flat Jesus yet? Be sure to take part in this fun and creative way of staying in touch with one another throughout the summer, and of sharing with one another as the new church year begins in September. If you don’t yet have your Flat Jesus, reach out to me and I can send you one in the mail or to print at home! Thank you to the Deacons for leading us in this joyful practice! See more details in the announcements below.
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Flat Jesus – Summer 2024
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Stay in touch with the UCW community, and remember that we are all part of one Body even as we travel separately from one another over the summer, by taking your very own Flat Jesus with you on your summer adventures!
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The Deacons have prepared Flat Jesuses for us all to decorate and take home. Whether he accompanies you around the world or around the block, take a picture with your Flat Jesus and email it to Pastor Megan. At the end of the summer, when we return to regular worship in September, we’ll gather the photos and the Flat Jesuses and share about our time apart. Haven’t picked up a Flat Jesus in worship during June? Email Pastor Megan and she can send one in the mail, or for you to print at home.
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Intergenerational Community & All-Church Gatherings
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Gather for Ice Cream and Sharing from Puerto Rico!
Thursday, July 18 6:30 pm at UCW.
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As many know, Pastor Amy and 20 members of our congregation - mostly high school and college youth - travelled to Puerto Rico during the last week of June to build relationships and serve with the people of Vega Baja. We'll gather for ice cream sundaes and fellowship as the Youth & Mentors from the Puerto Rico Mission Trip share about their experiences. Don't miss out on this generational fun and learning!
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Bestor Cram's Award-winning Movie
The Last American Colony
Thursday, July 25 6:30 pm at UCW.
We'll once again gather in intergenerational community for a viewing of UCW member Bestor Cram's award-winning movie about Puerto Rico.
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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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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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