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Weekly Update
Friday, July 26, 2024
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Summer Services
Sundays in July at 10:00 a.m.
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During the month of July we will gather on the stage downstairs for summer services at 10:00 a.m. on Sundays.
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Our summer services will be lay-led and will focus on the parables of Jesus. This Sunday, Gerry Elion will lead us in discussion of the parable of the Prodigal Son. Be sure to come and worship together in summertime joy!
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The full schedule of service leaders can be found by clicking through to the bulletin link 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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PLEASE NOTE - Sunday, Aug. 4th:
There will not be a worship service at UCW on Sunday, August 4th. We will share additional information in next week's e-newsletter about other options for worship, so please stay tuned.
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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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Building Relationships and
Growing in Love in Puerto Rico
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We are still literally and figuratively unpacking from our June Mission Trip to Puerto Rico! We learned so much about the power of service; about being transformed by relationship with the other; about God's presence at work among the vulnerable and forgotten. On Thursday, July 18th, travelers shared some of those learnings, with photos, videos and stories from the trip. We look forward to continuing the conversation in the fall, with the special reading for the Book Club, and a Movie Night coordinated with the UCW Advocates for Racial Justice. Please stay tuned and participate. In the meantime, if you haven't yet seen the presentation shared by the travelers, please click on the link above next to the photo. May we all be led, inspired, and transformed by our youth and how they lived out their faith, serving, learning and growing together.
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Loving God, hear the prayers
of your people gathered in this community,
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- We pray for Cindy, sister-in-law to Jay and Betty O'Beirne, as she faces a new and uncertain time in her journey with cancer.
- We pray for Deborah Malone and her family following a fall and surgery. May God's healing, comfort, and strength surround Deb, David, Kathy, and her family.
- We pray for Susan Hunt Stevens and her parents who have arrived safely in the US after an emergency evacuation from Sweden following medical challenges.
- 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.
- We pray for Tony and Sandra DaDalt and their family as they grieve the sudden loss of Tony’s beloved cousin.
- 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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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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