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The Eve of the Fourth of July 2019

The Eve of the Fourth of July by Maren Tirabassi, UCC Pastor I’ve loved the parades of other years with bicycles decorated, and children banging coffee-can drums, with cars decorated with streamers carrying the oldest citizens, with the well-rehearsed middle school band the cub scouts and blue birds daisy girls and a flatbed trailer with…

Bread for the World Letter Writing

Following worship services, all are invited to take part in Bread for the World’s 2019 Offering of Letters. By hand-writing short personal letters to our senators about global nutrition, we can help improve nutrition for mothers and children around the world. Our letters—along with letters from thousands of other people of faith across the country—will…

Pridefest 2019 Gateway Open & Affirming Booth

Location: Soldiers Memorial Park As in the past, once again show the extravagant love of the UCC at this 50th anniversary of Stonewall. We expect a record turn out at this year’s events downtown and need you to fly the rainbow colors with us at the Pride booth this year. More info, contact…

1st Sunday Choir: Intergenerational Adult and Youth Choral Ensemble

Open to both adults and youth, the 1st Sunday Intergenerational Choir meets in Parkway UCC’s Choir Loft at 9:00am on the first Sunday of each month, year-round, to take 45 minutes to learn a single, easily-accessible choir piece, which is then offered at our 10:00am service the same morning. This “one-and-done” choral group is…

1st Sunday Choir: Intergenerational Adult and Youth Choral Ensemble

Open to both adults and youth, the 1st Sunday Intergenerational Choir meets in Parkway UCC’s Choir Loft at 9:00am on the first Sunday of each month, year-round, to take 45 minutes to learn a single, easily-accessible choir piece, which is then offered at our 10:00am service the same morning. This “one-and-done” choral group is…

1st Sunday Choir: Intergenerational Adult and Youth Choral Ensemble

Open to both adults and youth, the 1st Sunday Intergenerational Choir meets in Parkway UCC’s Choir Loft at 9:00am on the first Sunday of each month, year-round, to take 45 minutes to learn a single, easily-accessible choir piece, which is then offered at our 10:00am service the same morning. This “one-and-done” choral group is…

1st Sunday Choir: Intergenerational Adult and Youth Choral Ensemble

Open to both adults and youth, the 1st Sunday Intergenerational Choir meets in Parkway UCC’s Choir Loft at 9:00am on the first Sunday of each month, year-round, to take 45 minutes to learn a single, easily-accessible choir piece, which is then offered at our 10:00am service the same morning. This “one-and-done” choral group is…

PRIDE cookies!

As if I need another reason to love Panera!? Imagine my delight when I approached the counter at a nearby Bread CO recently and saw this cookie. Some of you know that I have the good fortune to be a four timer at the Panera Test Kitchen – no, I cannot tell you where it is.…

Fruit of the Spirit

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against things like this. ~Galatians 5:22-23 Common English Bible (CEB)

Our UCC invites us to an All-Church Read!

General Synod is June 21-25 in Milwaukee. Lay leaders and clergy from across the denomination get together to discern the work of the church, delight in one another’s company and BE the church… www.synod2019.org/en/uccsynod2019 Keynote Speaker Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, will transform our understanding…

Parkway Speaker Series: Effective Communication Strategies

Adult Education Offering Learn how communication takes place when someone has Alzheimer’s. Decode the verbal and behavioral messages, and identify strategies to connect and communicate. Dr. Prizaah Pratt will be our speaker. She currently teaches at Maryville University and has been an Alzheimer’s community educator since 2017. She believes education is the key to success.…