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United Church of Chapel Hill Calendar of Events: May Worship & Events A Congregation of the United Church of Christ April 17 -23 Sunday, April 17 Highlights 8:45 & 11 am Worship - Sanctuary 9 am Children’s Musical Rehearsal - Music Room This Week - April 17, 2016 GOD IS STILL SPEAKING, 9 am Fellowship Board - Room 235 May 1: Confirmation Sunday. Confirmation 10 am Sunday School Classes for all ages Class 2016 will lead worship both services. Mu- - For Children sic: 8:45 Chancel Choir; Piano trio with Tim - - Pre K Room 104 Rinehart, double bass. 11:00 Youth Choir and Today at United Church Kindergarten - Room 124 soloists. Taize Worship Service (7 pm, Sanctuary) Taizé is a style of Christian First Grade - Room 123 Sunday School classes at 10 am. worship that originated in Second Grade - Room 119 May 8: Worship will include the Children’s See calendar on back page for more information. Taizé France some 75 years Third Grade - Room 122 Musical “The Tale of Three Trees,” by Allen Pote ago. It is woven with Chris- Fourth/Fifth Grades - Room 111 and Tom Lon tian song and chants, inter- For Adults Adult Forum sponsored by the Faith and - spersed with prayerful si- Spiritual Growth Conference Room May 15: Pentecost Sunday, Susan Steinberg Family Class (10 am, Family Parlor) - preaching at both 8:45 and 11 am services. Mu- lence, scripture reading, Young Adults Room 229 Today’s class will have a special guest, Sandy - sic: 8:45 - United Voices of Praise; Bronze Voic- more song, more prayer, and SCOR Room 235 Bisdee, whose love of children and of nature led – es Handbells. 11:00 - Chamber Singers, Bronze more silence. The effect is Faith &Family Adult Forum Fellowship Hall her to a career that focuses on cultivating children's Voices Handbells. profound and takes one For Youth love of the natural world. She is the long -time Di- Confirmation Class - Room 161 • deeper, beyond intellect, into the very heart of wor- Bread for the World Offering of Letters. rector of Children's Programs at the Center for Edu- ship. Be prepared to walk away from the experi- Middle School - Youth Lounge • - End of Year Youth Ministries Cookout, 5 7 cation, Imagination and the Natural World, and will ence refreshed, renewed, and at peace. You will Sr. High - Room 163 pm share her vast and compelling insights with the find that Taizé worship will satisfy the longing of 10 am Mystery Pals Reveal Party - Assembly Hall - group. your heart to be filled with God’s presence. 11 am Teacher Appreciation Brunch Fellowship Hall May 22: Trinity Sunday, Jill Edens preaching - 11:15 am La Mesa y Café Assembly Hall at both services. Music: 8:45 - Chancel Choir; Mystery Pals Reveal Party (10 am, Assembly 2 pm Ambassadors Rehearsal - Assembly Hall - * * * * * Brass. 11:00 Youth Choir Homecoming Next Sunday at United Church: Reverend John 2 pm Leap of Faith Rehearsal - Sanctuary Hall) (Current members and Youth Choir alums); Dorhauer, UCC General Minister & President, 4:14 pm LOF Orchestra - Assembly Hall The 4th/5th graders and their Mystery Pals will Brass. preaching at both services. 7 pm Taize Worship - Sanctuary finally meet! Master of Ceremonies Ron Johnson • End -of -Year Sunday School Service & Social will reveal everyone's true identities, then the pals Monday, April 18 - Hour can visit in person. Reverend Dorhauer will also speak at 10 am in the 12 pm Noon Book Group Library Assembly Hall. 5:45 pm Body Prayer - Family Parlor May 29: Jenny Shultz preaching at both ser- Teacher Appreciation Brunch (11 am, 6 pm Bronze Voices - Music Room - - vices. Music: 8:45 Soloist; Strings Ensemble. Fellowship Hall) Scott Sampson (10 am, Fellowship Hall) 7 pm BJOS Meeting Room 229 11:00 - Chancel Choir. “Loving Nature as Faith Practice.” Children, 7:15 pm Chancel Bells - Music Room Children's and Youth Sunday School leaders and - their loved ones are invited to enjoy a delicious youth, parents and guardians, grandparents and 7:15 pm Women’s Group Library educators are welcome to us for this intergenera- Tuesday, April 19 meal offered in their honor. - tional presentation by the host of Dinosaur Train , 6:30 pm Leap of Faith Rehearsal Sanctuary curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Sci- 7 pm Board of Trustees - Room 235 - La Mesa (11:15 am, Assembly Hall) ence and author of How to Raise a Wild Child: The 7 pm Earth Ministries Room 229 “WeWe believe in God’s continuing Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature. Wednesday, April 20 La Mesa y Café is an initiative of United Church to - testament in the world enhance the diversity, spirituality and faith of peo- Following the presentation, Mr. Sampson will join 7 am Bible Study Library us for a walk along the trail behind the church. This 3 pm Spanish Class - Conference Room ple in a radically, welcoming and inclusive space …extravagant welcome. event is made possible by Susan Steinberg's sabbat- 6:30 pm Leap of Faith Rehearsal - Sanctuary where the table of the Lord becomes the sacred - - ical grant program, “Be Still and Behold.” 