Jody Forehand and the Faithful Future Team will lead a conversation on the findings from United Church's strategic planning process thus far.
For children: 3’s & 4’s - Room 104 Kindergarten - Room 124 1st Grade - Room 123 2nd Grade - Room 119 3rd Grade - Room 122 4th & 5th Grades - Room 111 For youth: Middle School - Youth Lounge Sr. High - Room 163 Confirmation - Room 161 For adults: Adult Forum - Fellowship Hall Sacred Conversation on Race - Rm 235 Faith and Family - Family Parlor Spiritual Growth - Conference Room
Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, this program presented through the UCCH Health and Wellness Team will be "A Spiritual Pilgrimage for Aging Well." This will be a four part series that includes: Curiosity - Setting Out from What's Familiar - Defining the Pilgrimage Reframing - Giving Up Expectations/Surrendering to all Experiences - Viewing aging through a different lens Generosity - Leaving Your Legacy - Deciding what to leave behind Gratitude - Thanking Yourself- Honoring your accomplishments These sessions will be presented through the UCCH Health and Wellness Team and mentored by Chip Baker.
Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, this program led by Aly Breisch, Parish Nurse will be an exploration of "Navigating Life Transitions" We all experience threshold events and navigate transitions that signal endings and herald new beginnings in our lives. Faith communities also experience transitions and periods of change. These four sessions will explore how we can embrace personal and community changes, move from ways of accustomed living, and approach new ways of thinking, feeling, and being.
Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, this program led by Rollin Russell will be a course in the theology and history of our denomination, the United Church of Christ. Learn about the history of the United Church of Christ: from its European roots, to New England Congregationalism, to the Christian and Afro-Christian movements, its German immigrant heritage and its life today. Follow the theological development of its faith and the unique theological perspective which it brings to us. Learn why the UCC is a United and Uniting Church, a Just Peace Church, a Multi-Racial, Multi-Cultural Church and an Open and Affirming Church.
Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, this program will examine White Privilege: Let’s Talk—A Resource for Transformational Dialogue, an adult curriculum from the United Church of Christ. During our 2017 Light Up Your Winter, United Church of Chapel Hill will use part two of the four part curriculum.
Following the Fellowship Fundraiser dinner at 5:45 pm, The Sacred Space Art Studio will offer four art classes during the Light Up Your Winter. We'll have picture frame decorating, bead name badge holders, boxes with shell top, and a nail cross. Stay tuned for more information on who’s teaching and the order of the classes.
In February 2013, De Kirkpatrick and Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick, classmates at Myers Park High School, reconnected nearly 50 years after their graduation. In their catch-up phone call, Jimmie Lee asked De what the H in his initials H.D. stood for. De said Hugh. That’s when both men learned that De’s great-great-grandfather, also named Hugh, owned Jimmie Lee’s great-great-great-grandfather, a slave named Sam. Together, they began examining their families and the county where they grew up, Mecklenburg, where 1 in 3 people were slaves in 1860. Since that initial call they have together researched their joint heritage. Additionally, as a black man and white man in the South they have engaged in a rare and personally intimate conversation on topics that most of us avoid: inequity, race and slavery.
In February 2013, De Kirkpatrick and Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick, classmates at Myers Park High School, reconnected nearly 50 years after their graduation. In their catch-up phone call, Jimmie Lee asked De what the H in his initials H.D. stood for. De said Hugh. That’s when both men learned that De’s great-great-grandfather, also named Hugh, owned Jimmie Lee’s great-great-great-grandfather, a slave named Sam. Together, they began examining their families and the county where they grew up, Mecklenburg, where 1 in 3 people were slaves in 1860. Since that initial call they have together researched their joint heritage. Additionally, as a black man and white man in the South they have engaged in a rare and personally intimate conversation on topics that most of us avoid: inequity, race and slavery. On January 15 - both Kirkpatricks will be at United Church to speak at the Adult Forum at 10 am and the Senior High Youth Group at 11 am.
Middle School youth will meet with people from United Church and the Interfaith Community House. They will serve lunch at Community House.
The Open and Affirming ministry is sponsoring a meal for our church's Light Up Your Winter series which will raise money for our Open and Affirming ministry which supports LGBTQ people & their friends/family, as well as our church's annual mission to Honduras which supports LGBTQ people in Honduras. Donations will help support these ministries. Also we are offering the following during the meal, to help celebrate why these ministries are important:The Open and Affirming (ONA) Ministry of UCCH will share their project "Why ONA is Important to Me" story board and testimonials. The ONA was formed to help ensure a safe and welcoming place for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer and to foster full inclusion into the ministry and outreach service of UCCH. UCCH was a ground-breaking institution in 1993 by adopting an Open and Affirming ministry and we want to keep this legacy vibrant. In light of the legislation in North Carolina, HB2, as well as fears surrounding what the future will hold for the LGBT community under the upcoming administration, we feel it's even more important for our stories to be told INCLUDING those of our many allies.
Calling all UCCH Youth and Parents! Join our new Acting Youth Director, Katherine Henderson, and the Youth Board as we kick off the new year. This briefing is an opportunity for youth and parents to meet Katherine and to review and discuss plans for youth activities this spring and summer.
Becky Ceartas, Director of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence, will lead our Sunday forum as we prepare to host the Beyond Gun Violence conference.
Becky Ceartas of North Carolinians against Gun Violence will join the Youth Group to talk about her work to reduce violence in our state. We'll learn about the epidemic of gun violence and ways that we can help prevent the loss of life and spread peace in our state.
Reverend Matt Crebbin A conference against gun violence with the NC Council of Churches and North Carolinians Against Gun Violence with special guest, Rev. Matt Crebbin, Sr. Minister of the Newtown Congregational Church UCC. Reverend Crebbin will give the keynote at Saturday’s conference and to preach at United Church of Chapel Hill on Sunday, January 29. Several of our political leaders have been invited to the Saturday conference, as well as workshop leaders for law enforcement, parent/safety, public health, suicide, responsible gun ownership, survivors, racializing of gun violence, a matter of faith: 2nd Amendment or 2nd Commandment, prevention strategies, domestic violence, etc.
Rev. 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.