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