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In-Person & Virtual Worship Service

this Sunday, July 23rd at 10:30 am

Faith Formation Hour this Sunday!

Children and youth go to their summer program after joys and sorrows.

Faith Formation Hour this Sunday:

Childcare (0-3 years) is available in room 11 from 10a-11:45a

Wisdom Tales & Wild Games – we’ll be “visiting” India this morning!

Families can explore our summer theme, Delight, at home at their own pace with the Soulful Home packet

Hats off to Susan Comstock

Our hats are off to Susan Comstock for her many hours dedicated to nurturing the health, vitality, and efficiency of our Endowment Fund. She has brought a deep well of knowledge and experience to the Endowment Task Force and the Endowment Committee chairmanship. She filled a vacancy directly as chair of the trustees and immediately began working on documenting/modifying financial procedures, and modernizing banking relationships.

She also worked on updating the Endowment bylaws to reflect best practices. Before all that, Susan was our treasurer for many years, served as a Member-At-Large on the Integrated Stewardship Council after stepping down from Treasurer, as a member of the Budget Working Group, and served as one of the Auction co-chairs. Susan, we are so grateful for your help in making and keeping UCE fiscally healthy and for all the ways you help our congregation to live our mission.

Calling All Thespians and Wanna-bees

Plays are a great avenue for exploring what it means to be human. Play reading in a group is an easy and fun way to do that, get to know more of each other, and find an outlet for your dramatic flair. If you are interested in possibly joining a play-reading group at UCE, email Sarah Vanderwicken. Once we see how many are interested, we'll figure out a gathering time and place

New Sanctuary Chairs Feedback: Round Two

Thanks to the 106 people who provided feedback on the first round of test chairs. We listened to some of you who had further concerns and questions. So, this time we have a variety of wood chairs to compare with the winning ergonomic type chair. We sought to get samples that had colors more along the line of what we might purchase. We are running this feedback period from July 7-23rd. The chairs are sitting at the back of the sanctuary with the feedback forms ready. Please put your completed form in the box. So please take a moment to join the fun of “putting your derriere in the chair” and give us your feedback.

Your feedback is sought on: Comfort, Attractive Design, Color Scheme and Weight

A concert to honor Gay Menges, Jon's mom, on August 20th. This is a free concert but if you're able to make a contribution of $10-$20, it would be greatly appreciated.

Faith Formation Hour this Sunday:

Childcare (0-3 years) is available in Room 11 from 10am-11:45am

Wisdom Tales & Wild Games - we'll be "visiting" Saudi Arabia this morning! We need just one more helper - e-mail Kathy if you'd like to "travel" with us.

This Sunday!

The Family Ministry Team is planning a beach day at 12-3pm at Lighthouse Beach in Evanston! Bring a picnic or snack. More info on the beach here.

Summer Concert Meetup July 26 at Skokie on the Green – 7pm

Diamondback has been a popular staple of the Chicago Country Music scene for quite some time, with a patented mix of Classic/Prime Country, Americana, Country Rock and New Country that’s guaranteed to have folks singing along and joining the party from the first song. If you’d like to be our point person on July 26 in Skokie, please email Kathy.

UCE Fiction Book Group 

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

The Fiction book group will meet TONIGHT Friday, July 21, 2023 at 7 p.m. via Zoom.

Birnam Wood is a self-described guerrilla gardening collective that sometimes legally, and sometimes less so, cultivates wherever it can, “along verges and fence lines, beside motorway offramps, inside demolition sites and in junkyards filled with abandoned cars.”  Through “doing instead of talking,” these feisty idealists hope for widespread, lasting social change. They want people to see how much fertile land goes to waste.

Then the outlaws come to town. For an especially delicious spread of fertile land recently freed up by climate devastation, Birnam Wood is up against an American billionaire doomsteader intent on acquiring the land to support his end of the world bunker. For starters – the land is also, of course, rich in minerals. Environmentalists among us will be in their element in this rodeo!

Giving House Continues...

For the month of July, we are accepting donations of rice in the Giving House.

The Giving House is a small wooden "house" that is located in the front lobby. We are partnering with C&W Market & Ice Cream to distribute free foods to those in need.