or where you areRev. Matt Crebbin, Senior Minister of the Newtown Congregational Church, will lead a conversation on gun violence. Since the shooting at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut, Rev. Crebbin has been a spokesperson about gun violence throughout New England and across the country.
The single agenda will be to approve and adopt the Strategic Plan approved by Church Council on January 10. Following the vote you will hear updates from the Sr. Pastor Search Committee, Pastoral Transition Committee, update on our 2017 Mission Spending Plan, and Phase IV of our Light On the Hill Capital Campaign projects. CLICK HERE to download the recommended Strategic Plan.
Join the United Church youth community as they lead us in worship, offering prayers and reflections inspired by our recent youth group discussions of gun violence. Their leadership and insight will encourage us all to faithfully and courageously sow the seeds of peace in our families, schools and communities.
We will be considering the last week of Jesus’ life from Mark chapters 11-16. In conjunction with that, we are planning to use The Last Week, a book by Marcus Borg and John Crossan which looks at the light historical studies place on Jesus’ last week. Feb. 8: Mark 11:1-11 (Ch. 1, Palm Sunday, The Last Week) Feb. 15: Mark 11:12-19 (Ch. 2 Monday, The Last Week) Feb. 22: Mark 11:20-12 (Ch. 3 Tuesday, The Last Week) Mar. 1: **NO BIBLE STUDY** - Join us for Ash Wednesday service in sanctuary Mar. 8: Mark 12-13 (Ch. 3 Tuesday, The Last Week) Mar. 15: Mark 14:1-11 (Ch. 4 Wednesday, The Last Week) Mar. 22: Mark 14:12-72 (Ch. 5Thursday, The Last Week) Mar. 29: Mark 15:1-41 (Ch. 6 Friday, The Last Week) Apr. 5: Mark 15:42-16:20 (Ch. 7 & 8 Saturday and Sunday, The Last Week)
Please join our small group of advocacy letter writer who meet once a month on behalf of a particular cause. Often our faith encourages to advocate for positions or actions that do not align with any particular partisan position. We write as people of faith or as private citizens – depending on the issue – not as adherents to a particular party. For more information, contact office@unitedchurch.org.
Moral March on Raleigh Corner of Wilmington and South Streets near Shaw University Saturday, February 11 Gather at 8:30 am Opening Rally at 9 am March & People’s Assembly at 10 am To reserve bus tickets, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/gsy6onl Price: $5 a seat for youth, $15 for adults paying cash or check, and $16 for adults paying with PayPal. Limited scholarships available.
ADULT FORUMS: Sundays, February 12, 19, & 26 This three-part series will be led by Wanda and Tye Hunter based on the UCC White Privilege Curriculum (http://privilege.uccpages.org). Feb. 12 “Learn Before You Leap: Defensiveness and Papercuts” Feb. 19 “Taking A White Audit of Your Church” Feb. 26 “Whose Fight Is It?: Rules for Being An Ally While White
Join UCCH member Alecia Brower as we revisit and share insights from the "Be The Change" youth small group, which Alecia co-led in the fall. This small group series, based on a UU curriculum, provides youth a starting place for discussions about the role of race, identity and justice in living out their faith. We will reflect on key messages from "Be The Change," exploring how these themes and challenges relate to current events and our shared life in community. This conversation carries forward our spring youth theme (Peace, Nonviolence & Justice), with our special focus on racial justice continuing through March.
Gather in the Youth Room at 11 am with Cindy Johnson and Soteria Shepperson. We will walk over to serve at the IFC men's shelter starting at 11:45, returning to church at 1:00. *High School parents: please note late pick-up time from Youth Group (1 pm).*
The Board of Youth and Young Adults invite ALL to the 2nd Annual Chili Cook-off Sign up to enter chili contest in either the "meat" or "vegetarian" category Contestants" should arrive at 11:45 am with their chili in a large pot or a Crock Pot and bring a serving spoon. You may bring chili to share, even if you don't want to compete in the contest. Suggested donation: $5 per person, $20 per family. Money will go to UCCH youth mission trips and scholarships We will provide bread, tortilla chips, and drinks. To enter the contest, please email office@unitedchurch.org.
In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, local concert organist, Alexander Anderson, offers a program of organ music centered on the Lutheran church’s most significant organist and composer, J.S. Bach. The program begins with a selection of pieces by composers who heavily influenced the work of the master, and continues with some of Bach’s most exceptional works, including the Prelude and Fugue in B minor. The program climaxes with the program-sonata The 94th Psalm by Julius Reubke, who like Luther and Bach, lived in the state of Saxony. Reubke wrote this monumental work a year before his untimely death at the age of 24. Anderson is professor emeritus of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and also former Director of Music at Haileybury College in England. He is a prize winner in the St. Albans International Organ Competition, and has given concerts widely in the United States and Europe. He is also the husband of our director of music! The concert is free and all are welcome. An offering will be received on behalf of the choirs of United Church of Chapel Hill, which are raising money for their summer trip to Germany at the invitation of our sister church in Köln-Pesch to participate in the 500th anniversary Reformation celebrations.
The documentary recounts the turbulent history surrounding the troubled desegregation of New Hanover County Public School System in North Carolina during the late 1960s through 1971, and the violence that led up to the false prosecution and convictions of eight black male students, a white female community organizer, and fiery civil rights activist, Rev. Benjamin Chavis, for protesting racial injustice. The case of the Wilmington Ten made national and international headlines, resulting in a huge national, and even international movement to free them after Amnesty International formally declared them “political prisoners.” Following the screening: A discussion lead by Irv Joyner, Professor of Law at NCCU, and Cash Michaels, the award winning journalist who produced, wrote and directed this documentary. Sponsored by: CH/CARRBORO NAACP; Orange Organizing Against Racism Alliance; Justice In Action Committee of Town of Chapel Hill
We will have delicious homemade soups, homemade bread, and a simple salad, plus lovely pottery bowls made by church members. Buy a bowl of soup - take home a homemade bowl! This is a fundraiser to benefit the IFC and bowls and dinner will be sold for $20 a person or $30 for two people.
We will have a Saturday morning Lenten Retreat with Traci Blackmon on March 4, and on Sunday, March 5, Rev. Traci Blackmon will be our preacher. The Rev. Traci Blackmon is acting executive minister of the UCC Justice and Witness Ministries and the first female pastor of the 156-year-old Christ the King United Church of Christ in Ferguson, MO. She is a prominent civic leader and gifted preacher well known for racial justice work in her St. Louis community. She became one of the new voices for civil rights in America, thrust into the national spotlight after the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson in 2014.