7:30 pm Chancel Choir Music Room ..and changing lives.” meeting space. La Mesa is a bi lingual worship Friday, April 22 experience. Please join us. 9:15 am Yoga - Assembly Hall 11:30 am Meditation/Prayer Group - Library Saturday, April 23 9 am Racial Justice Workshop - Sanctuary/Fellowship GOD IS STILL SPEAKING, Hall JOIN US, FOR OUR SPRING WEDNESDAY LAST DAY TO NIGHT BIBLE STUDY SERIES SERMON SHAPING REGISTER “GETTING TO KNOW THE HOLY SPIRIT” BIBLE STUDY We need Please join us! casseroles! WORKSHOP on RACIAL JUSTICE Please help us restock the freezer with cas- seroles to serve at the IFC Community Kitch- with REV. DR. JOHN DORHAUER, en. We love when our freezer is full to the GENERAL MINISTER AND PRESIDENT brim. OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST To support this ministry, we need 30 -35 cas- Saturday Morning, April 23, beginning seroles a month. Disposable casserole pans On Wednesday mornings at 7 am in the church at 9am are available in the church Narthex. You can library, join one of your pastors and fellow also buy ready made casseroles, lasagna, church persons in looking ahead at the lessons United Church of Chapel Hill is hosting a Satur- mac -n-cheese, etc… Thank you! for the coming Sunday. It’s early, but the cof- day morning retreat with Rev. Dr. John Dorhauer, fee is on and the study is rewarding. General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, serving as a teacher of the church. Wednesdays, April 20, 27, May 4 & 11 UCCH ARTISTS' EXHIBIT IN FELLOWSHIP To be discussed on Wednesday, April 20 5:45 pm, Church Library April 24 5th Sunday of Easter DR. KENNETH JANKEN TO SPEAK ON HALL Acts 11:1 -18 Psalm 148 Revelation 21:1 -6 John 13:31 -35 THE WILMINGTON TEN Just as we offered a special Lenten Wednesday night Bible study series leading into Easter, begin- Participating artists are: At the Last Supper, Jesus commands his disci- ples to love one another. ning April 20, United Church is offering a series Saturday, April 23 Wednesday nights at 5:45 PM leading into Pente- • Natalie Boorman Dr. Kenneth Janken, UNC professor and author of cost. • Jackie Bruce To be discussed on Wednesday, April 27 a new book on the Wilmington 10 -- The Wilming- • Artie Dixon May 1 6th Sunday of Easter ton Ten: Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black - Pentecost celebrates the gift of the Holy Spirit to • Acts 16:9 15 Psalm 67 Politics in the 1970s -- will speak about the United Dail Dixon – - the church, but for so many of us the Holy Spirit is • Revelation 21:10, 22 22:5 John 14:23 29 Church of Christ and the Wilmington 10 and be Lew Graham Jesus promises that the Holy Spirit will remind a mysterious figure, the one member of the Trinity • available for questions. The Rev. Ben Chavis was we don’t know a lot about. We invite you to Rinnie Orr us of Jesus’ teachings and peace. an organizer for the UCC’s Commission on Racial bring your dinner join us in the library these eve- • David Otto Justice at the time he was imprisoned as a part of nings for a time of fellowship and learning. • Louise Pagano To be discussed on Wednesday, April 27 the Wilmington 10 thus the witness of the Wil- • Robin Sheedy May 8 7th Sunday of Easter mington 10 is a part of the heritage of the United - For those who want to read ahead, the texts we • David Taylor Acts 16:16 34 Psalm 97 Church of Christ as well as the State of North Car- plan to study are Acts 2 (on April 20), Psalm 104 Revelation 22:12 -14, 16 -17, 20 -21 olina. - (on April 27), Romans 8 (on May 4), and John 14 Information about the artists and their work is in a John 17:20 26 (on May 11). Feel free to email: binder located in the Fellowship Hall. Some of their Jesus prays that we will be one with each other • in God’s love. Let us know today if you are Micah Royal at [email protected] work is for sale and some will give a percentage of • Suzanne Lamport at their sales to charity. The show will be up through coming to the workshop and [email protected]. mid -May. luncheon. Thank you!!! This is our first show in the Fellowship Hall, and we are very excited about it! Please come take a look! - 2 This Week April 17, 2016 7 This Week - April 17, 2016 The year 1685 proved to be an auspicious one for music, with the birth of 3 greats: Handel, United Church Players Bach, and Domenico Scarlatti.