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UCCH WORSHIP & EVENTS

Fridays at UCCH

This Sunday, April 30

Great Day, New Member Welcome, & Special music with orchestra

Worship

9:45 a.m. Festival Worship 

Sanctuary & YouTube

Acts 5:12-16 (Gafney 172)

Romans 6:5-11 (Gafney 173)

Rev. Cameron Barr preaching



11 a.m. La Mesa Worship

Assembly Hall

Acts 5:12-16 (NTV + NRSV)

Rev. Cameron Barr preaching

Faith Formation at 11 a.m.

Sunday School for children: Room 122 (Grade K-2) and Room 124 (Grade 3-5)

• All grades finish in the music room 225 at 12 p.m. unless staying for Junior Choir until 12:30 p.m. 

Youth Group: Youth Room

Confirmation Class: Room 161

Adult Forum: Habitat for Humanity Weavers Grove development Q&A with Krissy Dunn

Faith & Family: Family Parlor

Spiritual Growth: Room 229

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Spring Cleaning in the UCCH Library

This spring, we are making an effort to “clean up” our records about which books and other materials have been borrowed from the UCCH Library over the past couple of years (during “lockdown”). If you borrowed something from the library during that time, please check your shelves. If you're still using the item, just let Barbara Wildemuth know; otherwise, please return it as soon as possible to the library. Thanks!

Negro Spirituals Celebration and Choral Workshop with Dr. Ginger Jones-Robinson

Dr. Ginger will teach spiritual arrangements in the Saturday workshop, and will direct the choir and congregation in the Sunday service. All are welcome!

A lunch of pupusas and panes de pollo will be served at 12 p.m. on Saturday, provided by Xenia Carcamo of Maestros Apoyando a Maestras (Teachers Helping Teachers)

Registration fees cover lunch and help ensure that UCCH can continue to present projects like this.

Read Cameron's recent invitation to this campaign here. Our congregation hopes to raise $90,000 for the Weavers Grove development in Chapel Hill. Are you ready to make a gift or pledge? Please make your commitment by Monday, May 1.

We celebrate over $82,000 in pledges and gifts to this project so far!

Learn more about Weavers Grove here. Habitat representatives will join us for the Adult Forum on April 30 to share more and answer questions. A Zoom link will be sent out on Sunday

The UCCH group at the Weavers Grove site tour on April 19

The Church is THE PEOPLE! WE are the church. YOU are the church! And we need YOU to help lead and serve on our boards. We can't wait to welcome you into our work together.

Please use this form to nominate yourself AND OTHERS so that we can widen our base and strengthen our work. Please email Mary Elizabeth with any questions.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS AT UCCH

Compassion Camp Vacation Bible School

9am-12pm, June 12th-16th

We are thrilled to offer in-person Compassion VBS Camp this summer at United Church of Chapel Hill. Please use the form linked above to register participants (ages 3-5th grade) and/or helpers (middle school and high school). Registration deadline: Sunday, May 28th. Contact Anitra Grove (agrove@unitedchurch.org) with questions!

IN THE COMMUNITY

23rd Annual Mildred Council Community Dinner

Sunday, April 30 at 1pm at McDougle Middle School

UVOP singing!

The United Voices of Praise Gospel Choir will sing at this community building event, created by Mildred Council ("Mama Dip"). Mama Dip's Kitchen and the Carolina Inn provide the dinner's main courses. Tickets are $3 for children and $8 for adults, and are available at Mama Dip's, the Carrboro Cybrary, and the Hillsborough County Library. Find out more at http://www.communitydinner.org/.

"National Socialism and the Holocaust: Remembering the Victims"

Lecture Series: Tuesdays, May 2-23, 1-2:30pm at the Seymour Center

UCCH member Hans Wuerth will speak at the Seymour Center (2551 Homestead Rd, Chapel Hill) on the topics:

• May 2: 1933-39, Destruction of Democracy. The early victims;
• May 9: The Confessing Church by Dietrich Bonhoeffer;
• May 16: 1939-45, The “Final Solution.” The senselessness of “Total War;”
• May 23: The victims of German resistance. 

The class is free but registration is required. Call 919-968-2070 to register. Virtual access is also offered (link sent after registration). 

35th Annual Carolina Blood Drive

1 in 7 patients entering a hospital needs a blood transfusion. You can help! Please donate blood at the 35th annual Carolina Blood Drive on May 3rd on the court of the Dean E. Smith Center, 300 Skipper Bowles Dr., Chapel Hill, NC. Free parking available or ride the bus with Chapel Hill Transit to the Smith Center. Receive a UNC commemorative t-shirt and free food! Click on the link below to schedule your lifesaving appointment. Please share the link with friends and family. Thank you!

bit.ly/CarolinaBloodDrive

REMINDERS

Get Involved

We've launched a new page on our website where you can access all of our online sign up forms if you'd like to volunteer to support our worship, community outreach, and care and welcome ministries. You can sign up to read scripture in Festival Worship, be a greeter or usher on Sunday mornings, be a part of the Care Team, and more!

Masks are recommended in worship and gatherings.

Recent worship bulletins can be found on the website.

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